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Welcome to this genealogical section of our family website

CAVEAT:Our Family Trees are still very much in a draft state so there may be some conflicting statements, mistakes and omissions

Our major ancestral lines are
BROOKS, BROOKES
CARLETON, CARLTON
COPELAND, COPLAND, COUPLAND
COSTFORD, COSFORD
GALEY
GIBBS
GIBSON
HART
HARVEY
PACKMAN, PETTMAN, PETMAN
PAYNE, PAINE, PAIN
PAYTON, PEYTON, PEATON
TILLEY, TILLY
WEBLEY

The information in this section is composed of basic events of the lives of each of our known direct ancestors, and their children. If you recognize any of these people, or would like to inquire about people in related lines not included here, you can contact us by e-mail by clicking my name as Compiler: at the bottom of each page.

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He alone deserves to be remembered by his children who treasures up and preserves the memory of his fathers.— Edmund Burke, 1729-1797

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.— Ambrose Bierce

Genealogy: Tracing yourself back to people better than you are.— John Garland Pollard

I don't know who my grandfather was, I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. — Abraham Lincoln

All Hobbits were, in any case, clannish and reckoned up their relationships with great care. They drew long and elaborate family-trees with innumerable branches. In dealing with Hobbits it is important to remember who is related to whom, and in what degree...The genealogical trees at the end of the Red Book of Westmarch are a small book in themselves, and all but Hobbits would find them exceedingly dull. Hobbits delighted in such things... — J R R Tolkien

Some family trees have beautiful leaves, but some just have a bunch of nuts. Remember it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking. — Unknown

I trace my family history so I will know who to blame. — Unknown

Every family tree has some sap in it. — Unknown

Friends come and go, but relatives tend to accumulate. — Unknown

Genealogists never die, they just loose their roots. — Unknown

Genealogy: A hay stack full of needles. It's the threads I need. — Unknown

Genealogy: Collecting dead relatives and sometimes a live cousin! — Unknown

Genealogy: Where you confuse the dead and irritate the living. — Unknown

I think my family tree is a few branches short of full bloom. — Unknown

Take nothing but ancestors, leave nothing but records. — Unknown

When we die we become 'stories' in the minds of other people. — Unknown

Shake your family tree and watch the nuts fall! — Unknown

A family tree can wither if nobody tends its roots. — Unknown

A new cousin a day keeps the boredom away. — Unknown

Am I the only person up my tree... sure seems like it. — Unknown

Any family tree produces some lemons, some nuts and a few bad apples. — Unknown

Trees without roots fall over. — Unknown

Kinship: it`s all relative! — Unknown

When you search for ancestors, you find great friends! — Unknown

Still trying to decorate my family tree. — Unknown

It's hard to be humble with ancestors like mine! — Unknown

This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage. — Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. — Fred Allen

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground. — Henry S F Cooper

We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business. — Jimmy Carter

Families are like fudge... mostly sweet with a few nuts— Unknown

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. — George Ade

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values. — Ralph Ellison

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I think that I shall never see a completed genealogy. — Unknown

Every family tree has some sap in it. — Unknown

Genealogists live in the past lane. — Unknown

Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress. — Unknown

If a man cares not for his roots, how then can he care for his branches. — Dolye M. Davis

I guess it's hard not to agree, You say it all depends on money, And who is in your family tree. — Supertramp

It is indeed desirable to be well descended but the glory belongs to the ancestors. — Plutarch

We are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them sticks his head out and embarrasses us. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

My ancestors must be in a witness protection program! — Unknown

How can one ancestor cause so much TROUBLE?? — Unknown

I'm not stuck, I'm ancestrally challenged. — Unknown

I'm searching for myself; Have you seen me? — Unknown

If only people came with pull-down menus and on-line help... — Unknown

Isn't genealogy fun? The answer to one problem leads to two more! — Unknown

It's 2007... Do you know where your Gr-Gr-Grandparents are? — Unknown

After 30 days, unclaimed ancestors will be adopted. — Unknown

Ever find an ancestor HANGING from the family tree? — Unknown

Gene-Allergy: It's a contagious disease, but we love it. — Unknown

Genealogists are time unravellers— Unknown
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Genealogy is like playing hide and seek: They hide... we seek! — Unknown

"Crazy" is a relative term in my family. — Unknown

A pack rat is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor. — Unknown

I want to find ALL of them! So far I only have a few thousand. — Unknown

I should have asked them BEFORE they died! — Unknown

My ancestors are giving me "Bad heir" days. — Unknown

Share your knowledge; it is a way to achieve immortality. — Unknown

Many a family tree needs pruning. — Unknown

Shh! Be very, very quiet.... I'm hunting forebears. — Unknown

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors! — Unknown

That's strange: half my ancestors are WOMEN! — Unknown

I'm not sick, I've just got fading genes. — Unknown

Cousins marrying cousins: Very tangled roots! — Unknown

Cousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree. — Unknown

All right! Everybody out of the gene pool! — Unknown

Always willing to share my ignorance... — Unknown

Documentation... The hardest part of genealogy. — Unknown

Genealogy: Chasing your own tale! — Unknown

Genealogy...will I ever find time to mow the lawn again? — Unknown

I researched my family tree...and apparently I don't exist. — Unknown

Compiler: Jim Payne
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