User:PCMorphy72/Syd Barrett genealogy

Syd Barrett died in 2006. Knowing something about his relatives would have been a subject of research for many of his biographers, but the interviews was annoying for him, since he gave his last interview in 1971 and left the music entourage in 1974. So biographers like Luca Ferrari, who started in 1985 to try to meet him, and after Mike Watkinson, Pete Anderson, Julian Palacios and Tim Willis had to use a restrained style to get a few further such indiscreet information from his family. Now a research about his genealogy is made easy with sites like Ancestry.com.

Main family tree
These 8 couples gave the whole genetic inheritance to Syd Barrett: Benjamin Barrett & Susan Byatt, John Nevill & his wife Frances, Isaac Ashford* & Mary Bright, James Garrett* & Elizabeth Gibbs*, John Heeps & Harriot Dewing*, William Field & his wife, William John Flack* & Charlotte Ellis, William Chew* & Elizabeth Collings. The family tree to let understand how them lead to Syd Barrett is shown below. While only one of these persons is unknown (the wife of William Field), some of them (the 6 ones with a "*" sign to their right) have themselves a more or less known further family tree, described in the next section.

Family trees of ancestors
Particularly in the James Garrett's family tree (numbered "2" below) an extensive research was did in 2012 by a forum user to find a relation to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson stated in an obituary of Syd's father Arthur Max Barrett, but even considering some other Garrett found among Syd's ancestors, at the moment that research leads to the conclusion that they were not related until their 10th generation. Helpful for these trees were some websites about Syd's ancestors like the Garrett family from Leiden, Norfolk and the Flack family,  as well as information about many Elizabeth Garrett Anderson's ancestors (who were mainly from Suffolk).

Descendants
Ian Barrett, born in Cambridge in 1972, is the son of Syd's brother Donald. Like his uncle Rosemary (Syd's sister), Ian has taken part in some interviews about his uncle Roger (Syd). Although Donald seems rather interested about the genealogy of the family, in general the family doesn't seem to believe in further growth of interest about the legacy of Syd's works more than in the years after his death in 2006, rather as well as Syd should not have been interested in music after the '70s, but it may be due to an achieved discretion and a reserved nature more than a lack of trust. Anyway, through Ian and his father Donald something is known about Syd's siblings: Rosemary (the lastborn, born closely after Syd in 1947, close to him also during his life ) became a nurse and married Mr. Breen in 1974, Ruth became a teacher, married Mr. Brown and had 3 children, Donald became a metallurgist for Vauxhall, married Miss Hodd and had 3 children, Alan (the firstborn, born in 1937, who playing sax in a skiffle band in the '60s persuaded the young Syd to play music ) became a research scientist, married Ann Duke who died in 2002 and had 2 children (his daughter Ginny married Mr. Swepson ). It is also known that Ian had a son in about 2003.