Market House, Tetbury, Gloucestershire - Built 1665
| The Mitchells can be found predominantly in Gloucestershire and to a lesser extent in north Wiltshire; ancestors being traceable back to c.1600 in Tetbury, Glos. The Harpers are primarily from Wiltshire and Gloucestershire although there are also connections in Berkshire, Essex and Wales. Post 1930, our descendant family Harpers are found mostly in Devonshire. There are large Mitchell communities in Devon and Ian Mitchell's excellent site details many of them. Although they are not all are connected with our Mitchells, there is a large group connected with Margaret Lloyd's ancestry.
The Cleavers ancestry is mainly found in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, with some links going back to c.1600. Both the Mitchells and the Cleavers are evident in the 1735 Religious Census of Tetbury. The Breakspear families come from around Maidenhead, Berkshire, and from Swindon and surrounds in Wiltshire.
Nowell, Jarvis and recent Dodimead families come from East London and all can be found in large numbers there today. There are a number of Jarvis connections in Norfolk too, particularly around Lings Lynn. Dodimead ancestors originated from around the Mells and Frome area, in Somerset, as early as the mid 1500's.
The Tunkins seem to be found mostly in mid and south Devon but they originate from the Cambourne area of Cornwall. The Mongers are first found in West Wales, predominantly working in the copper industries around Swansea. Later on, the rolling mills in East London attracted many Mongers to the area. The Lloyd families are very much "Heart of England" folk with lots of Lloyd families coming from Dudley, in the West Midlands. Here, many of the Lloyds learned their trade as bricklayers.
"...Our Family is a living tree and we are all but leaves upon it. Its branches and roots spread ever wider. All too soon it will be our autumn, whereupon, we make way for new generations to come." - Roger Mitchell
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