This is just a bit of miscellaneous family history, for those who find such useless bits of interest.

This is a handwritten chart of my lineage down my maternal grandfather’s line. My mother inscribed this on one of the front pages when presenting me a copy of “The Journal of James Yonge, Plymouth Surgeon [1647-1721].” It was published by Archon Books, Hamden, Connecticut, in 1963.

The first in this line, James Yonge, was born in 1647, and I followed 300 years later in 1947.

From the book jacket:

THE JOURNAL OF JAMES YONGE

The journal of James Yonge, doctor and pioneer,
is perhaps the most important English diary of
the seventeenth century to be published since
Pepys’ and Evelyn’s. Of the same period as the
diaries of Pepys and Evelyn, Yonge’s depicts
aspects of life which they described as spectators,
but in which he was intimately involved. Yonge
spent many years as ship’s surgeon while Pepys was
an administrator of the Royal Navy; during the
Dutch wars Yonge tended the sick and wounded
himself, while Evelyn was a Commissioner.
Later, Yonge was elected a Fellow of the Royal
Society, an honour which he shared with Pepys
and Evelyn.

James Yonge emerges as a man of common-sense,
firm opinions and shrewd judgement: a man to
be trusted, an excellent witness. His hardships as a
prisoner-of-war of the Dutch are described
objectively and with little rancour against the
enemy; on his return to London after the Great
Fire he is astonished that the citizens should
accept their situation so casually. Later when his
practice was well established in Plymouth, the
records of his many visits to London provide
glimpses of contemporary history. He enjoys
showing his wife the new buildings of London
and chatting with scientists and savants in taverns
and coffee-houses. He lists the contents of the
Oxford Museum and describes the congenial
entertainment offered him at the University.