You have likely hit on this site from a search engine finding a name that you are interested in. The surname list link below is a good place to start exploring the site. If you find it interesting, incorrect, links to your family or unclear I'd be delighted to here from you - so please send an email to william.harrold@tesco.net. Most of the site is automatically generated by some family history software called legacy.
I started family history research in around 2000 with the aim to follow back all lines as far as possible, while stopping on some more interesting individuals. The tree presented here is a bit fragmented because I have removed information about people born after 1910.
The HARROLD family described here are from Dursley in Gloucestershire and can be traced back there for several hundred years. One of them, William Harrold, started a ropeworks in Dursley in the late nineteenth century. It operated at Prospect house, Union Street for many years. This William Harrold married a descendent of the PHILLIMORE family, whose genealogy has been well documented in the book "The Family Phillimore" by W.P.W. Phillimore (1922, available at the British library) all the way back to the fifteenth century in and around Dursley - the book contains a lot of information and since it is out of copyright much of this is added to the notes in this site. The HARROLDs are harder to trace and while there are a few Napoleonic soldiers and Marines about whom we know a lot from military records, the link from William's father James back to his mother Hannah is not proven only (in my opinion) likely. The end of the line so far is an Edward Harrold, carpenter, who worked to partition the church in Dursley while the bells were being recaste in 1639.
There is a BULLEN family originally from Bedingham Norfolk, but moved to Walmer, Kent through the life of a Napoleonic sailor Robert Bullen. We are a long way from proving any link to the famous Queen Anne, although the family certainly believed in Victorian times that there was a link. I am currently researching another seafaring family the WELLS who married into the BULLENs in 1862.
The information about the McGARVEY family comes mainly from others in that family and it has proved hard to add much detail beyond the mid 19th Century. Some members of that family did go to Philidelphia in the United states but also came back again.
Since I am researching all lines, there are many other surnames on the site. I would like to thank the many people with whom I have corresponded over the years a list of those I can remember is on the acknowledgements page.