|
"The Shards" — Newsletter of the Shard*low Study Group |
| « page 1 . . .26 27 28 29 30 . . .49 page » |
Issue #27
As you probably know by now, we decided to cancel the Shard*low reunion in the U.K. next year. We are trying to see if there is some way we can present some of the information that was going to be available there on this website. Charts, or family trees is what we think people will be interested in but they are the hardest item to reproduce in HTML. We’ll keep you posted if we come up with a solution!
Comment
A spell of cold wet weather at the start of the year gave me an excuse to spend some time exploring the search facility provided
by my ISP, the name SHARDELOW, rather surprisingly, returned over 200 `hits’. Most of these were a mixture of Business,
Charity and Club sites but did yield a few interesting names and facts some of which will be reported in this newsletter.
Norfolk Marriages 1801-1837
Continuing the research of what seemed to be new names on this CD has not been very conclusive. Four marriages in what is
assumed to be one family in Kings Lynn turned out to only be three people born Shardelow, Samuel Shardelow married Margaret Holland
2 Nov. 1815, Samuel must have died soon after because Margaret Shardelow nee Holland married Richard English 21 Sep. 1823. The other two marriages were Mary Shardelow married Luke Woods 18 Jan. 1819 and
Susan Shardelow married John Woods 11 Dec. 1822.
Unfortunately the Kings Lynn Parish Register for the period when the three Shardelow’s would probably have been born was so badly faded it was impossible to read it so it is not known if they were born there. The only readable entry was for a baptism on 7 June 1800, the childs name is unreadable but the parents were James and Elizabeth Shaddelow. By a happy coincidence, while `surfing the Net’ for Shardelows, I had noted a James Shardelow as Licensee of “The Crown” public house in Kings Lynn. As there were no other entries for Shardelow in the previous 150 years it is assumed that James was a newcomer to the town but from where?
Named to Remember
I found there is a mountain peak in the Rocky Mountains, Canada called Mount Shardelow but no one seemed to know how it got
that name. I do not know how many people will know of the Canadian practice of naming Geographical Features to
commemorate those who lost their lives while serving in World War II but Mount Shardelow is named for Private Edward
Shardelow of Nelson, British Columbia who was killed on 15 Aug. 1944 while serving with the Canadian Scottish Regiment in
France. He was the son of Edward John Shardelow who was born at Thorpe next Haddiscoe, Norfolk, Eng. and was related to several of our group.
[My thanks to Doug. Brown of the Kootenay Mountaineering Club, Carol Steer and the Ministry of Environment, B C. for their help. Ed.]
New Contacts
Myra Kestner is descended from the large Shardlow family in the village of that name and has enabled me to add two generations
to the family of George Shardlow (b 1743). Jane Shardlow (b 1783) married Thomas Gilbert, they had 5 sons and 3 daughters.
The fourth son, George was Myra’s great grandfather, he wrote his memoirs and Myra has allowed me to use part of these in this newsletter.
Harry Crisp in New Zealand stems from the Samuel Shardelow (b 1796) of Norton Subcourse, Norfolk. Samuel was a Nonconformist Minister and the Chapel in Norton has a plaque to his memory.
George Gilbert’s Memoirs
[George Gilbert was born 17 January 1817, son of Thomas Gilbert and Jane Shardlow]
“Of my mother’s parents I knew something more at least of my grandfather George Shardlow, he bore the same name as the
village where he lived and died in the same house in which I was born and though I never saw my grandmother I was told that
her original name was Winifred Lambert and was born at Aston a village little more than a mile away, she died ere I was born
and my grandfather never married again. He [George Gilbert] was a most eccentric character a tailor by trade…. he was bound
apprentice to George Redwood in the same village in 1753. After his apprenticeship he came to Shardlow, married and
commenced business on his own account. He was a merry light hearted man and although a member of the Baptist Church he would fiddle dance and sing with anyone.
Some years after he had become a widower and having no family at home he sold his house and had one made of wood with four wheels, it had but one room which answered the purpose of living room sleeping room and workshop the window facing the road and on the other side a small stream or brook which flowed into the Trent, the small plot of land being presented to him to reside on through life.
This area was often flooded and when this happened he would not leave until the water level reached his bed at which point his son-in-law would put a long ladder up to the window as a bridge for my grandfather to crawl to dry land.
George Shardlow died in 1831 in his 89th year.
[Other names mentioned in these memoirs are Joseph Harriman of Breaston, Thomas Shardlow who kept the Navigation Inn, Joseph and Elizabeth Shardlow nee Boss, proprietors of the “Dog & Duck.”]
Boyd’s Marriage Index
There are six entries for Middlesex between 1681 & 1709, all Shardlows and all but one female so there may have been other
family members. They are all on the IGI so I will not list them here.
Photographs
Heather Eaton and Keith Hames, both mentioned as new contacts in SHARDS #25, sent me photographs which I have not been able to use previously. Mary Ann Holloway neé Shardlow was the daughter of John and Emma Shardlow and is Heather’s great grandmother.
I apologise for the quality of the other picture which has been cropped and enlarged from a wedding group, the gentleman is Jackson Layton with his wife Ann Elizabeth nee’ Shardlow, the child on Ann’s knee is Lily Shardlow, born before Ann’s marriage to Jackson. Ann was born 2 June 1863 at Brimington, Derby, the daughter of John and Rebecca Shardlow.
History
In the archives of Dartford, Kent there are two references to Shardelow, the earliest of these refers Thomas Shardelow coroner of Kent. In the Peasants Revolt of 1381 the rioters seized a large quantity of official documents from his house and burned them. Later Thomas gave this house to his daughter Margaret when she married Thomas Horsman. I have not been able to date this marriage but I feel sure this Thomas Shardelow was the one, who , with his brother John, founded the college at Thompson, Norfolk (see SHARDS 21). He had a distinguished Law career and became Attorney to the King in 1379.
Another Thomas Shardelow is briefly mentioned in the web page of the Walsham Village History Group (The link to the page is not working but this links to the website.) as the father of Thomasina Smalpiece who died in 1603. Her parents were Thomas and his second wife Margaret Throckmorton.
| Owner of original | Originally created by Gerry Langford (d. 2017) |
| File name | shard/myfolio_01/27_issue.html |
| File Size | 9.04 KB |
| Media ID | 1201 |
| Dimensions | n/a |
| Folio version | v13.0.0.22 (28 Mar 2021) |
| Linked to | Albert George SHARDALOW |
| Back to top « page page » |