I have been researching my family for 15 years now. The main names that I'm researching are:
NUBBERT - any occurrence anywhere in the world as I'm doing a one-name study. The name originates from the East End of London - Stepney, Whitechapel and Poplar, but only from about 1840 as before that, the family lived in Chelmsford in Essex. The name changed from NUBBARD in the mid 1800s, and around that time it was also spelt as NUBBERD and NEBHARD. I have just found out where the name comes from - so please contact me if you have this name in your family tree.
METHLEY - again, any occurrence, I'm doing a One-Name Study of the Methley name. The name changed from MEDLEY in the mid 1700s and before that it was DE METHLEY. There are large branches of the Medley family in North America, Australia and South Africa.
LEEDER - originating from Swanton Novers, and before that Barney in Norfolk, England. My Leeders were there in the 1800s. My gg-grandfather Levi James LEEDER b. 1854 moved to Great Warley, Essex where he was the Head Coachman for Mr. Ind of Ind Coope at Coombe Lodge. He met Arthur RIDGEWELL who was the Head Gardener for the same gentleman, and later when both families had moved to Clapton and Hackney, their children Henry James LEEDER and Beatrice Mary RIDGEWELL met and married in 1906.
Families to related to this line are the Nash family, originally from Great Cheverell, Wiltshire, England, which came up to live in Southwark and Newington, Surrey. Henry NASH, son of Robert NASH and Sarah, lived in Newington, Surrey (now London) and married Ellen/Eleanor BRYANT in the mid 1800s. Their daughter Annie Elizabeth NASH, married Levi James LEEDER in 1877 in Southwark, Surrey.
RIDGEWELL/RIDGWELL - originating from Finchingfield & Wethersfield and before that Great Totham in Essex as REDGEWELL/REDGWELL. They married into the Whitehead and the Suckling families, including: Sarah WHITEHEAD, daughter of John Whitehead and Rebecca Suckling from Finchingfield, Essex married Arthur Ridgwell in 1872.
GODDARD - originally from Bunwell and Carleton Rode in Norfolk, the family moved down to Southwark, London (then Surrey) in the late 1800s. My g-grandmother Emily GODDARD, daughter of Jonas GODDARD and Mary ROCKETT (both from Bunwell, Norfolk) married David NUBBERT in 1895.
STEPHENS - from Jersey, Channel Islands, but descended from a Richard Stephens who was born in St. Columb Minor in Cornwall in late 1841 and went over to Jersey in about 1870ish and married Mary Jane Jean in 1873. His father was Richard STEPHENS and his mother Phillippa JEFFREY, and the Stephens family married into many other St. Columb Minor families, including: TREBILCOCK, OLIVER (which is perpetuated as a middle name for sons) and DYER.
HARPER and ANDERSON - from Coupar Angus and Dundee in Scotland in the mid 1800s. The Harper family came from Birse, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and there is a long line of Harpers going back to the early 18th century. James HARPER, son of William HARPER and Mary Ann EMSLIE, was born in Arbuthnot, Kincardineshire, Scotland in 1851, and married Elizabeth ANDERSON in 1877. They moved to Jersey, Channel Islands in about 1885. Some of James HARPER'S siblings also moved away to places like Adelaide in Australia and East Africa.
I look forward to hearing from anyone who thinks there might be a family connection...
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