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The Lunts

In recent months I've spent some time researching my Lunt ancestors with forays into numerous connected families, including Pimbletts, Burrows, Peets, Armstrongs and many others. So far I've traced our Lunt connections back to about 1690, mostly in Lancashire and to a lesser extent in North Wales. Along the way I've learned a considerable amount about our ancestors, their work, their relationships, and how and where they lived their lives. It's interesting stuff - I hope you enjoy learning about them as much as I have. You can follow my Lunt family history by clicking on the link at the top of the page.

The couple pictured above are Henry and Ellen Burrows (nee Files), my 2 x great grandparents, on their wedding day in 1866. Henry, who was born in Ormskirk in 1842, found his vocation as a cabinet maker and Ellen was born in nearby Lathom in the same year.

The Ewbanks

Rowland Lorenzo Ewbank, my paternal grandfather, was born in 1895, the fifth generation of a Hull family that could trace their Yorkshire roots back to the early seventeenth century. He served as a member of the Royal Artillery in WW1 and survived the war only to die in February 1921, quite possibly of the Spanish Flu which swept Europe following the end of the war.

Ewbank is very much a 'northern' surname that probably has its roots in the Cumbria/Yorkshire/County Durham borders - there's even a place called 'High Ewebank'in the wilds of Cumbria. I've traced my particular branch of the family tree back the village of Barton in North Yorkshire and to Thomas Ewbank who was born in about 1629.

You can follow my Ewbank family history by clicking on the link at the top of this page.

The Redgraves

Thomas Redgrave and Phyllis May Butt were married in Edmonton, north London, in 1936. Tom, who was born in 1906, was the youngest of ten children of Joseph and Caroline Redgrave, eight of whom survived into adulthood; Phyllis was an only child whose father, Walter Butt, was born in Gibralter whist her mother, Eleanor Ann Ingall, was born in Southwark.

The Redgraves seem originally to have come from the Rayleigh area of Essex before moving to the Southwark area of London in the mid 19th Century.

You can follow our Redgrave family history by clicking on the link at the top of this page.

Soldiers of The Great War 1914 - 1918

Percy Gamwell Bradley

Born in the Sculcoates area of Hull in April 1895, Percy Gamwell Bradley (My Gt Uncle) was the third child of Alfred Bradley and his wife Mary Jane, nee Gamwell. In 1915 he joined the Hawke Battalion of the Royal Naval Divison (sailors who fought as soldiers) and saw action in France. He was killed near Bucquoy on 4th February 1917 during the Battle of the Ancre and is buried in the Commonwealth Wargraves Commission Queen's Cemetery nearby.


Henry James Redgrave

Henry James Redgrave, known to his family as Jim, was born in 1900 in Bethnal Green, the seventh of ten children of Joseph John Redgrave and his wife Caroline, nee Dent. He enlisted in 1917 and joined the 6th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment before being transferred to the 9th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers. He was killed in action on 28th August 1918 at Delville Wood in France and is buried there in the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery.


John Pimblett Lunt

John Pimblett Lunt enlisted in the 19th Battalion of the Kings Liverpool Regiment (known as the 3rd Liverpool Pals)on 11th September 1914 - six weeks after the declaration of war. Sent to France in 1915 he was wounded and returned to England before being commissioned to serve in the 3rd battalion of the Kings Liverpool Regiment. Following convalescence he returned to France and was once again wounded in the arm and shoulder at the Third Battle of Ypres - better known as Passchendaele. He finished the war in Tipperary in the rank of Lieutenant.


A Long Line of Publicans

I've always enjoyed pubs - and now I know why! Many of my ancestors on the Lunt side of the family kept public houses in the Ormskirk area of Lancashire and in North Wales. In the early 19th Century, with the arrival of the canals and the railways, and the thousands of itinerant workers that built them, Ormskirk had more pubs per head of population than London!

Those Damned Frenchies!

In 1805 war was raging between France and England and competition for control of the high-seas was fierce. At the time my 4x Great Grandfather, Thomas Robinson Ewbank (1765-1823), was skipper of 'The Sarah and Elizabeth' a whaling ship operating out of Hull in the North Atlantic. In July of that year he had an encounter with a French 'privateer' which earned him a bit of local notoriety. You can read more about that incident here.


Most Wanted

From time to time I hit a brick wall in my efforts to track down a particular individual or identify a particular photograph. If you can help, drop me a line!

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What's New

At the moment I'm working on a number of 'histories' that provide a little more information about some of our ancestors and the lives they led. The latest is the story of one of our 'black sheep' - George Frederick Ewbank, who got into a spot of bother with the law in the 1880s. You can read about him here.

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A Work in Progress

With 3,420 (and counting) names in this database it's inevitable that there will be errors - some will be small and insignificant whilst others will no doubt be major howlers! If you spot errors or omissions please drop me a line and point me in the right direction.


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