< Back to Samuel Atcherley’s true and perfect inventory – Part 1 Our ‘guided tour’ of the house of Samuel Atcherley [], aided by the “true and perfect Inventory” of his possessions taken in 1731, continues. Once again, to save space the items listed below are not set out in the same format as in the inventory, but they follow the same… Read more »
Sometimes it is the records associated with a person’s death that shed the most light on how they lived their life. That is certainly the case with “Samuel Atcherley [] of Sowbath in the County of Salop Gent” who, being “very sick and weak in Body, but of perfect Mind and Memory” made his last Will and Testament on 7 August… Read more »
During my quest for records relating to members of the Atcherley family, I have found many variations in the spelling of their surname (see Lost in transcription for some examples). Sometimes I find Atcherleys recorded under other family names, including Ackerley, Atherley and Ashley. It works the other way too: from time to time I find an “Atcherley” who –… Read more »
An annual ‘Bluebell Walk’ became something of a tradition for Mum [] and I during the last few years of her life, although there were one or two years when the walk wasn’t possible because Mum was too ill (one year we went for a ‘Bluebell Drive’ instead). Now, Mum is no longer here to walk with me – but I… Read more »
On Saturday, 26 April 2014, Findmypast (in conjunction with Shropshire Archives) officially launched their Shropshire parish register collections – baptisms, banns, marriages and burials spanning 1538 to 1900. Most of the records had actually gone online just over a week before, and I found them, quite by chance, on the morning of Good Friday. Since then, as you can imagine… Read more »
Lucy Atcherley was part of a family whose men took centre stage. At the time of her birth around the beginning of 1899, her father Llewellyn was a Captain in the Army Service Corps, but his military service and his services to policing would see him elevated and decorated so that by the end of 1925 he was Major-General Sir… Read more »