The ADDENBROOKE line is an important element in my paternal grandfather’s ancestry. Through this are established countless links to the clergy as well as the medical world; not least to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.
Naturally I could not have achieved all this singlehanded. I owe a deep indebtedness to the work of others, much published, a lot not. The most important source is Burke’s “Landed Gentry”. The various Oxford and Cambridge ‘Aumni’ volumes need to be mentioned, as well as Stebbing Shaw’s “History of Staffordshire”; although some of the secondary sources appear to be in conflict - indeed I still cannot be sure as to the precise parentage of the famous Dr John ADDENBROOKE, Bishop of Lichfield, who married Dorothy WEDGWOOD - for whom please consult the Exciting WEDGWOOD site. The result is much COMPLETELY NEW MATERIAL never before published. Although nothing genealogical can ever be 100% reliable, I believe that the following tree is the most definitive yet. Corrections will be gladly received so together we can make it even better.
You should find no details of LIVING persons here. If there are, then this is totally inadvertant and I sincerely apologise.
I can do no more than apologise for the chosen display medium. GED2HTML aka Gendex is the ‘only/best of a bad lot’ of programs to choose from; it was designed in the stone age and cannot cope with the sophistication of modern genealogical software. It very reluctantly now accepts dates by ‘quarter’ in the Q1 1845 format meaning the first quarter of 1845 - essential when using the GRO indexes. The occupation and notes fields are a plain mess; although part of this is a result of a change in the GEDCOM standard some years back. Many of my favourite fields are missed out altogether. A good point, however, is the ‘Source’ list; I have made use of this exclusively for the 1841 thru 1901 Census information - including the official reference number beginning with the last two digits of the year.
© Philip Richards July 2008.