The Family Trees of the Lawford's and the Pugh's
Lawford Pedigree by Reginald Ames c.1880 It is fortunate that on both sides of my family, a great deal of work has gone into researching the ‘family trees’ (more properly ’pedigrees’) of my ancestors. All families are of ancient lineage, though most are difficult to trace beyond a few recent generations. In the U.K. records only began to be kept officially from 1837 when Registrars began to record births, marriages and deaths. F rom the beginning of the C17th births, marriage and deaths were only recorded by at a parish level by the Anglican Church but they were incomplete (they didn’t include non-conformists, Catholics and Jews for instance) and had until recently to be researched in person. The U.K. also initiated a decennial Census in 1801. These can be researched on line - but only after 100 years have passed, so that today we can only see the Census data up to 1911 (but we will be able to see the 1921 data on FindMyPast in January 2022). One major problem with the Censu...