« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 17 April 19 17:20 BST (UK) »
I totally agree ! I thought I`d found a line to France the time of bonnie Prince Charlie, but I`ve got so many Alexanders I had got the generation wrong ! Once I`d rectified that, it was back to yet more Ag labs; not that there`s anything wrong with " them " but it`s nice to have a variation.
John Hurt knows all about how wrong lines (
or embellished stories) can be more interesting than facts. John always felt close to Ireland, and thought he was descended from Irish royalty and his ancestor was a owner of a business in London when he was a mere clerk. And there was no connection to the Marquis of Sligo, or any Irish blood in John's ancestry that is known.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain