Lovely!!
I just had a funny five minutes, whilst I noticed Francis didn't say his father was deceased and then realised Francis is young enough to be the son of the younger James (the one who was married to Lydia and was also a land surveyor which might or might not also mean he was an auctioneer!) but luckily I don't see how that can work if Francis' mother was married to Thomas Drake at the same time as James jr was married to Lydia Bryant. (of course we don't KNOW Francis and his sister, Mary Ann were step children in the Drake household, because it was the 1841 census, but I'm sticking with that for now.)
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 Merry
"Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010
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