Corse memories
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G, g, g, Grandfather Lived in Corse
I'm trying to trace my family tree and found that my g,g,g,grandfather Henry Travill, born 1829, lived in Corse up to 1886. Going back to my g,g,g,g, grandmother Ann Fisher, known as Nancy, was born 1786 and g,g,g,g, grandfather Benjamin Travel born 1781.
If anyone recognises any information I have given please could you contact me at joannekeddie@hotmail.com. Thankyou.
Memories of Gloucestershire
Blacksmiths Corner
I am currently researching my family history in Sandhurstnand and I am hoping someone might have some record of the smithy in the village. From census returns I know my family lived at the blacksmiths shop until the mid 1860s. A number of the family are buried in St Lawrence's churchyard. The Hobbs family were also blacksmiths at Twigworth smithy up until 1907 when my grandfather moved away.
Newent And Pickelnash School
I'd have to work out the date, but around there. I moved to Newent from Wales and used to live in a nice little house just down from the Black Dog on the corner of Church Street, if anyone has photos before it was knocked down.
I had some good friends in the Picklenash School, they probably won't remember me, the Welsh boy, Susan Kettle, Ginette Winterbottom but a few. Hope I didn't get the spelling wrong. I was only there a few years before moving back to Wales.
The family who used to live next door, their name slips my memory at the moment, I'm getting over a stroke. I think the father was on the refuge waggon.
I would be interested in what you are all doing these days.
Stephen Dunn
Family of Fowler
Not a memory but an historical fact. I have traced my family back to Leigh circa 1750. The patriarch was Anthony Fowler, a carpenter from Bishops Cleeve. He married Mary Attwood of Bishops Cleeve in 1749. They had 10 children, all born and christened in Leigh. They were Giles (1750-1752), Mary (1752-1752), Richard (1753), Sarah (1755), Mary (again 1756-1756), Elizabeth (1758-1758), Jane (1759), William (1761), John (1763) and my ancester Charles Attwood Fowler (1767).
I am keen to receive any information about this family. Any mention in old documentation relating to where they may have lived in Leigh and any work Anthony or any of the others may have carried out in the area.
Thank you
Turner Family
My name is Paul Gallagher, I am tracing my family history in Gloucestershire. My great great great grandfather John Turner Esq, banker of Hatherley house d1833 and Hester Smyth d1814. The house /manor was sold in 1826 due to financial trouble. The children - John,Thomas,Mary, Jane? Thomas Turner has a memorial at Gloucester cathedral to him. Mary married Rev Henry Caesar Hawkins. My great great grandfather was Rev John Turner b1783, died in Chagford in 1846. He was the rector at Hennock in Devon for twenty eight years. Most of the others are buried at St Marys old churchyard. I have not as yet, found the parents of John Turner (banker). If anyone has any information on the Turner family, please contact me. Or if there is anyone in Hatherley who can visit the churchyard, as I am sure the rest of my ancestors lie there.
Highnam Property Gardens And Admiral Martin George Guise,Of The Guise Family.
I understand that in Highnam there is a large property transformed into beautiful gardens called Highnam Court. This property belonged to the Baronets of Guise until a century ago or more. They are still owners of Elmore Court in Gloucestershire since the 13th century. I am a Peruvian citizen, from Lima, Peru, and my great-great-grandfather was Admiral Martin George Guise, who was the first Commander of the Peruvian Navy during the Wars of Independence from Spain. He enrolled at age 12 in the Royal Navy where he ended up being a distinguished officer during the Napoleonic Wars. After those wars ended, he left the Royal Navy and enrolled under Lord Cochrane in the Chilean Navy, in the fleets that carried General Jose de San Martin to Peru. General San Martin, after proclaiming the Independance of Peru, created the Peruvian Navy under the command of Admiral Martin George Guise who continued in the Naval aspects of Peru's independence wars until they ended. He died from a gunshot in the siege of... Read more
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