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St Botolph, Burton Hastings NUNEATON AND NORTH WARWICKSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY Member of the Federation of Family History Societies http://www.nnwfhs.org.uk JOURNAL JULY 2002 Price £1.50 (first copy free to members) Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society - Journal Page 1 CONTENTS PAGE NNWFHS Committee 1 NNWFHS Diary - A Report From The Chairman, Peter Lee. 2 Chetwynd Murders - Baddesley Ensor 1902. By Celia Parton 3 Ancestors Beyond ‘Reiver’ Country. By Jacqui Simkins 5 Maxstoke Castle. By Pat Boucher 6 Build Your Own Genealogical Programme. By Bill Potter 7 Genmap - The Best Just Got Better. By Graham Fidler 8 In The Name Of The Father - A Personal View. By Tony Davis 10 Some Possibilities from the Records of Non-Conformity. By Jacqui Simkins 11 Austrey Probate Wills and Inventories 1543 - 1729. By Alan Roberts 12 Notes on the Descendancy of the Family of Ensor. By Peter Lee 13 Get Netted. 15 Help Wanted 16 Notice board 17 New Members/ New Members’ Interests 18 Publications 20 NNWFHS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN PETER LEE, P O Box 2282, Nuneaton, Warwicks CV116ZT Tel: (024) 7638 1090 email [email protected] SECRETARY LEIGH RIDDELL, 14 Amos Avenue, Nuneaton, Warwickshire CV10 7BD Tel: (024) 7634 7754 email [email protected] MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY JOHN PARTON, 6 Windmill Rd, Atherstone, Warwickshire CV9 1HP Tel: (01827) 713938 email [email protected] TREASURER & CELIA PARTON, 6 Windmill Rd, Atherstone, Warwickshire CV91HP NORTH WARWICKSHIRE CO-ORDINATOR Tel: (01827) 713938 email [email protected] LIBRARY & PROJECTS CO-ORDINATOR CAROLYN BOSS, Nuneaton Library, Church Street, Nuneaton, & VICE CHAIR Warwickshire CV11 4DR Tel: (024) 7638 4027 JOURNAL & PUBLICATIONS EDITOR PAT BOUCHER, 33 Buttermere Ave, Nuneaton,Warwicks CV11 6ET & MICROFICHE LENDING LIBRARIAN Tel: (024) 7638 3488 email [email protected] MINUTES SECRETARY & ALVA KING, 26 Thirlmere Avenue, Nuneaton, Warwicks. CV11 6HS BURIALS INDEXING PROJECT Tel: (024) 7638 3499 email: [email protected] PUBLICATIONS MANAGER CHRISTOPHER COX, 9 Binswood Close, Coventry, W Midlands. CV2 1HL Tel: 024 7661 6880 COMMITTEE MEMBER & RAY HALL, 4 Thornhill Drive, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV11 6TD BURIALS INDEXING PROJECT Tel: (024) 76 744647 email [email protected] COMMITTEE MEMBER STEVE CASEY, 16 Cliveden Walk, Maple Park, Nuneaton, Warwicks CV11 4XJ Tel: (024) 7638 2890 email [email protected] WEBSITE MANAGER BILL BOSWELL, 21 Randle Road, Stockingford, Nuneaton,Warwicks CV10 8HR Tel: (024) 7634 3596 email [email protected] NORTH AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE HARLOW G FARMER, 7427 Venice Street, Falls Church, VA, USA. Telephone 22043 703 560 6776 E-mail [email protected] Page 2 Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society - Journal NnwFHs Diary A Report From The Chairman, Peter Lee I was particularly pleased to welcome back the Croshaws for their 2nd Family Re-Union at the Chilvers Coton Heri- tage Centre on June 9th. This was a marvellous event, perhaps only slightly marred by the variable English weather. Two years ago it was blistering hot, this time very wet. Never mind the re-union was well attended and the Croshaw quest goes on. What made it particularly fantastic was that it was organised some 4000 miles away in America. Don and Betty Croshaw live in St. Paul, Indiana. Don managed to contact his Croshaw correspondents and gather the at- tendees together and provide their family charts for the big event. Zillah Cookes at the Chilvers Coton Craft Centre laid on a lavish buffet, whilst Beryl Kerby, President of the Nuneaton Society, kept up an endless supply of tea and coffee. Family re-unions are particularly worthwhile, especially if the surname being researched is common in the district. There are surnames in the North Warwickshire area which are peculiar to it, but rare elsewhere in antiquity - the names, Wheway, Sidwell, Daffern, Jacques, Suffolk, Edmands, Bolstridge, Twigger, Kelsey, Ensor, Arnold, Taberer, and Mallabone spring to mind. If anyone is interested in gathering his or her relatives together please let me know and I will pass on my expertise. The essential thing in organising these events is determination, a willingness to write lots of letters, understanding the history of the family and its distribution, plus good organisational skills. It is a major project and you certainly need to allow twelve months to give everyone the chance to build their diaries around it. What makes it particularly successful is if there is a common ancestor and an idea of where the family originated, what their common trade was etc. If it were silk weaving, for example, a trip to the Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry by bus in the afternoon would be useful. They have an excellent selection of silk ribbon samples. After these two events for the Croshaws I detect that they are now firmly bonded as one enlarged happy family in a way that could never be done through correspondence and e-mails. It is a great delight to meet so many people who share a clearly defined common interest. On Tuesday, 25th June we had an evening trip out by bus to Tamworth castle followed by late night supper buffet laid on by the castle staff. They were most helpful and the trip very worthwhile. Tamworth castle is 900 years old and re- putedly the most haunted castle in England. How true that is I cannot tell but it certainly has the atmosphere of being haunted in parts. Our guide said that she had heard loud footsteps on a staircase where she knew no one was, so it might be true. Apparently two ghosts are particularly well known to staff. For the benefit of visitors though there is a montage ghost of Editha, prioress of Polesworth, as she appeared to the owner of the castle, Robert Marmion, after he abolished the nunnery at Polesworth. As a result of his experience the nunnery was re-opened. One of the things that came across was how few of us had visited Tamworth castle previously. It is so close to home that we take it for granted and yet here we are in one of the most historical parts of England, in the old kingdom of Mercia, on the borders of the Danelaw, gloriously not bothering to explore the recesses of our own district. I am as guilty as anyone having worked in Stratford on Avon, Leamington and Warwick and not bothered to savour the ambi- ence of the place, not having the time or the inclination. Only anxious when the day’s work was over to get back to relaxation and grinding boredom of Nuneaton! Our next trip out is to Polesworth Abbey on Saturday July 20th. If you are go- ing with us, please call me as soon as possible on 02476 381090. We meet at the Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre at 10am and return there at approx 4pm. There will be a side trip to Mancetter church, St Peters, in the after- noon on the way back. NNWFHS HELPLINE Peter Lee (024) 7638 1090 6.30 - 8.00pm Mon to Sat The 13th century arched doorway is one of the Pat Boucher in the stocks at Tamworth oldest surviving sections of Tamworth Castle. Castle. Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society - Journal Page 3 CHETWYND MURDERS - BADDESLEY ENSOR 1902 By Celia Parton Last year Ray Hall wrote an article else to go he asked Mrs Chetwynd if revolver and some ammunition. On about a murder which took place in he could move in with them. Mrs Friday he is said to have visited his Baddesley Ensor in 1868. Since then I Chetwynd was at first reluctant but mother. On Saturday he made his way have learned of another murder which gave in as she didn't like the idea of back to Baddesley stopping first at took place in Baddesley in 1902. I re- George being turned out on to the Wilnecote where they were having a ceived an e-mail via the NNWFHS streets. Just before Easter the banns of sports day. There he met two men website from someone who is de- marriage were read at Baddesley whom he knew as he worked with scended from one of the victims. He church. Mr Chetwynd was then seri- them at Hall End pit. He first met a obviously knew there had been a mur- ously ill and had begged George from man called John Radford and went for der in the family and was keen to find his deathbed not to take Eliza away. a drink with him at a public house. out more about it. I visited my local George promised and Mr Chetwynd George told him he was in trouble and library in Atherstone and found they gave his permission and so the banns asked him to lend him £6. George told had the Atherstone News for 1902 on were read. Soon afterwards Mr Chet- him about the affiliation order and microfilm. I found coverage of the wynd died and because of that the then produced the revolver and told murders, which occurred in August of marriage was postponed, even though him he was going to shoot them (Mrs that year, the inquest and the funerals. Eliza was then pregnant with George's Chetwynd, Eliza and the baby). Rad- I also found coverage of the trial and baby. After Mr Chetwynd died George ford told him not to be foolish and to subsequent execution of the murderer, said he wanted to leave the area and hand over the gun. He suggested he which took place in December. I took take Eliza with him, but she refused. should go with him and stay the night copies of all this and passed it on to She told a friend that she was afraid of at his house.