Updated 4 July 2014 The connection between John Atcherley [] of Bristol and the events leading to the American Declaration of Independence in 1766 is a tenuous one to say the least. However it is enough for me to choose the Fourth of July as the day on which to write about him. When I originally wrote this article in 2011,… Read more »
< Back to Part 1 Charles Hedley Atcherley [] completed his World War One service as a Lieutenant, and completed his family with the birth of daughter Jean Marion Atcherley in 1918. [1, 2] Hedley did not rejoin the Mounties after the war, but he did resume his police career. The Toronto City Directory of 1921 showed Constable Chas Atcherly living… Read more »
< More Atcherley stories from World War 1 Canada Day seems a good time to look at the life of an Atcherley who made Canada his home. Born on 21 September 1889 in Walsall, Staffordshire, Charles Hedley Atcherley [] was the second son of Thomas Cureton Atcherley and Anne Griffiths. He grew up with two older and two younger sisters, after… Read more »
Updated 30 August 2015 Today the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, is the focus of attention for many, not just in Britain but around the world. The marriage of a ‘commoner’ and a man who is second in line to the throne has inspired more than a few genealogists to investigate… Read more »
< Back to Part 2 Mytley of old and Mickley of today are indeed one and the same – the index of the calendar of patent rolls which mentions Robert Acheley of Mytley listed the place as “Mickley, Mytley, co. Salop.” But what of Acheley and Aychley? This second question was answered by the Reverend Robert William Eyton in volume… Read more »
Was the ancestor of the Atcherley family a Norman invader or settler, who brought his family name with him to England? Or was he an ancient Salopian, a native of Shropshire who took his name from the settlement where he lived? Since I last posed these questions, in my first article about the origins of this “good old Shropshire name,”… Read more »