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The objectives of this site are:
- To encourage people to contribute and collaborate on the Collingridge genealogy and to make it an easy and fun thing to do for all age groups.
- To increase the sense of community between the Collingridge family members distributed around the planet.
- To make management of the Collingridge family history more efficient and accurate, through better tools and collaboration.
- To provide a central point for discussion, sharing, archival and collaboration of the data, photographs and other media.
- To show how Internet, social networking and multimedia technologies can improve genealogy web sites.
This website has been created and is managed by Rob Collingridge.
Family History
The current set of records contains detailed information on over 3000 individuals in 9 seperate family trees, though many of these individuals are not connected to a family tree. Much of this information is still to be added to the database behind this website, which currently holds information on about 1500 individuals.The Name
The name Collingridge is thought to derive from the people who lived around a col
within a ridge. The first recorded Collingridge is currently Bartholomew COLLINGRIDGE {132}, born circa 1350 and died in 1449.
There are many variations on the name Collingridge including: Collinridge, Colleridge, Coleridge, etc. Just how releated and linked these might be is very hard to prove through historical research.
In more recently times, the trend to double-barrel names has meant that Collingridge appears as part of some longer surnames recorded and there are examples in the database.
Coat Of Arms
There is no such thing as a 'coat of arms for a surname'. Many people of the same surname will often be entitled to completely different coats of arms, and many of that surname will be entitled to no coat of arms. Coats of arms belong to individuals. For any person to have a right to a coat of arms they must either have had it granted to them or be descended in the legitimate male line from a person to whom arms were granted or confirmed in the past.
A Collingridge coat of arms is not registered in the College of Arms but, instances of it exist in places such as Gilling Castle and have been dated to 1585. Here is it described as 'Argent three fleur-de-lys azure'. Argent is best described in English as silver but, it can also be rendered as white. Azure as a light silvery blue. There are also other historical examples of a Collingridge coat of arms showing a gold background.
Colours
There are no fixed shades for heraldic colours. If the official description of a coat of arms gives its tinctures as Gules (red), Azure (blue) and Argent (white or silver) then, as long as the blue is not too light and the red not too orange, purple or pink, it is up to the artist to decide which particular shades they think are appropriate.In web terms, Silver is described as #C0C0C0 and Argent as #D6CDC4. Azure is described as #F0FFFF.
Privacy
Previous attempts to publish this data have not really enabled others to contribute to the database and associated media (photographs, certificate, etc.). There have been many concerns over privacy and availability of information in the public domain. For this reason this website now requries registration and authentication and enforces permissions based upon a defined role, to control who can view and update the information held.To access anything more than the basic search functionality and the basic information about individuals held in the database, you will need to register. The registration process is now open to all but we reserve the right to control who is granted access and in what role.