Wulfweard has Risen

Having lived in the shadow of my wifes blogging for the past year I thought that I might try blogging for my self.

So here is my first attempt.....

Why Wulfweard the White? Well over the past 15 years I have been searching out my family tree, with mixed results, but have links to a Saxon 'warrior' Wulfweard the White who appears in the Domesday Book and is supposedly buried on Hayling Island.

Wulfweard was a Thane (a man ranking above an ordinary freeman and below a noble in Anglo-Saxon England, especially one who gave military service in exchange for land) His duty was to act as protector (bodyguard) to Emma, mother of Edward the Confessor and Edith sister of King Harold. He died in the 1066 invasion but his son Edward survived and owned land in Bedfordshire.

So that was Wulfweard, a character whom I would have liked to have known a lot more about. Which is strange considering at school I had little or no interest in History.

If you are looking to start your own family tree (mine now numbers over 3000 name)then there are a number of good sites to visit:
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk
http://www.familysearch.org
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com
to name but a few...