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Current Area of Research

I'm currently working on filling out the Francis Tree on the Butcher/Bartlett side, interesting things this week:

• Jasper Taylor sold Royal Sauce nationwide.
• Matthew Bartlett and his son had their hats knocked off on the train to Brighton.
• A few years later Matthew Bartlett was a key witness in a forgery scandal.

Previous Areas of Research

Previously I was working on the Richardson Tree, interesting things found:

• Samuel Curteis was a Reverend Doctor.

• John Angus Walmisley saved Westminster abbey from burning down.

• Pelham Richardson was given the freedom of the city (his father was James Mallcott Richardson).

• Lieutenant Colonel William Lambert (father of Anna Maria) at the time of writing his will owed 2 pints of ketchup.

• George Engleheart turns out to have been a very famous miniature portrait painter to the rich and famous.

There is a new Locations page, listing places and who lived there.

Francis Family Website

This web site has been set up to list the results of a search to find Hedley and Fenella Francis's family trees.

We've only just started, we'll probably only concentrate on a branch at a time, and we'll probably take a while to get the technology right for displaying the results - but at least it's a start!

The old website is still available while I move all the data over.

There are clickable family trees for:

• The Francis Family Tree
• The Syed Family Tree

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