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20th July 2017 By Susan Morris Leave a Comment

Jefferys Family Tree

The tree covers the time from David Jefferys, born in the mid 1500s, my 9 x great grandfather, to my grandfather, Frank Haines Jefferys, incorporating members of the Stiles and Haines family along the way.

20th December 2013 By Susan Morris Leave a Comment

Jefferys in the Wiltshire Militia

When I began my family history research, one of the few clues to my Jefferys ancestry was then wrapped in newspaper, in a box, in the far distance depths of the cupboard under the stairs.

13th December 2011 By Susan Morris Leave a Comment

The Early Jefferys

Tracing the family back through the censuses and the parish registers I arrived in Bremhill and Hilmarton in Wiltshire and found our earliest named ancestor.

13th December 2011 By Susan Morris Leave a Comment

In the beginning……….

The War of the Roses (1455-1485) between the two branches of the royal house of Plantagenet, the House of Lancaster and the House of York had ended and it was the age of the Tudor Monarchs in England and of a renaissance throughout Europe. In 1476 William Caxton had produced the first printed book in […]

13th December 2011 By Susan Morris Leave a Comment

The Mission

My grandfather was Frank Haines Jefferys. I had inherited from my father, John Anthony, a copy of Frank’s birth certificate which gave his place of birth as Wernham Farm, North Savernake, Wiltshire. His father was Thomas King Jefferys and his mother was Elizabeth Haines. It was a start.

12th December 2011 By Susan Morris Leave a Comment

Introducing the Jefferys

In 2004 my aunt had asked me if I could ‘find our family’. Of course I said yes but then wondered how to go about it. My father had met his paternal aunts but knew very little about the family other than that his father was born in Wiltshire and there was farming in the background.

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