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Subject: Re: Lathom and Chaworth: descents from Robert de Alfreton
Date: 23 Jan 2005 07:01:55 -0800
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Sunday, 23 January, 2005


Dear Doug,

Right you are, Lancs. is just the standard (old style) abbreviation
for Lancashire (i.e. the County of Lancaster).

The Library of Congress has a very spotty collection of the VCH, so
I was not sure of the odds of finding the pages (or volume) in
question. If you can check those two pages Hap cited, that would be
marvelous. Obviously, the sources cited in the VCH account are as
valuable as the text - I wager further examination may be needed to
resolve these particular generations of the Lathom pedigree.

I'm not familiar with the Latham line you cite - with luck, someone
else of the list has spent some time on that particular line. I will
of course advise of anything I should find.

Many thanks,

John



Doug McDonald wrote:
> 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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