Fletcher
Arms- a black shield with a silvery- white cross. An arrow in each of the four segments pointing upwards.
Crest- a black arrow, sometimes barbed, pointing upwards.

Martin
Shield- Silver with two red bars

Adcock
Blazon of arms: Azure on a Saltier Argent nine pellets.

Crest: A foxes head issuing argent.

Willis
The Shield is: Silver with three stars and a black chevron. The Crest is: An eagle

Whiteside
With a background of ermine fur, a red rose with gold seeds and the sepals of the heraldic rose which appears between the petals, green, and on the top third of the shield, which isred, a gold tower.

The Coats-of-Arms above have nothing to do with our families - none of us are entitled to bear arms - but they look quite attractive!

Welcome to our Family Tree web-site!

This site contains ongoing genealogical research on three separate and unrelated families - the Fletchers, the Martins and the Adcocks. It will also include galleries of photographs, histories of interesting individuals and information about the towns in which our various ancestors lived and the occupations they followed.

I hope to offer some information to those who are just starting out to research their family trees - information which would have saved me a lot of time and effort if I had not been in such a hurry to start my research!

My long-time friend Howard Martin, of Cartmel in Cumbria, has for many years now been doing valuable research into those local men who joined up to fight in the First World War, and has been able to trace some names missing from local war memorials, as well as a few who appeared on the memorials but who were fouind to have survived the Great War.

His web-site is currently off-line.

Another friend and colleague, Neil Adcock of Kendal, Cumbria, asked for help in tracing his ancestors, and has become quite involved in the research we managed to do together over the Internet - necessarily, since he is in the Lake District and I am in France.

Research on the Willis side of my wife's family brought me into contact with Andy Heaton, who has proved to be an invaluable source of information, photographs and documents as we worked to sort out the various branches of the Willis ancestors. Bitten by the bug, Andy has now become a genealogist with an obsession!

My thanks go to Sandi Trapp in the USA, with whom I have been in contact recently, for her daunting research into the Whitesides, originally from Lytham in Lancashire - where I went to school. We share ancestors, so are distantly related. She is lucky in living fairly close to Salt Lake City and the records of the Mormons - The Church of the Latter Day Saints (LDS to all genealogists).


Rawlinson		Harrison		Mercer		Ball		Fox		Hall

Last but not least, I owe a debt to Sally Dickson (née Fletcher) with whom I have kept up an almost daily e-mail correspondence as we try to trace the history of the Fletchers of Clarborough, a family for whom the records are shadowy, to say the least. However, we have made considerable progress, working together with enthusiasm and good humour.