Origins UK
Our People in the British Empire
More Voices, More Value
This website is the personal project of myself, Peter Bruce. All research, opinions and conclusions expressed herein are mine and mine alone, unless otherwise stated. That said, I encourage your input. Please feel free to express your views. Get in touch via ‘Contact Us’ and/or leave your thoughts in our Treehouse Cafe. The more voices, the richer the result.
Come on in to this Spriggs Families website. Here you can…
Read remarkable tales
Come to know the stories of your ancestors. Be amazed at their accomplishments.
Team Up with Others
Get together with other Origins members to uncover your past
Find your roots
Discover family you never knew you had (and tell us about family we don’t know we have)
Build a legacy
Pass on your new knowledge of your ancestors to your younger generation.
When & Where
The focus of Origins UK is roughly the period of the British Empire — 1600 to 1947. It was, at its peak in 1917, the most powerful empire the world has ever known. It controlled 23% of the world’s population and 24% of the earth’s land mass. Within that period, Origins UK limits its scope largely to the United Kingdom, where the great majority of Spriggs-related families lived.
Image: A Spriggs family holiday in the little village of Abersoch, Wales, about 1900. Little has changed. Abersoch remains, today, a favourite holiday destination for British families.
Our Families
Many of the family names listed below, although they are all in my family tree, have not yet had data added. That will take time and perhaps you can help with that. You can search a specific family by using the menu: Archive > Search by Family. The number in brackets after a family name indicates the number of records (posts) on file.
Alexander Beale Binyon Brockett Browne Bullis Bruce Bundock Butler Cadbury Chaloner Dudley Edmundson Evans Fisher Fisher-Webb Goodbody Hamilton Hamilton-Webb Hayward Hellum Hicks Hopkinson Hodd Irving Jacob Jones Julian Kemp Knight La Dette Leadbeater Lee Lickfold Ludlow Manners Manser Merz Milner Moore O’Callaghan O’Halloran Pease Peile Pengelly Pepys Price Regnier Roach Richardson Rose Rowntree Savory Saint Legere Shackleton Sloane Spriggs Stanley Tesseyman Turner Unthank Vernon Viking Ancestors Wakefield Wales Webb Wigham Wright
Image: Wedding of William Manser Spriggs and Alice Hayward, 1896, Torquay, England
Get Started!
There are no ‘members-only’ pages. If you wish to participate — contribute to the forum, give or get archive material or add a story, I simply ask that you hold a genuine interest in a family and have knowledge of that family which will benefit the whole. I believe that people both outside and inside a family can offer valuable knowledge and insights. As well, all participants in Origins UK must register. On the menu, go to Login/out > Register.