--- On Fri, 17/8/12, Roy Stockdill <[email protected]> wrote: From: Roy Stockdill <[email protected]> Subject: [SFK-UK] Lavenham ancestors of Ruth Rendell To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 17 August, 2012, 22:07 I have just joined this list, though I imagine some listers will know me from others!   I have just begun to research the ancestry and Suffolk roots of Ruth Rendell, one of the world's best-known and best-selling crime novelists, creator of the Chief Inspector Wexford character, etc. She also writes as Barbara Vine.   I have discovered that she descends from the PETLEY family of Lavenham. MARY PETLEY, baptised at Lavenham November 27 1783, was her gt-gt-gt-grandmother and married CHRISTIAN FREDERIC GRASEMANN, who was of German descent, possibly from Frankfurt am Maine, at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, London, on May 1 1810. They had at least 13 children between 1811 and 1827, all born in London.   The direct line runs from one of the sons, John Charles Grasemann, born July 9 1820, through two ancestors both called Frederick Charles Christian Grasemann to Ruth Rendell's father Arthur Grasemann born in 1900 at Plymouth, He married Ebba Elise Kruse at West Ham in 1929 and Ruth was born Ruth B Grasemann also at West Ham in the March quarter of 1930. She is, of course, a life peer as Baroness Rendell of Babergh CBE.   Mary Petley had a sister Sophia, also of Lavenham, who married John Jacob Grasemann (probably a brother or cousin of Christian Frederic) at St John's, Hackney, in 1825. Both Petley girls appear to have been the daughters of John Petley and Elizabeth Willis of Lavenham, according to one particular website.   My apologies if this topic has been raised before but I couldn't see anything in the list archives, Glad to receive any connections or info on the earlier ancestry.   Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/   The following website appears to take the Petley family of Lavenham back to one Richard Petley (circa 1665-1738)..... http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/e/f/Jo-anne-Jeffrys/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0766.html   Other names that seem to crop up are FAIERS and GURLING.   Can anyone confirm this pedigree? Thanks!   Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/

Hi Roy, Well you have come to a great list and also links from it. One link that will be very helpful is the Cosford Database - it is an amazing piece of work that has linked a whole load of parishes and all the families therein. Look at it as a snail and you start in one point and go round in circles and it comes out at the end not missed anything. The link for this group is http://web.archive.org/web/20080611133922/http://www.cosford-database.co.uk/ There are many of this list that link and don't know it yet. My husband went onto it and I didn't see him for three months! One of the names that he has is Faiers he only has 4 of them but does link into Lavenham. Good hunting. Ingrid Billings (Links into Cuthbert / Manning / Mills ) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roy Stockdill Sent: 17 August 2012 10:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SFK-UK] Lavenham ancestors of Ruth Rendell --- On Fri, 17/8/12, Roy Stockdill <[email protected]> wrote: From: Roy Stockdill <[email protected]> Subject: [SFK-UK] Lavenham ancestors of Ruth Rendell To: [email protected] Date: Friday, 17 August, 2012, 22:07 I have just joined this list, though I imagine some listers will know me from others!   I have just begun to research the ancestry and Suffolk roots of Ruth Rendell, one of the world's best-known and best-selling crime novelists, creator of the Chief Inspector Wexford character, etc. She also writes as Barbara Vine.   I have discovered that she descends from the PETLEY family of Lavenham. MARY PETLEY, baptised at Lavenham November 27 1783, was her gt-gt-gt-grandmother and married CHRISTIAN FREDERIC GRASEMANN, who was of German descent, possibly from Frankfurt am Maine, at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, London, on May 1 1810. They had at least 13 children between 1811 and 1827, all born in London.   The direct line runs from one of the sons, John Charles Grasemann, born July 9 1820, through two ancestors both called Frederick Charles Christian Grasemann to Ruth Rendell's father Arthur Grasemann born in 1900 at Plymouth, He married Ebba Elise Kruse at West Ham in 1929 and Ruth was born Ruth B Grasemann also at West Ham in the March quarter of 1930. She is, of course, a life peer as Baroness Rendell of Babergh CBE.   Mary Petley had a sister Sophia, also of Lavenham, who married John Jacob Grasemann (probably a brother or cousin of Christian Frederic) at St John's, Hackney, in 1825. Both Petley girls appear to have been the daughters of John Petley and Elizabeth Willis of Lavenham, according to one particular website.   My apologies if this topic has been raised before but I couldn't see anything in the list archives, Glad to receive any connections or info on the earlier ancestry.   Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/   The following website appears to take the Petley family of Lavenham back to one Richard Petley (circa 1665-1738)..... http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/e/f/Jo-anne-Jeffrys/WEBSITE-000 1/UHP-0766.html   Other names that seem to crop up are FAIERS and GURLING.   Can anyone confirm this pedigree? Thanks!   Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message