Our Base at the Salem is open every Tuesday from 10am – 3pm and everyone is welcome for help on all types of researches.  And it’s free.
We are discussing ways of developing all the Whitehouse family trees and we would welcome all enquiries of anyone with such lonks with Cheslyn Hay.
And Katrina from Reykjavik  has picked up on a mention of a Roseanna Wolloxall from an old Newsletter on our website and she is interested to get any details of any of the Cheslyn Hay Wolloxalls.
Our researcher has answered John Buckley’s query from last week with confirmation that the three children are those of Eliza and Jonathan Buckley together with their burial plots but no joy with John Wood’s enquiry as Mary Ann Cope was born in Wednesbury but there is certainly no baptism there. However her parents moved to Yorkshire in the 1880s and her father William Cope died in 1889 in Doncaster aged 69 with his widow still living there in the 1891 census.
And Sue has had much response to her Bullock family enquiry.
New photographs catalogued this week include seven of Sunshine Farm and the Fallows family, seven of the Baker and Haycock families, eight of the Daces, Piatts and Powell families plus the wedding of Norman Wright of the Accordian Band, Gladys Kingston, the Paxtons, Don Perks and one of the 1953 Carnival.  All available at the Base.
This week we have been donated a Souvenir Programme dated 2nd January 1945 of a Musical Evening at the Salem celebrating 50 years of music.  And three family trees – the Wolloxalls from 1818, the Carpenters from 1832 linking with the Baker, Follows, Smith, Beech and Bird families of Cheslyn Hay and also the Westwoods from 1790.  Richard Westwood is also keen on linking his family tree with the other two Westwood trees from Cheslyn Hay and would appreciate any help.
And a trawl through the local papers of 50 years ago on 20th January 1962  reveal stories of the concrete cement works to be built in Coppice Lane, a pigeon show by the Cheslyn Hay Homing Society including prize winners J Owen, T Condrey, W Izon, A Bradbury, N Hughes, J Mason and S Baxter, and the death of  Mr Wilfred Pee of 6a Station Street Cheslyn Hay together with full details of his life and all the mourners are named at his funeral.
Memories this week come from Ivor Plant of Ross-on-Wye recalling his boyhood days in Littlewood, the Coppice, the Raz and on the Rec with ‘The Policeman’s Helmet’ and the slide.  He also recall stories of Mrs Kingston who lived in the Station House and being in Miss Cross’s class.
More information on any of the above stories can be obtained by request to the email address below.
trevor.cheslynhayhistory@talktalk.net

And also 100 years ago on 20th January 1912 stories involving horses trespassing on the allotments, the great blizzard in the week and a Dominoes tournament at the Working Men’s Club and Institute with J Brough, S Bills and A Perks taking the awards.  But there is also a tragic story of Joseph Kingston, son of Thomas Kingston, of  Station Street, Cheslyn Hay.  He was only 18 years of age when he met with a serious accident to his spine at the brickyard last March.  A committee has been formed consisting of  F W Hawkins, T Kingston, W Brough , T Hand, I Smith, A Brough and W H Browell to raise funds for his needs with a special performance at the pictures at Brittannia Hall.  There was much interest manifested in the event and at the time that the performance commenced the hall was crowded with an appreciative audience.  There were two performances and the hall was filled on both occasions.  The Victoria Brass Band Quartette played outside the building and also a duet was prettily rendered by Messrs T Holcroft and J Allen.  The pictures were most interesting.  In fact it was stated that they were the finest ever witnessed in the township.  The programme mainly consisted of  cowboys and Indians, which were not only amusing, but instructive and met with repeated applause from the audience.
Requests this week come from Canada on Edward Whitehouse (1846-1890) who married Ann Taylor b1849 and had 12 children but there are queries on two of the children Clara b1885 and Beatrice b1889.  And also Emma Thomas b1872 in Cheslyn Hay to Joseph and Ann Thomas but after being baptized at St. Marks on 22 Dec 1872 there is no record of her.

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