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From: Doug McDonald <>
Subject: Re: Lathom and Chaworth: descents from Robert de Alfreton
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:39:19 -0600
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wrote:

> Saturday, 22 January, 2005
>
>
> Dear Hap,
>
> Many thanks for your reply and input.
>
> I have been advised off-list that the VCH citation you've given
> (also used in Ronny Bodine's The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz) needs
> review concerning the issue of later Lathom descent, or lack thereof,
> from the Alfreton family.


I assume VCH Lancs means Lancaster? Our library has it, I can check it
later today.



I am interested in this line, as my ancestor Frances Latham,
wife of William Dungan and Jeremy Clarke, is purported to descend
from it. I find the line less than totally convincing. Does anyone
know about the validity of it?

Doug McDonald

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