I was born over the top of my grandfathers butchers shop at 7, Old Kent Road Bermondsey, London. With 7 generations of the Wing family employed as Watermen or Lightermen on the River Thames and the Richards family being traced back to 1650, yet again in London, I considered nyslef a typical Londoner. That is until my 4th Gt Grandafather, William Couture, Rector of Checkendon, Oxfordshire, married into the Kenrick family

In Saxon and Norman times the Kenricks were Welsh princes ruling over Denbighshire, Flintshire and parts of Cheshire. They did not acknowledge the sovereignty of the Normans and Plantagenets until Edward I conquered North Wales and compelled Llewellyn to acknowledge him as his suzerain. Amongst the Harleian MSS.¹ in the British Museum is a genealogical tree tracing the Kenricks back to 200 years before the Norman conquest.
 Sir David Kenrick was Standard Bearer to Edward the Black Prince at the Battle of Crecy

The Welsh nobilty intermarried with the Saxon and Norman nobility, its interesting to see where the various lines lead.
 In the tree one will find Charlemange the Great, the Merovian  Kings, every King and Queen of England, Scotland and France. Other people of interest are, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Francis Drake, Walter Rawleigh, John Hawkins, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, Issac Newton,  Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain,George Washington Thoams Jefferson,  Benjamin Pierce, 14th Presiddent of America, Charles Darwin, Dr
 Dee ,Napolean Bonaparte, Marshal Murat his brother in law, Horatio Nelson, Constable,Josiah  Wedgwood. Banjo Patterson and more.
 There are also some convicts, others died in lunatic aslyums. Just an average family This is still a work in progress and my hearfelt thanks go  to the many cousins of one degree or another who have helped. These include Chris Longdon, Steve Paull, Kenneth Dakin, Pedr Couture, Veronica Reid nee Richards,Colin Richards,  Mary Drum, Judith Donoghue, Bob Groom,Sue Berg, Norman Long  and so many more