Lazarus Guestbook

Kevin Gallagher

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:15:29 +0000

Hello David
Firstly I want to conratulate you on a great informative well researched website.

Through my mother I am connected to the Dallingridge's of Sussex. Joan de la Lynde daughter of Sir Walter de la Lynde married John Dallingridge. Interestingly it often asserted that the Dallingridge coat of arms was adopted by the Dallingridges from the family who on the death of Sir Walter were no longer extant in the male line. Obviously you have convincingly demonstrated that the de Lynde's were still very much alive! I would be very keen to know of any information you may have of the 12th/13th and 14th century use of arms by the de lynde's? I think it possible that the Dallingridge's and De La Lynde's both by sheer chance had very similar arms and that is where the erroneous assumption that the Dallingridge's adopted the de la Lynde arms arose? Anyhow I would very much like to contact you to discuss any further info you might have. I very much look forward to hearing from you. I can be contacted via gallagherkb@aol.com

Anastasia Saward

Wed, 04 Aug 2021 09:30:08 +0000

This is for Heidi Talbot re the family portrait.
I have a note on a photo of it:
Painted by Miss C Andrews
of 5, Russell Street, Chelsea
a portrait painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1799 to about 1840.
This group was exhibited there but the date on the canvas is illegible.

Portrait now in the family of Douglas K

Anastasia Saward

Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:04:04 +0000

Reading with great interest. The horse lover Mary Charlotee is my some-number-of-greats-aunt and I have just inherited family notes frmo my Mother so I was enchanted to come scross these photos.

Hannah Sothcott

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:18:13 +0000

Hello Dave,

Thank you for sharing your family tree. I was put in touch with your website by my second cousin Patsy, who has written an entry in the guestbook previously. I am the great granddaughter of Edward and Ivy Mager, and granddaughter to their daughter Elizabeth (Jill) Barton. My grandmother passed away from vascular dementia in 2017. Her death has prompted a curiosity in my ancestry in recent years, and as a family we are very fortunate that she kept a extensive family archive to go through.

Best wishes, and thank you once again.

Hannah Sothcott

Patsy Hall

Sat, 15 May 2021 15:43:49 +0000

Hi Dave
Nice to read your information - for me from the Mager side of things. I am the granddaughter of Edward and Ivy Mager - my parents were John and Pam Mager. I have visited the graveyard in East Witton when we were in the area. I did not know that Karl Mager came over with a brother. I also remember visiting Uncle Dick and Barbara in Maldon in the 1960s.

Vicki Powys

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 06:38:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing all those lovely photos! I am doing a bit of Dobell research, following the line of Elizabeth Rebecca Dobell (married Thomas Henry Ottley) who as a widow came to Australia in 1860s with her children.

Elizabeth Jonex

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 20:39:09 +0000

Hi Dave
My sister Sue and I have stumbled across your website ! We are Bertha's grandchildren and would like to make contact.
Best wishes Elizabeth

RH Simons

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:44:06 +0000

you may be interested in a Lynde record in 1401, in Dorset, seen in a law record:

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/H4/CP40no561/bCP40no561dorses/IMG_1473.htm

from the website Anglo American Legal Tradition;

starting with "abbas de Cerne"
mentioning John & William Lynde

best wishes
RS

Duranteau

Mon, 30 May 2016 12:36:03 +0000

Dear David,
I contact you for the same reasons as Stephanie Anderson who indicated me your web site. Would it be possible to have the high-definition version of the photo of Sir John Ottley and to use him in a french book concerning the history of Narcisse Pelletier ?
Kind regards.
Thomas Duranteau.

Stephanie Anderson

Thu, 03 Sep 2015 05:16:36 +0000

Dear David,

Thank you for your website! I came across it when seeking information about Sir John Ottley who is a relative of yours by marriage to Emily Dobell as I deduce from your family tree. I have been interested in Sir John since I discovered his involvement in the story of the French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier who, after a shipwreck, lived with Aboriginal people in a remote part of the Cape York Peninsula from 1858 to 1875. Sir John spent time with the young man when he was discovered by the crew of a pearling lugger and shipped to Sydney before his repatriation to France. Sir John was aboard the Brisbane on that trip and recorded much information from Pelletier (see my book Pelletier: the forgotten castaway of Cape York, 2009). I have been trying to locate Sir John's papers and after my book was published came across relatives of his in Australia, but they had no knowledge of them. Emily died in 1934 I believe, so Sir John predeceased her, and it is possible that his papers have been handed down in the Dobell family. I wonder if you could put me in touch with a family member who might be able to help.
I had never seen a photograph of Sir John until I clicked on your website today! My book is to be translated into French and it would be wonderful to include a photograph of Sir John in that edition if any family member has one of him as a younger man.

Best wishes,

Stephanie Anderson

PS I love those labrador photos!