Additions and amendments 11th December 2009

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

Please contact gidman@one-name.org
if you have an interest in the genealogy associated with the name.

When I make a material change to a web page I shall put the date at the top of that page. On the World War 1 page I have added some further important information about Fred who died in 1918.

In the 1911 England and Wales census I see about 20 more families than I identified in 1901. I have the household forms accounting for 427 people but there will be omissions due to index transcription errors; if anyone does find any which are incorrect I shall be grateful if you could send me at least the names and ages. There are several Gidman families said to Gibman and Sidman for example. Allowing for the emigration I know of, about 40 people are not yet accounted for. 

 
I would like to have suggestions for something new on this site;  I shall not be including any trees here although I am happy to send you one in relation to your own branch and to look for answers to questions about other branches. This is a hobby for my retirement - there is no charge or commercial interest whatsoever.

I have all the pages from the 1841 through to the 1901 census but a few families are not in one or another of them.  In due course I will add a 1911 page to this site.

My database now includes all England and Wales and Scotland registrations up to the latest computer records available:

From 1837 as follows:
Births to 2005 numbering 1,643 - Girls 785 and boys 858.
I have a few 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 or the 1911 census family.
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.

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 200 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 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, 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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