Beard family - possible connection (General)

by peteressex , Tuesday, October 06, 2009, 08:11 (5619 days ago) @ pogle

Just seen your post of 19/08/09 and wonder if we could be distantly related.

My paternal grandmother Frances's maiden name was Sterry (sometimes spelt Sterrey) and the family home was 29 Albert Street, Lydney. My grandmother had a sister Evelyn Ivy (generally called "Ivy" or within the family "Eggy") who had a daughter Flo (presumably Florence) by her husband Tom Salcombe.

Flo married a Harold Beard who I understand was ostracised by the family over some kind of financial irregularity around the early 1950s - I remember as a small boy that we were sent what I believe to have been a copy of the Lydney Observer publicising Harold's indiscretion but I have not so far found the article in the newspaper archives at Cinderford library.

Harold and Flo when at 29 Albert Street had a son Peter Beard who I believe has died. I would put Harold's aged in the early fifties as very approximately 35 if he was about the same age as Flo, whilst Peter Beard would have been born in about 1945.

I have no other trace on related Beards, but while examining gravestones in Lydney churchyard a couple of years ago I noted a grave of one Albert Beard, died 1960 aged 88, having been resident at 16 Albert Street.