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Hello Donna
I am also descended from William, Thomas, and Benjamin and Lucy Bakewell on both sides of my family! (My mother and father were first cousins).
I have a lot of Bakewell info plus 4 early Bakewell portraits, William and Thomas Woodhouse, Lucy, and Elizabeth Page Bakewell.
The latter lived in Philadelphia at a place called Fatland Ford...a very grand house...I have a drawing of it.
There is a marvellous family book, called the "Bakewell Book" Unfortunately, my father lent it to another descendent and was unable to retrieve it before he died...I believe the person he lent it to might have been someone named Benjamin Page....I've been very busy for the past decade and have never gotten around to trying to trace it...It has some lurid tales of the Bakewells in England...One ancester was Chancellor of the Exchequer before Thomas a Becket and was crushed to death in the crowd at the coronation of the King (who could it have been...Henry II) I haven't seen the book since childhood...I would bet that the book could be traced through the Mormons in Salt Lake City...I just haven't had time...A Burgwin cousin of mine has some genuine Bakewell money that my father gave her mother ages ago...The Bakewells came orginally from the Town of Bakewell in Herefordshire...The coat of arms (shown in the book) shows an arm holding aloft a severed leg (presumably on the battlefield). The Bakewells go way way back in English history (Oh, by the way, the book is called the Bakewell-Page book)
Regards
Molly Burgwin Ulam
mulam@esinet.net
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