BADSEY YOUNG MAN DROWNED
News has been received of the death at Geneva of John Douglas Pethard (25) whose home is at Badsey. Pethard was a student at Birmingham University, and it is understood that he was drowned while on holiday on the Continent with other students.
Photos of weddings at the Church of St John the Baptist, Wickhamford, or photos of Wickhamford folk who married elsewhere. If you have a wedding photo which you would like to see included, please send to history@badsey.net together with details.
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The marriage took place in Wickhamford, on 24th December 1919, between Ethel Mildred Winfield and Francis Harry Halford. He was a Wickhamford market gardener and her home parish was St Lawrence, Evesham. Her father’s name was given as Walter Sylvanus Winfield, occupation ‘Soldier’. Ethel had been born in Cape Colony, South Africa.
On 23rd September 1850, land at Blackminster from the estate of the late John Walter, was auctioned at The White Hart Inn, Evesham. It was bought by the trustees of the estate of the Reverend Thomas Williams (he had died in 1829), who already owned much land in Badsey, Aldington and Offenham. The following notice appeared in The Worcestershire Chronicle of Wednesday 11th September 1850:
On 13th April 1829, land at Blackminster from the estate of the late Francis Grove, was auctioned at The White Hart Inn, Evesham. It was bought by the Reverend Thomas Williams, who already owned much land in Badsey and Aldington. The following notice appeared in The Worcester Herald of Saturday 11th April 1829.
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The following sale notice appeared in The Worcestershire Chronicle of Wednesday 30th June 1858. It was from the estate of Miss Esther Laugher who had inherited from Piercy Jones.
When the 1939 Register was compiled in the Autumn of 1939, the vast majority of men in Wickhamford were employed in market gardening, agriculture and related work. The women were nearly all recorded as having the occupation of ‘domestic duties’, mainly unpaid (i.e.
A party of men set out from Badsey in the small hours of Tuesday to collect a carcase from Campden for the pig roast, and they let the whole village know when they got back.
“We toured the village with the pig in the back of a lorry at around 6.45 a.m. sounding bells and hunting – horns, said Mr D. Caswell, a member of the organising committee. “We wanted to let people know that things were getting under way.”
