Biographical Notes regarding Galton Ancestry

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]

Mid 17th Century

32 folios

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.