| Description | Typed notes compiled by William Law Pakenham, cousin of William Christopher Pakenham. He traces the family back to Osgood Clappa, a Dane. He finds ancestral links to the Abbey of St Edmunds and indicates what his sources are and where they are stored (some were in the British Museum).
Includes letters from William Law Pakenham to his cousin with further details about the family, 11 May 1927, 22 Nov 1928 and 10 Dec 1928 and includes a copy letter from Lord Longford and states that he has looked through the papers at Pakenham Hall and has found very little for the 17th and 18th centuries, 26 Nov 1928. |