Finding Mr. Strickland
It's been a good minute or two since I last updated this blog, and I figured the best way to do so was to pick up precisely where I left off with Hartnell research. My last post about the Hartnell family is definitely in sore need of updating (I've learned way more since then!), but I've been so excited about the topic I'm outlining today that it can wait another... year or so. I kid. Hopefully. Since late 2016, researching the Hartnell family has been a sort of core focus of mine. As far as a return on my efforts go, it hasn't been much as - first of all - I live very far away from the National Archives, SPRI, Chatham Dockyard, Gillingham, &c. since there are quite a few miles between Michigan and England and I'm not exactly celebrating any major financial bounty that'll get me there any time soon. Secondly, John and Thomas Hartnell's family were not wealthy or had any major social bearing outside of an uncle who was a respected clerk in Plymou