A family portrait becomes clearer
Above is a picture of my great great grandmother, Jane Betsy's sister, Charlotte Allard. A new co-researcher contacted me recently. My fourth or fifth cousin, S. H., is descended from my 4th great grandparents, John Crow and Virtue Barnell Crow, who are buried in Wickhampton. S.H. has sent me an image of their burial place/memorial. Cousin S.H. informs me that John and Virtue Crow had 86 grandchildren, of which Jane Betsy and S.H,'s ancestor, Elizabeth Virtue Browne, were two. Charlotte Allard, above, was another of John and Virtue's grandchildren. She is mentioned in the letters which my Tunstall ancestors kept. Charlotte Allard was mentioned by Jane Betsy, in her tearstained letter of October 29th 1870 from the Angel Hotel, Islington, to Emma Jane. "Aunt Allard" will go to Mr Palmer's shop, to buy lengths of black cloth for mourning clothes for her daughters to wear after the death their brother, James Charles, at the London Fever Hospital. Cousin S.H. h...