SPICER Family - TOWNLEY Greenbottom (General)

by Danny , Friday, February 17, 2012, 16:24 (4666 days ago) @ slowhands

Hello Janey

At the beginning of this thread I referred to a young lad living rough in the shell of Chestnuts lodge. His surname was Spicer. I hesitated to put this forward as it was relatively recent history, and also I could not find any baptisms locally to support a lad of say 15 or 16 in 1950 or just before. Of course he may not have been baptised, but I noted the local marriage in 1938 did not tie up with his age. He wasn't 10 or 11 for sure when living rough.

To try and tie it up for you I have asked a chap I know on Popes Hill to ask the local elders if they can throw any light on the 1940's. I will let you know if he finds anything.

The final avenue will be to locate descendants of the Gardiner and Brain families who lived in a row of cottages a few hundred yards from the lodge on the Greenway side of the hill. They lived there in the 1940 - 70 timeframe for sure.

regards ... Danny