I was six days from being 9 years old the day Pearl Harbor was bombed, nearly 74 years ago. I was an orphaned child of six years then. We boys, while standing on our patio after 7 a.m., following breakfast, looked up to see rows of low-flying airplanes marked with solid red painted circles on their wings headed in the… Read more »
Back in the day I was quite a good runner, but football was never my forte (my favourite position when participating in school soccer matches during PE was right back – in the changing rooms). The ‘beautiful game’ was definitely enjoyed by some of my Atcherley cousins however. With the World Cup currently well under way, this feels like a… Read more »
< Back to The widowed Ann Atcherley and matters pecuniary. Although two of her sisters married Frenchmen, Ann Compton du Moulin [] wed Englishman Rowland Atcherley, with whom she had three children. However, following Rowland’s untimely death, Ann married Camille Casimir Breton [], a perfumer and hair dresser from France. Camille’s life in the city of Bath was, to put it mildly,… Read more »
Today, the surname Atchley occurs most frequently in America. In Putting the genes into genealogy – Part 3 I revealed that there are American Atchleys who share their ancestry with British-born Atcherleys. Might this help to prove that the Atchleys of south Shropshire were related to the Atcherleys in the north of that English county, and that their descendants are… Read more »
< Back to The Anglo-French ancestry of Ann Compton Atcherley or Rowland Atcherley, M.D. The marriage of Rowland Atcherley [] and Ann Compton du Moulin [] was sadly shortlived, brought to an end after just five years by Rowland’s untimely death. Three years later, Ann’s father Andrew du Moulin passed away too. Following Andrew’s decease Ann stood to benefit not only from… Read more »
One of the pleasures of conducting the one-name study of an uncommon surname like Atcherley, is being able to spend time researching the families of the people to whom the Atcherleys were married. This often yields useful genealogical information. It can also provide interesting insights into the ways in which the lives of people in the main Atcherley family tree… Read more »