Family History

If you are compiling your family tree and wish to add an entry in your search for ancestors from the Bourne area, click on the envelope below to send your message by
email, using the same style as those listed, and please do  not forget to add your name and location.

THE NAMES of those currently being researched by our members are listed below, reflecting the families of yesteryear who had connections with this town and locality.

ABBOTT AINGER ALLEN ANDREW ARDEN ATKINS AUBURN AUDLIN AUSTIN BAKER BALL BANKS BANNISTER BARFORD BARKER BARNARD BARNES BARNETT BARWELL BARWIS BASTON BAXTER BEASLEY BELCHER BELLAMY BEND BENTLEY BERRIDGE BETTINSON BINGHAM BINNS BIRD BLAKE BLAND BLEDSOE BLETSOE BLUNDY BOOR BOOTH BOURNE BRACKENBURY BRADFORD BRADLEY BRADSHAW BRANSTON BRETT BRICKLES BRIGHTMAN BROMHEAD BROMLEY BRUMBLEY BRYAN BULL BULLOCK BURTON DE BURTON BUTTERFIELD BUZZARD CALTHROP CAMPAIN CANHAM CARTLEDGE CASSWELL CAWTHORN CHESHIRE CHESTERFIELD CHRISTINA CLARK CLATTERCOTES CLAYPOLE CLIFF COALES CODDINGTON COLBOURNE COLBY COLLS COOK COOTE CORDON COX CRAMPTON CROFTS CRONKSHAW CROW CUMBERWORTH DAFF (also DAFT) DALE DALLEYWATER DANCE DAVIE DAVIS DAWSON DEACON DEAN DENNIS DOBNEY DOVE DUNSBY EAYRES ELLIS ELSOM EXTON EYRES FALKNER FAULKNER FISHER FLATTERS FOLEY FOSTER FOWLER FOX FRANKS FREEMAN FRISBY FURNESS GAGE GLENDENING GOLDSBOROUGH GOUT GRANGE GRAVES GILL GLENN GREEN GRESSWELL GRIFFIN GRUMMITT GRUNDY HADDON HADSON HAINES HANNAM HAYNES HALES HALFORD HAMES HAMMOND HANDLEY HANNAM HARPHAM HARRISON  HARRISSON HARWOOD HATCHER HEAD HEADES HEADS HEATON HEMSELL HESTER HEWITT HICKLEY HILLESS HINSON HODSON HOLLAND HOLMES HORN HUBBARD HUFFER HULL HUTCHINSON HINKLEY INGLE JACKSON JARVIS JEBB JOHNSON KELBY KELHAM KETTLE KILBON KIRBY LAMBERT LAMBLEY LANCASHIRE LANE LAW LAYTON LENTON LISTER LONGLAND LUESBY LUNN LYON MACHAM MANBY MAPPERSON MARSHALL MARVIN MASON MASSEN MASSEY MATE MATSELL MAWBY MAXEY MAXIM MAYS McKENZIE MEADOWS MEASURES MEEK MELLSON MILAN MILLER MOISEY MORLEY MORRIS MORTON MUNTON MUSSON NEEDHAM NEWTON NICHOLLS NICKELS NIGHTINGALE NIXON NORTH NORTHORPE ORGAN OSBORNE OWENS PALMER PARKER PARNHAM PASK PATRICK PAULUCCI PEARCE PEARSON PELL PEMBERTON PEPPER PERKINS PERSGOVET PICK PICKERILL PICKERING PICKWORTH PIKE PIKETT PLOWRIGHT POINTON PONMAN PONDMAN POPE POPPLE PORTER PRESGRAVE PRIDMORE PRING PULLING QUINCEY RAINES REDMILE REYNOLDS RINGROSE RIPLEY RIPPINGALE ROB ROBINSON RODGERS ROUSE ROW ROWELL SANDAL SANDALL SAUNDERS SCHOLES SCOTNEY SCOTT SEWARDS SEWELL SHARMAN SHARP SHARPE SHERWIN SHERWOOD SHILCOCK SIMPSON SMART SMEATON SMETHERGILL SMITH SPENCER SPRIDGEN SPURR STANTON STAPLETON STEDMAN STEEL STEELE STIMSON STOREY STORY STRATTON STRETTON STREDDER SUMNERS SWANN SWIFT SWINN SWINSTEAD TABOR TALES TANSLEY TASMAN TEAT THACKER THIMBLEBY THISELTON THORNTON THORPE THURRELL TILLEY TIPLER TODD TOPHAM TORY TOYNBEE TUCK TURESDALE TURESDELL TURPIN TYLER TYSOE UPTON VERNON VINTER WADE WADLSEY WALKER WALL WAND WARD WARR-KING WATERS WATSON WELBY WELLS WHITE WILCOX WILKINSON WILLIAMS WILLIAMSON WILLMAN WILLOUGHBY WILSON WINN WOODCOCK WOODFORD WOODS WOODWARD WOOLMER WORSDALL WORTH WRIGHT WROOT WYER WYLES

There is no restriction to the length of an entry but it is useful to remember that brevity is the most effective method of evoking a response. To check individual entries submitted for research go to
 

  To contact anyone listed in these sections, mouse click on the name in blue and
an email message form addressed to them will appear.

Those researching their ancestors from the Bourne area are advised to check on the names listed in Prominent People in case they are featured in the CD-ROM
A Portrait of Bourne. This archive also contains many more names in other sections dealing with the history of the town that have been added from researches during the past ten years. The CD-ROM also includes details of convicts from the Bourne area transported to the colonies during the 18th and 19th centuries and those who served in the Boer War of 1899-1902 and the Great War of 1914-18.

Bourne names from Lincolnshire directories are also being added and the CD-ROM
currently contains those from the Universal British Directory for 1798, Pigot's Directory for 1835, White's for 1842, 1882 and 1892 and Kelly's for 1876, 1905, 1922, 1933 and 1937.