Comments on: Something of Interest: Michael Read’s Bull http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/something-of-interest-michael-reads-bull/ Discovering surprises, mysteries and brick walls!! Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: rootsresearcher http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/something-of-interest-michael-reads-bull/#comment-140 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:43:08 +0000 http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/?p=595#comment-140 Hallo Ginger, I agree that this portrait of a prized bull was indeed an interesting find and certainly unexpected. I so love that it still hangs in the house all these many many years later. The current owners are not related at all to my family and as far as I know they have lived there since the late 1970s. My family were there at least from the 1730s with my 6 x great grandfather Cozens Read and his wife and 20 children (but they might have been there earlier, I’m still trying to discover that – and I know the house was built before 1650). My family had been there at least about 150 years and then various others appear to have taken it over. Then the Duke of Buckingham (who really owned it) sold it to what we call the Crown Estate (it was bought more or less by the country) and the Crown Estate owned it until the 1970s and the present owners bought it from them!!

So with all that going on, the picture still hung there without leaving the house from 1802 until now. Wonderful!

Thanks again for your visit and comment, it’s much appreciated.

Kind regards,
Christine (rootsresearcher)

]]> By: Ginger Smith http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/something-of-interest-michael-reads-bull/#comment-138 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:46:24 +0000 http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/?p=595#comment-138 Wow, what an interesting find. You must have been very excited to see his prized bull’s portrait still sitting above the fireplace in the house. Do you know if the current owners were any relation to your Reads?

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