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30th November 2019 www.nenevalleynews.co.uk facebook.com/NeneValleyNews @NeneValleyNews Telephone: 01522 692542 We want to hear from you, so please submit your news story or event at NeneYour local independent community Valley newspaper for East Northamptonshire news www.nenevalleynews.co.uk Spotlight Councils to In Brief on Thrapston crack down on unlicensed HMOs Christmas concert he Singing for Fun Inside... Page 4 Page 8 group of Higham Tand Rushden are putting on their annual Christmas concert on Friday 13th December at the Hall of the Catholic Nene Court creates Church of St Peter the Apostle, Higham Road, Rushden. There will be carols and Christmas songs which everyone winning formula will be encouraged to join in with as well as he first half of 2019 saw a comes to what to do with our high A courtyard right here in Northants has found a some other audience record net 1,234* stores streets. participation. In addition truly independent approach to creating a successful disappear from Britain’s top Nene Court was derelict in the T there will be solo shopping and leisure environment. 500 high streets, with retailers mid-eighties when the current performances. It is a fun and leisure operators continuing owners purchased the site. The evening so do come restructuring activity and services buildings, some dating back to along. All proceeds will increasingly moving online. The 1833, now play host to a fantastic be given to The Full UK also saw a total of 2,868* store mix of local businesses including Gospel Church Food closures, equivalent to 16 per day a gluten free bakery, a gym, a Bank and Night Shelter. and the most for five years. small batch coffee roaster and But in a little corner of even a Wellingborough-based Wellingborough, a shopping charity, Golden Years. Add in a courtyard that has been few places to eat, a camping and established for over 25 years has outdoor shop and a mix of other reacted quicker than most and indies and even a Yoga studio created a unique proposition and you have something a little when it comes to the leisure and bit special. As with the theme for retail mix. Focusing purely on the town, parking is completely independent local retailers and free. The case for Nene Court Tickets are £5 which shutting out the big shops was being something to celebrate is includes refreshments. a bold move but one that has made more compelling when you There will also be a raffle. paid off. Shops have still come consider Rushden Lakes, and the Doors open at 6.30pm and gone but with a number of large retailers, is less than five for a 7pm start. Tickets the outlets celebrating 10 and 15 minutes away. are available from either year anniversaries, perhaps local If you really want to celebrate Chris on 07778836094 or Nene Court, Embankment, Wellingborough NN8 1LD, www.nenecourt.com government should be looking something this Christmas, shop Gerry on 07494808431. *source PWC a little closer to home when it local. 02 To submit your news story or event visit www.nenevalleynews.co.uk or call 01522 692542 30/11/19 Beacon Wealth Group Editor’s notes celebrates 10 years with Pudsey his weekend sees the official arrival Northamptonshire Council, in partnership his year Beacon Wealth Group were children at Kimbolton Primary Academy, Hail of meteorological, or thermological, with Northamptonshire Police and National joined by the BBC as they celebrated Weston Pre-school, Great Paxton Church Twinter which lasts through what can Pubwatch. If you find yourself on a date with T 10 years of escorting Pudsey Bear of England Pre-school, Kester Pre-school, be expected to be our 3 coldest months. someone who isn’t as they seemed online or round the local area. Priory Park Infant School, Cracker Jacks Day However, forecasters at the Met Office say on the phone, for example they look nothing For the 10th year running Beacon Wealth Nursery and Pre-school and Great Staughton their long-range predictions are for next like their profile picture or their behaviour is Group teamed up with the BBC on Thursday Piglets Pre-school. Beacon Wealth Group also month’s temperature to be above average unusual and making you feel uncomfortable, 7th November and took Pudsey Bear out, supplied all the children with flags to wave, for the time of year. A spokesman said: simply go to the bar and ‘Ask for Angela’. having a fun day creating a party atmosphere creating an extra party atmosphere. “At the moment, the longest range we By asking for Angela, you will alert staff at the places they visited in St Neots and One of Beacon Wealth Group’s key goals are looking at is January, but this is not a members and they will immediately know surrounding areas. is to help support the local community. forecast, it’s a probability. We’re probably that something isn’t right and you need For over half a century BBC Children in Teaming up with the BBC allows them to looking at milder than average conditions.” assistance, whether it be keeping an eye on Need has been raising money for young raise awareness for an amazing charity whilst We can also expect heavy rain in December you throughout the evening or even taking people in the UK who need help. This is the bringing the community together. and strong winds are set to batter the you to a safer room and calling a taxi. Across message that was pushed throughout the day Usually behind the scenes, the BBC joined UK, predominantly in the West. Not much the District, staff at pubs and clubs have on Pudsey Bear’s visit. Beacon Wealth Group on their trip this year as chance of a white Christmas then. been trained on the ‘Ask for Angela’ scheme The team at Beacon arranged for Pudsey they wanted to share the efforts they and the And we are less than a month away and a number of businesses in towns Bear to meet the Mayor of St Neots, Gordon community have made over the past 10 years. from Christmas, just a few days away across East Northamptonshire currently take Thorpe, visit the Old Vicarage Care Home, Collectively the Beacon Wealth Group from the opening of the first doors on part. These include: Higham Ferrers, Islip, and had a party with dancing to the Conga, and the local community have raised Advent Calendars. There will be Christmas Oundle, Raunds, Rushden, Stanwick and Baby Shark, the Hokey Cokey and more with over £32,500. Fayres and Markets aplenty, providing the Thrapston. A Council spokesperson said: opportunity to get started on, or if you have “We are very proud to continue to work in been really well organised complete, your partnership with Northamptonshire Police Genealogy jottings Christmas shopping. It does seem that there and National Pubwatch to ensure all our has been something of a later start to the residents are kept safe. However, in order y 2 x great grandfather was John By Jan Pearson usual deluge of festive advertising, which for this scheme to be even more successful Webb Mascall, the illegitimate son Genealogy Specialists, Tracing Our those of the ‘Bah Humbug’ persuasion will we would always encourage more pubs Mof William Webb and Sarah Mascall. Past, Discovering Our Genes (TOP DOG) only welcome. and clubs to take part, especially as we John was married twice – first to Amy Baynes www.genealogy-specialists.com While we appreciate that the average approach the festive period.” If you are on and then to my 2 x great grandmother, Lydia age of our readers might be higher than a date and don’t feel safe, at any time - go Cowling. Why am I telling you this? Well, John the section of the population at which this to the bar and ‘Ask for Angela’. A full list of and Amy had a son – John Webb Mascall – of my family has the father as Caleb Goldsmith. initiative is aimed, we need to alert you to participating venues can be found on the who married Phoebe Day (his second wife) on Amongst his children, he had William, Louisa, a scheme which aims to keep people safe East Northants Council website at https:// 10th November 1855 whilst his father married Caleb, Eliza, Ernest and George. William on dates. It has been established by East www.east-northamptonshire.gov.uk/. Lydia on 16th December the same year. Both married and had children William, Louisa, of their marriage entries in the Parish Register Ernest, George and Arthur. Caleb married and said that they were widowers and it took me had children (you guessed it!) William, Caleb, ages to work out which one was mine! The Louisa, Ernest and Eliza. So, we have two each moral of this is to not make assumptions that of William, Louisa, Ernest and Eliza all of the the first person you find with the right name same generation and living in the same town. is yours. The two Johns also had the same How on earth do you sort them all out? marriage reference in the General Record One suggestion to help you is to do the Office (GRO) – Linton, December quarter maths. Apart from a third cousin who managed 1855, volume 3b, page 1173. Although both to have two daughters just eight months apart, Lydia and Phoebe are also listed in the index, most folk back in the day would have children it is easy to assume that John had been at the earliest a year to 18 months after the recorded twice and that the husband of one of preceding one.

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