I don't know whether this will help Heather in her search for the Mayor of Banbury's records but a search at Access to Archives http://www.a2a.org.uk/ on mayor + Banbury + Brayne produced 21 catalogues with over 2500 hits! The main catalogue (with 1374 hits) was at the Oxfordshire Record Office and was described as Banbury Borough Council archives. Best of luck searching. Geoff Parrish

Hi Heather One possible reason for the high number of hits on "mayor + Banbury + Brayne" is that according to "Banbury - A History", a THOMAS Brayne was forced off the corporation when mayor in or just before 1832. A relation of some sort to your Robert perhaps. Regards Peter Cook Rossmoyne WA On 9/2/05 6:20 PM, "Geoff Parrish" <geoff@parrish90.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > I don't know whether this will help Heather in her search for the Mayor > of Banbury's records but a search at Access to Archives > http://www.a2a.org.uk/ on mayor + Banbury + Brayne produced 21 > catalogues with over 2500 hits! > > The main catalogue (with 1374 hits) was at the Oxfordshire Record Office > and was described as Banbury Borough Council archives. > > Best of luck searching. > > Geoff Parrish > >On 9/2/05 8:47 AM, "Heather Olsen" <hlolsen@poetworld.net> wrote: > >> In 1820 Banbury mayor Robert Brayne wrote a letter to the authorities in >> London in response to an inquiry he had received about the character of one >> of the town's inhabitants. I have seen this letter in the PRO. I am >> wondering if the letter of inquiry sent to the mayor would be likely to >> survive in some archive of the mayors' correspondence--- does anyone have >> any experience with this sort of thing? >> >> Thanks, >> Heather Olsen