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Simplified family tree, derived from information summarized more fully below. Question marks indicate speculative links.

Hammersmith
  (Longborough)
  |
  +--------------?-------------+--------------?------------?--------------> [cont'd below]
  |              |             |              |            |      
  White Knights  East Suffolk  Great Western  Broadwood    Greenwich (UK)
  (Bledington)   (Fieldtown)   (Fieldtown)    (Fieldtown)  (Fieldtown)
                 |                                         |      
                 |                                         |      
                 |                                         |      
                 Black Jokers                              Greenwich (US)
                 (Longborough)                             (Fieldtown)
                 |                                                
                 |                                                
                 |                                                
                 Middlesex                                        
                 (Fieldtown)                                      



 [cont'd] ---------?-------------?--------+-------------------?
                   |             |        |                   |
                   Albemarle     Windsor  Ramsey's Braggarts  Victory
                   (Bledington)  (Badby)  (Bledington)        (Fieldtown)
                   | 
                   Rock Creek
                   (Fieldtown)
                                 +------------?
                                 |            |
                                 Marlboro MM  Cynthia Whear
                                 (Badby)      (Withington)
                                 |            |
             +-------------------+            |
             |                   |            |
             Thames Valley Int.  Marlboro MM  Muddy River
             (T.V. Fieldtown)    (O.S. Long.) (Fieldtown)



	
  ?                                        ?            ?           ?
  |                                        |            |           |
  Wake Robin                               Golden Star  Blackheath  Hurst
  (Fieldtown)                              (Fieldtown)  (?)         (Oddington)
  |                                        |            |
  +-------------------------+              |            |
  |                         |              |            |
  Pokingbrook               Harrisville    Rag          Granta
  (Fieldtown)               (Fieldtown)    (Fieldtown)  (Fieldtown)
  |                         |
  +------------+            |
  |            |            |
  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	-	White Knights	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
by 1980	?	-	-	Windsor	?	Badby	RD
by 1980	?	-	-	Windsor	?	Badby	RD
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

* Team affiliation when the teacher learned the dance

• Bled. = Bledington
• Field. = Fieldtown
• Long. = Longborough
• Odd. = Oddington
• With. = Withington

• 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

• Lass of Richmond Hill
• Lyrics to Lass of Richmond Hill