Kendall Family Genealogy

Some time ago, I joined the Kendall DNA Project , and had my DNA tested. Y chromosomes are passed directly from father to son. Because Y c...

William White's History, Gazetteer and Directory of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight , published in 1859, is a detailed catalogue of ever...

This article is about a couple of the "tricky" genealogical cases - two of the daughters of John Kendall and his wife Elizabeth (n...

When researching family history using parish records, it is important to understand the Poor Laws which governed relief given to the poor, ...

Sandford was a hamlet in the Tithing of Bisterne-and-Crow, in the parish of Ringwood, located a few kilometres to the south east of Ringwood...

In my last post, I wrote about Thomas Kendill who was recorded in the 1841 census living in Sandford with James Kindell, his wife Martha and...

Several public trees on the Ancestry web site claim Thomas was born in 1755 and list numerous children of Thomas Kindle and Amy Hatcher, inc...

The 1841 census of Sandford shows Stephen Kendall (Kindle) and his wife Sarah with eight children: Henry 1818 Thomas 1821 Jane 1826 John 182...

The Ringwood parish baptism register, the cemetery register, and the censuses from 1861 onward show ten children of John Kendall and his wif...

The Kendall "surname group" at the RootsWeb site is a message board where you can get in touch with other Kendall researchers. htt...

Earlier, I wrote about the Ringwood Cemetery and Ringwood Churches . Whilst visiting Ringwood earlier this month (September 2009), I explor...

The Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, was founded in 1894 by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to assist pe...

The Hampshire Record Office (HRO) is located in Winchester. It's the home of Hampshire Archives and Local Studies, and where all of the ...

The Hampshire Genealogical Society maintains a web site with some useful information about Hampshire in particular and genealogy in general...

Ringwood Parish Church The Ringwood parish church of St. Peter & St. Paul is located in the Market Place, and dates back to The Domesday...

After having four children with Mary Ann Walker, Charles married Mary Ann Brookes in Southampton on June 28th 1901. Mary Ann said her father...

This post is intended to add some detail to the story of Charles William Kendall . Charles’s Marriage to Annie Manston Charles married Annie...

Charles was born in Sandford, Hampshire in 1856. His father was John Kendall (1827-1908). His mother was Elizabeth Chamberlain Rogers (1832-...

The Hampshire Genealogical Society (HGS) offers a wealth of information on tracing your roots in Hampshire. They have a reading room in Port...

As well as running Family History Centres in cities around the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also maintains the Int...

The Ringwood Cemetery was opened in 1864 and is located on Hightown Road in Ringwood. Click here to see a map of the cemetery. There is al...

The Ringwood Meeting House was built in 1727 by a group of Presbyterians. It is located in the centre of Ringwood, next to the municipal pa...

The Ringwood Library is located on Christchurch Road in Ringwood. They have a Family History Collection in blue ring binders in their Local...

I've set up this web space to publish my research into and speculation about the Kendall family of Ringwood, Hampshire. My grandfather, ...