Driscoll's of yesterday - Maynard's of yesterday

 A Web Site of Driscoll and Maynard family lines connected during the mid 20th century through marriage in Melbourne, Australia!
With strong ancestral lineages of Jackson, Harrington, Sellick and Scown.
And the linking of Greek Ancestral history of the Theofanopoulos family line in the late 20th century!

Driscoll - Maynard

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Welcome!

You have located this website as a result of a search, perhaps in Google, Bing or Yahoo, or redirected from a specialist Genealogical site with a family search for the names of:

Bragg
Driscoll/O'Driscoll
Jackson
Maynard
Selleck/Sellick
Theofanopoulos
Wannacott/Scown or perhaps one of the maternal connections.

If it is a result of a referral or a link from another site, then congratulations that perhaps you have found a shared and distant family member!

This Genealogy Website is dedicated to my family so they may further their understanding of their ancestry, to read about their history as it is not recorded in textbooks, for deeper knowledge of their broader family, and for the future reference of my children and eventually their families, and those who wish to look for their relations.
An earlier version was listed on the World Wide Web as a contribution to Genealogical research and as a historical record for any member of these families.
In a Google search for "Driscolls of Bendigo", many links point to this site.  Likewise from the "Driscoll's of Cork" website.

In 2010 it stands as an accurate testament to my ancestors and a compilation of my families' lives. It has been a slow process sometimes with big wins and others with dead ends.

Genealogy: it is a divisive interest; those who are passionate often create widows or widowers of their partners, because like any other addiction, it is a full-time, consuming passion.

For that reason I wish to thank those people who have made contributions to the family history found on this site.  Too often family tree reporting rips-off from other sources that have often been the result of many years of searching, researching and paying out real money for evidence that quite often leads no where other than to rule out an option.

To those people, I thank you for your permission to include this valuable information within my site.

This site is a little different: It is presented from two different perspectives; as a Family History detailing specific family names and many older ancestral names providing information in documented form; and as a detailed ancestral tree for the entire family structure.

This site connects my paternal family (Driscoll) of Irish origin, with my maternal family (Maynard) of English origin, and my spouse's paternal family (Theofanopoulos) from central Greece.

Over time as the other branches of this family tree unfold, further pages will be added with ancestral tree and family name history detailed.  Stories, anecdotes and other items that reveal the life and times will be recorded as a historical document.
On launching this site at the end of 2002, there were over 500 related family members stretching up to twelve generations covering Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Greece, in several lines to the early 1700's and some into the 1600's. Now updated in 2010, the site moves close to 1,000 names, with more substance around historical and family notes.

This most recent release includes stories and notes from the 20th century generations of the Driscolls with some revelations of family skeletons that reflect the reality of living in hard times of the era around the 1930's depression and the effect it had for many years on.

Referring the Google Map below are the locations of the two most distant known relatives for Driscoll and Maynard.
It is somehow strange that their ancestry of over two hundred years was separated by mere kilometres across the other side of the world!

Please read on.  Feel free to make contact and offer corrections, further information or simply feedback.  If you have any information to offer, please forward to me at the contact below, on the phone, by email or by old fashioned post.

Regards, Brett Phillip Driscoll
Richmond, in the state of Victoria, Australia

Contact Information

If you have any information to add to this site, corrections to information, questions regarding any detail or just a general comment, please contact the Web Site administrator and author.

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8 North Street, Richmond, VIC, 3121, Australia
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This site is provided as a service to Genealogists and interested people the world over.
Any errors, omissions and contributions are gratefully accepted.  Please forward to the address or email on the Homepage.
(c) Brett Phillip Driscoll, 2004-2012.
All care has been taken in compiling this information, but no responsibility accepted for any information taken from this site that is not used in an appropriate way.