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For many years Teresa and I have been researching our family trees. At the start of this exercise we knew nothing about any more than a couple of generations each. We have now traced Ken's RIPPER ancestry back to Cornwall (15th century) as well as to later dates in Scotland, Essex, Norfolk, Hampshire and Kent. Teresa's OLDRIDGE family hail from Devon in the 1700s and from earlier times in Buckinghamshire, Ireland and Italy. It has been a fascinating exercise and we have turned up some really interesting stories as well. Both our families inevitably have close ties with London, mostly in the East End and Bermondsey. For twelve years we lived in North Hill in Cornwall and were the most active members of North Hill Local History. The website which Ken managed, wrote and maintained was the public facing image of the group and contains a significant amount of our research. Sadly, the group has stopped functioning but we keep the website going, just in case somebody wishes to take it over. Much of our research was based upon building family histories of the parish's past residents and these can be seen alongside our own family histories on the Families section accessed from the menu at the top of this page. In October 2023 Ken's ancestral DNA was analysed. The results confirmed almost all the documented histories we had compiled over the preceding decades whilst adding branches to our trees of which we were unaware. We plan to investigate Teresa's DNA links in 2023. Our database has over 80,000 people, many of whom have biographical notes not shown on the website; there's far too much to put here and to do so could compromise the identity of living folk. If you wish to learn more about your family and would like to see an extract from our database please send us an e-mail. We look forward to expanding and updating our families as widely as possible and any help you can give is most welcome. The guide to the published Family Trees can be accessed on the Families page. You can see some of the stories we have uncovered on these pages:
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Some branches of our families have emigrated and, primarily, are now to be found in Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America.
