Glemsford Station

Celia Hall has sent some more work about life in the Station Master's house at Glemsford Station.

Yet again, it is fascinating stuff, emphasising (to me at least) just how important it is to record everday life for posterity. So much has changed in such a short time.

Thanks again, Celia.

Wiseman Family #2

Sandra is very grateful for Sue's suggestions (see Comments to the previous post).



If anyone has further information, please do not hestitate to get in touch.



Very tentatively, I'm wondering if there may be a connection to the Hampstead/Pearman genealogy - but I rush to add that this pure unhistorical speculation!



SC

Wiseman Family

Sandra has approached me for help with some of the detail for her family:

My great, great, great grand father was RICHARD WISEMAN, born c1795.

He married ISABELLA CLARKE at GLEMSFORD CHURCH on 20 March 1820.

They had possibly 6/7 children, church records show most of them as baptised at the church:
LEONARD GOTTO 1820
WALTER 1822 RICHARD'S TRADE molster?
ARTHUR 1824 RICHARD'S TRADE miller
SUSANNAH 1826
JOHN 1828 my great, great grandfather
JAMES 1830
GEORGE C1832 died 1832 aged 7? buried at the church

When Arthur married, at Long Melford in 1851, the marriage certificate stated that his father, RICHARD WISEMAN was deceased; a miller.

I have been able to trace some of the siblings of RICHARD and ISABELLA to Long Melford, some I believe stayed in Glemsford: e.g. the 1901 Census shows a son of the above John (1828), Walter, living with his wife, Mary and their children in Brook Street.

I would very much like to continue back to trace RICHARD'S history, where he was born, his father, whether he an Isabella stayed in Glemsford.

Sandra knows there was some connection with the Horse Hair Industry.

If anyone can help, please use the usual channels.

Steve Clarke

Ost/Orst/Aust

Noel Shaw has contacted me with this query about his family:

I'm up in Yorkshire and my 2 x Grandfather on my mother's side was Mark Hirst (b. 1833).

His name was corrupted upon arrival up here from your varied versions of Ost/Orst/Aust/etc., which caused problems trying to track any more relations down.

Glemsford, Somerton and Brockley appear to feature in their roots.

Presently I'm now stuck on his father Jeremiah Orst (b.1785, d.1848), who I believe first married Mahala Seeley, who died in 1824 with all her children, and then married Ann Seeley, also widowed, nee Malt, who also had Samuel (b. 1787).

There would appear to be several possibilities as to Jeremiah's parents and I'd appreciate a definitive answer, if anyone can help, please contact me direct.

The LDS site has only confused me even more!

Jeremiah's family seem to have been in Somerton, certainly in 1841 and 1851. If anyone can help Noel, please let me know, via the usual routes.

Steve Clarke

Brown and Savage Families

I have said many times how much interest and satisfaction I get from people being able to use these pages to help with their own interests.

A couple of years ago now, three of us put in a lot of very enjoyable work researching the link between the Savages of Cavendish (and their hotel "empire") and the Brown family of Glemsford, particularly Araminta, Martha, Gershom and Alva. That material starts (and becomes quite complex) here:
http://www.glemsford.org.uk/05brown.html

I was delighted therefore to receive this email from Debbie Watts in Bedfordshire:

I have recently started reseach on my family tree and discovered many from my mother's side came from the Cavendish/Glemsford area. So looking on the internet I discovered your website and noticed the section on the Browns and the Savages, in this article many of my ancestors were being mentioned and information I had found was being confirmed and elaborated.

This was an exciting find. My G-G-grandmother was the Mrs Elsey that is mentioned in the will of George Savage, George Savage was her next elder brother.

Mrs Elsey, Mary Ann Savage, had 7 children. Amelia and Beatrice (twins, B died at birth), Ernest, Sidney (my g-grandfather), George, Ida and Alexander that I have been able to trace.

Sidney and Ernest went into the Hotel business too and in the 1901 census they are listed as running a coffee house in Waterloo Rd. This was where my grandmother was born.

My grandmother in turn went on to work in the Hotel trade at the Savoy in London. Here she met my grandfather, Louis Saulnier, who was head chef at Frascatis Hotel, he wrote the book "Le Repertoire de la Cuisine" famed as the chef's bible.

... A big thankyou to the person/people who put in the hard work researching the Savages, it has certainly helped me to dot i's and cross t's!

Thanks, Debbie.

Debbie would be happy to hear from anyone with similar family research interests. As always, you can contact her by leaving a comment here, or by emailing me direct. I will pass on any contacts.

Steve Clarke