Welcome to the 'Ourgenes' Website

This website is designed to enable our Family to understand it's roots, who their ancestors were, and their place in the landscape of history. It is also designed to enable others to look at the information gathered here, to enjoy the history contained within, and maybe, to find connections between families, which can be quite exciting for the ever growing number of people seeking their own family history. Generally, only the generations up to about 1900 are covered in this website. As the site develops later generations and more detail will be added. Sections of other surname trees are being researched and will be added in due course. Is it wrong? If you see information that is incorrect, or that could be enhanced, please contact the webmaster by email. Contacts and Links

Following the threads of the various elements of the family tree could be quite difficult. Therefore, only a limited amount of information is displayed on a page. Various tags have been added to the tree to enable access to more information and other threads of the tree, as and when you want to explore them.

Key:

A blue line indicates a link by marriage.

A red line with a link attached indicates a link that can be clicked on to go to a tree or family displayed on another page.

A link similar to that shown left, leads to more information, including census returns, about that particular family group.

This type of link leads to biographical life stories about the person.

More information about this family

Link to the Needle Tree

Biographical Information on this Person

Telling the story of individual people and families: Biographical information is taken from various census returns, stories, newspapers, and anecdotes known within the family. The census return information is copied directly from the return and reflects how the detail of entries varied from area to area, census to census. The information in the early census returns was basic. More recently the information increased.   Notes on census information: Many citizens were recorded as 'Ag Lab', which is short for Agricultural Labourer. The quantity of people with this occupation indicates how many relied on the land and farming for their income, which is quite different to the situation today. The information on a census return varies in detail and accuracy. The census return information is replicated on the website to reflect the various original returns. Some census returns on the various websites are very poor reproductions, the ink on the original has become faded over the years, or the writing is illegible, in those cases the missing word(s) are identified thus; [illegible]. Where information has been transposed from written into typed entries, mistakes can be made.

Latest Updates and Additions (1 June 2015):   The Ryder family has now begun to be added. (Nov 2010) The family of Mary Hatcher has now been added. Link to Mary's family. (Oct 2009) The Green Family Tree, which includes strands of the following surnames: Barnes, Byron, Chartrand, Emms, Jeffery, Quigley, Reder/Rider, and Wells. Link to the Green Family Tree. (Oct 2009) The Barnes Family Tree, including the Suter (Sutch) strand , has been added and is under development. Go to the Barnes Family Tree. Go to the Suter family. (Feb 2010) The Ryder tree has been added and is being developed, there is a lot more information yet to be added to the website. Go to the Ryder Tree. (Feb 2010) Details of special biographies can be found via this link. (Feb 2010) A special new and much needed page, 'Tree Connections', that should help the family to understand the relationships between the various family trees covered in this website. (Feb 2010) The Lewis Tree  was added 3 April 2011. The Hatch and Wright Trees were added on 4 April 2011. 30 May 2011 various updates and corrections to Hatch, Lewis, and Wright Trees. Plus various marriages added to the Ryder line on the Tree Connections page .   News: The website is to be rebuilt as the current software is unstable with some of the new internet browsers. (Dec 2010)