Following Sarah Atcherley’s life through her appearances in census records reveals a story which is fairly typical for a girl born into a family of farm labourers in the mid-1800s. After leaving school she went into service, later met and married a young man who worked as a servant in the same household, and with her husband had four children. … Read more »
ATCHERLEY.—INFORMATION is requested concerning ROGER (otherwise ROWLAND) ATCHERLEY, an officer, first in the Marines and later in the Militia, who died about 1833. He is believed to have been born about 1775, and was educated at Shrewsbury, under Dr. J. Atcherley, who it has been supposed was his uncle. I am always pleased to receive requests for information about members… Read more »
Rewritten 9 September 2017 < Back to The Misses Atcherley and their income from property We will probably never know the full extent of the Misses Atcherley’s sojourns away from Shrewsbury, when they took their coastal vacations. However, thanks to the lists of visitors printed in the newspapers of certain seaside towns in Wales, we do know about some of the… Read more »
Updated 30 June 2015. “Thomas, b. 27 Feb. 1766, d. s. p. July 1801” is all that the Burkes had to say about Thomas Atcherley in their publications on the genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry in the 1800s. He was born, and 35 years later he descessit sine prole (died without issue). Nowadays, family historians like myself… Read more »
< More Atcherley stories from World War 1 Dr John Atcherley’s service with the Royal Canadian Navy in World War One saw him acting as Surgeon not only to the crew of an RCN sloop, but also to crews of the two submarines that vessel tended. With his shipmates he undertook a voyage from one side of Canada to the… Read more »
< Back to Samuel Atcherley’s true and perfect inventory – Part 2 The conclusion of our ‘guided tour’ of the house of Samuel Atcherley [], aided by the “true and perfect Inventory” of his possessions taken in 1731. As in parts 1 and 2, to save space the items listed below are not set out in the same format as in the… Read more »