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Topic: Widney Works, Oldfield Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire (Read 814 times)
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Abiam
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It's that time of year again!
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Hello again,
Some of you may remember my search to find out where my father worked as an aircraft fitter during the war. I found a snippet of information whilst in Maidenhead telling me that at the Widney Works in Oldfield Road they were making aircraft parts for Handley Page Ltd. This included the chassis for the Halifax bombers and radar equipment used to locate U boats out in the Atlantic. They had 300 workers there and I am wondering if my father was one of them.
I know1942 is a long way back now but I am hoping someone may be able to help me find out more,
Regards,
Abiam
Can I explain the next 3 posts. They are nothing to do with above but a helping hand to sort out a problem elsewhere!
Thank you Abiam
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daval57
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Took me a while to find this! How's this working out?
Hope it was just a blip.
Dave
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Abiam
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It's that time of year again!
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How very brave of you!!! You must get out more. Anyway this message did not end up in my personal messages. So I think it was a blip! Possibly caused by me clicking the notify box.
I do appreciate you taking the time to help. And I have very pleasant memories of Portsoy in 1958 - coach all the way from Victoria, London. Took forever but worth it,
Abiam
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOBSON,Berks, Wilts.DOPSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Cambs
WEBB, Hatley St George, Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks, EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, South Australia, WISE, Fawley, Berks
WISE, Bray, Binfield, Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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Juliefrances
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The West Family, Marlow
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Hi,
My Grandfather Ernest Warwick (1887-1956) worked at Widney Works, not sure of the dates though but he was a blacksmith by trade. My father (1925 - 1999) and his family lived for a time in Oldfield Road.
Julie
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Berkshire - Warwick, Cox, Knight, Hicks, Randall, Ranscombe
Buckinghamshire - West, Thatcher, Stroud, Light, Hiscock
Hampshire - Light, Hiscock
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Abiam
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Posts: 1372
It's that time of year again!
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That's interesting. Still hoping someone will remember something,
Regards,
Abiam
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOBSON,Berks, Wilts.DOPSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Cambs
WEBB, Hatley St George, Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks, EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, South Australia, WISE, Fawley, Berks
WISE, Bray, Binfield, Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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Warwick122
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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I can't help you with the works but where was your father born? I am a fellow Warwick (origins from Reading and Tilehurst) but have quite a reasonable database of Berkshire and Hampshire Warricks and Warwicks and might be able to give you some other info.
Warwick122
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Juliefrances
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The West Family, Marlow
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Hi,
My Fathers name was Frank, born Maidenhead 1925, one of 11 children, his father Ernest born 1887 also Maidenhead, his father James born 1850 in South Moreton - came to Maidenhead sometime between 1871 and 1881 and worked on the railroad.
Julie
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Berkshire - Warwick, Cox, Knight, Hicks, Randall, Ranscombe
Buckinghamshire - West, Thatcher, Stroud, Light, Hiscock
Hampshire - Light, Hiscock
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Warwick122
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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According to my researches (and please check them!!) James Warwick moved initially to Bray around 1882, and then moved to Maidenhead between 1885 (birth of Beatrice) and Feb 1886 (birth of Ernest), although he moved back to Bray again in 1891 and was back in Maidenhead again in 1892 for the birth of his next child! Like most railway companies, if you wanted to be promoted, you had to move around the country, but most would stay within their own company. I should imagine that the depression in the farming industry and the switch to arable led him to give up his job as a herdsman (or perhaps it was betwwe pay, but a more dangerous job. The National Archives might well have his staff records.
Thanks for the info about your father and grandfather - I have quite a bit about the South Moreton ones, although I don't come from that branch.
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Juliefrances
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The West Family, Marlow
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Hi
Sorry but some of your info is wrong, James moved to Maidenhead as I said sometime between the 1871 census and the 1881 census - in 1881 he was living in Grove Road,Maidenhead and in 1882, he married at St Luke's Church Maidenhead to Elizabeth Mace from North Moreton, all children except the first born James (1881 - North Moreton) were born while the family were living in Park Street Maidenhead, they lived at at least 2 different houses there, - no 18 and 37. Alice - 1883, Beatrice, 1884, Ernest 1887, Frank 1890, Nellie 1891, Herbert 1894, and William 1896.
Maidenhead used to be under Cookham Reg District until 1896 when it became a Reg District in its own right.
James was still living in Park street in 1911 census - still as a platelayer for the railway.
I have the tree back to a Nathaniel Warwick born about 1680 - married in 1700 in Wiltshire.
Julie
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Berkshire - Warwick, Cox, Knight, Hicks, Randall, Ranscombe
Buckinghamshire - West, Thatcher, Stroud, Light, Hiscock
Hampshire - Light, Hiscock
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newburychap
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According to my researches (and please check them!!) James Warwick moved initially to Bray around 1882, and then moved to Maidenhead between 1885 (birth of Beatrice) and Feb 1886 (birth of Ernest), although he moved back to Bray again in 1891 and was back in Maidenhead again in 1892 for the birth of his next child!
Much of Maidenhead was in Bray parish before the proliferation of new parishes in Victorian times - so these moves could just be a matter of a few hundred yards.
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Warwick122
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Thanks for the correction; I was going by the Census births but your information is obviously much more detailed and accurate. However, it does perhaps beg the question as to why they declared the births in Bray or Maidenhead. The comments about the changed boundaries are interesting. Grove Road is very close to Maidenhead station in the town centre so presumably he would have been based there.
My tree for the North and South Moreton Warwicks goes back to the same point as yours, and I suspect that they probably link back to the Warwicks of Bampton and Kelmscott of the c16 and early c17 but there is no proof as yet
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