Four Trees -Our Great Grandmothers

[Zelley]

Hello Zelley - No, Susannah Hockey was born in Lambeth and even further back they were all Londoners.
One thing that may interest you is that Alice Rust became Alice SEALEY  - a name that is similar to two of yours I see !

I agree, the variations Zelley, Zealey, Sealey Selley, Zelly
Zealy, Sealy and Selly leaves one spinning in circles.   Of the various variations all but the Selley & Selly versions have been used by my Dorset Zealy/Zelley kin.  But, I also have  MATERNAL
selley kin with London - Devon connections, then in
Devon especially in Silverton the Selley & Zelley variations are recorded for some of the same folks.  Dazzling is all I can say!

[Emmeline]

Hello Zelley -  You may or may not know that Sealey derived from the word Silly which at one time meant fortunate -  gifted etc - along those lines anyway.
It was also, with a different spelling, used as a girls' name but I'm sorry I have lost my scrap of paper with it all on. So many pieces of paper - so many places to look!

[Lloydy]

Jan -  Very much a Powys ancestry for a Shropshire lass

Gadget

I'd say the full Monty!

I certainly have Gadget & D!!!!  Apart from my GGG Grandfather, who was from Cheeshire, all the lines on Mum & Dad's Trees are all from Powys.  My Family Tree has been relatively easy to do because none of my Ancestors moved around.  I got a bit excited when I discovered that one GGF was born in Shropshire, but on further investigation found out that his father was born in.......Welshpool - back over the border

I'm only a Shropshire lass because my Dad moved from his home of Llanidloes, after marrying my Mum, to take up a new job in Wellington.

Jan

[avm228]

Mary Winifred Pierce sounds fascinating, I'm sure she had many stories for such a short life.

Thanks, Sharon - yes, I hate to have favourites among the great-grandmas, but she's the one I'd most like to spend a day with.

Even better, she could bring her father along - he was truly colourful. He left England to buy up land in Nebraska, made a fortune in the gold rush, built an observatory and two railways, was shot through the jaw by an Indian cattle-rustler, had his nose broken off by a horse-kick, wrote letters to the Journal of Psychical Research about his psychic powers, had a town in Nebraska named for him, was implicated in a million-dollar fraud and spent the rest of his life on the run in South America. 

(And I thought my mother's family were *so* respectable - amazing what turns up in this FH lark!)

Anna

[Zelley]

Hello Zelley -  You may or may not know that Sealey derived from the word Silly which at one time meant fortunate -  gifted etc - along those lines anyway.
It was also, with a different spelling, used as a girls' name but I'm sorry I have lost my scrap of paper with it all on. So many pieces of paper - so many places to look!

Zelly is often used as a girl's name.  In a movie something like the "Rising Sun" with Sean Connery & Wesley Snipes.  In the movie Snipes' movie daughter was called Zelly, also
Actress Renee Zellweger's nickname is Zelly.  Last but not least
there was a movie called "Zelly & Me".

In a name book, I think by Hodges, the name Zelley is listed as a variation of Sealey.

[Zelley]

And it is good to hear about the Welsh rare bits.  Let's see on my spouses side one such great grandmother was named Annie Dykes from the Wrexham area.  Then we could go back a few greats to Sarah Jones and another Jones and Ward.  These are various folks connected to the Tilston name in the area.

Visited Northern Wales twice - it was and is such a grand place.
I must of made a local shopkeepers week.  It was during the end of the Falklands War, and I stopped at the shop and bought
one of each newspapers for about five days.  I hope they
didn't think I was running a Fish & Chip shop.

[Zelley]

Drifting through the towns and villages of Devon, we find young Fanny Wood from Tiverton working as a domestic at the
Lodge School of Kings Alley in the St Stephen section of Exeter.
There were numerous children of all ages from different places.
Of interest, the schoolmaster's son was Leonard Quicke, a wool worker.  But, a very interesting thing, if we were to step outside the Lodge School and walk the short Alley and meet he many folks, it appears that it was a Alley of Widows such as the old dairyman's wife Mrs Harriet Allen, or the charwoman Mary Tuckett, and the old nurse Mary FREY.  But not to worry, one of the folks  was police constable Edward Mears.

[Gadget]

And it is good to hear about the Welsh rare bits. Visited Northern Wales twice - it was and is such a grand place.

All the best people come from there, Zelley. There's me, my parents, 2 grt grandmothers and 3 grt grandfathers. Think the other was a Scot maybe

Gadget

[DavidJP]

Hi All,

My four Gt Grandmothers were:

Esther Harrison b. 1881, Claverdon, Warwickshire. d. 1963, Birmingham. She was in service for a while before she married.

Hester Elizabeth Warburton b. 1876, Stretford, Manchester, Lancashire. She worked for a time at a department store in the 1920's & 30's period.

Florence Kate Hussey b. 1883, Mitcham, Surrey. I don't know when she died as yet, possibly in the 1930's.

Isabella Hill b. 1895, Blyth, Northumberland. d. 1981, Blyth, Northumberland. She is the only Gt Grandparent I met and although she died when I was eleven I have nothing but fond memories of her!!

They each I should imagine had as interesting and hard a life as my Gt Grandfathers, may be harder, what with raising children through World Wars etc!! I wish I could talk to them now!!

Regards,

David