A record of tracing my ancestors.

by Donald Brown

 30/6/1999

When I started this project the only information that I had was that my Grandfather Durnford had been brought up in Potterne, Wiltshire where his Grandfather was the village Blacksmith, and that he had come to Salford in Lancashire (where I was born) as a Guard on the Great Western Railway.

                             POTTERNE Wiltshire                        

According to my mother, he had been brought up by his Uncle who kept The Bell Inn at Potterne  near Devizes in Wiltshire.

           The Bell Inn ,Potterne -1999

Enquiring of my sister Lilian and my cousin Kathleen, I learnt that my Uncle Tom (who was killed in the first World War and who, of course, I never knew),had been named after my Grandfathers uncle

From this I have managed to piece together a history going back to the 1600’s using the Durnford line of ancestry.

Much of the information has come from the census returns of 1851,1861, 1871, and 1881. The 1841 census returns unfortunately are so badly faded as to be useless.

However the Wiltshire County Records at Trowbridge contain copies of many parish records; christenings, marriages and burials, and many records going much further back than I have gone so far remain to be explored.

In addition some sources available at the Devizes museum confirmed certain details and may provide more information in the future.

A major problem is the spelling of the names. There are many DUNFORDS in the Wiltshire records and occasionally the person recording the event miss-spelt the name DURNFORD as DUNFORD. Indeed on the marriage entry of Dinah Durnford the vicar had written Dunford even though Dinah herself signed as Durnford. Similarly, Susanna Dyke, wife of John Durnford had her name spelt as Susannah on the marriage certificate but she signed it herself without the ‘h’.

I had thought that the trail would centre on Potterne, but that was not so. There were several Dunford families but only the one Durnford around the time that my direct ancestors lived there.

It transpired that the trail led back to Devizes where there were several generations of the family, with a family tradition of Blacksmiths as their occupations.

 Devizes was divided into three Parishes. St. Johns, St. Marys and St. James. The parish of St. James was also known as Southbroom and is so today. The churchyard borders onto a large area of open common land and is separated from it by a large pond. The land is known as The Green and the land, pond and Church still exist today.

The Durnford family resided in a house, and later, houses, which they owned and which were actually on The Green. These are shown on maps of the period.

Unfortunately houses at that time did not seem to be numbered in any records so individual properties are difficult to identify.

   The Smithy run by the family was also at The Green. Several of these houses are still there today together with the Smithy (now a Tropical Fish shop in the buildings, and a motor cycle business through the archway to the rear, built over the area where the horses were taken to be shod).

Whilst the trail for our family is quite clear back to Thomas and Elizabeth Durnford at Devizes, I have been tempted to explore the other branches of the family with some intriguing, and at times, rather sad finds

My grandfather Edward may have been brought up by his uncle, (as family tradition suggests), for some time, as his mother Sarah was unmarried when he was born. However he certainly lived with his mother and grandfather some of the time.

In 1871 he was living with them aged 9 yrs. at Standwines Buildings, Coxhill Road Potterne. His grandfather apparently had retired as the blacksmith at Potterne (he was now 73yrs.). It was rather nice to find that on the 19^th August 1882 at the age of 52 and after her father had died, Sarah did at last get married, to Charles Wheeler, a widower from the neighbouring village of Worton.

Charlotte Caroline, Sarah’s aunt, was also unmarried when she gave birth to Mary Ann at 21 years of age and died giving birth. This child appears to have been adopted by Caroline’s brother Thomas and brought up with his own children.

Our Great-Great Grandmother Susanna gave birth to seven children. One died aged twenty-two, two died aged 1 month and one died aged three weeks.

There is still much research to be done. I have no doubt that the family line can be extended much further back and (hopefully) some of the missing pieces found.

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28/7/1999

Having just returned from a further exploration of the archives at Trowbridge, I can now give a further insight into the ancestry that had previously come to light.

 It had become apparent that the Durnford line at Devizes did not go much further back than about 1760.

However an intriguing pair of marriages of two Durnford brothers, Thomas and Henry who married two sisters Frances Ann and Anna Thomas, on the 23/12/1865,  were recorded at St. James. Southbroom, Devizes.

 The brothers, described as carpenters, were at that time residing at St. Pancras London and the sisters were resident at Southbroom where the marriage took place, but the Durnford’s father was Esau Durnford who I had already seen in passing as recorded at All Cannings.

A further intriguing point was a second record of the same Henry as a journeyman/carpenter lodging with a widow, Ellen Taylor, at The Green, Southbroom in the 1861 census and apparently associated with the Devizes Durnford family.

I therefore switched my attention to the records for All Cannings and succeeded in tracing the family line a very lot further.

A visit to All Cannings found a very small, superbly preserved village, with many ancient thatched cottages, not far from Devizes and relatively unspoilt even to this day.

Going into the Churchyard I found, to my surprise, a recently restored gravestone for Esau Durnford who died in 1861.

In the Church itself I found an entry in the visitors book from a Durnford descendant which has resulted in a contact with a descendant of Esau Durnford who is distantly related to myself, (Heather Fawcett of Taunton, the person who had restored the gravestone) and much further information has come from a comparison of information with Heather.

 A further contact has been with Rick Ozzard, a very helpful local historian who has compiled a data-base of all the inhabitants of All Cannings as far back as records go. He has given me with a list of all the Durnfords who have been born, married or died in the village, and that has confirmed, and in some cases provided clues, for my ongoing search.

There is still much to be done.

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After attending our daughter Mindy’s wedding in London, we went to meet Heather Fawcett at All Cannings in Wiltshire where the family originated.

A lovely meeting with the first living Durnford descendant that I have traced, and we looked at some of the old documents that she has inherited from her side of the family. Afterwards we toured the village and searched for the house in which Esau Durnford lived all those years ago. We were joined by Rick Ozzard the village historian who found the house for us.

    It is now empty and being extensively restored. Heather and I were photographed outside it.

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19/10/1999

The Saga continues. –

Early in my researches I came across a Durnford Family web site on the internet.

There were several lists of family trees but nothing that appeared connected to our Durnfords. Later, in an idle moment, I looked back through the prints that I had made and was struck by an entry for Charlotte Lamb O’Leary.  It became apparent that this was the Charlotte Laamb who married Charles Durnford in All Cannings in 1860.

Two of their sons were listed on the web site as resident in the U.S.A. and I subsequently got in touch with a couple of their descendants. 

 I have also obtained the 1881 census returns from the Mormon Church (on CD ROMs) and a lot of important facts have been extracted from them.

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31/10/1999

Having now had a lot of information on the descendants of Thomas Herbert Durnford who moved to the USA, (from Thomas Durnford, Betty Fitterman and Susan Jeffares in the United States), and including not only some photographs of Charles and Charlotte (parents of Thomas Herbert), but also copies of letters from Charles to his son Tom in the USA, I was intrigued by a reference to Harry Durnford (the brother of Thomas Herbert) who was said to have been Warden of Sing Sing prison.

I put an enquiry on the Internet to the Durnford Family Group and to my surprise had a reply from  George Adams Durnford in the USA who claimed to be his Grandson. - yet another relative discovered and another piece in the jig saw puzzle.

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7/1/2000

As the family tree has got bigger it has become apparent that the Durnfords had started to move all over the UK (as well as the ones that went to the USA).

I had exhausted the parish records so I have had to switch to the General Records Office indexes.  Microfiche copies of these records are held in many large Public Libraries but the nearest place to where I live that has a set of copies is the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, some seventy miles away,  These records unfortunately are not as revealing as the parish records but do give a lot of information, which, with some detective work throws light on many lines of descent.

I have spent some time at The National Library and have extracted most of the Durnford entries for Births, Marriages and Deaths, and set them up in a computer database. Cross referencing these on computer has proved very rewarding.

As the entries on the GRO indexes get more recent, so the amount of information given is more useful and when the extracts are complete I should be able to trace the lines up to about 1983 and possibly later.

Up to now there are 431 individuals on the tree !

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 29/1/2000

Using the information that I had extracted from the General Records Office indexes, I have been concentrating on following the line from my Great-Great Grandfather John (the Blacksmith at Potterne)

Out of seven children, only three children grew up and had children of their own (Edward the eldest of John’s children died aged 24, and the others died in infancy), -

 Sarah - was my Great Grandmother and had one child Edward. He was a Durnford as she was unmarried when he was born. She appears to have stayed at home and kept house for her father after her mother died (although she is recorded on an early census as a seamstress), eventually getting married after the death of her father.

Her brother Thomas, after first working with his father at the Smithy in Potterne, was the innkeeper at the Bell Inn at Potterne until he retired and went to North Newnton where he became a farmer . He had one daughter, Ellen Rebecca, who married Frank Garrood Fisher in Kensington 1902. I have not yet traced any of her descendants.

Her other brother James, an Engineer and the eldest of the three ,  married Mary Ann Woodman at Devizes in 1849. He had eleven children and I have traced the marriages of eight of these.

His eldest son Albert married Lydia Jane Smith in 1877 at Melksham. I found that his first two daughters were born in Melksham and his third daughter and only son were born in Devizes.

The son, Albert George, married a Miss Wynn in Leicester in 1913 and they settled in Loughborough where they had two daughters, Irene C. and Marjorie P.

Irene married a Mr. Stevens in Loughborough in 1939.  Marjorie died in 1964 in Loughborough.

At this stage I wondered if there might be any Stevens still living in Loughborough.

I found an ‘I. Stevens’ living there and on an impulse telephoned.  To my surprise it turned out to be the actual Irene Stevens (nee Durnford) that I was looking for !!

An exchange of letters has given me the information that Albert and Lydia Jane had had two more daughters, who it seems, were born in Kingston, Mary Victoria who lived to 100 yrs of age and Eleanor Flower..

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Today I returned from another 3 day visit to the National Library in Aberystwyth where I completed the task of extracting records from the GRO indexes up to 1992.

After I had started transcribing them onto computer I realised that I could now probably trace several more living Durnfords on ‘our’ side of the family.

   There are two main lines already apparent, once again descended from James, my Great Grandmother Sarah’s eldest brother.

One line is at Ipswich and the other at Crawley. I telephoned Roger R. Durnford at Crawley and, having ascertained that he is indeed the relative that I thought he is, had a wonderful conversation. There are several missing persons on the tree which he assures me he can help identify and he seems to have a lot of Durnford family history to impart.

Whilst at Aberystwyth I looked at the records of Probates and Wills. The Probate for Thomas (the Innkeeper and Sarah’s other brother) was very interesting as his will left all to his widow Susanna . I checked the records and found that he remarried two years after his first wife Rebecca had died. He left £790.8s 7d a not inconsiderable sum in those days. As he is recorded as dying at High Street, Potterne, he must have returned to his birthplace to end his days.

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Going away from ‘my’ side of the family for a while, further research has now identified descendants of Frederick Charles who resided at Winchester. (born 1861 All Cannings, died 1935 Winchester and son of Charles and Charlotte ).

I telephoned H. Durnford at Birmingham who turned out to be Harold F.G (he says he is known as George), the grandson of Frederick Charles. With this contact made, much further information may be forthcoming in the future.

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9/4/2000

Simon Durnford, one of Roger R’s sons who lives in Bramhall, near Stockport Cheshire, contacted me and we arranged to meet at Bangor. His wife Ann has been researching their family tree and has promised me what information she has. An extremely nice couple, they have said that they will bring Roger over to meet us when he visits them. (I had not found their marriage in the GRO indexes, nor the birth of their son, Callum. This apparently is because both events took place in Scotland.)

Harold F.G. (George) has not replied to me after I sent him a copy of the tree and the other info, so I must assume that he is not really interested.

(**Subsequently I had a telephone call from Helen Durnford at Winchester. George apparently is not very interested in family history so he passed the information on to his sister. She then passed it to her other brother, and his wife Helen (the only one who IS interested), phoned me.)

Ann (Simons wife), has sent me lots of detail information which I have added to the files on the tree. She also sent me a photo

   of Frank Sidney and a letter she had some time ago from Joyce and Syd. ( Frank Sidney’s son). In it they say that Frank Sidney worked as a Foreman at Jenkins Engineering, Retford and that his brother Harry was the managing director there.

(Frank Sidney died young in 1912 at the age of 43. It appears that this left his family in somewhat destitute circumstances and his children went into an orphanage. Later however his widow Amy ( nee Rogers) remarried in 1928 at Lewisham to a Mr. Baker.)

I have found that the company is now known as JND Engineering at Retford and that they claim to be one of the largest and oldest engineering companies in the UK. They comprise three companies including Jenkins of Retford and Newell Dunford of Misterton ( hence the JND). The Dunford part is interesting and may be significant. I have written to the company asking for help.

I have also obtained a copy of the marriage certificate for John Woodman Durnford who married Fanny Palmer in Maidstone in 1882. He is definitely a son of James and Mary Anne at Devizes. As he died at 113 Thrumpton Lane Retford, (the road on which the Jenkins Factory is situated) and he was a metal turner by trade, it is very probable that he too was there because of his brothers Harry and Frank Sidney.

Indeed, he seems to have been with Harry a lot. Although they were born in Devizes, they both married in Maidstone, both lived for some time in Prestwich and they are both associated with East Retford.

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3^rd May 2000

Having now established that John Woodman Durnford was one of the family I set out to trace his descendants. I traced them through his son John Robert to John and John M.

John M. I found, had married in South Pembrokeshire but there was no telephone number for either him or his father.

We had a short holiday at St. Davids in Pembrokeshire (South Wales) and whilst there I went to the Electoral Registration office in Haverford West and found John Michael on the electoral register at Llanreath, Pembroke Dock, so I called at the house in the hope it was the right Durnford.

Speaking to his wife I learnt that his father John was in Spain and John Michael. was ex-directory – hence the lack of telephone numbers. I also learnt that the marriage I had found was his second marriage following the death of his first wife.

I had not recorded his first marriage and this was a stroke of luck as,  if I had found it, I would not have been on the trail to Pembrokeshire. I was now also able to find the entries in the records that I have for his children but not, strangely, for his first marriage.

 After leaving South Wales I returned home via Aberystwyth where I did some more research in the G.R.O. indexes. I found the missing entry for John M.’s first marriage. It had been recorded as a DUNFORD !

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 3^rd June 2000

 An interesting week. I decided that I ought to clear up the story about Henry William (Harry) a son of Charles and Charlotte, being the Warden of Sing Sing and having been killed in a riot there in 1935.

I have not had any further contact (despite trying) with George Adams Durnford in the USA so have had to try other sources of information.

I found the web site of the Ossining Historical Society Museum (Sing Sing has been renamed after the place Ossining) and wrote asking for their help.

The Director was very helpful.  She sent me a list of Wardens at Sing Sing from 1825 to 1944, which showed that there was no trace of Harry, and stated that there had not been any riots until 1941. I sent her a copy of the email from his grandson George Adams Durnford and the reference in it to Harry living in Auburn N.Y. put her on the right track.

It seems that Harry was the Principal Keeper under the Acting Warden at Auburn State Prison not Sing Sing. A period of unrest from June 1929 onwards culminated in a riot on the 11^th December 1929 during which Harry Durnford was shot and killed by the rioters.

The family story was basically correct, just the time and place were wrong.

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4^th June 2000

Just when I thought I had the mystery of Harry sorted out, difficulties arose.

A letter from Roberta Y. Arminio at Ossining arrived saying that the Durnford killed at Auburn was called George A Durnford. I did a lot of searching on the World Wide Web and found a site (the Memorial Site for all the Correctional Officers killed on duty). Sure enough the Durnford killed at Auburn State Prison was George A. Durnford.

I had always thought that Harry would have been too old for the job at the time of the riot (he would have been 64 in 1929).

Searching the IGI (Mormon) index threw up a Henry W. Durnford living in Auburn at that time. However for it to have been Henry W. (Harry) from England he would have had to have arrived in New York aged 14/15 and married there at 16. Further checks found that the Henry W. at Auburn was probably born in Onondaga, New York in 1854

So, who was the Principal Keeper at Auburn ?

A George A. Durnford married at Woodstock, Wisconsin 1879 and had a son George Albion Durnford in 1889.

If this was the Principal Keeper then he would have been 40 when killed in 1929, a much more realistic age ? If the family’s son’s names always included "A", then that accounts for the George Adams Durnford who contacted me.

I must conclude at this stage that Henry William (Harry)was not the person killed in 1929.

A further check of the GRO indexes shows a Henry W. died at St. Pancras, London in 1927. He was born 1865 the year Henry William was born at All Cannings, Wiltshire, and there was no other Henry W. recorded as born that year.

I will obtain a copy of the Death Certificate to validate it, but as his father Charles referred to Harry’s boys ( in a letter to Tom in the USA) as if he knew them,   " the second boy was killed, he was 6’ 1" and a very nice boy and a great loss to his mother"  it now looks as if Harry never left England.

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.5^th June 2000

Following on from the revelations re Henry William, I searched for his son who was killed in the first world war.

I found him on the Commonwealth Graves Commission web site.

" Eric Charles Durnford, aged 19, son of Henry William and Ada Maud Durnford, of 3, Grants Crescent, Seaham Harbour, County Durham, and born in Rowsley Derbyshire. Killed at the Battle of the Somme 7^th June 1916. Buried at COUIN BRITISH CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France."

From this I have been able to trace Henry William and his children (but not, as yet, the first born nor the date of his marriage).

Henry William (Harry) definitely did not move to the USA.

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6^th June 2000

More success on Henry Williams children. I had found that there were two daughters also born in Rowsley together with Eric. One of these married at Easington, County Durham. I then found that another Durnford had married at Easington and she was born in Devizes. A further check found Phillip Sydney born in Devizes and dying (aged 29) in Easington in 1925. I had found all Harry's children.!

It appears then that Harry had married, returned to Devizes for some time, then moved to Rowsley in Derbyshire, and then to County Durham.

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9th – 16^th June 2000

Visited New York for a short break. We should have met up with three of the American Durnfords but only Betty Fitterman could meet up with us. A charming lady , she was most interested in what I could tell her about her Durnford ancestors.

                                                                    Elizabeth Mary (Betty)Fitterman (June 2000)

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25^th June 2000

Earlier I had found a birth registered at East Retford for a May Pawsey Durnford.

It was probable that this was a daughter of Frank Sydney but there was some doubt, as another Durnford had been born in Woolwich also with the Christian name of Pawsey and this could not have been another child of Frank Sydney as the date of births was too close.

Today I received the birth certificate for May Pawsey and she WAS the daughter of Frank Sydney and Amy Durnford (formerly Rogers), born 23/8/1906at 57 Caledonian Rd. East Retford (and died there early the following year ).
So I began to wonder why 'Pawsey' and what was the connection with another Durnford born in Woolwich ?

I searched all the births, marriages and deaths records and then things started to come together. Frank Sydney's older brother Walter married a 'Lillian Fanny' in 1898 in Lancaster two years before Frank also married in Lancaster( to Amy Rogers).

I then found 8 (possibly 9) children born in Woolwich starting in 1900 and the eldest was called Cecil Rogers. Next was Harold Walter (after his father ?) then Kathleen Lillian (after her mother?) then Amy Pawsey.

Four more children after this but by the time the last two were born the records were showing the maiden name of the mother. It was ROGERS !!

So it now looks as if Frank Sydney and his brother Walter could have married two sisters from Lancaster ? Was ‘Pawsey’ their grandmother Rogers maiden name perhaps and thus used by both sisters?

Only three of the children survived long enough to get married, Kathleen Lillian married a 'Collins' in Woolwich so no further trace,  and of  the two boys, Frank R. married 1940 but had no children and the youngest Ronald James married 1942 and had a daughter Jean in 1946.  By 1992 there was no record of her marriage or death.   Still trying to trace her.

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July 2000

Returning from a trip to the South of England which included an abortive attempt to contact Jean Durnford. (The only Jean that I could find was at Newbury who turned out to be the widow of an unrelated Durnford), and a visit to meet Roger Durnford at Crawley, (a very enjoyable visit as Simon his son was visiting also), I decided to contact some further Durnford relatives.

Frank Sydney’s third son Reginald had settled in Sussex and had five sons. I contacted the eldest,  Richard ( known as Dickie it seems) and sent him a copy of the tree back to John the Blacksmith at Potterne.

He told his brothers about it and subsequently he has sent me further details of his, and his brother’s families.

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23rd October 2000

A late holiday saw us staying near Potterne in order to look for properties that had been occupied by the Durnfords. I was particularly interested in finding the old forge and blacksmiths shop where John and Susanna had lived, worked and raised their children, James, Thomas and Sarah, and later my grandfather Edward.

A booklet about Potterne 100 years ago referred to a footpath from the back of Durnfords Smithy in Coxhill Lane so, having obtained an 1885 map of Potterne from the internet and identified the Smithy marked on it, I visited Coxhill Lane.

The only old property was higher up the lane from where I expected the Smithy to be. This was ‘Cosy Cottage’ a restored thatched Cruck Cottage. Enquiring of the owners elicited the information that it had been a blacksmiths forge in the 1800’s but searching the ancient property deeds that she had did not show any Durnfords, and to my mind the cottage was not in the correct position as shown on the old map.

The following day I visited the Wiltshire Archives and examined the Tithe map dated 1839. This showed that there were TWO smithies in Coxhill Lane, and the one at ‘Cosy Cottage’ had been tenanted by Jacob Pearce.

The DURNFORD Smithy was in fact at the bottom of Coxhill Lane, now the site of three lock up garages. John was the occupier, but the owner of the blacksmiths shop, gardens and 5 cottages on the site was Elizabeth Durnford ( Johns mother who lived at Southbroom, Devizes).

This find prompted me to search further. On an early census Elizabeth Durnford had been listed as ‘Proprietor of Houses’. Obviously now I realised that this was a reference to the properties at Potterne but were there others ? Sure enough the Tithe map dated 1841 for Southbroom showed her as also owning the Blacksmiths shop at The Green, Southbroom together with the 9 houses and gardens adjoining. Some of these may be standing today and are known as Estcourt Street, Devizes.

I then looked for more documents. To my surprise I found the actual Will and Testament of Elizabeth dated 21 October 1845. (Apparently prior to 1859 all wills were administered in the Ecclesiastical Courts and the original wills stayed in their records. These have now been deposited with the County records office.)

I also found the actual valuers’ notebook with the inventory of the Bell Inn Potterne when Thomas (the son of John the Blacksmith, Potterne) bought it on 29^th September 1887.

(Both the will and inventory are in the Documents page on this web site. Click here to go to the page.)

The following day I went in search of properties occupied by other Durnfords on the family tree. I found the following –

The Lodge, at the Wiltshire County Lunatic Asylum. – occupied by Charles and Charlotte

24 Victoria Road, Devizes – occupied by Charles after his retirement as Bailiff at the Asylum

‘Hillsboro’, Bath Road, Devizes. - owned by Edward John (Jack) son of Charles and Charlotte.

‘The Lamb Inn, Devizes - apparently tenanted by Thomas Durnford prior to purchasing the Bell at Potterne.

2, Landsdowne Terrace, Devizes - owned by James Durnford after he returned from Highworth near Swindon. The last of his children, Frank Sydney was born here in 1869.

(see the photographs page)

Very pleased today to receive an email from John Durnford who has returned from Spain to live in Pembroke. He enclosed a photograph of his father John Robert Durnford taken in East Retford Notts. in about 1907. Added to the photos page on the web site.

4^th August 2001

Received an email from Deb Maries, the grand-daughter of Irene Stevens (nee Durnford) who is now living in New York State USA. – Sent her a copy of the family tree.

3^rd October 2001

A very welcome surprise today. I received an email from Adrian Boult who had seen the website and having already traced his ancestry back to John Durnford ( the blacksmith) of Potterne, realised that he is related to us. His mother was Constance Margery Durnford, a daughter of James Frederick, son of James the elder brother of my Great Grandmother.

I had a record of James Frederick’s birth and death but not of his marriage nor, of course, his children. Adrian has promised to send me all the information he has and he says that he has a family bible with lots of names and dates in it. This should be very useful to confirm and possibly add to what I have already discovered.

6^th October 2001

Today I received some photographs from Adrian Boult. Some are of unidentified Durnfords but a family photograph of James Frederick’s wife and children was complete with names. I have put this photo on the Photograph page of the website.

 (to be continued)

April 2004

Despite my intention to keep this diary up to date, circumstances conspired to cause me to fail to update it and now I cannot remember the order in which many events occurred, nor indeed many of the actual events themselves..  Numerous Durnfords or Durnford descendants have contacted me after seeing the website. With one exception all the contacts have been very positive and complimentary and some have given me lots of extra details, all of which have been incorporated in the family tree or added to various sections of the site.

However I can remember that a contact in the USA led me to contact Gail Lawes who had done a lot of work on the All Cannings Durnfords. Her main interest however was in the Dunford line from John Durnford (1749) (and Sarah Heath) whose family dropped the "r" in their surname. We were able to exchange information which gave her the family line from the other All Cannings Durnford families and gave me the family line of the Dunfords. I have therefore included the Dunford genealogy on this site.

Donald Brown   

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