Researching STERRYs of Longhope and neighbouring area. (General)

by peteressex , Thursday, January 29, 2015, 12:08 (3587 days ago) @ Jefff

At least Jones is nearly always spelt Jones.

By contrast, yet another Sterry variant in and around the Forest is Sterrey, which is the spelling my great-grandfather Henry at Lydney adopted, don't ask me why. His great-grandfather in turn was Richard Sterry who was married at Minsterworth in 1794 and that's where the register trail runs dry.

But a DNA sample provided by Alan Sterrey, also of Lydney, Henry's nephew, not many years before his death in 2014, proves our line was linked to the Longhope Sterrys.

The other recent twist is that today's priest-in-charge at Longhope and Huntley came from up north to take up the job and apparently had no idea where his roots were until he got there. His name? The Reverend Chris Sterry!

Not far north of Longhope, and south of May Hill, running off the A40, you'll find Sterrys Lane. We get everywhere, currently found across the Forest as far as Woolaston as well as Lydney. But amazingly in all this, considering it isn't far from Longhope to Ruardean, no documentary, DNA or other link has yet been found between those earliest Ruardean Sterrys/Stirryes (or however you care to spell it) and those of Longhope and Minsterworth. Whoever finds that link will be celebrated world wide as the ultimate layer of a golden egg.