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Nov
2008
Great Great Grandparents
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Nov
2008
William Lucas
William Lucas was born in Sydenham, Oxfordshire in 1789. He married Sarah Holder in 1811 and spent the rest of his life in and around Colnbrook, Buckinghamshire. He seems to have been involved working as a coach driver, employed by Inns in the town. Colnbrook was on the Bath Road (A4) and his addresses in the censuses after 1841 are next door to a number of Inns. Continue reading →
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Nov
2008
Great Grandparents
There are eight Great Grandparents. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
Wilmot Letters
Letters from Captain Wilmot Evans to Edward Dimmack Marten and Henrietta Lewis, his uncle and aunt both living in Cheltenham dated June 25th 1915. These two letters were written from ‘The Lawn’ Hagley whilst Wilmot was convalescing – responding to congratulations on his award of the Military Cross. Continue reading →
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Nathaniel Marten
Nathaniel Marten was born in London on 19 May 1735, the second son of Robert Amberson Marten and his wife Alice Harford. His father had been a Bristol Merchant but seems to have had a variety of business interests, latterly based in London. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
Edward Dimmack Marten
Edward Dimmack Marten, known as Teddy, was the eldest son of Henry John Marten. Born in 1855, he was educated at Mill Hill School and St John’s College, Cambridge and became a Civil Engineer. One of his uncles, Richard Weymouth, was the Headmaster of Mill Hill School another Alfred George Marten was a Fellow of St John’s. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
Isaac Morgan
Isaac Morgan was born in the small Somerset village of Luccombe in 1771 on the very edge of Exmoor. He was baptized in the parish church of St Mary’s on 16 June 1771. The very next entry in the Parish Register is that of Joan Steer baptized on 2 Aug 1771. The two were to marry each other on 20 April 1800 in St John the Baptist in Bristol. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
Mary Shaw-Hellier
Mary Shaw Hellier was born on 27 February 1801, the third daughter of James Shaw-Hellier of Wombourne. She was baptized at St Thomas’s Dudley on 21 April 1801. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
Edith Ogden
Mary Isabel Edith Ogden was born in Allahabad, India on 23 January 1874. Her mother, Charlotte Edith Ogden (nee Warburton) apparently died in childbirth and her father, serving in the British Infantry in India, had her shipped back to her mother’s uncle Charles Richard Ogden Evans in Wolverhampton. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
Wolverhampton Volunteers
The Wolverhampton Rifle Volunteer Corps was set up in 1859 in response to the possibilities of war with France. Henry Evans and his cousin Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier were among the volunteers. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
Frances Anne Dimmack
Frances Anne Dimmack was the only surviving child of Edward Bagnall Dimmack, a wealthy iron founder. She was born in Bilston in 1834 and baptised at the Independent church in Oxford Street, Bilston. In 1854, she married Henry John Marten an acquaintance of her father, who was eventually to become his full business partner. In her short life she had seven children before dying at the age of 28, twelve days after giving birth to her youngest child, Frank. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
Thomas Bradney Shaw Hellier
Thomas Bradney Shaw-Hellier was born on 2 Oct 1836 and was effectively the last of the Shaw-Hellier line when he died in Italy on 23 Dec 1910. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
Beacon Lodge
Beacon Lodge was owned by the Downing family as a shooting lodge from about 1910 to 1940. It stands in a remote place on the Welsh Borders about two miles west of Llangunllo station. It is now a ruin. The track that now passes by the house is on the Owen Glendower trail and the lodge presents a welcome staging post for walkers following the path. Continue reading →
06
Oct
2008
Elizabeth Jane Treleaven
Elizabeth Jane Treleaven, known as Ginny, was born at 23 Claremont Street in Plymouth in 1854. Her father, George Treleaven, was a Ropemaker in the Royal Navy. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
Hannah Pitt Showell
Hannah Pitt Showell was born in Oldbury on 2 Mar 1855. She was the eldest of thirteen children of Walter Showell and his wife Sarah (née Hartill). Her father was a successful brewery owner in the town of Oldbury. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
Margaret Sarah Chiswick
Margaret Sarah Chiswick was born in Poplar on 29 Sep 1851 the eldest daughter of Daniel Chiswick and Margaret Lucas. Her father was a cooper, whose family had practised the trade in Bethnal Green for more than a century. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
William Edmund Downing
William Edmund Downing was born in Smethwick in 1849 the second son of William Downing and his first wife Emma Clifton. His mother died when he was only 2. Both he and his elder brother, George, went into the family business as Maltsters. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
Charles Richard Ogden Evans
Charles Richard Ogden Evans was born in Canada in 1824, the second son of Thomas Evans and Harriet Ogden. Continue reading →
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Oct
2008
Florence Eliza Marten
Florence Eliza Marten was born on 8 May 1858, the second daughter of Henry John Marten and his first wife Frances Anne Dimmack. She was brought up in the family home at Penn Hall, near Wolverhampton, moving first to Parkfield House, Penn Fields and then to ‘The Birches‘ in Codsall in about 1875. Continue reading →
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2008
Henry Edwin Palmer
Henry Edwin Palmer was born on 28 Sep 1858 the youngest son of Charles Palmer, a naval signalman based in Plymouth. At the age of 21 he married Elizabeth Jane Treleaven (Ginny) up in London – even though she too was from Plymouth. Continue reading →