Dean Family History
In this section you can read about the well known Dean Family of Dorset and Hampshire from the 16th Century to the present.

There is a fair amount of Hants & Dorset history in this chapter.

Dean Family Tree
This is the family tree in ordered formation from the first confirmed ancestor up to the present day.

William Foot, His Life & Times In the Army  And As a Chelsea Pensioner
Read this account of the life and times of a British soldier who served for many years in the ranks of the 8th Regiment of Foot (The Kings Regt.).

The Hunt family of Nottinghamshire from 1790 App. 

The Hunt family has been traced back to about 1790.  Further research is planned but domestic problems have halted the work pro tem.

Val Williams Second  Battalion K.O.Y.L.I. 1892 - 1916.

Thomas Valentine ( Val) Williams Killed in WW 1 at the age of 24.  His story is told here

In the Williams family file is a similar account of his Nephew,  also Val,  lost at sea during the 1939 - 1945 war.

What happened to soldiers who died in the Great War and have no known grave?

Details of the search & burials of war dead.                  

The Williams Family from George Williams of Monmouthshire.

This is as yet incomplete due largely to the difficulty of tracing family links for a Welsh name such as Williams! Field trip starts on September 4th 2006 to Cwmbran,  Mon.  to see if I can trace the elusive George Williams,  my gt grandfather.

Shortcut to photo montages of the family groups. 

Photo montage.