Sterry Cottage Blakeney (General)

by peteressex , Friday, April 01, 2011, 10:51 (4989 days ago) @ slowhands

I'm inclined to agree with slowhands, but it may help a little bit in narrowing things down if I point out two things in the parish records on here:-

1. Mary Ann Clarke married William Lewis at Viney Hill in 1872, her address Furnace Bottom.

2. Mary Ann James was buried at Viney Hill in 1918, her address New Road.

I have also seen one indication that the Viney Hill parish boundary ran along part of New Road - www.kenmorse.co.uk/36167/36467.html, under "The Parish."

So those two addresses, together with further research into the parish boundary between Blakeney/Awre and Viney Hill, may suggest (but no more) that the properties bequeathed, including "Sterry Cottage", were more towards the bottom of Blakeney Hill than the top.

Having said that, I've just been inspecting the territory on Google Earth and a lot of the properties don't look as if they've been there since the Sterry trace of 1841 that I gave earlier in this thread.

For a spot of multiple surname coincidence, if you go to www.sungreen.co.uk and open the Essex-Sterry wedding photo under "Lydney People" in Lydney page 2, you will discover two Lewises (who we think at the time were lodgers with the Sterreys in Albert Street, Lydney) together with one Hilda Sterrey, who married a George Virgo. Alas, I know nothing to connect those Lewises or that Virgo with mrsbruso's references to those surnames.