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I'm having a tough time figuring out what this sort of tree would be called so that I can search for ways to create it.

I'd like to do a tree where each date of birth aligns vertically with a year, so that you can see the sequence of births visually.

I could make one manually as it's a small tree but I'm not exactly artistic, and I'd love something that would, look nice as well.

My exact case is a funny one - showing when various character types in a Middle earth computer game were created - The good side, with each race, then later, for example the Hobbits are diversified into three different strains, and later still each strain has changes to make them even more different.

All will descend in a tree similar to Tolkien's legendarium, so will be related to his creator and higher powers, and then down in a tree fashion (although usuallly there will be only one parent).

Any ideas on the best way to do something like this?

I hope somebody can help me with the following Eyre of 1298.

I'm most interested in the last sentence or so, which seems to refer to "St Mary of Hedersete" which I assume to be a church. This would be incredibly interesting to me, as the Church there has been dedicated to St Remigius since at least the 14th century.

I think this may be right, but I'd love to have a confirmation before I hang my hat on this discovery.

I believe the last sentence is:

"Et Robertus po lo suo sancti Marie de Hedersete in placito predicto."

I've been using ChatGPT to make intelligent guesses on translation of the readout from an Ai transcription program (after letting it know that there would be transcription errors and asking it to try its best). It gave me:

"And Robert upholds his [claim] of Saint Mary of Hethersett in the aforementioned plea."

The original image is on AALT:

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT4/JUST1/JUST1no1311/bJUST1no1311dorses/IMG_6836.htm

Hi Alan,

Thank you for having a look for me. I actually ended up getting the Dunwich Deanery Baptisms as well, and came up with the same thing.

What I know so far is that Betsy married William BUCKENHAM in Wenhaston in 1823. She lived until 1879, dying in Ketteringham, although she lived in Hethersett next door. All of her census's (apart from 1841 which doesn't give a place) have her born in Middleton, Suffolk, about 1795.

John Spatchett is the only Spatchett I can find in Middleton at this time - in 1798 Land tax Redemptions, PRs and Newspapers. His second marriage was to Elizabeth Burgess, who was born in Wenhaston. He had an illegitimate child with Elizabeth between his 2 children with his first wife Sarah (nee TILNEY).
Sarah was buried in November 1792, and John and Elizabeth got a License the 27th March 1793, marrying the following day in Kelsale, which leads me to believe it was a shotgun wedding.

The first baptism (for James) is in 1797, which makes me wonder if I'm missing 1 or even 2 children.

Elizabeth Spatchett (nee Burgess) died in 1835 in South Elmham - which was where Betsy and her husband William were living at the time. John had died many years earlier in 1805.

As another link in a circumstantial chain, William BUCKENHAM lived in Thorington, and his father farmed land in 1798 in Wenhaston, which bordered Thorington.

The Buckenhams of the previous generation were Dissenters, so perhaps the Spatchetts were also? Although I haven't been able to turn any up.

If her baptism doesn't turn up, do you think there are enough circumstantial links to think John SPATCHETT and Elizabeth BURGESS were Betsy's parents?

A big thank you to both of you.

I think you may be on the money about Sellman & Co. I'd made out a Co and thought I could see "man", but the eye of faith can see Sellman now that you've pointed it out.

Could the photos be earlier than Edwardian, do you think? Thomas would be pushing 70 if that was the case, and I don't think he looks that old in the picture. Mary would be about 60.