Since the Moxon Society was founded there has always been an enthusiasm to explore, verify and preserve the family history of the Society’s members. With the belief that its trees were but branches of some greater tree, it has attempted to merge many of the smaller twigs into bigger units.

Over the years, the dedicated research carried out by Moxon Society Members has resulted in the creation of many different family trees; there are currently over 80 different Moxon Society trees maintained on Ancestry.com, accessible to Moxon Society Members by invitation, without the need for an Ancestry subscription. A list of those trees and an index to the over 42,000 people that they contain is available in the Members area.

The Society’s DNA program began in 2002 when fourteen male Moxons were tested by the company Oxford Ancestors and in September 2005 a further eight were tested. These early results proved beyond reasonable doubt that some two thirds of the male Moxons in the Society could trace their ancestry to the Moxons of Cawthorne near Barnsley in Yorkshire, and about half of the rest to nearby Silkstone. Curiously, given the proximity to Cawthorne, the Y-DNA tests (following the male line) demonstrated that the Moxons of Silkstone are quite distinct from the Moxons of Cawthorne (although it is worth pointing out that the major Moxon settlement in the parish of Silkstone was Hoylandswaine which was about as far as possible from the main settlement of Cawthorne as it was possible to get). So although the parishes of Silkstone and Cawthorne were contiguous, from a Moxon point of view they were quite separate.

DNA testing carried out since then has made it possible to determine the probability of how some of the Moxon Society’s Trees are related to each other, and therefore able to be placed into related groups. The groups are outlined in the Members area.

However, DNA tests by Moxon Society Members have shown no link between the MOXHAMs of Wiltshire/Ireland and the MOXONs of Yorkshire as yet, but they have proved that the MOXHAMs of Lancashire (the county with the highest concentration of Moxhams in 1891) are definitely of the same stock as their neighbouring Yorkshire MOXON cousins.