Searching for the Raymond family turned up Alan Freer.
Originally I had the Raymond part of the tree reproduced here. I have now changed it to the top of the Freer tree. (sheet 1_
Back-filling my research, specifically with regards to the 2nd son of William the Conqueror (A2 - Richard, Duke of Bernay), I have added the link(s) on my page on the Conqueror.
At first I was shying away from The Raymond Era. The use of the Freer Tree was something that anyone could find if they made an Internet search. Its accuracy is not known for sure but it was probably based on earlier works by Burke, Daryll Lundy's - The Peerage.com, Duchess of Cleveland, The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval and others.
18 June 2026 - Visit seen also to dundonald.html - this is interesting as the Freer website was not specifically linked on this page - the visitor obviously didn't have a problem with returning to one of my pages - or they didn't notice!
The Descendants of William the Conqueror
This page was formerly a copy of Alan G. Freer's work on people local to
Belchamp Walter.
I thank him for all his good work and thought it best to make a copy just in case his website ceases to exist.
I have moved the family tree that was on this page as I felt that it was only being accessed by those looking for
current information on people that are local to this area. The searches finding this page were not from
those actually looking for information relating to William the Conqueror
If you would like a copy then please ask and I will be happy to send you a link to the tree. I have also removed
the clickable link to Alan's work at the foot of this page.
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Note: the local copy is not a complete web page but is coded into html. (so it is searchable)
Alan Freer and Ancestry.com - or co.uk
I disagree with Alan about the notion that his demise will mean that all his work will be lost.
Uploading his database to Ancestry is a mistake in my opinion.
What Alan Freer says on his website:
Feeling the inevitable pull of mortality, it occurred to me that this website probably would not survive my demise.
With that in mind, I have started to feed all the information into Ancestry.co.uk to preserve the decades of work.
If you are a member of Ancestry you will find it under “Royal England.” 95,000 names so far!
I postulated about the fleeting nature of websites and this would also apply to tempusfugit.me.uk and to Ancestry.whatever for that matter. The work that The Internet Archive are doing may be a solution to this.
1 - The Descendants of William the Conqueror
- http:// www.william1.co.uk/ w150.htm
- The Raymond family is documented here - link to Alan Freer's research
