Nesta Fryer born ? Newnham-on-Severn c.1913 (General)

by peteressex , Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 21:58 (4106 days ago)

An uncle in Lydney (born 1915) while alive is believed to have mentioned a Nesta Fryer as a cousin. There's a vague recollection that he said she came from Etloe or Gatcombe. I'm trying to firm up on who she was.

I found one researcher making a suggestion that a Nesta Fryer was born in the Westbury registration district around 1913. No such name shows up in this site's parish records. However, a Nesta Mary Brookes Fryer shows up in Glos BMD as born 1913 (apparently at Newnham, which of course then came under Westbury, but I would have put Etloe and Gatcombe under Awre) with mother's former surname Phelps.

Also, I have discovered a Nesta Fryer depicted at Blistors, Bream, in a 1919 wedding photo on www.sungreen.co.uk as a daughter of the best man.

An Eileen Phelps is believed to have been the source of a 1913 photograph of my grandparents' wedding (Essex-Sterrey) at Lydney, but I can't find her if indeed she's still with us, so I don't know if she is identical with or related to Nesta's mother.

The bridegroom Pritchard at the Bream wedding was from the same Pritchard family as my great-grandmother Clara Pritchard later Sterrey.

So (with my brain going a bit numb right now) on that basis a Nesta Fryer was my great-grandmother's nephew's or brother's best man's daughter, which gives her a slender chance of being buddies with my uncle but doesn't exactly make her his cousin. I do appreciate that sometimes the term "cousin" is used loosely.

I can find no trace of a wedding or death of any Nesta Fryer anywhere in Glos.

Does anybody here have corroboration of any of the above or any knowledge of a Nesta Fryer in the Forest neighbourhood at all?