newspaper reports

On going searches of the newspaper archives in the light of their roll out of some of The Barnet press newspapers show my Gt Gt Grandmother Elizabeth Goodey having an ongoing fight over about 20years (from about 1896 to at least 1915) with Friern Barnet Council over the water supply to Bells cottages and unsanitary conditions. As far as I can make out the local council wanted her to install running water (presumably at a cost to her?) but she was adamant the natural spring she used was quite adequate. In 1913 She and my Gt. Grandfather Edward were summonsed to cease to inhabit Bells Cottages. The impasse was still going on to 1915 but I cant get any further yet. Her last retort to the bench was "I shall not go" out unless I am carried out - I am 70 now" ! As the cottages were still in the Goodey possession in the mid 1930's did she hold out or did she have to eventually comply I wonder ? Hurry up BNA please release some more dates.

 

How about a request at Local Council offices or Local Library for electoral registers on that address?

 

I think I'll just have to wait for the next release of Barnet Press records.

 

I’m pretty sure they lived there into the 1930’s, but did she ever have to install a water supply I wonder

 

I expect you have seen this....

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http://www.friern-barnet.com/picture/number5589.asp?c=ok

 

Hi Auburn, thank you, yes I have seen this and also have this picture in a local history book. I think ELIZABETH owned at least 2 of Bell’s cottages, which were sold on her death in the 1930’s.
I have been coveting a postcard of this scene on eBay but they want £29 for it and won’t budge on the price☹️. I just don’t think I can justify paying that sort of money for it......

 

I know what you mean- some of those post cards are really pricey.

I once bought an ebay postcard of my grandfather's watermill and felt really pleased with myself-until I discovered my Dad already had one!
Whoops! Now I have two!

 

Coincidence alert!
Book mentioning my gg grandfather has been on my ebay watch list for months-just too expensive.
This morning it was reduced by 75%- so I nabbed it quick!

And it's a lovely sunny day as well! Yay!

 

Well done!

 

Watching and waiting paid off then Auburn? Enjoy it when it arrives

 

Yay - great. Gives us all hope - I shall hang in there.

 

It arrived & I am enjoying it!
Only a paragraph about my gt grandfather but it told me something of his personality.
He was a flour miller and the mill where he was tenant changed from traditional water powered millstones to steam powered rollers.
Apparently he was so appalled by this new fangled technology that he upped and left and got his own mill with proper old fashioned equipment!
Good boy!

 

Good on you Grandad. That’s something I would do.
Isn’t it exciting when you see a family member mentioned in a book.
The last known survivor who fought in both WW1 (Royal Navy)and WW2 (RAN) was Claude Choules who died at age 110 in May 2011. He wrote his autobiography and in it he mentions my Nan’s brother, Hurtle Nancarrow. Hurtle couldn’t ride but would go with Claude and his friends pig hunting in the bush at Poverty Point in Western Auastralia. They on horseback he barefoot running along beside. That’s one tough bushman.

 

Hurtle Nancarrow - that’s a name to reckon with

 

With a brother named Bethel. And Mum with the beautiful name of Susannah

 

Yes I agree, a beautiful name - my 4X Gt Grandma is a Susannah. Whatever surname you put with it always trips of the tongue nicely. Your comment led me to “looking at” my Susannah this morning and I was looking at a baptism of one of her children. All the baptisms from Ladyday 1806 to Ladyday 1807 had been carefully listed in the register. How could the person tasked with this tedious job know that over two hundred years later it would be of interest and bring a smile to the face of someone miles away

 

I have 10 known Susannahs, 1- Cambridge,1- Sth. Australia,1- Sussex,7- London
3 Susans, 2 London, 1 N.S.W
& one Suzie, Canada.
in my family.

One such Lady made mention of in the papers.:

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/36864308?searchTerm=Susannah%20Ding&searchLimits=

 

I rather think the above newspaper report is a coincidence of names as the Lady in my Family was b & died in Sth. Australia as was her Husband William. For a moment I thought I had gained what so many seem to want-a convict relly
this pair are mentioned several times in Sydney papers & this Susannah apparently died in 1860 aged 56. My lady was b. 1851.