Record of updates to this site
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- Several new photos of Maarten Jansen when young and particularly cute!
- 4 new photos of the Faller family
- Several photos of places in Scarborough, Stockton and Thornaby where members of the Megginson, Bielby and Smales families lived
- Some information on the siblings of Thomas Toft (b. 1884)
- A further generation on the Gray line - Thomas, born about 1808 in South Shields, who worked as a Bottle Maker.As a result of finding Thomas, other branches of the Gray line, including Saunders, Jubb and McAndrew families have been added to the family tree.
- The story of the second generation of Tofts
- Some corrections and missing names for photos of Margaret Smales' relatives
- Several photos and newspaper articles about the work of Albert Arthur Smales. NB Some of the images of newspaper articles may take a little time to load (even on broadband).
- The first of the family history narratives - on the first known generation of Tofts. NB Stories told on this website will be limited to those people who are two generations or more above our oldest living relatives. Personal stories, and stories about closer relatives are being collected, but they will only be distributed in hard copy, and not via the web.
- 2 photos of Jenny and Wendy Brooks' weddings
- Several items found inside John Bielby's 1st World War Soldier's Pay Book
- About 10 new photos of Wilson and Toft family members (1920-1956)
- Over 100 new photos of the Bielby and Smales families
- Over 100 new relatives in the Blackforest, mostly on the Faller side, going back to 1500, and including several family members who were burnt at the stake for being witches!
- Over 30 new relatives on the Smales side
- Over 20 new relatives on the Toft side
- A new surname - Whitney - via the Toft - Longland line
- A new structure for the site
- About 30 photos from the Dutch side have now been added, mostly of older ancestors
- Occupations for several Dutch members of the family. Many on the Dutch side were farmers, but there were also several millers of various sorts and also a few merchants
- Some details on the Longland branch - introducing another family name: Wills, from Marden Newton, Dorset
- Two branches of Mathias Pfaff's ancestors going back to the 16th century! - Thomas Kaltenbach, born sometime very late 1500s, and Blesi Dorer, born sometime before 1480
- Some ancestors of John Bielby (b. 1867), introducing 2 new names to the family tree - Pinkney and Robinson
- Some descendants of Augusta Pfaff and German Schwer, including Tess Winterhalder and Brian Bailey
- More members of the Gowland Family - with thanks to Colin Whitfield, husband to a descendant of John Gowland b. about 1803
- Another generation back on the Pfaff line
- Some photos of Cornelius and Adelheid Faller, and their children
- Maps for all Dutch surnames in Mathilde's tree, showing the distribution of each surname in 1993
- An extra couple of generations on the Wilson, Pfaff and Faller lines
- A new surname - Tester - branching off the Wilson line
- Direct Plews line back to 1680
- Several more photos of Peter, Mary, David, Richard and Veronica Toft
- Star ancestors back to about 1775
- Ancestors of Trijntje Cuperus (Nynke Jansen's Grandmother)
- Maps showing the distribution in 1881 and 1998 of surnames Church, Cleaver, Faller, Finkle, Gowland, Grainger, Gray, Kearton, Longland, Megginson, Pfaff, Plews and Shotton
- Kerton/Kearton line back to 1767
- More members of the Grainger/Granger Family line
- Plews line back to c.1811
- A new family name - Megginson - branching from the Bielby line
- A new family name - Finkle - following the female line back from Mathilde 6 generations
- Shotton line back to 1840s
- Gowland male line back to c.1803
- Adelheid Pfaff's parents and 10 siblings
- Maps showing the distribution in 1881 and 1998 of surnames Toft, Wilson, Jansen, Bielby and Smales
- Birth and death dates for Annie Faller
- David and Mary Toft's children
- Cornelius Faller's Siblings
- Several photos including (but not restricted to) some for the Toft, Smales, Wilson and Faller families
- Family tree going back to 1764 along the Oostenbrug line (Mathilde's Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather, Eetze Oostenbrug)
- Family tree on the Smales side, going back to the 1690s