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Gyles Family

Reference code
KNO/10/27
Title
Gyles Family
Level of description
item
Scope and content
Handwritten notes with a handwritten family tree, earliest members known from 1550s and latest died in 1721.
One page of the notes written on the back of a typewritten letter from JAK’s family firm of J W Knowles & Sons, Stonegate, York, to an unnamed vicar -- this is probably a draft for an advertising campaign, a letter sent to a number of vicars advertising their services in providing stained glass windows for churches.
Creator
Knowles, John Alder (1881-1961), glass painter and historian of stained glass