In Search of a Glemsford Family

 

"My Dear Minnie ..."

 
Jacob Smith Brown Araminta Brown

A Glemsford family of the 19th and 20th Century
their lives, work and travels
and the people who knew them.

The Browns of Glemsford were numerous.


  • There were 152 of them in the village in 1901.
  • The branch we are concerned with grew from the marriage (in 1873) of George Brown and Susannah Smith.

  • It was this family about which Tracey Foulds was interested when she first approached me.
  • As a result of Tracey's interest, Sandra Poole got in touch.
  • It is a set of family letters which Sandra has which opened up a new area of research.

 

The Savage Family of Cavendish were another ordinary family, with several branches.

  • Sandra's letters provoked a search for them, and what became of them.
  • That search was part of the fun, and took us through huge quantities of webpages, up virtual blind alleys, past too many conclusions too easily jumped to, and towards many happy, and several sad, stories.
  • The search was nearly (but not quite) as much fun as the end product.
  • You could leap to the end if you want, but that would be to miss part of the fun.

 

The whole story can now be followed through this link.

 
© Tracey Foulds, Sandra Poole and Stephen Clarke
September 5 2005
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