Guy Etchells

[loobylooayr]

I'm sorry to read of Guy Etchells passing.
He was a fount of knowledge on this forum and his expertise will be missed.
My condolences to his family.

Looby

[Sloe Gin]

I'm so very sad to learn that Guy has died.  What a great loss to us all who study genealogy and family history.  His depth and breadth of knowledge was second to none, and so freely given.  I always enjoyed reading what he had to say, and learned a lot from him.  Thank you, Guy, rest well.

[Janelle]

RIP Guy.

[Blue70]

Sad news he was a great character.

Blue

[Zaphod99]

Very sad, I learned a lot from his heraldry knowledge.

Zaph

[maidmarion]

So sorry to hear this sad news.

[GrahamH]

I missed this at the time. Got to know Guy when we were both trading at fairs and through mutual research interests.
Very sad news, RIP.

[purplekat]

So sorry to here this sad news, although I'm not often on rootschat these days I was aware of Guy sharing his wealth of knowledge. My condolences to his family.

[coombs]

Guy Etchells always said not to underestimate the travelling of our ancestors, and agreed how a percentage of our pre Victorian ancestors were more mobile than we think. Seems many of mine were, my Freeman's of Kidlington, Oxfordshire in the mid 1700s had roots 20 miles SW and 10 miles east of it. And an ancestor born 1832 in Co Durham had a Scottish grandfather and a Westmoreland grandfather. Plus several more examples I can give from Norfolk ancestor in London in 1780 and lots of Suffolk roots who moved to Essex c1780-1810.