Simplified family tree, derived from information summarized more fully below. Question marks indicate speculative links.
Hammersmith
(Longborough)
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+--------------?-------------+--------------?------------?--------------> [cont'd below]
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White Knights East Suffolk Great Western Broadwood Greenwich (UK)
(Bledington) (Fieldtown) (Fieldtown) (Fieldtown) (Fieldtown)
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Black Jokers Greenwich (US)
(Longborough) (Fieldtown)
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Middlesex
(Fieldtown)
[cont'd] ---------?-------------?--------+-------------------?
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Albemarle Windsor Ramsey's Braggarts Victory
(Bledington) (Badby) (Bledington) (Fieldtown)
+------------?
| |
Marlboro MM Cynthia Whear
(Badby) (Withington)
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+-------------------+ |
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Thames Valley Int. Marlboro MM Muddy River
(T.V. Fieldtown) (O.S. Long.) (Fieldtown)
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Rock Creek
(Fieldtown)
? ? ? ?
| | | |
Wake Robin Golden Star Blackheath Hurst
(Fieldtown) (Fieldtown) (?) (Oddington)
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+-------------------------+ | |
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Pokingbrook Harrisville Rag Granta
(Fieldtown) (Fieldtown) (Fieldtown) (Fieldtown)
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+------------+ |
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Thornden New Haven Hearts of Oak
(Fieldtown) (Fieldtown) (Fieldtown)
As of now we seem to have this chronology:
| Date | Teacher | Affiliation* | Students | Affiliation | Learned as | Done as | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| c. 1970 | invented by Martin Johnson, Hammersmith | Long. | RD,RW,NR,ID | ||||
| c. 1970 | Johnson? | Hammersmith | - | Whiteknights | Bled. | Bled. | ID |
| by 1976 | Johnson | Hammersmith | - | Great Western | Long. | Field. | RC |
| c. 1976 | - | Great Western | Roger Cartwright | - | Long. | -- | SC,RC |
| 1970s | Tubby Reynolds? | - | John Rowlands | Greenwich (Lon.) | Field.? | -- | SC |
| by 1979 | ? | - | - | Broadwood | ? | Field.? | RD |
| 1979 | Reynolds, Roy Dommett | - | - | Albemarle | Bled. | Bled. | RAD,RD |
| Note that Dommett says he saw Albemarle do Lass in 1983; he doesn't say anything about teaching it to them in 1979 | |||||||
| 1980? | Jenny Joyce | Windsor | - | Windsor | adapted from Field. | Badby | from Great Western's dancing |
| early 1980s | Jackie Emerson & Carol Smith | Jackstraws Morris | - | Jackstraws Morris | Bled. | Bled. | from Hammersmith's dancing |
| early 1980s | Mo Johnson | - | - | Earls of Essex | Fieldtown | Bledington | PD |
| early 1980s | Paul Draper | Earls of Essex - | - | Royal Liberty | ? | Ascott | PD |
| c. 1982 | Rowlands | Greenwich (Lon.) | - | Greenwich (NYC) | Field. | -- | SC |
| 1982? | Jenny Joyce | Windsor | Alistair Brown, Paul Eric Smith, Paul Handford | Thames Val. Int. | Badby | - | AN |
| Steve Adams, Tim Cavanaugh, Alex Naar | TVI, Marlboro | - | |||||
| At Pinewoods; Naar thinks Rowlands was present. | |||||||
| after 1982 | Tim Cavanaugh | Marlboro M+S | - | Marlboro | Badby | Badby | AN |
| Cynthia Whear was probably present | |||||||
| early-mid 1980's | converted by Smith, Adams, Naar to TV Fieldtown | AN | |||||
| 1985 | converted by Cavanaugh, Will Fielding, Naar to Old Spot Longborough; danced by Marlboro Morris Men | AN | |||||
| by 1983 | ? | - | - | Victory | ? | Field. | RD |
| 1984 | - | East Suffolk | - | Black Jokers | Field. | Long. | AM,ISW,RJ |
| 1980s | Jim Brickwedde, John Cavanaugh | Hammersmith | - | Ramsey's Braggarts | Long. | Bled. | JC |
| 1980s | - | ? | Cynthia Whear | Marlboro | Long. | With. | JM |
| c. 1989 | Whear | - | Judy Erickson | Muddy River | With. &/or Long. | Field. | JM |
| ? | Roger Cartwright | - | - | Wake Robin | Field. | Field. | LA |
| ? | - | Wake Robin | Dancer X or... | Team X which then taught Dancer X | Field. | Field. | X |
| ? | Dancer X | - | - | Pokingbrook | Field. | Field. | X |
| 1989? | - | Pokingbrook | - | Thornden | Field. | Field. | CW |
| 1989? | Tanya Pyles | Pokingbrook | - | New Haven | Field. | Field. | BN |
| 1990s | Tony Ashley | Anker Morris Men | - | Anker Morris Men | Ascott | Ascott | DW |
| 1992 | Griselda Sherlaw-Johnson | Golden Star | - | Rag | Field. | Field. | KH |
| before 1992 | Lynn Arnold | Harrisville (former Wake Robin) | - | Harrisville | Field. | Field. | LA |
| 1992 | Sarah Jane Miller | Harrisville | - | Hearts of Oak | Field. | -- | JB |
| by 1993 | ? | - | - | Hurst | ? | Odd. | CF |
| by 1993 | Chris Pugh | Blackheath | - | Granta | ? | Field. | CF |
| 1993 | Adam Moskowitz | Black Jokers | - | Middlesex | Field. | Field. | BW |
| 1994 | Judy Erickson | taught at Chesapeake Dance Weekend | Alice Taylor | Rock Creek Morris Women | Field. | Field. | AJ |
* Team affiliation when the teacher learned the dance
- Bled. = Bledington
- Field. = Fieldtown
- Long. = Longborough
- Odd. = Oddington
- With. = Withington
- AJ = Aldona Joseph
- AM = Adam Moskowitz
- AN = Alex Naar
- BN = Brian Noonan
- BW = Brian Wilson
- CF = Colin Fine
- CW = Connie Walters
- DW = David Wintle
- ID = unknown ex-Hammersmith met by Ian Dedic
- ISW = Ishmael Stefanov-Wagner
- JB = Jim Blake
- JC = John Cavanaugh
- JM = Jeannine Mosely
- KH = Keith Hallam
- LA = Lynn Arnold
- LK = Len Killick
- NR = Nick Robertshaw
- PD = Paul Draper
- RAD = Bob Dupre
- RC = Roger Cartwright
- RD = Roy Dommett
- RJ = Rich Jackson
- RW = Robert Williams
- SC = Steve Corrsin
- X = Dancer X