Earl Stonham is one of three villages, " The Stonhams" about five miles east of Stowmarket in Suffolk. The other two, also closely associated with the family, are Little Stonham or Stonham Parva and Stonham Aspal.

I can just remember my great grandmother Tydeman, known to us as " little granny", sitting in the corner of my grandparents' sitting room in Stowmarket, Suffolk, in the mid 1940s. I knew that her family home was Broughton Hall, Stonham Aspal since I had once been taken there to visit relatives.While there I fell into the duck pond. How the family came to have such a grand residence was a
 mystery to me.

I have now researched the Tydeman family history from its earliest records in Earl Stonham to the wider UK, Australia and USA. Nearly all the Tydemans in the UK can be shown to trace their ancestry to this small village. For example there are 446 people with the Tydeman name in the 1911 census and of these all but 12 have an established lineage back to Earl Stonham.

Acknowledgement: I would like to thank Bill Tydeman, Peter Wyant, Mary MacFarlane, Beryl Hudson and others for data, valuable discussion and other help in my research.

The data here is limited to those born pre-1920 but I have more recent data if anyone has a specific interest