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Notes and Acknowledgements

My intention, when I decided to start up my own website, was to make available information that I, and my fellow researchers, have collected over the past twenty years or so regarding John Bankes, Citizen and Haberdasher of London (c1652 - 1719), his siblings, and the descendants of his siblings. However, as I prepared the material for the site I realised that I have a lot of information about other lines of research that may be of use to other researchers, so I decided to broaden the scope of this site to include various lines of my ancestry. Hence, the title "Geoff's Genealogy".

At the moment the material I am displaying here relates to the Bankes Pedigree, but the tree encompasses other branches of research. As time goes by I shall be adding other information about other areas of my research, and as I do so I shall outline the additions on my blog. I hope, therefore that from time to time you will return to my blog, and to this site, and check on what has changed since your last visit.

John Bankes was the benefactor to descendants of his half-siblings, and as such I regard him as the most important person in my family history. You can find information about him by clicking on the Bankes button and following the links that you will then find.

The Collyer button takes you to a section of the site that offers material relating to Joseph and Mary Collyer and their eldest son - Joseph Collyer the Younger. Mary was a descendant of Mary Mitchell, John Bankes's half-sister, and she and her husband were well known in literary circles in eighteenth century London. Joseph Collyer the Younger was an eminent artist - the official portrait engraver to Queen Charlotte.

Clicking the Hunt button takes you to information concerning members of another family of descendants of Mary Mitchell - the Hunts. I have included in this section information about four male members of this family, each of a different generation, and each of them extremely interesting in their own right.

The latest material we have added to this section of the website concerns Ann Hunt (c1770-1811) and her spouse - John Stephens.

The Bankes Pedigree encompasses many people across nearly three centuries, and continues to provide my co-researchers and I with great enjoyment after seventeen years of research. By clicking on the Tree button you can gain access to our family tree, which encompasses the Bankes pedigree. For reasons of privacy we have excluded from this tree any persons who may possibly be alive.

If you find the content of this site interesting you may wish to investigate some of the sites I have used during my family history research. To this end I have included a series of Links to other internet websites, which I hope will be of interest to you.

Over the years I have written a number of articles for family history journals, and these can be read by clicking on the Articles button. A new addition to this section is my article on Infant Mortality in South Shropshire in the 1890s.

If you wish to contact me to discuss the content of this site please email me at geoff@geoffsgenealogy.co.uk. or post a message to my blog by clicking on the New Blog button.

As for me, I am proud to be descended from Mary Mitchell, and to number Thomas Hunt, Baptist Minister, among my ancestors.Family history has been my main hobby since 1986, and my research has been enhanced by the involvement of other members of my family, and other researchers. I would like to record my sincere thanks to the following people for their help, friendship and co-operation over the years, and to apologise to anybody I may have unwittingly omitted:

Joao C Amaral, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Helen Bradley, former Archivist, The Haberdashers’ Company, London, UK

Shelly Broughton of Clacton on Sea, Essex, UK

Christopher Browne, of Cardiganshire, UK

Richard Bradley, of Beckenham, Kent, UK

Dulcy Bryan, of Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

The late R K Burnett, former Archivist, The Haberdashers’ Company, London, UK

Brenda Connell, of High Wycombe, UK

Nigel Cooper, of Upton, Wirral, Merseyside, UK

John Cope, Archivist, The Haberdashers’ Company, London, UK

The late Alice Culshaw, of Sidcup, Kent, UK

Janet Culshaw, of Newport, Shropshire, UK

Margaret Culshaw, of Charnock Richard, Lancashire, UK

Pat Dent, of Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, UK

Dot and Sally Eason of Old Coulsdon, Surrey, UK

Ted George, of Queensland, Australia

Mavis Gibson of Penarth, Glamorgan, UK

Raymond Green, of Saxmundham, Suffolk, UK

Ted Hewlett, of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Elizabeth Holliday, of Newton Abbott, Devon, UK

The late Iris Holloway, of Elizabeth Downs, South Australia

Alice Latter, of McLean, Virginia, USA

Chris Marshall, of Warrington, UK

Ian Meredith, of Treherbert, Glamorgan UK

Helen Mitchell of Muxton, Telford, Shropshire, UK

Val Quinn, of Horsley Woodhouse, Derbyshire, UK

Alejandro Sayer, of Bogota, Colombia

Courtnay Sayer, of Houghton on the Hill, Leics, UK

Jane Stacey, of Worcester, UK

Jean Stuart, of Charnock Richard, Lancashire, UK

Alun Williams, of Pontardulais, Glamorgan, UK

Dr George Wilson, of Blackburn, Lancashire, UK

Alice Wren, of Clapton, London, UK

Frank Zobel, of Derby, UK

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Every effort is taken to ensure that the information contained in this website is both accurate and complete. However, our research is ongoing, and not without error. Therefore we cannot guarantee that all of the information is accurate, and do not accept responsibility for any consequences arising from any inaccuracy.

Geoff Culshaw, January 2008 (updated).