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The current banner shows Alnwick Castle, in Northumberland - a county in the far north east of England, bordering Scotland.  This region is home to a number of Appleby lines - and our DNA project has confirmed genetic connections between several of these, which also match lines in Canada, USA and Ireland.

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the Appleby one-name study and DNA project

the Appleby one-name study and DNA project

Surnames covered in our DNA project:

APPLEBY, APPLEBEE,

APPELBY, APPELBE

plus any other variants

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London and South East Appleby/Applebee  families

Although there were Applebys in London in the earliest available parish records, the numbers increased dramatically over the next centuries - particularly during the latter part of the 19th century, as families and individuals sought employment in the growing capital.

 

Until very recently, it was also one of the most difficult areas to actually FIND your ancestors - with literally hundreds of parishes serving the tightly packed city.  But the digitisation of the parish records held by the London Metropolitan Archives and the Guildhall Library has made the search for elusive ancestors so much easier!

 

My first impressions on collating the databases are that a number of the families that appear in the later censuses have arrived from other parts of England - I hope that you will discover some of your missing ancestors on the accompanying baptism, marriage and census files, even if your main area of interest is in another part of the country.

 

My own Appleby line comes from Bethnal Green, in the heart of London's East End - and over the past eleven or twelve years I have scoured each and every microfilm covering the City of London and the East End in an attempt to break down my brick wall.  Along the way, I collected every Appleby/bee record I came across, but my original collection has increased tenfold with the release of the searchable baptism and marriage databases on Ancestry.co.uk. 

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This photo shows a reunion between the children of two families from my own line - from one branch who remained in Hackney, the other branch emigrated to Stratford, Ontario.  We believe the photo was taken in the late 1890s, when the Canadian family visited London.    (source DW)

How I would love to locate those photo albums sitting on the table!

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