Florence Allen Dale, Wotton Under Edge (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Monday, June 03, 2013, 15:51 (4193 days ago) @ downunder

Hi there,
when you say you're at a loss to know where to look, I think I'm right in saying you mean you dont know what area/ Parish to look in ?, as I'm sure you know how to search the Parish Records on this site after our ealrier chats.
May I suggest often the best way to start a new search is to deliberately not overdo using the filters etc, that way altho you may get a huge spread of results, many of which may be irrelevant, you may still be able to fairly quickly scan thro them and perhaps detect likely trends or geographical areas, particularly if there is a particular "family name" as can occur. Also you'll see perhaps obvious family names etc but in places you may have not tried searching if using filters. Based on these findings then start filtering down.

That said, in this instance even using the Soundex feature etc (for finding spelling variations etc), searching the whole massive PR database on this site only gives juist one record for your Florence, as provided above. This is probably because Wotton is a little out of the "true" Forest area, across the Severn altho traditionally there were links.
When I'm researching a new area I always like to try the Genuki site to get an insight into the area in olden times, for Wotton there's some interesting content including a mention of the Grammar School.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/WottonunderEdge/

The Grammar School founded 1384 ! appears to be rather special history-wise as this interesting site shows.
http://cotswoldedge.org.uk/w-u-e/klb.htm
http://cotswoldedge.org.uk/album/indexgallery.htm

This may help too
http://wotton-under-edge.org/links

For more PRs perhaps the two Gloster Archives FH websites we mentioned last time may be your best bet.

Hope this helps, J.