OUR SALEM BASE is open every Tuesday from 10am – 3pm and this week Ray Fletcher, an old evacuee from the war years is visiting us to revive old memories. All welcome.
REQUESTS And Susan (granddaughter of Charles Thomas) from Melbourne has arrived in England this week and she will be visiting us next week and she particularly interested in meeting up with anyone who has connections with, or is descended from, Frederick Handel Thomas and Emily Perks.
And Amanda is researching Thomas Kingston (1842-1912) who married Emma Tonks in 1863 having three children – Joseph, Samuel and Sarah J and would greatly appreciate any help.
RESPONSES Our researcher Jean provides fuller information of Sydney and Edna Elizabeth Bickley’s graves and also will provide a photograph of the grave free of charge.
Our old friend Ray Franks remembers the Station Street cottages well in the late 1940s and supplies information of the families namely Dutton, Cooper, Pearce, Taylor, Kingston and Owen who lived there. Vi then confirms that George Alfred Hickman (1880 – 1967) was living lower down at 193 Station Street and gives details of the family and how they fit in with the Harveys,
as well as the Hudsons and the Whitehouses.
More information on the Reverend George Parbrook/Brevitt enquiry – we now have his career as a minister and also a couple of photographs.
NEW PHOTOGRAPHS One photograph of a 1950 Walkmill Tileries trip to Blackpool.
OLD NEWSPAPERS researched by Dave Washington. Copies available at £1 per report. This week the papers cover a wide range of offenders appearing in court throughout 1909 up to 6th August as well as a report of a bowls match with full scores.
WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK 100 YEARS AGO ……by Mike Belcher
24th May 1913 Three stories are covered including the sale by auction, at the Red Lion Hotel in Cheslyn Hay of 5 High Street, which was a house, a butchers shop and well situated premises. Also a unique celebration organised by Gilpins to celebrate their 150th anniversary when all old and current employers were invited and finally full details of a local wedding.
MEMORIES This week are out of our archives from a Mr W J Leeke who recalls his schooldays, the Boer War, the old football teams, the circuses, the flower shows and the Wakes on the Barn Flat. Also seeing two miners killed down Hawkins pit and transported home in a wagon. Names appearing in this week’s newsletter are as follows and I will happily provide more information on them via the email address below.
J Allen, Henry Bate, James Bate, William Bill, Ethel Belcher, James Bowring, Julia Bryan, B & D Carpenter, T Clewley, A Cope, Mary Ann Dace, Harriet Dawkins, James & David Dutton, George Fletcher, Arthur Hall, W Hall, J E Hart, William & Edgar Herriott, Henry Kingston, James Lockley, W Lockett, William Lockett, Harry Morris, Simeon Mountford, John Merrick, S & J Parbrook, Ethel Pearce, Enoch Pearson, G Pee, James Seabury, John Skitt, T Smith, H Stokes, John Summerton, William Turner, William Whitehouse, Thomas, William & Eliza Whitehouse, William Whitehouse, George Wright.
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EVENTS Peter Cadman is giving a talk for the Bridgtown LHS on ‘The History of Cheslyn Hay’ on Wednesday, 15th May at the Bridgtown Community Centre at 7pm. Admittance £1.
OUR SALEM BASE is open every Tuesday from 10am – 3pm. All welcome. The following Tuesday 21st May, Ray Fletcher, an evacuee during WWII is visiting us mid morning and he would like to meet anyone with wartime memories of our area. He stayed with the Bickley family and he still has such warm memories of this family and of our area.
REQUESTS Coincidentally we have received an enquiry from the Bickley family as to where Sydney and his wife Edna were buried. These enquiries are straight forward and as in this case we provide full details of addresses, occupations, dates of burials etc and of course the plot numbers, where we can also show where these plots can be located on the maps we have produced.
Also Maurice is researching the history of the Station Street cottages numbered 142 – 148 and wants to know when they were built. He believes they were built by his grandmother’s brothers, Harold and George Hickman and therefore must have been built in the late 1800s, although the houses opposite were built in 1902. Maurice also adds that his grandmother Florence also had three sisters Lillian, Beatrice and Jinny. Lillian married someone named Harvey and they lived in the cottages opposite what was the Raj, previously George Lunt’s chippy and Maurice’s uncle was Ray Harvey the coalman who also did taxi work.
RESPONSES Our researchers were busy this week on Jenni’s request about when William Thomas of Cheslyn Hay died and both Andrew and Vi provide information on the death of William together with a family tree including the Sommerton/Summerton/Somerton family. Also both Andrew and Vi solve the Jenni’s other enquiry on the Hemingsley family pre-1881.
Re the Reverend George Parbrook, born George Brevitt, Andrew has found the details of George Henry Brevitt rather complicated life and both the Brevitts and the Parbrooks are included in our Family History Database. Also no problem in tracing the Bakers in the 1891 Census with John Baker (b1830), his wife Betsy Ann (b1850), and children.
NEW PHOTOGRAPHS
ARCHIVE ADDITIONS/ARTEFACTS/DONATIONS A selection of old coins, an old book of British Birds, 1953 Coronation Souvenir Programme, an AA badge with membership number and a child’s pull-along toy all donated for our displays together with a P Hudson Funeral Bill.
OLD NEWSPAPERS researched by Dave Washington Copies available at £1 per report.
WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK 50/100 YEARS AGO ……by Mike Belcher This week includes a cricket match at Cheslyn Hay’s new ground in 1913 and in 1963 there are stories of Christian Aid Week and Hawkins Colliery cricket team’s first match of the season.
MEMORIES come this week from Joe Cadman (1920 – 2009), Clerk to the Cheslyn Hay Parish Council and written in 2001 covering the 1926 Miners Strike and his life at school before the war and the development of the Windsor Road housing estate.
GENERAL NEWS
GLADYS HAMMOND (nee BAKER) More sad news received this week of the passing of another ‘born and bred on the Bonk’ personality. Gladys has been living at Stafford for the last few years, close to her daughter Glenys, and her funeral was last Thursday morning at St Marks and she will always be remembered for her active involvement with Cannock and Walsall Operatic Societies and her shop ‘Gladrags’. Gladys was 91 and Cheslyn Hay always remained ‘close to her heart’ right to the very end.
NAMES APPEARING IN THIS WEEK’S NEWSLETTER are Rev D A Abraham, Fred Altree, Jack Bown, Cadman, Ernie Carter, Collins, Bob Cooper, Gordon Illidge, Jane Mason, Reynolds and Westley.
Enquiries are welcomed for fuller information or any enquiries via the email address below.
trevor.cheslynhayhistory@talktalk.net

EVENTS This week at our ‘Chat ‘n’ Char’ Morning on Thursday at the Salem at 10am we have Michael Taylor talking on ‘A Pie for the Queen’.
Also we have provisionally booked a 33 seater coach for a trip to ‘The Last of the Lost Content’ Museum at Craven Arms, Shropshire for Thursday 11th July 2013. Start time 9.30am at the Salem, returning at 4.00pm – journey time 1hr 30mins. £10 per person coach fare plus a reduced £4 entrance fee. Restaurant available on site or take a packed lunch. Please contact Roger on 01543 372856.
OUR SALEM BASE is open Tuesday from 10am but we are closing early this week at 2pm for a meeting. This week we look forward to a visit from the Winfer family. All welcome.
REQUESTS Jenni from Tasmania has two requests. Firstly William Thomas (b1807 in Stoke on Trent) married Caroline Pearson but apparently went off with someone named Neville, a relation to Blanche Dutton. He is then on the 1871 and 1881 censuses at the same address as Ann Somerton and there is also a son, William Thomas Somerton, by 1881 and then they all disappear. Jenni wants to find out what happened to them and when William died.
Secondly Joseph Hemingsley (b1816 Shifnal) married Sarah Baker (b1818) and daughter of Mary (c1777 Cheslyn Hay) and they are thought to be parents of Joseph Hemingsley (b1839 Cheslyn Hay) but they don’t appear in the censuses until 1881 and Jenni cannot find the Sarah Baker link again. In the census there is only Joseph Hemingsley (b1818 Tong) married to Maria (b1820 Cheslyn Hay) living in Cannock and Jenni appeals for any help at all.

The mention of Cyril Parsons last week brought more response from our researcher Andrew who has a Cyril Parsons (b1903 Great Wyrley) in our massive Cheslyn Hay inter-connecting family tree has extended the line back to 1655 linking the Parsons with the Greensills, Coopers and the Smiths and we are forwarding that family tree on.
Also Scott from the USA was surprised to see the name of Miss Eileen Hitchens in 1963 and relates the story of when Eileen donated the Family Bible to his family fifty years ago as the two families are inter related with the Tuft, Cartwright, and Pye families and enquires if there are any relatives still living locally. Unfortunately there aren’t and Eileen has only recently just passed away.

NEW PHOTOGRAPHS Individual photos of several local inhabitants Wilfred Altree, Sarah Ann May Thomas, Harriet Roberts (b1872), Ruth Appleton, George & Alan Kingston, Charles Tricklebank (b1830), Eliza Whitehouse (b1833), eleven members of the John Thomas & Ellen Rowley family of Wharwell Farm in the 1920s, Bert Rowley & family in 1946, William (b1852) & Ellen Altree (b1863), Jack & Michael Bailey on the Cheslyn Hay WMC’s allotments in 1957 and Cuthbert Bale on a school trip down the Thames with Peter Kingston. All 7×5 photographs posted at £1 per print.
ARCHIVE ADDITIONS/ARTEFACTS/DONATIONS

NAMES INCLUDED IN THIS WEEKS ARTICLES are Harriet Allen, William Beddows, John Bird, Frederick Bowen, Daniel Leonard Brevitt, Henry Brevitt, John Brough, Ernest Brown, Mr Carpenter, Mary Ann Courtney, George Dace, Harriet Dawkins, Thomas Dawkins, Charles Dorricott, John Felton, James Gregory, George Goodwin, Mary Hackett, Mrs Hosegood, Mr Hemingsley, Rev Gordon Jenkins, George Kingston,Thomas Kingston, William Lockett, Enoch Marshall, Richard Moore, EJ Pearson, Albert Pee, John Pratt, Frederick Preece, E Rowley, Henry Russell, John Sammon, James Seabridge, Bertha Smallman, I Smith, W Smith, Solomon Starkey, Thomas Summerton, H Taylor, Fred Thomas, George Ward, Mr Whitehead, Alfred Whitehouse and George Whitehouse.
Enquiries for fuller details of any of these names are welcomed via the email address below.
trevor.cheslynhayhistory@talktalk.net

EVENTS This Thursday Peter and his ‘Schools Display Team’ are at Cheslyn Hay Primary School with a World War II ‘Themed’ Day, involving displays WWII weapons, on what home life was like, a typical wartime lunch served by kitchen staff dressed as Land Girls, a talk from a local evacuee and finishing the day with activities making gas masks, singing wartime songs and ‘Doing the Lambeth Walk’.
OUR SALEM BASE is open every Tuesday from 10am – 3pm. Everyone welcome.
REQUESTS An intriguing enquiry this week comes from Rachel tracing her Whitehouse family tree. James Whitehouse married Sarah Whitehouse on 28 May 1855 but both fathers Matthew and William Whitehouse are deceased at this date and Rachel cannot find any trace either of them and Rachel appeals for any information that may be able to solve this problem.
Also a request following on from the pit death of Charles Winfer as to where the Winfers originated from.
Peter has checked back on his emails and states ‘Researcher Vi tells me the Lucy Brough in my family tree had a daughter, Mary Ann Tuft, who married the Joseph Thomas that Jenni from Australia is researching. In another email Vi adds the Simeon Tuft in my tree is one and the same person as the Simeon Tuft in the Jackson family tree that Bernard Scott of Sacramento is connected to.’ Peter is building up a bank of contacts of people who have a direct family link or have a connection by marriage and would appreciate hearing from anyone with a mutual interest so that he can produce a chart showing how far and wide people from our area have migrated with all the relevant details.
And John Matthews asks for contact details for Ray Benton in Canada as they were both schoolmates in the 1950s. They are now in touch via email after half a century.
RESPONSES Our researchers has solved Jenni’s enquiry from last week with full details of the death of Jim Homeshaw and as proof of our popular our website is, we have received a response from John Parsons to an enquiry from Diane over four years ago about his Parsons family! John emails ‘I knew (Uncle Sid) very well as I lived with Emma Parsons and family during the war. If more information is required please contact me’. This has now been expedited. Cyril Parsons
NEW PHOTOGRAPHS
ARCHIVE ADDITIONS/ARTEFACTS/DONATIONS A host of Birth, Deaths and Marriage Certificates for a range of families together with family trees and interviews. Names included in the list below.

This week covers the first six months of 1908 with the tragic deaths and drownings, pit accidents, football matches, a miners meeting and six months of court cases involving local people listed below.

Frank Alcock, John Allsopp, J Bailey, John Bird, Leonard Brevitt, ‘Bass’ Brevitt, Henry Challinor, Chetters, Annie Colley, B Dutton, C T Ellis, Feredays, J G Greenfield, Mr Hackett, Hassells, Harpers, Hitchens, Hanson John Hill, William Holt, William Kendall, W Kendall, William Lockett, R Marshall Jnr, Merchant family, Thomas Morris, Edwin Perks, Annie Perks,$ Evelyn Perks, Edwin Perks Thomas Henry Parker, Mr Poole, Mrs Pretty, Pee family, Pearson, William Rogers, Harry Rogers, W Rogers, Job & Thomas Ridgeway Job Ridgeway, Henry Russell, Skidmore, Alfred Scott, Isaac Smith, William Smith, Mr Thacker, Mr Turner, Joseph Turner, Frank Walker, , Wollaxoll, WhitehouseGeorge Whitehouse (alias Duffy), James Whitehouse, Sarah Whitehouse, AdaWhitehouse, (H)Aden Whitehouse,James Whitehouse, Andrew Whitehouse, Charles Wheatley, William Wright, James Yates.

OLD NEWSPAPERS researched by Dave Washington Copies available at £1 per report.
WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK 50/100 YEARS AGO ……by Mike Belcher Stories in the local newspapers of 4th May 1963 include a celebration evening at Hawkins Colliery Sports Club, the first round of the Staffordshire Bowling Cup with details of matches involving the Woodman, Cheslyn Hay and Cheslyn Hay teams and the converting of part of St Mark’s Church into a chapel. Also in the papers of 3rd May 1913 there are stories of a tragic suicide, a serious misfortune and the Talbot Inn bowling season.

MAUREEN BELCHER Maureen, wife of our longstanding committee member and Vice Chairman, Mike, has passed away earlier today, Saturday 27th April and our thoughts go out to Mike and his family.

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If anyone wishes to join as a member to receive the full and unabridged version of the Weekly Newsletter every Sunday please forward a cheque for £5 made out to ‘CH&DLHS’ and post to Darren Butler, 7 Forest Way, Great Wyrley, Walsall, West Mids WS6 6HU. Membership details and the Programme for 2013/14 will be emailed to you immediately. As a member our researchers are also available to pursue family history enquiries. Names listed below are those mentioned within this newsletter and I will gladly give more details by request to the email address above.

In place of our monthly speaker this Thursday we hold our AGM at the Salem starting at 7.30pm. After the usual 30 minutes proceedings when I shall be stepping down as Secretary but remaining as Chairman there will be five short presentations by Daz Butler, Bob Brevitt, Rob Allan, Peter Cadman and Roger Moore covering projects which we will be heavily involved with in the forthcoming year. Please join us if you can to enjoy a cup of tea and a cake. Free of course.

Our Salem Base is open every Tuesday from 10am – 3pm. All welcome.
After Jean had helped Jenni to sort out her Jim Homeshaw forefathers, Jenni emails her thanks but adds ‘The Jim Homeshaw that Jean mentions b 1852 and christened at St Lukes presumably died young although Ancestry has no record of his death and he is not mentioned in James Homeshaw’s very detailed will. Also where is Birds Lane, Great Wyrley where Jeremiah Poyner and family lived at the 1871 Census?’
From last week’s enquiries on the Frederick Eli and Clara Birch family we have had several responses linking a couple of the Birch lines together plus some memories of the family living in Cemetery Street in the 1930s. Also our researchers have tracked the family back to the 1700s tying up with the George Whitehouse and Lucy Brindley connection and the Hickman, Hodson, Smith and Broadhurst families. This tree is available for £1.
John’s request on the pit deaths of Charles Winfer and Robert Hayward were easily located and a full transcript of their deaths down Hawkins Colliery and their inquests has been forwarded on to him.

The request from David in Canada proved to be more complicated however and our researchers have provided much more information stemming from the marriage of James Whitehouse and Ann Sanders from 200 years ago.
New photographs received this week include some of St Marks Youth Club and Great Wyrley school trips, photographs from the 1950s, two football teams of the late 1940s of the Cheslyn Hay British Legion and the Newtown Youth Club plus Chris Tarrant at the Carnival and the 1977 Nativity Play at Glenthorne Primary School. All photographs with names of the individuals. 7×5 photographs available at £1 per print.
Donations for the Archives this week include two family trees – Frederick Eli Birch and the Birch family to 1826 as well as the updated Wood family tree going back to its Landywood roots of 1786. Also the will of Wm Altree of 1864 plus we have received a lace up stitcher for the old caseballs and a 1962 Commemorative Cheslyn Hay Carnival pencil.
This week we have researched the local newspaper stories covering the last six months of 1907 with court cases involving Sarah Bryan, Ellen Boycott, Alfred Hall, Charles Wheatley, Richard Jenkins, Hollis Morgan, John N Whitehouse. Florence Jerome, Thomas Lockett, George Bowring, Joseph Gaskin, George and John Price, Mary Wheatley, Alfred Dawson, Richard Burton, Alfred Hall and James Seabridge as well as stories mentioning E Marshall, AE Elwell, H Shorter, R Evans, OH Thomas, G Armstrong, Alfred Whitehouse, Prof Mons Purchant, Joseph Wollaston, John Allsopp, Bown and Mac Potts plus Cheslyn Hay cricket and football match reports. Copies available at £1 per report.

And in Mike Belcher’s Column of the news stories of this week in 1963 and 1913 there is coverage of Cheslyn Hay success in the Best Kept Village competition and the annual meeting of the Cheslyn Hay Community Association, reporting details of last years Carnival and the list of officers and committee members elected for the current year.
There is also a story involving a serious injury to John Glover of Pinfold Lane whilst working for the Great Wyrley Colliery Company in 1913 as well as coverage of Cheslyn Hay FC winning the Wednesbury Qualifying Charity Cup for the first time. And in the same paper a peculiar incident in High Street involving a cyclist is reported.
And in our ‘Memories’ section we turn to the Percy Carpenter’s recollections as a lad in Landywood and Cheslyn Hay from 1932 – 1951.
Full unabridged reports of any of the above can be obtained by request at the email address below.
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Our Salem Base is open every Tuesday from 10am – 3pm. All welcome.
The response to the Birch family requests has prompted Angela to suggest they have to be linked up to her own family. Her g-grandparents were Frederick Eli Birch (1881- 1948) & Clara Bonnell, grandparents – Frederick Eli Birch (1906 – 1963) & Florence Dyke, and parents – Margaret Winifred Birch (b1933) & Aubrey Pugh. Does anyone else have connection with this line of the Birchs?

An internet search for the name of has led to John Winfer to our website and he hopes that we can help him with information on the tragic death of his great uncle Charles who was killed down Hawkins pit over 100 years ago. We have records of local pit deaths and should be able to locate the newspaper reports within the week. Winfer
And David from Canada emails ‘Got an issue I am hoping someone may be able to help with. On the Cheslyn Hay disk it shows a Charles Whitehouse born 1819 son of Edward and Sarah. I have just done the parish records and it appears that it should read Charles son of James and Ann of Cheslyn Hay. That is also what is recorded in other transcripts – two children of James and Ann – Mary born 1811 and Charles born 1819. Does anyone have information on this James and Ann or Mary and Charles. I am exploring the fact that Charles and Mary may not be part of the same family and am hoping someone has done some research into this line.’

The final outcome of Bernard’s request from Sacramento is that Jean has found the ‘missing link’ with all the details of the marriage of William Jackson of Tatenhill and Sarah Pontrice of Rushall dating back to 1737 and Bernard replies ‘You are amazing Jean!!!!!! That makes the Tatenhill and Rushall connection I was looking for alright. Great job!!! Thank you ever so much Jean.’
Also our Vi weighs in with details of the Thomas family for Jenni in Australia. Rosa had a very ‘active’ life and Vi outlines it all involving Henry Farmer, Albert Smith and the children from four marriages! Then Jean helps Jenni with her Homeshaw side of her family successfully sorting out all the there are, going back with full details to the late 1700s including occupations, dates of births, burials and marriages together with witnesses. Jenni then replies with an email thanking Jean for providing more names and adds ‘James HomeshawsI keep thinking ‘that’s enough’ then another tantalising link arrives. I found more of grandmother and families. William Rhodes said to be at Mill Green farm from 1760 but said William (b 1801) is in 1841 census at Mill Green.’ Jenni is now planning a visit to these shores with her husband and intends visiting us at the Salem on Tuesday August 20th and would welcome meeting anyone of her Homeshaw / Thomas families. Dora Hughes’ Rhodes Poyner
Andrew has found more information on the Wood family with Mary Wood and John Dutton, providing three pages of the Dutton family dating back to 1776.
Finally the mention of the Westwoods of 10 Hatherton Street prompted Eddie to recall this family including Vince Westwood who moved to Middle Hill. We have a few photographs of Vince at the Salem, so if we can contact him perhaps he might be able to recognise the mystery Westwood lady.
And additions to our Archives include Birth, Marriage and Death certificates of George Kingston, Ruth Appleton, John Haywood and Harriet Appleton, plus two pages of the history of the Bull Meadow pit.

New Photographs include the Jim Wise and Janet Whitehouse wedding of 1966 with a host of local guests from the Perks, Rogers, Burgess, Bladen, Newens, Harley, Cross, Perry, Dace, James, Cartwright and Evans families, photographs of Mount Vue cottage with the Chetter and Platts family, together with the Molineuxs, the Smiths and Granny Wright. Also Ethel Poole with Ronald and Edna Wain outside Sunshine Farm in 1957, Fred Perks, Phyllis Dawkins and the Wilcoxs up the Lot in 1938, a snapshot of the bridge being levelled out over the Wyrley Brook in Wedges Mills in the 70s and a Pinfold Lane School trip to Eire in 1958.

This week we cover the first six months of 1907 mainly court cases where the following were prosecuted for a range of offences – Thomas Lockett, Andrew Haycock, John Davies, Annie Hawkins, Harriet Horton, George Ward, John Allsopp, John Whitehouse, Wm Bate, Charles Henry Lockett, James Walker, Bridget Pearson and James Wolloxall. Plus reports on a Mr Turner with his success at rabbit coursing and the bankruptcy of T Payne of Cross Street and the football match between Cheslyn Hay Villa and Brownhills Albion. Copies are available at £1 per report.
In Mike Belcher’s Column of ‘What Happened This Week in 1913′ report the Cheslyn Hay Women’s Unionist Association organising an Operetta at the Britannia Hall naming all the local artistes including
Minnie Hawkins, Carrie Whitehouse, C Devereux, Miss Pass, Miss Gripton, Miss Deakin, Miss Utting, Miss Devereux, Miss G Brown, Miss Wright, Miss Sayer, Mr A Thomas, Miss Priest, Mrs S Clare, Miss Mincher, Miss Weades, Miss Hampton, Miss Elwell, Miss Violet Jones, Miss N Hampton.

Also a large audience assembled at the Britannia Picture Palace , Cheslyn Hay, for Mr Fox’s Complementary Benefit, where they were entertained by Carrie Whitehouse and Percy Bates.
A meeting of Cheslyn Hay Parish Council is recorde with the involvement of Mr E J Pearson, Mr S H Harvey and Mr J Baker.
And a committee was formed for the purpose of arranging a concert for John Brough who has been ill for some considerable time. Mr S Steadman was elected Chairman with Mr Isaac Smith as Secretary and details of the concert at the Talbot are included.
This week’s Memories we relate a story from Mick Drury after an interview with Neville Adams of Great Wyrley who worked below ground at Hilton Main Colliery, Spring Meadow Colliery and Yew Tree Colliery. The story however refers to Neville’s father Fred Adams, born 1875, who lived in Laney Green was working in the mid 1940s, as a faceman, at the Old Coppice Colliery and his altercation with a Mr Duncan.

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