From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> > Hi Roy and Listers, > > My attention was caught by the Bristol Post article and by the BBC article > because, over the years, I've made reference to Cranfield BECHER, the > owner of the notebook, and other members of the BECHER family in my > rootsweb responses to queries about this family. > > So as there is at least one B & S member with BECHER interests, I thought > that the two articles would be of family interest as well as historical > interest. > > Just yesterday I noticed the 1741/2 marriage of Cranfield BECHER, merchant > of St. Augustine, in a transcription of of the Temple Marriages 1558-1753. > > This prompted me to have another look at information about Cranfield > BECHER on the following web page: > > John Becher of Co Cork, then Bristol > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~becher/john_becher_of_Cork%2 > 0then%20Bristol.htm > > Then, this morning two articles came up with reference to the 18th-century > merchant whom I had been looking at only yesterday. > > Incidentally, the page on the BECHER family does mention that the family > were involved in trading and slaving. > > Josephine < Please don't think I was criticising you in any way for posting the information, Josephine! I read the whole article and found it interesting - and yes, it would certainly be of interest to anyone connected to that family. I simply thought the tenor of the story and some of the comments were overtly politically correct and seemed to be suggesting that Bristolians today had something to be ashamed of. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ Reach For The Stars blog: roystockdillgenealogy.com "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:49:13 -0000, <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> wrote: > Please don't think I was criticising you in any way for posting the > information, Josephine! I read the whole article and found it > interesting - and yes, it would certainly be of interest to anyone > connected to that family. Hi Roy, I realize that there was no criticism as, in the past, we have spoken several times on the phone and corresponded. It's often difficult to decide whether to post links to local history articles as they may not be of interest to everyone, but this one has proved to be food for thought. Josephine