The Ancestry of Francis Gallon 33 



but at a much later age, he married his master's daughter Priscilla. 

 In conjunction with his brother-in-law, Joseph Freame, the business 

 was developed into a large banking and mercantile firm 1 . Lucy 

 Barclay, the great-grandmother of Sir Francis Galton, was a child 

 of this marriage. 



But the Freame and Barclay intermarriages are by no means thus 

 exhausted. Sarah Freame, Priscilla's sister, married David Barclay's 

 son James, by his first wife, Ann Taylor. James Barclay and Sarah 

 Freame had three children, two sons who left no issue and a daughter 

 Anne, who married James Allardyce. Their daughter, Sarah Anne 

 Allardyce, was the second wife of Robert Barclay (1731 1797) and 

 mother of Captain Robert Barclay Allardyce (the pedestrian, and last 

 Robert Barclay of Ury) and of Margaret Barclay, Mrs Hudson Gurney, 

 the great-aunt, and kind hostess to Francis Galton's sisters and 

 himself. Robert, Margaret and Lucy Barclay, who married Samuel 

 Galton, were thus directly half brothers and sisters, but in addition 

 their mothers were granddaughter and great-granddaughter of David 

 Barclay of Cheapside, and granddaughter and great-granddaughter of 

 John Freame of Lombard Street ! Captain Barclay, the pedestrian, 

 and Mrs Hudson Gurney were thus much closer in blood than great- 

 uncle and great-aunt to Francis Galton 2 . Lastly another sister of 

 Priscilla Freame, Mary, married Thomas Plumstead of London, and 

 their daughter Priscilla married James Farmer of Bingley, the partner 

 In Birmingham of Samuel Galton, the first. Their daughter in turn 

 became the wife of Charles Lloyd, who was the managing partner 

 of a large Birmingham bank. Thus Priscilla Farmer and Lucy Barclay 

 were cousins, and this no doubt brought Lucy Barclay the second into 

 touch with Samuel Galton, and led to their marriage. According to 

 a memorandum of Samuel Galton, he met Lucy Barclay at Hertford 

 in 1776 for the first time, and married her in Oct. 1777, shortly after 

 his mother, Mary Farmer's death. The pedigree (Plate C at the end of 

 this volume), in which a very large number of collaterals are omitted, will 



1 It should be noted that the goldsmiths were largely bankers in the 17th century. 

 The firm was Freame and Gould in 1698, and Freame and Barclay in 1736; the 

 business seems to have been a continuation of that of Pepys' goldsmith Stokes : see 

 Hilton Price, Handbook of London Hankers, pp. 10 12. 



2 Another daughter of David Barclay married a Gurney, and his famous daughter, 

 Eli/abeth Fry, a worthy niece to David Barclay of Youngsbury, was second cousin of 

 Tortius Galton and also a feature of Francis Galton's boyhood. 



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