Comments

Thank you Dave. What an interesting article, originally written in 1968 by John BAILEY it is a great insight into the early days of motoring in Weston-super-Mare.  It mentions other early motorists' experiences as well and was published by the Weston Mercury - read it here.  It sent me back to look again at a couple of books on my book shelves - Weston-super-Mare, the Good Old Days and Weston-super-Mare, Look back with Laughter both written by John Bailey.

I was browsing through Bleadon Parish records today and came across many Crandons, so you may find something of use there.

Hi Derek

I will tell you what I have BUT, like other subscribers here, I am quite confused with the Crandons. So many Marys and Williams and a bit of inter marriage to confuse even more. Anyway, I have your Mary as the sister of my 3x great grandfather William Crandon b c 1791 South Brent. I think their parents were William Crandon b c1771 and Ann Nancy Bennett b c 1772 . My William (1791) went on to marry another Mary Crandon b c 1795 Burnham who was the daughter of yet another William Crandon whose wife was possibly Ann Sarah Hembury (but I'm still working on that). See what I mean!

I am happy for any other Crandon researchers out there to put me right if I've got this wrong!

Heather

Do you know when Mary was born and/or when and where she was married? I have a couple of Mary CRANDONs in my tree who hailed from Bleadon.

Dave Erasmus