The best place to start is with the Recent Ancestors of Angela Williams (Fletcher) & Adrian Fletcher page. 

This identifies (with photos and links) Adrian and Angela's parents, grand-parents and great-grand-parents,

and includes lots of facts about their lives.

A good way of getting an overview is this new family tree going back 7 generations

(now coloured to show where everyone lived) which can be viewed here

Underlying the Recent Ancestors chart are four charts, one for each pair of great-grandparents, showing further generations of direct ancestors for:

Dr George Frederick Aldous and Isabella Henderson Aldous (Stewart)

commentary, chronology & documents

mother's mother's parents - Devon doctor, Melbourne Mayor, Sussex Yeoman Farmer, Norfolk and Sussex grog merchants.

PLYMOUTH, MELBOURNE, BRECHIN, BELFAST, BURITON (HAMPSHIRE), HARLESTON (NORFOLK) AND MORE

Alex Harpur Robinson Sproule and Matilda Sproule (Sproule)

commentary, chronology & documents

mother's father's parents (seated) - they were unhappy first cousins (he was earlier a professional photographer in Canada).

Co TYRONE (N IRELAND), PETERBOROUGH (ONTARIO)

Lt Col John Adolphus Burton and Georgiana Ernstin Burton (Middlecoat)

THE BRITISH INDIA CONNECTIONS

commentary, chronology & documents

father's mother's parents - Madras Presidency Army, Indian (Army) Medical Service

descended from interesting 16/1700s Cornish stock and early (1710) Calcutta.

INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE (IMS), BRITISH INDIA 1700s & 1800s, BENGAL & MADRAS ARMIES, CALCUTTA, MADRAS (CHENNAI), TREGONY (CORNWALL)

Frank Edward Fletcher and Elizabeth Stringer Fletcher (Procter)

commentary, chronology & documents

Fletcher (   one   two  )     Procter

father's father's parents - Music Professor, Ironmonger & Plumber, Draper, Chemists, Wool Combersss

FOLKESTONE, SCARBOROUGH, YORK, OXENHOPE (W YORKSHIRE), BARNARD CASTLE

Each Commentary, Chronology & Documents page detailed descriptions with photos and lots of links back to source documents like original census returns, birth marriage & death (BMD) certificates, church (BMD) records, wills and probate records, newspaper reports, commercial directories etc.

Having unearthed much of the basic scaffolding of names, dates and  places back to the 1700s, we have started the really interesting bit, which is writing illustrated stories of particular lives, geographic areas and times.  There are many other shorter story / photo pages, and links to all chronologies, stories, photos etc can be found in each of the four ancestor charts shown above.

The stories already done and underway include:

The James Cooper Stewart Story - Scottish house painter's son sails to Australia and rises to be Mayor of Melbourne

WW I  Lt Col Jimmy Sproule, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 131 Field Ambulance and the 38th (Welsh) Division in the Battlefields of Belgium and the Somme

The Seward Yeoman Tenant Farmers of 1000 acres in Weston (Hampshire), and memorials to three generations in the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Buriton

TREGONY (CORNWALL)

Nicholas Middlecoat Jnr (1752 - 1844 (92))

my grt grt grt grt grandfather, came from Tregony in Cornwall.  Father of 13, innkeeper ("Queens Head Inn" Tregony), political agent and fixer, convicted electoral briber, writer and writee, bankrupt ... we are finding out more about this interesting Cornish rogue (who lived to the age of 92!) and his ancestors and associates.

PLACES WHERE ENGLISH ANCESTORS LIVED AND WERE BAPTISED, MARRIED AND CHRISTENED

Visits made by Adrian Fletcher & Sons in Autumn 2009

Joseph Procter's Chemyst Shop in Barnard Castle c1830

To keep things manageable, the names in Ciao Famiglia are restricted mostly to direct ancestors.  They are taken from a much larger data-base of families built up by Adrian Fletcher and maintained via a "Roots Magic" family tree program.  Some descendant charts generated by this program are included in the this site's data, and others can be produced on request if any family researcher has a particular interest.

There is also a table which shows birth, marriage and death details for ancestors

going back to my g-g-g-g-g-grandparents, with links to certificates etc.