ROAK Family Tree Tidied Up – Mostly

So I have moved into my new house (exactly one month ago actually), and starting to get a few spare minutes to relax without thinking “I really need to do this…… or set that up…..”.

Last night I filtered the ROAK family tree (which is a family located in North Devon, England) to get rid of various bits of junk and imported into my main Gammon One Name Gramps database.

Then I updated the description of the ROAK tree on my website and uploaded the updated Family Tree.

I really need to delve into the parish records to find out more about the older families to help track their movements in the 1700s and before. But I suppose it is time to work on a different branch of Gammons for a while.

ROAK Family Group

I have been slaving away over the winter on this large tree originating in North Devon, England. Its taking some time expanding my North Devon Parish Register indexes, and cross checking with BMD indexes and census indexes. As Judy Roakes comes from Australia, I also got tagging in my Australian index. There are also connections to the WILL tree which was previously published.

Although the tree goes back further, for the moment I have only done a Descendants Report for James GAMMON who was born in 1808 in Shirwell, Devon, England. I would need to do a report starting from his father Philp GAMMON in order for Judy’s Australian tree to show up. Hopefully in the next month or so!

ROAK Family Group

WILL page updated

A couple of weeks ago I had a contact from someone interested in the PYKE family which are connected to the WILL family. I wasn’t able to help much. But I did point out that there is someone running a one-name study on the PYKE family and suggested they get in touch.

But checking my One Name website, I noticed that the WILL tree had never been tagged properly in my Gramps database. It also turned out that the WILL tree wasn’t even in my database! It was from my own family tree database, not the Gammon ONS one.

So, export, import, tidy and tag. It took a few days.

The WILL family are from Barnstaple, Devon. The oldest member of the tree is William Gammon, and he was born in Shirwell, Devon, England in 1811.

WILL Family Group