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researching their Slingsby family trees.
Email received from Partricia
Graham regarding the decendants of Sir Charles Slingsby. If you have any
comments/information regarding this story, please email me at the address on the
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Here's the story our grandparents told us.
Sir
Charles Slingsby married a French lady in France at the time of the French
revolution.
He brought her back to England and they had progeny. (a
son I think to inherit).
When Sir Charles was drowned in the ferry
accident no one could produce a marriage certificate because all the records
were destroyed in the churches during the Revolution - or at least the one in
question. It seemed that it was not possible to pass on his title and
assets, and the estates went to his sister and then to Charles Atkinson.
There is a book in print composed of pioneer letters (it's about Perry's
wife's family i.e.Baker )
in which his prospective father-in-law reports
that "Aggie is being courted by Perry Fall. He's a pretty good chap, and says
he's the son of a baronet."
If things happened as I have related above,
it appears that Perry's family was the direct descendent of Sir Charles, albeit
they were disinherited. I found a genealogy for Sir Charles which stated
that he had no spouse.
This rumour has been in our family for over 100
years now.
I'm wondering how to trace Perry's ancestors, because we all
want to know where the Fall name came from.
Perry (no middle name) was
born in Tolerton, subdistrict Whixley, City of York, Yorkshire in 1866..
His parents were Mary Selina Perry * and Joseph Fall.
* On Perry's marriage
certificate it says Eliza Sarah Perry. Not sure which.
In an
interview with an older member of the Fall family, Betty Fall, she told me that
Joseph was a surgeon, and that the family was in the midst of an inheritance
claim. It was said that Joseph spent his fortune trying to reclaim the
Slingsby estate, but that he was not successful.
OneGreatFamily lists a
Joseph Fall born 1837 Whitkirk Leeds York. Perry was born 1866 (I also
have 1865). Sounds like he could be Perry's father.
I don't know
where to proceed from there.
That's my story.
Pat Graham