Steel/ Freeman Family History - Reasons for Update (started 9^th September, 2002)

Date 9^th Sept. 2002	Update details Corrections to steel lineage. Ancestors of John Steel (born 1851) were incorrect. Incorrect details have been deleted and new information has been added.
15^th Oct. 2002	Initial updates from 1901 census research. A few names added – Turnes and Tizley.
25^th Dec. 2002	Correction of mistake re. Mike Morris. (Wrong gender!) Also, further updates resulting from 1901 census, including the Hull, Canning & Dodds families.
28^th Dec. 2002	Many updates to the Steel side of the family (especially Grice) from BVRI research. A few more names added – Warrilow, Smith, Hurst.
1^st Feb. 2003	Added Jacon Harrison Kamen, with photo, latest family member update.
19^th Apr. 2003	Added siblings of Ann Wade, as a result of a chance contact.
29^th Sept. 2003	Add Eliza Sparks. Add James Howard. Add details of Frederick Walker’s family. Update various Grice family information.
6^th Feb. 2004	The following extract explains how a new avenue of research has opened-up… "In the 1881 census, Hannah describes her birth-place as Longton. In fact, it seems highly probable that her birth was in Checkley. Through contact with David Tideswell, who is the 3x Great Grandson of a William Tideswell, born in Checkley who it seemed could be Hannah's brother,I have learned that the Tideswell family moved from Checkley to Longton around about the time of Hannah's birth. "At the time of the 1901 census, Hannah was a widow living with her Grand-daughter, Harriet Louisa and her husband (although Hannah's relationship to the head of the family, Robert James, was described as "Grand Mother"). In the 1901 census, she described her birth-place as Alton. "Some "detective work" was necessary to establish the above facts... "In the 1881 census, my Hannah Emberton (née Tideswell) said she was 48 and born in Longton. She had an unmarried daughter, Elizabeth, aged 28, and another "daughter" Harriet Louisa - 20 years younger. "I looked for Hannah Emberton in the 1901 census, and found someone who could be her living at the home of Robert James and his wife Harriet. She (Hannah) was described as Grandmother to the Head of the family. This Hannah said she was 68, and born in Alton, which I believe is very near to Checkley. "I wondered whether Harriet could be her Grand-daughter by Elizabeth (who, in the 1881 census, also appeared to have a 2 year old illegitimate son - Joseph). So I looked for a marriage of Robert James to a Harriet and found one in the Stone register for Dec 1893. I cross-checked for a marriage of Harriet to Robert James in the same register - and came up with Harriet Louisa E. Hill. "The birth of a Harriet Louisa H. Emberton was registered in Stoke in the June 1873 register. It seems very likely that the H in this instance was for Hill, and the E in Louisa Hill's marriage was for Emberton - presumably a means of denoting the parents were unmarried. "Having firmly established that the Hannah Emberton in the 1901 census was my Hannah, I am pretty convinced that, as on this occasion, she described her birth-place as Alton, that she is also the Hannah Tideswell who was David Tideswell's 3x Grandfather's sister." Also – Robotham details updated following the acquisition of William Robotham birth certificate (1856).
28^th March 2005	Added further individuals to the Howard family. There are also a number of other minor additions over the course of the last year but, sorry, I lost my notes of what they were!
27^th December 2005	Updates and corrections to Robotham, Booth and Kamen family details.
28^th December 2005	Sundry corrections. Removed wrong photo from Dalveen Kamen! Added new photo of Kathryn Fish. Added Isabella Basson, born 22^nd December 2005! Added Robert Steel’s marriage to Janet and Adrian Burrows’ marriage to Kelly, and their two children. Birth date of Harry Booth corrected.
30^th December 2005	Updates to Tideswell/ Shenton, Grice, Arrowsmith, Oakley, Dyble, Howard and Harrison families – mostly based upon 1861 census.
15^th January 2006	New surname added – Grief (Freeman side). Updates to Harrison, Freeman, Arrowsmith and Robotham from censuses. See William Harrison, born 1836; Mary Spilsbury is either a Grandmother or Aunt.
22^nd January 2006	New surname added – Bithell (Steel side). Updates to Joseph Hough family. Updates to John Grice family. (Birth-place is Burslem, not Buxton). Updates to Jeremiah Howard family.
16^th February 2006	Updates, including cause of death, to ancestors in author’s direct line, up to Great Grandparents. Removed unnecessary unknown individuals. Updates to William Steel, William Polgrean and James Wildish families with new information from censuses.
9^th September 2006	Relationship between Grocott family and Steel established. (Frances Steel married William Grocott.) Added further details of Fanny Robotham family. Husband - Villiers, Mother Gibbons. Added further details of Eliza Sparks family. Added further details of Morris family. Added further notes on Michael Freeman’s family. Added further details of Wildish family. Steel family extended another generation.
28^th October 2006	Additional information about the Steel family relatives of John Frederick Steel. Another generation of the Arrowsmith family added. Nicholson family connections (from Arrowsmith). Updated information about Michael Freeman’s family. Added information about Thomas McCarthy’s family.