On Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 11:48:02 PM UTC+2, Roy Stockdill wrote: > I wonder if anyone happens to have any knowledge of the family tree > of Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860), the famous architect who designed > the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster after a fire, including > Big Ben, not to mention Halifax Town Hall (the latter being far more > important, of course!). > > I have scoured the Internet with Google and it seems his wife was > called Sarah and he certainly had at least four sons, three of whom > were also architects and one who was a vicar. However, I need to > discover if he had any daughters as well. I am researching the > ancestry of an actress who has a family story that he was an ancestor > or relative of some kind, and she certainly had a > great-great-grandmother called Louisa Ann Barry, born at Portsmouth > about 1834, according to census returns. > > The IGI turns up nothing that is particularly positive. > > Roy Stockdill > Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats - all human life is there." > Henry James, The Madonna of the Future I know it has been 11 years since this page was opened but I have a family tree of Sir Charles Barry's decedents.