| Description | Letter from Francis J[ohn] Atwood, Holyrood, Parkewood Road, Bournemouth, E
to
Sir William Bull
Would be pleased if the branch of the Atwood family referred to in John Robinson, "The Atwood Family with Historic Notes and Pedigrees" (Sunderland, 1903) were connected with his own branch, which claims a Saxon origin. Encloses [presumably] DD/375/1/37/2, a tracing from a rough copy of a water colour of his grandfather's house in Hammersmith, which now belongs to his cousin Mrs Arnold Toynbee, 10 Norham Gardens, Oxford, the daughter of his father's brother William Duncombe Atwood who was born in the house. The house was pulled down when the first suspension bridge was built. Mr Martin at the Library was unable to find any mention of the house or its demolition. Would be pleased if some street or property in Hammersmith were to be named after the Atwoods. Possibly land on the west side of Beavor Lane which he used to own would be suitable for this |