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From: "Hugh Wallis" <>
Subject: [Lon] Wheelwright WALLIS
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 00:06:15 -0500
In-Reply-To: <013401c04486$41b8a420$debd8ec6@johnson>


I have a ceremonial (wooden) axe that has been passed down to me through the
WALLIS line and which is said to be a Wheelwright's axe that was carried in
the procession for William IV's coronation (1830?). My known WALLISes
(William and Thomas) moved to London (really Surrey) after 1851 and were
Printers in London but their Dad, Thomas, was a shipbuilder in Stoke
Damerell, Devon.

There were lots of WALLISes around in London pre 1851 so I am wondering if
any of them were cousins or uncles of these enterprising lads and may have
been wheelrights?

Can anyone shed any light?

Thanks

Hugh Wallis
Stouffville, Ontario, Canada
Formerly of Reigate, Surrey, UK and sometime St. Neot, Liskeard, Cornwall,
UK
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Looking for:

WALLIS, VOSPER, COCK in Devon and Cornwall (and now Hampshire for the
VOSPERs)
COLES in Somerset
HARRIS, BRYANT, JONES in Glamorgan
JONES, VAUGHAN in Brecon and Monmouth
PETTIT(T) in Norfolk and Monmouth
WALLIS, BUSH, RUSSELL, CAVES in London (Middlesex) and Surrey


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