My family come from Somerset and Gloucestershire in Southwest England. They  were mainly centred around Bristol and Bath and the North Cotswolds. They  worked in agriculture and as Stone Masons, blacksmiths and Coalminers.  The  families they nurtured spread out all over the world. I would welcome any  contacts via my guest book.  Please feel free to add corrections and additions.

Your tombstone stands among the rest
 neglected and alone
 The name and date have worn off 
 the weathered marble stone
 It reaches out to all who care
 It's now too late to mourn
 You did not know that I'd exist 
 You died....and I was born 
 Yet each of us are cells of you
 in flesh, in blood, in bone
 Our hearts contract and beat a pulse
 entirely not our own 
 Dear ancestor, the place you filled 
 some hundred years ago 
 Spreads out among the ones you left 
 who would have loved you so 
 I wonder how you lived and loved 
 I wonder if you knew 
 That someday I would find this place 
 and come to visit you.