Welcome to the Cole Family History website.

For many years I have been researching my ex wife’s maiden name (Linge) family history, which I am researching as a one name study. But I decided it was about time I started to research my surname, and try to untangle some of the stories I had heard over time when I was younger and the new information I found out about my father Alfred Charles Cole who died on 1 June 2001.
Alfred Charles Cole was born 30 December 1907, in Romsey, Hampshire, England to David George Cole and Ada Mary Cooper and he died 1 June 2001, Wrecesham, Surrey, England (between Farnham and Alton).
I know the surname Cole is quite common, but I am only going to be researching the name and instances relating to my father and his ancestors in and around Hampshire which is where father was born and lived most of his life.
I had done a small amount of research before my father had died but it was not very much. The main reason I started to look into his ancestors with more gusto was because of a wedding photo I was given to me the day after my father died, the photo was of his parents wedding in 1906 and with the photo was a piece of paper listing the names of nearly all the people in the photo. I was also given several hundred other photos and slides and super 8 film, but the wedding photo was the one photo that has made me start researching my surname Cole and create this web site.