Jeremy Howe, in his article “The Cornish Duncalfs” [Dossier Vol. 3 No. 6 page 81] suggested a possible connection between the Cornwall and Cheshire Duncalfs. The question how and why a Thomas Duncalf may have travelled from Cheshire to Cornwall may only be guessed at. The children of Thomas and…
Here's the text of Thomas's Petition to Edward IV not dated but between 1471 and 1483. This is a transcription faithful to the text. A "translation" in modern English is published in Dossier Vol 5 No 6 (February 2010).To the Kynge oure all Sove[reig]n lordMekely besecheth yor olde true legem[a]n…
There are several unconnected Duncalf families in Cornwall. Every now and then I get a lead, but the Redruth ones are difficult. If you have a Duncalf from Cornwall please post what you have found!
is there anyone out there who is in this group that would like to chat?
I have just joined the Canadian Genealogy group on Genealogy Wise as this morning I have solved a 16 year old mystery - the ancestry of Henry Gawaine Duncalf who lived in Quebec. An article about his son Laurie appeared in the Duncalf Dossier Vol 2 No 4 May 1993 edition and I hoped then to find…
A great deal is known about Joseph's descendants and about his own life, but where was he born? My own family (Family 1) arrived in Weaverham from Middlewich in the early 1760s. Coincidentally Joseph also arrived in Weaverham about the same time, the first of his children born there in 1768. Joseph…