Willingale Genealogy

The Willingale Family Society

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Today we received the final batch of postcards and photos from Stephen Cook; 23 postcards and one photo. These postcards give a snapshot of what life was like in the early part of the last century. These will be added to the member’s area over the coming days

We are pleased that another Willingale has agreed to join the DNA Surname Project. Owen Willingale, who is a descendant of Thomas the Lopper, is from the ‘John’ branch of the main Willingale family tree. Hopefully we should have his results back in a couple of months. We are expecting the DNA results of another [...]

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Following on from the Car Boot Sale find, Peter Willingale has helped to identify some of the individuals in these photos, those that we can’t identify are still listed in the Most Wanted section of the members area. Peter has also kindly contributed a number of additional photos of Lizzies family, all are now listed [...]

We have recently been contacted by Stephen Cook, a local historian and family history researcher who purchased an old album for the postcards it contained, to sell on eBay, but he had no interest in the old photographs which were also in the album. The postcards were mostly addressed to a Lizze Willingale, not wishing [...]

Surfing the web a while ago I came across an article from the local press on the formation of the society.