The majority of pages on this site are devoted to genealogy, with one family or individual to each page.

From the Contents page, the Index of Individuals link will take you to this page : passing the cursor over any of the letters down the left-hand side will highlight them in red ; similarly with the names and with the Contents and Families links.

Highlight "Families" ...

Selecting "Individuals" or "Families" will always take you to their respective "A" pages.

Select "U" ...

Scroll down and select "Edward Upton and Esther Ratcliffe"

Red type indicates a link to another page ; black type means there is no link. So Esther Ratcliffe's parents are not shown on the site, but further details for her children and for Edward's other marriage to Martha Hunt are available. Links to the Contents, Familes and Individuals pages can be found in red at the bottom of every "family page".

Click on Edward and Esther's first child Sarah Upton ...

... which shows who she married and who their children were.

Here are a few pages giving different kinds of information : an adopted child, and a link to her natural parents ...

The italics indicate that Susannah Louise Pilgrim/Jackson was generally known as Louise.

... a couple who divorced, then remarried after both had been widowed ...

... an individual who didn't marry or have any children ...

... a couple who had children but never married ...

... a widow who had children after her husband had died ...

... and two individuals whose details remain private but who are named in order to show a link between families ...

As a general principle, details of living people are not shown.

Most of the genealogy on the present site is the result of a project to identify the descendants of Edward Upton of Great Bourton, but the Groser and related genealogy which appeared on the old site is currently being re-researched and added. As of November 2024, there are around 5,700 genealogical pages here, but because nearly every new page includes links to pages yet to be completed, some links will not work as the pages do not yet exist (the proportion of projected pages to existing pages is currently around 59%, and will increase gradually before it starts shrinking ; however, this percentage does not reflect the proportion of links that won't work, which is much lower).

Please contact me at stephen@groserfamilies.com if you have any questions about using the site, corrections to or questions about the genealogy, or if you find a link which exists but goes to the wrong page.

technical note

As an ongoing record, here is a statement of the current status of the website genealogical pages, which I will update as often as possible :

Date : 3 November 2024
Genealogical pages online : 5,757
Additional pages linked but not yet created : 3,418

For those who wish to check, the pages are numbered from za 1501 onwards - so, for example, at the moment page 7257 is online, but page 7258 is not. The "z" prefixes simply identify sub-directories, and can be ignored for practical purposes.

Index of Individuals
Index of Families
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