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Re: Wm. Playfair burial in 1823?
« Reply #18 on: Friday 09 December 16 08:44 GMT (UK) »
Anyone still working on William Playfair and immediate issue?

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Re: Wm. Playfair burial in 1823?
« Reply #19 on: Friday 09 December 16 10:31 GMT (UK) »
Hi mrmudlark

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Re: Wm. Playfair burial in 1823?
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 04 November 18 12:40 GMT (UK) »
mrmudlark:

I have been online here, sporadically, over the past year or so. Just noticing your post now. Yes, I am still working on this Playfair/Bingley puzzle and recently found some new information. Please reply. Thank you.

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Re: Wm. Playfair burial in 1823?
« Reply #21 on: Monday 05 November 18 03:19 GMT (UK) »
Lanarman,
Don’t have access to my other computer at the moment as I am in Canada. Happy to receive any information on WF. Off the top of my head (and I haven’t worked on him for over a year), his marriage(s) were an issue, the time in Paris a puzzle, and the baptism date not established (tho’ I haven’t checked Scotlandspeople recently). The death and burial is pretty straightforward. (I live two minutes away from Westminster Archives...and most pre-1837 bmd are on FindMyPast now.)



I seem to remember there was an RLF application which I must have transcribed but my memory is fuzzy without a refresh from my files. The CUP editors were unaware of the RLF mss.

I was interested in WF as an important, tho’ completely unknown, Anti-Jacobin.

Best wishes

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Re: Wm. Playfair burial in 1823?
« Reply #22 on: Monday 12 November 18 01:10 GMT (UK) »
There is evidence that Wm. Playfair married Mary Morris in 1795, a few months after their last child Zenobia was born. If you reply to this message I believe you will have enough postings to send me a private message. Please do. Thank you.

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Re: Wm. Playfair burial in 1823?
« Reply #23 on: Monday 12 November 18 01:36 GMT (UK) »

Thanks. I haven't had a chance to pull out the file but will do so this week. The marriage to Mary Morris is problematic because it is so late. Various sources give the birth/baptism date but they are late and I haven't seen the original PR entry.

In the RLF papers he gives a list of 40  works (if I remember correctly),  many of which are unattributed in Library Catalogues. I have a copy somewhere and will photograph it and send it to you.

His time in France is shrouded in mystery.

I think the family is in Galton's Men of Science (1874).

Andrew Ashfield
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