Methodists & Crump Meadow Pit, HALE family (General)

by peteressex , Friday, April 18, 2014, 08:14 (3871 days ago) @ Jefff

These mentions of the Hale family, Crump Meadow and Methodism prompt me to ask whether anybody can identify a connection between these Hales and the Dorothy Hale who appears in the back row of my grandparents' wedding photo from late October 1913 which can be seen in www.sungreen.co.uk at Lydney page 2, People, Essex-Sterry.

I ask because my grandparents were married at Springfield Methodist Church, Lydney, where they were regulars, and I've been told that Dorothy Hale and Elsie Brown (who's next to her in the photo) were friends of my grandmother but I haven't found out more about them. Dorothy and Elsie are almost the only non-family members who got into the photo, which may suggest they had some status and even that the owner of Crump Meadow had some leverage, given that my grandfather had worked at Norchard and that his eventual son Sidney's father-in-law, Bertram Wiggell, worked for Crump Meadow.