Robin Stephenson

One aspect of Robin’s family ancestry is the regular appearance of the name ‘John’… John Proud’s son was John Thompson Proud while his son was Thomas John Proud. But that tradition was to change with his son, William Ernest Proud, Robin Proud’s father. A history of John and Alice Proud, written by Stanley Proud, indicates that the family’s journey commenced in Huntingdonshire, part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia. This is the area where Oliver Cromwell was born and raised. Residents of this area were strongly opposed to the imposition of the religion imposed by the Crown. Because of their dissent, proper church records denied exact tracing of the family and its movements.