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2008

The Birches, Codsall

The Birches Codsall was the residence of Henry John Marten and his family from about 1875 onwards. The family moved there from Parkfield House in Wolverhampton, having lived in Penn Hall up until about 1860. Continue reading →

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2008

Barnhurst

The Barnhurst estate was probably acquired by the Helliers in the 1720’s. James Shaw-Hellier and his family lived there from about 1800 while his father, Rev Thomas Shaw Hellier (d 1812) was alive and living in the Wodehouse Wombourne. Continue reading →

Dec

2008

The Lawn Hagley

Henry Evans moved his family into The Lawn, Hagley in about 1895 and they lived there until his death in 1923. Continue reading →

Dec

2008

Index of Places

Here is a list of Places, Houses and Residences connected with the family History. Continue reading →

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2008

Kneller Hall

Kneller Hall, formerly the residence of the painter Sir Godfrey Kneller, is close to Twickenham. In 1850 it was largely rebuilt and became the headquarters of the Royal Military School of Music. Colonel Thomas Bradney Shaw Hellier was Commandant there from 1887 to 1892. Continue reading →

Dec

2008

Anne Thompson

Anne Thompson was born in Bilston on 23 Feb 1801. Her parents were Isaac Thompson, a Japanner, and his wife Sarah (nee Astley). She married Edward Bagnall Dimmack at the age of 30 on 17 Oct 1831 – and was about seven years older than him. They only had one daughter who lived into adulthood, Frances Anne Dimmack. Continue reading →

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2008

Great Great Great Great Great Grandparents

There are 128 Great Great Great Great Great Grandparents of which 75 have been identified and seven have biographies. Continue reading →

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2008

Great Great Great Great Grandparents

There are 64 Great Great Great Great Grandparents, of which 50 have been identified and 19 biographies. Continue reading →

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2008

Great Great Great Grandparents

Of the 32 Great Great Great Grandparents 31 are identified by name and currently there are 9 biographies. Continue reading →

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2008

Great Great Grandparents

There are 16 Great Great Grandparents Continue reading →

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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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2008

Great Grandparents

There are eight Great Grandparents. Continue reading →

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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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2008

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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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 →

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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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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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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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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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 on 25 Jun 1837 at the Independent church in Oxford Street, Bilston. Continue reading →

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