My name is Andy Gosnell and welcome to my family history web page.

I originally started looking into my family history in early 2007 with the intention of finding out about my father’s side of the family, a side that I knew virtually nothing about. Once I started researching I realised how little I also knew of my mother’s side of the family even though I could still remember my grandparents. I was now researching both paternal (male) and maternal (female) links in each generation from both sides of my family. The inevitable happened and I decided that I should also research my wife Linda's side of the family as they are part of my son Andrew’s family tree. Four years later I had amassed a large volume of information that I input into a family history software package.

Family in general seemed to be interested in what I had put together but I either had to send them gedcom files or print out various charts or direct them to the Genes reunited website where I had also input some basic family tree information. But access to this site would require them to pay a subscription. Researching family history is time consuming and can be expensive and I wanted what I had put together to be available, quickly and easy to those family members who were interested and who wanted to review it and could do so at a time of their choosing, in a format that was easier to understand and without them having to incur costs.

These are the reasons that this website exists. Although in its current form it’s still basic I hope to improve both the layout and content over the coming months/years.

Note on the content:

Most of the information on this site is publically available (if you know how to access it) and where I believed its okay to do so I have published the relevant information. I have more records and information available but I decided not to publish many records relating to births from 1980 onwards as the purpose of this site is to provide historical family tree data and not to provide information on every family member living today.

I am confident of the accuracy of the content, a large percentage of which has been sourced however any mistakes contained within this website are mine and mine alone. Should you read something that you object to or you think it incorrect or needs amending or adding to please call me or drop me an e-mail. You will find details on the contacts page.

I hope you enjoy the content of this website as much as I have enjoyed putting it together.

Andy Gosnell
17th January 2011

Click on any of the links below to view a family tree, starting with the Paternal (male) line then showing each Maternal (female) line in sequence through descendants. Below each link there will be additional links to extended family trees relating to that generation, family summaries and example records, usually the oldest records available in that family tree lineage. Other family trees or items of interest tend to have descriptions as the title.

Information on individuals within each tree can be found in the index and in alphabetical order.