Family Tree at The Bread and Roses

Youngest brother John, held an excellent party to discuss the Hawthorne family tree, at the Clapham Socialist  pub called the Bread and Roses. 

Mrs maytrees and I first visited this pub in 2018 when David and Lynette York held a fund raising party commemorating their oldest daughter Nicola, who tragically died earlier that year. Nicola York

Second youngest sister Kathy,  provided a well crafted intoduction to John's topic and his research, for us all.

and John then went on excellently to detail his researches to the 18 or so friends and relatives who were present.

John had expected to speak for five minutes, but such was his research and the appreciative audience, that although he limited his talk to mum's side of the family, he spoke for almost half an hour.

Interestingly, several of the children and grandchildren  of mum and dad today have Christian names that were similar to  those of our ancestors all those years ago.