The Bednalls of Hanley
The Bednall
Archive
Last
updated 15/12/2010
Introduction
The Bednalls of Hanley, Staffordshire and district are (mainly) the descendants of Joseph
Bednall (1811-1880), the son of Samuel and Ann Bednall of Roston,
Derbyshire, who moved to Hanley sometime between 1841 and 1845. Joseph
was a tailor and a fairly successful one to judge by the number of houses he
owned in Hanley, in the 1870s. Several of his children worked in local
potteries and one of his sons, Peter, entered into partnership with his
brother-in-law Charles W. Heath, trading initially as Bednall & Heath and
later as The
Wellington Pottery. One
of Peter's sons (Cecil Norbury Peter
Bednall) followed a military career eventually 
achieving the rank of
Major General and Paymaster General in the Royal
Army Pay Corps. In 1958 the Queen honoured him his
appointment as a "Knights Commander of the Military Division of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire". .Joseph Bednall's grandson John
Harrop Bednall and his family emigrated to Narrogin
in Western Australia but no contact has yet been established with any of
John Harrop Bednall's descendants.
Joseph Bednall's
brother Samuel (1804-1879) also moved to the Hanley area sometime before 1861
but little is yet known about his family.
At least one
Bednall from the Potteries seems to have emigrated to Canada and obtained a grant
of land there When, in 1916, he volunteered to join the Canadian
Expeditionary Force he gave his sister (living in England) as his next
of kin and may therefore have died in the Great War without issue.
The lineage of the
Hanley / Potteries
branch (s) of the Bednall family can be traced back from Hanley to Roston in Derbyshire to
Hanbury and then to Uttoxeter, Staffordshire before returning, in the 1660s, to
Hanbury once more. The name was originally (Uttoxeter) Badnall and they share a
common ancestor with the Badnalls of Leek and the Bednalls of Nottingham,
Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lancashire, Yorkshire (some) and Australia.
Any information on the Bednalls
of the Potteries and their lives would be welcome.
ŠA.W.Bednall. Macclesfield 2000
achieving the rank of
Major General and Paymaster General in the Royal
Army Pay Corps. In 1958 the Queen honoured him his
appointment as a "Knights Commander of the Military Division of the Most
Excellent Order of the British Empire". .Joseph Bednall's grandson John
Harrop Bednall and his family emigrated to Narrogin
in Western Australia but no contact has yet been established with any of
John Harrop Bednall's descendants.