Short Family History

My ancestors came from various countries and backgrounds like most people's. From Scotland, England, Ireland and Germany primarily.
Further back they originated in almost every country from Britain to North Africa, Scandinavia to the Middle East and most points between, again nothing unusual about that, as many people if they are fortunate enough to be able to trace their pre-Reformation ancestors will find the same thing in their families.
My ancestors were obviously adventurous enough to go off into the wide blue yonder and sail to the furthest outpost of empire as New Zealand was back in the mid nineteenth century.
They were mostly farmers. Some the younger children of wealthy families. Others from poor agricultural labouring families. But I do have a few with other backgrounds, ministers, school teachers, shipwrights, carpenters, blacksmiths, bricklayers, thatchers and taylors all appear amongst my ancestors.
See my surname list for the later surnames of my family. These surnames are from the Reformation onwards, 1538 being the first year of the earliest parish registers.
I have been fortunate enough to locate that elusive link to pre-parish register ancestors and a mixed blessing indeed it is with the work involved in tracing thousands of earlier ancestors back hundreds of years.
See My Family Tree pages for the names of some of my ancestors.

My great great grandparents Peter Nicolaus Junge and Christina Margaretha Schlueter who were both from Holstein in Northern Germany. He was born in 1807 in Wilster near Itzehoe and she was born in
1820 in Wellsee-bei-Kiel.

email: Gene Forbes-Hood