Family Tree

I live in Kent & I had been doing my family tree & a distant cousin told me that the family had farmed in Norfolk for many generations during the 1800's. she said that a lot of them were buried in the graveyard at Mattishall, Norfolk. I decided to have a weekend up there to visit the graveyard and also the records centre, in Norwich. we got to the main church of Mattishall and the graveyard was in the surroundings of a small chapel at Mattishall Burgh. this chapel is hardly used now, so not a lot of people go there, it is quite isolated. i took photo's of the gravestones, & wondered if any of the Tooley family still lived in the area. On returning to the car park, there was only one other car there, i saw a woman & decided to ask her if any families with the name Tooley still lived in the area, i wanted to know as I had come up from Kent & was doing the family tree. I went up to her & she happened to be the organist at the main church in Mattishall, she had lost her keys the day before, and that is why she was there this day. I asked if she knew if any people with the Name Tooley still lived in the area. She said, no, but, that she was the local historian & she had done the whole of the Tooley family tree back to the 1500's!!!! We went back to her home where she printed out this extensive family tree for me. i had travelled a long way from Kent to Norfolk & just happened to be in the car park with this lady on this day at this time & she had done all my family tree. amazing. Regards, Fay Saunders