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Somerset / Re: Bedminster Cemeteries
« on: Sunday 08 June 14 11:53 BST (UK)  »
my name is An dries and i am a Great Grandchild of Fred Matthews Saddler Redcliffe Hill, i note he married a Clutterbuck well known in Bristol, i thought they had 5 sons Reginald Arthur (Dickie my Grandfather) he married Lydian Maud Stokes who's father was a dairyman Langton St Bedminster, left a sizeable inheritance. Harold took over the Saddlery business, married mable 2 children Fred and a daughter, business now Matthews Roofing, Jim he had a son and daughter i think the son was called Jim who built a successful Garage business i think he had a child with tragic illness and he sold everything, daughter from memory very attractive, Jim Snr worked for Sidney Seward main Ford Dealer Portwall Lane, Sid who married May/Mae one of the daughters, Sid & May had 2 sons Alan and Clive who worked with Sid, they fell out, Alan married his cousin Faye my Mother Peggy Eileen's youngest sister, my mothers 1st marriage was to Henry ? Paine/Payne who supplied the cigarette rolling machines for W D Wills he came from Yorkshire, Joan my mothers middle sister married a Lewis who was a wholesale tobacconist Bedminster, became Lewis Meeson chain of Tobacconists and Newsagents, my mother and Joan both Divorced but remarried, i remember meeting Gladys who worked as house cleaner for May, i understood there were 5 brothers all of whom fought in 1st world war and returned home, don't know the names of other 2, my mother was a favourite grandchild of Fred and told many stories including go to the Wills Est for Sunday tea, he was i believe a Alderman of Bristol, there was a parrot in the shop who would call him when a customer came into shop, i have seen the Harness they made for Georges Brewery, gather they also made for Wills, Baldwins and other main Bristol businesses.I have a 2nd cousin Paul who i am in contact with who now lives in France, his father was also Fred and i knew him as an uncle but who his Father was i do not know. Divorce, Adultery, illegitimacy, silver paper fraud and Black Market quite common in the past. Fred seems to be a common family name i wouldn't discount the Mines they stretched from one end of Bristol to the other, have never heard whether Fred had any siblings, i.e did Jacob, (Jewish name??) have any other children

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