Hello all,
Recent contact with Elaine who is a descendent of James Catley of Barley m Alice 1709, has
set me thinking that we do not appear to have any listers who are active on Anstey Tree
research?
The Anstey line is a main branch of the James of Barley (Hertfordshire) overall tree and
whilst we have Mick who is covering all Herts+Cambs Cat*leys and Jann.P.who is
specialising on the Tasmanian connection plus quite a few others looking into the Tisbury
and Cadley connections plus Bristol and also emigrations to both South Australia and New
South Wales, nobody seems interested in the UK Anstey line as a whole?
I have made contact here in the UK by researching a bit, with some five Anstey (non
Listers) Cat*leys but none of them are sufficiently interested in taking up the cause
which is a great shame.
There is data floating about from one Roger (Richard?) Tamplin the one time Vicar of
Anstey Church who searched the Anstey Parish Records and of course Candis Lee
Cattley-Sanders who has a web site which covers the main genealogy but there are errors
and omissions in both works which were done some time ago now.
Is there anybody out there who is interested in the overall James of Barley tree which
includes the Anstey side?
By playing around with Chris' Catley Database (1881 Census) and the IGI's for
Herts/Essex plus frontracking by writing to current London based Cattleys, I have managed
to come up with a hitherto "lost Anstey branch" which went into London's
East End (as did so many other Catley tree members)
and coincidentally, this ties up with Elaine's researches.
I have lumped all the data from Barley and Barkway plus Anstey, through to Tisbury and
Bristol and thence on to Hobart plus the New South Wales and South Australia together into
one workable major tree. Anyone want a copy?
It is not definitive but a blend of donated data to me from others plus a bit of original
research as well.
Regards
Timcatt