< Back to Part 1. War, according to an old adage, consists of long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. In the first part of this story, we saw something of the terror that Henry Mount Langton Atcherley [] would have experienced when he took part in the Battle of Te Ranga. But what about the periods before… Read more »
[In] the matter of the estate of Elizabeth Hester Isabella Atcherley [], Widow, deceased […] late of No. 15, Cranbrook Road, Chiswick, in the county of Middlesex, widow of Lieutenant William Shairp Langton Atcherley [], who died on or about the 30th day of October, 1899 […] Note—The said Mrs. Atcherley had an only child, Henry Mount Atcherley [], who was… Read more »
< Back to Part 1. Grand Canary was a fair way from the British Isles, but Robert Atcherley and others had the drive and determination to bring sporting activities from the green and pleasant land of their birth, to their new island home. This I discovered during the course of my eagle-eyed Atcherley research, when by a stroke of good… Read more »
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 »