Welcome to a family tree which starts with the family of William Cleaver who married Elizabeth Dunstone on 2nd February 1770. William and Elizabeth's children, with one exception, were born in Fortwilliam in Scotland where, I believe, William was in the Army. On his death, the family came to the area of Bishopstone in Sussex.

The family spread to the West Indies, Victoria and Tasmania in Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and within the UK and those with a direct "blood line" to William Cleaver are noted in this family tree with an aquamarine dot at their name.

Linked families are in Canada, Australia, USA, UK and Ireland and include the surnames White, Weatherhog, Richards, Shepherd, Middleditch, Martin, Lockwood, Edwards, Bright, Bridger, Trannack and many others. 
 Each of these families are rich in their ancestry and I have been lucky to make contact with descendants of some of those families who have shared their information and helped me build the connections.Even more significantly; those same contacts have provided photographs of some of their ancestors and this has been wonderful in terms of putting a face to the bare bones of Census or other birth/marriage/death information.

Those people  - hopefully all of whom are acknowledged within the text and all/some of whom are listed below.

Archibald John and Susan Campbell in Tauriac, France
 Pat McTavish in Spain
 Genevieve Gosling in England
 John Bright in Dublin
 Robin Shepherd in Canada
 Claude Shepherd in England
 Syl Spurrel in USA
 Marisa Richards Sly in Argentina
 Marie Trannack Richards in Argentina
 Jeanne Richards in Northern Ireland
 Nan Middleditch in Australia
 Carol Watt in England
 Annette Byron in New Zealnd
 Kate Wicks in England
 Shane Norton in New Zealand
 Susan Campbell in France
 Patricio Cleaver in Portugal
 Richard Cleaver in Argentina
 Patricia Lockwood in England
 Ann Fowler in Drogheda, Republic of Ireland
 Carol Woolley in Australia 
 Roz Pinkard in Tasmania, Australia
 Godfrey Bridger in New Zealand
 Sylvia Morgan in Argentina
 Judith Daft in Australia
 Roslyn Archer in Australia
 Steve Taylor in England
 David Hutton in Canada

In terms of privacy; access to the information is by a Password which will be provided to contributors, family members and any others with direct links to the various families here. Without a password; only the summary/home page is available.

I have also set up the site such that only the year of birth is shown for living relatives.

I welcome any changes, updates, omissions comments etc which will be incorporated.

The accuracy of any information contained in this database is not guaranteed although I have tried to use only proven research information. Where information has been given freely by family members it is for family members and so please do not copy or distribute any of the information without discussion first.

Finally, you will see the website has the capability of holding photographs and I  would welcome any sent to me for inclusion



John Scott