her father was a country doctor, i think his first name was Stanley as was his father. Stanley? Crockett the first had a wife named Birdie. they lived in Lafayett ( Tippecanoe Co. ) Indiana.

Dr Stanley Crockett Sr.’s father had the name Patton as a middle name.

my uncle Jim ( James Ince ) is my aunt Nancy’s husband.

my grandmother’s last name was English. someone in the English family also married a Crockett.

the Ince family also goes way back. Anglo Saxon and the family dates back to before the Norman Conquest. although not everyone with the last name Ince ( or variations ) is related to us. some with that last name were simply adopted the last name because they lived in Ince England.

Ince also during the reign of king Henry the VIII, remained staunch catholics, and there was some research some 20 yrs ago of what was called “priest holes” which were dug below basement level to hide priests facing persecution.

and something about an abbey and the Blundell-Ince Hall having a secret passageway to sheild priest facing persecution.

my aunt Therese did a lot of research in the 1940’s, but i was born after she died and my father and his siblings were not to interested in family history.

what got me interested in asking questions, is back in the 1960’s, my dad and his brother Jim got letters from the Brittish government notifing the the were heirs to the Ince castle ( aparently the brittish gov. did not want to carry the costs of maintaning the castle ) - they were male heirs with male sons - and if only they paid the back taxes ( what do centuries of back taxes amount to? ) the castle could be thiers.

having established themselves state-side, and drafty castles are a bit costly to heat, they declined. but were amused.

Carolyn