BADSEY – THE CHURCH CLOCK
A public meeting was held in the old schoolroom on Tuesday night to consider whether a new clock shoule be placed in the church tower. The Vicar (the Rev W H Price) presided, and amongst others present were Messrs J Sladden, C A Binyon, H Stewart, C Halford, J Knight, J Marshall, A Sparrow, E Wilson, R Pendlebury, H Keen, W Stanford, J Agg, T Knight, A Knight, C Moulberry etc.
Evesham Bride, Aldington Groom
At St Peter’s Church, Bengeworth, on Wednesday last, Joyce, only daughter of Mrs and the late Mr A Heritage of 39 Deace Place, Evesham, was married to Peter, son of Mr & Mrs Sam Byrd of Rose Cottage, Aldington.
Given away by Mr S Parks, the bride wore a model gown of white figured net over taffeta, surmounted by a full length veil held in place by a coronet of pearls and sprays of gardinias. She carried a spray of pink roses.
This sales notice appeared in The Worcester Journal and Worcestershire Chronicle on a weekly basis from 11th June 1862 until 12th July 1862.
Eligible FREEHOLD LAND at BRETFORTON
and BADSEY, in the county of Worcester,
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION
BY MR H W SMITH
COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS, SEPT 2
Before the Revds G D Bourne and M Amphlett, and E C Rudge, Esq.
LICENSING MEETING – Richard Ingles of Badsey, keeper of the Royal Oak beerhouse, applied for a spirit licence, Mr Kettle being for applicant. It appeared that Mr Ingles, the churchwarden of the parish, had kept his house as a beerhouse for 25 years without any complaint, and he produced a memorial in his favour signed by most of the principal paymasters of the parish. The Rev Mr Hunt opposed the application, which however was granted.
Nearly 50 people from the Badsey area are known to have emigrated to America in the last quarter of the 19th century – and specifically to the Auburn region of Ohio. Shirley Tutton told us the story of Annie Bell (daughter of William Bell, the farm bailiff at Aldington Manor) who emigrated to America in 1885 with her new husband, William Marsh, and his two sisters.
BITTER HARVEST FOR MIDLAND GROWERS
It took just ten minutes to sell all the vegetables in Smithfield Market, Evesham, yesterday: ten minutes to auction the sparse collection of produce plucked with numbed fingers from the snow or hacked laboriously from the unyielding soil.
Meanwhile, the men with frozen fields and frozen incomes, and nothing for the market, anxiously watched the thaw spread across the Vale of Evesham.
The Quaker Burial Register for the Evesham/Alcester area includes the following entry:
“Alice Bowker of Wickhamford buried the third day of the 12th month called February 1696”.
