Hempstead/Ampstead

Robert Ampstead has approached me, hoping to make contact with Rita Burgess. I am adding his search query here so that other Hempstead Searchers may also know about his interest.

As always, make the first approach through me.

SC

My surname is Ampstead and one of my forefathers was James Edward Hempstead ( surname changed to Ampstead at his wedding to Sarah Barnard, 26/06/1854, and the witnesses, Isabella and Benjamin Hempstead's surname also changed to Ampstead at that wedding).
Yours,
Robert Ampstead.

Whitechapel in Glemsford?

A new set of pages, carrying the memories of George Boreham, born in Glemsford in 1904, is now on-line.

Among several questions, one intrigues me:
George talked about having been born in "Whitechapel", Glemsford. We know his family lived in Brook Street. Was there ever anywhere known to locals as "Whitechapel" or was George simply confusing other places where he may have lived?

Answers please ... .

Courtaulds at Pebmarsh

A request from Mary Fennah:

I recently came across an article by Eileen Lynch about early 19c Apprentices in Glemsford, and it mentioned the Courtaulds being at Pebmarsh.

My grandmother was in service there in the early 1900s - probably about 1910-20, and married from there at Bures St Mary.

I have been trying to trace some record of where that residence was and would welcome any advice about its position.

My grandmother was in service with them in London and came with them when the family moved to Pebmarsh.

With my grateful thanks

Mary Fennah

If you can help, email me and I will forward your response, or add a comment here.

Excuses, excuses

Further to the Goon posting (below) I seem to have uncovered a seam of other unanswered mail in the period between April and June this year.

Many apologies to those who have gone unanswered - it doesn't happen often, honest. Blame it on advancing years, exam marking and grandparenthood, as well as a swift jaunt to the Land of the Cathars and an excess of pink wine.

I'll try to catch up in the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile, please don't be put off from writing again, or for the first time, or whatever.

Recent experience still shows that these pages really do work.

Steve

Go on, go on, goon. ... or... Better late than ...

With humble apologies, I am including this request from Tricia, which somehow got lost in a welter of nonsense sometime earlier this year. I hope it is not TOO late.

Sorry.

I am doing a One Name Study on the name MAXIM and I am a member of the Guild of One Name Studies, affectionately known as the GOONS! No rude comments, please. The name Maxim has it's roots mainly in Suffolk, but partly over the border in Essex, in the villages of Foxearth, the Belchamps, Pentlow etc. There were a lot of Maxims in Glemsford and in the surrounding areas of Cavendish, Hartest, Clare etc. The line I am connected to has beginnings in Cavendish, Boxted, Bury St. Edmunds before eventually ending up in London.

I would be very interested to hear from anyone, who has connections to the name Maxim. You never know, we may be cousins!!

Thank you
Tricia Campbell

SC

Glemsford and the North: the Lamplighter's Story

Yet another example has emerged of the movement of Glemsford-born people to other parts of the country.

Steve Scott from Kendal has sent me a story written down by his uncle, George Boreham, who grew up in Glemsford, and went to work in the Sudbury Gas Works soon after the Great War.

You can follow this link to read the story.

Steve Clarke

Local History Society News

The latest edition of the Glemsford Local History Society Newsletter is now on-line.

It includes a continuation of the "Happy Vaccy" story about World War Two in the Village, as well as details of the early meetings of the Society this coming autumn.

You can reach it via this link.

Steve Clarke