By John Slaughter
Welcome to new member Louise MacCarthy. Louise is researching her husband’s Saul ancestry and in her original message advised that:
“My husband’s father has recently passed away and in his possessions we found a small photo book containing some family information given to him by his mother Winifred Luna Saul. It has pictures of several houses which the family owned and also mentioned the family business of Saul and Lightfoot Solicitors. We have visited the archives in Carlisle and are trying to find out more about this part of our family, who were big landowners in Cumberland in the 19th century.”
In replying I advised that:
“We have Winifred Luna Evelyn Saul on one of our Society charts. We have recorded that she was born on 16 December 1896 and baptised at Swanage, Dorset on 10 January 1897. She married Plantagenent A G MacCarthy in 1929 in the Chelsea, London area. As you say she is linked back to the firm of solicitors Saul and Lightfoot in Cumbria. Our chart contains nearly 130 individuals and has been linked back to a William Saul who married Abigail Cowen in 1696 in Bromfield, Cumbria.”
Louise joined the Society and has kindly written an article for this journal based on the photo book that is mentioned above. To avoid duplicating information I will leave additional information to Louise’s article.
I received an enquiry concerning Arthur Charles Sawle of Gerrans, Cornwall enquiring whether we knew if his ancestry went back to the Sawles of Penrice, Cornwall. Arthur Charles appears on our largest Sawle chart and we have recorded his ancestry back to a Richard Sawell of Gerrans where he appears to have been baptised in 1633 the son of Margery, though the early generations are a little tentative. The Sawles of Penrice have been the subject of previous articles in our journal but they appear on a separate chart and no connections between the families have been found. There has not been any follow up.