| ID: AFM_FRE
| Title | French Family on Mersea - a summary. |
| Abstract | "Several of the French family have tried to find out when the first French came to Mersea, but none have been able to get beyond the fact that a James French had been to Burnham-on-Crouch to deliver oysters, taking two of his very young sons with him (my grandfather Samuel French, senior, was one of them) in a smack called Ellen and coming home not very far from Bradwell Chapel (Sales Point) the
boom swung across the deck unexpectedly, knocked him overboard and he was drowned. This would be about 1844.
From "Memories of a Mersea Oysterman", by Leslie French.
Available in the Museum Shop
Descendants of Bertha and James French
Descendants of Samuel b1836 and Susannah French
View French family pictures
View more pictures connected with the French family
Mary French wartime diaries
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| Source | Mersea Museum
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| ID | AFM_FRE
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| ImageID: | DIS2007_FRE_001 | | Title: | French Family Tree, from the 2007 Museum Exhibition. | | Date: | November 2008 | | Source: | Mersea Museum |
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| ImageID: | MPUB_LFR_001 | | Title: | The Memories of a Mersea Oysterman, by Leslie French.
First published by Leslie French 1985.
Republished with pictures and a new Foreword, by Mersea Island Museum Trust 2009.
Available from the Museum Shop | | Date: | 2009 | | Source: | Mersea Museum |
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