Welcome to Tracing Roots

Family History Site of Leanne Prosser

Family history has been my passion since I retired. The purpose of this website is to share some of the stories of my ancestors and their extended families.


You are welcome to copy any photos from this website, but please credit those photos either to me and this website or to the people to whom I have credited the photos.


My maternal line is the Hiltons and Whittakers. The other tabs are from my paternal line.

Family history has been my passion since I retired. I have no desire to have the largest family tree on Ancestry, nor do I wish to connect with every person on the planet with whom I share some DNA. I simply wish to share some of the stories of my ancestors – to know and understand the lives they lived in the time they lived in order to appreciate their struggles, their heartaches, and their joys. 

Please feel free to copy any photos you would like from this website, but I do ask that those photos be credited, either to me and this website or to the people to whom I have credited the photos.

In memory of my beloved mother, Margaret Patricia Hilton, 1925-2021.

You and your beautiful smile are missed every single day.