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In case you haven't done it .................. google Oswald.
There's all kinds of interesting "stuff"!
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I am laughing with delight here just looking at how much you have found for me. I am very grateful. I'd spotted the possibility of the Baker marriage but not done anything to work out if it was relevant.
You have given me lots to work through.
Oh yes to Googling Oswald. Already done that - but thanks for the suggestion. I found his name on Google quite a few times, leading me to not only the Barrel's (London Gazette mention) but to more mention of Sidney and his works. Boredom is not something I am getting from this family. The beauty of it all is being so close to Birmingham I am hoping to go and look at the various pieces by Sidney.
In the mid 70s there was a BBC televison series called Connections hosted by James Burke. It caught my imagination even then and might be the catalyst for always wanting to know more with the appreciation and understanding that nothing, whether invention or incident, ever stands alone and the most simple, bizarre or complicated things with no apparent connection whatsoever are somehow intertwined. Perhaps it was a way of coping with the life I had.
I am fascinated by how many connections exist with this family. It may be mostly as a result of society at the time and that in itself is worthy of the story. This family and their connections are in art and glass in Birmingham and Stoubridge; both places I know well.
I confess to being fascinated by how people gravitate towards, and relate to each other and often how life seems to be what I call 'Circular'. It's all about those Connections again. I am and have always been a crafter and unknowingly I married into a family which has a rich heritage in the jewellery trade and is connected (albeit by marriage only) to the most amazing connections to glass, painting, enamelling at incredible levels. Our daughter who is Kate's first cousin three times removed loves to design stuff and also and to make jewellery. Kate who married Sidney included jewellery in her talents. Her family were part of the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter and at the turn of the 1800s they were silversmiths.
As I found out last week, the Barrel's lived 1871 at Flatford Mill: most famous for its John Constable paintings.
It's all about James Burke and his 'Connections' again. Start with a question. How does a teenage girl born in the 1990s connect to English Romantic painter born in 1776?
I am hoping also to maybe establish a connection or no connection between the London Meatyards and the Dorset ones. There are some Meatyards mentioned as being in Lychett Minster. I have visited there quite a few times since we began going to Swanage on holiday. I have felt drawn to walk around the churchyard but never made the time.
Thank you again so much. You are a star.
xxJ
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Jill
you are very welcome.
It was fun
I do think there might be two families ................ Meatyards and Meteyards.
Both names were appearing at the same time on the early Parish records ..... and in both London and Devon
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You are right. Don't know yet if it will prove to be interesting or frustrating as heck.
I spotted this as a very good example. As far as I know William Pearson does not belong to me. Of course this might change. My William is the December 1837 marriage.
Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
Marriages Sep 1838 (>99%)
METEYARD William Pearson St Jas.Westr 1 99
Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
Marriages Dec 1837 (>99%)
Meatyard William St. James Westr. 1 102
On Googling Sidney, I found mention of an auction of a work or works and I e-mailed the Gallery to ask if they had any bits of info about him. I had a lovely message back. The sale had been pre-digital for them so nothing saved and no catalogue available. But in their own words, they had 'cobbled' together what they could find out about him but not much available anywhere.
I have promised to share what I find in the hope that it might be of interest and even of some use someday. I have told them about the link to Flatford. What I need to put on my list of things to do is investigate whether Richard Barrel's mother who was born in the area, had a closer connection to the Constable family. That far back, I might find out or I might not but I shall have had fun looking. :-D :-D :-D
xxJ
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I'm not researching much of Sidney's line, He had no legitimate children and wasn't interested enough in my mothers welfare to look after her after other than off loading her on to her adopted family. From the little I have learned he seemed to be a selfish selfseeker and must have little or no respect for the women in his life.
I am more interested in my Grandmother. I won't reveal the names until I have some more information, at the moment I am in touch with an Anglo/German society to see if I can get any links from that quarter. I know the name of the region my Gt Grandfather came from in Germany and I am following the line of the only surviving member of my Grandmother's family. (her sister) who married an English man with an unusual surname. More later if there is anything.
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Hi Susan,
I totally understand that you aren't interested in Sidney but if and when, it's all yours.
I am finding the family interesting though and I've hopefully found a new source of some information, including about Sidney. With luck, I will be able to get hold of it in the next week or so.
In my to-do list, I intend to see what I can find out about him via whichever place in Birmingham has the archives for the Art School.
I suspect that you are correct in your opinion of him. I'd be grateful for what you pick up about him even though I know it will only be anecdotal. It all helps to create the picture (no pun intended).
I do wonder how many/if any children he fathered. Probably an unanswerable question but suggestions of character being what they are......
Will keep in touch.
xJ
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