Today’s image: Lemon in vortex, Spain.
The Whirlpool of Family
For one who grew up with no knowledge of family, this journey of discovery – already stretching back over 200 years – is a mixture of the abstract, the quirky and the interesting.
Mix into this the non-consequential but still smile-making, and you come up with odd snippets – such as the fact that Sir William, (brother to my great-great-grandfather; Physician Extraordinary to HM Queen Victoria; and a whole lot of other stuff you can read about on his page), shares a birthday with his great-great-great-nephew, our son Justyn.
Some of the ancestors have plenty of info about them available, others seem to merit just a mention. I don’t have it all, but what I have is to be structured by tackling each person individually.
John and Esther Broadbent
The starting point is, for now, the early 1800s, and we launch out with the family of John and Esther Broadbent (née Butterworth).
Benjamin, the 4th son and 7th of the 8 offspring, is my great-great-grandfather.
John and Esther begin their story here.
Thereafter a paragraph or a page on each child, expanding into more info, and fanning out into descendants who in turn will have something listed about them.
That is at any rate the optimistic ideal!.
* In the genealogy related pages I have drawn significantly on a family history compiled over 100 years ago, and on a second in-family work, privately published about 60 years ago. The work published on this website is fresh, and is ©copyright to the current author, with great respect to those diligent original authors and their exceptional work.
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