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Worcestershire / Re: Dingley family of Cropthorne
« on: Saturday 19 August 17 21:00 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Mayday9 on Monday 24 February 14 11:52 GMT (UK)
My great grandfather was Edwin Dingley of Cropthorne.  He moved from Cropthorne to Birmingham and he married Annie Barnes, they had children named Edwin and Ivy.  My mother was evacuated in WW2 to Cropthorne with her sister.  They stayed with Norah Dingley in the black and white cottage at the bottom of the hill.
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We must be related. Norah Dingley was by that time called Norah Forester. She was a widow and my mother's beloved aunts. My Mum's 100 years old now with Alzheimer's. But she still talks often of aunty and my daughter has started recording tales of cropthorne. I took her back there when she was 93 for a weekend and she met up with a childhood friend who had married her second cousin George Massingham. It was a weekend of memories. Unfortunately I didn't record them.

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Derbyshire / Re: ALLSOPP - Researching Family Name
« on: Friday 19 February 10 00:37 GMT (UK)  »
 
I have Millwards from Grindon, Staffordshire in my family tree. The earliest eithteenth century Millward I have traced married a Cattel who was descended from Harriet Allsop b1797 in Lambeth. Have you any Cattels? My lot are grocers, tailors and bootmakers. By c19th living in London.








 
     
       
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Worcestershire / Re: Dingley family of Cropthorne
« on: Thursday 18 February 10 23:14 GMT (UK)  »
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Worcestershire / Re: Dingley family of Cropthorne
« on: Tuesday 16 February 10 11:44 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Again Tinav40
Just spoken to my Mum who remembers her (Great) Aunty Sue well. Apparently she had a shed in which she made homemade wine from anything that grew. My Mum recalls mistaking the potions for fruit juices and getting quite damaged as a result when she was about 16. That would have been before WW2. She got quite lost down a long windy memory lane. The inevitable royal connections came up. I think I will have to take her back to Cropthorne in the spring. There is probably nobody left who remembers her there now. But we can visit the Church. She had cousins called Massingham. George Massingham was her cousin.  The Massinghams married into the Dingley family. She is particularly interested in the Marsden line of our bit of the Dingley family - Caroline Bott was born Marsden. She was from Tardebigge, but she says there are also Cropthorne Church wardens listed with that name. I wonder if your husband has elderly family members with memories of Cropthorne? They should be documented really, before they are lost forever. I wonder if there is a local preservation society.... Kind regards.

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Worcestershire / Re: Dingley family of Cropthorne
« on: Monday 15 February 10 23:05 GMT (UK)  »
Well that's amazing. My grandmother, Rose would have been Susannah's niece. I know there was a stepbrother Bott, so I guess Caroline had at least 2 kids before marrying George. My mother was brough up by Norah Dingley for the first two or three years of her life as my Grandmother, Rose was too involved in getting her husband's business of the ground for kids. I know Norah died of cancer just after WW2. I think she had son(s). My mother used to visit Cropthorne regularly up until Norah died and still has a friend in Pershore with whom she exchanges christmas cards. She recalls the chatter between the women of the family. I have never had any connection with Cropthorne. We are now townie Londoners. My mum has been asking me for some time to look into the Dingley side of the family. I haven't got very far!

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Worcestershire / Re: Dingley family of Cropthorne
« on: Sunday 14 February 10 22:39 GMT (UK)  »
I am yet another Dingley of Cropthorne descendent. My great grandfather was George Dingley born 1854, Charlton, Worcestershire. He Married a Caroline Bott who was formerly Marsden. It was her second marriage. They had three daughters: Ada, Norah, Caroline and Kathleen (known by her middle name: Rose). George was a wheelwright and also has an apple and pear orchard. He sold his apples and pears for cider and also grew and sold asparagus. He was based at Brook Farm in Cropthorne. My mother who is 93 remembers him well. Is anyone else connected to me? I haven't managed to get back further, but family legend abounds about tombs of bloody hands and haunted Charlton Manor with hidden butts of Malmsbury wine.

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