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James McVicar & Caroline Janet McNab

who married at St. Sepulchre Parish Church, Holborn, London

13 February 1853

and bits and pieces on some of their many also-deceased descendants, and proven and possible ancestors. 

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Photo: St Sepulchre-without-Newgate at Holborn Viaduct, near the Old Bailey, London, in 2020

The traditional nursery rhyme, "Oranges & Lemons" includes the bells of St Sepulchre as "the Bells of Old Bailey".

More information, including a bells-ringing, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_and_Lemons

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7 June 2025: Rewording and correction various areas continues, today in the "Further into the Past" page.

 11 April 2022:  Started on a combined renovation of the technical works as required by Google's major changes, and editing and  updating information in line with  current knowledge .  This is going to take months of precious spare time.  The massive increase in searchable online data bases, public DNA testing-results matching, and family tree construction from totally erroneous to highly informed, and their publication has changed much.  If you have any comments or extra info, please get it to me -address below- asap. Thanks.

NOTE:  DNA TESTING: The writer does not recommend DNA testing because it includes a great loss of privacy for the testee and a large number of their present, past and future relatives.   However, DNA test results which ALREADY exist - the genie out of the bottle -  often contain valuable  historial information. Should you wish to share the information here, please send your findings to me and I will publish what seem to be general trends. Current ones are showing 1. that 'Our" McVicars are related to those in in the Trunkey Creek area of N.S.W. who "arrived" in the 1830s, most direct from the Scottsh Highlands, 2. that the McNabs tricked down the East Coast of the UK from Scotland, and 3. that the Davises of London were, not surprisingly, in the deeper past, Welsh. 

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