Category: Population and Profiles
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The Dalton Family of Church Lawford – Clockmakers
The following words are the introduction to an article written by Martin Griffiths, a descendant of the Dalton Family, back in 2010 for “The Journal of the Dalton Genealogical Society”. It was entitled “The Dalton Family of Church Lawford, Warwickshire, Clockmakers“. A Dalton family lived in Church Lawford and the surrounding area, a few miles… Read more
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1918 Estate Sale Marketing and Conditions
The Sale Catalogue for the 1918 Auction of properties in the two villages detailed the conditions of sale along with detailing the overall merits of the properties and their location. This might normally be seen as “small-print”, but one or two of the paragraphs make for more interesting reading, giving some indication of what was… Read more
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The Nineteenth Century Farming Year
Elsewhere in this archive there are articles based on Rugby Advertiser features created in the early 20th century that record interviews with local people with extensive experience of farming life during the 19th Century. The interview with Thomas Dumbleton can be found here, and the one with John Brierly here. The article below, written in… Read more
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Interview With Thomas Dumbleton In 1921
The Rugby Advertiser carried out on of a series of Armchair interviews shortly after the First World War. One of these featured a member of the Dumbleton family, who have had a presence in the area for over 200 years. Thomas Dumbleton (1839-1924), was born in Church Lawford, working locally for many years, although residing… Read more
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Jaggard’s Cottage
The original Jaggard’s Cottage was built at the end of the 19th century, and has been a notable landmark in the village ever since. Although the property has been extensively revised, the name and the fact the cottage stood directly onto the road that became known as Church Road has been retained. The cottage was… Read more
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Village Directory 1956
This was the first directory to incorporate the Airey Houses, shown at the end as the block of 12 houses in “Newnham Lane”. Somewhat confusingly, the original Council House numbers are also used for Newnham Lane in the main body of the directory. The houses in what became Coronation Road some years later are numbered… Read more
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Scholars
The pictures of the schoolchildren in these pictures are 90-100 years old, and it may prove difficult to recognise faces apart from family similarities or perhaps a copy of one or more of these photos might be in a family archive. The last two of the four class pictures do have a little more information.… Read more
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A Reminder of the Past (1980 Village Newsletter Article)
Back in April 1980 there was an article past by Christine Brown, living in Lexmore, Church Road about a local issue nearby. A REMINDER OF THE PAST One sunny Sunday morning not too long ago a voice was to be heard saying “Mummy, did you know that there is a big hole in the path… Read more
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The Garfield Connection
One of the families appearing in the earliest registers of St Peter’s Church are the Garfield family. Over the years there have been attempts by genealogists to link this family with the Garfield Family of America that arrived there around 1630 and lived in Watertown, Massachusetts. The links from the family traced in Watertown to… Read more
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The Dalton Family
The Dalton Family were one of the biggest families in the villages for around 400 years until the end of the nineteenth century. Over the years they embraced various trades, and various family members spread across the world, with members of the family born in the villages, or first-generation relatives, emigrating to a range of… Read more