Here are pictures I have taken of some of my ancestral places in Dorset, Hampshire and Wales.
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DORSET
Greenlands Farm, near Studland, is now a site where the National Trust is undertaking one of the largest heathland restoration projects in the country. My 4-great grandfather John READ farmed and fished here in the 19th century...
Kingston Lacy, near Wimborne, Dorset, where my ancestor Neri POOLE was a woodman…
My HAYES ancestors lived in the 19th century in the Baiter area of Poole. In those days this was the area where fishermen and their families lived, sometimes in rather crowded tenements. Now it is a leisure area...
The old town area of Poole was where my HAYES, STILES and EDMONDS ancestors lived in the 19th and 20th centuries - I also love visiting the place today...
Church of St Nicholas, Arne, near Poole, Dorset, August 2010. The little village of Arne is on heathland between Poole and Wareham in Dorset and is now the home of an RSPB nature reserve. My 4-great grandmother Honor KITCAT was christened in Arne...
The Church of St Peter in the village of Pimperne, mid Dorset. The little village of Pimperne in Dorset is about 2½ miles north-east of Blandford Forum on the Salisbury. This is where I have found the earliest references to my GILES ancestors, in 1734...
St Nicholas Church in Studland - here some of my Purbeck ancestors going back to maybe 1615 were christened, with surnames including READ/REED, CORBIN/CORBAN, BRANNE, BAYLEY/BAILY, MOWLAM, RIGHTBRAD/RIGHTHEAD, PAYNE, TOMBS and CHATTOCK...
The Church of St Mary the Virgin in the village of Sturminster Marshall, on the river Stour, four miles west of Wimborne in Dorset. Here I find my earliest AUSTIN ancestor, my 7-great grandfather William, born here around 1675...
The church of Lytchett Matravers St Mary, where some of my GILES ancestors worshipped in the 19th century…
The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin in Swanage in Dorset. My mother's forebears with surnames READ, SAUNDERS, BARTER and EDMONDS lived in this little Purbeck port in the 18th and early 19th centuries before their descendants moved to Poole...
HAMPSHIRE
Over Wallop in Hampshire is one of my ancestral places. Here lived my maternal forebears with the surnames ROGERS, GRACE and WEBB. The earliest would be Edward Webb, born in Over Wallop around 1730. This is the Church of St Peter...
Winchester in Hampshire is one of my ancestral places. Here lived my maternal forebears with the surnames JEFFERY, MARMAN and BRICKNELL. The JEFFERY family were mainly bricklayers, carpenters and other builders...
Romsey in Hampshire is one of my ancestral places. Here lived my maternal forebears with the surnames WOOLS/WOOLLS, WITHERS/WITHARS and SINAT/SINNATT/SINNETT/SENNETT, going back to the 16th century...
WALES
My PEREGRINE ancestors came from Llangendeirne, Carmarthenshire…
My later PEREGRINE ancestors lived in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire…
This page has the following sub pages.
- Dorset – Poole Old Town
- Dorset churches – Arne St Nicholas
- Dorset churches – Pimperne St Peter
- Dorset churches – Sturminster Marshall St Mary
- Dorset churches – Swanage St Mary the Virgin
- Hampshire – Winchester
- Hampshire – Over Wallop
- Dorset churches – Studland St Nicholas
- Hampshire – Romsey
- Dorset – Greenlands Farm
- Dorset – Poole Baiter and Longfleet
- Wales – Llangendeirne
- Wales – Pembrey old canal
- Dorset – Kingston Lacy
- Dorset churches – Lytchett Matravers St Mary
The Squirrelbasket 
Jeffery family history:
William Henry Jeffery born 13 07 1876 Medstead, married Mary Hickey, born 1877 Tipperary, Ireland.
Charles Jeffery born 03 02 1843 Medstead, died July 1880, married Elizabeth Cannons, born 1845 Bighton, Hampshire.
Robert Jeffery born 1815 Medstead, died Sept 1885, married Louisa Maria Parfit 1816 Blackwater, Hampshire, died 01 09 1892.
Joseph Jeffery born 1778 Medstead, died 20 07 1855, married Sarah Rampton, born 1781 Froyle, Hampshire, died 1854.
James Jeffery born 1739 Micheldever, Hampshire, died 1830, married Mary Budd born 1737 Medstead, died 1813.
James Jeffery born 1710 Medstead, married Mary Brazier 1710 Medstead.
Do you think there’s a connection? Sadly it is a very common surname.
My earliest Jeffery ancestor is Thomas Jeffery, who married Mary Pickering in Hursley on 26 February 1758.
I don’t have his birth record but believe he was from Hursley.
Of your people, Micheldever seems the closest geographically that they came to Hursley/Winchester…
But you never know.
Best wishes 🙂
Hello once again Pat. I do not often visit your site but something has come to mind. In your “Ancestral Places” we did share some info about the Hayes family and the fishermens cottages near the Lifeboat House. My late dad and grandad “Princer” Cartridge were friends of the Hayes family too.
You mentioned being in someway related to the Read or Reed family. So therefore you might like to go to http://www.pearces.org.uk which is a very extensive genealogy of the Pearce family, run by Alan Pearce and it has a whole section of cartridges. BUT there are some Read entries too. You might like to have a squiz at them…and others. Please let me know if you find something useful there and I might have some further info for you.
Cheers from Adelaide. Geoff C
Thanks for that. I had a “squiz” but I fear the Read entries are too late for me to get a connection to my very early Reads and their ancestry.
Always great to hear from Oz, though. And my grandmother’s name was Adelaide, so I’ve a soft spot for that.
Soon be Spring down under!
Best wishes 🙂