Old Elm Cottage, Churchdown

[polomint]

We’re ok thanks, a bit fed up with the situation but we’ve both had the vaccination so let’s hope it won’t be too long before we have a bit more freedom.
Liz

[KLS]

Thank you both for trying to help me.  My great great grandfather was Charles Daniels brother of William who married Elizabeth Price.  He moved to West Bromwich with his wife Sarah Gibbs and so the Birmingham based Daniels family began!  Charles and Sarah had a son John who married Alice Ann Salcombe in St James church in Handsworth.  Their son Frederick James married my lovely Nan Mary Clements.  Charles Daniels went on to marry another 2 wives and had 9 children!

[Anna99]

Wow those Daniels were prolific weren’t they?  I’m sure we must have so many relations all over the country! I haven’t been on Ancestry for a while but I do have a screenshot of the ancestors I managed to trace from William and Charles’ parents if you are interested?  The Daniels didn’t move far from Churchdown at all and I got back to the 1700s to a baptism at Badgeworth Church which is only a couple of miles away.  I seem to remember their mother’s side coming from up in the Cotswolds somewhere, Hawling rings a bell though I’d have to check once I get back on Ancestry again because I did save the certificates/census information on there. As far as I can remember, we come from a long line of agricultural workers 😊.

[KLS]

I have the record of Giles Daniels and Anne Clark marrying in Badgeworth in the 1700's. Their son William (yes, another one) who married Mary Andrews in 1776 in Holy Trinity Church.  Are they the ones you are thinking of?  One puzzle (of many) is on a parish record of a Daniels marriage in Churchdown.  On there is also recorded the marriage of a chap called Showell marrying a Sarah Spiers.  I am related to the Showell family of Birmingham and it is thought we have connections to the Spiers family.  Surely this can only be a huge coincidence?  Have you heard of the Showells or Spiers?
The more I research the questions I seem to find...............

[Anna99]

Oh you got back even further than I did - I have William Daniels 1 (I’ve had to number them all so I don’t get them muddled!) and Mary Andrews but not William’s parents, just a little about Mary’s.  No, I don’t recognise the names Showell or Spiers; I live in Churchdown and often walk up the hill where the burial ground is by St Bartholomew’s church  - I’ll see if either name is recorded on any of the gravestones there.  It does seem a huge coincidence though, you’re right.  Fascinating stuff family history 😊.

[KLS]

Hi Anna my email address is katrina.symonds@hotmail.co.uk if you find anything of interest and want to share it there