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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
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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
A start has been made to the indexing of
maps and plans contained in the collection, which are listed under
BC19.
Probably the most interesting of these to date, is a plan
showing the arrangement of machinery in the Mill Street dyehouse
of Messrs Wardle & Davenport Ltd of Leek, Staffordshire, dated
1915.
NEW
ADDITIONS have been made to the "Bednall
Collection" of local and family history documents of these the
most interesting are:
(A) those relating to the Sneyd family of
Ashcombe, Bishton etc, near Cheddleton, Staffordshire.
(B) The Kendal Debt Book -A shopkeeper's account book covering customers in Westmoreland and Yorkshire during the period from 25th November 1841 to January 1844.
A number of additional Challinor & Co., copy
letter books have been acquired covering the period 1901 to
1910. Though their condition is poor, the books have filled a
known gap in the collection.
Some
Bednall's (not the Keeper!) are truly gifted and one of these is the
composer and organist David Bednall whose
latest record "Hail,
gladdening Light and other choral works" has received very good
reviews. His website
will tell you more.
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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 & District Historical Society
Monthly meetings,
publications
and other activities
"Sun on My Wings" Autobiography
of Dundas
Bednall
The Gotham
Collection
The Blind Beggar's Daughter
of Bednall Green
Badnall-Wilson
Family History
Gallery 2010
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