I am collating all the BEARDs (General)

by peteressex , Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 06:20 (5273 days ago) @ A Swan

My post of 09/11/2009 "Sterrey, 29 Albert Street, Lydney" mentions Harold Beard, his wife Florence ("Flo") nee Salcombe, and their Son Peter Thomas Beard. Anecdotally, I understand Peter married a Josy Read.

I haven't been able to find any other related Beards or further information on those just mentioned apart from one suggestion of a death, but in Summer 2007 I noted the grave in St Mary's churchyard, Lydney, of Albert Beard who died aged 88 (I think it says) in 1960.

I have a recollection from childhood, probably from the early to mid 1950s, that the above Harold Beard featured in a piece in the Lydney Observer, a copy of which was posted to my parents in London. Somebody did recently have a rummage in the newspaper archives at Cinderford Library, but without finding such an item.