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Date:
Monday 12th of August 2013, 4:57 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
129
Tom,
Thanks for your message on the family history section of our village web site.
To be honest, pretty well all the information we have is on the web site, so it’s unlikely that anyone in the village will have information about your ancestors that is not on the web site. The historic parish registers have mostly been moved to the Suffolk County Record Office in Bury St. Edmunds.
By searching the web site I found a mention of Thurgood on the page http://greatbradley.weebly.com/john-wilder.html.
There is also mention of a Kate Cook on a message on the message board dated 9-Feb-2007 (see http://greatbradley.weebly.com/fhc.html).
In the index of the graveyard prepared by Peter Smith there is one entry for a Jerry Cook born 1848, died 1917 (see http://www.great-bradley.suffolk.gov.uk/Grea...). I can’t see any other entries for the surnames you mention.
I’m sorry not to be able to help any further. Good luck with your researches! If you find out anything more about your ancestors who lived in Great Bradley, please come back to our web site and tell us what you found.
Thanks - Rowan
Date:
Sunday 11th of August 2013, 12:06 am, GMT
Name:
Tom Sanderson
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
128
I am in the process of researching my family history and have discovered I'm directly related to the Cooks of Great Bradley. Is there anyone who might be able to help me get more information. I'm also a decendent of the Howard's, Freemans and Thurgoods. Any information would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
Date:
Saturday 9th of March 2013, 1:59 pm, GMT
Name:
Jane Marsh
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
127
Imagine our surprise when we recently discovered that my husband's family derived from Gt. Bradley. A surprise on many counts! Firstly, the fact that my husband has been driving through the village for over forty years on business. Secondly, when we visited the church, one of the first things we saw was a monument to WW1 folk who served in the great war, and the fact that my husband's name, James W Marsh was one of them. On closer investigation it turned out that this James was, indeed, a distant relative. We last visited the church a few months ago and when signing the visitors book noticed that another Marsh family had visited there just a day beforehand. I wonder if they look at this website? It would be great if they got in touch with us! From what I can determine, there are no Marsh's left in the village now...indeed, my husband's gt. gt. grandfather was one of those who migrated to Derby for work in the 1870s (or thereabouts). Be nice if anyone from the surviving Marsh family gets in touch.
With best regards
Date:
Sunday 24th of February 2013, 7:28 pm, GMT
Name:
Danny Stockdale
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
126
I'm descended from a James Smith who was born in Great Bradley in 1828. I wondered if you had any other information regarding this person, such as his parents or gradnparents? I know that he worked at Biggen Abbey in 1851 as an Agricultural Labourer before moving to Trumpington in Cambridge in 1861.
Thank you
Danny
Date:
Monday 28th of January 2013, 1:38 pm, GMT
Name:
John Watkins
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
125
What a wonderful website.
A friend of mine has shown me the remnants of a family Bible that appears to have been printed in 1655. There are two pages with inscriptions albeit that they are difficult to read.
The children and dates of birth are of an Alice Albon (Albun?; those listed are Alice b. 1740 George b. 1744 and Mary born in 1746. I think that those three are the children of Alice and George Albon and I believe the family lived in Great Bradley Suffolk.
The names Alice Plummers and John Abbott also appear and some other names that remain enigmatic.
Does this family mean anything to anyone?
Date:
Saturday 29th of December 2012, 4:08 am, GMT
Name:
Brent Bowyer
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Canada
Number:
124
I am reprinting and updating my book of 1995: The Stradishall Bowyers- 500 Years. It traced the family back to c.1500 at Stradishall & Withersfield, Suffolk. Many additions from Kedington, Halstead, Stambourne, London, Lancashire, Durham, Australia, and Canada. Updated version will be 600+ pages.
Contact me at [email protected] if you are interested in a copy.
Brent Bowyer (in Canada)
Date:
Thursday 25th of October 2012, 1:32 pm, GMT
Name:
Brent Bowyer
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Canada
Number:
123
I would like to contact anyone who has BOWYER ancestors in Great Bradley or anywhere else in Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, or north Essex. I am updating and reprinting my book from 1995: The Stradishall Bowyers - 500 Years, so am trying to trace all the descendants of William Bowyer (died c.1556) and Maude Bowyer, his wife (died c. 1578). A large part of the update is the massive branch from Kedington, Suffolk. The book will be available probably in early 2013. Please contact me at [email protected].
Date:
Tuesday 11th of September 2012, 1:17 pm, GMT
Name:
robin radclyffe
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
122
I see that last year Monica Gooch wrote asking the whereabouts of my sister, Sheena, and me....but unfortunately, she has changed her email address...so my email to her has bounced back
Date:
Monday 3rd of September 2012, 1:15 pm, GMT
Name:
Philippa Barnes
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
121
Dear Rowan, thank you for looking for me, I have ordered the wills of the Kirkhams from Great Bradley and I'll let you know how I get on.
Philippa
Date:
Sunday 2nd of September 2012, 6:22 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
120
Reply to Philippa Barnes:
Sorry Philippa - I haven't been able to find any records for the name Kirkham in any of the records I have access to. 1500s and 1600s is a bit old for these records...
Good luck with tracking your ancestors down. Please come back and leave a message here if you find somehting!
Rowan
Date:
Sunday 2nd of September 2012, 4:38 pm, GMT
Name:
Philippa Barnes
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
119
Hello, I have traced my family tree to the Kirkham family of Great Bradley in the 1500s and 1600s. Do you have any information about them?
Thanks
Date:
Friday 18th of May 2012, 11:20 am, GMT
Name:
Ian Radford
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
118
Re Message 98
Hi Karen
My Radford's came from great Bradley and moved a few miles out in the early 1800's. I have traced back to William Radford born circa 1693 who married Mary Sanderson. I have hit a brick wall on his side (although I have got a bit further back on Mary's). Some of the internet trees have his father being William born in N ottinghamshire, but i have not forund any evidence to support this. I just wonder if he wandered the few hundred yards across the border from Cambridgeshire as I understand the nearest Cambridgeshire Village is in Radfield Hundred. I still live close to Great Bradley and the Suffolk Record office in Bury St Edmunds so if you need any specific help, let me know. I have links to Paxman and Rowlinson in my tree too.
Ian
Date:
Wednesday 21st of March 2012, 3:17 pm, GMT
Name:
Tom Sanderson
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
117
Hello. I am researching my family tree and have discovered that I am related to the COOKs of Great Bradley. Herbert James COOK, b. 1881 was my Great Grandfather and it would appear that he was from a long line of COOKs (all famers) who lived in the village. Specifically, I am looking for information on Abraham COOK, b. 1844, Josiah COOK, b. 1821 and Sarah COOK, b. 1786 (although this would not have been her maiden name). Any information would be greatly received.
Also, as Great Bradley is not too far away, I would like to visit the village soon to find more information. Is there a member of the village I could contact, who may be able to help me please?
Date:
Monday 6th of February 2012, 12:23 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
116
Jane,
Thanks for your message. Pretty well all the information we have is on our web site. I suggest you use the search facility to search for you ancestors. We don't have the original parish records here - they've all been transferred to official archives.
If you can tell us as much as possible about your ancestors - their names, dates of birth, marriage and/or death, where they lived, what they did etc., we may be able to help you more.
Thanks - Rowan
Date:
Monday 6th of February 2012, 5:41 am, GMT
Name:
janet
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Australia
Number:
115
Would like some information about Parish Records for Great Bradley. Looking for ancestors in the years 1796 to 1805. Any help much appreciated.
Thank you
Janet
Date:
Monday 30th of January 2012, 3:33 pm, GMT
Name:
nike
Number:
114
Hello Jan,
Thanks for your enquiry on the village website about the albino bird. If you have a look at this page, then there is probably a picture of it: http://greatbradley.weebly.com/bird-list.html
It was taken by Les Bunyan, so he might be able to tell you more about it.
Regards,
Date:
Monday 30th of January 2012, 3:17 pm, GMT
Name:
Jan Hall
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
113
Like many others we are feeding the birds and recently we have been seeing an all grey bird the size of a sparrow on the feeders! It is pale grey almost white underneath with a darker grey back and wings. No other colour that I could see.
Does anyone know what it is? Could it be an albino?It is often with the chaffinches and maybe is one itself, but a strange colour Seen around the garden in Clarendale, If anyone knows I would love to hear from you!
Date:
Sunday 15th of January 2012, 1:45 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
112
Jenifer,
Many thanks for your message. There are several mentions of the Hazelwood family on our web site - I don't know whether you've seen them all. For example:
- A message on the message board from Ann Proctor (nee Hazelwood) dated 27-Jan-11.
- A message on the message board from Glen Hazelwood dated 19-May-10.
- A message on the message board from Catherine Proctor dated 14-Aug-07.
- A message on the message board from Gwenyth Cairns dated 29-Mar-06.
- There are 21 Hazelwoods or Hazellwoods mentioned in the 1841 census for Great Bradley.
- There are 14 Hazlewoods mentioned in the 1971 census of people born in Great Bradley.
- There are 3 Talbots mentioned in the 1891 census of people living in Great Bradley.
- The page on Alice Wilder mentions that Thomas Hazelwood worked as a servant to the Wilders.
I realise that most of these are more recent than the ones you are looking for. In a quick search I haven't been able to trace the other people you mention. There are no Hazelwoods buried in the churchyard that we have found so far. Maybe they were not sufficently well-off to afford a headstone.
I also found a mention of the people you are researching on Rootsweb in a message from John and Shirley Smith dated 22-Jul-2000, see http://searches2.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/re....
Most of what we know is on the web site, so I suggest you look at the items I've suggested, and maybe try contacting the other people mentioned above who are researching the Hazelwood family. If there's anything else specific you want to know, please ask again.
Thanks - Rowan
Date:
Saturday 14th of January 2012, 12:47 pm, GMT
Name:
Jennifer Ann Hazelwood
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Australia
Number:
111
I am interested in anything to do with the family of George Hazelwood b. 1813 Father Joseph Mother Elizabeth Smith and his wife Mary Talbot b.1814 Father John Talbot Mother Mary ? (Thurlow). Also Mahala Smith b.1843 Father John Smith Mother Eliza Sanfield. I have just traced back my father to these people who came to Australia on the ships Euphrates & Speedy in 1855.
Date:
Wednesday 14th of December 2011, 1:21 pm, GMT
Name:
Alan Boswell
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
110
Hello. Your list of rectors in the nave of St Mary's includes my 6-great grandfather Bartholomew Adrian MA, appointed 01-10-1623. His patron is shown as the Lady Alice Peyton. In 1623 Lady Alice was the widow of Sir John Peyton Bt., MP for Cambridgeshire.
But there is a family connection through Bartholomew's wife, also called Alice, the daughter of John and Jane Welby.
Lady Alice Peyton and Jane Welby were sisters, daughters of Sir Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London 1575-76 and his wife Ann.
Bartholomew Adrian and Alice Welby were married in 1623, the same year as his appointment at St Mary's.
So Lady Alice Peyton appointed her young niece's husband Bartholomew Adrian as Rector of Great Bradley.
Bartholomew and Alice had a son, Richard, 1630-1715, who became Vicar of Naseby.
Date:
Monday 5th of December 2011, 12:35 am, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
109
Monica,
Thanks for your message. Do you mean the Radclyffes used to live in part of the same building as the pub? If not, which building did they live in? Currently next to The Fox to the north is Fox Farmhouse, and to the south Pond House which previously used to be called The Cottage. On the other side of the road there are two semi-detached cottages. There are other properties nearby but built since the time you are talking about.
There is a Gwladys Penny Radclyffe who died in 1998 and has a small meorial plaque in the churchyard. Could this be a relation?
Otherwise don't know of any Radclyffes in the village, but if you can say exactly where they lived I may be able to find something...
Thanks - Rowan
Date:
Sunday 4th of December 2011, 11:58 pm, GMT
Name:
Monica Hayward
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United States
Number:
108
I am looking for Sheena Radclyffe, or Robin Radclyffe. They used to live next door to me when I lived at the Fox Inn. Mr. Radclyffe was a solicitor who had an office Rustons & Lloyd in Newmarket, Suffolk. Sheena and I used to work together in the office in Newmarket. My father was Nathan Cecil Gooch who ran the pub next door when I was a young girl. Thank you in advance for any help. Monica Hayward
Date:
Saturday 2nd of July 2011, 8:02 am, GMT
Name:
Andy Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.isleshavnchalet.co.uk
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
107
Hello,
My name is Andy Bradley and I believe that my Bradleys came from Suffolk - and possibly originally from Great Bradley.
Francis Bradley was born at Onehouse in 1762 moved to Islington, Middlesex, probably in the 1780s. Before that his forebears had lived in Harleston, Creeting St Peter and Onehouse. Before about 1630 it seems they lived in Bury St Edmunds, although I'm still working on that.
I wonder if, earlier still, they'd come from Great Bradley. Perhaps just a romantic thought - but possible!
I live in Shetland, so visits to beautiful Suffolk are infrequent. The website I attach is of a holiday chalet which my wife, Jennie, runs. She is a Shetlander which is why we live here! The website has some photos of these picturesque islands.
I've come down to work in Bury Record Office on several occasions but last month we hired a car and actually toured around. Sadly we didn't give ourselves long enough in Great Bradley and our SatNav took us to a road to Little Bradley where access through a farm wasn't permitted, so we never saw Little Bradley! We'll have to return.
If anything I have said in this rambling account is of interest and sparks any comments I'd love to hear from you - particularly of the possible origins of my Bradleys...
Date:
Wednesday 22nd of June 2011, 11:58 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
106
Sarah,
Can you tell us a bit more - when your Danbys lived in GB, and how much you know about them already?
The Danbys are mentioned several times on our web site - see http://greatbradley.weebly.com/pre-1841-cens... and http://greatbradley.weebly.com/st-edmunds-co.... There are 4 Danby gravestones in the churchyard (go to http://greatbradley.weebly.com/graves---by-s... and download the file).
Also you may be interested that a Margaret Keable ([email protected]) contacted us on 29-Mar-2006 asking about the Danbys, and saying she was descended from them.
I hope this helps. If you discover anything else about the Danbys in Great Bradley, please would you leave another message on our message board?
Thanks - Rowan
Last edited by Great Bradley at Friday 24th of June 2011, 11:13 pm, GMT +1
Date:
Wednesday 22nd of June 2011, 9:59 pm, GMT
Name:
Sarah Lakeman
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
105
Looking for any information on the Danby family of Great Bradley.
Date:
Wednesday 1st of June 2011, 5:02 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
104
Roberta,
I'm afraid I don't know anything about the Gilsons living in Great Bradley, and as far as I can see we have no records that shine any light on this. If you or anyone else finds out more, please post a message here to help anyone else researching the same families...
Thanks - Rowan
Date:
Wednesday 1st of June 2011, 3:18 am, GMT
Name:
Roberta Muir
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
103
I am researching the family of Thomas Gilson, b1737, St Mary's, son of Edmund and Margaret Gilson. Thomas married Ann ??. He was buried 26 Oct 1791. They had ten children: Mar 1760; Ann 1761; Mary 1762; Hannah 1764; Sarah 1766, Henry 1767; Elizabeth 1769; Thomas 1771; Alice 1772 & Rebecca 1776. Any info about this family would be greatly appreciated.
I am also looking for a resident of Great Bradley during this time period - Mary Ann Denham and I cannot find any info at. Would appreciate the help.
Thank you.
Roberta
Date:
Sunday 13th of March 2011, 11:50 am, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
102
Roberta,
Thanks for your message.
Do you know Doug Wilsher (also from Canada), who has also enquired about Fuller Willshire (as he spelled it)? He said:
The earliest descendent I have on file is Fuller Willshire, born about 1771 and married to Alice Gibson in Great Bradley, St Marys church in 1795. He is my GGGG grandfather. All of their children were born in Great Bradley and are then not mentioned in the church registers after the last birth in 1814. The only living children of the family were Thomas - 1799, Ann - 1798 and William 1803. Thomas is my the predecessor of my family.
Anyone knowing of this family, please contact myself,
I have a considerable amount of info on others in the family tree, also in Canada where I am located.
Doug's e-mail address is in a message further down this list.
We don’t have a lot of other information on the Wilsher/Wiltshires. There are a couple of mentions on our web site:
Great Bradley Village, Suffolk - World War II Memories and stories ...
Bill Wilsher, formerly of Fox Farm House, and then moved to Haverhill . Bill was in the Army (Pioneer Corps) during the War and was posted to various ...
Great Bradley Suffolk 1861 Census - Living in the village
Mary Ann Wilsher. 17. 1844. Kirtling, Cambridgeshire,. Servant.
Jobe Wiltsher. 21. 1840. Kirtling, Cambridgeshire,. Servant.
There is just one mention of the name Gibson, which suggests that the Gibsons lived in a house in East Green with the Beavises in the early 19th century.
I hope this helps! Good luck in your researches!
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Date:
Sunday 13th of March 2011, 10:34 am, GMT
Name:
Roberta Muir
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Canada
Number:
101
I am interested in finding information about my ggggrandfparents, Fuller Wiltshire b. 1771, Great Bradley; married Alice Gilson, 13 Dec 1772, Great Bradley, 31 Jul 1995, Great Bradley. Any information will be greatly appreciated.
Date:
Thursday 27th of January 2011, 3:08 am, GMT
Name:
Anne Proctor (nee Hazdlwood)
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Canada
Number:
100
My grandfather was Frederick Daniel HAZELWOOD born 1870 in Great Bradley. His mother, (MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER ) was JANE RADFORD born 1844.
My great great grandmother was SARAH DESBOROUGH. On all of the Census records Sara stated she was born in Great Bradley but I have never found a record of a baptism for her or an exact date of birth. Does anyone know anything about the Desborough family in that area? Sarah Desborough married John Hazelwood born 1809. He was a gardener. My late father told me that it was known in the family that John Hazelwood loved growing ROSES, and they were his passion.
Anne Catherine Proctor (nee Hazelwood)
Qualicum Beach, Vancouver Island. BC. Canada
Date:
Sunday 16th of January 2011, 3:35 pm, GMT
Name:
Elizabeth Orbell
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
99
I, am looking for my Uncle Thomas Orbell born in Gt Bradley in 1884,I cannot find him on any of the census on the excellent site, I think my Grandfather may have come to Gt Bradley looking for work at that time, his name was Walter, hence his son being born there.
I would be grateful for any help in solving this mystery,
Thanks
Elizabeth
Date:
Tuesday 4th of January 2011, 3:09 am, GMT
Name:
Karen Reece
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Australia
Number:
98
My ancestors were from Great Bradley.
My 3rd great Grandfather Alfred Radford immigrated to Australia in 1854.The Names radford, Rowlinson, Paxman and Fitch are all recorded coming from Great Bradley.
Is any one else out there researching these names and maybe can help me.
Date:
Thursday 23rd of December 2010, 5:22 pm, GMT
Name:
Rod Carlisle
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United States
Number:
97
Just now run across your site. While stationed at RAF Lakenheath, I had the honor to meet some great people at the Great Bradley Fox. Owned at the time by the Pugh family. Any information about them would be appreciated.
Date:
Monday 13th of December 2010, 2:01 am, GMT
Name:
DougWilsher
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
96
Is there a new site where I can post a request for info on gravesites in St Mary's in Great Bradley?
If so, are there any Willshires on the list of burials or gravesites? The names are Fuller, Alice, Mary and other Willshire children.
Any input will be appreciated,
Doug Wilsher
Date:
Wednesday 18th of August 2010, 11:27 pm, GMT
Name:
Sue Phillips
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
95
Thanks for the recent information, the village website is brilliant! I think I may have found Martin Smith whose name appears on the 1861 and 1871 census, as the son of Charles and Susan Smith. On the 1861 census, Martin was 3 years old and by the time the 1871 census was completed he is aged 14 and a labourer. in 1861, Charles was a woodsman but by the time of the 1871 census, he appears aged 60 as a publican, presumably landlord of the Three Tuns in East Green. I'm assuming that the photograph of the double grave of Martin Smith who died in 1940 which appears on the website, is the same Martin Smith as the dates seem to fit. Daniel Smith, Martin's brother and on the same census was aged 10 and 19 respectively, was my great grandfather and Bennett Thomas's father. Has anyone ever recorded the information on the standing gravestones?
On the 1911 census, Martin was married to Rachel and had a son and a daughter; I wonder what became of them?
I have traced Molly, the daughter of David Reginald Smith who was a younger brother of Bennett Thomas, and plan to visit her in the near future. Although now widowed by the death of her husband, Len Choat, and aged nearly 90, there appears to be a Gt/Lt Thurlow connection and hopefully she will be able to fill in some gaps for me.
I'm getting there!!
Regards
Sue
Date:
Wednesday 19th of May 2010, 10:52 am, GMT
Name:
Glen Hazelwood
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
94
Dear Kind People of Great Bradley
I like other people who have commented on your site have stumbled upon it by searching for family history on the area. I have checked the church graveyard page of your site and thank you by the way for adding this. I think your site is a great service and has helped my family with its history searching. I unfortunately was unable to find any listing of my family in the graveyard. I was wondering if any locals have come across any references to the Hazelwood (or Hazlewood) name. I have information that members of my family were born, married and buried in Great Bradley since 1740. If anyone has come across or knows anything about the Hazelwood’s from your village please do let me know.
Thank you
Glen Hazelwood
Date:
Tuesday 9th of February 2010, 2:08 am, GMT
Name:
Mike
Number:
93
I have found a new picture of the former Fox pub taken in 1987, about a year after it had closed as a pub. I haven't come across this image before, so it is great to see it. It comes from the CAMRA web site. For more information on the former pubs in the village, select go to the 'Recent History' section from the menu
Date:
Sunday 7th of February 2010, 7:31 pm, GMT
Name:
Sue
Number:
92
Thanks for the recent information, the village website is brilliant! I think I may have found Martin Smith whose name appears on the 1861 and 1871 census, as the son of Charles and Susan Smith. On the 1861 census, Martin was 3 years old and by the time the 1871 census was completed he is aged 14 and a labourer. in 1861, Charles was a woodsman but by the time of the 1871 census, he appears aged 60 as a publican, presumably landlord of the Three Tuns in East Green. I'm assuming that the photograph of the double grave of Martin Smith who died in 1940 which appears on the website, is the same Martin Smith as the dates seem to fit. Daniel Smith, Martin's brother and on the same census was aged 10 and 19 respectively, was my great grandfather and Bennett Thomas's father. Has anyone ever recorded the information on the standing gravestones?
On the 1911 census, Martin was married to Rachel and had a son and a daughter; I wonder what became of them?
I have traced Molly, the daughter of David Reginald Smith who was a younger brother of Bennett Thomas, and plan to visit her in the near future. Although now widowed by the death of her husband, Len Choat, and aged nearly 90, there appears to be a Gt/Lt Thurlow connection and hopefully she will be able to fill in some gaps for me.
Date:
Sunday 31st of January 2010, 12:14 am, GMT
Name:
Rowan Shann
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
91
Someone in your area is looking for information on Ethel and Evelyn Wilder. I can give quite a lot of information. Cousin Evelyn was a dear! Please email me if you want to know more about them.
Date:
Sunday 31st of January 2010, 12:09 am, GMT
Name:
Rowan Shann
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
90
I have come on this fascinating website - congratulations to those who run it - in pursuit of the person who is seeking information on Ethel and Evelyn Wilder after 1901. I remember Cousin Evelyn well, and I hope I can be helpful. If the person wanting information will please email me I shall be delighted!
Date:
Wednesday 27th of January 2010, 5:54 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
89
Reply to Tony Mills.
Thanks for your message. There is an oblique reference on the "Old Shops and Services" page: "In 1855 a Post Office is recorded. Joseph Jakeling, who was also a blacksmith, was the sub-postmaster. He lived in the cottage opposite old The Fox Pub". But if you know any more, including exactly where the building was, or what it looked like, or best of all a picture, we would love to hear about it! Thanks - Rowan
Date:
Wednesday 27th of January 2010, 3:45 pm, GMT
Name:
Tony Mills
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
88
Whilst recently browsing the website I suddenly realised there is no mention of the Blacksmiths Forge/Shop which was situated approx: 100 yards down the Hall Road on the right hand side just below the gardens of the two cottages which face the old Fox Pub, or have I missed it.
Regards
Date:
Wednesday 13th of January 2010, 8:05 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
87
Sue,
Further to my previous message, have you noticed that in the 1871 census, Daniel Smith, aged 19, is shown living as "son" with his father Charles Smith, mother Susan and 6 brothers (7 boys - wow!), also in East Green? Charles Smith is shown as Publican, so presumably lived at the Three Tuns, which was the pub in East Green. Some of these other Smiths are mentioned in other places on the village web site - so if you haven't found this until now, you have a whole new line of investigation to follow up!
Best regards - Rowan
Date:
Wednesday 13th of January 2010, 7:26 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
86
Sue,
Thanks for your enquiry on our village web site.
There are 12 Smith gravestones in the churchyard, but none of them match the names you have given. There are also 6 Smiths shown on the Roll of Honour as having died in the 1914-18 war, but again none match your names (you can see all this info on the relevant pages of the web site). Looking at the 1851 to 1901 census records, it's clear that Daniel and Hannah lived in East Green in 1871 but apparently not in 1861, so I guess Daniel's parents came from somewhere else. There were 5 or 6 Smith households in the village throughout this period, but I don't know whether they were related to each other. There are lots of mentions of Smiths on our web site, but as far as I can see, none of them specifically mentions the names of your ancestors, so it's difficult to know whether any of these refer to them.
Sorry I can't be of any more help. If you discover more, please post a message back here!
Rowan
Date:
Wednesday 13th of January 2010, 3:57 pm, GMT
Name:
Sue Phillips
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
85
Hi, i'm trying to compile my family tree and am looking for any relatives of Daniel and Hannah Smith who, according to the 1901 census, lived at 43 Cowlinge Road, East Green, Great Bradley. Their children were Nellie, Thomas Bennett, Bertha, May and Reginald. Thomas Bennett was my grandfather. I would be grateful to receive any information. Thank you.
Date:
Sunday 29th of November 2009, 6:34 pm, GMT
Name:
jonathan Phillips
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
84
Stumbled onto your site {looking for current phase of moon}, and am VERY impressed. Great to see a Suffolk village with such a great 'window on the world'.
Date:
Tuesday 7th of July 2009, 6:03 pm, GMT
Name:
Doug Wilsher
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
83
The earliest descendent I have on file is Fuller Willshire, born about 1771 and married to Alice Gbson in Great Bradley, St Marys church in 1795. He is my GGGG grandfather. All of their children were born in Great Bradley and are then not mentioned in the church registers after the last birth in 1814. The only living children of hte family were Thomas - 1799, Ann - 1798 and William 1803. Thomas is my the predeccessor of my family
Anyone knowing of this family, please contact myself,
I have a considerable amount of info on others in the family tree, also in Canada where I am located
sincerely,
Doug Wilsher
Date:
Monday 1st of June 2009, 6:23 pm, GMT
Name:
Monica Gooch Hayward
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
82
I wanted to inform you that Mr. Nathan Cecil Gooch (my father) took over "The Fox" from my grandfather " Nathan Gooch" in or around 1957. He and my mother, Violet Gooch ran this establishment until early 1967 when they retired. Unfortunately, 8 weeks after his retirement, my father died of a heart attack.
After many long years of work I feel that they deserve to be in the history of this fine establishment.
Thank you - Monica Hayward, resident of Virginia, USA
Date:
Tuesday 26th of May 2009, 7:55 pm, GMT
Name:
Jade
Number:
81
I thought that i would contact you following the matter about the speeding along thurlow road. As this is the main Haverhill to Newmarket road i know it can get quite busy. I have noticed that the majority of the people that live in Great Bradley do not help the matter of speeding as they also do not abide by the speed limits. I am 13 years old and i have a bike, i think i have used about 3 times, it is like new! I would like the opportunity to actually go on my bike this year because i have not been able to go on it because not only am i affraid but also my parents are affraid that i could get hit by one of the speeding cars. I know that not all the cars coming down this road are owned by people living in Great Bradley but i believe that them drivers would want us doing the speed limit in their own villages, so why can't they do the same in ours?
Date:
Saturday 17th of January 2009, 9:10 pm, GMT
Name:
Alan Beales
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.bures-online.co.uk
Number:
80
I have in my possession an original "Thankgiving For Victory, Order of Service 1945 sheet.
I see you mention this document on your World War 2 page where you mention your 50th Celebration Party.
Can anyone tell me about this sheet ?
Was it distributed to all the villages for a service to be held on a specific day ?
Apart from your site, I can see no reference to it on the internet.
I found this document amongst the records for the local Home Guard.
Any help would be much appreciated
Date:
Friday 26th of September 2008, 8:19 pm, GMT
Name:
Elizabeth Orbell
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
79
Hello
I have just spent some time on your excellent site, but could not find what
I am looking for, so I am contacting you in the hope you can offer some
help.
I am looking for my uncle THOMAS ORBELL, BORN BRADLEY 1884, the rest of his
family were all born at RISBY and were living in Risby at the time of his
birth, so it has always been a mystery why he was born at Bradley. I would
be very grateful if you can offer any help.
Thank you
Regards
Elizabeth Orbell
Date:
Tuesday 15th of July 2008, 12:19 am, GMT
Name:
David Clarke
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
78
I think my great grandfather may have been a carpenter. My grandmother was Lilian Radford, Ithink she had a brother called Charles (emigrated to Canada) also other brothers and sisters. Has anyone any infoirmation?
Date:
Saturday 7th of June 2008, 9:25 pm, GMT
Name:
Paul I Marshall
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.jamesbmarshall.com/history/in...
Number:
77
Robert Custerson, owner of Great Bradley Hall in the 20th Century was my 1st Cousin twice removed. Robert (Uncle Bob) was married to Phillida Follet niece of Winifred Anne Follett, my Great grandmother. I would like to know more about the time that they lived at Great Bradley Hall. My grandmother, Isabel Sowdon (nee McIvor) mentions Great Bradley Hall in her diaries from 1936 to 1948.
Date:
Monday 2nd of June 2008, 9:40 pm, GMT
Name:
Linda Scott
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
76
My partner, Don Nelson, moved to Cowlinge in 1949 and remembers quite a number of Gooch’s as follows.
· Three brothers, Jim, Charlie and George Gooch
· Jim moved back to Cowlinge from London after his wife died.
· Charlie was a farm worker at Custersons(?) in Gt Bradley, now Ryders and he and Jim lived in Deynes House Trotting Horse Lane
· George Gooch lived in Woodditton and worked for Bowyers of Kirtling part time as repair builder
· George had a son called Ken who now lives somewhere like Fordham or Burwell
· Ken has a son who is a builder and has recently moved into Cowlinge and lives at Springfields, Erratts Hill, but we do not know his name.
· There was another Jim Gooch who married Ivy. They lived in Mill Lane and had a daughter Freda who married Don Wade and they ran The Three Tuns in the 60’s.
Date:
Thursday 22nd of May 2008, 9:24 pm, GMT
Name:
Gill Edwardes
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
75
Hello,
I was very interested to see the information you had on the Phillips family on your website, as I believe myself to be a descendant of William Phillips, through a daughter named Ellen or Eleanor born around 1773. However, my research has resulted in very little evidence of this relationship, since I do not have a record of her Baptism and unlike William Phillips's other children she is not mentioned in his will. But there is mention of an Ellen Edwards (she was married to a William Edwards) in the will of William Joseph George Phillips and she appears to have been a witness his wedding.
William Phillips also provided patronage to her sons. In the case of my ancestor George Harris Edwardes this was in the form of assisting him take up a career in the East India Company. Our family also possesses a portrait of Mary Jane Phillips nee Abbiss to whom Ellen was apparently close and we too have the rumour of being related to the Duc D'Orleans in the Edwardes
family.
So there is definitely a link and I would love to know whether Roger Phillips, your informant, has any knowledge about an Ellen/Eleanor Phillips and where exactly she fits in I was wondering whether you would be able to pass this information on to Roger Phillips so we could
compare notes.
Many thanks
Gill
Date:
Tuesday 20th of May 2008, 10:36 pm, GMT
Name:
Julia Gooch
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
74
I note that you have some "Gooch" people in your village.
I am also a Gooch living in Baxters Green (one of the many greens around Wickhambrook!) and have been tracing my family tree. From more recent to further back they were born in Swindon, Wiltshire, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Hargrave, Suffolk, Cowlinge, Suffolk. The ones furthest back are John Gooch and Mary Brooks. John was born and baptised in 1719 at St Martin In the Fields, Westminster. Mary was baptised at the same church in 1735. His parents came from either Bungay/Beccles in Suffolk or Wymondham in Norfolk and were called John and Margaret(t). They married in Cowlinge in the 1760s and went on to have numerous children who also had children, etc. etc. Their eldest son, John, I believe owned/rented the mill that once stood in Cowlinge. Their next two eldest children, William, was a miller and moved to Hargrave as did Samuel. I just wondered if there was any chance that your Gooch people have any further knowledge on the family tree or, if in fact they haven't, I would be quite happy to share it.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Julia Gooch
Date:
Sunday 18th of May 2008, 1:13 am, GMT
Name:
Pat Walker
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
73
My father was in WWII, US Air Force. He was stationed in England. He is quite elderly now of course. He told me about an explosion (accident) outside of town at a munitions camp. The town he gives is Bury St Edmunds. He speaks of the kindness of strangers. I want to know if this is the correct location and if anyone is still there who was in WWII. Perhaps someone will have information. I have traveled to London but I did not have this information at the time. Any history will be greatly appreciated.
Respectfully,
PWalker
Date:
Friday 2nd of May 2008, 11:26 am, GMT
Name:
Lynn Hams
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
72
I have being doing some research on the Wilder family and have found your wonderful website which has so much information on them. I hope you don't mind, though, but I just wanted to point out a discrepancy. Under the description of Grave Number 116, it says that Mildred Maria Wilder was the wife of John McMahon Wilder when in fact she was the second wife of Percival Hampson Elwin Wilder (this is confirmed on the headstone for the latter).
Thank you
Kind Regards
Lynn Hams
Thanks for this Lynn. We have now updated the web site and the paper records as you have suggested - Ed
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Date:
Thursday 17th of April 2008, 6:13 pm, GMT
Name:
Daphne
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
71
What a lovely informative site this is, and a great credit to all who run it. I have been researching my tree for a few years. The family name is Thurlow, but I have found no direct connections with the villages of same name to date, but would very much appreciate it if anyone could assist with info of folks of that name in/near GtBradley. Thankyou very much, and all the best.
Date:
Sunday 6th of April 2008, 2:17 pm, GMT
Name:
Mike Smith
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
70
What a great web site. Well done. I was born in the Mill at Bradley 49 years ago ! I still vist my mother who lives there and have seen many changes to the place over the years. Keep up the informative and special website.
Date:
Wednesday 2nd of April 2008, 12:25 am, GMT
Name:
Nancy Tuffill
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
69
Hello I don't know if you can help me or whether you could pass my details on to someone who might know anything!?
In researching my husband's family history we can go back to a John and Elizabeth Tuffill (nee Adams) who were born (no solid proof of this)in Great Bradley Suffolk. I was wondering if there was anyone who might be willing to tell me more about this family. I have been told that there used to be a Tuffill farm somewhere in your area or at least in Suffolk
yours hopefully
Nancy Tuffill
Date:
Thursday 6th of March 2008, 8:15 pm, GMT
Name:
James Avery
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
68
I lived in Great Bradley from 1967 to 1976, moving then to Lincolnshire with my parents. Which is where I live now with my own family.
We used to live in Hill House on the Newmarket edge of the village. I visited the village today (March 06th 2008) for the first time in around 30 years. It almost felt as if we'd never lived there, although everything was strangely familiar.
I can remember the Clarendale estate being built. We used to ride our bikes around the building site, riding through the incompleted houses. Oh what fun!!!
When I was about 8,9 or 10 I was in the choir. I visited the church today and was most surprised I could walk straight in. I can still remember the window with the WWI soldier. We also used to race our bikes around the churchyard, sometimes crashing into the gravestones.
Our old house looked very different, the garden a bit overgrown, and looked a lot smaller than it seemed when we used to play football in it.
The last time I was in Great Bradley there was a pig farm or some barns near the Fox pub. This appears to be all houses now. And behind the village hall I can remember many fun games of football. But even the football pitch has disappeared.
Fun days!! But is seems so long ago.
Date:
Monday 3rd of March 2008, 5:34 pm, GMT
Name:
John Cooper
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://Suffolk.activeboard.com/
Number:
67
I have only been to Great Bradley once, so if anyone would like to add anything of your village to my new Sufflk forum please feel free
John Cooper
Kesgrave
Ipswich
Date:
Wednesday 20th of February 2008, 5:52 am, GMT
Name:
Mary Lane
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
66
Have no idea how I got to your website, but it is so dynamic! You've done a great job! I love it! I wish Burwell and Swaffham Prior had such so I could zoom in there. Love your charming videos, history, photos, and current life. Of the many sites I've seen of English villages, local gov't, etc., yours is the best. Nice work!
Mary L.
Date:
Thursday 7th of February 2008, 12:22 pm, GMT
Name:
M Mcchesney
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
65
i am researching my family and found my Uncle who was only 18 years died at cyril adtrain mcchesney Risbridge Home Kedington.9 october 1955.He died of Spastic qhaudriplegia,idiocy,bronchial pneumonia.i'm trying to find his burial place it says the body to be buried at the home on his death certificate.is there a burial place at the home or surrounding area.
any information i would appreciate
M Mchesney
Date:
Monday 4th of February 2008, 5:53 pm, GMT
Name:
mhp08
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
64
Hello,
I am researching my family history and would like to find any information about the Webb family who lived in Great Bradley. In particulat the family of Moses Webb born 1782 in Great Bradley. 1851 and 1861 census show that he was a church clerk, his wife Mary a school mistress, and daughter Mary Ann a Sunday school mistress. I would appriciate any information you have. Many Thanks.
Date:
Friday 18th of January 2008, 11:22 pm, GMT
Name:
Jean Cox
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
63
I used to spend summer holidays in Gt.Bradley with my Uncle, Aunt and their two daughters. We used to stay in the school house and the teacher stayed in my relatives house in Enfield, Middx. I was friendly with a girl called Robbie who lived in the village shop. We had wonderful time in the countryside. I have always had fond memories of the people who were so kind to us. Must have been just after the war, about 1941 - we came for several holidays.
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Date:
Tuesday 11th of December 2007, 3:04 pm, GMT
Name:
leigh crick
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
62
firstly i would like to say what a lovely villiage and website you have, i have been researching my family tree for the past year, i have have also made serveral trips to great bradley to look around. i would like to know if anyone remembers the crick family, and also if it is possible to find out about christening records at the chruch.
Date:
Tuesday 23rd of October 2007, 12:04 am, GMT
Name:
June Jobin nee Fordahm
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
61
My father was in the R.A.F.stationed at Stradishall.
I attended the village school from 1942 until 1945 .When I
first started I walked from Little Bradley where we lived in Malting House.I thik my first teacher was Mrs Robinson & the rector was Rev. Wilder.
Mrs.Robinson left & Miss Osbourne took over with Miss
Moline.I remember the Rev.Barnes (he had something wrong
with his foot)
When we moved to Great Bradley to The Cottage which I
think was owned by the big house next door the family then was named Berry
At the Fox Nathan Gooch & his wife were a delightful Couple who allowed us children to play on the piano in the afternoons during school holidays
There was an article about him in I Think the Daily Mirror
about his aptitude with money. He was completely blind
but could tell 10/- noters from £1.notes by touch as well as
coins.
Mrs. Ethel Webb ran the village shop,her daughter Robina
was a great friend along with Janet & Jackie Sale, John Martin Brian Claydon
We moved back to London in 1945 But my childhood in Gt.Bradley was idyllic
Date:
Saturday 6th of October 2007, 7:55 pm, GMT
Name:
Heatha Kitchin
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
60
This is a truly fascinating and most impressive site. Thank you. I am looking at the PLUMB family who were born in and around Brinkley, Cambridgeshire, and who married into, and ran the shop in, Great Bradley. So, if anyone else is interested in Stephen and his wife or children, please contact me. Since Stephen was a common PLUMB name and his ages vary quite a lot from census to census, it is quite difficult to ascertain whose son he was.
Heatha K.
Date:
Saturday 6th of October 2007, 6:59 pm, GMT
Name:
Jackie Wiles nee Fordham
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
59
I have just found your wonderful website, very impressive!
You are quite right when you say you think the picture of St.Edmund's cottage is incorrect.
I was born in 1944 in The Cottage, Great Bradley, as entered on my birth certificate. This "The Cottage" is now known as St.Edmund's, rather confusing for someone researching family history!
"The Cottage" I was born in is about 100 yards along the road from The Fox towards Thurlow, on the right hand side. We would visit Great Bradley again if The Fox was still functioning as a pub. My husband and I stayed there for a few days when Daisy and Ernie were the publicans and I was researching my family, about 1986.
Regards Jackie Wiles
Date:
Monday 1st of October 2007, 10:25 pm, GMT
Name:
Judy D'Albert
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/appa...
Number:
58
Good morning,
Back in 2003. I posted a query on your site about John Daye the Printer.
By chance, I have found Dr. Evenden's detailed bibliography of him
online which is most likely the most complete scholarly research on
him.
Can you include a link on your site and certainly let local people with
an interest particularly Mary Hilton and Jeremy Mynott with whom I had
correspondence four years ago?
Date:
Sunday 30th of September 2007, 11:02 pm, GMT
Name:
Pete Mathison
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
57
Hi,I have found 2 distant relatives mentioned on your site ,the are Edward Bird Staples b.1862 and Alice Ellen Staples b.1863 they were on the" born in " page do you know any thing more about them?
Yours in anticipation,Pete Mathison.
Date:
Tuesday 18th of September 2007, 4:18 am, GMT
Name:
Rhonda Lindsay
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
56
Hello,
I am researching my brother-in-law's family history and would like to find any information concerning the Stammers family who lived in Great Bradley. I have looked at your updated website and tried to view the 1841 entry for the family by clicking on the icon beside the entry. I have had no success. Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong.
Could you also let me know anything about Mary Ann Stammers born 1827 and if there is anything about a John Stammers born about 1853 and later residing with Charles Stammers in 1871 in Yorkshire.
John was apparently born in Kirtling, Cambridshire his date of birth is variously recorded as 1849 and 1853 but I can find no record.
In the 1871 Census for Redcar in Yorkshire, Charles and John are boarding with the Hauxwells - [John's "in-laws-to-be"] John married Annie Hauxwell in 1874 and he and his in-laws emigrated to Australia in 1875. Charles's place of birth is recorded as Great Bradley, Suffolk and his year of birth 1840. There appears to be some form of family relationship between Charles and John. The age difference precludes father and son but they may be cousins or uncle and nephew. I do not have any information about John's parents but he was referred to as John William Wright Stammers in his obituary [this is the only reference to William Wright in any of the family papers].
Hope you can help me
Thanks
Date:
Monday 3rd of September 2007, 9:18 pm, GMT
Name:
John Constable
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
55
Further to my previous posting no.56 I have now obtained a mrg. cert for George Willis, 21, who mrd. Ellen Jolley (Pitt?) spinster, 20,.October 14 1889 Plaistow Essex.
Ellen Jolley's fthr. was given as David Pitt and the mrg. was witnessed by Frances PITT and David JOLLEY
George and Ellen's son, Arthur WALTER Willis, my fthr, (corrected from the previous posting no.56) his brth.cert gives his mother as Ellen PITT. Are there any records of David Pitt marrying a Jolley or is there any other explanation ?
Any help with the above would be gratefully received.
Regards John
Date:
Thursday 30th of August 2007, 2:31 pm, GMT
Name:
Torban Trimpop
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
54
Having visited your town now a total of 12 times, I would like to tell you what great times I have spent and I am hoping that this time will not be the last that I am visiting. It is one of the most green and pleasant lands that I think one can be experiencing. Sehr Shoen! Ich liebe dich!
Date:
Wednesday 29th of August 2007, 4:34 pm, GMT
Name:
terence hanslip
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
53
hi just came across your wonderful site whilst tracing the HANSLIP family tree.
congratulations to all who particpated in the creation of this very informative resource
long live the internet
Date:
Monday 27th of August 2007, 6:53 pm, GMT
Name:
Garry Talbot
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
52
Re Grave Yard Entries Alice Dorothy Reed passed away on the 5thApril1997 not the 3rd April 1997 Many Thanks.
Date:
Monday 20th of August 2007, 10:13 pm, GMT
Name:
John Constable
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
51
Have spent many years searching for my father's, ARTHUR ALBERT WILLIS's forebears and recent information has come to light that his mother, my grandmother. was an ELLEN PITT bn 1869 in East Green, Gt. Bradley.
As I now qualify for my 25p increase in my pension I would be delighted to share it with any of the PITT family that might still be living in the area as there was a GEORGE MOSES bn.c.1863 also in GT.Bradley.
ELLEN PITT went to LONDON and mrd a GEORGE WILLIS c.1890 and were living at 26 Starr St, West Ham in the 1901 census and my father was one of their sons, ARTHUR ALBERT WILLIS.
If anyone else is searching this family I would be more than pleased to fill in any further details and look forward to any further information before time passes me by.
Regards John,
Date:
Tuesday 14th of August 2007, 7:31 pm, GMT
Name:
Mary Hackett (nee Felton).
Number:
50
Hi,
I've found a link between the FELTON family and the RADFORD family.
My great, great grandfather Samuel Felton had several children with his first wife, Ann SPEARMAN, and their daughter Sarah ( born May 1827 ) married a William RADFORD ( born 1824 ). He was a hurdle maker. They were married June 1849 and lived in Great Bradley.
William was the son of James RADFORD, born 1801 and Mary PEARSON, born 1801. They were married in 1822 and had several children, William was one of those.
Date:
Tuesday 14th of August 2007, 7:29 pm, GMT
Name:
Catherine Proctor
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
49
Hello - I am very impressed with the wonderful job you did on the Churchyard/Graveyard of St. St. Mary's church. Great Bradley . I had a look to see if any of my father's family had any markers still remaining but found none in your list. (HAZELWOOD). I suppose it is possible they are in the that batch of stones that were moved, and of course over the years they fall over or break, or suffer the inevitable damage from the elements.
What a pity that there is no record of the ones taken up.
My grandfather Frederick Daniel HAZELWOOD, his father THOMAS HAZELWOOD AND MOTHER JANE RADFORD, and his family before him come from GB. back to the early 1700's. We have a lot of familiar GB names in the family - RADFORD, PEARSON, WEBB, DESBOROUGH, SMITH, BACK, ETC. so perhaps I shall find one of those on your site.
The Thomas Hazelwood that you mention in who appears on the 1871 census was my great grandfather. He was a groom, but was learning to be a qualified Veterinarian. He had a passion for horses and he looked after the race horses that were owned by the Rector of Great Bradley. (That, I suppose would be Richard Hemery's family) He used to go to Newmarket when it was racing season and worked there for quite a few weeks at a time. I would be interested in learning more about the Rector and his racehorses.
Thomas Hazelwood died in 1879, after his horse bolted and ran him into a pond. Thomas fell off the horse and remained unconscious in the water. The horse went home and a search went out for Thomas. They found him unconscious in the water. He died shortly thereafter with pneumonia. He was young - only 35 years old. He left a wife and young children.
When he died his wife Jane (nee Radford) took in dressmaking and needlework and my grandfather Frederick Hazelwood worked at the Bell Hotel in Mildenhall, where his Aunt Harriet Chapman (Nee Radford) and her husband ran the stables and oslery there. I found them on the census living right next door to the Bell Hotel. My Aunt Melinda, (Fred's sister) used to work at the Bell hotel as well. My grandfather eventually learned the Innkeeping and bar trade and went on to London where he was a licensed victualler there at the time my father was born in 1905.
I hope to get home to England for a holiday next Spring and if I do I want to come to Great Bradley to visit the church. I am sad to say I have not been to Great Bradley but my father spoke of it often, saying that he went there on summer holidays as a child.
Thomas Hazelwood's parents were John Hazelwood and Sarah Desborough. I believe Sarah was from the next village. John Hazelwood's parents were Joseph Hazelwood and Elizabeth Smith - so that is where the SMITH connection comes into my family.
Is anyone going over the tombstones that are stacked up? Or should I say, are any of them legible now? Probably not. Do you know if any has an old photographs of residents of Great Bradley? I would love to see a photograph of some of my early family. I have a photograph of the THREE TUNS with some of the residen
Date:
Thursday 2nd of August 2007, 7:42 pm, GMT
Name:
Clare Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
48
Hello,
My name is Clare Bradley, I am researching my family tree and have now become a little bit stuck, I wonder if you could help me I know that my Great Great Great Grandad William Hoy was born in Great Bradley in 1811 and he is on your site under the 1851 census but living at that time in Gedney Lincs, there is also a John Hoy birth year u/k on the upto 1851 site living at Over Green (Ever Green) in a shared house, do you have any other information that would help me ie. his familymembers, how old John was what year was he on your records, also do you have any school records that I could get information from showing any brothers or sisters etc...
Thank you for your time
Date:
Sunday 17th of June 2007, 3:07 am, GMT
Name:
barry
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
47
hi..we are looking for anyone who was related to percy or charlie smith who lived in the village many years ago..around 1900-1975..many thanks
Date:
Tuesday 15th of May 2007, 6:03 pm, GMT
Name:
Roy Smith
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
46
Does anyone know if the LONG family(ies) referred to on the website were related to the LONG family of West Wratting who once ran the local bus service through Gt Bradley into Haverhill?
Date:
Sunday 8th of April 2007, 2:16 pm, GMT
Name:
Joanne Bingham
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
45
Hi there, just had a lovely trip down memory lane. I taught the art class at the village hall for a few years, and I am delighted to hear that the class still flourishes. I live in Queensland, Australia, now, love to hear from anyone who remembers me.
Date:
Tuesday 20th of March 2007, 12:12 am, GMT
Name:
Tony Mills
Number:
44
I've just been checking about the football club again [see earlier post below] with my brother in law Nathan Gooch and he said you did play for one year in the park across the road from the Fox backing onto Great Bradley Hall which is just of the road to Cowlinge, apologies!
Date:
Wednesday 14th of March 2007, 4:48 pm, GMT
Name:
lynne
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
43
Thank you. Have really enjoyed your web-site. Searching for the Allsop family. William George Allsop and Thomas Payne Allsop were born in Great Bradley in abt. 1873. Interested what their parents were doing there - Thomas Payne and Caroline Allsop? Moved on in 1874 to live at Lakenheath.
Date:
Friday 9th of March 2007, 9:09 pm, GMT
Name:
Tony Mills
Number:
42
Re: The question about the football club. The football field was on a meadow behind Evergreen Lane houses which is now the Clarendale estate. Yes they did loose most of the time- and lose by double figures! The teams used the pub called The Fox Inn (which is now residential) for their changing rooms, plus the referee, before making their way up to Clarendale for the match. The Cowlinge road as far as I am aware was never used for this and I am fairly certain as my father in law, Cecil Gooch, was the landlord of The Fox at the time.
Regards Tony Mills, previously of Oakdene Evergreen Lane"
Date:
Saturday 17th of February 2007, 9:54 am, GMT
Name:
Lesley Webb
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
41
Thank you for a wonderful website. The census records are of particular interest. I am descended from the MARSH family. My great grandmother was LIZZIE MARSH (born 1877, died 1901 in Lambeth). Her father was JOSEPH MARSH (born 1829 died 1879). I was born in Kent in 1962 but moved to New Zealand in 2001. I would be grateful if anyone had any further information on the Marsh family and, indeed, would be interested to know if any members of the Marsh family continue to live in Great Bradley. Thank you.
Date:
Friday 9th of February 2007, 11:44 am, GMT
Name:
Mary Hackett
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
40
FELTON family.
I am trying to find out more about my grandfather's younger brother - FRANK FELTON.
He is listed as returning from the First World War, on a memorial tablet in Great Bradley church.
I believe that he may have married either a Kate COOK or Dora WRIGHT.
Does anyone have any information that may help.
Date:
Monday 5th of February 2007, 10:35 pm, GMT
Name:
Clive Bettison
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
39
Dear Sirs - Does any member of your web/local history experts know of
the whereabouts of the Great Bradley
School Admission Registers. I am particularly interested in the period
1897-1905. Such registers are of
course most informative regarding the comings & goings of any family
with school-age children.
Many thanks - yours sincerely
- Clive Bettison.
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Date:
Monday 5th of February 2007, 10:34 pm, GMT
Name:
Mike
Number:
38
The answer to Evelyn's question (No. 39 below) is that a 'Spong' is "An irregular, narrow, projecting part of a field."
One of the fields on the Great Bradley Tithe map is also called 'spong'
Date:
Monday 5th of February 2007, 10:24 am, GMT
Name:
Evelyn
Number:
37
Please can you kindly help - have this morning enjoyed your site! I am a farmer's daughter, and have a friend who wants to create an article locally about the names of fields on local farms. One he is particularly interested in is the name "Spong". I have tried to find the meaning for this - we had a spong on the farm. Is anything available on your website, which I have not found which gives the meaning?
I come from Framlingham - I expect there is a Tithe Map in the Suffolk Record Office - but if you could kindly answer the query above, both my friend and I would be grateful!
Thank you for some charming photographs, which brought back a lot of happy memories
Date:
Friday 26th of January 2007, 3:22 am, GMT
Name:
Winnifred L. Akeroyd
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
36
Dad was born and raised in Suffolk. Heveningham/Laxfield area, now I've enjoyed another bit of his county. Carpet Bowls brought me to your site. Thank you! Winnifred
Date:
Wednesday 3rd of January 2007, 3:53 pm, GMT
Name:
JAN HALL
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
35
Just wanted to say how sorry we are about the death of Barbara Buchs, I did not know her very well but she was always pleasent and in spite of poor health did a great deal for the village. She will be sadly missed. The other sad event was the death of Mrs Carlton Brown and our thoughts and sympathy are with all the relatives of both these nice ladies. The village has lost two of its best "characters".I wonder if some sort of tribujte could be arranged? Like a tree or adedicated book? Any ideas?
Date:
Thursday 21st of September 2006, 8:13 pm, GMT
Name:
Mike Pickard
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
34
Have just returned from Great Bradley today, your website helped me no end. My wife is decended from the Burton Family and has connections with the Martin Family. We found all the graves we were looking for and much more. Your site is the best village site I have viewed for the UK, only Canadian sites come close. Many thanks. I was upset at not being in time to buy a copy of the CD it has run out of stock, would love a copy as soon as a run is completed.
Date:
Wednesday 6th of September 2006, 4:38 pm, GMT
Name:
Elizabeth Orbell
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
33
I am searching for a lost relative Thomas Orbell born 1884 Bradley, his family lived in Risby. I am clutching at straws in the hope this may mean something to someone I can only presume his Mother Emily came to stay with relatives to have him.
Thanks E.O.
Date:
Tuesday 29th of August 2006, 8:53 pm, GMT
Name:
Joan French
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
32
Hi,
I came across your site and it made interesting reading. Some of my ancestors came to Australia from Great Bradley in 1837/38. My great grandmother was Hannah Bradford, ( 1849-1926) daughter of Charles Bradford and Anna (nee Chapman). He is recorded as being a farm servant but whether that was his occupation in Suffolk or in NSW is not indicated.
I would be interested to hear if any family members were still in the area or if there is any record of previous generations prior to migrating here
Your truly, Joan French
Hervey Bay, Qld
Date:
Tuesday 29th of August 2006, 2:42 pm, GMT
Name:
Jocelyn O'Sullivan
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
31
what an excellent site you have created,
I believe ancestors of mine, the Galley
family at some time originated from Great
Bradley and Dullingham and it is very
interesting to find out so much on one web site. Our ancestor is Josiah Galley born
about 1830 and I believe he appears in the
census records for 1851 or 61 along with
several other Galleys.
Date:
Monday 28th of August 2006, 10:27 pm, GMT
Name:
Gillian Hawley.
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
30
I am a descendent of John Morden of Great Bradley. When his eldest son inherited the name and title of Sir Charles Harbord, and his grandson became Baron Suffield of Suffield, Norfolk, he moved there, it seems. I believe that the Mordens were in Great Bradley for at least two generations. The really famous grandson of John Morden is Sir John Morden, a merchant adventurer who built Morden College in Blackheath...see Google. I live just north of Saffron Walden. I would very much like to get in touch with Mr. Norden, who is also researching the family.
Last edited by Great Bradley at Friday 9th of February 2007, 4:12 pm, GMT +1
Date:
Friday 25th of August 2006, 10:42 pm, GMT
Name:
Philip Botevyle - Carter
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
29
Research brought me to your site, excellent, the most enjoyable, satisfying, easy to use and so informative right accross the ball, keep up the great work, when able to travel will vist the village. Distant relative, Spearman family Gt Bradley, William Brn cir 1792, James Brn Cir 1809 had 9 Children, interested in John Spearman and any descendants, apparently known as Pearman Brn Cir 1844 Mrd Elizabeth Burton, any help or other who feel they are connected would love to hear from you
Date:
Thursday 10th of August 2006, 6:39 pm, GMT
Name:
Dennis Boreham
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
28
Just wanted to comment on Mike's reference to the football photos on the Thurlow 2000 CD.
These photos were from a different period to that of the Bradley Sports F.C.which existed from around 1965 - 67.
I estimate the photos in question date from the late 1940's -early 1950's,as I recognise several faces,but I don't think any had direct Bradley connections.
Date:
Wednesday 9th of August 2006, 1:16 pm, GMT
Name:
Mrs June Taylor
Number:
27
Would the dog owner who lets their dog out for its late night walk.
Be aware that I have left a bucket and shovel on the drive for them to clear up their dogs mess.
As I am crutches and find it difficult to clear the pile each morning.Would appreciate if they did-not allow their dog to use my drive as a toilet.Thank you.
Date:
Tuesday 8th of August 2006, 9:52 pm, GMT
Name:
Mike
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.great-bradley.suffolk.gov.uk
Number:
26
Further to Dennis's note on the football below - the Turlow 2000 CD has got three pictures of the Thurlow United football club on it. It features the following footballing heroes named below. Has anyone any more information?
Tony Smith, Fred Atherton, Malcolm Webb, Den Atherton, Derek Coote, Jimmy Talbot Middle row: Derek Eley, Frank Talbot, Peter Atherton, Conrad Cornell; Freddie Thomas, Chris Atherton
George Fisher, Frank Haylock, Peter Atherton, Anthony Coote, Frank Talbot, John Martin, Roy Bumpstead, , Jim Talbot, Tony Smith , Arthur Cross, Jack Atherton, Ron Field, Derrick Eley, Cyril Turner, Sid Mayes Jim Barrett
Herbert Arnold, Roy Bumpstead, Dumpy Rowlinson, Vic Clark, Vic Morley, Jim Dearsley, Judda Jeffreys, BobJeffrey, Len Choat, Joe Smith, Jim Fitch, Johnnie Barrett, Dennie Hayward, Jimmy Tulloch; Ron Turner, Harry Adsett
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Date:
Tuesday 8th of August 2006, 9:42 pm, GMT
Name:
Dennis Boreham
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
25
Hi
Does anyone remember the Bradley Sports Football Club, which was formed in the mid 1960's? I remember they played in the now defunct Bury Village League,which entailed long journeys for away matches,such as Stanton & Drinkstone.I think they had a pitch on the Cowlinge road.David Mills,and one or two of the Atherton brothers from Thurlow were players at the time. They were not very successful and regularly lost by double figures! I think they only lasted a couple of seasons, before merging with the Thurlow United club,with which I was associated with at the time.
Date:
Wednesday 2nd of August 2006, 4:22 pm, GMT
Name:
carole durrant
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
24
I would like Ron Turner to contact me,he gave no email address.I live in great Bradley,have been here thirty two years,I have Turner ancestors who were born in Thaxted and Radwinter so we may have a conection.
Date:
Thursday 27th of July 2006, 9:27 am, GMT
Name:
Rhonda
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
23
I am looking for any information concerning the Stammers family who resided in Great Bradley c. 1851 - 1881 East Green. Thomas Stammers was an agricultural labourer, born c. 1800, Lt Watting or Keddington depending on which census you refer to. His wife was Mary Smith and in his later years as a widower, he lived with his sister-in-law Ann Leeks also of Great Bradley. I would like to establish whether Thomas had a son, John Stammers, born c. 1850 who was boarding, together with Charles Stammers of Great Bradley, in Skelton, Guisborough in 1871. Both men were iron stone miners according to the census. John is recorded as having been born in Kirtling, Cambridgeshire,which appears to be only 2-3 miles from Great Bradley. Any information at all would be appreciated
Date:
Wednesday 19th of July 2006, 2:32 pm, GMT
Name:
Mary Hackett
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
22
What a brilliant site!! I've found the census pages really helpful.
My father's family came from Great Bradley. Great grandfather was James FELTON born in 1852. His father was Samuel Felton, from Bulmer Essex. We have connections with the FINCH, RADFORD, BEAVIS and WOMWELL families. Woud love to have contact with any of those mentioned.
Date:
Thursday 13th of July 2006, 9:27 am, GMT
Name:
Jenny Banks
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.jennyandernie.co.uk
Number:
21
I have been looking at your lovely website. I restore old photographs as a hobby and I would love to work on the wonderful old photos you have in your site (free of charge).
If you would like me to do so just send them on an e-mail as large as you can and after I have worked on them I will send them back to you.
If you would like to see some of the other photos I have worked on there is a section on restored photos on my website.
Regards
Jenny.
Date:
Tuesday 20th of June 2006, 2:36 pm, GMT
Name:
anthony Gatford
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
20
Congratulations on compiling your website. I have a relative who was born in the village about 1828 a Susan Cook who married Henry Gatford my Great great Grandfather in 1848 at Camberwell, Surrey. Keep up the good work.
Date:
Wednesday 31st of May 2006, 6:33 pm, GMT
Name:
Susan Baines
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
19
Excellent site - it was such a treat to come across it.
My grandparents are buried in the churchyard (Frederick Noel and Ida Mary Webb). Ida was the daughter of Dan Kent Long. Am happy to be contacted by anyone who is interested in the Webb or Long family.
Date:
Thursday 25th of May 2006, 4:46 pm, GMT
Name:
Steven Kellam
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
18
Researching my family tree has lead me to this site. My Great Great Grandmother was Harriet Coppin b. about 1839 in Great Bradley. Her Father was James Coppin we believe b. about 1791 also in Great Bradley. Harriet later married my GG Grandfather Alexander William Laidlaw from Rothsay on the isle of Bute in Scotland. Any info. on siblings etc. would be greatfully received. I am hoping to visit the area in the summer 2006.
Date:
Saturday 29th of April 2006, 10:28 pm, GMT
Name:
ELAINE BARNES
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
17
Thanks for an excellent web site. It has helped extend my knowledge of the area for my family tree and to get a real feel for the village.It is very interesting and easy to use. Many thanks!
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:12 pm, GMT
Name:
Peter Mills
Number:
16
I left Great Bradley at the age of 12yrs on 7th April 1961 and now live in Blackmore in Essex.
" I have never the picture of the Home Guard and it contains many names from my family: Percy, Charlie, Archie, Reginald (Sam) and my father Kitch Mills. His actual name was Harold Kitchener Mills. He never used the Harold, I guess because of an older brother, Harry, who was farm manager at Wodgells Farm..
Fred Stafford and Ernie Wimpress were married respectively to my Aunts Inda and Ethel - whether the other Mills's were also brothers I do not know (they were prone to using nicknames), and one may be my uncle 'Nip'. William may have been his son, my cousin Billy.
The WWI Roll of Honour, lists my father's older brothers, Charlie, Alfred (refered to by my father as Fatty although photographs show him as wirey - who was awarded the Military Medal in WW1) and his eldest brother William, my uncle Billy. All were in Kitcheners Army either when father was born, in Sept 1914 or before his baptism, hence his middle name and why he was always called Kitch.
My mother was Florence Helen Cambridge daughter of a Fishmonger in Crystal Palace. She was known as Floss to her family in London, but this was too posh a name for a country girl and she became known as Helen in Suffolk. She was a Milliner in a West End Store who joined The Land Army and lodged with Mrs Stanley at Fox Farm House in the village. Mrs Stanley was mother in law to Mr Custerson the Farmer. When my parents married their first home was the small round house at Little Bradley."
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:09 pm, GMT
Name:
Ron Townsend
Number:
15
Turners of Great Bradley
I have just discovered my G3.Grandfather Zachariah Turner Christened in tha Parish Church on the 5th Oct. 1738. I will now continue to follow the progress of this webpage with great interest. If anyone of similar name interest would like to contact me I would be delighted to hear from them My mother who is now aged 91, is the last surviving Turner,(her maiden name), that we are aware of.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:08 pm, GMT
Name:
Gwenyth Cairns
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
14
Hazelwood Ancestors
I visited Great Bradley in 1999 on the trail of my Hazelwood and Smith ancestors who migrated to Australia in 1855. Spent many hours at St Marys Church where they would have been baptized, married and buried. Found your website delightful and look forward to your Genealogy section.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:07 pm, GMT
Name:
Judy
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
13
John Day descendants
About 25 years ago while touring small villages and looking at Brasses I discovered the fine example in your church to John Day who was quite famous in his era. Is there a record of his descendants ? My great great grandfather was a John Day and was from one of the Camps villages which are quite near to your village. He settled in Linton- also not far away. He was born in 1774. I would like to see if there is a link in those two centuries to connect him with the John Day buried in your church. Also, I heard a rumor there was a connection with John Day a Virginia Back -woodsman who went on the Overland Trail in 1811 with John Jacob Astor and after whom the town in Grant County Oregon USA is named. Seems remote but one never knows! Thanks!
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:05 pm, GMT
Name:
Peter Thurgood
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
12
Family History
Congratulations on a great site. I would be very interested in any references to my thurgood ancestors that your readers may have, especially James Thurgood who committed suicide in the village pond. Thank you.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:03 pm, GMT
Name:
Dale Reynolds
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
11
WEBB FAMILY HISTORY
I was very interested to find this web site. I recently started researching my family history. My 3xgreat grandfather Moses Webb's, moved from Balsham in Cambridgeshire to Great Bradley around 1805. He was the church clerk and died in Great Bradley in 1864. I am thus interested in the village history and any information on the Webbs.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:01 pm, GMT
Name:
Lorraine Earl
Number:
10
Paxman Family Great Bradley
I have traced my Paxman relatives back to the village as far back as 1720 and am interested in any history of the village especially the Inn which they ran in Bradley St.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:00 pm, GMT
Name:
Liz Oliver nee Coote
Number:
9
It's good to find Bradley on the web, if I can be of any service to the history please email me - I moved there when I was 3 years old (49 years ago), and Mum and Dad (Ivy and Don) moved to Haverhill only a few months ago.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 9:59 pm, GMT
Name:
Margaret Keable
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
8
Danby family of Great Bradley
I am very interested in this website as I have distance ancestors who lived in Great Danby from around 1730. They were the Danby family. I am interested in the history of this area.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 9:58 pm, GMT
Name:
Lesley Anderson
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
7
Looking for information regarding the THURGOOD / THOROGOOD family (Suffolk & Cambs)
I am researching my ancestor James THURGOOD - father Thomas and mother Susan (nee BEAVIS) born in Little Thurlow 1826. He had brothers John, Thomas and Elijah? also bapt. in Little Thurlow. James settled in Carlton, Cambridgeshire just over the border & married Mary HOWARD and it looks like there's quite a few THOROGOODS in Great Bradley, but can't find the connection. Apparently his father, Thomas THOROGOOD was born in Haverhill, as was his wife Susan. They were married at Haverhill in 1813. They don't appear in the 1861 census of Carlton or Gt. Bradley and there's another Thomas THOROGOOD who is baptising children of the same names, but he is married to SARAH in Haverhill! Wondering if there's anyone who can help sort this out! Thanks, Lesley Anderson in Ottawa, Ontario Canada.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 9:57 pm, GMT
Name:
Jonathan Coppin
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
6
Hi all. I am trying to locate information on my family. My Great-Grandfather was Reuben R. Coppin: Born Sept. 11, 1866 in England. He married Anna Donaldson from Glasgow, Scotland. My Great-Great-Grandfather was Job Coppin: Born in 1834 (Great Bradley, Suffolk, England). Job was married and had 6 children. (Job was married to Mary Sinken in 1878, in Kirtling, Cambridge England). Job and his family sailed the Atlantic from England and settled in Texas (1870s or 1880s). I have not confirmed the information above that is in parenthesis, so it may not be accurate. I look forward to hearing from anyone who may have information.
Date:
Tuesday 28th of March 2006, 10:43 pm, GMT
Name:
Chris Hoy
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
5
Hi.
I am researching my family tree. One of my ancestors is listed as being born in Great Bradley Circa 1809. His name is William Hoy. Can you help me find out more info about William Hoy or any other Hoys connected to Great Bradley around this time.
What sort of work was undertaken in and around Great Bradley Circa 1809?
Thanks.
Date:
Tuesday 28th of March 2006, 10:35 am, GMT
Name:
Joy Fortune
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
4
Researching my family tree aand looking for information on families of Lawrence and Pearson. This site has been a big help. Great.
All info much appreciated.
Date:
Monday 27th of March 2006, 5:32 pm, GMT
Name:
Keith Garrett
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
3
I just wanted to say what a wonderful website you have. The census data for 1851 - 1901 for the village on one site is really great. I found your website during tracing part of my family from the early/mid 19thC. I have traced family from all over the British Isles, but I have not found anything so useful anywhere else.
Date:
Tuesday 21st of March 2006, 12:15 am, GMT
Name:
Diane Thurgood
Number:
2
Researching Thurgood/Thorogood from Gt Bradley. Also Spearman or Perriman. Also from Lt Thurlow Over Green and surrounding villages
Date:
Tuesday 21st of March 2006, 12:14 am, GMT
Name:
Ann Phillips
Number:
1
I was very interested in the information provided on the Wilder family, which I have been researching. Could you please help me further with Charles C. Wilder (1842-1880). From other research, I am aware of McMahon Charles Gosselin Wilder, son of Rev. John McMahon Wilder, who was born 19 Apr 1842, died 20 July 1880. As he was also Rector of Great Bradley from 1870-1881 (Venn, J. A., comp. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954, and see also the 1871 census), I suspect that unless there were twins, McMahon Charles Gosselin is also "Charles C." Can you advise if there is further information that would prove or disprove this? The details given for the younger brothers are fascinating. Thank you for making them available. Ann Phillips
Monday 12th of August 2013, 4:57 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
129
Tom,
Thanks for your message on the family history section of our village web site.
To be honest, pretty well all the information we have is on the web site, so it’s unlikely that anyone in the village will have information about your ancestors that is not on the web site. The historic parish registers have mostly been moved to the Suffolk County Record Office in Bury St. Edmunds.
By searching the web site I found a mention of Thurgood on the page http://greatbradley.weebly.com/john-wilder.html.
There is also mention of a Kate Cook on a message on the message board dated 9-Feb-2007 (see http://greatbradley.weebly.com/fhc.html).
In the index of the graveyard prepared by Peter Smith there is one entry for a Jerry Cook born 1848, died 1917 (see http://www.great-bradley.suffolk.gov.uk/Grea...). I can’t see any other entries for the surnames you mention.
I’m sorry not to be able to help any further. Good luck with your researches! If you find out anything more about your ancestors who lived in Great Bradley, please come back to our web site and tell us what you found.
Thanks - Rowan
Date:
Sunday 11th of August 2013, 12:06 am, GMT
Name:
Tom Sanderson
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
128
I am in the process of researching my family history and have discovered I'm directly related to the Cooks of Great Bradley. Is there anyone who might be able to help me get more information. I'm also a decendent of the Howard's, Freemans and Thurgoods. Any information would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
Date:
Saturday 9th of March 2013, 1:59 pm, GMT
Name:
Jane Marsh
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
127
Imagine our surprise when we recently discovered that my husband's family derived from Gt. Bradley. A surprise on many counts! Firstly, the fact that my husband has been driving through the village for over forty years on business. Secondly, when we visited the church, one of the first things we saw was a monument to WW1 folk who served in the great war, and the fact that my husband's name, James W Marsh was one of them. On closer investigation it turned out that this James was, indeed, a distant relative. We last visited the church a few months ago and when signing the visitors book noticed that another Marsh family had visited there just a day beforehand. I wonder if they look at this website? It would be great if they got in touch with us! From what I can determine, there are no Marsh's left in the village now...indeed, my husband's gt. gt. grandfather was one of those who migrated to Derby for work in the 1870s (or thereabouts). Be nice if anyone from the surviving Marsh family gets in touch.
With best regards
Date:
Sunday 24th of February 2013, 7:28 pm, GMT
Name:
Danny Stockdale
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
126
I'm descended from a James Smith who was born in Great Bradley in 1828. I wondered if you had any other information regarding this person, such as his parents or gradnparents? I know that he worked at Biggen Abbey in 1851 as an Agricultural Labourer before moving to Trumpington in Cambridge in 1861.
Thank you
Danny
Date:
Monday 28th of January 2013, 1:38 pm, GMT
Name:
John Watkins
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
125
What a wonderful website.
A friend of mine has shown me the remnants of a family Bible that appears to have been printed in 1655. There are two pages with inscriptions albeit that they are difficult to read.
The children and dates of birth are of an Alice Albon (Albun?; those listed are Alice b. 1740 George b. 1744 and Mary born in 1746. I think that those three are the children of Alice and George Albon and I believe the family lived in Great Bradley Suffolk.
The names Alice Plummers and John Abbott also appear and some other names that remain enigmatic.
Does this family mean anything to anyone?
Date:
Saturday 29th of December 2012, 4:08 am, GMT
Name:
Brent Bowyer
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Canada
Number:
124
I am reprinting and updating my book of 1995: The Stradishall Bowyers- 500 Years. It traced the family back to c.1500 at Stradishall & Withersfield, Suffolk. Many additions from Kedington, Halstead, Stambourne, London, Lancashire, Durham, Australia, and Canada. Updated version will be 600+ pages.
Contact me at [email protected] if you are interested in a copy.
Brent Bowyer (in Canada)
Date:
Thursday 25th of October 2012, 1:32 pm, GMT
Name:
Brent Bowyer
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Canada
Number:
123
I would like to contact anyone who has BOWYER ancestors in Great Bradley or anywhere else in Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, or north Essex. I am updating and reprinting my book from 1995: The Stradishall Bowyers - 500 Years, so am trying to trace all the descendants of William Bowyer (died c.1556) and Maude Bowyer, his wife (died c. 1578). A large part of the update is the massive branch from Kedington, Suffolk. The book will be available probably in early 2013. Please contact me at [email protected].
Date:
Tuesday 11th of September 2012, 1:17 pm, GMT
Name:
robin radclyffe
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
122
I see that last year Monica Gooch wrote asking the whereabouts of my sister, Sheena, and me....but unfortunately, she has changed her email address...so my email to her has bounced back
Date:
Monday 3rd of September 2012, 1:15 pm, GMT
Name:
Philippa Barnes
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
121
Dear Rowan, thank you for looking for me, I have ordered the wills of the Kirkhams from Great Bradley and I'll let you know how I get on.
Philippa
Date:
Sunday 2nd of September 2012, 6:22 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
120
Reply to Philippa Barnes:
Sorry Philippa - I haven't been able to find any records for the name Kirkham in any of the records I have access to. 1500s and 1600s is a bit old for these records...
Good luck with tracking your ancestors down. Please come back and leave a message here if you find somehting!
Rowan
Date:
Sunday 2nd of September 2012, 4:38 pm, GMT
Name:
Philippa Barnes
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
119
Hello, I have traced my family tree to the Kirkham family of Great Bradley in the 1500s and 1600s. Do you have any information about them?
Thanks
Date:
Friday 18th of May 2012, 11:20 am, GMT
Name:
Ian Radford
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
118
Re Message 98
Hi Karen
My Radford's came from great Bradley and moved a few miles out in the early 1800's. I have traced back to William Radford born circa 1693 who married Mary Sanderson. I have hit a brick wall on his side (although I have got a bit further back on Mary's). Some of the internet trees have his father being William born in N ottinghamshire, but i have not forund any evidence to support this. I just wonder if he wandered the few hundred yards across the border from Cambridgeshire as I understand the nearest Cambridgeshire Village is in Radfield Hundred. I still live close to Great Bradley and the Suffolk Record office in Bury St Edmunds so if you need any specific help, let me know. I have links to Paxman and Rowlinson in my tree too.
Ian
Date:
Wednesday 21st of March 2012, 3:17 pm, GMT
Name:
Tom Sanderson
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
117
Hello. I am researching my family tree and have discovered that I am related to the COOKs of Great Bradley. Herbert James COOK, b. 1881 was my Great Grandfather and it would appear that he was from a long line of COOKs (all famers) who lived in the village. Specifically, I am looking for information on Abraham COOK, b. 1844, Josiah COOK, b. 1821 and Sarah COOK, b. 1786 (although this would not have been her maiden name). Any information would be greatly received.
Also, as Great Bradley is not too far away, I would like to visit the village soon to find more information. Is there a member of the village I could contact, who may be able to help me please?
Date:
Monday 6th of February 2012, 12:23 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
116
Jane,
Thanks for your message. Pretty well all the information we have is on our web site. I suggest you use the search facility to search for you ancestors. We don't have the original parish records here - they've all been transferred to official archives.
If you can tell us as much as possible about your ancestors - their names, dates of birth, marriage and/or death, where they lived, what they did etc., we may be able to help you more.
Thanks - Rowan
Date:
Monday 6th of February 2012, 5:41 am, GMT
Name:
janet
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Australia
Number:
115
Would like some information about Parish Records for Great Bradley. Looking for ancestors in the years 1796 to 1805. Any help much appreciated.
Thank you
Janet
Date:
Monday 30th of January 2012, 3:33 pm, GMT
Name:
nike
Number:
114
Hello Jan,
Thanks for your enquiry on the village website about the albino bird. If you have a look at this page, then there is probably a picture of it: http://greatbradley.weebly.com/bird-list.html
It was taken by Les Bunyan, so he might be able to tell you more about it.
Regards,
Date:
Monday 30th of January 2012, 3:17 pm, GMT
Name:
Jan Hall
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
113
Like many others we are feeding the birds and recently we have been seeing an all grey bird the size of a sparrow on the feeders! It is pale grey almost white underneath with a darker grey back and wings. No other colour that I could see.
Does anyone know what it is? Could it be an albino?It is often with the chaffinches and maybe is one itself, but a strange colour Seen around the garden in Clarendale, If anyone knows I would love to hear from you!
Date:
Sunday 15th of January 2012, 1:45 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
112
Jenifer,
Many thanks for your message. There are several mentions of the Hazelwood family on our web site - I don't know whether you've seen them all. For example:
- A message on the message board from Ann Proctor (nee Hazelwood) dated 27-Jan-11.
- A message on the message board from Glen Hazelwood dated 19-May-10.
- A message on the message board from Catherine Proctor dated 14-Aug-07.
- A message on the message board from Gwenyth Cairns dated 29-Mar-06.
- There are 21 Hazelwoods or Hazellwoods mentioned in the 1841 census for Great Bradley.
- There are 14 Hazlewoods mentioned in the 1971 census of people born in Great Bradley.
- There are 3 Talbots mentioned in the 1891 census of people living in Great Bradley.
- The page on Alice Wilder mentions that Thomas Hazelwood worked as a servant to the Wilders.
I realise that most of these are more recent than the ones you are looking for. In a quick search I haven't been able to trace the other people you mention. There are no Hazelwoods buried in the churchyard that we have found so far. Maybe they were not sufficently well-off to afford a headstone.
I also found a mention of the people you are researching on Rootsweb in a message from John and Shirley Smith dated 22-Jul-2000, see http://searches2.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/re....
Most of what we know is on the web site, so I suggest you look at the items I've suggested, and maybe try contacting the other people mentioned above who are researching the Hazelwood family. If there's anything else specific you want to know, please ask again.
Thanks - Rowan
Date:
Saturday 14th of January 2012, 12:47 pm, GMT
Name:
Jennifer Ann Hazelwood
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Australia
Number:
111
I am interested in anything to do with the family of George Hazelwood b. 1813 Father Joseph Mother Elizabeth Smith and his wife Mary Talbot b.1814 Father John Talbot Mother Mary ? (Thurlow). Also Mahala Smith b.1843 Father John Smith Mother Eliza Sanfield. I have just traced back my father to these people who came to Australia on the ships Euphrates & Speedy in 1855.
Date:
Wednesday 14th of December 2011, 1:21 pm, GMT
Name:
Alan Boswell
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
110
Hello. Your list of rectors in the nave of St Mary's includes my 6-great grandfather Bartholomew Adrian MA, appointed 01-10-1623. His patron is shown as the Lady Alice Peyton. In 1623 Lady Alice was the widow of Sir John Peyton Bt., MP for Cambridgeshire.
But there is a family connection through Bartholomew's wife, also called Alice, the daughter of John and Jane Welby.
Lady Alice Peyton and Jane Welby were sisters, daughters of Sir Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London 1575-76 and his wife Ann.
Bartholomew Adrian and Alice Welby were married in 1623, the same year as his appointment at St Mary's.
So Lady Alice Peyton appointed her young niece's husband Bartholomew Adrian as Rector of Great Bradley.
Bartholomew and Alice had a son, Richard, 1630-1715, who became Vicar of Naseby.
Date:
Monday 5th of December 2011, 12:35 am, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
109
Monica,
Thanks for your message. Do you mean the Radclyffes used to live in part of the same building as the pub? If not, which building did they live in? Currently next to The Fox to the north is Fox Farmhouse, and to the south Pond House which previously used to be called The Cottage. On the other side of the road there are two semi-detached cottages. There are other properties nearby but built since the time you are talking about.
There is a Gwladys Penny Radclyffe who died in 1998 and has a small meorial plaque in the churchyard. Could this be a relation?
Otherwise don't know of any Radclyffes in the village, but if you can say exactly where they lived I may be able to find something...
Thanks - Rowan
Date:
Sunday 4th of December 2011, 11:58 pm, GMT
Name:
Monica Hayward
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United States
Number:
108
I am looking for Sheena Radclyffe, or Robin Radclyffe. They used to live next door to me when I lived at the Fox Inn. Mr. Radclyffe was a solicitor who had an office Rustons & Lloyd in Newmarket, Suffolk. Sheena and I used to work together in the office in Newmarket. My father was Nathan Cecil Gooch who ran the pub next door when I was a young girl. Thank you in advance for any help. Monica Hayward
Date:
Saturday 2nd of July 2011, 8:02 am, GMT
Name:
Andy Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.isleshavnchalet.co.uk
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
107
Hello,
My name is Andy Bradley and I believe that my Bradleys came from Suffolk - and possibly originally from Great Bradley.
Francis Bradley was born at Onehouse in 1762 moved to Islington, Middlesex, probably in the 1780s. Before that his forebears had lived in Harleston, Creeting St Peter and Onehouse. Before about 1630 it seems they lived in Bury St Edmunds, although I'm still working on that.
I wonder if, earlier still, they'd come from Great Bradley. Perhaps just a romantic thought - but possible!
I live in Shetland, so visits to beautiful Suffolk are infrequent. The website I attach is of a holiday chalet which my wife, Jennie, runs. She is a Shetlander which is why we live here! The website has some photos of these picturesque islands.
I've come down to work in Bury Record Office on several occasions but last month we hired a car and actually toured around. Sadly we didn't give ourselves long enough in Great Bradley and our SatNav took us to a road to Little Bradley where access through a farm wasn't permitted, so we never saw Little Bradley! We'll have to return.
If anything I have said in this rambling account is of interest and sparks any comments I'd love to hear from you - particularly of the possible origins of my Bradleys...
Date:
Wednesday 22nd of June 2011, 11:58 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
106
Sarah,
Can you tell us a bit more - when your Danbys lived in GB, and how much you know about them already?
The Danbys are mentioned several times on our web site - see http://greatbradley.weebly.com/pre-1841-cens... and http://greatbradley.weebly.com/st-edmunds-co.... There are 4 Danby gravestones in the churchyard (go to http://greatbradley.weebly.com/graves---by-s... and download the file).
Also you may be interested that a Margaret Keable ([email protected]) contacted us on 29-Mar-2006 asking about the Danbys, and saying she was descended from them.
I hope this helps. If you discover anything else about the Danbys in Great Bradley, please would you leave another message on our message board?
Thanks - Rowan
Last edited by Great Bradley at Friday 24th of June 2011, 11:13 pm, GMT +1
Date:
Wednesday 22nd of June 2011, 9:59 pm, GMT
Name:
Sarah Lakeman
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
105
Looking for any information on the Danby family of Great Bradley.
Date:
Wednesday 1st of June 2011, 5:02 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
104
Roberta,
I'm afraid I don't know anything about the Gilsons living in Great Bradley, and as far as I can see we have no records that shine any light on this. If you or anyone else finds out more, please post a message here to help anyone else researching the same families...
Thanks - Rowan
Date:
Wednesday 1st of June 2011, 3:18 am, GMT
Name:
Roberta Muir
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
103
I am researching the family of Thomas Gilson, b1737, St Mary's, son of Edmund and Margaret Gilson. Thomas married Ann ??. He was buried 26 Oct 1791. They had ten children: Mar 1760; Ann 1761; Mary 1762; Hannah 1764; Sarah 1766, Henry 1767; Elizabeth 1769; Thomas 1771; Alice 1772 & Rebecca 1776. Any info about this family would be greatly appreciated.
I am also looking for a resident of Great Bradley during this time period - Mary Ann Denham and I cannot find any info at. Would appreciate the help.
Thank you.
Roberta
Date:
Sunday 13th of March 2011, 11:50 am, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
102
Roberta,
Thanks for your message.
Do you know Doug Wilsher (also from Canada), who has also enquired about Fuller Willshire (as he spelled it)? He said:
The earliest descendent I have on file is Fuller Willshire, born about 1771 and married to Alice Gibson in Great Bradley, St Marys church in 1795. He is my GGGG grandfather. All of their children were born in Great Bradley and are then not mentioned in the church registers after the last birth in 1814. The only living children of the family were Thomas - 1799, Ann - 1798 and William 1803. Thomas is my the predecessor of my family.
Anyone knowing of this family, please contact myself,
I have a considerable amount of info on others in the family tree, also in Canada where I am located.
Doug's e-mail address is in a message further down this list.
We don’t have a lot of other information on the Wilsher/Wiltshires. There are a couple of mentions on our web site:
Great Bradley Village, Suffolk - World War II Memories and stories ...
Bill Wilsher, formerly of Fox Farm House, and then moved to Haverhill . Bill was in the Army (Pioneer Corps) during the War and was posted to various ...
Great Bradley Suffolk 1861 Census - Living in the village
Mary Ann Wilsher. 17. 1844. Kirtling, Cambridgeshire,. Servant.
Jobe Wiltsher. 21. 1840. Kirtling, Cambridgeshire,. Servant.
There is just one mention of the name Gibson, which suggests that the Gibsons lived in a house in East Green with the Beavises in the early 19th century.
I hope this helps! Good luck in your researches!
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Date:
Sunday 13th of March 2011, 10:34 am, GMT
Name:
Roberta Muir
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Canada
Number:
101
I am interested in finding information about my ggggrandfparents, Fuller Wiltshire b. 1771, Great Bradley; married Alice Gilson, 13 Dec 1772, Great Bradley, 31 Jul 1995, Great Bradley. Any information will be greatly appreciated.
Date:
Thursday 27th of January 2011, 3:08 am, GMT
Name:
Anne Proctor (nee Hazdlwood)
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Canada
Number:
100
My grandfather was Frederick Daniel HAZELWOOD born 1870 in Great Bradley. His mother, (MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER ) was JANE RADFORD born 1844.
My great great grandmother was SARAH DESBOROUGH. On all of the Census records Sara stated she was born in Great Bradley but I have never found a record of a baptism for her or an exact date of birth. Does anyone know anything about the Desborough family in that area? Sarah Desborough married John Hazelwood born 1809. He was a gardener. My late father told me that it was known in the family that John Hazelwood loved growing ROSES, and they were his passion.
Anne Catherine Proctor (nee Hazelwood)
Qualicum Beach, Vancouver Island. BC. Canada
Date:
Sunday 16th of January 2011, 3:35 pm, GMT
Name:
Elizabeth Orbell
Location:
United Kingdom
Number:
99
I, am looking for my Uncle Thomas Orbell born in Gt Bradley in 1884,I cannot find him on any of the census on the excellent site, I think my Grandfather may have come to Gt Bradley looking for work at that time, his name was Walter, hence his son being born there.
I would be grateful for any help in solving this mystery,
Thanks
Elizabeth
Date:
Tuesday 4th of January 2011, 3:09 am, GMT
Name:
Karen Reece
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
Australia
Number:
98
My ancestors were from Great Bradley.
My 3rd great Grandfather Alfred Radford immigrated to Australia in 1854.The Names radford, Rowlinson, Paxman and Fitch are all recorded coming from Great Bradley.
Is any one else out there researching these names and maybe can help me.
Date:
Thursday 23rd of December 2010, 5:22 pm, GMT
Name:
Rod Carlisle
Email:
[email protected]
Location:
United States
Number:
97
Just now run across your site. While stationed at RAF Lakenheath, I had the honor to meet some great people at the Great Bradley Fox. Owned at the time by the Pugh family. Any information about them would be appreciated.
Date:
Monday 13th of December 2010, 2:01 am, GMT
Name:
DougWilsher
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
96
Is there a new site where I can post a request for info on gravesites in St Mary's in Great Bradley?
If so, are there any Willshires on the list of burials or gravesites? The names are Fuller, Alice, Mary and other Willshire children.
Any input will be appreciated,
Doug Wilsher
Date:
Wednesday 18th of August 2010, 11:27 pm, GMT
Name:
Sue Phillips
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
95
Thanks for the recent information, the village website is brilliant! I think I may have found Martin Smith whose name appears on the 1861 and 1871 census, as the son of Charles and Susan Smith. On the 1861 census, Martin was 3 years old and by the time the 1871 census was completed he is aged 14 and a labourer. in 1861, Charles was a woodsman but by the time of the 1871 census, he appears aged 60 as a publican, presumably landlord of the Three Tuns in East Green. I'm assuming that the photograph of the double grave of Martin Smith who died in 1940 which appears on the website, is the same Martin Smith as the dates seem to fit. Daniel Smith, Martin's brother and on the same census was aged 10 and 19 respectively, was my great grandfather and Bennett Thomas's father. Has anyone ever recorded the information on the standing gravestones?
On the 1911 census, Martin was married to Rachel and had a son and a daughter; I wonder what became of them?
I have traced Molly, the daughter of David Reginald Smith who was a younger brother of Bennett Thomas, and plan to visit her in the near future. Although now widowed by the death of her husband, Len Choat, and aged nearly 90, there appears to be a Gt/Lt Thurlow connection and hopefully she will be able to fill in some gaps for me.
I'm getting there!!
Regards
Sue
Date:
Wednesday 19th of May 2010, 10:52 am, GMT
Name:
Glen Hazelwood
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
94
Dear Kind People of Great Bradley
I like other people who have commented on your site have stumbled upon it by searching for family history on the area. I have checked the church graveyard page of your site and thank you by the way for adding this. I think your site is a great service and has helped my family with its history searching. I unfortunately was unable to find any listing of my family in the graveyard. I was wondering if any locals have come across any references to the Hazelwood (or Hazlewood) name. I have information that members of my family were born, married and buried in Great Bradley since 1740. If anyone has come across or knows anything about the Hazelwood’s from your village please do let me know.
Thank you
Glen Hazelwood
Date:
Tuesday 9th of February 2010, 2:08 am, GMT
Name:
Mike
Number:
93
I have found a new picture of the former Fox pub taken in 1987, about a year after it had closed as a pub. I haven't come across this image before, so it is great to see it. It comes from the CAMRA web site. For more information on the former pubs in the village, select go to the 'Recent History' section from the menu
Date:
Sunday 7th of February 2010, 7:31 pm, GMT
Name:
Sue
Number:
92
Thanks for the recent information, the village website is brilliant! I think I may have found Martin Smith whose name appears on the 1861 and 1871 census, as the son of Charles and Susan Smith. On the 1861 census, Martin was 3 years old and by the time the 1871 census was completed he is aged 14 and a labourer. in 1861, Charles was a woodsman but by the time of the 1871 census, he appears aged 60 as a publican, presumably landlord of the Three Tuns in East Green. I'm assuming that the photograph of the double grave of Martin Smith who died in 1940 which appears on the website, is the same Martin Smith as the dates seem to fit. Daniel Smith, Martin's brother and on the same census was aged 10 and 19 respectively, was my great grandfather and Bennett Thomas's father. Has anyone ever recorded the information on the standing gravestones?
On the 1911 census, Martin was married to Rachel and had a son and a daughter; I wonder what became of them?
I have traced Molly, the daughter of David Reginald Smith who was a younger brother of Bennett Thomas, and plan to visit her in the near future. Although now widowed by the death of her husband, Len Choat, and aged nearly 90, there appears to be a Gt/Lt Thurlow connection and hopefully she will be able to fill in some gaps for me.
Date:
Sunday 31st of January 2010, 12:14 am, GMT
Name:
Rowan Shann
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
91
Someone in your area is looking for information on Ethel and Evelyn Wilder. I can give quite a lot of information. Cousin Evelyn was a dear! Please email me if you want to know more about them.
Date:
Sunday 31st of January 2010, 12:09 am, GMT
Name:
Rowan Shann
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
90
I have come on this fascinating website - congratulations to those who run it - in pursuit of the person who is seeking information on Ethel and Evelyn Wilder after 1901. I remember Cousin Evelyn well, and I hope I can be helpful. If the person wanting information will please email me I shall be delighted!
Date:
Wednesday 27th of January 2010, 5:54 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
89
Reply to Tony Mills.
Thanks for your message. There is an oblique reference on the "Old Shops and Services" page: "In 1855 a Post Office is recorded. Joseph Jakeling, who was also a blacksmith, was the sub-postmaster. He lived in the cottage opposite old The Fox Pub". But if you know any more, including exactly where the building was, or what it looked like, or best of all a picture, we would love to hear about it! Thanks - Rowan
Date:
Wednesday 27th of January 2010, 3:45 pm, GMT
Name:
Tony Mills
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
88
Whilst recently browsing the website I suddenly realised there is no mention of the Blacksmiths Forge/Shop which was situated approx: 100 yards down the Hall Road on the right hand side just below the gardens of the two cottages which face the old Fox Pub, or have I missed it.
Regards
Date:
Wednesday 13th of January 2010, 8:05 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
87
Sue,
Further to my previous message, have you noticed that in the 1871 census, Daniel Smith, aged 19, is shown living as "son" with his father Charles Smith, mother Susan and 6 brothers (7 boys - wow!), also in East Green? Charles Smith is shown as Publican, so presumably lived at the Three Tuns, which was the pub in East Green. Some of these other Smiths are mentioned in other places on the village web site - so if you haven't found this until now, you have a whole new line of investigation to follow up!
Best regards - Rowan
Date:
Wednesday 13th of January 2010, 7:26 pm, GMT
Name:
Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
86
Sue,
Thanks for your enquiry on our village web site.
There are 12 Smith gravestones in the churchyard, but none of them match the names you have given. There are also 6 Smiths shown on the Roll of Honour as having died in the 1914-18 war, but again none match your names (you can see all this info on the relevant pages of the web site). Looking at the 1851 to 1901 census records, it's clear that Daniel and Hannah lived in East Green in 1871 but apparently not in 1861, so I guess Daniel's parents came from somewhere else. There were 5 or 6 Smith households in the village throughout this period, but I don't know whether they were related to each other. There are lots of mentions of Smiths on our web site, but as far as I can see, none of them specifically mentions the names of your ancestors, so it's difficult to know whether any of these refer to them.
Sorry I can't be of any more help. If you discover more, please post a message back here!
Rowan
Date:
Wednesday 13th of January 2010, 3:57 pm, GMT
Name:
Sue Phillips
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
85
Hi, i'm trying to compile my family tree and am looking for any relatives of Daniel and Hannah Smith who, according to the 1901 census, lived at 43 Cowlinge Road, East Green, Great Bradley. Their children were Nellie, Thomas Bennett, Bertha, May and Reginald. Thomas Bennett was my grandfather. I would be grateful to receive any information. Thank you.
Date:
Sunday 29th of November 2009, 6:34 pm, GMT
Name:
jonathan Phillips
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
84
Stumbled onto your site {looking for current phase of moon}, and am VERY impressed. Great to see a Suffolk village with such a great 'window on the world'.
Date:
Tuesday 7th of July 2009, 6:03 pm, GMT
Name:
Doug Wilsher
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
83
The earliest descendent I have on file is Fuller Willshire, born about 1771 and married to Alice Gbson in Great Bradley, St Marys church in 1795. He is my GGGG grandfather. All of their children were born in Great Bradley and are then not mentioned in the church registers after the last birth in 1814. The only living children of hte family were Thomas - 1799, Ann - 1798 and William 1803. Thomas is my the predeccessor of my family
Anyone knowing of this family, please contact myself,
I have a considerable amount of info on others in the family tree, also in Canada where I am located
sincerely,
Doug Wilsher
Date:
Monday 1st of June 2009, 6:23 pm, GMT
Name:
Monica Gooch Hayward
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
82
I wanted to inform you that Mr. Nathan Cecil Gooch (my father) took over "The Fox" from my grandfather " Nathan Gooch" in or around 1957. He and my mother, Violet Gooch ran this establishment until early 1967 when they retired. Unfortunately, 8 weeks after his retirement, my father died of a heart attack.
After many long years of work I feel that they deserve to be in the history of this fine establishment.
Thank you - Monica Hayward, resident of Virginia, USA
Date:
Tuesday 26th of May 2009, 7:55 pm, GMT
Name:
Jade
Number:
81
I thought that i would contact you following the matter about the speeding along thurlow road. As this is the main Haverhill to Newmarket road i know it can get quite busy. I have noticed that the majority of the people that live in Great Bradley do not help the matter of speeding as they also do not abide by the speed limits. I am 13 years old and i have a bike, i think i have used about 3 times, it is like new! I would like the opportunity to actually go on my bike this year because i have not been able to go on it because not only am i affraid but also my parents are affraid that i could get hit by one of the speeding cars. I know that not all the cars coming down this road are owned by people living in Great Bradley but i believe that them drivers would want us doing the speed limit in their own villages, so why can't they do the same in ours?
Date:
Saturday 17th of January 2009, 9:10 pm, GMT
Name:
Alan Beales
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.bures-online.co.uk
Number:
80
I have in my possession an original "Thankgiving For Victory, Order of Service 1945 sheet.
I see you mention this document on your World War 2 page where you mention your 50th Celebration Party.
Can anyone tell me about this sheet ?
Was it distributed to all the villages for a service to be held on a specific day ?
Apart from your site, I can see no reference to it on the internet.
I found this document amongst the records for the local Home Guard.
Any help would be much appreciated
Date:
Friday 26th of September 2008, 8:19 pm, GMT
Name:
Elizabeth Orbell
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
79
Hello
I have just spent some time on your excellent site, but could not find what
I am looking for, so I am contacting you in the hope you can offer some
help.
I am looking for my uncle THOMAS ORBELL, BORN BRADLEY 1884, the rest of his
family were all born at RISBY and were living in Risby at the time of his
birth, so it has always been a mystery why he was born at Bradley. I would
be very grateful if you can offer any help.
Thank you
Regards
Elizabeth Orbell
Date:
Tuesday 15th of July 2008, 12:19 am, GMT
Name:
David Clarke
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
78
I think my great grandfather may have been a carpenter. My grandmother was Lilian Radford, Ithink she had a brother called Charles (emigrated to Canada) also other brothers and sisters. Has anyone any infoirmation?
Date:
Saturday 7th of June 2008, 9:25 pm, GMT
Name:
Paul I Marshall
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.jamesbmarshall.com/history/in...
Number:
77
Robert Custerson, owner of Great Bradley Hall in the 20th Century was my 1st Cousin twice removed. Robert (Uncle Bob) was married to Phillida Follet niece of Winifred Anne Follett, my Great grandmother. I would like to know more about the time that they lived at Great Bradley Hall. My grandmother, Isabel Sowdon (nee McIvor) mentions Great Bradley Hall in her diaries from 1936 to 1948.
Date:
Monday 2nd of June 2008, 9:40 pm, GMT
Name:
Linda Scott
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
76
My partner, Don Nelson, moved to Cowlinge in 1949 and remembers quite a number of Gooch’s as follows.
· Three brothers, Jim, Charlie and George Gooch
· Jim moved back to Cowlinge from London after his wife died.
· Charlie was a farm worker at Custersons(?) in Gt Bradley, now Ryders and he and Jim lived in Deynes House Trotting Horse Lane
· George Gooch lived in Woodditton and worked for Bowyers of Kirtling part time as repair builder
· George had a son called Ken who now lives somewhere like Fordham or Burwell
· Ken has a son who is a builder and has recently moved into Cowlinge and lives at Springfields, Erratts Hill, but we do not know his name.
· There was another Jim Gooch who married Ivy. They lived in Mill Lane and had a daughter Freda who married Don Wade and they ran The Three Tuns in the 60’s.
Date:
Thursday 22nd of May 2008, 9:24 pm, GMT
Name:
Gill Edwardes
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
75
Hello,
I was very interested to see the information you had on the Phillips family on your website, as I believe myself to be a descendant of William Phillips, through a daughter named Ellen or Eleanor born around 1773. However, my research has resulted in very little evidence of this relationship, since I do not have a record of her Baptism and unlike William Phillips's other children she is not mentioned in his will. But there is mention of an Ellen Edwards (she was married to a William Edwards) in the will of William Joseph George Phillips and she appears to have been a witness his wedding.
William Phillips also provided patronage to her sons. In the case of my ancestor George Harris Edwardes this was in the form of assisting him take up a career in the East India Company. Our family also possesses a portrait of Mary Jane Phillips nee Abbiss to whom Ellen was apparently close and we too have the rumour of being related to the Duc D'Orleans in the Edwardes
family.
So there is definitely a link and I would love to know whether Roger Phillips, your informant, has any knowledge about an Ellen/Eleanor Phillips and where exactly she fits in I was wondering whether you would be able to pass this information on to Roger Phillips so we could
compare notes.
Many thanks
Gill
Date:
Tuesday 20th of May 2008, 10:36 pm, GMT
Name:
Julia Gooch
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
74
I note that you have some "Gooch" people in your village.
I am also a Gooch living in Baxters Green (one of the many greens around Wickhambrook!) and have been tracing my family tree. From more recent to further back they were born in Swindon, Wiltshire, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, Hargrave, Suffolk, Cowlinge, Suffolk. The ones furthest back are John Gooch and Mary Brooks. John was born and baptised in 1719 at St Martin In the Fields, Westminster. Mary was baptised at the same church in 1735. His parents came from either Bungay/Beccles in Suffolk or Wymondham in Norfolk and were called John and Margaret(t). They married in Cowlinge in the 1760s and went on to have numerous children who also had children, etc. etc. Their eldest son, John, I believe owned/rented the mill that once stood in Cowlinge. Their next two eldest children, William, was a miller and moved to Hargrave as did Samuel. I just wondered if there was any chance that your Gooch people have any further knowledge on the family tree or, if in fact they haven't, I would be quite happy to share it.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Julia Gooch
Date:
Sunday 18th of May 2008, 1:13 am, GMT
Name:
Pat Walker
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
73
My father was in WWII, US Air Force. He was stationed in England. He is quite elderly now of course. He told me about an explosion (accident) outside of town at a munitions camp. The town he gives is Bury St Edmunds. He speaks of the kindness of strangers. I want to know if this is the correct location and if anyone is still there who was in WWII. Perhaps someone will have information. I have traveled to London but I did not have this information at the time. Any history will be greatly appreciated.
Respectfully,
PWalker
Date:
Friday 2nd of May 2008, 11:26 am, GMT
Name:
Lynn Hams
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
72
I have being doing some research on the Wilder family and have found your wonderful website which has so much information on them. I hope you don't mind, though, but I just wanted to point out a discrepancy. Under the description of Grave Number 116, it says that Mildred Maria Wilder was the wife of John McMahon Wilder when in fact she was the second wife of Percival Hampson Elwin Wilder (this is confirmed on the headstone for the latter).
Thank you
Kind Regards
Lynn Hams
Thanks for this Lynn. We have now updated the web site and the paper records as you have suggested - Ed
Last edited by Great Bradley at Tuesday 20th of May 2008, 11:35 pm, GMT +2
Date:
Thursday 17th of April 2008, 6:13 pm, GMT
Name:
Daphne
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
71
What a lovely informative site this is, and a great credit to all who run it. I have been researching my tree for a few years. The family name is Thurlow, but I have found no direct connections with the villages of same name to date, but would very much appreciate it if anyone could assist with info of folks of that name in/near GtBradley. Thankyou very much, and all the best.
Date:
Sunday 6th of April 2008, 2:17 pm, GMT
Name:
Mike Smith
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
70
What a great web site. Well done. I was born in the Mill at Bradley 49 years ago ! I still vist my mother who lives there and have seen many changes to the place over the years. Keep up the informative and special website.
Date:
Wednesday 2nd of April 2008, 12:25 am, GMT
Name:
Nancy Tuffill
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
69
Hello I don't know if you can help me or whether you could pass my details on to someone who might know anything!?
In researching my husband's family history we can go back to a John and Elizabeth Tuffill (nee Adams) who were born (no solid proof of this)in Great Bradley Suffolk. I was wondering if there was anyone who might be willing to tell me more about this family. I have been told that there used to be a Tuffill farm somewhere in your area or at least in Suffolk
yours hopefully
Nancy Tuffill
Date:
Thursday 6th of March 2008, 8:15 pm, GMT
Name:
James Avery
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
68
I lived in Great Bradley from 1967 to 1976, moving then to Lincolnshire with my parents. Which is where I live now with my own family.
We used to live in Hill House on the Newmarket edge of the village. I visited the village today (March 06th 2008) for the first time in around 30 years. It almost felt as if we'd never lived there, although everything was strangely familiar.
I can remember the Clarendale estate being built. We used to ride our bikes around the building site, riding through the incompleted houses. Oh what fun!!!
When I was about 8,9 or 10 I was in the choir. I visited the church today and was most surprised I could walk straight in. I can still remember the window with the WWI soldier. We also used to race our bikes around the churchyard, sometimes crashing into the gravestones.
Our old house looked very different, the garden a bit overgrown, and looked a lot smaller than it seemed when we used to play football in it.
The last time I was in Great Bradley there was a pig farm or some barns near the Fox pub. This appears to be all houses now. And behind the village hall I can remember many fun games of football. But even the football pitch has disappeared.
Fun days!! But is seems so long ago.
Date:
Monday 3rd of March 2008, 5:34 pm, GMT
Name:
John Cooper
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://Suffolk.activeboard.com/
Number:
67
I have only been to Great Bradley once, so if anyone would like to add anything of your village to my new Sufflk forum please feel free
John Cooper
Kesgrave
Ipswich
Date:
Wednesday 20th of February 2008, 5:52 am, GMT
Name:
Mary Lane
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
66
Have no idea how I got to your website, but it is so dynamic! You've done a great job! I love it! I wish Burwell and Swaffham Prior had such so I could zoom in there. Love your charming videos, history, photos, and current life. Of the many sites I've seen of English villages, local gov't, etc., yours is the best. Nice work!
Mary L.
Date:
Thursday 7th of February 2008, 12:22 pm, GMT
Name:
M Mcchesney
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
65
i am researching my family and found my Uncle who was only 18 years died at cyril adtrain mcchesney Risbridge Home Kedington.9 october 1955.He died of Spastic qhaudriplegia,idiocy,bronchial pneumonia.i'm trying to find his burial place it says the body to be buried at the home on his death certificate.is there a burial place at the home or surrounding area.
any information i would appreciate
M Mchesney
Date:
Monday 4th of February 2008, 5:53 pm, GMT
Name:
mhp08
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
64
Hello,
I am researching my family history and would like to find any information about the Webb family who lived in Great Bradley. In particulat the family of Moses Webb born 1782 in Great Bradley. 1851 and 1861 census show that he was a church clerk, his wife Mary a school mistress, and daughter Mary Ann a Sunday school mistress. I would appriciate any information you have. Many Thanks.
Date:
Friday 18th of January 2008, 11:22 pm, GMT
Name:
Jean Cox
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
63
I used to spend summer holidays in Gt.Bradley with my Uncle, Aunt and their two daughters. We used to stay in the school house and the teacher stayed in my relatives house in Enfield, Middx. I was friendly with a girl called Robbie who lived in the village shop. We had wonderful time in the countryside. I have always had fond memories of the people who were so kind to us. Must have been just after the war, about 1941 - we came for several holidays.
Last edited by Great Bradley at Saturday 19th of January 2008, 12:23 am, GMT +1
Date:
Tuesday 11th of December 2007, 3:04 pm, GMT
Name:
leigh crick
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
62
firstly i would like to say what a lovely villiage and website you have, i have been researching my family tree for the past year, i have have also made serveral trips to great bradley to look around. i would like to know if anyone remembers the crick family, and also if it is possible to find out about christening records at the chruch.
Date:
Tuesday 23rd of October 2007, 12:04 am, GMT
Name:
June Jobin nee Fordahm
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
61
My father was in the R.A.F.stationed at Stradishall.
I attended the village school from 1942 until 1945 .When I
first started I walked from Little Bradley where we lived in Malting House.I thik my first teacher was Mrs Robinson & the rector was Rev. Wilder.
Mrs.Robinson left & Miss Osbourne took over with Miss
Moline.I remember the Rev.Barnes (he had something wrong
with his foot)
When we moved to Great Bradley to The Cottage which I
think was owned by the big house next door the family then was named Berry
At the Fox Nathan Gooch & his wife were a delightful Couple who allowed us children to play on the piano in the afternoons during school holidays
There was an article about him in I Think the Daily Mirror
about his aptitude with money. He was completely blind
but could tell 10/- noters from £1.notes by touch as well as
coins.
Mrs. Ethel Webb ran the village shop,her daughter Robina
was a great friend along with Janet & Jackie Sale, John Martin Brian Claydon
We moved back to London in 1945 But my childhood in Gt.Bradley was idyllic
Date:
Saturday 6th of October 2007, 7:55 pm, GMT
Name:
Heatha Kitchin
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
60
This is a truly fascinating and most impressive site. Thank you. I am looking at the PLUMB family who were born in and around Brinkley, Cambridgeshire, and who married into, and ran the shop in, Great Bradley. So, if anyone else is interested in Stephen and his wife or children, please contact me. Since Stephen was a common PLUMB name and his ages vary quite a lot from census to census, it is quite difficult to ascertain whose son he was.
Heatha K.
Date:
Saturday 6th of October 2007, 6:59 pm, GMT
Name:
Jackie Wiles nee Fordham
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
59
I have just found your wonderful website, very impressive!
You are quite right when you say you think the picture of St.Edmund's cottage is incorrect.
I was born in 1944 in The Cottage, Great Bradley, as entered on my birth certificate. This "The Cottage" is now known as St.Edmund's, rather confusing for someone researching family history!
"The Cottage" I was born in is about 100 yards along the road from The Fox towards Thurlow, on the right hand side. We would visit Great Bradley again if The Fox was still functioning as a pub. My husband and I stayed there for a few days when Daisy and Ernie were the publicans and I was researching my family, about 1986.
Regards Jackie Wiles
Date:
Monday 1st of October 2007, 10:25 pm, GMT
Name:
Judy D'Albert
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/appa...
Number:
58
Good morning,
Back in 2003. I posted a query on your site about John Daye the Printer.
By chance, I have found Dr. Evenden's detailed bibliography of him
online which is most likely the most complete scholarly research on
him.
Can you include a link on your site and certainly let local people with
an interest particularly Mary Hilton and Jeremy Mynott with whom I had
correspondence four years ago?
Date:
Sunday 30th of September 2007, 11:02 pm, GMT
Name:
Pete Mathison
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
57
Hi,I have found 2 distant relatives mentioned on your site ,the are Edward Bird Staples b.1862 and Alice Ellen Staples b.1863 they were on the" born in " page do you know any thing more about them?
Yours in anticipation,Pete Mathison.
Date:
Tuesday 18th of September 2007, 4:18 am, GMT
Name:
Rhonda Lindsay
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
56
Hello,
I am researching my brother-in-law's family history and would like to find any information concerning the Stammers family who lived in Great Bradley. I have looked at your updated website and tried to view the 1841 entry for the family by clicking on the icon beside the entry. I have had no success. Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong.
Could you also let me know anything about Mary Ann Stammers born 1827 and if there is anything about a John Stammers born about 1853 and later residing with Charles Stammers in 1871 in Yorkshire.
John was apparently born in Kirtling, Cambridshire his date of birth is variously recorded as 1849 and 1853 but I can find no record.
In the 1871 Census for Redcar in Yorkshire, Charles and John are boarding with the Hauxwells - [John's "in-laws-to-be"] John married Annie Hauxwell in 1874 and he and his in-laws emigrated to Australia in 1875. Charles's place of birth is recorded as Great Bradley, Suffolk and his year of birth 1840. There appears to be some form of family relationship between Charles and John. The age difference precludes father and son but they may be cousins or uncle and nephew. I do not have any information about John's parents but he was referred to as John William Wright Stammers in his obituary [this is the only reference to William Wright in any of the family papers].
Hope you can help me
Thanks
Date:
Monday 3rd of September 2007, 9:18 pm, GMT
Name:
John Constable
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
55
Further to my previous posting no.56 I have now obtained a mrg. cert for George Willis, 21, who mrd. Ellen Jolley (Pitt?) spinster, 20,.October 14 1889 Plaistow Essex.
Ellen Jolley's fthr. was given as David Pitt and the mrg. was witnessed by Frances PITT and David JOLLEY
George and Ellen's son, Arthur WALTER Willis, my fthr, (corrected from the previous posting no.56) his brth.cert gives his mother as Ellen PITT. Are there any records of David Pitt marrying a Jolley or is there any other explanation ?
Any help with the above would be gratefully received.
Regards John
Date:
Thursday 30th of August 2007, 2:31 pm, GMT
Name:
Torban Trimpop
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
54
Having visited your town now a total of 12 times, I would like to tell you what great times I have spent and I am hoping that this time will not be the last that I am visiting. It is one of the most green and pleasant lands that I think one can be experiencing. Sehr Shoen! Ich liebe dich!
Date:
Wednesday 29th of August 2007, 4:34 pm, GMT
Name:
terence hanslip
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
53
hi just came across your wonderful site whilst tracing the HANSLIP family tree.
congratulations to all who particpated in the creation of this very informative resource
long live the internet
Date:
Monday 27th of August 2007, 6:53 pm, GMT
Name:
Garry Talbot
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
52
Re Grave Yard Entries Alice Dorothy Reed passed away on the 5thApril1997 not the 3rd April 1997 Many Thanks.
Date:
Monday 20th of August 2007, 10:13 pm, GMT
Name:
John Constable
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
51
Have spent many years searching for my father's, ARTHUR ALBERT WILLIS's forebears and recent information has come to light that his mother, my grandmother. was an ELLEN PITT bn 1869 in East Green, Gt. Bradley.
As I now qualify for my 25p increase in my pension I would be delighted to share it with any of the PITT family that might still be living in the area as there was a GEORGE MOSES bn.c.1863 also in GT.Bradley.
ELLEN PITT went to LONDON and mrd a GEORGE WILLIS c.1890 and were living at 26 Starr St, West Ham in the 1901 census and my father was one of their sons, ARTHUR ALBERT WILLIS.
If anyone else is searching this family I would be more than pleased to fill in any further details and look forward to any further information before time passes me by.
Regards John,
Date:
Tuesday 14th of August 2007, 7:31 pm, GMT
Name:
Mary Hackett (nee Felton).
Number:
50
Hi,
I've found a link between the FELTON family and the RADFORD family.
My great, great grandfather Samuel Felton had several children with his first wife, Ann SPEARMAN, and their daughter Sarah ( born May 1827 ) married a William RADFORD ( born 1824 ). He was a hurdle maker. They were married June 1849 and lived in Great Bradley.
William was the son of James RADFORD, born 1801 and Mary PEARSON, born 1801. They were married in 1822 and had several children, William was one of those.
Date:
Tuesday 14th of August 2007, 7:29 pm, GMT
Name:
Catherine Proctor
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
49
Hello - I am very impressed with the wonderful job you did on the Churchyard/Graveyard of St. St. Mary's church. Great Bradley . I had a look to see if any of my father's family had any markers still remaining but found none in your list. (HAZELWOOD). I suppose it is possible they are in the that batch of stones that were moved, and of course over the years they fall over or break, or suffer the inevitable damage from the elements.
What a pity that there is no record of the ones taken up.
My grandfather Frederick Daniel HAZELWOOD, his father THOMAS HAZELWOOD AND MOTHER JANE RADFORD, and his family before him come from GB. back to the early 1700's. We have a lot of familiar GB names in the family - RADFORD, PEARSON, WEBB, DESBOROUGH, SMITH, BACK, ETC. so perhaps I shall find one of those on your site.
The Thomas Hazelwood that you mention in who appears on the 1871 census was my great grandfather. He was a groom, but was learning to be a qualified Veterinarian. He had a passion for horses and he looked after the race horses that were owned by the Rector of Great Bradley. (That, I suppose would be Richard Hemery's family) He used to go to Newmarket when it was racing season and worked there for quite a few weeks at a time. I would be interested in learning more about the Rector and his racehorses.
Thomas Hazelwood died in 1879, after his horse bolted and ran him into a pond. Thomas fell off the horse and remained unconscious in the water. The horse went home and a search went out for Thomas. They found him unconscious in the water. He died shortly thereafter with pneumonia. He was young - only 35 years old. He left a wife and young children.
When he died his wife Jane (nee Radford) took in dressmaking and needlework and my grandfather Frederick Hazelwood worked at the Bell Hotel in Mildenhall, where his Aunt Harriet Chapman (Nee Radford) and her husband ran the stables and oslery there. I found them on the census living right next door to the Bell Hotel. My Aunt Melinda, (Fred's sister) used to work at the Bell hotel as well. My grandfather eventually learned the Innkeeping and bar trade and went on to London where he was a licensed victualler there at the time my father was born in 1905.
I hope to get home to England for a holiday next Spring and if I do I want to come to Great Bradley to visit the church. I am sad to say I have not been to Great Bradley but my father spoke of it often, saying that he went there on summer holidays as a child.
Thomas Hazelwood's parents were John Hazelwood and Sarah Desborough. I believe Sarah was from the next village. John Hazelwood's parents were Joseph Hazelwood and Elizabeth Smith - so that is where the SMITH connection comes into my family.
Is anyone going over the tombstones that are stacked up? Or should I say, are any of them legible now? Probably not. Do you know if any has an old photographs of residents of Great Bradley? I would love to see a photograph of some of my early family. I have a photograph of the THREE TUNS with some of the residen
Date:
Thursday 2nd of August 2007, 7:42 pm, GMT
Name:
Clare Bradley
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
48
Hello,
My name is Clare Bradley, I am researching my family tree and have now become a little bit stuck, I wonder if you could help me I know that my Great Great Great Grandad William Hoy was born in Great Bradley in 1811 and he is on your site under the 1851 census but living at that time in Gedney Lincs, there is also a John Hoy birth year u/k on the upto 1851 site living at Over Green (Ever Green) in a shared house, do you have any other information that would help me ie. his familymembers, how old John was what year was he on your records, also do you have any school records that I could get information from showing any brothers or sisters etc...
Thank you for your time
Date:
Sunday 17th of June 2007, 3:07 am, GMT
Name:
barry
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
47
hi..we are looking for anyone who was related to percy or charlie smith who lived in the village many years ago..around 1900-1975..many thanks
Date:
Tuesday 15th of May 2007, 6:03 pm, GMT
Name:
Roy Smith
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
46
Does anyone know if the LONG family(ies) referred to on the website were related to the LONG family of West Wratting who once ran the local bus service through Gt Bradley into Haverhill?
Date:
Sunday 8th of April 2007, 2:16 pm, GMT
Name:
Joanne Bingham
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
45
Hi there, just had a lovely trip down memory lane. I taught the art class at the village hall for a few years, and I am delighted to hear that the class still flourishes. I live in Queensland, Australia, now, love to hear from anyone who remembers me.
Date:
Tuesday 20th of March 2007, 12:12 am, GMT
Name:
Tony Mills
Number:
44
I've just been checking about the football club again [see earlier post below] with my brother in law Nathan Gooch and he said you did play for one year in the park across the road from the Fox backing onto Great Bradley Hall which is just of the road to Cowlinge, apologies!
Date:
Wednesday 14th of March 2007, 4:48 pm, GMT
Name:
lynne
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
43
Thank you. Have really enjoyed your web-site. Searching for the Allsop family. William George Allsop and Thomas Payne Allsop were born in Great Bradley in abt. 1873. Interested what their parents were doing there - Thomas Payne and Caroline Allsop? Moved on in 1874 to live at Lakenheath.
Date:
Friday 9th of March 2007, 9:09 pm, GMT
Name:
Tony Mills
Number:
42
Re: The question about the football club. The football field was on a meadow behind Evergreen Lane houses which is now the Clarendale estate. Yes they did loose most of the time- and lose by double figures! The teams used the pub called The Fox Inn (which is now residential) for their changing rooms, plus the referee, before making their way up to Clarendale for the match. The Cowlinge road as far as I am aware was never used for this and I am fairly certain as my father in law, Cecil Gooch, was the landlord of The Fox at the time.
Regards Tony Mills, previously of Oakdene Evergreen Lane"
Date:
Saturday 17th of February 2007, 9:54 am, GMT
Name:
Lesley Webb
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
41
Thank you for a wonderful website. The census records are of particular interest. I am descended from the MARSH family. My great grandmother was LIZZIE MARSH (born 1877, died 1901 in Lambeth). Her father was JOSEPH MARSH (born 1829 died 1879). I was born in Kent in 1962 but moved to New Zealand in 2001. I would be grateful if anyone had any further information on the Marsh family and, indeed, would be interested to know if any members of the Marsh family continue to live in Great Bradley. Thank you.
Date:
Friday 9th of February 2007, 11:44 am, GMT
Name:
Mary Hackett
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
40
FELTON family.
I am trying to find out more about my grandfather's younger brother - FRANK FELTON.
He is listed as returning from the First World War, on a memorial tablet in Great Bradley church.
I believe that he may have married either a Kate COOK or Dora WRIGHT.
Does anyone have any information that may help.
Date:
Monday 5th of February 2007, 10:35 pm, GMT
Name:
Clive Bettison
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
39
Dear Sirs - Does any member of your web/local history experts know of
the whereabouts of the Great Bradley
School Admission Registers. I am particularly interested in the period
1897-1905. Such registers are of
course most informative regarding the comings & goings of any family
with school-age children.
Many thanks - yours sincerely
- Clive Bettison.
Last edited by Great Bradley at Monday 5th of February 2007, 11:37 pm, GMT +1
Date:
Monday 5th of February 2007, 10:34 pm, GMT
Name:
Mike
Number:
38
The answer to Evelyn's question (No. 39 below) is that a 'Spong' is "An irregular, narrow, projecting part of a field."
One of the fields on the Great Bradley Tithe map is also called 'spong'
Date:
Monday 5th of February 2007, 10:24 am, GMT
Name:
Evelyn
Number:
37
Please can you kindly help - have this morning enjoyed your site! I am a farmer's daughter, and have a friend who wants to create an article locally about the names of fields on local farms. One he is particularly interested in is the name "Spong". I have tried to find the meaning for this - we had a spong on the farm. Is anything available on your website, which I have not found which gives the meaning?
I come from Framlingham - I expect there is a Tithe Map in the Suffolk Record Office - but if you could kindly answer the query above, both my friend and I would be grateful!
Thank you for some charming photographs, which brought back a lot of happy memories
Date:
Friday 26th of January 2007, 3:22 am, GMT
Name:
Winnifred L. Akeroyd
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
36
Dad was born and raised in Suffolk. Heveningham/Laxfield area, now I've enjoyed another bit of his county. Carpet Bowls brought me to your site. Thank you! Winnifred
Date:
Wednesday 3rd of January 2007, 3:53 pm, GMT
Name:
JAN HALL
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
35
Just wanted to say how sorry we are about the death of Barbara Buchs, I did not know her very well but she was always pleasent and in spite of poor health did a great deal for the village. She will be sadly missed. The other sad event was the death of Mrs Carlton Brown and our thoughts and sympathy are with all the relatives of both these nice ladies. The village has lost two of its best "characters".I wonder if some sort of tribujte could be arranged? Like a tree or adedicated book? Any ideas?
Date:
Thursday 21st of September 2006, 8:13 pm, GMT
Name:
Mike Pickard
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
34
Have just returned from Great Bradley today, your website helped me no end. My wife is decended from the Burton Family and has connections with the Martin Family. We found all the graves we were looking for and much more. Your site is the best village site I have viewed for the UK, only Canadian sites come close. Many thanks. I was upset at not being in time to buy a copy of the CD it has run out of stock, would love a copy as soon as a run is completed.
Date:
Wednesday 6th of September 2006, 4:38 pm, GMT
Name:
Elizabeth Orbell
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
33
I am searching for a lost relative Thomas Orbell born 1884 Bradley, his family lived in Risby. I am clutching at straws in the hope this may mean something to someone I can only presume his Mother Emily came to stay with relatives to have him.
Thanks E.O.
Date:
Tuesday 29th of August 2006, 8:53 pm, GMT
Name:
Joan French
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
32
Hi,
I came across your site and it made interesting reading. Some of my ancestors came to Australia from Great Bradley in 1837/38. My great grandmother was Hannah Bradford, ( 1849-1926) daughter of Charles Bradford and Anna (nee Chapman). He is recorded as being a farm servant but whether that was his occupation in Suffolk or in NSW is not indicated.
I would be interested to hear if any family members were still in the area or if there is any record of previous generations prior to migrating here
Your truly, Joan French
Hervey Bay, Qld
Date:
Tuesday 29th of August 2006, 2:42 pm, GMT
Name:
Jocelyn O'Sullivan
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
31
what an excellent site you have created,
I believe ancestors of mine, the Galley
family at some time originated from Great
Bradley and Dullingham and it is very
interesting to find out so much on one web site. Our ancestor is Josiah Galley born
about 1830 and I believe he appears in the
census records for 1851 or 61 along with
several other Galleys.
Date:
Monday 28th of August 2006, 10:27 pm, GMT
Name:
Gillian Hawley.
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
30
I am a descendent of John Morden of Great Bradley. When his eldest son inherited the name and title of Sir Charles Harbord, and his grandson became Baron Suffield of Suffield, Norfolk, he moved there, it seems. I believe that the Mordens were in Great Bradley for at least two generations. The really famous grandson of John Morden is Sir John Morden, a merchant adventurer who built Morden College in Blackheath...see Google. I live just north of Saffron Walden. I would very much like to get in touch with Mr. Norden, who is also researching the family.
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Date:
Friday 25th of August 2006, 10:42 pm, GMT
Name:
Philip Botevyle - Carter
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
29
Research brought me to your site, excellent, the most enjoyable, satisfying, easy to use and so informative right accross the ball, keep up the great work, when able to travel will vist the village. Distant relative, Spearman family Gt Bradley, William Brn cir 1792, James Brn Cir 1809 had 9 Children, interested in John Spearman and any descendants, apparently known as Pearman Brn Cir 1844 Mrd Elizabeth Burton, any help or other who feel they are connected would love to hear from you
Date:
Thursday 10th of August 2006, 6:39 pm, GMT
Name:
Dennis Boreham
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
28
Just wanted to comment on Mike's reference to the football photos on the Thurlow 2000 CD.
These photos were from a different period to that of the Bradley Sports F.C.which existed from around 1965 - 67.
I estimate the photos in question date from the late 1940's -early 1950's,as I recognise several faces,but I don't think any had direct Bradley connections.
Date:
Wednesday 9th of August 2006, 1:16 pm, GMT
Name:
Mrs June Taylor
Number:
27
Would the dog owner who lets their dog out for its late night walk.
Be aware that I have left a bucket and shovel on the drive for them to clear up their dogs mess.
As I am crutches and find it difficult to clear the pile each morning.Would appreciate if they did-not allow their dog to use my drive as a toilet.Thank you.
Date:
Tuesday 8th of August 2006, 9:52 pm, GMT
Name:
Mike
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.great-bradley.suffolk.gov.uk
Number:
26
Further to Dennis's note on the football below - the Turlow 2000 CD has got three pictures of the Thurlow United football club on it. It features the following footballing heroes named below. Has anyone any more information?
Tony Smith, Fred Atherton, Malcolm Webb, Den Atherton, Derek Coote, Jimmy Talbot Middle row: Derek Eley, Frank Talbot, Peter Atherton, Conrad Cornell; Freddie Thomas, Chris Atherton
George Fisher, Frank Haylock, Peter Atherton, Anthony Coote, Frank Talbot, John Martin, Roy Bumpstead, , Jim Talbot, Tony Smith , Arthur Cross, Jack Atherton, Ron Field, Derrick Eley, Cyril Turner, Sid Mayes Jim Barrett
Herbert Arnold, Roy Bumpstead, Dumpy Rowlinson, Vic Clark, Vic Morley, Jim Dearsley, Judda Jeffreys, BobJeffrey, Len Choat, Joe Smith, Jim Fitch, Johnnie Barrett, Dennie Hayward, Jimmy Tulloch; Ron Turner, Harry Adsett
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Date:
Tuesday 8th of August 2006, 9:42 pm, GMT
Name:
Dennis Boreham
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
25
Hi
Does anyone remember the Bradley Sports Football Club, which was formed in the mid 1960's? I remember they played in the now defunct Bury Village League,which entailed long journeys for away matches,such as Stanton & Drinkstone.I think they had a pitch on the Cowlinge road.David Mills,and one or two of the Atherton brothers from Thurlow were players at the time. They were not very successful and regularly lost by double figures! I think they only lasted a couple of seasons, before merging with the Thurlow United club,with which I was associated with at the time.
Date:
Wednesday 2nd of August 2006, 4:22 pm, GMT
Name:
carole durrant
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
24
I would like Ron Turner to contact me,he gave no email address.I live in great Bradley,have been here thirty two years,I have Turner ancestors who were born in Thaxted and Radwinter so we may have a conection.
Date:
Thursday 27th of July 2006, 9:27 am, GMT
Name:
Rhonda
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
23
I am looking for any information concerning the Stammers family who resided in Great Bradley c. 1851 - 1881 East Green. Thomas Stammers was an agricultural labourer, born c. 1800, Lt Watting or Keddington depending on which census you refer to. His wife was Mary Smith and in his later years as a widower, he lived with his sister-in-law Ann Leeks also of Great Bradley. I would like to establish whether Thomas had a son, John Stammers, born c. 1850 who was boarding, together with Charles Stammers of Great Bradley, in Skelton, Guisborough in 1871. Both men were iron stone miners according to the census. John is recorded as having been born in Kirtling, Cambridgeshire,which appears to be only 2-3 miles from Great Bradley. Any information at all would be appreciated
Date:
Wednesday 19th of July 2006, 2:32 pm, GMT
Name:
Mary Hackett
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
22
What a brilliant site!! I've found the census pages really helpful.
My father's family came from Great Bradley. Great grandfather was James FELTON born in 1852. His father was Samuel Felton, from Bulmer Essex. We have connections with the FINCH, RADFORD, BEAVIS and WOMWELL families. Woud love to have contact with any of those mentioned.
Date:
Thursday 13th of July 2006, 9:27 am, GMT
Name:
Jenny Banks
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
http://www.jennyandernie.co.uk
Number:
21
I have been looking at your lovely website. I restore old photographs as a hobby and I would love to work on the wonderful old photos you have in your site (free of charge).
If you would like me to do so just send them on an e-mail as large as you can and after I have worked on them I will send them back to you.
If you would like to see some of the other photos I have worked on there is a section on restored photos on my website.
Regards
Jenny.
Date:
Tuesday 20th of June 2006, 2:36 pm, GMT
Name:
anthony Gatford
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
20
Congratulations on compiling your website. I have a relative who was born in the village about 1828 a Susan Cook who married Henry Gatford my Great great Grandfather in 1848 at Camberwell, Surrey. Keep up the good work.
Date:
Wednesday 31st of May 2006, 6:33 pm, GMT
Name:
Susan Baines
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
19
Excellent site - it was such a treat to come across it.
My grandparents are buried in the churchyard (Frederick Noel and Ida Mary Webb). Ida was the daughter of Dan Kent Long. Am happy to be contacted by anyone who is interested in the Webb or Long family.
Date:
Thursday 25th of May 2006, 4:46 pm, GMT
Name:
Steven Kellam
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
18
Researching my family tree has lead me to this site. My Great Great Grandmother was Harriet Coppin b. about 1839 in Great Bradley. Her Father was James Coppin we believe b. about 1791 also in Great Bradley. Harriet later married my GG Grandfather Alexander William Laidlaw from Rothsay on the isle of Bute in Scotland. Any info. on siblings etc. would be greatfully received. I am hoping to visit the area in the summer 2006.
Date:
Saturday 29th of April 2006, 10:28 pm, GMT
Name:
ELAINE BARNES
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
17
Thanks for an excellent web site. It has helped extend my knowledge of the area for my family tree and to get a real feel for the village.It is very interesting and easy to use. Many thanks!
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:12 pm, GMT
Name:
Peter Mills
Number:
16
I left Great Bradley at the age of 12yrs on 7th April 1961 and now live in Blackmore in Essex.
" I have never the picture of the Home Guard and it contains many names from my family: Percy, Charlie, Archie, Reginald (Sam) and my father Kitch Mills. His actual name was Harold Kitchener Mills. He never used the Harold, I guess because of an older brother, Harry, who was farm manager at Wodgells Farm..
Fred Stafford and Ernie Wimpress were married respectively to my Aunts Inda and Ethel - whether the other Mills's were also brothers I do not know (they were prone to using nicknames), and one may be my uncle 'Nip'. William may have been his son, my cousin Billy.
The WWI Roll of Honour, lists my father's older brothers, Charlie, Alfred (refered to by my father as Fatty although photographs show him as wirey - who was awarded the Military Medal in WW1) and his eldest brother William, my uncle Billy. All were in Kitcheners Army either when father was born, in Sept 1914 or before his baptism, hence his middle name and why he was always called Kitch.
My mother was Florence Helen Cambridge daughter of a Fishmonger in Crystal Palace. She was known as Floss to her family in London, but this was too posh a name for a country girl and she became known as Helen in Suffolk. She was a Milliner in a West End Store who joined The Land Army and lodged with Mrs Stanley at Fox Farm House in the village. Mrs Stanley was mother in law to Mr Custerson the Farmer. When my parents married their first home was the small round house at Little Bradley."
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:09 pm, GMT
Name:
Ron Townsend
Number:
15
Turners of Great Bradley
I have just discovered my G3.Grandfather Zachariah Turner Christened in tha Parish Church on the 5th Oct. 1738. I will now continue to follow the progress of this webpage with great interest. If anyone of similar name interest would like to contact me I would be delighted to hear from them My mother who is now aged 91, is the last surviving Turner,(her maiden name), that we are aware of.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:08 pm, GMT
Name:
Gwenyth Cairns
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
14
Hazelwood Ancestors
I visited Great Bradley in 1999 on the trail of my Hazelwood and Smith ancestors who migrated to Australia in 1855. Spent many hours at St Marys Church where they would have been baptized, married and buried. Found your website delightful and look forward to your Genealogy section.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:07 pm, GMT
Name:
Judy
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
13
John Day descendants
About 25 years ago while touring small villages and looking at Brasses I discovered the fine example in your church to John Day who was quite famous in his era. Is there a record of his descendants ? My great great grandfather was a John Day and was from one of the Camps villages which are quite near to your village. He settled in Linton- also not far away. He was born in 1774. I would like to see if there is a link in those two centuries to connect him with the John Day buried in your church. Also, I heard a rumor there was a connection with John Day a Virginia Back -woodsman who went on the Overland Trail in 1811 with John Jacob Astor and after whom the town in Grant County Oregon USA is named. Seems remote but one never knows! Thanks!
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:05 pm, GMT
Name:
Peter Thurgood
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
12
Family History
Congratulations on a great site. I would be very interested in any references to my thurgood ancestors that your readers may have, especially James Thurgood who committed suicide in the village pond. Thank you.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:03 pm, GMT
Name:
Dale Reynolds
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
11
WEBB FAMILY HISTORY
I was very interested to find this web site. I recently started researching my family history. My 3xgreat grandfather Moses Webb's, moved from Balsham in Cambridgeshire to Great Bradley around 1805. He was the church clerk and died in Great Bradley in 1864. I am thus interested in the village history and any information on the Webbs.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:01 pm, GMT
Name:
Lorraine Earl
Number:
10
Paxman Family Great Bradley
I have traced my Paxman relatives back to the village as far back as 1720 and am interested in any history of the village especially the Inn which they ran in Bradley St.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 10:00 pm, GMT
Name:
Liz Oliver nee Coote
Number:
9
It's good to find Bradley on the web, if I can be of any service to the history please email me - I moved there when I was 3 years old (49 years ago), and Mum and Dad (Ivy and Don) moved to Haverhill only a few months ago.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 9:59 pm, GMT
Name:
Margaret Keable
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
8
Danby family of Great Bradley
I am very interested in this website as I have distance ancestors who lived in Great Danby from around 1730. They were the Danby family. I am interested in the history of this area.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 9:58 pm, GMT
Name:
Lesley Anderson
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
7
Looking for information regarding the THURGOOD / THOROGOOD family (Suffolk & Cambs)
I am researching my ancestor James THURGOOD - father Thomas and mother Susan (nee BEAVIS) born in Little Thurlow 1826. He had brothers John, Thomas and Elijah? also bapt. in Little Thurlow. James settled in Carlton, Cambridgeshire just over the border & married Mary HOWARD and it looks like there's quite a few THOROGOODS in Great Bradley, but can't find the connection. Apparently his father, Thomas THOROGOOD was born in Haverhill, as was his wife Susan. They were married at Haverhill in 1813. They don't appear in the 1861 census of Carlton or Gt. Bradley and there's another Thomas THOROGOOD who is baptising children of the same names, but he is married to SARAH in Haverhill! Wondering if there's anyone who can help sort this out! Thanks, Lesley Anderson in Ottawa, Ontario Canada.
Date:
Wednesday 29th of March 2006, 9:57 pm, GMT
Name:
Jonathan Coppin
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
6
Hi all. I am trying to locate information on my family. My Great-Grandfather was Reuben R. Coppin: Born Sept. 11, 1866 in England. He married Anna Donaldson from Glasgow, Scotland. My Great-Great-Grandfather was Job Coppin: Born in 1834 (Great Bradley, Suffolk, England). Job was married and had 6 children. (Job was married to Mary Sinken in 1878, in Kirtling, Cambridge England). Job and his family sailed the Atlantic from England and settled in Texas (1870s or 1880s). I have not confirmed the information above that is in parenthesis, so it may not be accurate. I look forward to hearing from anyone who may have information.
Date:
Tuesday 28th of March 2006, 10:43 pm, GMT
Name:
Chris Hoy
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
5
Hi.
I am researching my family tree. One of my ancestors is listed as being born in Great Bradley Circa 1809. His name is William Hoy. Can you help me find out more info about William Hoy or any other Hoys connected to Great Bradley around this time.
What sort of work was undertaken in and around Great Bradley Circa 1809?
Thanks.
Date:
Tuesday 28th of March 2006, 10:35 am, GMT
Name:
Joy Fortune
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
4
Researching my family tree aand looking for information on families of Lawrence and Pearson. This site has been a big help. Great.
All info much appreciated.
Date:
Monday 27th of March 2006, 5:32 pm, GMT
Name:
Keith Garrett
Email:
[email protected]
Number:
3
I just wanted to say what a wonderful website you have. The census data for 1851 - 1901 for the village on one site is really great. I found your website during tracing part of my family from the early/mid 19thC. I have traced family from all over the British Isles, but I have not found anything so useful anywhere else.
Date:
Tuesday 21st of March 2006, 12:15 am, GMT
Name:
Diane Thurgood
Number:
2
Researching Thurgood/Thorogood from Gt Bradley. Also Spearman or Perriman. Also from Lt Thurlow Over Green and surrounding villages
Date:
Tuesday 21st of March 2006, 12:14 am, GMT
Name:
Ann Phillips
Number:
1
I was very interested in the information provided on the Wilder family, which I have been researching. Could you please help me further with Charles C. Wilder (1842-1880). From other research, I am aware of McMahon Charles Gosselin Wilder, son of Rev. John McMahon Wilder, who was born 19 Apr 1842, died 20 July 1880. As he was also Rector of Great Bradley from 1870-1881 (Venn, J. A., comp. Alumni Cantabrigienses. London: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954, and see also the 1871 census), I suspect that unless there were twins, McMahon Charles Gosselin is also "Charles C." Can you advise if there is further information that would prove or disprove this? The details given for the younger brothers are fascinating. Thank you for making them available. Ann Phillips