remain. This is the reason why GBR and DR do not mention him.
Many thanks.
Leo van de Pas
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From: "wjhonson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: New ? Royal Gateway ancestor was Fw: Details of Sir Andrew
Riccard
A few things worth looking at, on the Gayer family that Leo
mentioned. Note esp the last article.
Will Johnson
a href = "http://books.google.com/books?
vid=0J95NoFWH44S2jhibe&id=ieIypI-z2ioC&pg=PA297&lpg=PA297&dq=gayer
+harper">An article</a> on William Gayer in 1877
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"Even so, although William Gayer of Nantucket and Governor Sir John
Gayer of Bombay really were brothers, they were not the sons and
grandsons of prominent Plymouth merchants or scions of Cornish gentry
in St. Keverne, or descendants of the noble Courtenays or remote
offspring of King Edward I. Instead, more probably they were the sons
and grandsons of the two William Gayers who are mentioned in the
Plymouth town records (*) as stone masons, one in the early 1600s and
the other in the 1640s, whose antecedents are quite unknown but which
presumably were quite humble."
(*) R.N. Worthy, Calendar of the Plymouth Municipal Records (Plymouth,
1893), 163. Edwin Wlech, ed., Plymouth Building Accounts of the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Torquay, 1967), 20, 29, 34-35,
41, 44, 49-50, 54-58, 64, 79, 93, 98.
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http://books.google.com/books?id=s0F3O9 ... A#PPA14,M1
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine (vol 28, no 1) (1973), "The Case of
the Vanishing Ancestry", by Wallace Evan Davis, pg 14-
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