Another cool night but brilliant sun today. The shed is nearly put together now with just a few items in the garage to help with the Fall cleanup. Perhaps today we will spread the hardening sand into the porch, patio and bricks along the laneway. That is also a big task with sweeping away of the cracks taking place first. It should be nice and dry now so will work at that this morning. One piece of fencing to put up as well. We managed to find another length of the black fence along the one edge as it is just a little bit short. This will bring the fence to the end of the garden and will have the 20 centimetre high fence along the front. There is so much work to do in the yard in the Fall. The raspberries are in fruit once again as they are ever bearing so that is a nice treat for the end of the summer.
No work on the Siderfin document yesterday but may squeeze in some time today. I need to check the tax records and see where the Fran[c]ke family was in 1641. That should also prove interesting. I am not really sure of the intent of this answer now but does appear that Ursula had taken it upon herself to check on Robert Frank and did discover that he had died of his sickness. Perhaps more on that today. The Frank family is saying that the Siderfin family have documents about the property at East Linch and this is being denied by the Siderfin family particularly John Siderfin so perhaps they were of a similar age and he too had tried to help Robert Frank during his illness. The story slowly evolves. But definitely no mention of Robert 5 (Robert 4, Robert 3, William 2, John 1) up to this point in the document. My first premise does appear to be correct that Robert 5 died in 1636 and the only male line coming down from Robert 4 (father to Willmot 5, Robert 5, and John 5) was John 5. That he likely married Thomasine before 1656 and their first and only child Robert was born in 1656. This Robert being the only male Siderfin whose children/grandchildren continued into the 1800s. John 5 would have been 34 when he married as he was baptized in 1619 at Minehead. Thomazine died in 1709 so was likely younger than John but does mention all but one of her grandchildren. Likely in her 20s when she married, that would make her perhaps in her late 70s which is quite possible. No death date is known for John 5 Siderfin.
Already 7:30 and I haven't had my tea so must get the day started.
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