Although this site focuses almost exclusively on one generation, occasionally interesting families appear in earlier generations.

 

These are some of those families:

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The Mathers of Newcastle: whalers, slave traders, politicians. Maternal ancestors to Robert Mather Watson

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Christopher Watson: builder of the First Fleet ships and inventor of the floating dry dock. Paternal ancestor to Robert Mather Watson

 

The Stephensons: mapmakers and surgeons. Paternal ancestors to Louisa Martha Stephenson

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The Wells: helping to build Cheltenham but then split by a scandal. Maternal ancestors to Louisa Martha Stephenson

 

Tracing the haemophilia gene. Maternal ancestors to Isabella Margaret Hutson

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