Simms and Dixon Family Movements

Simms family

The earliest ancestor i can currently locate within the Simms family tree is my 9th great-grandfather William Symes (Born. 1590). His descendants lived in Warwickshire for around THREE centuries! This was initially in Barton-on-the-heath but a great deal of it was spent in Brailes. Eventually, in the very early 1900's, my great-grandfather Alfred Simms moved down to surrey. They lived in Great Bookham and later, Epsom and Leatherhead. I love in surrey - but was born in Leatherhead. I even work at a company in Leatherhead nowadays. A significant branch, led by my 2nd great-uncle Joseph Simms, migrated to the USA.

Dixon Family

The earliest ancestor i can currently locate within the Dixon family tree is my (likely) 5th great-grandfather Francis Dixon (Born. 1761). The Dixon's spent a noteworthy amount of time in Yorkshire and specifically Ryedale (see previous articles) before eventually finding themselves in York. My (likely) great-grandfather Frederick Shann Dixon eventually found himself down in Dorking after serving in the first world war. My father is highly likely to be descended from him - although i am trying to track that connection down and verify it.

My father and mother likely met in the Dorking / Leatherhead area. As an adopted child many questions still remain and yet i have been able (especially with thanks to DNA) answer and figure out extensive family history without having uttered a single word to either - without having even had laid eyes upon them. This is something i hope changes in the future, obviously.... though that is out of my control.

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Tracking down Frank Bloxham - Part 1

Frank Bloxham has no direct connection to me as such - however, his likely son, Frank Henry Simms does indeed carries the genes of my 2nd great-aunt Charlotte Simms. I contacted a descendant of the family of Frank Henry Simms and passed the information i had over. I decided to take a closer look at this individual. To uncover the story behind the article and to track his movements after - and also, his origins. He was commonly called "Frank" (as such many were) but was born Francis A Bloxham . Francis Bloxham - 6 years old in the 1881 census. Like many families in Brailes there were common groups of families. The Bloxhams were quite a unique name and not as common compared to others. Brailes being as small as it was - and still is - it remains comparatively easy to track them around. Whilst working for a grocer in the following census he met Charlotte Simms. 1891 census. Francis was working as a grocers apprentice and Charlotte as a general servant (domestic).

Charlotte Simms, her son born out of wedlock, and who the probable father was.

As i go through my family tree i often mark down individuals for further consideration, especially if they are not priority research targets, and especially if initial research yields little. One such person was Charlotte Simms . I came across her when i was filling out the family of my 2nd great-grandfather William Simms. I found her, and marked her down with her year of birth, which was 1876 and in Brailes. I tend not to go into huge detail on indirect descendants of my connections straight away - and, even less so, those that are daughters. These can be, and are, explored at a later date. However i came across a curious article about a young girl called Charlotte Simms who simply had to be the same person. The story, published on the 14th of April 1892, and warranted deeper investigation. Article published 14th of April 1892 She was making a case against a young boy called Frank Bloxham that he was the father of her son born just a couple of months before on the 2nd of Jun

Standard Offering - Sample Output

I wanted to give an example of what can be expected for a standard offering. I was able to turn around the following, with appropriate citations (from BMD / census records) fairly quickly. The standard offering is a "no frills" 5 generation family tree ( your great great grandparents ). All i required was whatever information could be provided to me. To produce this tree the client gave me his name and birthday, his parents names and birthdates and his grandparents names. This may not be possible in every case - or more could be provided - but it is usually enough to do the job. There is also no guarantee that a tree can be filled out entirely. In this case it was. In the interest of confidentiality - the client, and his, parents are not included in the below screenshots. I loaded this .GED file into ancestry.co.uk to demonstrate, if you like, that you are able to continue the research yourself. The standard offering can be a good primer and start point for that. On the

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