Ebchester Low Mill and the Wardles

[FifiBear]

Hi Lynne.
Thanks for your kind offer that would be great. The James Stratton Wardle on the war memorial is my husbands uncle. He married Mary Armstrong (of the Armstrong Bus Co. family [Ebchester]) and they had a son Brian who is also deceased.
My father in law was John Howcroft Wardle, he died in 1983.  The only surviving brother is Robert (Bob) Wardle. Their parents were Elizabeth Howcroft and Robert Wardle.  Oak dale and Earlwood houses were built by the brothers' grandparents.
The headstone for Charles S Wardle could be Charles Stratton Wardle as Stratton is a family name.
I will speak with Bob this weekend and see if he can come up with any further information.
Kind regards
Lynne

[miketimpo]

Hi Lynne, my great grandfather is Charles Stratton Wardle, my grandfather Samuel Sanders married Mary Ellen Wardle the daughter of Charles Stratton Wardle. I was born in Ebchester and used to live next door to Robbie and Jack Wardle. My sister can remember great aunt 'Tizzy' (Elizabeth Howcroft) sitting in the kitchen talking to my mother. I have a very interesting family wedding photograph taken in the front garden of Earlwood House in the early 1900s - trouble is we can't decide who they are! It would be fantastic to find out?

[miketimpo]

Hello again Lynne, thank you for your last messgae and the information it contained.
I have been able to complete my family history for the Wardle side and work out that
you and I are third cousins! You have told me who lived in Earlwood House, so it must
be some of them in the picture that I have. I will work out how to send you a 'personal'
message through the system and hopefully attach a copy of this photograph.
Regards, Mike

[McTalbert]

I have attached a photograph of a mill in Ebchester (c. 1914)

[tonyvant]

Hi McTalbert

Thank you so much for posting the photo - it's great, I shall add it to my tree.
I believe the Poss Stick Mill is the one with the wheel attached. So probably the one set back
to the right would be the Woollen Mill?

Best Regards
Lynne

[Penny Hargreaves]

Hello:  Just wondering about the mill on this wonderful photograph.  My Gt Gt Grandfather was living at The Old Paper Mill, Ebchester in January,1855.  I know this because I inherited his books.  They have inscribed this address and date.  His name was Robert Swinburne.  I thought this mill on the picture might be a papermill because of its proximity to the stream.

I believe he was the Uncle of the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne.

[tonyvant]

Hi
Thank you for your post.  I haven't heard of a paper mill in Ebchester - there were 3 mills - the Poss Stick Mill (sometimes referred to as the Low Mill) which was next to the river, the Woollen Mill & the Corn Mill.  There was a Paper Mill along the river at Shotley Bridge.
Lynne

[ColetteL]

I'm related to George Wardle (married to Elizabeth Peacock); child Margaret Wardle (1842 Linthorpe Yorkshire-17April1922 North View Hunwick).  I found the postcard c.1749 of the Old Mill, Ebchester in one of many photo albums I recently inheirted.

[tonyvant]

Hi,  Thank you so much for sharing the photograph.   I haven't as yet got a George Wardle and Elizabeth Peacock on my tree but I will do some digging.  I have found some newspaper cuttings linking John Wardle at the Mill in Ebchester to Brandling Village in Jesmond, Newcastle.  He moved to Ebchester in 1839.   Lynne