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Dec
2008
Holly Lodge
Holly Lodge in Smethwick was a substantial residence built in the early 1860’s by William Downing on the back of his successful malting business. Continue reading →
10
Dec
2008
Broadway House, Plaistow
In 1800 Broadway House was one of the largest houses in the centre of the village of Plaistow. Continue reading →
10
Dec
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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Dec
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 →
07
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 →
07
Dec
2008
Index of Places
Here is a list of Places, Houses and Residences connected with the family History. Continue reading →
04
Dec
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 →
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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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Nov
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 →
20
Nov
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 →
20
Nov
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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Nov
2008
Great Great Grandparents
There are 16 Great Great Grandparents Continue reading →
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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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Oct
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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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 →
20
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 →