Summary of Correspondence
LONDON COLLEGE OF ARMS
Summary of correspondence (2 years) between Garter and myself and dossier.
| 10/09/06 | Percy | Initial approach to Garter |
| 19/09/06 | Garter | Agrees to consider our family tree and evidence. Advises that yDNA analysis is of little practical value in establishing family links - opposite to Victoria University N.Z. |
| 17/10/06 | Garter | Happy to examine evidences. |
| 18/10/06 | Percy | Sending more evidence- Sherborne Castle. |
| 19/10/06 | Garter | Agrees to proceed with research, send money. |
| 20/10/06 | Percy | Cheque and evidences dispatched. |
| 22/11/06 | Garter | Checking Taunton St. Mary Magdalene registers. |
| 31/01/07 | Garter | Acknowleding receipt of photographs. |
| 11/04/07 | Percy | Express my concern at over 4 month delay in reporting on the checking of genealogist's findings. Asked for a lateral search to be considered to see if John Percy of Beverley was our John Purse/y. This request, the first of three, was not acknowledged by Garter. |
| 24/04/07 | Garter | Garter apologises. The college genealogist had broken her arm. |
| 08/08/07 | Garter | Report on searches. |
| 04/06/07 | Garter | Advises baptismal date of Edward should be 1692. |
| ??/06/07 | Percy | I refer Garter to the records I originally sent - 1692! |
| 17/07/07 | Percy | Sent payment to Garter and repeated my 11/04/07 request for the second time. Again never acknowledged. |
| 01/08/07 | Garter | Thanks for the money. |
| 19/12/07 | Percy | Expressed my concerns that the ongoing delays were setting a pattern (2x4 months). Raised the lateral search again for the third time. Never acknowledged. |
| 19/12/07 | Garter | Garter's reply. |
| 17/01/08 | Garter | Sends letter advising delay. |
| 10/03/08 | Garter | Sends letter advising further delay. Researcher has spinal problems. |
| 23/06/08 | Garter | Advising on searches. |
| 23/10/08 | Garter | Garter advises that in his view our genealogists family tree is unproven. Not found wrong or at fault, but "unproven in his view". A copy of this letter can be viewed. |
| Percy | My reply can be viewed. |
The job of checking my genealogist's work, which in my opinion should have taken no more than six weeks, had taken the London College of Arms two years.