Hi Roy, Ingrid & Listers ! Lavenham is one of my favourite places, and the name FAIERS rang a bell, so I have just checked my photos, and found that there was a baker's shop named "Sparling & Faiers" in the Market Place there in early August 2007; it may still be there, although that does not mean that there is still a partner of that name in the business ? I hope that this helps ! Best Wishes ! Roger. ---------------------- On 18 Aug 2012, at 09:07, Ingrid billings wrote: > 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:suffolk- > [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 > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUFFOLK- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message