YES, 'Gene Hoard' is a pretentious name for a family history site. But at least it's not boring. Anglo Saxon poets used to call the tools of the trade their "word hoard". Genes are a kind of vocabulary, with nature writing the poems. Us. On to less Fotherington-Thomas stuff—
I belong to two Anglo-Indian families, the Annetts and the Ealeys. Our earliest confirmed Annett ancestor is Daniel, who married in Binsted, Hampshire, in 1751. The earliest Ealey seems to be Abraham, who was postillion to Queen Charlotte for twenty-two years, until his death in 1793. It was the descendants of these two who went out to India, married and settled there, and became my great-great-grandfather and grandfather respectively.

Many more names, of course, make up the lists of our ancestors, half of them representing all those women who married into the male lines and lost their own surnames along the way. So on the Annett side there’s Maitland, Pinniger, Coakley, Chopin, Oman, Jackson, Parmender, Andrews, Rodrigues, Trevethick, Eweler, Stonehewer, Keough, Bennet, Dunn, Casper, Sutherland, Moller, Voller, Eluard and Guillauneau. On the Ealey side there’s Ross, Ashby, Taylor, Hudson, Smith, Sperrin, Heginbotham, Kilby, Jennings, Watson, Cundey, Newbold, Lomas, and Crooks.

You'll find a tree of all these contributors if you click on the photograph of Mum and Dad above. From there you can navigate to other charts and, as time goes on, I hope to add pages with more detailed information.

The navigation links below are, I hope, self-explanatory. If not, a quick hover with the mouse will bring up a brief description of each. Charts and lists, while necessary, can be a bore, so I'm slowly creating pages containing less formally packaged information. These are accessible by clicking on either of the 'books' below. The 'Annett' book will focus on the progenitors of Thomas and Irene Annett; the 'Ealey' book on those of Daniel and Mabel Ealey.

Note to Ancestor-Hunters

This website makes no claims to be scholarly or authoritative, and is more the work of a reporter than a historian, its aim being to convey information without boring myself or others. I've tried to be accurate, but everything should be checked against original sources. This is especially true for names other than Annett, which is at present the only tree where I've confirmed the complete direct line myself through primary sources. I do have some primary documents for other lines—which I am adding to all the time—but have supplemented them with evidence from internet resources and voluntary contributions from other researchers. Hovering over the text in charts should bring up a brief note about particular sources.

For reasons of privacy I've excluded details of anyone born within the last hundred years.