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Worcestershire / Re: Obits
« on: Monday 15 September 14 15:27 BST (UK) »
12th January 1935 to the best of my knowledge
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Worcestershire / Obits
« on: Sunday 14 September 14 17:54 BST (UK) »
Anyone any idea where i can track down an obituary for a John Weston who died as a result of a road accident in Stourbridge in 1935 tried everything online but dont have time to travel there and look in library archives. 
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Worcestershire / Re: RG4 3376 Griffiths
« on: Friday 04 January 13 18:54 GMT (UK) »
great thanks for that im on ancestry my tree is griffiths/rowberry weston/ stokes tree search for absolom griffiths charles was his father
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Worcestershire / Re: RG4 3376 Griffiths
« on: Wednesday 02 January 13 18:08 GMT (UK) »
Hi Mark have sent you a PM absolom
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Worcestershire / Re: Blue Coat School Stourbridge.
« on: Sunday 01 July 12 16:00 BST (UK) »
Old Swinford Hospital is a comprehensive boys' boarding school in Oldswinford, Stourbridge, West Midlands, England that has been in continuous operation since the 17th century. It is one of 36 state boarding schools in England, meaning school fees are funded by the LEA and pupils only pay boarding fees. Girls are admitted into the sixth form as day pupils
Old Swinford Hospital opened in the late summer of 1667. It was founded by Thomas Foley, an ironmaster and prominent local landowner, whose main estate was at Great Witley, west of Stourport in Worcestershire, but with strong Stourbridge connections. It was to educate 60 boys from “poor but honest” families nominated by specified parishes in Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire. The school was sometimes named as Foley's blue coat school or hospital, or Oldswinford Hospital Endowed School.[1] The school had run to 70 boys by 1868
Thomas Foley(1617-1677) was an English ironmaster and politician who sat in the House of Commonsat various times between 1659 and 1677.
Foley was the eldest son of Richard Foley and his second wife Alice Brindley. His father was a prominent Midlands ironmaster of Stourbridge. Foley took over his father's business and made great profits from it in the 1650s and 1660s, which he used to buy estates. In 1659 he was elected Member of Parliament for Worcestershire in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was elected MP for Bewdley in 1660 for the Convention Parliament. In 1673 he was elected MP for Bewdley in a by-election to the Cavalier Parliament.[1]
Foley built Witley Court. In the late 1660s, he founded a bluecoat school at Stourbridge known as Old Swinford Hospital, which he endowed in his will.
Foley married Anne Browne, daughter of John Browne. They had four sons: Thomas, Paul, Philip and Samuel; and two daughters: Martha and Sarah.
Foley handed his business over to his sons, another Thomas Foley, Paul Foley, and Philip Foley.
Old Swinford Hospital opened in the late summer of 1667. It was founded by Thomas Foley, an ironmaster and prominent local landowner, whose main estate was at Great Witley, west of Stourport in Worcestershire, but with strong Stourbridge connections. It was to educate 60 boys from “poor but honest” families nominated by specified parishes in Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire. The school was sometimes named as Foley's blue coat school or hospital, or Oldswinford Hospital Endowed School.[1] The school had run to 70 boys by 1868
Thomas Foley(1617-1677) was an English ironmaster and politician who sat in the House of Commonsat various times between 1659 and 1677.
Foley was the eldest son of Richard Foley and his second wife Alice Brindley. His father was a prominent Midlands ironmaster of Stourbridge. Foley took over his father's business and made great profits from it in the 1650s and 1660s, which he used to buy estates. In 1659 he was elected Member of Parliament for Worcestershire in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was elected MP for Bewdley in 1660 for the Convention Parliament. In 1673 he was elected MP for Bewdley in a by-election to the Cavalier Parliament.[1]
Foley built Witley Court. In the late 1660s, he founded a bluecoat school at Stourbridge known as Old Swinford Hospital, which he endowed in his will.
Foley married Anne Browne, daughter of John Browne. They had four sons: Thomas, Paul, Philip and Samuel; and two daughters: Martha and Sarah.
Foley handed his business over to his sons, another Thomas Foley, Paul Foley, and Philip Foley.
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Worcestershire / Re: Cawney Hill
« on: Tuesday 08 May 12 17:31 BST (UK) »
Cawney Hill is situated near what we now know as Kate's Hill. Its altitude is about 818 feet, certainly one of the highest inhabited spots in the land, and it lies about a mile to the south east of Dudley Castle. To put Cawney Hill into context, he altitudes of various places seen from the top of the hill include:
http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/High-times-and-holidays-in-Cromwells-Grove-on-Dudleys-Cawney-Hill-2.htm?id=73113
this might be useful if you can pinpoint kates hill on the map
http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/High-times-and-holidays-in-Cromwells-Grove-on-Dudleys-Cawney-Hill-2.htm?id=73113
this might be useful if you can pinpoint kates hill on the map
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Worcestershire / Re: Dudley parish records - where to start?
« on: Saturday 28 April 12 19:51 BST (UK) »
Dudley PRs are kept at the Archives in Coseley Dudley its a great place and they are all really helpful.If you go onto Dudley council website and look under genealogy or family history it will give you a map ,opening times and email if you have any queries
regards Absalom
regards Absalom
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Worcestershire / Re: John & Mary Harris's children
« on: Monday 23 April 12 19:15 BST (UK) »
Do you have any stokes in the Hasbury Halesowen ares
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Worcestershire / Re: John & Mary Harris's children
« on: Monday 23 April 12 18:05 BST (UK) »
I noticed that you have stokes in shropshire as do I, mine were george stokes married sarah coley he was born approx 1801 however i have found a 1796 birth thats a possibility any of this ring a bell?