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BRAASCH, Helga (1917-2003) – of Germany, Peru … and Wickhamford

Helga Marie Louise Wilhelmine Braasch was born during the Great War, on 9th July 1917 in Malente-Gremsuhen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.  She was the daughter of Heinrich Himrich Wilhelm Braasch and his wife, Harriet née Bluhme.  This couple divorced in 1920, in Hamburg, and she then remarried.  Her second husband was George Hans Louis Petersen.   This couple lived in Peru and the British Overseas Consular records show that Helga Braasch married Ernest R Davis there during the period 1936-1940 (no precise date is given in the records).

Saturday 6 July 1901 – Rider Haggard stays at Wickhamford Manor

THE CATSHILL SMALL HOLDINGS AND EVESHAM VALE – BY MR H RIDER HAGGARD

We take the following from the “London Daily Express”.  It is one of a series of articles Mr Rider Haggard is contributing under the title “Back to the Land”, and appeared yesterday.  Quotation has been facilitated by the courtesy of the Editor in supplying advance proofs …..

IN THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND

Saturday 27 September 1952 – Raising Money for Bus Shelters

An allegation that the Badsey Women’s Institute – when asked to help in raising money for bus shelters in the village – had “been shelving the scheme and making all sorts of excuses since it was first put forward” was made by Mr F E Jones at a meeting of the parish council last Tuesday.  Mrs K Taylor said the WI committee had originally agreed to carry out a house-to-house collection for five bus shelters but it passed a resolution that it could not carry out the collections as it appeared no one would be responsible for the maintenance of the shelters, if they were erected.

GIBBS, John (1805-1881) – Wickhamford-born Gas Engineer

John Gibbs was baptised in Wickhamford on 20th January 1805, the second child of Richard and Edith Gibbs. Richard Gibbs (b. 1761, Feckenham)) had married Edith Hall in Bretforton in February 1803 and their first child, Richard, was baptised in Wickhamford in late 1803.  They went on to have a daughter, Edith, baptised in the village in 1806 and then two more daughters, Ann Lucy and Sarah, baptised in Badsey in 1810 and 1812 respectively.   Whilst in Wickhamford, Richard was a tenant farmer at Field Farm, Longdon Hill.

Saturday 6 August 1938 – Vivian Charles Buckley, author, moves to Wickhamford

AUTHOR-TRAVELLER COMES TO LIVE NEAR EVESHAM

Did you know that American audiences are extremely interested in descriptions and pictures of the Vale of Evesham; that the most popular star in America today is a ventriloquist’s doll; and that the recent floods in Hollywood were of a magnitude that was never realised from the reports that reached this country?

Saturday 1 June 1940 – The Honourable Mrs Beryl Ryder fined for keeping a dog without a licence

EVESHAM COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS

Monday – Before Mr R Aldington, Captain R H Burlingham, Captain H Richardson, Miss M Lowe and Mr W Johnson.

DOG OWNERS FINED

“It was an oversight that I forgot the licence,” declared the Hon Mrs Beryl Dudley Ryder of Robin Cottage, Wickhamford to PC Haines for keeping a dog without a licence.  The officer explained that defendant was in London most of her time and would see very little of the dog, a black and white Pekingnese.

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