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The Peacey family were involved with Oakridge Chapel from the beginning. In 1784 the house of Thomas Peacey in Oakridge was registered for non-conformist meetings. Thomas Peacey's son John, born in 1776, has left an early account of the family. He…

Harry was at the liberation of Belson concentration camp. The final photo shows Hazel Couldrey Sitting on the wall outside the village stores in the grounds of the house known as The Cottage, Oakridge Lynch. Visits to the village shop on the way home…

The Gardiner Family with particular reference to the family of Thomas Gardiner (1803 - 1851) and Dinah nee Gardiner (1801 - 1852).

The Gardiners in this parish can be traced back to the early sixteen hundreds when Huguenot weavers fled the Low…

History Group NotesEdwin Hunt and his wife, Louisa, lived in Bournes Green from at least 1881 to 1911. Edwin was born in Oakridge Lynch in 1826 (ref 1901 census entry 124 ). Louisa was born in Oakridge Lynch in 1831. From the Lloyd George Survey the…

The earliest Whitings to be recorded living in Oakridge are Giles, a mason of 65 and his wife Sarah, a woollen cloth weaver of 60, and Catherine aged 70 of independent means, all of whom appear in the 1841 census. There are Whitings in Oakridge and…

History group Note on George Hale and his wife Emily (Nee Minchin) In the 1871 census we find George Hale aged 28, engine driver (born Cirencester) with Emily his wife aged 29, and four children: Georgina 8 born in Bisley, Elizabeth 6 born in…

The Young Family Tree and Details comes in three parts because we haven't yet been able to link them together. The challenge for you family History enthusiasts is to find what we have missed and help us splice them all into one!The files consist of L…