The centenary year of the Royal Air Force is an appropriate occasion for me to focus once more on the service’s two best-known Atcherley members – twins David [] and Richard [] (a.k.a. ‘Batchy’). Stories about the two (particularly Richard) are legion and often mix up the twins, which is perhaps not too surprising as the brothers themselves often used their similarity… Read more »
< Back to Part 1. In the name of God Amen the tenth day of ffebruary 1657 I Thomas Atcherley of Wolverley in the [Parish] of Wem in the County of Salop gent being sick in boody but in perfect memorie I thank god therefore I doe ordaine and make this my Last will and Testament in manner and forme… Read more »
< Back to Thomas Atcherley and his Marton tannery. Thomas Acherley […] had two sons—Thomas, the second of that name, and Richard,—hee had also two daughters. After the death of his first wife hee married the widow of Nicholas Gough of Wolverley, a very wealthy widow. Hee went to live with her att Wolverley, and gave his lands in Marton… Read more »
When her husband set off in October 1899 to take part in the South African War (a.k.a. the second Boer War or Anglo-Boer War), Eleanor Frances Atcherley, née Micklethwait [], did not simply stay at home and wait for his return. Instead, she soon devoted herself to collecting comforts for the troops and, when the opportunity arose, Eleanor went to South… Read more »
Update added 18 August 2019. Another opportunity to buy copies of historic birth and death register entries at a lower price is in progress, and I have taken full advantage! The opportunity takes the form of a second, extended pilot of providing these uncertified extracts in electronic (PDF) format by the General Register Office (GRO) for England and Wales. The… Read more »
A few days since died, at St. Alban’s Lieutenant Robert Atcherley, of the Rutlandshire Cavalry; late Ironmonger, of Shrewsbury. – Hereford Journal, 4 March 1795. Robert Atcherley [] was the youngest son of farmer John Atcherley of the Moortown in Shropshire and his wife Elizabeth, née Beech (see John Atcherley and the deterrence of felonies). I have found no other evidence… Read more »