Inkberrow

[astwood]

HELLO ZAPPA
I was looking through my directories and i found Felix Boyce
In the needle district almanac for 1904 living at East View New Road astwood bank
and he was at the same address in the 1916 kellys directory
If ROBPHIL hasnt got the inkberrow books yet i will scan through them
if you want Iwas born in astwood bank and my family were in the area since 1900
all the best
Astwood

[astwood]

HELLO AGAIN ROBPHILL
I dont no if you obtained the inkberrow books But i was just scanning them
for zappa found no boyces but i found something i missed last time
In 1824 egerdon allcock and others sold RUSH HOUSE to John phillips esq
of HAMBURY HALL
IN1720 john phillips a yeoman of stockwood left to the poor of Inkberrow
20/- per annum in bread to be distributed by his son thomas, the minister
and the churchwardens
Astwood

[Zappah]

HELLO ZAPPA
I was looking through my directories and i found Felix Boyce
In the needle district almanac for 1904 living at East View New Road astwood bank
and he was at the same address in the 1916 kellys directory
If ROBPHIL hasnt got the inkberrow books yet i will scan through them
if you want Iwas born in astwood bank and my family were in the area since 1900
all the best
Astwood

Hi Astwood,

I think you are wonderful!!!  I have pictures of the family home and we were in Astwood Bank in August looking for it. My grandmother had written 'Eastview, Evesham Road' on it, so we were driving up and down Evesham Road, we were so close!! My grandparents came to visit friends in A Bank up until my grandfathers death. They were really friendly with a family called the Woodwards, Dorothy, Netty and Christabel who were all sisters. My mother couldn't work out who the Woodwards were she thought they could have been related to us but through hours of research I discovered that the Woodwards parents, Fergus Felix , my great great grandfather and his first wife Eliza (Phillips) and Ellen and Solomon Shrimpton were all neighbours on Evesham Road. When Eliza died, she was ten years older than Fergus Felix, he married the Shrimpton's daughter Lizzie. Mum has a vague memory that she may have drunk away a family fortune!!!
When we were in A Bank in August we found Fergus Felix's grave in the cemetery on Oakedge Road and in the grave with him was Selina, his daughter but we couldn't find Lizzies grave, but her parent's grave was there. Fergus Felix's son Albert moved to Middleton, near Manchester to work as a fabric dyer were he met my great grandmother and they married and settled in Middleton. They had one child, my grandfather George Felix. Fergus Felix also had another daughter called Agnes but I can't find any trace of her.
Whilst we were there in August we met a lovely man who was tending the garden and he tried to put us in touch with a lady who he said would be able to help us but she was out.

Regards

Zappah

[astwood]

Hi Zappa
Im glad it was some help, I use to take newspapers down New Road in the
1950s my younger brother lives a couple of streets from there and the
oldest brother lives the other end of evesham rd i left there 45 years ago
there are still woodwards at the bank Felix was born in sambourne wasnt
he, if there is anything i can look up for you let me no
all the best
astwood

[Valda]

See also

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,331386.0.html

One of Lizzie Shrimpton's sisters, Jane married Harry Woodward and one of her brothers, Ernest married Sarah Jane Woodward.
Harry and Jane's known children were

Births Jun 1888 
WOODWARD  Dorothy Mary     Alcester  6d 625

Births Sep 1890   
Woodward  Annetta Lucy     Alcester  6d 635

Births Sep 1893   
Woodward  Christabel May     Alcester  6d 656

Births Sep 1898   
WOODWARD  Ida Nellie     Alcester  6d 725

As placed in the other link Felix Boyce's first wife Ruth Cook who he married in 1861, was the mother of all his known children. There does not seem to be any children from his second marriage to Eliza Palmer nee Phillips in 1876 or his third to Lizzie Shrimpton in 1899. The Shrimptons were strict Baptists this particular branch of the family (not the only branch of a very large group of needlemakers who came from Buckinghamshire) arriving in Astwood Bank from 1844 onwards, Lizzie's older brother Walter ran the postoffice for 40 years.

Felix's baptism was at Coughton in 1841.

Regards

Valda

[RobPhill]

Hi, everyone,
Many thanks for your mesages re. the Phillips in Inkberrow. Sorry I haven't replied before but have just had a couple of weeks in our caravan at Broadway. Managed to go to the Records Office but I was pushed for time , so didn't do much. have only returned home today, so please give me a 'breathing space' and I will look through my records.
Kind regards,
RobPhill

[RobPhill]

If anyone is interested, Ludlow & Briscoe, auctioneers, have for sale 'The Worcestershire Estates of the late Miss Phillips at Hunt's End, Crabbs Cross, New End, Astwood Bank, etc'. It was a catalogue of 24 pages and 7 large maps. Asking price is £180.00 !!. It's just a follow-on from the above articles.
RobPhill.

[dee-jay]

Hi folks!

I wish I'd seen this thread before I left Hampshire for holiday in Wales last week!  I popped over from Brecon for a couple of hours' research at Worcestershire Record Office but was unsuccessful in my search of the Inkberrow School Log Books for any mention of Ada HOLMES, a great-aunt, who according to hearsay taught at a school there.

I found William COTTAM took charge of the Inkberrow Mixed School on 28 April 1873;  Miss JACKSON, Assistant Mistress, left in the summer of 1886 after 3 years' service;  Miss S.M. CLEE, Pupil Teacher in her 2nd year was transferred there from Bradley Green School and commenced duties on June 28th 1886.

The Staff List June 1887:
William COTTAM - Certificated Master - First Class
Frances Jane KEY - Assistant Mistress - Article 50
Sarah Maria CLEE - Pupil Teacher 2nd Year
Minnie J. KEY - Monitress

Minnie was 'promoted' to Pupil Teacher from 1st May 1889 and Ida Ellen KEY was to be appointed Monitress after the holidays.

If anyone should encounter any mention of Ada HOLMES in Inkberrow records, I'd be delighted to hear.  She married Edwin OVERTON at Leamington in October 1890 and there is no evidence to show her occupation at, or after, marriage, though she obtained her Teaching Certificate whilst employed as Teaching Assistant at All Saints, Leamington in 1885.

dee-jay


 

[RobPhill]

Hi,
In the 1891 census, Edwin Overton and wife Ada were living at Tachbrook Street, Lemington, Warks. Edwin is listed as a baker and provision dealer. Nothing listed for Ada. Could not find any trace of them in 1901 census but there is an Edwin Overton death at Warwick in Sept. qtr 1892, 6d 334. Cannot find any trace of Ada but will keep looking. Hope this of help.
RobPhill