Sterry Cottage Blakeney (General)

by peteressex , Thursday, March 31, 2011, 09:37 (4990 days ago) @ mrsbruso

Thanks, mrsbruso.

From what I can find fairly quickly from censuses and family history, there was a family named Turley living at Blakeney Hill (but no more specific address) in the 1871 census. The household included the mother being Mary Ann nee Sterry and the widowed mother-in-law Sterry by marriage (nee Ann Shaw.) In the 1841 and 1851 censuses (and probably 1861) the mother-in-law was there with her husband William Sterry. (They were my gt-gt-gt-grandparents, via a brother of Mary Ann. My direct line wandered down into Lydney by the 1850s and usually became spelt "Sterrey".)

Given the small community of Blakeney Hill, and in the absence of any other Sterrys there in those years, I see a good chance that the premises thus occupied by a Sterry or nee Sterry from at least 1841 to 1871 were known as Sterry Cottage, but I can't pinpoint it.

You might turn up more by a good rummage in the parish records index on this site.

I also know a man who might know more, and I'll ask him.