This site is about tracing James and Olivia's roots. The main surnames which are the ones  of their Great Grandparents are Peel, Lawrenson, Shawcross, Molyneux, Betteley,  Brown, Taylor and Webster. Although their are quite a few names already it's  still early days and a lot more info is still to be added. Please feel free to  offer any information not yet included or even any photos that you would like  us to add!!

WHY GENEALOGY...... WHY NOT GARDENING
 "We are the chosen, my feeling is that in each family there is one who seems  called to find the ancestors, to put flesh on their bones and make them live  again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow those who went before  know and approve, to me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but,  instead breathing life into all who, we owe our very existence to, We are the  storytellers of the tribe, all tribes have one, We have been called as if it  were in our genes, those who have gone before cry out to us; tell our story, so  we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves.How many graves have i stood  before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have i told my  ancestors,'you have a wonderful family,you would be proud of us' How many times  have i walked up to a grave and felt, somehow, there was love there for me? i  cannot say.The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh, it goes  to doing some thing about it,. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able  to accomplish How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting  their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, to build a life  for their families, so we might be born who we are, that we might remember  them, So we do. With Love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence  because we ARE them and they are us. I tell the story of my family. It is up to  the one called in the next generation, to answer the call and take their place  in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy,  and that is what calls those, young and old, to step up and put Flesh on the  Bones". Adapted from a newsletter called 'SONS OF NORWAY'