Martin Robb
I'm an independent researcher exploring a network of Catholic recusant families in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
This blog grew out of my family history research, and more specifically an interest in my Kent and Sussex ancestors, including the Fowle family, who seem to have held on to their Catholic faith, either openly or covertly, through the turbulent events of the Reformation (though my more recent forebears were protestant nonconformists of various kinds)... I'm hoping that taking a genealogical approach to recusant history, exploring the links between individuals and families, might uncover hitherto hidden connections.
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24 March 2023
I would like to apologise to all those who have left comments and questions on my posts over the past few years. I have to admit that, since my last post in 2017, I’ve neglected this...
17 April 2017
If you like this website, and you’re interested in the Tudor and Stuart period, you might like my new family history site, Yeomen and Kinsmen, which tells the story of my...
4 May 2016
In recent posts I’ve written about Thomas Lucke, the former Augustinian canon who was precentor of Michelham Priory, Sussex, until its suppression by Thomas Cromwell in 1537,...
25 April 2016
We were in Vienna, Austria, for a few days last autumn, and on the Sunday morning we went to High Mass at the Augustinerkirche, which was once the parish church of the Habsburgs. The...