My name is Roy, my ever-loving wife's name is June and our lovely dog is Sally. We all live in Southampton, England but my home is Burnham in Somerset and June is from Merstham in Surrey. We have four grown-up Children, seven Grand-Children, seven Great-Grand-Children (Things moved on a bit since 2004!)

 I became interested in genealogy in 1959 whilst on Army service with the Grenadier Guards as a Drummer, and have since researched my family's history and that of the Brent Levels in Somerset. This broadened to a general interest in the name throughout the UK with some links to American and Canadian families.

I have secured all the data that I have gathered in a database but which is not available for public research. I will search the database for any information that may be connected to other people's research of the same name as myself and/or its variants. Further on in this site there is a page for submitting requests.

This facility is for the genealogical research only into the name and/or its variants and the exchange of such information to our mutual advantage.

Much of my research has been achieved with the help of many enquirers who have very kindly donated their research results to this project. All my research is now done through Internet resources and outside assistance, but, my data store continues to grow albeit slowly. The era covered is mainly between from the end of the 19th century going back to the mid 18th century - at a time when the Land Tax was being implemented under the Enclosure Awards Act.

Most research comes to a stop at about this time due to many reasons, probably because of the wars during that century when England had to find many soldiers for the American, French and Spanish Wars to say nothing of the other problems nearer home.

 Add to this the 17th century Commonwealth period and Monmouth's rebellion with the ensuing aftermath, and it is little wonder that any recording was achieved at all. An additional problem came during the first half of the 18th century when all legal documents had to be written in English and not Latin, which many think may have been a good thing, and so it has become, but at first there were difficulties.

Since starting this site I have not been able to conduct proper searches due to ill health. I have since had two operations on my left ankle and foot and now with help from orthotic and sports injury advisors, I am getting back on the road again as it were. One avenue I have just re-started is riding a bike again.

Think it is not possible? - think again because having found a satisfactory machine almost new, I have started to kit it out with the help of Chain Reaction Cycles  - I can ride with no pain or discomfort whatsoever, so different to walking which is only at a snail's pace and with pain, not though because the ops were not successful, they were, but because if I had not the ops I would not be walking at all!

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Please explore my site and use the email links is you would like to contact me.

The Left Drummer below will take you to links for some aspects of Corps of Drums.

The Right Drummer will take you to the Grenadier Guards Forum.