Ancestry of the CANNINGS-BUSHELL family of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire

Database, fully searchable, containing all my current research. Lists about 8,250 individuals and 2,180 marriages, the majority in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire although there now is a reasonable amount of research into family connections in Worcestershire, Cornwall and Staffordshire. A GEDCOM file of all my research can be downloaded

Wiltshire families mainly from the Bedwyns, Shalbourne, Burbage, Tilshead and Enford. Names include BUSHELL, CANNINGS, DAW, PINNELLS, SLADE, GODDEN, DAWKINS, BRUNSDEN, CLARKE, HIGHETT, MACKLIN, HAYWARD & MOORE

Gloucestershire families. Names include BARNFIELD, LANDER, HULBERT, TUNLEY, CAUSON, DAWE, DAVIS, LEACH, BULLINGHAM, HAILE, WHITE, BURNET, CORMELL, PEAK, BROOKES, KEYSE, BROADWELL, SPARROW, MERRETT, BROWNING, PEACHEY, COATES, WRIGHT alias GLOVER, WOOLLS, LAWRENCE, GREGORY, TRINDER, BETTERIDGE, WALWYN. Areas include Cranham, Upton St Leonards, Great Witcombe, Badgworth, Brockworth, Staverton, Boddington, Painswick, Hempsted, Kempsford, Newent, Taynton, Tibberton, Dymock, Rudford, Corse, Hartpury, Little Washbourne, Uckington, Didbrook, Dumbleton, Buckland, Chedworth, Compton Abdale, Haresfield, Harescombe, Pitchcombe, Standish, Windrush and Cirencester

Worcestershire families. Names include INSTON, STONALL, TOLLEY, GILES, FOWLER, TUSTIAN, HANDCOCK, DORLING, from Severn Stoke and Kempsey areas.

Staffordshire families, WOOLLS, SMITH, PARSONS, MILLARD, ADAMS, MANTLE, West Bromwich and Tipton area
Download FRANKIS.ZIP (31 kbytes). Decompresses to FRANKIS.GED, (135 kb). Research into the FRANKIS family and connections in Upton St Leonards, Cranham and Winson.

Family Homes and Churches in Gloucestershire
Postcards and Maps with family connections in Wiltshire
Archive material from my own small collection, at present covering rewards to labourers and servants in north Wiltshire and a map of the diocese of Salisbury

Links to other sites, mainly of Gloucestershire or Wiltshire interest (THIS PAGE STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT)

Update history for this site

The signature and seal of John Bushell of Great Bedwyn on his Will of 1720. The seal features three water bougets and is identical to the seal of the Worcestershire Bushell family although no link has been established. John Bushell styled himself a gentleman but this may have been poetic license along with his assumption of the right to use a coat of arms

This research brings together a number of families in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. The Wiltshire ones are centred around Great Bedwin and Enford, with a pocket around Liddington; the Gloucestershire ones around Cranham in the Cotswolds, the city of Gloucester itself, the Gloucestershire - Worcestershire border north to Broadway and the region of the county lying to the north of the Forest of Dean, centred on Newent and Hartpury. On the very eastern boundary of the county, there is a substantial family foothold around Kempsford and Marston Maisey and in the central Cotswolds around Chedworth.

Strays from other areas of the country do appear but in the nearly 500 years worth of records gathered, the number involving other counties is small - a bit of Cornish or Worcestershire. These are, in the main, families of the land or of the village - yeoman farmers and farm labourers; village bakers, carpenters, masons, carters, etc. Very few of them appear to have become swept up in the industrial revolution or the drift to the cities of the Victorian period; nor were many of them persuaded, involuntarily through criminal acts or despair or voluntarily through the hope of riches, to head for lands overseas.

Unfortunately not the ancestral home but me at work, setting a light on the set of the 80s TV series, 'Shalom Salaam'. Equally unfortunately, the stomach has not diminished with age!

The research results are arranged as flexibly as possible. There is an on-line searchable database which included a downloadable GEDCOM file (about 3.2Mb).

One major change concerns the FRANKIS familiy who for many years I believed I was linked to but recent research has convinced me that this is not the case. This has been placed it on this site as a stand-alone FRANKIS.GED. No further research will be done on this line.

Send e-mail to: dave@canbush.com

Cranham under heavy snow in the late 19th century

This web site co-produced 12th Feb 1999 by Ancestral Quest, a product of Incline Software and David J Cannings-Bushell - updated 31st August, 2007

Ancestry of the CANNINGS-BUSHELL family of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire

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