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[comfort]

hi kay,
when i first asked kath if i could do her family tree, she didnt know much about them, apart from that they were fair ground people.and travelled around a lot,
she wasnt even sure if her mothers maiden name was west or oadley , but luckely she found her mothers birth certificate.
and she did know about the ice cream vendore,
she also said that there was once a model of the steam engine, that some one in the family made,but she didnt know what happend to it,
she never knew about the murder,
i will ask her if she has any photoes, or if she can remember anything , i will go and ring her now, and see if she is in,
it would be great to know what is in the letters,
i will get back to you soon
patricia,

[kscour]

Firstly - thanks Arranroots!

Patricia - just in case you didn't already know this is  (as far as I can tell) Harriet Whiting's father Samuel Whiting
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brett/photos/swhiting.html

I also have a reference to a Harriet Oadley born or christened 9/12/1891 in Ripley Derby.  Parents - Robert and Harriet

[comfort]

hi
i have just rang kath, but she is not in ,so i will ring her later,
i have just got all my papers out to see if i can find anything ,
that may be of use to you,
kath gets muddled up with all the searching ,she just likes to see the end product,
thats why i do all of this,
i must admitt that this one is a bit confussing, with the west and oadley, names.
but i will try and put everything in order and let you know what i have
be in touch soon
patricia,

[Platform]

I have just found this topic whilst I was also carrying out some research on the Oadley/West families and finding all the difficulties you seem to have had. I am the editor of the Platform magazine, the quarterly journal of the Fairground Society. I was preparing an article to accompany some images I have f both Kitchener, Harriet Oadley's Fowler engine, that later became the Iron Maiden, and the Wallis Pride of Merthyr. If anyone is interested in seeing copies please send me a message with e-mail address and I will send them.

As well as Robert Oadley/West who married Samuel Whiting's daughter in 1889, there was also James Oadley/West who died in Nottingham infirmary on 6th July 1929 aged 56, and was buried at Normanton cemetery with his wife, who died 14th August 1912.

James also travelled amusements around the Notts/Derby area.

I have also read that Robert Oadley was born in Kidlington, Oxon, even though he says Bristol on the 1891 census. Perhaps this was a deliberate error to distance himself from the connections with his father?

I have got some more information and will post more when I can put it together in a more readable form.

[Arranroots]

Hi Platform

Welcome to Rootschat! 

In addition to this thread, you might find our Travelling People board interesting.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,387.0.html

You might even be able to help some of our Rootschatters?  I think I am right in saying that you can post images on that board (although not on the Look-up boards).

kind regards, Arranroots 

[comfort]

hi,
thanks for the extra little snippets , any thing i can find on the west/oadley family is great,
i would love to find who roberts, mother was, ,
and also i have been trying to find his father robert west birth,i know he had a sister fanny, but i just cant find where they were as children  ,according to the news paper accounts and the book on the murder ,fanny west married some one called cooper,
any how every little helps
thank you
patricia.

[jeffgg]

intresting reading. my grandmother on my mothers side was alice oadley bourn 1908 her mother was harriott oadley whom owend 3 traction engines one being the kitchener. in winter when the fairs were closed harriott would ether stay in the caravan in bolsover market place or in brimington of manor road. alice marrid a hallam and had 2 daughters and a son alice,harriot and thomas  but had a brain hemarige and spent the rest of her life in mickalover sanatorium derby i hope this information will be of help jeff

[Miss D]

Hi Jeff... my Grandmother too was Alice Oadley she is the mother to my father Thomas... I believed she had two daughters Harriot and Mary, you say Alice! and a boy Thomas (my dad)...
I also have a photo of her she looks about 20 years of age. Do you have any pictures ? I've never seen a picture of my Grandad Thomas Hallam...

My dad was adopted at a very young age because Alice was unwell, like you say... So my dad never really knew is proper family and always felt he wasn't wanted, Something I believe has troubled him all his life.
I would love to know more about my family history.
Hope to hear from you again cousin Jeff x

[jeffgg]

miss D sorry it should be mary. Ive been trying to do the family tree what a nightmare i keep coming to dead ends but  i am finding it fasinating. is your dad still in ripley have you been to my mums (your aunty marys) get your dad to give my mum your number and i will give you a call jeff