Rachel Wilson
Geoffrey Braithwaite writes about his great, great, great, great grandmother
It all started in Friends House Library a few years ago when my wife Molly was searching out material for her book on Daniel Baker. He was a seventeenth century naval captain who, according to state papers, became ‘tainted with Quakerism’ and was removed from service. He embarked, instead, on a life as a Quaker no less extraordinary than any of the ‘Valiant Sixty’.
I went along to ‘help’ her but, as often as not, ‘What would you like me to look at next?’ came at moments that interrupted her train of thought. ‘Have you ever thought of looking into your Quaker family history?’ she asked, with some irritation, and added: ‘There must be masses of stuff here!’ I decided to do so.
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