This section provides a simplified presentation of the ancestors of Peter
Spurr (Spurr and Jost families) and of his wife Mary (nee Lighthall)
(Lighthall and Coates families). This information provides a factual skeleton
which can encourage and facilitate enquiries to Peter’s large, online data
base containing much fuller detail about these people and many of their
relatives.
Since the 1980s Peter has gathered information about the four families and
some relatives, including names, dates, places, stories and various images
and documentation. Most of this information has been digitized using the
MacFamily Tree program for Mac computers. This data base now contains
information about 2,795 persons in digital form, while some additional
information is still held, unsorted, in boxes.
This website provides a very basic introduction to the coverage of each of
the four families in the digital data base. It outlines the basic chronological
history of the four branches of this linked family tree. There are 102 people
included in this outline from Mary’s side (The Lighthall and Coates families)
and 121 people from Peter’s side (Spurrs and Josts). Details, such as the
relatives of these people, their children and other family, and rich elements
of information gathered about all of these people, is digitized in the
MacFamily Tree data base. This website is a mere introduction to the
branches of these four families’ trees.
For additional information, follow this link.