Our Main Branches

Including related family branch names Chappel, Sankey, Linsell, Butcher, Bull, Maryon, Wilding, Hartland, Allen, and others.

Home places include English counties of Essex, Middlesex (London), Sussex, and Kent.

John and Rose Gilderson at Brighton seaside 1930s
John S (1892-1972) and Elizabeth R (1904-1994) Gilderson, 1930s

Including related family branch names Wolf, Dier, Miatke, Tagge, Jensen, Stargard, Rehtus, and others.

Home places include, in the United States, Wisconsin counties of Door, Shawano, and Brown; in Europe, such places as Holstein, Alsace-Lorraine, Sweden, and Pomerania.

Donald and Itola Duwe wedding portrait
Itola and Don Duwe, June 1941

Including related family branch names of Tidd, Dennett, Finch, Maxted, Bushell, Clark, Goodbourne, Cook, and others

Home places mainly in the English county of Kent.

Edward C and Florence E, about 1924 Pidduck
Ned and Floie Pidduck, about 1924

Including related family branch names of Radloff, Petersen, Davies, Sorensen, Schultz, Jones, Backhaus, Poole, and others.

Home places include, in the United States, Wisconsin Counties of Waupaca, Waushara, and Portage; in Europe: Pomerania, Denmark, England and Wales.

Audrey and Kip Christensen wedding photo May 1941
Audrey and Kip Christensen wedding photo May 1941

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