Deffee and Andrew families

The Deffee family came to England with the Huguenots and settled in East London, where most of them seemd to have lived until the mid 20th Century. My paternal grandfather married Christine Emmeline Fulcher possibly in September quarter 1910. Her grandfather was John Fulcher, who moved with his wife Emma (nee Carpenter) to Glasgow where he was professor of music at Glasgow Cathedral. (For some reason they left their son John David Fulcher behind in London with Emma's parents.)He also set some of Robert Burns poems to music - notably "Afton Water". They went on to have several more children, some of whom did not survive. The Carpenters were London-based clock & watchmakers - at least one branch of that family moved out to East Barnet.
My maternal grandparents were Edward Andrew & Agnes Louise Pearson who married & lived in Spalding, Lincolnshire. They were both from farming families - the name Pearson evolving from Pierson sometime on 1800s. The Piersons lived in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire before moving to Licolnshire.

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