Biographical Notes regarding Galton Ancestry
- Date:
- Mid 17th Century
- Reference:
- GALTON/1/1/9/5/1
- Part of:
- Galton Papers
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
Biographical notes formerly bound or pasted into the family book of Edward Wheler-Galton, written in various hands, containing information about ancestors from 1565-1799.
The notes consist of details of births, marriages and deaths for various Galton family; tables of genealogy; copy annotations from the family bible; copy extracts from parish registers; notes of grave stone inscriptions; copy extracts from Hutchin's Dorsetshire, James Timmins the History of Warwickshire, and an obituary from Gentleman's Magazine 1799, p. 623; copy of an extract from the index to the Harleian Manuscript.
[It is not certain whether this material was initially bound and pasted into the two Volume Galton book compiled by Elizabeth Anne Wheler [nee Galton], or whether it previously formed a separate volume]