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Warwickshire Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Ledsam of Edgbaston 1841 -91 COMPLETED THANKS
« on: Friday 10 November 23 02:24 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Kay,  Long time since we have spoken.  I hope you are well.  Still looking at bits and pieces to do with the Ledsam family.  My cousin's wife actually did a whole book on the family, so probably know it all by now.  I probably won't make it back to England again due to ill health but I so pleased I got to go and see Weoley Castle.  I wish I could be a fly on the wall to see all that happened in their family and I wonder if there are any relatives around.  I did a DNA test with ancestry but haven't had many matches from England. I have had a match with someone in America and sent a message last year but he hasn't replied.  Looking forward to see if you have done any more research.  Thanks Janene

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Warwickshire / Re: Daniel Ledsam of Willenhall and Birmingham
« on: Friday 10 November 23 02:05 GMT (UK)  »
First of all thank you for not demolishing the house.  My name is Janene Grinham and I am from Australia.  My mother's maiden name is Ledsam (she is still alive and is 91 years old).  So my great great grandfather George Moreton Ledsam BIRTH 14 SEP 1856 • 233 Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Warwick, England and he came to Australia around 1883, I think because didn't really get on with his stepmother.  The Ledsam's in England owned lots and lots of property as you have indicated in Birmingham and yes they sold a lot off over the years.  In fact they sold a whole lot of land and it became a small estate Weoley Castle Housing Estate.  James Goddington Ledsam was the final owner of Weoley Castle, he lived more or less as a recluse in a big house surrounded by an eight foot brick wall and approached by a long tree-lined avenue (Princethorpe Road) near the gates of Lodge Hill Cemetery.  There is a school now on the site of the old house.  You can visit the ruins of Weoley Castle, I came to England in 2010 to visit the ruins.  Due to ill health I probably wont get to visit again unfortunately.  Daniel Ledsam apparently brought the castle (fortified manor hourse) in 1809. 

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Warwickshire Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Ledsam of Edgbaston 1841 -91 COMPLETED THANKS
« on: Thursday 22 March 12 09:50 GMT (UK)  »
Hi again,
George Moreton was the second son of Joseph Ledsam (he had an older brother Joseph who died when he was 15) and his mother Frances Jackson died when George was 3, so Joseph Moreton married again to Anna Clara (Anna Maria) Salt and then they had 4 more children.  Apparently when George got older he didn't get along with his stepmother and there was some sort of fight and George went to Sydney, Australia where he met Ann Lamrock a divorced mother of one girl, they married and had 5 children and one of them was my grandfather James Goddington Ledsam, he married Mary Mabel Payne and they had 8 children one of which is my mother Gwendoline June, I hope that all makes sense.
Whereabouts are you from?
I went to England in 2010 and had a tour of the Weoley Castle Ruins, it was wonderful.
Regards Janene

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Warwickshire Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Ledsam of Edgbaston 1841 -91 COMPLETED THANKS
« on: Wednesday 21 March 12 04:26 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there all Ledsam relatives,
I am researching the Ledsam family tree, my grandfather was James Goddington Ledsam, his parents were George Moreton and Anne nee Lamrock, George Moreton's parents were Joseph Ledsam and Frances "Fanny" Barbara nee Jackson, Joseph Ledsam married twice and his second wife was Anna Clara (Anna Maria) Salt.
The Ledsam family were a very rich family and owned lots of property in Birmingham, they are also owned Weoley Castle
Regards Janene

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