Hi, I wonder if you might help me. I moved into my house in Corby Road Cottingham in 2019. My house is accessed via a pathway from Corby Rd which leads to the rear of The Royal George Pub, my house is attached to the pub. Unfortunately I have no deeds for my property and am trying to find out some of its history......approx age, was it always a cottage, could it have been part of the pub or an attached outbuilding. The rear of the house is on Blind Lane and very close to Barrack Yard, as was. I love local history and have really enjoyed reading about Barrack Yard.
Hoping you can help.
Kind regards......Lesley

[ This article can be found in the RED pages at: We are the Barrack Yard Preservation Society.. - Ed]

Hi, my great great great grandmother was Julia Craxford 1844-1928.
I would love any further information regarding the Spence family. My great grandfather is Harold Edward Spence. I am missing photos and links between some family members.

Evelyn Craxford was my 2nd Great Aunt. I have inherited a trophy from her. It is a cup marked as the EWBA Secretaries and Treasurers Winner, 1936, Middlesex.
Please feel free to contact me if you would like any more details.

Hello Alan,

This is simply a note to say 'thank you very much' for publishing the photo of our 1953 class at Mantle Road Infants' School.
As I've become older I've often wished I'd retained my copy. [Don't we look scruffy?]
When my mother married in 1957 my surname changed to 'Corbett' although I still retain 'Clarke' as a middle name.
I wish I knew what happened to my particular friend Nicholas Green.

Look forward to seeing if my ancestors are found on here :)

Hello, I am absolutely thrilled to have stumbled across your website which is most impressive and helpful. My grandmother is Florence Nott who was born on 14/9/1907 in North Shields (daughter of Isabella Nessworthy and Joseph Nott). Is it possible to get full access to the site rather than guest access and if so what do you need from me?
I think I have some snippets of information that don't appear on the database on a few of the people lower down on this branch (including a couple of mistaken spellings on documents outside of your database that I have seen). Would you be interested in these even though it is a side line to the Craxford trees?

Looking to find Darlene Holloway. Believe she may be daughter of Priscilla Burlton. Darlene was born 1952. Any information would be great. I have photos of us as children in Cyprus I would like to share with her. If I have the wrong Priscilla, please let me know, Thanks.

Great website! The level of detail is very impressive. It's been very helplful to me as I prepared my TNG genealogy site, which I just launched.

I'm curious as a fellow genealogist how many hours you estimate you've put into genealogy over the years.

All the best,
-- Jeff Vitter

I have the Will of my 2nd great grandmother Elizabeth Anderson, wife of John Bennett McKenzie. Interestingly it was witnessed by Margaret Jane Nessworthy of 28 Shorebridge Street. I found an 1872 marriage between Margaret and a chap James Ridley Nessworthy. I was surprised to see that Margaret's maiden name was also Anderson and I wondered if she could be my 2nd great grandmother's sister. That's when I came across your website which has reference to James Ridley Nessworthy.
Regards, Owen

Hi,
I spent hours looking through your website completely engrossed. I've been doing my family tree for quite some years now and I am the great grandson of William Liquorish and Lucy Craxford. Of my four grandparents I'm back to 1570,1801,1674 and 1736. I also followed another line to 1820 because one set of great grandparents weren't married.
Great site thanks I matched up quite a lot of names.