Strangward family history site relaunched

This site replaces the old Strangward site, which as now been deleted from the dircon.co.uk server. It will be upgraded and updated during 2008.

I have been researching my family history since 1999. It has become addictive! This website is intended to communicate with other people researching the same surnames or families, but also as a resource for local history, or just an interesting place to surf.

Strangward in an unusual surname of English/Welsh origin. I trace my line of Strangwards through my grandmother to a family that expanded in and around Huntingdon during the late 1600s, 1700s and 1800s. My great grandparents, Lucy and Thomas Strangward moved to Pontefract in West Yorkshire, from Huntingdon, in the 1890s.

There is also a Strangward family based around Hereford and the Welsh borders. I think the origins of the name lie here, and that the two families are connected, but have yet to prove this.