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Thank you Danuslave.

Strangely, I am really the only one out of the family that is interested in the farmhouse and farm's history. Kind of love the old place.

Thank you everyone for your help and Gibel for looking on Ancestry. I would love to track down the family. Once, when my husband was at the farm (his parents) an old lady arrived with a couple and asked could they look around. she was very elderly and had lived there but that was before my research and he was in his teens and as teens tend to be, polite, let them have a wander but didn't ask anymore. I'm now kicking him for that. lol
I need to reinstate my ancestry membership as I am on there but not a paying subscriber so I will get back on and try and contact who Joseph Victor Williams as Gibel reccommended. I would love it if someone had some old photos of our barn in its heydey.
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Thank you so much. I did post again on the old thread but had no replies so think i will try posting as a new topic on the worcestshire board.
Thanks for your help lovely people 

Hi again Danuslave
I know it has been ages since this thread was started by me, but you were so helpful, I really hope you will be interested in this update....

Ok so, since my February 2011 and my initial investigations regarding my partners family's farmhouse and enquiries regarding the family that lived there pre 1900, we have since got married (I'm now officially Mrs Baylis) and we have planning permission to convert the old threshing barn on my husbands family's farm. I was therefore trawling the archives and our previous chat, as I am keener than ever to know more about the family that lived there prior to my husbands family and would love love love to find some old pictures of the barn (pre 1900 - or its history).....but, I am  thinking that may mean tracking down some descendents of the Pardoe's.

Whilst searching the internet, I also found the following link which really interested me. http://www.lissfineart.com/4375sub0_3.htm#bio
This is a sketch of the farmhouse front door (there is also another one on the art dealers website) that sundial is still in the garden - the door looks the same. It is by an artist named Winifred Knights whose great aunts were Marianne Pardoe - the daughter of Charles Pardoe and Frances Williams (if you look back through the conversation we assumed the house transferred to a Mr Williams - Frances Pardoe must have married him). I am amazed and astounded and cant wait to show my husband and the family. Who incidentally this year have made so many improvements to the farm house as his eldest brother has now moved in (an annexe has been built on for my husbands parents) and that old front door will soon be replaced!!

So now I want to know more....do you think I would be able to track down a descendant of Marianne and Francis Pardoe - did they have any children. I wonder if they have memories of the farm or stories to tell or photographs to share of the farmhouse and outbuildings (our barn).

I do so hope you can help with any advice?

Thank you