Requests have been received from near and far asking for help searching families ancestral connections. This obviously raised an excellent subject for sharing future interests with coverage upon Huthwaite Online, although personally presenting a rather daunting challenge stretching my knowledge and resources. With great delight however, Huthwaite Online welcomes one new member able to help out in this somewhat specialised field. Mr Trev Ashmore possesses most of the relevant Nottinghamshire records from which he volunteers to answer your individual lookup requests. An updated listing of those and other future local resource centers including registration office addressing will be given in the Villager Records Lookup.
Publishing transcriptions of commercial directories and dated press reports, they helped historically uncover our 19th century growth, while offering frequent mention to a few notable resident businessmen. Following some influential surnames helped basically trace family progressions for those shown todate. Attracting grateful response and joint contributions from several of their distant relatives focuses aims at achieving greater detailed presentation for building family trees. Pleased to help others dig out a few more of those deeply planted Hucknall Huthwaite roots and allow descendents to combine contacts for updating their own separately featured family albums.
Publishing resulting research upon Huthwaite Online can expose fascinating insights discovering all those involved during the rapid industrial growth from Hucknall-under-Huthwaite through name of Hucknall Huthwaite. Tying together smaller historic clues with your family photographs all helps compose much broader understandings and interest in our past evolving mining community.
Let's not forget however that the vast majority of our population were lesser known people who simply lived and worked here. Raising their families best they could, some of their names may only get archived press reportage much like today, through crimes and misdemeanors. Judgement is not passed on anyone who may be thus mentioned. Looking back over a century ago, those historic times and harsher ways of living would be hard to comprehend today.
Involvement among church, sports and war are seen giving better recognition for the majority of working individuals. The latter being a very noble but extreme way of leaving a proudly remembered name. Recorded with greater honoured recognition among our updated Huthwaite War Memorial Project are villager casualties who made that ultimate sacrifice between two World Wars. Whilst their untimely deaths actually ended several family lines, their commemorative service records and family press memoriams newly uncover genealogy links.
Using the Huthwaite Online site search facility will firstly point all readers into relevantly updated pages, quicky helping find any mentioned family names. Please note that accurately transcribed records may also reflect any historic spelling variations or errors. It may therefore be also worth trying out a few different or shorter alternatives.
Written 19 Aug 06 Revised 15 Feb 09 © by Gary Elliott