This web site has been arranged around various groups of family trees that have been assembled over many years. When started there was little in the way of accurate genealogy records online and most early material was collected from libraries. Now the Internet provides access to vast amounts of higher, quality reference sources - but it still needs direct family knowledge to solve some of the puzzles...

So please consider all of these trees as a best guess based on the available information ...

The first group is made up of small, specific Townsley family trees arranged by UK regions - see Locations.

The second group are wider family history databases which together cover all the families I have research over many years.

The first database covers all the Townsley families plus all the other “commoner” families researched to date. This contains over 48,000 entries and is covered in detail here...

The second database contains Towneley and Strangeways families recorded in published family pedigrees - the Landed Gentry database. This has NO straight forward connections with the first database and so NO links with any of my known relatives. It was created in an attempt to trace any possible origins of the known Townsley (and Strangeway) families; but without success!

Some of traced families are at my Strangeway Family web site

The final group are small family trees for other surnames that are linked by marriages to my particular branch of the Townsley family. The ones briefly covered so far are -

Dawson family connections in Otley, Yorkshire; including links to the Tattersfield family

Healey family connections in Bradford, Yorkshire; including links to the Delaney and Nolan families

Parker family connections in Bradford, Yorkshire; including links to the Knighton / Jennison families from Eastwood, Nottinghamshire; as well Parkers in Bedingfield, Suffolk

Shepherd family connections in Leeds, Yorkshire; tracing back to Liverpool and London

Sutcliffe family connections in Leeds, Yorkshire; including links to Gledhill family

Tattersfield family connections in Mirfield and Heckmondwike, Yorkshire; through the link to the Dawson family

... more later