Tag: Watchmaker
How Proving that I Was Not related to Sir Joseph Banks Helped Me Find Ralph Banks Clockmaker and Silversmith
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]ts well known that families relish finding a famous ancestor! From a very early age I was told that our family descended from Sir Joseph Banks. Irene Williams, my great aunt, went as far as travelling to London when Sir Joseph’s diaries were auctioned. So the first thing I did was to see if I…