A few pages done

The cleaning all accomplished but only three pages done in the Charting Book. Today I will begin again to work  away through the day and see how much I can accomplish. I am coming to the end sort of like a ship coming in to harbor and hoping for enough wind to bring them ashore!

A quiet day otherwise with most of it spent cleaning. But I did have some thoughts on the Answer Document which had Robert, Ursula and John Siderfin as defendants and which helped to prove that the line from which I descend is indeed this Robert through his son John Siderfin. But it did give me pause to wonder why the youngest son in this case? It was 1653 and Robert, the eldest son who was mentioned in the document but just once, was 39 years of age at this time (was he still living I do wonder about that) and John, the younger son who was part of the document and mentioned a number of times, was 34 years of age. Likely it was John who baptized a son Robert in 1658 at Selworthy since Robert, the son, lived at Minehead at least on the Protestation Return. It just does make sense and I decided that given the resultant living places of the descendants it simply made more sense that John married Thomasine who left her will as a widow in 1709. More study of the documents could likely support or correct that premise. The main point though is that this is a descendant of Robert 4 (son of Robert 3, William 2, John 1). There is no sign of Robert 5 (Robert 4, Robert 3, William 2, John 1) marrying in Minehead or elsewhere. But Robert, the father, in the document has perhaps chosen to have John or because John had visited Robert Franke he was included. Interesting really given how families worked in those days where it was a top-down organization with the father, so long as he lived, being the head of the household and the determinant of how the children/grandchildren were regarded or managed. 

Interesting really and that was probably mostly what I thought about all day. I am retreating from the news for the most part these days waiting and watching to see how life flows. In my little place in the world, I have no influence on how affairs resolve or carry on; just opinions on occasion. 

Breakfast completed. Teatime is next as I ate early since I awoke early and was hungry. Latin follows.