Hi Heather, I stand to be corrected on this, but I'm sure the BRAYNE family get quite a mention in Alfred Beesley's 'A History of Banbury' - a rare book to find these days - but ACDB have reproduced it onto CD. The Centre for Oxfordshire Studies were selling them at one point (A chap from Washington found one in a 2nd hand bookstore in BC not long ago, complete with a hand written letter still inside the front jacket, dated 1870 & from I.T. Brayne!) Robert Brayne is mentioned as a 'surgeon' also. Angela:>) co list admin Subject: [BAN] Records of Banbury mayors > 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 inhhabitants. 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' corespondence--- does anyone have any experience with this sort of thing? > > Thanks, > Heather Olsen