Richard TWINING [22454]

  General Notes:

Richard was a member of the family of tea merchants in London whose business flourishes into the 21st-century.

  Research Notes:

The Twining, Longcroft Smythies and Powell families had long known each other, and intermarried.

For a detailed but eminently readable narrative on these and many other families see:
"The Longcrofts 500 years of a British Family"
by James Phillips-Evans. 396 pages and extensively illustrated. Available on www.amazon.com

Richard married Elizabeth Mary SMYTHIES [21442] [MRIN: 8068], daughter of Rev John SMYTHIES of Alpheton SFK [21435] and Elizabeth LONGCROFT [21436], on 5 May 1802 in St Mary Colchester ESS. (Elizabeth Mary SMYTHIES [21442] was born in 1781 in Colchester ESS and died on 5 Jan 1866.)