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Last updated: 22/12/2011

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Alfred Clark Dring of Nottingham, born Nottingham 1897, died Maricourt, France  March 1918. Private in the  15 (S) Battalion The Sherwood Foresters- (The Bantams).

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Welcome to our site!
We hope you find it useful in researching your own family history. If you have Badnall, Bednall, etc. ancestors, please tell us about them by  e-mail. Corrections, additions and constructive comments are welcomed.   


"The Bednall Archives" contain the results of our on-going study of Bednall Family history and also:

information on families with similar names, i.e. Badnall, Bidnall, Beadnell, etc.  
references to other persons in wills, inventories and  other documents.

A database of original documents in the Bednall Collection provide much information not only on Bednall and many other families but also on the silk industry of Leek and Macclesfield and other aspects of local history. In some cases, lists and indexes have been drafted using  material from  the collection and other sources.

Although principally concerned with Badnalls, Bednalls, Bidnalls, etc, the site does (or will eventually) include some material on  "My Grandfather Dring's Ancestors" and on the Simpson and Axe families who were my wife's ancestors.

Articles of various aspects of local and family history  are included in the "Miscellany" section 


Revisit us periodically! 
New finds will be posted and new material  added from time to time and occasionally slide shows on events related to our family history i.e. local history of the places which have a family connection either currently or in the past so watch this space!  


Latest ! 

NEW ADDITIONS have been made to the "Bednall Collection" of local and family history documents of these the most interesting are:

 (A)
Insurance Book 1788-1799, for the Phoenix Fire Office agency run by William Challinor of Leek, Staffordshire. Includes cotton mills, corn mills, a paper mill, silk warehouses and sheds, an iron foundry and cotton works, several inns including the Red Lion, Leek and two Cheshire mansions- Capesthorne Hall and Thorneycroft Hall.

(B)
A bundle of documents concerning a legal case in 1728 with regard to a modus on lands in Checkley, Staffordshire. 

(C) Letters relating to the employment agreement between Lady Wardle's Leek Embroidery Society and  Miss Clare Troost, dated 1897. 

(D) The "Mark Book 1872" of Juliet M. Erminn. Eleven pages of jokes e.g. "When are eyes not eyes?   When the wind makes them water." Juliet was the 25 year old, Prussian born daughter of Dutch manufacturer Anthony Ermin of Cambridge Grove, Barton upon Irwell, Manchester

(E) A Statement by Messrs Staton & Co. to W. C. Bowers Esq. dated July 1900, including a "Trade Account" listing (amongst others) rents for Fauld Manor Farm and Plaster Mines (Hanbury, Staffordshire)  and royalties. A "Tram Account" gives the "Tramway rent".

(F)  Turnpike
ledger recording  indentures of sale and transfer of shares in the road from Newcastle-under-Lyme, to the Macclesfield Road near Buxton and a branch road  to Burslem and the Uttoxeter Turnpike Road at Shelton.  1785 to 1876.   

Did you know that there is a painting of a Bednall in the Royal Collection? Visit the Royal Collection website to see Private Joseph Bednall (1802-1833) of the 12th (The Prince of Wales) Royal Lancers.


 Future Development

The Bednall Collection has recently acquired the remaining  copy letter books  of Messrs Challinor & Co, solicitors, of Leek, Staffordshire covering the period from 1845 to 1936.  To add to this, some of the firm's ledgers, bound and unbound, and 13 diaries, have also been acquired.  The ledgers include 6 partnership ledgers for the period from 1850  to 1923.  Although the books have been cleaned and shelved listing has still to be carried out.  Each volume is indexed in alphabetical order by customer name and ideally all these indexes would be listed in a searchable database.  However, this is unlikely to happen for some considerable time. 

 


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The Bednall Family Name
Information on the Bednalls of 
the Erewash & Amber Valley


The Bednall Collection
Archive of original documents, ledgers, plans, etc


Leek Market Place 1903.

Leek & District Historical Society
Monthly meetings, publications
 and other activities


"Sun on my Wings" a few copies still available. Click to find out more!
"
Sun on My Wings"
Autobiography 
of Dundas Bednall 

Alan's Photos of Gotham Nottinghamshire-click to enter
The Gotham
Collection

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The Blind Beggar's Daughter 
of  Bednall Green

Philip Wilson's site dealing with his family history including in particular that of Maurice Fitzgerald Wilson who married Florence daughter of the Veneralble Hopkins Badnall D.D.
Badnall-Wilson 
Family History

"Gallery" -a slide presentation of my photo art. Thumbnail image "Fading Glory"

 Gallery 2010

 

 

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