PEDIGREE LITERATURE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1062, 27 February 1911, Page 8

PEDIGREE LITERATURE.

GENERAL BOOTH AND DEAN GREGORY RELATED. I jjfr. G. AY. PhillimoTeV-'who,'is\briiißing out a'now work'on tlio'historv'of, county .families, is determined to talko liedißreo literature out, tho rut into wliich it has'fallen. '.. . '.. Somo -interesting family ties have .been discovered in. tho course of his; investigations. General, Booth and .Dean' Gregory; of St.-'Pnwl's, for-i'instanco,'-,havo something rnorfe: in cbmmbn- th'nn their zeal for.preaching'tlid;Gospel." Mr. Phillimore, who has ; traced out both their families in Derbyfhiro.. points but that the General and the Dean are cousins, and shows that tho. Booth family are pf puro' English stock, and that they have lived in that part .of England for upwards of three hundred years. ' ' _ To a "Daily News" representative Mr. •Phillimoro described the ' methods 'by which ho hopes to ponulariso the study of nedigreo and genealogy. ■ ••■ ■ "I try," said Mr. Phillimore, "to make my-book n talking and srfcakinp record, rather than a mere catalogue of births,' marriages, .and: doaths.,'Take,, for oxample, this record of the Cliaworth-Mas-ters pedigree in-my "History Of Nottingham families.". ,Tho portraits of, representatives ;of!;ten. generations' r.rb given, so that ono' can trace tho family likeness as it descends from father to son. Thero is also a portrait of Hary Cha,worth,, vwhoro narao. was nssocin"tcd so much with' Byron, and a record of her eight children, with tho dates of thenbirth. : ' . > ■ • , "Anything of a quaint - character in family diaries I alfo trv to bring out. On January 29, ICBJ, for • instance, • a good lady writes: "We had a letter from my brother Charles, in which . ho . said there ' was a bull-baiting upon the Thames. .-. .'Mrs. HeyrieU and we agreed to., go .to-London and seo tho/Thames froze." Then, two days later, comes tho short, .entry, "Tho frost: broke and hindered .our design." • ■.-..,!■ "This," said Mr. Phillimore, "will give some idea of how I ■ try to writs a' history of pedigree. Tho old assumption that a book of the sort should be filled with nothing but reproductions of coats of arms and names, with tho word 'gentleman' attached to them, is fast dying out. Autographs and portraits have a far greater living interest than armorial beorines. A signature or a letter, tolls more than a shield surmounted by lions rampant."