Hi Eric
Your patience and stamina for getting hold of this stuff is amazing. Thanks very much, thanks for sharing it, and we look forward to your ongoing discoveries!
Best,
Dave
Hello all.
It's been a while. I received photocopies of about a dozen documents from the Ottley estate papers that were donated to the Library of Wales. Guess what? They are all in latin! OK, that was a "no brainer." What I found out was the deeds…
Hello, again.
Looking through the Library of Wales descriptions of the medieval deeds I came across references to Nicholas Pichford and his wife Joan. Nicholas is the son of Ralph (who died in 1303), or at least that's what the pedigree chart from…
In 1942 General Sir Charles J.C. Grant, KCB, KCVO, DSO of Pitchford Hall donated a large amount of material to the National Library of Wales, which included war correspondence, literary papers, and nearly 1000 deeds with a brief descriptions of them…
Hi Lindsey,
There are the places I've been looking...
1) At the beginning of the year I hired a genealogist in the UK to help give me an idea of what's out there on the ancient Pychefords. There are original documents but they are in Latin. He kno…
My wife is descended from the Pitchford's of Dawley, Shropshire. I can trace her line back to John Pitchford who married Margaret Rhodes ca 1733. Her family came to Canada in the early 20th Century and eventually migrated to Northern California...and then to So Cal.