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Topic: Visiting my Ancestor's Worcestershire home (Read 352 times)
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Grothenwell
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 371
Love Endures Delay
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Hi Folks,
Visiting the old ancestral homes of my great grandmother Alice Maud Wagstaff's family (Wagstaffs, Jones and hopefully finding more), tomorrow for a few days. She was born in Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire (1864), to Thomas and Elisabeth Jones. The family settles in Herefordshire but Thomas's POB in the censuses 1851, 81 & 91 is Suckly, Worcester. (Unfortunately his POB in 61 is Much Cowarne and in 71 it is Froom, both Herefordshire!), but there is a birth in the IGI for a Thomas circa the correct time (1835) in Suckly. To a James and Alice (Turner?). Who I believe were married (1832) in Claines, and the 1851 census has James's POB (c1810) as Bredon and Alice's POB (c1810) as Cutsdean. Both of these were described as Worcestershire but I have been informed are now classed as Gloucestershire.
I'd like to try and visit all the places mentioned (including some in other counties but that's another post!). I haven't done any research on the ground in England, all so far on the Internet, mostly here in the great Rootschat forums. So any tips from Worcestarians(?) about these places; where to go, Churches, Graveyards etc would be very welcome. I presume the best place to start would be the Worcestershire Record Office would this be correct? (although I have been told Cutsdean records are Gloucestershire)
Thank you in anticipation,
Grothenwell
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Aberdeenshire; Brechin, Robb, Clark, Hardie, Johnston, Watt, Elmslie, Milne, Harper, Adam, Edmond, Laing, Gibson, Aedie, Jameson, Tosche, Measonne, Anderson, Moir, Nicol, Burnet, Donaldson, Guthrie, Argo & Doverty.
Booth, Watson, Grothenwell, Ewen, Mackie, Simpson, Taylor, Davidson, Willox, Chalmers & Gordon
Still, Fraser, Robertson & Lumsden
Banffshire; Cruickshank, West
Caithness; Sutherland
Herefordshire & Worcester & Monmouthshire; Wagstaff, Jones &
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Yegvard
RootsChat Member
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Hello Grothenwell,
Just a quick point. Worcestershire's records are currently split between sites. The family stuff is in the town http://worcestershire.whub.org.uk/home/wcc-records-history-centre Use the Park and Ride if you can.
Original records are at the County Hall Site http://worcestershire.whub.org.uk/home/wcc-records-head-quarters.
There are also limited records held at Worcestershire Archaeology Service http://worcestershire.whub.org.uk/home/wcc-arch
The Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy & Heraldry (BMSGH) have a website with many publications. http://www.bmsgh.org/ There are also 3 branches that cover the county. The Worcester branch website have a very useful parish info site http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/List.html
Good Luck
Mike
Branch Chairman
Bromsgrove Branch BMSGH
The Family History Site for North Worcestershire
http://www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk/
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HANDS, HANDES, HANNS, HANNES, HANNE, HANNON (Yardley to Bromsgrove)
MIL(L)WARD, COTTERIL, CLULEE, IZOD, HASSALL, TODD, STRATTON, JAKEMAN, JENNINGS, MOLE, ALLCOCK north Worcestershire
WATERS, Thurzo, Sutherland> Bishopswearmouth, Durham
GARDNER, Solihull; TOLLEY Birmingham, Warkickshire
HUMPHRIES, Meifod, Montgomeryshire>Bilston, Staffordshire> Manchester & Texas and Kansas, USA
JAKENS, BIRD, CRAPPER Bury, HIGGINBOTHAM, HORRIDGE, Lancashire
LEO, Galway/Tipperary, Ireland
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Grothenwell
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 371
Love Endures Delay
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Hi Mike,
Thank you for that. Unfortunately I didn't have time to visit any of my ancestors sites in Worcestershire (a good excuse to go down another time  ). But I did get time to visit the Worcester history centre in trinity street. What a wonderful place and the people who worked there were very helpful. If I had one criticism it would be why didn't it have neighboring counties parish records and censuses on microfilm? For instance my 3 x gt grandmother Alice Turner was born in Cutsdean circa 1810, which was then classed as Worcestershire, it is now classed as Gloucstershire, and the records are kept there. I would have thought that the centre could have had copies of those records too.
Best wishes,
Grothenwell
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Aberdeenshire; Brechin, Robb, Clark, Hardie, Johnston, Watt, Elmslie, Milne, Harper, Adam, Edmond, Laing, Gibson, Aedie, Jameson, Tosche, Measonne, Anderson, Moir, Nicol, Burnet, Donaldson, Guthrie, Argo & Doverty.
Booth, Watson, Grothenwell, Ewen, Mackie, Simpson, Taylor, Davidson, Willox, Chalmers & Gordon
Still, Fraser, Robertson & Lumsden
Banffshire; Cruickshank, West
Caithness; Sutherland
Herefordshire & Worcester & Monmouthshire; Wagstaff, Jones &
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