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We don't have a specific page for listing family trees but there is a facility for uploading a family tree (pdf format only) to your surname interests.

Do you have a page for listing relevant family trees?

My family tree includes the Ritchie sisters, who ran the Maycot boarding house in Beaufort Road from some time after 1900 to the 1950s. I have put the link to Jane Pettie nee Ritchie on the Ritchie surname page.

I have also put a link to pictures from their photo album from around the 1920s. Perhaps other people with Weston links will find relatives amongst the many so-far-unidentified characters there.

There are a few places where you might find information about the Butcher's Arms at Nailsea.  Historic England provides details about the building and some dates.  The Somerset Archives has some documents produced by the Nailsea & District Local History Society about the Butcher's Arms and other pubs in Nailsea.  Have a look at their web site - you might find an article in one of their Pennants.

I see you have looked in the newspapers with no luck but when a pub changes hands the licence exchange is often mentioned in the local paper. 

What an interesting suggestion!  I can imagine  some confusion caused with PEATES and WEEKS if the diction wasn't very clear - the central part of the name is very similar but I can't say I had ever considered it.  I was wondering if she was a widow when she married Samuel STOKES.  Oh well, back to the drawing board!  Can't find a marriage or a suitable burial for the Elizabeth WEEKS born in 1794 so this is a real possibility.

Thank you very much for your findings about the Rowberrow Baptists. I have forwarded your posts to the person enquiring who has been researching this part of his family for several years.   

I just read my copy of the "The Heart of Mendip" by F. A. Knight and he has this to say on page 174 (Rowberrow chapter):

"The village of Rowberrow, which is now so scattered, was, in its more prosperous mining days, not only more populous but more connected. Even during the last half-century many cottages have been demolished and the size and character of the long-disused school building, built, as may be seen from the tablet on its front, in 1855, and now converted into a dwelling-house, and the ruins of a Baptist Chapel and a Baptist School in the same lane, afford further evidence of the decay of the population."

So, unfortunately, the Baptist chapel and school in School Lane are long gone.

Richard