Family Research
200 people, drawn from the Findmypast family tree and cross-checked where the research goes deep enough to check it. Most pages here are a launching-off point — a few names, dates and what's been indexed; a handful, where the work has gone further, tell the fuller story. 9 more people are in the records but not yet linked into this tree — see who they are. The evidence worklist lists every Findmypast citation across the tree in one place.
Click a card to recenter the tree on them; use "View this person's page" for their full record. People not yet connected to this tree.
Where the research goes deep
Four subjects have a fuller written account, each with its own evidence file and10 open questions between them.
Also being researched
Two other members of the family have research files in this repository and are not shown on the site yet. Their pages are written and their evidence is filed; they are simply set aside while the work stays on James.
- Robert WardJames's younger brother. A Royal Navy stoker, said to have served aboard HMS Sussex — though no document has yet been found that names him.
- William Arthur CarterA corporal in the East Surreys, from Camberwell. Killed in Tunisia on 15 April 1943, aged 27, and buried at Béja.
Where this comes from
Every statement on this site is tied to the record it came from. The research files behind it — the sources, the transcriptions, the open questions and the searches that found nothing — can all be read as they were written.
Research strands
Every open question in the bundle, one line each — not just the subjects with a fuller written account.