Genealogy

I was first lured into the highly addictive hobby of genealogy by Shaun Montgomery, younger brother of the late Michael “Monty” Montgomery, my fellow musician and good mate. (Monty was best man when I got married for the first time, to Susan in 1966.) Shaun is a semi-professional genealogist, and he gave me invaluable advice to get started on tracing my ancestors, who hail from County Durham. Since then I’ve traced my father’s line back to 1630, and my mother’s (the Blacketts) back to 1307.

I hope to post the whole tree on this site eventually, when several other Blackett researchers and I have finally agreed on some remaining areas of doubt