Ordinary People Extraordinary Lives

: a history of the Maudsley Family




by Pam Cooper, Donna Kenny, Heidi Kneipp & Peter Collins

© 1988


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  • Runner Up - Queensland Family History Society Inc. - Family History Award, 1992

  • Highly Commended - Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies - Alexander Henderson Award, 1988



    • Published in 1988,Ordinary People Extraordinary Lives is a book of 484 pages which traces the history of the Maudsley family. It spans four centuries of Maudsley history, beginning in the North Craven area of West Yorkshire, England, in the 16th century. The story moves to the northern parts of Lancashire in the 1800s, then briefly to Holme, Westmorland, before following Richard Maudsley and his wife, Agnes (Booker), and their family to Queensland, Australia in 1866.

    In addition to the Maudsleys, it is of significance to those interested in the associated English families of:

    PROCTER early 1700s Giggleswick, Yorkshire
    CARR 1700s Giggleswick, Yorkshire
    HODGSON late 1700s Tunstall, Yorkshire
    GARTH 1800s Bolton-le-Sands & Over Kellet, Lancashire
    BOOKER 1750-1870 Over Kellet & Liverpool, Lancashire; British Guiana


    Other families mentioned through their connection with Australian descendants include:


    HEDGES Heath & Reach, Bedfordshire; Sherwood & Pentland, Queensland
    BRASSEY Cheshire; Fassifern District & Ipswich, Queensland
    WRIGHT West Wratting, Cambridgeshire; Fassifern District & Ipswich, Queensland
    FAULKNER Oxfordshire; Fassifern District & Ipswich, Queensland
    GREER Bathurst, New South Wales; Wacol/Wolston, Queensland
    WALKER Lincolnshire; Town Marie/Ipswich, Queensland
    SHORT Dorset; Town Marie/Ipswich, Queensland



    Copies of Ordinary People Extraordinary Lives are available from the publisher at the low price of $30.00 (plus delivery). 



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