Tracing 431 years of family history in England.

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Featured Surnames

A family group

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Featured Locations

Martin's Lane, Little Downham sign

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Featured Resources

Magnifying glass and old documents

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Over the last 25 years, Andrew Martin has been researching his family tree.

This website features his ancestors, their photographs, their stories, and the places where they lived and worked.

This is a story of a family history over the last 431 years and 16 generations, and their lives in the counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Devon, Somerset, London, and beyond.