Making the link… Staines to Fawley, via Henley?

As described in my post about visiting the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies… I’ve been having some trouble tracing John Randall and Frances Chandler.

What I’m sure of is that Frances Chandler Randall is the child of a John Randall and Frances Chandler. And I’m sure that Frances Jnr was born in Staines, Middlesex… and that the family moved to Richmond upon Thames (now in Surrey) around 1815, and that they stayed there until 1839.

Road trip… Buckinghamshire Archives

This week Sandra and I visited the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies located at the County Hall in Aylesbury.

Aylesbury County Hall.

There are a few branches in my tree that disappear across the county border into Buckinghamshire.  And to my shame, I’ve never visited the CBS before.  I’ve put some hours in at the Milton Keynes local history centre, but that was quite some time ago.