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We as a society have a number of genealogy projects that we would like some assistance with.
can you spare a little time to help?
This can be done in the comfort of your own home or at your local church or archive office.
We are looking for volunteers who have a computer and can assist in the Staffordshire BMD’s project
(which as helped us all at some time).
Have you got a digital camera? We are looking for people who can take photographs of headstone so
they can be transcribed.
Have you got a collection of photographs of family graves, why not send they to us to transcribe?
Have you got a story or an interesting article you would like to share?
For more information please use the Email below.
robecarter@hotmail.com
June Quarter 2017
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY (BMSGH)
CAN YOU HELP?CAN YOU HELP?
My name is Stephen Huxley. I am looking for photos of Goose Street, Newcastle which is
now Morrisons car park. My gg grandparents, John and Ann Huxley lived at number 21
with their children Mary Ann, Sarah Alice, Samuel (my g grandad), Elizabeth, John,
Charlotte and Hannah between 1881 and 1906. John was born in Prees Shropshire before
moving to Newcastle under lyme and marrying Ann Richards. They lived at Knutton before
moving to their own home at Goose Street. Ann died in 1886 and John re-married in
1905 and moved to Coronation road, Newcastle. I would love to see a photo of Goose
Street so i can add a photo to my family tree records.
Samuel and his wife Jane Williamson who lived at Union Street at the Higherland,
Newcastle.
If you can help please email me on: cactus_jack666@hotmail.com
STAFFORDSHIRE PEOPLE
Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931)
Bennett was born in Hanley on the 27th May 1867 to parents Enoch & Sarah Ann Bennett. Enoch Bennett, qualified as a solici-tor in 1876, and the family moved to a larger house between Hanley and Burslem. Bennett was educated locally in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Bennett was employed by his father but the working relationship failed. He found himself doing jobs such as rent-collecting which were uncongenial. Bennett also resented the low pay; it is no accident that the theme of parental miserliness is im-portant in his novels. In his spare time he was able to do a little journalism, but his breakthrough as a writer came after he had moved from the Potteries. At the age of 21, he left his father's practice and went to London as a solicitor's clerk.
Bennett won a literary competition hosted by Tit-Bits magazine in 1889 and was encouraged to take up journalism full-time. In 1894, he became assistant editor of the periodical Woman. He noticed that the material offered by a syndicate to the magazine was not very good, so he wrote a serial which was bought by the syndicate for £75 (equivalent to £10,000 in 2015). He then wrote another. This became The Grand Babylon Hotel. Just over four years later, his first novel, A Man from the North, was published to critical acclaim and he became editor of the magazine.
From 1900 he devoted himself full-time to writing, giving up the editorship. He continued to write journalism despite the success of his career as a novelist. In 1926, at the suggestion of Lord Beaverbrook, he began writing an influential weekly article on books for the Evening Standard newspaper.
As well as the novels, much of Bennett's non-fiction work has stood the test of time. One of his most popular non-fiction works, which is still read to this day, is the self-help book How to Live on 24 Hours a Day. His diaries have yet to be published in full, but extracts from them are often quoted in the British press.
Between the end of 1903 and 1911 Bennett lived mainly in Paris. During this time he continued to enjoy critical success with the publication of many novels including "The Old Wives Tale" (1908). After a visit to America in 1911 where he had been publicised and acclaimed as no other visiting writer had been since Dickens he returned to England where the "Old Wives Tale" was reap-praised and hailed to be a masterpiece.
During the First World War he became Director of Propaganda for France at the Ministry of Information. (At that time the word propaganda did not have the negative implications it acquired later in the twentieth century.) His appointment was made directly on the recommendation of Lord Beaverbrook, who also recommended him as Deputy Minister of that Department at the end of the war. He refused a knighthood in 1918.
By 1922 he had separated from his French wife, but shortly thereafter he fell in love with the actress Dorothy Cheston (b. 1896) and lived with her until his death in 1931 from typhoid at his home in Baker Street, London. His ashes are buried in Burslem cemetery.
Bennett won the 1923 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Riceyman Steps.
Their daughter Virginia (Mary) Bennett/Eldin (1926-2003), lived in France and was president of the Arnold Bennett Society.
For further information please email: arnoldbennettscty@btinternet.com
Dates for
the diary
2017
3rd
April
Research Evening
Join us at our research evenings were we can help you start, restart or
continue with your family history research
8th May
Neil Collingwood. A talk about Bagnall, Endon, Stanley,
Stockton Brook, Bucknall & Cellarhead
5th
June
Research Evening
Join us at our research evenings were we can help you start, restart or
St. Peter’s, Congleton
This is a wonderful opportunity to view the registers, graveyard plans and
inscriptions, especially if you are researching your family history within the
Congleton area.
They are available to Family Historians on
Tuesday April 25th from 10am – 2pm
Tuesday June 27th from 10am – 2pm
with assistance from a member of the local Family History Society.
On the Web www.bl.uk/victorian-britain
www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians
www.victorianweb.org
www.workhouses.org.uk
The Marriage Locator
Cracking the code of the GRO Marriage Index
This website enables you to interpret the Marriage Index created by the General Register Office for England and
Wales. By using it you can determine where your ancestors were married - not just which Registration District,
but which church!
Family historians researching their ancestry in England and Wales can learn a lot from a marriage certificate, and the most common way to obtain one is to send for a GRO "copy certificate", quoting the reference (year, quarter, volume number and page) from the GRO Marriage Index. This will cost you, currently, a minimum of £9.25 per certificate.
However, if you know the Anglican Church in which the marriage took place, and the Church Marriage Register has been deposited (as most have been) in the local County Record Office, then you can go to the appropriate CRO and look at the actual Marriage Register that your ancestors signed. Or since many Church Registers are now available online, you may be able to find the entry - for free! - via genealogical websites such as FamilySearch, or the local Online Parish Clerk.
This is the purpose of this website: to deduce, from the year, quarter, volume number and page that you have acquired
from the GRO indexes, where the marriage took place.
The Guild Marriage Locator is periodically updated directly from the Guild Marriage Index, so the more entries uploaded
to the GMI the more effective will be the Marriage locator search.
YOXALL One Name Study registered with the Guild of One Name Studies. After some 20 years plus Jim Wignall as set up a website http://www.yoxall.net/, and is offering free ac-cess.
If anyone is researching the YOXALL surname any help you can offer to add or correct data on my website will be much appreciated. There is a particular race against time to preserve
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