This note concerns Richard Andrews (c1737-1822) and the next two or three generations who had connections with Egham in Surrey.

This Richard Andrews does not appear to have been baptised at Egham but it was apparent from his will that he owned a substantial amount of property in Egham and the surrounding area. It would seem likely that he inherited this.

Richard had three sons Thomas (c1762-1840), Richard (c1764-1838) and William Smith (c1773-1830). Thomas and Richard were carpenters and were buried in Egham. William Smith Andrews was described as a surgeon in his father's will but lived and was buried in Richmond. He was declared bankrupt in 1813 at which time he was described as apothecary, dealer and chapman. [Chapman = an itinerant dealer, a pedlar]. In 1827 his daughter, Pamela, married Robert Carden who was knighted in 1851 and later became an MP as well as Lord Mayor of London. A portrait of Pamela, as Lady Carden, hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.

Both of the above Richards are ancestors of my wife as was the younger Richard's son, William. William seems to be the odd one out in that he appears to be the only one of Richard the younger's children that was not baptised; not at Egham anyway. The link to William's ancestry was found in the will of his son, William Crouch Andrews (1806-1852). It is a mystery as to what happened to William and his wife Eliza after 1834. By 1841 the surviving children were lodging separately and were not with their parents.

A further mystery is that when Fanny Andrews married Charles Curtis in 1848 the witnesses were John Thomas Grover and Fanny Tarlton (who married each other later the same year). Fanny Tarlton was the daughter of Benjamin Tarlton and his second wife, Margaret Wellman. Benjamin's first wife was Elizabeth Robie Andrews, daughter of another William Andrews. I feel sure that these Andrews are related but haven't managed to establish how.