Me, James, Sheila, My daughter*, Elise, Andre Amoos
Anthony, Jack, Dominic, Peggy.
(*She does not want her details to appear on the Internet)
Me & my (ex)wife
James Mitchell BRYANT (b 05/12/42 m 26/08/64 - dissolved 08/89)
Felicity Ann (nee ROE) (b 02/04/40 m1 26/08/64 - dissolved 08/89
- m2 [John Prince] 08/89).
Ann has retired to the South of France.
Parents
James Jackson BRYANT (b 15/04/09 m 15/04/39 d 06/04/07)
Margaret Elise [Peggy] (nee MITCHELL) (b 06/12/07 m 15/04/39 d
25/01/95).
I live with my father in Midsomer Norton, near Bath.
Sister
Elise Mary BRYANT (b 05/06/46)
Elise worked for CPW, a Nestle/General Mills consortium.
She is retired and lives in Switzerland, in Lausanne.
Son & Daughter-in-Law
James Nigel BRYANT (b 02/04/66 m 11/07/87)
Sheila Mary Fieldhouse (of Bridgwater) (m 11/07/87)
James is a mathematician.
He and his family presently live in Cheltenham.
Grandchildren
Anthony James BRYANT (b 25/04/90)
Dominic Peter BRYANT (b 01/08/92)
Cecilia Mary BRYANT (b 26/02/95)
Daughter
Details omitted at her request.
Godchildren
Emily Ruth BROUGH, Paisley - Scotland, daughter of a school friend.
Monica Teresa DOSSETT, Leeds, daughter of a university friend.
William KINSMAN, Cheltenham, son of a friend and sometime colleague
at Smiths Industries.
My father's family has lived in the village of Stratton-on-the-Fosse in Somerset for over four hundred years. My father was the first of his line in many generations not to be a farmer - he became a schoolteacher (Science, esp. Biology) and taught all his career at Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool (John Lennon was one of his pupils). I do not have a lot of genealogical detail on the Bryants (except that there is a James Bryant who was buried in St. Vigor's Church, Stratton-on the- Fosse in 1615 who was almost certainly a direct ancestor of mine), but my father's mother was a Jackson and several Jacksons have done research on their family tree and I have access to records of over 700 Jacksons that I am related to. I am in regular touch with up to fifty or so 2nd, 3rd and 4th cousins spread around the World. My father had one sister, Ruth, who died without issue in 1974.
My late mother's family came from the London area but I believe that the surname Mitchell was originally Scots and that I am entitled to wear Clan McMillan tartan (feedback on this welcome). Less information is available on this side of the family but there are certainly also ancestors from Cork (in Ireland) and France. One of these was the Marquis d'Aregenson - Head of the Secret Police under Louis XIV and inventor of "Lettres de Cachet". The Park painted by van Gogh, "Parc Voyer d'Argenson" in Asnieres just outside Paris, is named after his grandson, who came to England at the time of the French Revolution and worked for Josiah Wedgewood. Voyer d'Argenson also owned La Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris, which was appropriated by the French Government during the Revolution and is still a functioning library. I have no claim to the title, though, since I am descended from Voyer d'Argenson but not, it seems, from his wife! My mother had three sisters, Alice (O'Brien), Monica (Bell) and Mary (Cawthorne) who are also dead but I am in regular touch with all their children, my cousins.
Shown in the upper picture are myself, my parents, sister, children and grandchildren. This picture was taken in the Summer of 1994, 8 months before my mother died and well before Cecilia was born. The picture below shows Cecilia shortly after her birth.
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