My name is Richard Beaton and I am the Webmaster of this site.

This site contains a series of family trees: 

Beaton (of Dufftown), Stuart (of Glenlivet), Cantlie (of Clunymore) and Kellas (of Cabrach). This tree now has a note setting out reasons for supposing my line of Beatons are connected to the Beatons of Skye.

Combes (of Sussex) and a composite tree based the Gadd family.

Still (of Horsell), Flicker (of Mayfair and Fulham), Goodwin (of Lambeth and Westminster) and Williams (of Warlingham). 

Kinch (of Horley (Banbury) and Enstone), Langford (of Charlbury). Brown (of Standlake) and Dew (of West Hanney) 

Holt (of Grendon Underwood), Greaves (of Shalstone),  Badrick (of Chearsley) and Flowers (of Helmdon)

Deeley (of Wednesbury) and Lees (of Lochgelly)

I have generally followed the rule that the trees stop at pre-1910 births, to observe the privacy of living individuals. Most people are able to reach 1910 under their own steam.

I am of course happy to discuss anything later by email - please click rjbeaton@tinyworld.co.uk to contact me.    

My mother's mother's lines

The Holts 

I descend from this tree through my mother's mother's mother, Elizabeth Greaves nee Holt. The other main families are Greaves of Shalstone, Dagley of Whitfield, Flowers of Helmdon, Badrick of Chearsley and Foskett of Grendon Underwood.  

I have not pursued collateral families such as the Hatwells and Smiths (available through Geoffrey Hatwell's site) or the Powells beyond the third generation, in general. I have however added an excursus on the Harsha/Arnold family of Pennsylvania and Ohio which is traced back into the 18C. I have also assembled details of the Australian Orgill brothers from Measham, Derbyshire and of the Boughton family and their illustrious member, Rutland Boughton the composer.

In compiling this tree, I have the following acknowledgements to make:

to Heather Rohrer for her amazing ROADS website from which I have culled the descent of those collateral families such as the Harpers that intermarried with the Holts. I have included only those lines which directly link to the Holts. 

to Sandy Stirling, who incorporated my research on the Greaves family (including my proud discovery of the link to Shalstone) originally sent to Rita Hull. I have returned the compliment and incorporated much of her Australian Greaves data into my tree. She and other Greaves enthusiasts will be interested in the new data on the descendants of Thomas Greaves, the stay-at-home brother of the John Greaves who emigrated to Australia.

to Joyce Beedie and Amy Robbins-Tjaden for transaltlantic assistance on, respectively, the Tibbett family and the Scotts of Illinois.

to Phil Wood for solving the Head conundrum. 

to Chris Wells on the Probets connections.  

to all other websites that I have plagiarised without bothering to note who they belong to.

The Kinches, Browns and Langfords

There is very little on the Web on the Kinch or Brown lines in Oxfordshire and rather more on the Langford family. I descend from them through my mother's mother's father. I should be grateful for comments on and connections with the tree. The tree includes inter-marriages of the Kinches with the Eely (Enstone), Prickett (Enstone and Hook Norton), Pinnock and Rose (Standlake),  Hutchings and Wheeler (Sunningwell), Coleing (Radley), Foster (Caversfield) and Pereira (Shoreditch) families.

The Brown line includes marriages into the Dew and Richards families  (Hinton Waldrist).   

I should record the invaluable researches of Brigadier F R L and Mrs Joan Goadby into the families of Standlake.

For such an unusual name, it is odd that the Kinches appear on the Combes tree on my father's Sussex side - the families do not seem to be related but I stand to be corrected!

My mother's father's lines 

The Stills, the Flickers, the Goodwins and the Williams family of Warlingham 

The Still line also embraces Edmead, Howard and Roake in Chobham and Horsell. I have also included an excursus on the unusual Baker/ Guillaume /St Barbe family into which one of the Stills married.

I would be delighted to receive any information of the Flicker family in particular.

Tthanks to Nathan Goodwin for giving me James Archer Goodwin's connection to the Lambeth Goodwins. I have included new findings on the Goodwin emigrants to the US and their connection to the Chibnall family of Westminster and to the Potter family of Oklahoma .

My father's mother's lines

I have published the Combes (of my father's mother's mother descent). This is another line poorly represented on the Web - any comments would be much appreciated.

There are already excellent sites for the other lines. The Longshot site for the Linfields, Pat Burdick's new site for the Gadds (for which I contributed my Gadd material) and Julie Summers' work on the Neal family.

I have included the closest Linfields and Neals in my Gadd cousins tree. This started out showing how the Gadds intermarried with local families such as the Lawrences and the Whites of Chichester as well as the Neals but it now includes an in-depth excursus on the Hardham and Heather families and their emigrants to Victoria, Australia and Nova Scotia, Canada. Many thanks to James Alexander and Elaine Wilson in Canada for sharing their wealth of knowledge.

The tree now includes Linfield in-laws: Reynolds (Chidham), Greenfield (Pulborough), Stanfords (Slinfold) and the Sayers family (West Chiltington) and another excursus on the Compers of Pulborough.

My father's father's lines

I have finally published the Beaton, Stuart, Kellas and Cantlie lines of the Speyside area of Scotland and their many offshoots in Canada. I have  covered the McInnes family and their collaterals: the Marshall family (including William Marshall, the composer of Scots folk dances), the Mackenzie family of architects and the Cruickshank Church of Scotland ministers.

I have included under the first Beaton, Ferchard, my research on the origins of the Moray Beatons, suggesting links to Culnaskea, Easter Ross and earlier to the Western Isles. 

Thanks to Jim Cantlie for using his findings and a tribute to the late Stuart Mitchell for his work on the Roman Catholic Stuarts of Glenlivet. 

The Deeley and Lees lines

I have made a start on the family tree of my partner Jason Deeley. I have covered the male lines of Deeley and Lees and hope to include his mother's lines, the Young and the Leech families. 

Richard