Nesta Fryer born ? Newnham-on-Severn c.1913 (General)

by peteressex , Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 15:31 (3707 days ago) @ annieb22

Thanks again, Annie.

Although there was mention that she may have been my uncle's cousin, which is where this whole thread kicked off, I don't think that Nesta Fryer was in fact "one of ours." The nearest I can get is that she was one of three daughters (see below) of an Arthur Fryer who was best man to W E E "Eddie" Pritchard whose father J F Pritchard was my great-grandmother's brother. (She was Clara Sterrey nee Pritchard.)

I have just been looking at the names list on your family tree site where I see 105 Fryers including three Arthurs. It's just possible that one of those three is the Arthur Fryer who appears in the wedding photo at www.sungreen.co.uk/Bream-Forest-of-Dean/The-Blistors-1919-1976.htm. If you get in touch with Roger Dennis who posted that photo, he might know the names of Nesta's two older sisters, and that might help you - if only with elimination. Simply from the probabilities angle, however, it would strike me as surprising if Nesta wasn't somehow related to a clan of 105.

There has also been mention in this thread of a Fryer family farming quite recently near Hewelsfield which isn't far off Blistors where the wedding photo was taken.

J F Pritchard owned the Lydney Coal Company and anecdotally I believe his son Eddie became Superintendent of the Gloucester Wagon Works. Apparently (per Roger Dennis under that photo) Eddie was the pre-war business partner of Arthur Fryer.

If I get any clues from sleuthing in the next 2 or 3 days down there, I'll be right back on here.