Waters Family, Sylvan Cottage, Dancing Green (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Friday, February 14, 2014, 18:08 (3929 days ago) @ sophiewilliams

Hi Sophie,
thanks for your reply. No I'm NOT a star at all - if I was I'd have asked before looking, I guess I just enjoy the "hunt" ! But thanks anyway for making my day !

Thanks too for telling the whole story, very interesting and helpful too. Also very sad, although perhaps not that unusual in some ways for the era. I think you’re lucky that a lot of the facts have been passed down, many families would have kept it all hushedup. Re Kathleen using the Bick surname, I suspect this may be more of a public desire to show her support for her mother & guardian Alice, than any proof of her true father, although it does seem unlikely to me that she was David Waters' daughter, but all guesswork of course..

I know Hole in the Wall a little, a beautiful village on the Wye, it’s where the children's adventure holiday company PGL started up at Court Farm, I canoed there way back.
Yes how right you are in wishing there was a good Herefordshire website, I've said as much on here myself. That said they do have a FH website and forum which you might consider using, I hope it's still active and helpful to you.
https://www.herefordshirefhs.org.uk/

The Ross & District Civic Society has an excellent website with a big history element, very interesting and maybe worth contacting.
http://www.ross-on-wye.com/index.php?page=ross_000Past_and_Present

Eighteen months back a poster on this forum visited the very helpful museum at Ross Market House, but I don't know if it's still there as their old web-link doesnt seem to work ?. If you're local perhaps you know better (I'm not sadly).
http://visitherefordshire.co.uk/thingstodo/1392/market-house-visitor-centre/
http://www.ukattraction.com/heart-of-england/market-house-heritage-centre.htm
http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/leisure/museums_galleries/2857.asp

I've just found this seemingly active website and relatively new? site which may also help you.
http://ross-on-wye.com/phpmyfaq/index.php?

With regard to finding people who knew your ancestors then I think your best route apart from the above is to write open letters to the local Ross newspapers, especially the free ones. In fact given your interesting yet sad tale, they may be more than happy to publish the whole story as a mini article, if you don’t mind the publicity.

Hoping this helps and good luck with your quest.