http://www.thepeerage.com/p14189.htm has the descent of some of the Biddulph family, citing BP 107th edition, etc however they have some details wrong Today I was mousing around looking for something completely different, but happened to stumble upon a long descent that Leo has on genealogics.org and is repeated, in part at <a href = "http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ll/lyttleton02.htm#skinn">Entry</a> on stirnet.com This descent purports to how the famous suffragette Victoria Claflin (1838-1927) who has a biography on wikipedia.com, by her third marriage to "John Biddulph Martin", who is supposed to descend from these Biddulph's. Leo however has a long descent with no dates. Stirnet typically doesn't have many useful dates. And peerage has errors citing BP evidently, which wasn't very careful. At any rate http://www.thepeerage.com/p14188.htm#i141877 John Biddulph does have exact dates, from which we can extend back and forth He was born 17 Mar 1768 and died 25 Nov 1845 "aged 77" as it says. His parents are supposed to be Michael Biddulph by Penelope Dandridge Michael's parents Robert Biddulph by Anne Joliffe I happened to find Michael's baptism 24 Jan 1724/5 Ledbury, Hereford the family of Robert Biddulph by Anne baptised there consists of Anthony 25 Apr 1717 Robert 20 Feb 1718 Thomas 22 Sep 1720 Michael 24 Jan 1724/5 Benjamin 20 Oct 1727 Francis 3 Mar 1733 So we can now know that Robert Biddulph and Anne Joliffe were married before 1717 Robert Biddulph is supposed to be the son of Anthony Biddulph by his wife Constance Hall and I do find, again at Ledbury which is quite useful, his baptism Anthony Biddulph and Constance were the parents of these baptisms Anthony 30 Jun 1681 Robert 12 Oct 1682 Michael 20 Aug 1685 Anthony himself is supposed to be the son of Robert Biddulph by his wife Mary Cullen Anthony does not seem to appear in the register but two children of Robert and Mary were Robert 26 Jan 1663 Michael 9 Mar 1664 Since Anthony is situated at Ledbury for his own offspring's records, I assume he was the eldest or at least the eldest surviving son, so allowing him to be born 1650/62 would fit him being 20 to 35 when his three known children were born. Mary Cullen is said to be a daughter of "William Cullen, Bart" Hopefully this additional specificity can help someone who is researching this group of families. Will Johnson, Professional Genealogist
I have just acquired an old sillk map of WW2 Burma, bright orange with black map on it. It has been framed badly, the person who framed it has stapled it to a piece of cardboard. It has a lot of creases in and a couple of tiny tears on the creases. Does anyone know anything about archival care of such things. It is pretty faded as well, having been in direct sunlight and hung over a radiator which is permanently switched on. If anyone know anything about this sort of thing, please could they contact me offlist Liz in Stockport _________________________________________________________________ Windows LiveĀ Messenger has arrived. Click here to download it for free! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/?locale=en-gb