The Ancestors of Richard Holbech Boultbee

The information held here is the result of over 20 years trawling through initially paper records and then more recently the internet to find my family roots. I did not think for one moment when I started that it would become an obsession but quite frankly there is nothing I enjoy more on a cold winters evening than finding another long lost connection in the distant past. Of course nowadays it is not long before when tracing a new line I bump into one I already have. It is a true and certain fact that the English upper classes did not often marry outside the circle. The first thing I would say is I am not a professional genalogist but I am a government statistician and that give me an eye for things that sometimes others might miss. I do not pretend that this database is entirely accurate either but I do try and cross check where possible and go with the current consensus. I would like to thank all those involved in providing such a wealth of information on the net and elsewhere including in no particular order John Steed (I have been using his excellent Brother's Keeper Software for a very long time), Google, Douglas Richardson, Stirnet, Family Search (LDS), FreeBMD, Rootsweb Worldconnect, Genesreunited, the Burkes, Falconer Madan (1851-1935), Thomas Pownall Boultbee (1818-1884), my Aunt Elizabeth Boultbee (1922-2003), Mike "Joppo" Jopson (1968-) and Dennis Heathcote (1932-2004).