Weekly News – 16 May 2010
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We are giving a talk at Glenthorne Primary School on Wednesday this week on the ‘Second World War’. Also the Bridgtown &DLHS are holding their first AGM at the Bethel Chapel on Wednesday morning at 10.30am. All potential new members are welcome.
More photographs from the old families have been forwarded to us to be copied and they include the Broughs, Davis, Pearson, Horton, Nicklin and Heminsley families. All are available to be seen at our base at the rear of the Salem any Tuesday from 10am – 4pm together with all of our 5000 plus photographs.
An interesting family history request has been received connecting the Dace, Goodfellow and the Ridgeway families which we are currently researching.
A fascinating newspaper report from the 1920s has also turned up on the misdemeanours of some well known local names including William Roe, Cyril Parsons, Joe Hodson, Clifford Smith, John Pratt, Andrew Allen, Harry Lockett, William Leach, Harold Thomas, Baden Newell, and William Savage. We will be only too pleased to issue full details on request – all free of course.
There will be a 40th Anniversary Reunion of the 1st Cheslyn Hay Boys’ Brigade on Friday October 8th at 7pm at Old Wyrley Hall in Olde Hall Lane Great Wyrley. Tickets are £6 which includes light refreshments and can be obtained from Pam Ball on 01922 415067.
trevor.cheslyhayhistory@talktalk.net
Dear Cheslyn Hay District Local History Society.
My wife and I read in your 16th May 2010 News Letter you have some recently located photographs of the Pearson family, is it possible to visit and view these?
I was in touch previously about a Saul Pearson who may have misbehaved in some small way in the past but sadly it turned out not to be my Pearson line which is still causing us problems, can anyone help?
We are looking for the birth place, date, and parents of Henry Pearson, my Gt. Gt. Gt. Grandfather, born approximately 1805. He married Elizabeth Benton on 16th December 1827; she was born on 8th October 1802 in Rugeley where they married.
1851 He says he was born in Cannock,
1861 He says he was born in Wyrley
1871 He says he was born in Cheslyn Hay
1881 He says he was born in Gt Wyrley.
{We realise all these are in a very close proximity to each other and may well have led to this error}.
From 1841 to his death in 1887 he lived in Rugeley.
If we could visit from N. Wales we would be very pleased.
Regards and thank you.
Stuart Pitchford Pearson.