Hi Cid - Judging by your profile we may be related through the Willetts and Garratt's too. Are your Capewells from Netherton?
There's a lot of Black Country families that can be traced back to the Woodhouses of Wombourne, They owned land around Rowley Church as well as in Wombourne and their family has been recorded in quite a few books over the centuries. My link comes via Mary Woodhouse who married William Garratt, son of the Rev Thomas Garratt of St Giles Church in Rowley Regis. The Woodhouse family can be traced back to the Cocus and De Bosco family who were proprietors of the Wode House... and possibly even to the de Picquigny family of France who came to this country with William (The Conqueror). If the tenuous link between Guy de Picquigny and William Cocus could be proved, then the de Picquigny family can be traced back to the late 900s in Normandy, France! that's 30 generations!
There's a even more tenous link to Rollo (b 846) himself, the first Duke of Normandy and a real Viking warrior
At this point I could even suggest a link between my Channel Island families and my Staffordshire families as the le Gallichan's and de Carteret's of Jersey also came to these shores with William and were also descendants of Rollo the Viking.
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