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Newfloridian's home for years to come ...?

Welcome to the Extended Craxford Family web site and magazine. In these grey pages we have gathered together an expanded and descriptive listing of the main red pages and the colour supplements. In the next column is a listing of those articles which have been published over the course of the last six months or so.

On the next page is an alphabetical index of family members that have had articles written about them. We hope this list will grown as more contributions are received. In due course we will add an index of places and events with which the family has been associated.

The fourth page is an article about starting out on the quest of a family history and points out some useful sources and sites of information while the last page in this section is dedicated to TNG - the database and authoring software with which this web site has been developed. References are also made to the TNG Community

-- PAGE 2: RESEARCH IN PROGRESS --

A series of articles entitled "RESEARCH DONE". Stories from around the family which don't quite fit in the other section pages.

-- PAGE 3: BACK TO OUR ROOTS (NORTHAMPTON) --

Articles from Gretton, Cottingham and further afield. The page was redesigned in December 2011.

-- PAGE 4: LEICESTER AND THE CRAXFORDS --

Newfloridian was born and bred in Leicester (still looks in the Sunday paper to see how the Foxes are getting on) but lost touch with the city in the early 1970s.

-- PAGE 5: THE WEST MIDLANDS CONNECTION --

Stories of the migration from Gretton to the Birmingham area.

-- PAGE 6: CRAXFORD CUTTINGS --

Minor anecdotes, newspaper clippings and the small details - items that probably would not occupy a whole article but which are of interest nevertheless - that you would need to search the hidden corners of the database to find.

-- PAGE 7: THE EDITORIAL --

Newfloridian's page and a chance to rant and rave and rumble!

-- PAGE 8: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR --

Your chance to send your thoughts and comments about items which have appeared on these pages

-- PAGE 9: MEETINGS AND REUNIONS --

The first of what we hope will become a record of gatherings of the family in the future.

These supplements contain information and articles about individuals and families allied too but not directly linked to the main part of the Craxford tree. The general format of the supplement will be the same but will be immediately recognisable by a different coloured masthead.

-- SUPPLEMENT A: THE BLUE PAGES --
The Nessworthy and Simpson families including a discussion about the origins of the Nessworthy surname. Also mentioned: Atkinson, Welch, Offenberg

-- SUPPLEMENT B: THE OLIVE PAGES --
The families Matkin, Liston-Smith and Cotterill

-- SUPPLEMENT C: THE PURPLE PAGES--
Featuring the Craxfords and Lane-Craufords of London and their association with the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton

-- SUPPLEMENT D: THE TEAL PAGES--
The families of Naylor, Ball, Haywood, Unwin and Cook are all ancestors on our maternal side.

-- SUPPLEMENT E: THE BROWN PAGES--
The Eldridge, Curtis and Manooch families

-- SUPPLEMENT F: THE ORANGE PAGES--
The Anker, Griffin, Moore and Walpole families

-- THE TARTAN PAGES --

The TARTAN pages are contained in a totally separate section of the site. It is a celebration of the site administrator's graduation class from the Faculty of Medicine at the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee, Scotland. Based on the Yearbook of the '69 Club, it contains anecdotes, photographic libraries and reports of reunions.

Several of the documents posted on the histories pages have been stored in pdf format. If you do not have a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader module (which allows viewing, printing and saving the file on your PC for later use - it can be downloaded from the Adobe site given below. The download is free and quite quick. Just complete the on line form.

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If you have any questions or comments about the information on this site, please contact us at AlanCrax@aol.com. We look forward to hearing from you.

Newfloridian - Site Administrator

Page added: December 10th 2005
Last update: January 10th 2012.

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A COLLECTION OF IN MEMORIAM NOTICES
(Added December 2nd 2011)
Culled from the pages of over 30 years of local newspapers, we present an album of clippings detailing the deaths of members and friends of the family in Cottingham.
THE COTTINGHAM DISPATCHES

A YOUNG LIFE OBLITERATED ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF FRANCE
(Added December 1st 2011)
Edward was barely seventeen years of age at the outbreak of the first World War. He was killed in October 1917 at the front. His date of death is not known for certain and his body was never found. In two parts, this article commemorates his short life.
THE STORY OF EDWARD BRETLAND

VILLAGE LIFE IN THE WELLAND VALLEY
(Added September 19th 2011)
Cyril Loake penned and illustrated his memories of the village where he lived all his life. His recollections of the people, the wildlife, the environment - at war and at peace is reproduced here in two instalments.
ASPECTS OF COTTINGHAM: RECOLLECTIONS OF CYRIL LOAKE

FROM HUGUENOT REFUGEE TO WHITTLESEY, HUNTINGDONSHIRE
(Added July 2nd 2011)
The story of the origins of the Anker family and their brushes with the ecclesiastical courts of the 17th Century.
THE ORIGINS OF THE ANKER FAMILY

THE EMIGRATION OF THE COX FAMILY TO AUSTRALIA
(Added March 16th 2011)
More stories of emigration to the far side of the world - and the tragic death of a Northamptonshire village.
FROM FAXTON TO ADELAIDE

ARTHUR'S LETTERS TO ANNIE
(Added February 2nd 2011)
A fascinating insight into courtship, duty, work and separation from the pen of Arthur Unwin to his fiancée Annie Cook towards the end of World War I
LETTERS FROM TWO FRONTS

IN MEMORIAM
(Added January 23rd 2011)
A tribute to Pauline given by her brother, Terry Radford, in December 2010
PAULINE RADFORD CLARKE (1929 - 2010)

TAKING THE BAPTIST MINISTRY TO NEW ZEALAND
(Added January 1st 2011)
George David Cox was the eldest son of Joseph Cox and Louisa Craxford. He trained in London, and, after ministries in England, he and his family emigrated on medical advice to the far side of the world.
REV GEORGE D COX (1849 - 1929)

HOW THE CRAXFORDS CAME TO BE AT UXBRIDGE
(Added DECEMBER 1st 2010)
The children of John and Ann Craxford all migrated from the village to London and onwards to Uxbridge, South Wales and New Zealand. We chart multiple links to the surname Cox; and to the Wesleyan Methodist and Baptist churches.
THIS LINE TERMINATES AT UXBRIDGE PART 1: Southward Bound
THIS LINE TERMINATES AT UXBRIDGE PART 2: On to Uxbridge