11 April 2007 Percy expressing concern
11 April 2007
Dear Mr Gwynn-Jones,
I am concerned at the lack of progress by your delegated genealogist considering he/she has had the considerable advantage of all Di Clements research in Dorset and Somerset. It would appear from your 31st of January note that you were awaiting results of his/her searches currently “in hand in Dorset” over two months ago. I must accept some responsibility for not initially making it clear of my wish to progress as rapidly as practical as there are interested parties in England and New Zealand including two Universities and many pestiferous New Zealand Percys breathing down my neck. If you could respectfully convey my feelings to your genealogist it would be appreciated.
On a brighter note, would it be possible to initiate a separate lateral search to see if John Percy, vivit 1652 (see enclosed table 3 chart), the brother of Alan Percy (d. 1688 s.p. “said to have been de jure 12 Earl of Northumberland”), could have gone to Taunton to be near his cousins, the Gunpowder Plotter’s son Robert and his unrecorded sons Thomas and James both christened at Taunton Parish of St. Mary Magdalene – our parish. The age is right, the timing is right and he also fulfils the two provenances brought with them from England in 1842, of kinship with the Gunpowder Plotter’s family and unresolved title claims (Francis Percy Senior of our Taunton Parish line and his son Francis Junior later Mayor of Cambridge).
Many thanks for your time,
Yours sincerely
Kevin Percy