A settlement certificate dating back to 1789 has recently come to light in the loft of Badsey Vicarage. This has now been placed in The Badsey Society Archive, but here is the story about the young couple whom it concerns.
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DEATH OF MR W H GREEN
LATE MRS F E GREEN
In May 2023, Paul Foreman contacted the Badsey Society concerning his Knight ancestors. Paul’s father, Malcolm Foreman (1931-2010), by the time of his death, had accumulated a vast amount of material relating to his mother, born Ada Knight in Badsey in 1898, and his aunt, Daisy Knight, 19 months younger, who had both been sent to an orphanage after the death of their mother. Using documentary sources provided by the orphanage that the girls were sent to, combined with information from Badsey records, this is the story of Ada and Daisy Knight.
On a hot and sunny Friday evening, 24 people set off from The Wheatsheaf in order to explore the new QR trail set up by Alan and Shirley Tutton. The participants included Mike Tennant, parish councillor, and Andrea Evans, parish clerk, representing Badsey & Aldington Parish Council who kindly funded the project. The youngest member of the group was a teenager with her grandmother, the oldest was local historian, Terry Sparrow. Despite not having a smart phone, he found the trail very informative.
The surname Collett is a common name in Badsey records. Ruby Collett, who is the subject of this article, was not from a Badsey family, having grown up in Huntingdonshire. But, as she spent a number of her working years based in Evesham, she would undoubtedly have visited Badsey, Aldington and Wickhamford in her role as an inspector in the Ministry of Agriculture. Thus, her story is told here of this pioneering woman.
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On Saturday 6th May 2023, King Charles III and Queen Camilla were crowned in Westminster Abbey. Like his mother’s coronation 70 years earlier, rain fell for much of the day, but this did not detract too much from the spectacle. Sadly, some of the coronation events planned locally could not take place because of rain, but some events went ahead and were much enjoyed. Click on the images below to see what went on in Badsey and Wickhamford - and, for one lucky person, in London.
The fourth and final evening of “Letters from a Badsey Family” comprised readings of letters from 1917-1919. A new cast member was Bernard Sladden of the 2nd Auckland Company (the Sladdens’ cousin from New Zealand), played by his great-great-nephew, Jonathan Miller – who came complete with an authentic “lemon-squeezer” hat!
Ian Gibson took us on an informative tour of the wildlife in the local area – we had no idea there was so much wildlife teeming in our gardens! Ian is beginning to share his photographic collection in a new section on the website called “Nature Notes”.
Mr E A Olsson