A Family in History: History in a Family, Part 2, Readers and Palmers

A Family In History: History In A Family, Part 2, Readers from 1759, Palmers from 1407 is more than just a family history.
It is a social history.
The ancestry through Lyon, Cornwallis, the Normans, Robert The Bruce and the early Kings of Scotland, the Dark Ages the nobles in the Middle Ages are accurately even link into the mythology of Greek and Christian legends of the Creation, with Adam and Eve.
 
On a structure strictly linked to the DNA of Readers and Palmers, stories bring the pages to life.
 
Bill Reader on Scouts Jamboree in Australia
Mike Reader’s experiences on Lord Southborough’s Reforms Committee the Indian Commission
The inquest into the coal bunkering accident that killed Lionel Reader
The four Reader daughters marrying into Italian nobility
Charles Marquis Cornwallis losing the Battle of Yorktown in America and as Governor General of Bengal
Major General Sir James Lyon serving under Wellington through the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Then Governor of Barbados with his portrait on a recent postage stamp to commemorate his role in the enfranchisement of the slaves
Brigadier General James Smith-Neil putting down the Indian Rebellion of 1857
The intriguing privately published account of William Forbes-Mitchell, who had served with Smith-Neill at Cawnpore and at Lucknow and then investigated the curse put on the family
How this led to the murder of Smith-Neill's son Major Andrew H S Smith-Neill in 1887
Sir Geoffrey Palmer, knighted for services as a lawyer for Charles II and  mentioned in the diaries of Samuel Pepys
Ancestors held in the Tower of London
The tree stretching back to Adam and Eve

Hardback, 178 pages in A4, fully illustrated with many family trees that are also available on the internet.
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