I'm sorry I am late to this discussion. Francis Lycett and Ann Thompson are my six greats grandmother and grandfather (and incidentally seven greats grandmother and grandfather to Joe Lycett the comedian).
I have a load of information about Archibald Campbell MD, my five greats grandfather, but sadly not his birthdate or his parent's names. He is the candidate listed at the University of Edinburgh graduation of 1765 and thus is very unlikely to have been born in 1755. I have his birth for 1739 but I will have to drag out my own family tree notes to work out why I think he is born in 1739. I have not yet been able to disambiguate him from all the other Archibald Campbells - there are about 300 contemporary with him, including several MDs.
He went to Staffordshire for the opening of the Staffordshire Infirmary and was one of the two founding doctors for the infirmary. He was mayor of Stafford twice, and I found notices of both appointments. I have marriages for some of his children, including the marriage to John St George of Frances Campbell born 1791, sister to my Ann Campbell. I can supply this information if required.
Francis Lycett did not own Weston Hall, he rented it, but he did own other land and property. I believe I have Francis Lycett's will. The problem is that I began my family tree more than thirty years ago when it was necessary to go and search the indexes physically at St Catherine's house in London. So a lot of my early information is in the form of notes and files, which I will have to excavate. I have been meaning to add all my offline information to my online trees, and this will make a good excuse to get started.
Incidentally, I went to the wedding of my husband's nephew a few years ago. By mistake we went to Weston Park instead of Weston Hall, and I saw portraits of my ancestors on the Dickins side there, and was very unhappy when we realised my mistake and I had to drag myself away from them. We got to Weston Hall just after the wedding and I barely paid attention to my surroundings because I was so full of regret for not having time to be able to take pictures of the portraits.
It was a few years later that I realised that Francis Lycett was my ancestor and was resident at Weston Hall. I barely took any pictures of it while I was there. I too found the annotation on the will explaining that Mary Lycett, daughter of Francis and Ann Thompson, wife of Archibald Campbell MD was the right person.
Are we cousins?
