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My Wraxall Connection published by Jonathan Rew - 3 years 8 months 5 days ago. | | Yes, Phyllis was tremendously helpful to me when I started out on my researches - the records she supplied gave me an excellent foundation for further work.I'll add REW to the surname interests. | |
Pennant - Journal of the Nailsea Historical Society published by - 3 years 8 months 7 days ago. | | Thanks Pat that is a shame but the Bristol Archives are helpful I will contact them about it. Yes she may have had a connection through Nursing but not entirely sure. She had TB and was in Chard Sanatorium for a while. I feel they may have been friends in Nailsea perhaps through Holy Trinity Church. Probably will stay a mystery Cheers! | |
My Wraxall Connection published by Pat Hase - 3 years 8 months 8 days ago. | | I have a debt to pay the REW family - because one of the first people I met when attending meetings of the Nailsea Local District Society was Phyllis HORMAN nee REW who consulted the Wraxall Records for me and let me have pages of STOKES information. Although the Society was mainly interested in local history - Phyllis with her vast knowledge of the area was extremely helpful to people researching their families.
Can you add REW to the Surname Interests? - perhaps we have other members who are researching it. | |
Pennant - Journal of the Nailsea Historical Society published by Pat Hase - 3 years 8 months 8 days ago. | | Sadly, my own Pennant collection appears to end at No 40 - but there is a copy of No 42 in the Bristol Archives It might be worth contacting them to see if they can send you the article you are looking for. There is an entry on the 1939 Register for Geraldine King HARMAN at Ouse Manor, Bedfordshire which her widowed mother, Constance. Her father had died earlier that year.

This also mentions her involvement with Nursing which you already know about - Is this where she had a connection with your relation? She was a member of the Territorial Force Nursing Service and received a medal after WW1. Her rank "Special Military Probationer" (S M P)

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My Wraxall Connection published by Jonathan Rew - 3 years 8 months 9 days ago. | | Thank you for a most interesting article. My REW family lived in Wraxall during the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, and I was struck by the many similarities between their history and your family's history, such as the numerous children in each generation, employment as agricultural labourers (including on the Tyntesfield estate)and, ultimately, large-scale migration away from the area to places such as Birmingham, Teesside and South Wales where work was presumably easier to come by. I was particularly interested in your comments about the occupation of market gardener. My 3xgreat-grandmother Harriet REW (1800-1891), who was widowed in 1865, is described in the 1881 census as a market gardener - in the 1871 census she had been a washerwoman. I can't imagine that she had the resources to set up a market gardening business - maybe this simply means that she was taking in washing and growing a few vegetables in an effort to stay out of the workhouse. In the last year of her life she did in fact receive five shillings a week in outdoor relief from the Bedminster Union. Anyway, thank you for your insights! | |
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