The following pages represent a continually growing state - I try to add to it as additional information is gathered. As the content is a "work in progress", some facts are liable to change if new details come to light during subsequent investigations - please bear this in mind if you use any of the data on these pages (which you are welcome to do).
Some points to note when reviewing the data:
- Please remember that this is my interpretation of the data;
- I have excluded from the website details of "living" people - inclusion is based on my having a "death" record for the person, or they were born before 1905. Having said this, some "living" people are included as a reference (by name only) on certain pages - e.g. where that person is included on a marriage or child record associated with an "included" person;
- Particularly with earlier ancestors, the date of birth shown may, in fact, be a baptisimal date (the latter is often more accessible than birth data in earlier records);
- There may be instances (hopefully, very few) where a childs parents are shown as married when in fact they were not (and vice versa);
- Place Names are, where available, taken from source data - this can lead to descriptions that are not correct, geographically speaking, today (e.g. in the 1800's, areas we nowadays know as being part of London were described as being in Middlesex or Essex);
- Where I have found details of Birth, Marriage, Death records based on the GRO records, these normally indicate that the registration of the event occured within a given quarter - in these circumstances, and for consistency purposes, I always record the date as "circa" the last month of the quarter quoted;
- In respect of Census entries, there is a considerable difference in the amount of data that was collected by the enumerators over the years and this is reflected in the details shown here (e.g. the 1841 census does not record the relationship of individuals to the Head of the Household, while some early census returns rounded the ages of some individuals;
- The website is updated fairly regularly. If you return to the site quite often you may need to force a refresh within your browser as some browsers will automatically display the cached (viz. "old") page rather than an updated page.
This compilation is not intended to be a finished history of my "branch" of the Tapscott (and related) families. It is an attempt to place in an orderly fashion records on the Tapscott family that have been gathered over the years. Much information has been received from newly found "relatives" who are tracing their side of the family, and, with their permission, I have included these to provide as full a picture as possible.
Currently, work is progressing on investigating issues related to data from 1911 UK Census (viz. the 1911 UK Census was the first that included the length of a marriage and the number of children born to the marriage as at the time of the census - I have included this latter information against the Citation details).
The new release of John Cardinal's software in June 2011 (used to create these web pages) has introduced the use of "Tag Groups" - this has allowed separation of Census details from "other" data (e.g. Births, Marriages, etc) on the details pages. Whilst the census data is obviously important, it can get quite verbose and I felt other data was getting lost in the midst of it.