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This recording was made one month before Bill’s passing in May 2019. He talks about various events and family members in his early life. https://www.newearthvillage.com/spriggs/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Bill-Spriggs-Early-Life.mp3 ...
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Bournville, near Birmingham, England Three families of Quakers, for reasons not known to me, began manufacturing chocolate — the Rowntrees of Yorkshire (1862), the Cadbury’s of Birmingham (1824) and the Fry’s of Bristol (1759). All did exceedingly well and all three families were heavily engaged in philanthropy and social action. As well, members of all three families intermarried with members of my family, the Spriggs and Haywards, who also lived in and operated businesses in Birmingham. I have chosen to tell the Cadbury’s story here in order to relate an extraordinary act of philanthropy. It was there in Birmingham, in 1824, that John Cadbury began selling tea, coffee and drinking chocolate. Early customers were limited to the wealthy because production ...
Hi All,As one of the family genealogists and a self appointed historian I think I should correct a few items in the discourse between brother Bill and cousin Peter. Our Grandparents certainly were opposed to the marriage of their son Bob to Hazel Warneford however it was not because of Hazel’s family but rather the Quaker belief that one should be established prior to getting married (This why our Grandmother’s first love was rejected by her father as her suitor was a teacher with few prospects – (Google Ursula Hick’s letter on her early life). Bob at the time was enrolled at McGill University as a civil engineering student prior to his graduation the following year (1924) and employment with ...
Memories of Edgemere 1915-1922(?) Hester Spriggs (1905-2003), daughter of William Spriggs and Alice Hayward, was raised in Acock’s Green, near Birmingham, England. In 1915, when Hester was nine, the family immigrated to an apple farm called Edgemere in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley. https://www.newearthvillage.com/spriggs/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Hester-Memories-of-Edgemere.mp3 ...
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The Old Grandfather Clock inherited by William Spriggs 6th This clock belonged to William and Martha Knight and is believed to have been bought by them in about 1782 when they moved to Worcester from London. Martha’s maiden name was Tessyman. The clock descended to their daughter Martha who married William Spriggs, then to their son William Spriggs of Worcester, then to their son William Spriggs who married Elizabeth Sarah Manser of Hoddesdon; then to their son William Manser Spriggs of Ackock’s Green, who married Alice Josephine Hayward of Torquay in 1896; then to their son William Spriggs of Baie d’Urfe, Quebec Canada who married Agnes Elisabeth Lickfold of Trinidad, British West Indies in 1926. My brother David Spriggs has ...
Apr 30 2019 Hi Peter, Don’t give up on your Haddon Hall Fishers. Check out Kinsalebeg.com and you’ll find lots of Fishers which may well give you a path to the pot of gold. Another interesting trail to follow is a note that our Grandfather mentioned in his genealogy. It is the match between Reuben Fisher and Mary O’Callaghan. Follow Mary’s lineage which will take to an amazing path to the past. Check out my tree to see if your findings confirm mine. Good hunting. John ...
I’ve been asked to clarify which side of the family is related to the Haddon Hall folks. The answer is Spriggs, my mother’s side. Lady Ursula Fisher Webb was her first cousin. Through her we are related to the Fishers. And the Fishers had a habit of marrying ‘well.’ About 1510 William Fisher married Mary Vernon of Haddon Hall, a very influential family of the day. Her father, our 14th grandfather, was Sir Henry Vernon, Chief Council of the Prince of Wales, Arthur Tudor. [Aside: Arthur Tudor (19/20 September 1486 – 2 April 1502) was Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester and Duke of Cornwall. As the eldest son and heir apparent of Henry VII of England, Arthur was viewed by contemporaries as the great hope of the newly ...
Haddon Hall Peter is asked to explain the connection to Haddon Hall Have a seat. This is complicated and my tree is a mess of contradictions here which I need to clear up. However, here is how I think it goes…. You and I share great grandparents — William Hayward and Elizabeth (nee) Alexander. Elizabeth’s father was Samuel Alexander (1818-1907). Samuel married Isabella Fisher (1821-1901). The Fishers and the Alexanders seemed to hit it off for Samuel Alexander’s father also married a Fisher. But that’s another story. We’re interested in the Fisher line here because they lead us to Haddon Hall. Isabella Fisher’s father was Benjamin Fisher (1781-1863). He married Mary Unthank (1783-1855). Now here is an interesting kink: ...
Sep 12, 2018 Toured Haddon Hall yesterday. Absolutely amazing. Haddon is a large medieval manor house which dates back to the 1100s and which came into the hands of our 26th great grandfather Sir Richard de Vernon with his marriage to Avice Avenell in 1170. Haddon is considered to be the most authentic medieval manor anywhere. Pix attached. Love, Peter and Randi Haddon Hall, Peak District England ...
High Flight by John Gillespie Magee https://www.newearthvillage.com/spriggs/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Bill-Spriggs-Apr-28-2012-High-Flight-by-John-Gillespie-Magee.mp3 Spoken from Memory by Bill Spriggs, Apr 28, 2019 ...
Reply from Keja Valens: Dear Peter, Thank you so much for asking around! If you or any of the others are interested, you can see a digital copy of the (second) 1910 or 1911 edition here http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/lat/id/154/rec/1 I have heard that a few copies of the first edition are still in Trinidad, perhaps even at the Historical Society or a library and if I am able to travel there and see one, I’ll send you scans of anything special in it. I’m researching Caribbean cookbooks from the 19th through the 21st centuries as part of a book that I’m writing on the role that cookbooks, and the women who write them, play in forming local and national cultures. At the moment, ...
The Isle of Wight was incorporated in 1771 under a local Act of Parliament (11 Geo. 3. c.43. For establishing a House or House of Industry in the Isle of Wight, for the Reception, Maintenance, and Employment of the Poor belonging to the several Parishes and Places within the said Island). The Act empowered the Incorporation “to manage the poor persons incapable of providing for themselves in the parishes of the island; to let out poor to harvest work” and “to apprehend idle persons not maintaining their families in the island”. The Incorporation was also required to erect “in a plain and durable Manner” a House of Industry “to serve as an Hospital for the Reception of such aged, sick, ...
Our tour bus wound down and down off the heights of the North York Moors as we edged our way towards Whitby on Yorkshire’s east coast. There are no shoulders on these roads and no second chances. If you want to be home for dinner, you had best pay attention. As we neared Whitby, we passed through the little village of Great Ayton. It was here in the early 1700s that Captain James Cook (1728-1779) spent the latter years of his childhood. History of Tanning The word ‘tanning’ today conjures up images of lying on a tropical white sand beach or less appealing to me, in a proprietor’s well-lit coffin-like box in the midst of a Canadian winter. However, in ...
John Richardson Wigham Lighthouse Engineer (1829-1906) By the mid-1800s the Richardsons had been in the tanning business for 200 years. One could say they had ‘made it.’ It would have been easy for family members to just continue doing what they knew best — tanning. Yet periodically, that spirit of innovation and entrepreneurism which seemed a part of their very DNA manifested in some remarkable and world changing way. Take the case of John Richardson Wigham (1829-1906), a Richardson on his mother’s side. John was born a Quaker in Edinburgh. His father manufactured shawls. His mother died when he was one. At 15, his father sent him to Dublin, Ireland to apprentice under his brother-in-law, Joshua Edmundson (1806-1848). Joshua’s company ...