Additions and amendments 7th October 2007

To everyone with the surname Gidman
or who has the name in their family in the past.

Please contactfamilydata@tgidman.co.uk
if you have an interest in the genealogy associated with the name.

When I make a material change to a page I shall put the date at the top of that page.  The latest are amendments to the external links on the Miners page.

I now have registrations in England from 1837 as follows:
Births to 2005 numbering 1,643 - Girls 785 and boys 858.
I have over 100 children born between the  1901 census and 3rd qtr 1911 for whom I cannot compile a line, nor for their descendants, unless I am given the mother’s maiden surname.
If any one has certificates covering this period I shall be glad to receive the details shown on them; I should then be able to return a tree of the branch concerned if requested.

Marriages to 2005 of which there are 1282 including second marriages. Some spouse surnames are on the Marriages page.  Please ask if you want to know who was married, when and where.

Deaths to 2004 totalling 1146. See analysis on the Deaths page.

I have the pages from the 1841 to 1901 censuses but some families are missing from one or another of them.

Events prior to 1837 have been culled from various sources such as the IGI and Parish Registers but obviously these are incomplete.  Currently there are about 500 births and over 100 marriages.

My father was a crown bearer in about 1914 and below is Ellen [“Nellie”] in 1893 as the May Queen in Knutsford, Cheshire. There is no real royalty nor any landed gentry that I have found.  From the 16th Century our ancestors were sons of the soil, coal and iron in England.

I have an extensive database of people with our name. Some details, not yet linked to specific branches, are as early as 1576.
In the main, I can make from links about 1780 to 1901 and later .
I may have information about your relations to pass on and I would like to add any facts given by you. Since opening these pages I have had contact with GIDMANs in all parts of England, the Isle of Man, France, Sweden, Germany, Canada, the USA [East to West] New Zealand and Australia. We have recently had the great pleasure of meeting a family in Connecticut directly descended from Henry 1810 - see his page below.

I am Trevor Gidman, born in Cheshire and now retired, living in Sussex, England with my wife Mae who was born in Scotland. The database has been compiled from our research together with details shared by generous correspondents, including Roots web mailing listers and members of the Cheshire Family History Society.  A huge number of census page images and registration details now available on-line have been utilised.

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