Willoughby Staff and my other Staff ancestors

Willoughby Staff (?1803-1886). My 4th great-grandmother. Willoughby Staff was from a Norfolk family that married into the Greens. Their descendants were part of my paternal family tree, ultimately coming down to the Finches. The surname may have derived from the Anglo-Saxon stæf, which means stick or pole, and could’ve referred to people who worked with or […]

Willoughby Staff (1803-1886) – a journey to the USA as a Mormon

Willoughby Staff (1803-1886) and William Green (1799-????). My 4th great-grandmother and grandfather. Willoughby Staff may have been born in rural Norfolk but she ended up as a member of the Mormon church in the American state of Utah… Her birth, though, is a bit of a mystery. Census records suggest it was Hickling, a village to […]