Ancient Order of Foresters, at Redbrook & Newnham. (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Wednesday, March 05, 2014, 22:58 (3917 days ago) @ MPGriffiths

Hi Gill,
you clearly know a fair bit about the Foresters so I presume you've seen their website ?. It's an interesting read and shows they're proud of their history, they have a museum at Southampton (wrt New Forest?).
Have you tried contacting them re your query ?
http://aoforestersheritage.com/index2.html

Yes, as MPG says, the Order were definitely active within the Dean - I recall seeing a few mentions of them on the Welsh Newspapers website while researching the Order of Druids a while back, I'll look them up again later.

Meanwhile this photo shows they were active in the Redbrook area c1948.
http://www.sungreen.co.uk/Redbrook/Redbrook-Carnival-1948.html

The same website carries transcripts of the parish magazine of St Peter's Newnham. The February 1882 issue had an article discussing the yearly accounts of the "Severn Side" Court at Newnham. It states a membership of 55.
http://www.sungreen.co.uk/Newnham/ParishMag_Feb1882.htm

More to follow..