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« on: Wednesday 16 March 16 14:47 GMT (UK) »
Hi Patrick. I came across this post only yesterday when doing a random search via google and was gobsmacked and what you and others have found out about our family.
I am a direct descendant of Anthony Forster Barron (1819-1880) who is my GGGF. My GGF was David Pearson Barron (1848 - ?) who moved to London as you had suggested but not sure if this coincided with any large sums of money that appears to have come with John L Crozier - if it did I have found no evidence it came David Pearson Barron's way. David had a housekeeper called Charlotte (Lottie) Elizabeth Fuller and had 3 children John David Barron (1877 - 1950), Arthur Percy Barron (1882 - ?) and Beatrice Maud Barron (1886 -1975) my GM. Beatrice married John Thomas Wood (1867 - 1932) and had 1 child my dad Dennis John Wood (1926 - 2014). My grandparents and parents lived around the Hendon, Marylebone and Kensal Rise areas of London from the 1840 onwards.
My interest in starting the family tree was based around a childhood story my dad told me of when he was on his honeymoon down in Devon. Him and mum where staying in a farmhouse and it was pouring with rain one evening and they decided to stay in for the night and after having been given a meal by the landlady she revealed that she was a palm reader. My dad handed over his dad's signet ring which led her to reveal that my dad had a brother – a bit of a shock as he was an only child. When the honeymoon was over he approached his mother who denied everything, become very upset and told him never to discuss it again with her. Unfortunately despite many years searching I have found no evidence of another child although there is suspicion that John Thomas Wood was previously married to Elizabeth Powell but alas I have no trace of children from that marriage either.
One notable thing I did discover was that John David Barron fought in WWI becoming injured in Belgium he was treated by a local nurse and although John had a wife back in England and had several children with her after the war he left her and set up a new life with the nurse. They moved to Western Australia in 1920 and took several of the children with them but not all. The interesting thing about the nurse was that she was closely related to the Belgium Royal Family by marriage.