Redmarley D'Abitot -> Redmarley, Great Witley Stourport ? (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Saturday, October 20, 2018, 01:02 (2231 days ago) @ kmaree

Hi and welcome to the forum !

Yes there may be links twixt the two Redmarleys, but I've not researched the history of Redmarley Great Witley so don't know...
It may be pure coincidence, there are many reasons your ancestors may have moved there, perhaps following family, or their profession, etc - if you can give more info we may be able to make some links. Maybe the two places were "twinned", or whatever it was known as back then, because they shared the same unusual name ? Such a link would presumably encouraged commerce etc between them ?. Or maybe a wealthy landowner common to both places ?

I've found my grandfather, born into a long line of ag=labourers in Longhope, as a small child he moved with his parents and siblings to inner-city Liverpool for a while abt 1911, before the family returned to Longhope again. I've no idea why, seems an odd move ??

I've tried looking for similarities between the two Redmarleys using the Genuki website, but nothing obvious springs-out yet. However I do see the entry for Redmarley d'Abitot contains a link which incorrectly points to the other Redmarley at Great Witley. I imagine this is part-caused by both places being part of Worcestershire in the past. This error by a respected reference site amused me, as I was myself confused by the two similar placenames when I first started FH researches.

In the main this is an especially informative page even by the Genuki site's own high standards, with so many useful reference links. The first one under "Description and Travel" is especially good, as it gives images of an online book "Noake's Worcestershire" from 1868. I'm a little surprised that an old book like this doesn't use the villages's full and formal name "D'Abitot", especially seeing as the name dates back to Domesday times. In fact it doesn't even mention a family that played such an important role in the history of the village, but then again judging by Noake's opinion of the "deluded disciples of that visionary leader", it seems that Noake has his own views of life, which maybe considered dated nowadays, as pointed out on the notes on the home page of the book's link.
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WOR/RedmarleyDAbitot

Is it possible your ancestors were part of the Chartist movement, ref Fergus O'Connor as mentioned in this link for Great Witley Redmarley ?
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WOR/GreatWitley/Gaz1868

Altho now I'm thinking this is a case of confusion on the Genuki site, as other references including the Noake's book firmly put O'Connor's Chartists at Lowbands, Redmarley D'Abitot, and NOT at Redmarley near Great Witley, Stourport. I've raised this apparent anomaly with the Genuki site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Land_Company#Lowbands

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