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[champagnegal]

Hi all, I'm Chris and I have been doing this on and off for about 3 years. I am mainly researching my dad's family, with my mum's family as a second "offshoot" at present. Names I am looking at at the moment include Wheelhouses from initially Killamarsh, then Norton Derbyshire and Leeds, Greenhough from Bradford and Leeds, Dickinson from initially Knaresborough and Leeds, Hall from Wetherby and finally my greatest bugbear, Chadwick from between Malta and Corfu ! (He is a story in himself -trust me!!).

I have got back as far as 1697 with my wheelhouse family in Killamarsh but cannot get any further back - any help on that would be most appreciated :biggrin: :biggrin:

 

[juliejtp]

Hi Chris,

A warm welcome to FHUK. Good luck with your research.

 

[benny1982]

Hi Chris

welcome to the FHUK forums.

If you post a request with your 1697 Wheelhouse ancestors brickwall on one of the lookup boards then we shall do our best to help you.

Ben

 

[p.risboy]

welcome aboard Chris,

Good luck with your research.

Steve.

 

[pejay]

Hello Chris and welcome to FHUK, good luck with your research

 

[Ellie]

Hi and welcome Chris

 

[sterico]

Hello, and welcome to the F.H.U.K forums.
You will find all our members very friendly
And helpful here and only to happy to help you
Wherever they can. All you need to do is,
Post your questions, along with any information you do have, on the appropriate forums, and our members will do their best to help you.
We at F.H.U.K wish you every success in your research into your ancestoral past, and we hope you enjoy your time on the F.H.U.K forums
Best regards Sterico

 

[Beery]

Hi Chris,

My grandmother was a Wheelhouse, and the family (as far back as I can trace it) comes from Beighton in Derbyshire (John Wheelhouse was born there in about 1817). Do you have a family tree online somewhere that I can take a peek at to see if there's a connection?

Thanks,

Ian.

 

[champagnegal]

Hi there Beery, I am really sorry this has taken so long to answer, I am quite a bit further along now.

There is definitely a connection between your John Wheelhouse and my Wheelhouse family. My common ancestor is Samuel Wheelhouse (my great grandad x 5), who is John Wheelhouse's father, my great x 4 grandad is William, who is John's brother, William was born in 1799.

This probably makes us 4th or 5th cousins I think ?

Do you know the story of Samuel ? it makes extremely good reading