In Search of a Glemsford Family
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The Glemsford website started in 1997 as a site dedicated to the Morris Men of Little Egypt,
but soon grew to include snippets of history concerning the history of the village. As soon as those details appeared, I began to receive enquiries about Family History,
and Family connections with the village.
All these enquiries are welcome.
Some of them (“I wonder if you can help me trace …”)
were easy to deal with, some impossible;
some resulted in a “closed circuit”, but one or two led on to quite a deal of detail.
Most of the searching is good fun.
These new pages are the result of one such enquiry. |
The story concerns
- a Glemsford family - the Browns - which moved around the country, and away from Suffolk,
- a Cavendish family - the Savages - which moved away, and returned to leave a lasting mark on the community,
- the links between the two families,
- and the people who came in contact with them.
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The Browns of Glemsford were numerous.
- There were 152 of them in the village in 1901.
- The branch we are concerned with grew from the marriage (in 1873) of George Brown and Susannah Smith.
- It was this family about which Tracey Foulds was interested when she first approached me.
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As a result of Tracey's interest, Sandra Poole
got in touch.
- It is a set of family letters which Sandra has which opened up a new area of research.
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The Savage Family of Cavendish were another ordinary family, with several branches.
- Sandra's letters provoked a search for them, and what became of them.
- That search was part of the fun, and took us through huge quantities of webpages, up virtual blind alleys,
past too many conclusions too easily jumped to, and towards many happy, and several sad, stories.
- The search was nearly (but not quite) as much fun as the end product.
- You could leap to the end if you want, but that would be to miss part of the fun.
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The whole story is now indexed - follow this link. |
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