The McAdoo Clan Family Tree Reaches a New Milestone

The McAdoo Clan family tree now has more than 1000 names and is still growing! In the last several weeks, I have added more than 100 names, all in the Smith branch of my family. This “breakthrough” is the result of discovering a genealogy resource, The Wharfedale & Craven Genealogical Study. It is an ongoing project to construct the family lines and histories of individuals and families who may have lived the Wharfedale and Craven areas of Yorkshire.

Starting with the names provided to me by Josie Walsh, of Craven Indexes, The Wharfedale & Craven Genealogical Study database has generated a huge amount of family information. The data include dates of births, deaths, christenings, burials, marriages, occupations, and family groups (parents and children).

I am well into locating relatives who lived in the 16th century including William and Ellen Cockshott, my 12G grandparents. Yes, that’s 12 grands!
William was born in 1496 and died in 1591 at the age of 95. Ellen was born in 1501 and died in 1591 at the age of 90. They lived in Silsden, Kildwick, Yorkshire. The data sources are mostly from Kildwick Parish Registers.

Smith Family Ancestors—A Major Discovery!

For some time now I have faced the proverbial “brick wall” on advancing my research on my Smith ancestors. Several weeks ago I received a note from a genealogy researcher, Josie Walsh in Kildwick, Yorkshire, and our ancestral home. She had come across Smith family data on my Ancestry.com web site, and offered to check for additional information.

The information she has sent me including gravestone photos taken at Kildwick Church is simply amazing! I now have data going back to two sets of my 5X great-grandparents, Christopher Smith and Hannah Benson, as well as Thomas Cockshott and Hannah Struth. A brief summary of my Smith line starting with great-grandfather, Lot Smith is shown below. All of the new information has been recorded on The McAdoo Clan web site, http://jhmc1.tribalpages.com. Contact me if you don’t remember the password.

Lot Smith (1845-1921) great-grandparents
Elizabeth Grange (1852-1937)

Abraham Smith (1813-1898) 2X great-grandparents
Mary Ann Jackson (1810-1863

John Smith (1787-1841) 3X great-grandparents
Alice Padget (1782-1863)

Andrew Smith (1761-1838) 4X great-grandparents
Elizabeth Peel (1753-1839)

Christopher Smith (1717-1800) 5X great-grandparents
Hannah Benson (1730-1779)

Again, thanks to Josie Walsh, Craven Indexes for contributing so much information to our family tree. Her web site is http://www.cravenindexes.co.uk