The Keep Family, of the Midlands were a well known Engineering Family, descended from Richard Kepe, who was born in Stanwick, Northamptonshire about 1520. They were later related to the Lloyds, who went on to become the Proprietors of the world wide firm of Steel Pipe manufacturers, Stewarts & Lloyd.
       They also married into my own Ulph Family, when Joseph Scrivener Keep married Eliza Bishop Ulph. The Scrivener, Devonshire and Saddington Families were also closely associated with the Keep Family.
For Keep Family Info contact Mark Turnbull, John Keep, Ralph Godfrey, or visit the WebSite of Charlie Binyon.
The Keep Family has been updated; and the Scrivener, Devonshire and Saddington Families have been added February 12th, 2006.

       Mark Turnbull's own Family, that of James Turnbull came from Stirlingshire in Scotland.
The James Turnbull Family have been substantially updated October 10, 2004.
        The Mellen/Sheppard Families, who originated in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire in the 1700s married into the Turnbull Family in Victoria, Australia in the early 1900s.
The Mellen/Sheppard Family Information has been added to the WebSite in late December 2007.

Of further significant interest is a WebSite maintained by James Smith Benton of Wisconsin, USA. This Site is virtually a Keep Family Photo Gallery. To visit it click here.

Other Families who have been connected to, or inter-married with the Keeps include:

       The Family of Elnathan Allen, circa 1660, who came from Wexford in Ireland and migrated to the Colony of New South Wales and later Tasmania about the 1840s, or 1850s; and, the Family of Richard Kerkham, born about 1787, in King's Lynn Lincolnshire, whose Family married into the Allen Family.

       The Bettsworth Family whose earliest known Family Member probably orginated in London about 1740; and who married into the Keep Family in 1813. Thomas Bettsworth is the 2nd Generation. Associated with the Bettsworth Family is the Pink Family, circa 1730, who possibly originated in the Area around Portsmouth.

       The Family of William Arnott also lived in New South Wales; and gave Australia one of it's Icons, "Arnott's Biscuits". We also have details of the Ebsworth Family, who originally came from Middlesex; and who married into the Arnott Family; and of the Family if Isaac Winn, whose origins are presently unknown; but whose Children were born in the Colony of New South Wales. The Winn Family married into the Arnott Family in 1880.

       The Austin Family, whose precise origins are presently unknown. The Families of John Busby from Edinburgh, of John Bettington, circa 1770, from Briston in Somerset, of John Bowler, circa 1720, probably from London, the Bowman Family, circa 1740, from Mid Lothian, Scotland, the Family of William Henry Chapman, who originally came from Buckinghamshire; and the Chisholm Family, whose origins are also unknown; but who were early migrants to the Colony of New South Wales. Another Family, whose origins are unknown; but who were early settlers in the young Colony of New South Wales, were the Cooper Family.

       We also have details of the Family of Hugh Dixson, who came from Edinburgh, Scotland about 1790. The Family of James Edgell, circa 1735, who originated in Bristol, England; and whose Family ceated another of Australia's iconic "Brands", the Family of James Elliott, circa 1790, whose origins are also unknown; and the Family of Owen Evans, circa 1800, from London, England. Associated with the Evans Family is the Family of Ambrose Lyon Poynter. We now, as of June 2008 have another Edgell Family, that of Edward Edgell, who was born about 1786 in Frome, Somerset, England, not all that far from James, who originated in Bristol, so there must be a connection somewhere. This Edward Edgell Family becomes the Frank Whittaker Bush Family within a Generation or two.
The Edward Edgell Family was added to the WebSite on June the 19th, 2008.

       You can also find details of the Family of Thomas Fairfax, whose Family came from Warwickshire about 1450; and who created another Australian Icon, in the Sydney Morning Herald [Newspaper]. The Fairfax Family married into the Family of Robert Chaplin, who was born about 1504 in Long Melford in Suffolk. A History of the Chaplin Family is also available, provided by James Wilkinson and David Allison.

       The Family of John Finnis, who was born in 1722, in East Langdon, in Kent, England, are connected to several of the other Families, including that of John Brown, born 1799, also from Kent, who married into the Keeps.

       There are pages for the Forwood Family, from Yorkshire, the Family of Harman Samler, born 1719 in Hanover, Germany. He moved to London; and the Samler Family disappear but become the Tucker Family within 3 Generations. Also associated with the Forwood Family are the Rossiter Family from Cornwall, who have a large content of Broad Family, the Family of Charles Smith from Watford in Hertfordshire and the Lepard Family, also from that Area. One Member of the Smith Family changed his Name to become the King-Smith Family. The Lepard and Smith Families were Paper Makers; and became the Proprietors of the well-know Stationers and Book-sellers, J. J. Smith. A brief History of the Families and the Mills of the Watford Area can be found "here";
and an excellent History of the Forwood Family prepared by Keith Goodman can be seen "here". Be warned you will need to spend considerable time to absorb all the Information in this wonderful History.
Another Family associated with the Forwood Family is the Easdown Family, whose earlier Generations are the Langley Family. The Easdown Family connects through the Marriage of William Robert Easdown to Catherine Esther Forwood in 1869.
The Forwood Family have been updated and the Samler Family Pages added, March 10, 2006.
The Lepard Family has been added; and the Smith Family updated following additional Information from John Robson in September 2007.
The Rossiter Family have been added in December 2007, as has the Forwood Family History.
The Easdown and Langley Family Pages have been added in April 2008.

       The Family of Adam de Bucton, circa 1190 originated in the Village of Buckton, in Northumberland, close to the Scottish Border. Adam was Head Forrester and Game-keeper to the Bishop of Durham. The Family soon took the Name of Forster. An early Branch of the Family, the Family of Colonel John Foster, became owners of large Estates in both Jamaica and Pembrokeshire. The early parts of the Foster Family are difficult to accurately connect with the original de Bucton/Forster Family, so any help to do so will be greatly appreciated. We have now, mid Sept, 2007 traced Col. John's Ancestors back a few Generations; but still cannot connect them to the de Bucton Forsters. There is another break in the Line, when Mary Brooks, in 1790 left her Forster Husband for Lieut. Ebenezer Mussell. Their Children took either the Name of Forster or Mussell, apparently indiscriminately. You need to view the 3 Files to get an idea of the entire Forster Family Connections.
The de Bucton/Forster & Foster Families have been added, September the 5th, 2007.

       The Family of John Grimwade, probably from Norfolk. The Hordern Family, circa 1740, who came from Staffordshire, were the Proprietors of the Anthony Hordern Department Stores that later merged with "Myers".

       The Family [part of] of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, circa 1500, whose Family married into the Arundell Family, who later became the Arndell Family who married into the Turnbull Family. The Family of Peter Kilpinne came from Bedfordshire. Peter was born about 1530.

       Now we come to an interesting connection. The Vosper Family, who have been Farmers and Businessmen in the Area around Launceston in Devon since the late 1600s married into the Forwood Family. The Forwood Family are connected by Marriage to the Keep Family, who are connected to my Ulph Family. While entering the Vosper Family Data, I found that they are also connected by Marriage to the Barham family, who are in turn connected to the Edwards Family, who are connected to my Smith Family, by way of a Marriage to my Great Grand Aunt, Harriette Anne Smith. -- So, we have the Smiths, to the Ulphs, to the Keeps, to the Forwoods, to the Vospers, [pause for breath] to the Barhams, to the Edwards; and back to the Smiths, making the Circle.
       I would like to thank Dr. John Jennings, in Kingswood, South Australia for allowing me to include all the Vosper Family Data he has sent me. If you have any questions, or anything to add concerning the Vosper Family, please email me.
BUT, remember, eMail Addresses need to be modified, replace the " at " in the Address with "@"
The Vosper Family Pages have been added, January, 20, 2005.
The Forwood Family Pages have been updated, February 13, 2007..

       Other Families include, the Family of Charles Jones who hailed from Jamaica. The King Family, of Cornwall gave the Colony of New South Wales one if it's early Governors, Phillip Gidley King.
       The Family of Edward Lamb came from Carlisle in Cumberland; and the Family of James Milson, who lived in the Wollombi Area of the Colony of New South Wales. The Family of Alexander MacArthur, circa 1730, whose origins are unknown, as are those of the Family of William Maher.

       The Family of Randolph Nott, from Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales. The Family of Thomas Parnell, from Cheshire, in England, who married into the Family of Theophilus Cooper, who was born in Windsor in the Colony of New South Wales.
The Parnell Family Pages, with the Cooper additions have been updated, May 23, 2005.
NOTE: The Family of Theophilus Cooper is a different Cooper Family from that mentioned towards the top of this Page.

       The Family of John Playfair, circa 1780, who probably came from Fifeshire in Scotland; and the Family of Thomas Matheson, born July 23, 1862, in Peebles, Scotland. The Family of Hugh Ronald and Ishbel Mahoul; and the Family of Roibert Ross from Worcestershire. The Family of Randle Siddeley came from Cheshire, England; and who married into the Family of William Hyslop and Jean Maxwell. Over the Years the Family have at various times be known as "Hyslop", "Maxwell Hyslop" and "Maxwell-Hyslop". The Family of Thomas Storey, circa 1790, whose origins are also unknown; and the Suttor Family, from London.
The Family Pages of Thomas Matheson have been added, February 02, 2006;
and the Hyslop [Maxwell-Hyslop] Family added on July the 31st, 2007.

Also connected to the Playfair Family was the Family of Joseph Wilkinson. Joseph, circa 1700, came from Leeds in Yorkshire.
       The Wilkinson Family are also associated with,
The Chaplin Family, who trace their origins back to Robert Chaplin, born in Long Melford, Suffolk about 1504;
and the Archer [l'Archer] Family, starting with Fulbert l'Archer, born 1066, whose Family occupied Umberslade Hall in Warwickshire for most of the last Thousand Years.
The Parke Family is another Family closely associated with the Wilkinsons and Chaplins. All of the Parke Family Information can be found within the Chaplin Family Pages.
Most of the Wilkinson Information has been provided by James Wilkinson & David Allison.
All of the Information on the Chaplin and l'Archer Families was also provided by James.
Another Family associated with the Wilkinsons is that of Michael Rickards, who we believe came from Colchester, in Essex. Information on the various branches of this Family has been supplied by Nicholas [Nick] Rickards.
The Family Pages of Michael Rickards have been added, September 24, 2007.
These "Wilkinson" Families were also connected to the Forbes Family; and appear on the Intro Page for Anthony Armitage Bishop's Family Connections.

       Finally, the Family of James Tetley, born 1745, in Yorkshire, England, the well known Tea Merchants the Family of William B Walford, whose Family probably lived in Katoomba, Colony of New South Wales; and the Family of James White, whose origins are again unknown.


       For all of the above, more Information can be obtained from Mark Turnbull, or you can eMail me; and I will pass any Messages to whoever can best help.

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