Powys-Lybbe Ancestry

And how the Heiresses made the Genealogy easier

Latest site update: 25th August 2010

• Genealogy - now more that 26,100 ancestors and relations, updated 11th May 2010
• Heiresses themselves - a little about them and their history
• Original documents - from the 17th to 19th centuries
• The Roydons of Suffolk, Essex and Kent - the family tree of E B Royden's superb "Three Roydon Families"
• The Berkeleys - according to John Smyth in 1628, 2012 of them
• Barrington genealogy - documents and history of the Barringtons of Essex
• Bookplates - My quest for one and some family ones too
• Heraldry - The coats of arms we have acquired by marriage, all re-written and extended July to February 2009, quarterings relaunched in May 2010
• A crass Visitation error - Geoffrey Poole was his own grandfather
• Murder? - The judicial murder of Dame Alice Lisle, my 10 times great-aunt
• Bigamy - The lady who lived like a Lord!
• Testamenta Vetusta - A little on the book, and CDROM, of 800 mediæval wills
• RISC OS - Three offerings for this nice operating system
• South Farm - In an AONB, an area of "outstanding natural beauty", new in June 2009.
• Links to a few other sites
• Family pictures - some old ones!
• Stolen pictures - have you seen any of them? New in July 2008.
• Waterhouses - Did some of this family change their name to Hallifax?
• Why do the Jane Austen afficionados get it wrong? - a persistent set of naming errors
• Updates - The log of changes
• Contact me, Tim Powys-Lybbe:

This is a FAST site, by the way.  No unnecessary or complicated code.  But these days, with the wide use of fast broadband, I've decided to add in a variaty of large pictures and family trees. I've included the sizes of the large files so that you are warned before you click - be careful if you're on a slow line.

Site started by Tim Powys-Lybbe on 17th February 1999