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Offline Lady Di

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With all good intentions......
« on: Wednesday 25 July 07 11:28 BST (UK) »
OK - I admit to having jet lag and that OH thinks I'm mad  ::) but I'm hoping that someone here will understand  :-[

Whilst in UK last week I found a lovely old book with the following names inside. I bought it, not because I wanted the book, but I'd love to give it to any descendant of Charles Matthews who may be interested.

I don't know where the place "Cha..............." is but is it possible that we may be able to trace this family or their descendants?

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Re: With all good intentions......
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 25 July 07 11:34 BST (UK) »
It looks like Charingdown to me, but I can't find it via Google.  Or course, it could be a house name.

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Re: With all good intentions......
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 25 July 07 12:06 BST (UK) »
I'm liking the look of Charles William Matthews b 1829 Wick, Gloucestershire who in 1881 has a 5 yr old son William Northman Matthews - fits nicely with the W.N. Matthews signature you have.

1881: RG11/2464 folio 77 p1.

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Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: With all good intentions......
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 25 July 07 12:09 BST (UK) »
...and that Charles William Matthews seems to have died Dec qtr 1895, which also ties in with the date of W.N. Matthews acquiring it into his library

Death

Charles William Matthews aged 67, Thornbury 6a 138.

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Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: With all good intentions......
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 25 July 07 12:16 BST (UK) »
...and even better, according to the 1851 census he seems to have grown up on a farm which looks a bit like the place name you have.

I think it says Charmey Down Farm on the census (there now seems to be an airfield in the right area called Charmey Down)

1851:  HO107/1943 folio 525 p4.

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Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: With all good intentions......
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 25 July 07 12:35 BST (UK) »
Hi

 Think the son is William Norman Matthews birth registered Bedminster 1875

vol 5
page 750

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Re: With all good intentions......
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 25 July 07 12:44 BST (UK) »
Quote from: peterbennett on Wednesday 25 July 07 12:35 BST (UK)
Hi

 Think the son is William Norman Matthews birth registered Bedminster 1875

vol 5
page 750



Aha - yes - the "Northman" in 1881 is actually a bit of a scribble.

Sadly William Norman Matthews appears to have died young

Death

William Norman Matthews aged 25:  Dec 1900 Christchurch, Hants 2b 421

Anna
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: With all good intentions......
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 25 July 07 12:50 BST (UK) »
It doesnt look like he married, did he have any siblings?

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Re: With all good intentions......
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 25 July 07 12:53 BST (UK) »
William's sister Hilda Martha Matthews was a 21-yr-old unmarried governess in Chew Magna, Somerset in 1901: RG13/2330 folio 26 p5.

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Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)
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