There are only 600 Welsh Taskers listed on the IGI, with the two oldest families both located a few miles from the port of Pembroke, in South Wales.

An unknown Mr & Mrs Tasker had a son John born about 1548 at Jeffreston, Pembrokeshire, and a daughter Alison born about 1546, who married David Roger in 1567.

Another unknown Mr & Mrs Tasker had a son William at Steynton, Pembrokeshire, in about 1584. This William may well have a link to the Margaret Tasker born in Wisconsin, USA in 1637. And the IGI has a family tree dating back to William Tasker, born about 1611 in Steynton, who married Mrs William Tasker about 1636, giving rise to a whole clan of over 100 Taskers in Pembrokeshire and South Wales. Find out more by typing his name into IGI's Pedigree Resource File and select the country as 'Wales'.

And in the second half of the 18th Century, Captain John Tasker of the East India Company purchased Upton Castle, near Pembroke.  You can visit the gardens to this day!

Upton Castle near Pembroke - home of Captain John Tasker

The author Peter Tasker was born in 1955 in Swansea, Wales. Following a degree from Oxford University he moved to Tokyo in early 1983 to become financial analyst for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. His first fiction novel, Silent Thunder, was published in 1992 to rave reviews, and this was followed-up with the much acclaimed Buddha Kiss in 1997, Samurai Boogie in 1999 and Dragon Dance in 2003. Find out more here and buy his books at Amazon!