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	The Families
	This page has links to the various families on this site. Each link will take you to the area of the site dedicated to that family name. Each area includes details of known descendants of those ancestors, as well as links to resources for the name. We are currently working mainly on the DORMER name, so that area is more detailed at the moment than the others. As you return to the site, you will be able to see the progress we are making with the other names. The family surnames are: Benham Eliza Benham came from Hampshire, which will give us a whole new area to research in. Since she is a recently discovered twig on the family tree, we don't know what her family did or where in Hampshire they came from, but according to the 1881 census she was born there about 1843. Collingwood The COLLINGWOODs were, so far back as we have researched, boot and shoe makers. Living as we do here in Northants in the heart of the British (and once the world's) boot and shoe industry, we look forward to finding out more about them. Dormer Our main focus now is on the DORMER name, so that area is more detailed at the moment than the others. Our branch of the DORMERs were still following their traditional skills of silk-weaving, though other lines had moved out into other areas of employment by the end of the eighteenth century. There is a strong family tradition that the family were originally of Huguenot stock. Silk weaving was certainly one of the skills that the Huguenot refugees brought with them when they fled from France, and there was a flourishing community of them in Spitalfields in the eighteenth century. By the early nineteenth century many of these weavers had moved out to the Bethnal Green area, where our Dormers are found. Gross Like the Dormers, the GROSS family were also silk weavers. Many other lines of the family name, like the Dormers, were in other occupations. Horne The furthest back "twig" of the HORNE family was a carman, or van driver. A later generation became a taxi driver; then, as now, a familiar feature of London traffic. Heelas Our earliest HEELAS was a brass finisher; one of the early occupations of the industrial revolution. Since the HEELAS name is a relatively unusual one we hope that we will be able find out more about the family fairly soon. Humphreys Rebecca HUMPHREYS is an outer twig so we have no further information on the line at the moment. Richards Sarah Richards is another outer twig. As you return to the site, you will be able to see the progress we are making with the other names.

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