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Hi King OTG,
Have you any with the name Mills, from the early 1800s, in Nottinghamshire & Lincolnshire, or general East Midlands counties areas? I'd be very grateful for your help

A friend of mine has a photograph of a Penfold ancestor, but only as a photocopied page from an unidentified book. It is described as being of a brush wagon c1880, Penfold, Bideford Quay, supplied by Mr B Hughes, Chairman of N Devon Museum Trust. The page is numbered 97. I would like to help her find the book it was in, and perhaps obtain a proper photograph for her.
I have contacted North Devon records office, but received no reply. I don't think the North Devon Museum Trust still exists. The photo looks very much like the one of Betsy Penfold & family on Romanygenes at the bottom of Photo Gallery 4, & maybe the same one. Is this the photo mentioned in this thread?

If anyone can help my friend would be very grateful

If you are looking for genealogical detail on these families The Romany & Traveller Family History Society has just published "The Family Trees of Francis & Mary Clayton and John & Mary Booth" by Eric Trudgill, price £8 (I think). Check the R&TFHS website for further details.

Good luck
Vimira

Thanks for the offer

His name was James Smith (probably quite a few of those!), but he was born about 1754. He doesn't seem to be present at the baptism I mentioned, so maybe he could have away been serving at the time.

Vimira