As you may have read on my previous thread, my family legend is that we're partly descended from an Alderman Lucas. The only one that I can find is Matthias Prime Lucas Lord Mayor of London.
I've pieced together through newspaper announcements, IGI, and censuses MPLs descendants for 100 years. I've traced them down 4-5 generations on all six of his kids (all girls). I've gone through countless name changes, mistranscriptions and mis-spellings. I've traced some descendants from Kent to Edinburgh. I've come close to where my family hail from only to come to a dead end.
As far as I can tell, I'm not related to Alderman Lucas in any way and my uncle was called Lucas for no reason other than my great grandad's delusions of grandeur. :(
I've pieced together through newspaper announcements, IGI, and censuses MPLs descendants for 100 years. I've traced them down 4-5 generations on all six of his kids (all girls). I've gone through countless name changes, mistranscriptions and mis-spellings. I've traced some descendants from Kent to Edinburgh. I've come close to where my family hail from only to come to a dead end.
As far as I can tell, I'm not related to Alderman Lucas in any way and my uncle was called Lucas for no reason other than my great grandad's delusions of grandeur. :(
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