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AHG
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Hi Louise, That sounds about right. I also think they are all connected. Certainly share some family names. I have a strange letter written by one of his daughters that gives his father's name as William, and sister and brothers' names as Martha and Thomas. It also says, though, that William's father was a French duke who fled the French revolution and sought refuge with Sir Charles Wolsey near Rugeley. I've checked with them and they highly doubt it as Sir Charles was such a staunch supporter of the revolution he helped to storm the Bastille! I think there might have been a little Victorian bigging up of the family history. It did say that William died in a fire Jan 2 1815 and I have found a newsarticle about a Wm Devall who died on that date in an acid factory - doesn't really sound like the kind of place a duke's son would work even if he was a refugee! Anyway, nice to know they had an imagination. Any chance that Wm's wife's last name was Hawley?
Alice
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AHG
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Hi Louise,
This is great! Very interesting. So some bit are based on the truth! One of Samuel's other sons had another howler about his having been a body guard to Queen Victoria.
Anyway, I'm not very good at this site yet, how do I send a personal reply vs a posted item? Or have I just done so?
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linell
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Hi Louise and Alice, this is all great stuff, I too think they are all connected and one big Hatter family, some of the sons or grandsons could have been apprenticed as Tailors. I am fascinated by your stories of the French Revolution and the Blithfield connection. I found some Baps and Marriages from Colton which is near Blithfield. Once the weather is better I will go to Blithfield Churchyard and look at the Tombstones. It is up an unkempt road, really muddy at the best of times! Will be in touch best wishes linell.
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AHG
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Hi all, My information indcated that our Devalls were in the Rugely graveyard...Interesting to see what you turn up tho!
Alice
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linell
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Hi Alice, will have a look around Rugeley Churchyard too, mind you a lot of the old Tombs are difficult to read, apparently it's the acid rain which erodes them, so I have been told, maybe easier to look at the Parish Register. The name of Martha seems to run through the generations, it does in the George 1786 line, one of his Granddaughters was Martha Maldiva Devall, wonder if that was someone's surname? Best Wishes from linell.
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