If you have an interest in your Gevaux family roots, you will find this site an invaluable resource and a way of contacting other members of the Gevaux family across the globe.  Since the family first arrived in London in the 1680s they have set down their roots all over England and as far afield as Canada, Thailand, USA and Australia.

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Are you a descendant of Frederick Thomas Gevaux (1881-1933)

if so read on

In 1915 Fred and hundreds of local men queued up at the Stratford recruiting office to join the 13th Battalion, the Essex Regiment. These men became known as 'The West Ham Pals'.

In appreciation of their contribution to the fighting in the First World War, and their association with their local football team, West Ham United has agreed to erect a plaque in their honour.

The unveiling ceremony took place in November 2009

Contact me for more information and to get your free copy of

Wounded in Action: Fred's War

 

 

•• Now Available ••

New photographs added see Photo Archive

•• Coming Soon ••

• Board of Trade files on Gevaux merchant seaman •

• Biographies of selected branches of the family •

• Wounded in Action: Fred's War •

Francis James Gevaux; pauper, thief, wife-beater and victim of bigamy •

• The sad life and lonely death of Mary Ann Gevaux, a Victorian tragedy•

 

About your Web Host - David Gevaux was born in Paddington, west London in 1949.   Until retiring in 1999, he was the senior reporting analyst for a City investment bank.  Since leaving full-time employment he has devoted himself to academic research, gaining a First Class honours Degree in History in 2002 and in 2005 a Masters Degree in 20th Century Cultural History from Queen Mary College, University of London.  When not engaged in genealogical research he is a trustee and sponsorship director of The Assin Endwa Trust, an educational charity based in Ghana, and has recently been elected chairman of the Genealogy Committee of The Huguenot Society.

David has been investigating the family's history and roots for more than twenty-five years and has traced a line of descent back to mid seventeenth-century France.

This site is dedicated to the sharing of any knowledge acquired, free of charge, subject to the disclaimer below.  If you have any information that you feel would be of interest to other members of the family, for example documents, photographs, personal histories etc., we would greatly appreciate copies.  Please help enrich our mutual family archive.

If you have any information or family history you would like to share with other family members and would like them posted on this website, please contact me.

We look forward to making contact with you

Disclaimer: Whilst information on the Gevaux family is given free of charge it is done so on the understanding that no image, article or primary research; either whole or in part, is reproduced electronically or in print without the written permission of the website owner or the owners of individual images.

 Last updated February 2010