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Meet Tim Sandberg, and some of his family (Tim's the one in the middle)
Tim lives in Calgary, Canada and he's related (on his mother's side) to the Floyers. Tim has done some really great research into the Floyers, and you can find it on his site by clicking here; |
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Glad you like the site! I've been working on it for a couple of years now. When I first put it online in January of 1999, I only had 1500 people in it, now it's almost 19,000! I collaborate with a researcher in Toronto. John Young is about a 15th cousin of mine. He's been researching his roots for 30 years, and is in the process of writing a book about. He's given me the benefit of his research, and I do a lot of my own. Calgary Public Library and the University of Calgary library have genealogy and heraldry collections with Burke's History of the Commoners, Peerage, Landed Gentry, etc, Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Visitations and so forth. Also, people contact me and send me information. I've met lots of cousins on the Internet!........... .... I still type names into search engines once ina while to see if anything new comes up. 99% of it is stuff I've seen before, but every once in a while, a gem like your site comes along. I filled in some gaps on Floyer marriages from your index of Hints marriages, and I like those plaques. I was in England a couple of years ago, touring graveyards and churches and taking pictures of tombstones and inscriptions, but I didn't make it to Staffordshire. I'd love to have some copies of your documents on Floyer of Hints! One of the things I would really like to prove is the connection between Floyer of Hints and Floyer of Floyer's Hayes. The idea that Floyer of Hints claimed descent from "a disgraced younger son" of Floyer of Floyer's Hayes makes some of the family feel that Floyer of Hints were usurpers or pretenders, but I've read enough about Floyer of Hints to convince me that they really are related, but I don't know where the connection is. I've provisionally linked them via an "unknown" Floyer by counting back the generations and figuring out approximately where the connection would lie. I don't know what the fellow did to disgrace himself, butthe family must have expunged all records of him! Floyer of Hints sound like an illustrious branch of the family with Rennaissance men like Dr. Sir John among their number, so it's about time they were rehabilitated. I found a bit of information in The Visitation of London, 1633, 1634 and 1635, Vol I, regarding "Richard Flyar", who married Margaret, daughter of William Homersley of Stafford. It sounds like the same family, so I'll be studying that. Perhaps your documents will shed some light on the question. By all means, post a link to my site, and I'll add a link to your site from mine. I'm in the process of updating my site so I'll let you know when it's posted. I don't know if you found these links during your visit to my site, but I have some Floyer documents online: |
