Welcome to my Hubberstey / Hubbersty blog.
As a Hubberstey I had always been curious about our family history but I had never had the time or the tools to delve into it very much. Luckily I now have some time, and the internet provides some wonderful tools, so I have been able to try and consolidate all the information that I have found into one place.
So far I have been using this blog as the place to post what I find. Obviously a cool web site would be easier to navigate and organize, but for now I am putting up with the inconveniences of the blog format because ... well ... it's free, and not all that bad.
Unlike most genealogy where one tries to track primarily ones own ancestors, I thought that it might be fun to try to track ALL Hubbersteys, since there are not that many of us. I guess I was hoping to see if all of us were traceable back to one common line.
In a nutshell, here is what I have found so far: There were about 145 Hubbersteys (and variant spellings) listed in the 1901 UK census. I have been able to track all but a couple of these back along a limited number of lines, some as far back as the late 1600's, but most to the late 1700s.
In total I have found 8 lines, but I suspect that this may eventually reduce to 6 lines. Two of the lines are Protestant lines that seem to come from the Kendal/Underbarrow/Fallen Yew area. These lines (I call them Wirksworth and London) have only a few members. Almost all of the rest of the Hubbersteys alive in 1901 (and therefore almost all of the Hubbersteys around today) can be traced to 6 lines coming from the area around Preston (in an area from North Preston down to Chorley, over to Blackburn, and back including Brindle and Samlesbury) an area known back in time as a relatively safe place for Catholics. And as I mentioned above, I suspect this will be reduced to only 4 lines.
In the posts on this blog I have tried to trace these different lines and thereby help anyone who is trying to trace their Hubberstey family history.
A list of all the current posts is HERE
A list of current issues I am working on is HERE
If you need any help navigating the information on this blog, or if you have some information you can share, or if you can correct anything that I may have gotten wrong please e-mail me at chrishubberstey@google.com.
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