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Martin Mosley has been researching these histories for many years, and maintains this site for family members around the world.

The families featured on this site are from modest backgrounds. We know little of their lives, but each has contributed to the communities they lived in.

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A Cave Man Ancestor!

  • October 2, 2012

When I began researching my family history some years ago, I wondered whether I’d ever find anyone ‘notable’ in our long list of ancestors.. Maybe a famous scientist, a knight, or even a king or two. I’ve been digging long enough now to know that whatever the statistics say, my family are from more humble stock..



For centuries they were agricultural labourers. With the Industrial Revolution many turned to mining and the steel industries, while some ran small commercial premises, or were the carpenters and builders who helped to build the housing or the carts used by the others. I’m proud of this heritage and feel that in their own small way, each of these working class families has contributed to the advancement of the communities where they lived. That doesn’t mean there isn’t still a secret hope that one day someone notable may turn up.. Today I found something I really wasn’t expecting: A distant aunt who was a cave man (woman)! Her place of birth is shown in various records to be ‘North Cave’ Yorkshire, England. I’m not quiet sure what to make of this. Was she really born in a cave? Did her family live in said cave? And if so who were their neighbours in ‘South Cave’? All this a little under two hundred years ago, so it goes to show that however difficult life may be in these times of recession and declining spending power, we have made considerable progress and do have much to be thankful for.

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Births for Jan 31, 2023

  • John Molyneux Gosney 1900 (123 years ago)
  • Charles Harold IBBERSON 1908 (115 years ago)
  • Joseph DUNCAN 1909 (114 years ago)
  • Jacqueline FERREAU 1927 (96 years ago)

Deaths for Jan 31, 2023

  • Roselie HASLAM 1865 (158 years ago)
  • Charles PAGE 1909 (114 years ago)
  • Florence Kathleen Elizabeth START 1922 (101 years ago)
  • Samuel FREEMAN 1945 (78 years ago)
  • George Herbert BRADBURY 1950 (73 years ago)

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This site was developed and is maintained by Martin Mosley. Martin is interested in genealogy and in the history surrounding his ancestors and their communities. Contributions have been made by many others, some, but not all of whom are connected to the families mentioned in the site database.

If you have any information or documents which would help complete the picture of an individual or a family, an occupation, or a locality, please let us know. Your help will be acknowledged and will be treated with the same respect as the information you can already see in these pages.



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