A love match or simply good business?

Like anyone else, I have a lot of puzzles to work on in my family tree.  One that had been nagging at me for some time was the precise blood relationship between a Joseph Beachcroft who married a Mary Beachcroft.   Mary’s father was Samuel Beachcroft and in his will of 1732 he mentions his ‘son… Continue reading A love match or simply good business?