Welcome to the
Timbrell Web Site
The reasons and the aims.
Thank you for visiting the
site. Perhaps you are a Timbrell, or have connections with the family name of
Timbrell.
Let me take a few minutes of your time to explain the reasons and aims of this
site.
This site started out when my son found that he and his wife were expecting
their first child. He started asking about my family history, my Fathers name,
Grandfathers name etc. They were looking for names from the past family as
possible names for the new baby.
I knew very little about my family in fact, due to not having to much interest
in these things when I was younger. My Father was killed in WW2, and I was
brought up by my Grandparents. They passed away before I had any interest in
the history of my family, and I did not have any communication with any others
of the family. So, this started me researching for my roots. I soon discovered
that things were not quite as easy as I first thought they might be. I thought
that my Grandfather was called Wilfred, I had all ways known him as being
called Wilf, but no, he was in fact called Edward George. I started to search
the Internet for information and soon discovered that it was an absolute maze.
I found a bit of information here, a bit of information there. But I also
found that I was constantly spending time looking through records and
information that was repeated over and over again. This not only took a lot of
time, but was very difficult to record all of the sites and places where this
information had been found and to correlate it all together.
I fortunately discovered the Timbrell forum on Yahoo. This really proved to be
the kick start to get things going for me. It turned out that two others were
researching their side of the family, and we found that we were related to one
another in the past. Through the help of each other, and of the other members
of the forum, we found a lot of information on our respective sides of the
family which converged around the 1700's.
So why the reason for the site if the forum worked so well. We were all
researching as individuals, but by pooling our resultant information, we found
our common ancestor. So the reason for this site is to
gather all of the information found by each individual in one central
location. There is lot of information to be found on the various forums on the
Internet. But sifting and sorting it all would be quite a task. There are many
lines to our family name as you may well imagine. Each person researching has
information that would be possibly unknown to others. A lot of it passed down
through from their elders. A lot of this information is not listed on
the Internet. Things that are found in the family bible or a will perhaps.
Many people have spent years of their life researching and have spent hours
looking at records in local libraries and record offices etc only to find,
that just by chance someone had that vital link that had eluded them for
years. It is also
impossible for people in another country to carry out this type of research,
unless of course they employ a paid researcher. So most people rely on record
sources, nowadays perhaps mainly on the Internet.
I thought that, if we could all pool our knowledge together, place it in one
location, and have one point of contact, it would make it so much easier
and more accurate to trace our roots, and it would also bring us all
together, and as the old saying goes, many hands make light work.
The site is not for me alone. I registered timbrell.me.uk for all of the
people, anywhere, researching the name of Timbrell. The site needs to be fed
with information from yourselves. It does have to be maintained by someone,
but that is just as an administrator, not as a researcher.
So, if you have researched in the past, or are currently researching the name of Timbrell,
why not make use of this site. It's ultimate aim is to hold all of the
information available on the name of Timbrell, not just from a genealogical
aspect, but interesting things as well regarding your family history. Stories
of that proverbial brick wall, photos of your oldies, stories of characters in
your family, stories of famous Timbrells etc.. Lets all get together as
one big family, at just one location and share our knowledge. Even if your
information is on another site, or even your own, it would be appreciated if
you would make that information available here for others to view and perhaps
use in their quest.
If you can provide any information, suggestions, or even criticisms, please do so. This site will only be as good as you make it. Let's have a site we can all be proud of, and that will be of use to others that may one day want to learn about the history of our name and the people that it belonged to.
Gerald Timbrell.
Oh! By the way, the baby was a boy and he was named William Mark George Timbrell. William after his Great Grandfather Mark after his Father, and George after me. (My middle name).