Ohhh, How exciting...more chemists....!!!
i'll have to answer each question separately..
"Gaire" is used a a few times...but not sure where the name originated...
My Mother called her uncle Thomas ( the 3rd ) her uncle Gaire...I suppose he
liked his middle name best, (as did several of the family members - the rotters!)
He used it as his son Brian's middle name, and the same son named one of
his boys Gaire..... The really funny thing is that there are others...A Robert Gaire Blunt...who born in Shrewsbury, ALSO a CHEMIST!!! but I haven't made a connection yet!!!! Then there is another Robert Gaire Blunt born earlier in Southwark so perhaps this was a cousin and the other was his son? ? ? I have yet to find out!!!
Now where did Royston come from, I need to be reminded ( My husband is Metis...he says if I had a native name it would be " Memory Like Sieve!"?
There is a Rockstro !
...and interesting about the Lunt Chemists....Perhaps you could investigate this one for me, Monica? Or give me an address so that I might drop them a line?
Thanks for your input Monica...You two are my sleuths....is it sometimes easier to do other's genealogy? I find it's less headache, as in the end, I don't have to keep all their files...I have tons and I've only just begun...!!!!
All the best, Jeany