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A Note on Watkin Tench.

Readers may remember the first chapter of my biography of Watkin Tench about my work in tracing his family in Chester, England. There I took him back to his grandfather in Nantwich and his mother a Tarleton from Liverpool. I have since located Tench's will in which he left everything to his wife except the family crested silver and family portraits which he left to his nephew, John Tench. This was the son of Watkin's brother who was also John Tench. To have a family crest was an indication that the family was part of the 'gentry' and hence Watkin's status as a gentleman.

I have included an illustration of Tench's crest located in one of the books of British crests, a ...

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