{"id":653,"date":"1909-01-28T00:00:03","date_gmt":"1909-01-27T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?p=653"},"modified":"2013-10-07T10:17:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T09:17:05","slug":"thursday-january-28th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Thursday January 28th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. Another fearful day of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pea_soup_fog\" target=\"_blank\">fog<\/a>, even worse than yesterday, consequently of course no <a title=\"Glossary\" href=\"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=21#station\" target=\"_blank\">Station<\/a>.  I did not go into Abbey this morning but later nobly forsook my own fireside and sat by myself in the Library 1st hour.  For once virtue was rewarded.  A casually turned page of a book gave me a clue for which I have been searching patiently for 5 years and may ultimately lead me to find the <a title=\"Glossary\" href=\"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?page_id=21#grants\" target=\"_blank\">Grant family<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The last Miss Maria Grant married a Frederick Dixon, a surgeon at Worthing, she died in 1872 leaving as her executors John Poncione, a solicitor, who died long since without issue and Major G. G. Wedderburn who died about 1875. Wedderburn being a good name I had searched in Burkes\u2019 \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burke%27s_Landed_Gentry\" target=\"_blank\">Landed Gentry<\/a>\u2019 etc without any clue but today I turned casually in Burkes\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burke%27s_Peerage\" target=\"_blank\">Peerage<\/a> to that name and found Major Wedderburn\u2019s name in the lineage of the Wedderburn Baronetcy and what was much more to the point found he had married a daughter of Captain Dixon R.A. in 1863 and had five daughters, 4 of whom are living now, one is certainly a godchild of both Frederick Dixon and his wife (Miss Grant) for she bears the names Frederica and Maria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/?attachment_id=654\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-654\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-654\" title=\"Hayman Grant family\" src=\"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Hayman-Grant-family.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Hayman-Grant-family.jpg 502w, http:\/\/tanner.westminster.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Hayman-Grant-family-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately no address is given but three are married and two have dates given so a reference to the papers may give at any rate the parents\u2019 address.  One daughter married a Mr Ryder of Paris in 1902 and his address is given.  I shall write there as anything is worth trying and who knows but that they may be able to tell me of living Grants.  I shall leave no stone unturned.  Another daughter married a Mr Edward Howard Wakefield as Gilbert Wakefield (OW) the great scholar had a brother called John Howard, I take them to be the same family.  All these are links.  I am so interested to find that Wedderburn was anything more than a friend of Maria Dixon\u2019s as I always imagined, it now looks as if she was his sister-in-law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Another fearful day of fog, even worse than yesterday, consequently of course no Station. I did not go into Abbey this morning but later nobly forsook my own fireside and sat by myself in the Library 1st hour. 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