Anne's Family History
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My family history blog expands the information in my family tree, telling some of the stories that go with the names and dates I have collected there. The people I write about are mostly from the families of Boltz, Cavenagh-Mainwaring, Champion de Crespigny, Cross, Cudmore, Dana, Gilbart, Manock, Plowright, Sullivan, Way and Young.
Anne's Family History
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Before the reforms brought about by the Elementary Education Act 1870, which set the framework for schooling of all children ..read more
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Early History Christian worship at Whitmore dates from before 1175. At that time, and probably earlier in the post-Conquest period ..read more
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The Rural Police Force In January 1850 Captain Rowland Mainwaring, Squire of Whitmore Hall, wrote to the Staffordshire Advertiser to ..read more
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Economies Past If you’re interested in English economic history you will—or should—know about ‘Economies Past’ at https://www.economiespast.org/ , a Cambridge ..read more
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Newcastle-under-Lyme is a market town in north-west Staffordshire, four miles from Whitmore and two miles from the city of Stoke-on-Trent ..read more
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At Whitmore in 1855 a man named William Rhead (1836 – 1904), aged 19, was charged with the manslaughter of ..read more
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The Stockton and Darlington Railway, the world’s first public steam railway, opened in 1825. In 1832, just seven years later ..read more
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From 1862 when the squire Rowland Mainwaring died Whitmore Hall was leased for 66 years. The first tenant was Michael ..read more
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In England minor criminal cases, those known as ‘summary offences‘, are dealt with by magistrates or justices of the peace ..read more
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A man travelling from place to place in pre-modern rural England required shelter and food and drink at settled locations ..read more