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Hello to all members, looking for the following names, Brown, Bennett, Izard, Beaumont, Stehelin, Raleigh Curtis, Chetham Strode, Pennell, Pannell, Mills, just a few as all of you have, my Mousley connection, i traced the family to South Africa, George Bennett Mousley, Murdered by the Boers, shot in the back, What a story that was and it connected me to a wonderful family in south Africa, And the vicars i have found in the past connected to our family , and the wonderful story of the Voigt family,the vicars were mostly in Worcs, the Voigt story was one of courage instilled in one man, also the story of the Mills family which is my wifes side but a really wonderful story, we have a copy of a diary started in 1815, it tells of the old London the things and trades the family were involved, the walks the people he the author knew of William Alfred Paxton was a dear friend and relation to the family, George Paxton son of his Fathers Grandmothers Sister, the were in the art trade, one was Alfred Mills miniaturist, and we have secured books from the period another bonus, The wonderful conversations he recalled from his grandfathers lips, About 1788 he went to live in a house belonging to the curious old nurseryman Gammock, who at this time had 70, ooo myrtles near the old Ivy House Hoxton, when i went to live with Paxton about 1790 the printing in colours never supersedes the colouring of prints in the usual way in black, The prints i remember his having to colour were Gainsboroughs Girl and Pigs, Cottage Children with the Alps, Fighting dogs, The Falls of the Rhone, Stubbs Fighting Horses and Fighting Bulls, The Labourers, Game Keepers, .i think it was about 1792 he exhibited the The Veiw of Witney in Oxfordshire, the front figure he drew from me, the picture is in the possession of Thomas Paxton his nephew. hope this is of interest to all. Terry.

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