Tarrant Family
William
Tarrant & Ann Evans of Oxford
(born about 1788)
This
interesting and long-established surname is of Anglo-Saxon
origin, and is a
topographical name for someone living on the banks of the River
Tarrant in Dorset (ref www.surnamedb.com)
The first known ancestors of our branch of the Tarrant tree lived
at the end of the 18th century in Oxford, England.
William Tarrant was a Cordwainer or Shoemaker.
Many of the family emigrated to Victoria, Australia, to seek
their fortunes on the gold fields of Ballarat and Clunes.
Others migrated to New Zealand and to the USA.
The direct line to Fred Shade
is
(1) William Tarrant & Ann Evans
(2) William Tarrant & Mary Ann Mobley
(3) Mary Ann Tarrant & William Chapple (goes to
CHAPPLE tree)
(4) Frederick Joseph Chapple & Fanny Beatrice Little
(5) Mary Beatrice Chapple & Albert Ernest Shade
Recent Changes |
Addition of 2 children to Benjamin Tarrant & Mary Ann Easton 6 Jun 2010 |
Fully revised with use of Ancestry Public Trees 18 Mar 2010 |
Contact Libby Shade
for further details
email: lshade@melbpc.org.au
This family tree is
provided for mutual information within the family.
The information given will be referenced by official documents,
family bibles etc.
Information that is uncertain or unreferenced will not be
published.
For privacy of the present generations, the family tree will halt
at the generation born around the start of the 20th century.
Discussion gladly entered into.