Family Interviews
Written information from various family members, some are based on fanciful family stories, for instance it is talked of how my great great grandfather Richard Bane was a soldier in the Crimean War, whereas from looking at his military papers I find he was in Barbados and not at all in the Crimea. This story could have become tangled up with another of his relatives, his father or an uncle. The older family members were quite convinced of it as a reality. Another family story tells of how my great grandfather D'Auvergne was a man of class who ran away with the maid, and although embroidered upon, this actually does turn out to be a true story.