The Fray Family

Find me a scientist

was a challenge issued by my late brother Colin Pillinger.  At Christmas I would send him a story about our numerous ancestors but the nearest approximation to science I came upon concerned  ‘our Dutchmen’, who were skilled metal workers, brought to Keynsham from Europe and were thus in the vanguard of the Industrial Revolution………

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The Dutchmen: The Bristol Brassmakers

A pan made by a member of the Fray Family (possibly Edwin?)

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