Recent content by AndySawyer

Yes, as Lisa says, good stuff! What I have read about Thomas Webb's financial situation is rather that either he made unwise speculation in land or was ruined through "the return to cash payments" after the Napoleonic Wars. (This was the return (in 1821) of the ability of the Bank of England to...

Hi Brigitte, good to "meet" you and good that the picture is becoming clearer. Have you come across anything related to the Harriet Swinson who was Mary and George's daughter.. ( she died between 1819 and 1824, it seems). Do your family records contain any reference to "Wells"? ( Jane Webb...

Baptism a period after birth could be something to do with being/having been a nonconformist . There could well be a wave of entry/confirmation into the Church of England at that time -- I'm not a good enough historian to understand this, but this happens with the Swinson family

Sara, would love to know more about your work -- I am giving a short presentation on JWL at the Current research In Speculative Fictions conference on 1st July, based on work the late Nickieanne Moody and I had been doing. (Nickieanne organised the first (and only?) conference on JWL's work a...