The tireless work contributed by a number of volunteers to this project
was due to the immense value derived from the study of ancestors and the
past. I wanted to investigate my predecessors, try to find out who they
were, what they did, and most importantly, their impact on the pathways
I have traveled. The results were profound. Perhaps I will write about
it later. In the meantime, some special people need to be acknowledged
for their efforts.
Christine Hayward. You were my first overseas contact. You had the
photographs that you leant to me so that I might copy them and
redistribute among the relatives. You also had stories of the ancestors.
It was your good fortune to have known a great grand mother, the youngest
child in family of eleven children, and from her to have remembered
biographica details of individuals born in the early nineteenth century.
Roger Fowler and Vena Fowler. With computer savvy and technical
expertise, your tireless efforts and insights were amazing. You probably
encountered as many surprises as the rest of us, if not more, about the
ancestors.
Dennis Price. Another tireless researcher who collected massive
information. Having been released from the chains of genealogical toil, he
is hopefully living a real and productive life now.
Maureen Iddles. I have an entire binder dedicated to a single
significant ancestor because of your efforts in finding information as
to his roots and fate. You have corrected a number of assumptions and
fleshed out the details of what happened to him.
Malcolm Stewart Kesterton. We exchanged many letters, massive
research was done, then eventually we both had to put it aside for a
few decades.
Carl Kesterton. August 2007 saw corrections to a cluster
of Kestertons, removing them from Group 3 and repositioning them on Group 2
Part D.
Louise Brown, of Cambridge England, contacted me in March 2008,
She is the great granddaughter of Henry Kesterton, 1I-4803, born 1854,
the son of James Kesterton and Mary Palmer. Louise contributed additions,
revisions, and biographical notes to the family of Henry Kesterton. She
has also provided much appreciated photographs
of Henry Kesterton, Ellen Kesterton, nee Knight, and family.
Others include:
Janet Nettleton
Margaret Munden
A.J. Kesterton
Ray & Toinette Knight
Robert Bellett
