This web site summarises the results of my research into my ancestry which  I started in 2002.

Thanks to the generous help of many individuals I have, on the paternal side,  established the APPLETON line back for eleven generations and the FAWCETT line  for ten generations. The FAWCETT line is an interesting one, in that it  includes the Anglican church, the Roman Catholic church and Wesleyan  Methodism. This makes it quite a challenge when trying to determine baptism,  marriage and burial details. On the maternal side, the EVANS line has been  established only five generations back (I`m stuck at an Evan EVANS from  Brecon, Wales) whilst the BOWERS line has been established back eight  generations. The paternal side is all North Yorkshire stock whereas the  maternal line has blood drawn from Wales, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cornwall and  Westmorland.

There is military representation from a Chelsea out-pensioner from the 44th  Foot during the Napoleonic Wars, a Lance-Corporal in the 4th Battalion,  Yorkshire Regiment during the Great War and a Gunner in the Royal Field  Artillery who served in Egypt during the Great War.

All my great-grandfather`s became Ironstone Miners in the Cleveland ironstone  mines during the late 1800s. But an even earlier ancestor, David Annear,  worked his way from Cornwall to the North Riding of Yorkshire (via Surrey,  Gloucestershire, West Riding and East Riding) by driving tunnels for the  railways during the mid-1800s.