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Worcestershire / Re: Surname intrests in The Lye area
« on: Friday 30 January 09 19:35 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Sue
I am new to all this too so I am not going to be of much use to you but its interesting that we are all trying to find out about the Pardoe family.  I belive Joseph Pardoe and Jane Brook did have 12 children but I don't have an Ann.  Arlen has helped me with most of my info - maybe Arlen can help you with this?  My link is with Richard Pardoe who was the one of the sons of Joseph and Jane.  He was born 04/03/1802. 
Good luck and best regards
Vanessa

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Worcestershire / Re: Surname intrests in The Lye area
« on: Thursday 29 January 09 13:32 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Rob
which Pardoe are you related to?
Vanessa

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Worcestershire / Re: Surname intrests in The Lye area
« on: Wednesday 21 January 09 11:26 GMT (UK)  »
got 2 of the books you both mentioned by Pat Dunn - interesting to see old pictures of Lye.  It doesn't look a wonderful place - quite impoverished to say the least.  Arlen - do you have any photos of the Pardoe photographer shop?  It seems most of the portraits done shown in Pat's books are taken there - it was obviously the best photographic studio in town !!!!!
thanks Vanessa
ps. would be interested to see any other Pardoe photos you might have.  I now have all of Richard's siblings on the family tree (although I seem to be missing 1).  Am I right in thinking that Joseph (1758) and Jane Brook (1761) had 12 children?  If so, I only have 11 names (Joseph, George, John, Thomas, Betty, Mary, Richard, Jenny, Elizabeth, William and another Betty).
We have also found that out that great great grandmother (Rosanna Langham) worked as a servent for a Dr Adams in nearby Ombersley.  How she met John Henry Pardoe from Lye is anyone's guess but somewhere along the lines they met and their interesting relationship began. 
best regarsds

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Worcestershire / Re: Surname intrests in The Lye area
« on: Monday 19 January 09 22:13 GMT (UK)  »
thanks for the tips. 
best regards
Vanessa

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Worcestershire / Re: Surname intrests in The Lye area
« on: Sunday 18 January 09 20:40 GMT (UK)  »
me and my mum were trying to get everything written down but you soon run out of space trying to draw your family tree on a piece of A4 paper.  Don't suppose you know of a website that allows you to do this for free do you?  thanks

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Worcestershire / Re: Surname intrests in The Lye area
« on: Sunday 18 January 09 18:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Arlen and Linnell
I was away over the weekend (at my mums doing family history !!!!!).
I will look to see if the book is still for sale on e-bay. 
Best regards to you both
Vanessa

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Worcestershire / Re: Surname intrests in The Lye area
« on: Thursday 15 January 09 12:15 GMT (UK)  »
hello Cousin (if somewhat distant!!!)
isn't if fascinating - we've spent years searching for all of this and in the space of a few days we've found out so much.
Do you have any other Pardoe photos which might be of interest?
thanks
Vanessa

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Worcestershire / Re: Surname intrests in The Lye area
« on: Thursday 15 January 09 11:05 GMT (UK)  »
thank you so much for this information Arlen.  I would love more info on the Pardoe family.   John Henry Pardoe (born 1840) is my great great grandfather.  We have been trying to get to the bottom of a family mystery for a long time and now we feel we have are getting there.  This is the story that has been passed down through the generations :

My great great grandmother (Rosannah Langham), was a servant to a family called Dr John Adams (1881 census - age 20 - Wolstanton / Burslam district).   We are not sure how they met but she did meet John Henry Pardoe at some point.  At this time John was married to wife Jane Cannock Holloway Curnock.  John and Jane had 6 children.  It would appear that John Henry and my great great grandmother had a relationship and my great great grandmother became pregnant (we assume to John Pardoe but we are not sure).  We think that the Pardoe family married her off to a chap named John Grunnell (married in 1884 in Burslam).  We think this marriage was obviously for convenience and John Grunnell did not stick around.  Rosannah's first child was born in 1885 in Burslam (Amelia Ellen).  John Henry Pardoe seems to have left his wife Jane (and their children) to abscond with my great great grandmother and they settled in a place called Newton / Ledsham which was in the parish of Leeds.  It is actually now a suburb of Castleford (West Yorkshire).  John and Mary stayed together until his death in 1901 (or it could have been 1902).  They had 5 children themselves, one of whom was my great grandmother Mary Ellen Pardoe Grunnell (born 21 Nov 1889).  Rosannah and John Pardoe never married and we do not believe Rosannah ever divorced John Grunnell hence she kept the surname Pardoe-Grunnell.  There are lots of other little quirky stories but ultimately it would seem John Henry Pardoe had a legitimate family (to Jane) and an illegitimate family to Rosanna.  Obviously back in those days this must have been shameful and I suppose that is why a lot of this info has been kept secret for such a long time.  It certainly wasn't discussed openly and we could never quite get to the bottom of it all. 

thanks again so much - I am intrigued and excited to learn more! 

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Worcestershire / Re: Surname intrests in The Lye area
« on: Tuesday 13 January 09 21:23 GMT (UK)  »
thanks Linell - I will try and get hold of the books.  The family you mention is definitely my family.  John Henry (one of the young boys was my great great grandfather).  Its all very interesting and quite obsessisve (I've only really just got into this family tree lark!).  Hope I have lots of rich relatives I can find !!!!! (only joking).
I really appreciate all your help.  thanks so much, Vanessa

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