THE SMALLBONE AND SMALLBONES FAMILIES OF NORTHERN HAMPSHIRE - A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY. 94 pages of biographical accounts (including source references) of the numerous individual members of the various Smallbone and Smallbones families who had lived in the north-central area of Hampshire, and also of some of their descendants where they are known. The surname was first recorded in Hampshire in 1698. Various sources have been utilised to discover the lives of these people, and the results would assist anybody aspiring to write a family history on any of the branches of the several Smallbone and Smallbones families.

In 2007 a book entitled "Those Were The Days", featuring John and Ann Smallbone of Wootton St Lawrence and their descendants, was published. This current biographical project only refers briefly to these people, but - because of the response to this book from other Smallbone individuals who were not descended from the above persons - it had been decided to create this project in order to include all those other known families in the same area of the same surname. And the results are here.

SMALLBONE : Nickname meaning "skinny legs" (PH Reaney, A Dictionary of British Surnames, 1976).

"Thank you for the papers on the Smallbones of Hampshire. I have read them and found it to be a great help and of great interest. Quite a few of my descendents are in there. Thanks again truly" (MS, Surrey).

Picture: The wedding of Thomas Charles Smallbone and Annie Green, Hale Farm, Basing, 1894.