Hi Geoff, I ran across your replies on a thread and believe you may be able to push my lot back further and maybe find a link. My name is Tim Garlick and I trace my line back to wilts in the 18th century but lose track in mid-century. I descend from a Rev George Garlick who was rector at Malmesbury with Westport and married to an Ann 1719-1779. He was born in 1754 and died in 1822, the year after his son who was also called George and was born in Westport Malmesbury in 1786. George the younger was also a churchman and ministered in Painswick, Gloucestershire between about 1810 and his death.
Before George the elder things are much too vague for my liking. It seems likely that he ministered close to his origins. I tentatively have George being the son of John Garlick 1717-92 and Ann 1719-79. They had, I think, 4 other sons; William Bennett Garlick M.D 1756-1841, Thomas Garlick a surgeon, 1743-1770, Daniel Garlick 1737-1770 and finally John Garlick, brewer, 1730-92.
Before this I have nothing, yet they clearly were a family of means and cannot have sprung from the earth. Can you help?
Kind RegardsTim Garlick