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This website focuses on the Banting family that originates in Upper Clatford,
Hampshire. It does not include
other Banting families,
though I would be happy to extend the coverage if supplied the
necessary information.
My own family tree is presented by the PhpGedView online genealogy viewer:
Genealogy Viewer main page
The information is contained in four databases, representing the ancestry of each
of my grandparents, which are linked to allow navigation
directly from one to another.
The only information presented online relates to my grandparents' generation
and above. Some details haves been trimmed so as
to present only the most important facts; for instance, details of BMD
certificates and census entries are rarely given. Anyone who wants more
details can of course contact me and request them.
There is a much less detailed summary in the personal section of this website:
Personal family tree pages
Paternal grandfather: Harry Charles BANTING
Banting-Upper-Clatford database
Pedigree diagram
My paternal ancestry originates in the village of Upper Clatford, just
outside Andover in Hampshire, though I have to go back four generations to
find anyone who was born there.
My great-great-grandfather, Henry Banting, joined the army and served in
South Africa and India. He was discharged on medical grounds and went to live
in London, where the next three generations were born.
My great-grandfather, Harry Edward Banting, married into the Harper
family, who had been in Southwark throughout the 19th century.
In the 1930's my grandfather's job required him to move around the
country, and what was planned as a temporary move to the western outskirts of
Birmingham became permanent on the outbreak of war. My parents married there,
and my three sisters and I were all born in or near to Birmingham.
Paternal grandmother: Mary Ellen GATES
Gates database
Pedigree diagram
The family of my grandmother had been established in
the Southwark area for a century or more when she married my grandfather.
One of her brothers, Albert Joseph Gates, served as Mayor of Southwark in the
early years of the Second World War.
Her maternal grandmother, Mary McCarthy, had Irish parents, making her my nearest
non-English ancestor.
Maternal grandfather: Arthur John PARDOE
Pardoe database
Pedigree diagram
My great-great-grandfather, John Pardoe, was a builder. He left his native
Worcestershire and spent some 20 years living in Greenwich, where his son Harry
was born. He then moved to the district next door to where I now live, and
built a dozen houses in what was then a rapidly-expanding suburb of Birmingham.
My great-grandmother, Ada Emma Matthews, lived to the age of 101 - my only
centenarian ancestor. Coincidentally, she and Harry were married in the same
church as Miriam and me.
Maternal grandmother: Dorothy Alison ELKS
Elks database
Pedigree diagram
Elks is a strongly regional name, and it is no surprise that so many
of my grandmother's ancestors come from Staffordshire. Her father, David Elks,
came from a farming family near Alton, but moved to the south of the county
to join the police force. He married Angela Linforth, whose father William
ran a successful grocery business.
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