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Dear Osprey and Squirrel Nutkin. See my latest message re the descendants of Ann Strickland of Stroud and Cheltenham workhouses. The elusive Ann, my great-great-grandmother, appears to have been born in Cheltenham in 1825, the daughter of John and Maria Strickland. Her illegitimate son, William George, was born in Cheltenham and baptized in Stroud. He joined the Army in 1872, went to India in 1873. He married Harriet Cox there in 1875. They had four sons: Vincent, Clinton, Cassily and George. They all were Indian Army. Vincent, my grandfather, died of wounds received near Arras, in May 1917 and is buried at Kensall Green Cemetery. He had two distinguished sons and three daughters. My father, his second son, became a Major-General and CMG, DSO, OBE, CStJ, MM and was given the Star of Jordan by King Hussein of Jordan. It is an amazing story.

So many thanks, Squirrel Nutkin. We are most certainly on the same tree! I have a lot of information for you and I think that, between us, we ought to be able to post a detailed and more complete tree online. So where to begin? If I start with Ann Strickland at Cheltenham in Gloucestershire we can take things from there, and you can give me any snippets of info you have or have inherited. If you reply to this, I will then commence. Does that suit? Best wishes, Cousin Old Mister Brown.