SYMONDS/FROWEN - Marriage 1824 Goodrich (General)

by george , Saturday, November 10, 2012, 12:13 (4399 days ago) @ m p griffiths

I am reading and trying to digest all this. So it looks as though Jim Simmons was always a Simmons/Symonds/Simmonds and the 'Smith' bit maybe isn't factual. This is all gripping stuff. Thanks. I will tell my mother this later as she was trying to remember anything she could of my father's family history. She will love this.

I had found my late aunt's birth on the Parish Records on here...Gladys Cooper...but couldn't see my late father's baptism nor his younger (now deceased) sister's.

This niggling memory of being told something like: 'Yer granfertha were really called Ezikiah Frowan Smith'... and I think: ' 'e were a gypsy'... and POSSIBLY: ' 'e were a Jew'.

But it is a bit blurred in my mind.

But certainly you have all verified most of this recollection I have. I am not sure what type of 'gypsy' and can't see any evidence of him being Jewish.

(We may have had some of that strong cider from the FOD when all this came out which may account for my poor memory).