Share your interactive ePaper on all platforms and on your website with our embed function. Interest in Family History research has grown considerably and is now widespread. The romantic story of the Delaforces over the last sixteen hundred years has been carefully researched. Agents and wine shippers, French Huguenots and pawnbrokers. A very detailed chapter lists cross-indexed Sources in the U. This edition 2. Tailors, Admirals and Lombardsmen, Goldsmiths and It concerns a family called Delaforce.
Another sailed in the Mayflower as a member of the crew! A few are to be found in London. Others in Portugal, America, Australia and Canada. This book is more than just a history of a small unusual Anglo-French family. It is possible for most families to trace their ancestry back several centuries.
The author discovered new but old families of relations in England. Most families have a legend lurking in the background perhaps true, perhaps a fantasy! They were Huguenots, so were the Delaforces.
The author's family has been, and members still are, Port Wine shippers in Oporto, in northern Portugal. There was little knowledge available of other Delaforce families living elsewhere. In a sense this has been written as an adventure story.
All this changed in February Family History Society, which has been very successful but that again, is another story. This provided as many questions as answers, which he followed up when they returned. Who wrote what in this book is very obvious because of the differences of style. Ken, the amateur, has his own agenda. Even as late as AD, we have 64,,, putative ancestors.
