Alice Adams / Viney Hill School (General)

by helen adair, Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 10:07 (5741 days ago) @ j hargreaves

According to the parish records, Hilda's (my grandmother's) father Woodman married a Sarah Elizabeth Haile/Hale on 7 July 1894. Thereafter, records referring to the baptism of their children infer that she preferred to use her second name Elizabeth; however, I have been trying to find a connection with the name Morse. Speaking to my father, he naturally remembers many family visits to Furnace Valley and remembers Hilda and her sisters referring to a 'Granny Morse' who lived on Blakeney Hill, you could see her house from Furnace Valley.....can you shed any light on this for me, I've been trying to find out who 'Granny Morse' was for ages as Dad is unsure? But the parish records refer to Elizabeth's maiden name as Hale, perhaps her mother married again and she adopted her mother's married name Morse??

Looking at Sarah Elizabeth Hales's age at time of marriage to Woodman and Elizabeth Morse's baptism date, age dates don't seem to tally?? But I believe there's a definite connection somewhere between the Adams and Morses on Blakeney Hill!