BEACH family tree and branches (General)

by Fred Beach , Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 11:42 (7163 days ago)

Hello everyone - For a couple of years now I have been researching my family, in my case the Beach tree and branches.

Although my family have not moved very far, they tend to criss-cross between the Monmouth town area, South Herefordshire, and the Forest, and that ads to the work when searching One thing anybody researching the same areas may need to know is that births etc. for most of what is often called West Dean are registered in Monmouth, and if you are looking for family in the Forest along the River Wye in the area below Ruardean, you may find some registrations in Ross.

Now my main family is BEACH and I have collected quite a lot of info, the earliest entry is 1545 for the will of Joane Beche of Newent, in the next 60 years first the "a" is added to the name, and later the "e" on the end removed. Beche came from "de la Beche" a family that arrived in the years after the Norman Conquest, though they were not Normans but Flemish and came from an area on the French / Belgium border, beche apparantly means spade, not very grand.
Cheers

Fred the Spade
always happy to help out with Beach info