Hello all Kellaways and Callaways,
Recently, on 23rd September 2001, there was a meeting in Richmond,
London, of researchers of the Kellaway and Callaway names. This was truly
historic for those of us interested in the history of our family, a history
which stretches 850 years to the present day.
On the one hand there were three genealogical researchers from the
Callaway Family Association who were working that week at the Public Record
Office at Kew. Funded by the CFA, they have been searching through record
offices in the west of England for the provenance of the Callaway families
of North America. In so doing they have amassed a wealth of information
about the history of the Callaway/Kellaway names over several centuries.
Then there was Warwick Kellaway from New Zealand who expostulates a
descent from Caillouet of France and whose researches into the history
family may be seen summarized on
http://members.tripod.co.uk/dreycott/chronicl.htm
There was also Brian Willoughby of Gloucestershire, England, whose
research has spread from Kelways of Saltash, Devon, to a large collection
of information, and in particular an encyclopaedic knowledge of Kellaway
memorials in England.
This has happened in the same year that a new international initiative has
been adopted by the CFA, to share and to encompass the work of all
interested researchers.
A pictorial record of the meeting may be seen at
http://members.tripod.co.uk/dreycott/richmond.htm with a list of all the
participants.
This was a meeting, a family gathering, where many of the
participants had never previously met, but once introductions had been
made, there was non-stop talk - about genealogy - for three hours. Apart
from being great fun, I believe that it was a very valuable step in our
knowledge of the family.
Bill Piper
See also
http://members.tripod.co.uk/dreycott/newslett.htm for a newsletter
published last year