When complete this site will be a comprehensive history of the Blackman Family in England & Wales from 1520 until 1901.

At present I am concentrating on gathering data for the family tree. I have completed an initial run-through of the 1841-1901 censuses and am now starting to work my way back through relevant Parish registers. These are primarily in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, London, Hampshire, Wiltshire & Huntingdonshire, as well as Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire & Berkshire. Although the tree is only partially complete it already contains around 20,000 individuals, so I thought it would be worthwhile to make it available on-line in case there are people out there who might be interested in what I have discovered so far.

A quick word about place names. Where possible I have placed villages in their traditional counties - so for instance Yaxley is in Huntingdonshire. However, around London I found this did not work because of the constantly shifting boundaries of London and Middlesex, so I have done away with Middlesex, and have used current definitions of London - hence for example Kingston upon Thames and Lewisham are in London.

To access the family tree as it stands at the moment please click on the Family Tree icon to the left.

If you have any information that you think would be helpful, or if you see something that you think is wrong, please get in touch - I would love to hear from you.

PLEASE NOTE... On November 20, 2009 my computer suffered a hardware malfunction. Although my data files were all backed up I have lost all my saved emails. If you contacted me in the couple of weeks prior to November 20, and I haven't yet responded fully to you, its because I have lost your email together with any attached files. Please get back in touch if you can. Thanks.