My wife Linda started to research her maternal ancestors from the Venn family around 1995, using information inherited from her great-aunt. The scope very quickly expanded to cover the related Willcock, Hulland and Markey families. I then designed some web pages to display what we had found, and we started publishing these on the web in 1999. In 2003 our research widened still further to cover Linda's paternal line. By this time I had become so fascinated with the subject that I started to investigate my own ancestors from the Warren and Anderson families.
In 2006 I purchased the domain name familyhistorydata.co.uk and we have continued to add more data to the site. The pages were redesigned in 2015 to keep pace with the evolution of web browsers and to provide a better index. Sadly Linda died in April 2019, without having taken her original Venn line back any further than we had twenty years ago. Very little research was done during Linda's last illness, but we were already running out of places to look. Since then I have tried to maintain these pages, albeit at a much slower pace than before.
I have decided that the time has come to retire the web site. I have received very little feedback in recent months, and I often have neither the time nor the energy to do any further research. The site will therefore go off-line when my current web hosting contract ends in April 2026.
We put this information here partly to share the results of our research, but also in the hope that we could make contact and exchange data with people who can help us to build a more complete picture. I would like to thank everyone who has responded and provided input. You are still welcome to contact me by electronic mail if you feel that any of the families listed here are connected with your own research, but please do it soon before these pages disappear.
You will find a contact link on each of the main surname pages on this site (surnames are listed here in alphabetical order and by county of origin). Click on that contact link to send an email message related to that family or that surname. Please click on this link to contact me for general enquiries or to report any problems.
Except where otherwise indicated, the contents and design of these pages are copyright © Chris Warren 1999 to 2026. You are welcome to take a copy for personal use only in researching your own family history.