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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for all your responses. I will study each of them for the Bradley family connection.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Slow Hands. I appreciate your local knowledge and will investigate this connection.</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can see there is a previous thread regarding the Will 1793 Richard Bradley  of Vonestow aka Varnister from dwdavis Vancouver. 2016</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looking at the records:  the surname Bradley is earlier records is minus the letter ‘e’</p>
<p>BRADLY</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Searching for Bradley, Ruardean on GOOGLE BOOKS</p>
<p>Copied from the Sheriff’s Books.</p>
<p>The Poll at the election of a knight of the Shire for the county of Gloucestershire January 28 … Feb 7  1811 etc.</p>
<p>Ruardean</p>
<p>Freeholders Names</p>
<p>William Bradley<br />
Place of Abode, Bethnal Green, Middx<br />
Decription of Freehold: house and land<br />
in whose Occupation:  Wm Yemm</p>
<p>William Bradley<br />
Place of Abode, Ruardean<br />
Description of Freehold:  house and garden<br />
In whose occupation:  his own</p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>long shot</p>
<p>Pleck is a plot or piece of ground,  I suspect a modern derivative would be Patch</p>
<p>just south on Ruardean / Varnister / Crooked End in Ruardean Woodside you will find both The Patches, and a Patch cottage.</p>
<p>on old maps the area around the Roebuck. ( with its Bradley family links)</p>
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<a href="https://www.gloucestershirepubs.co.uk/pubs/roebuck-inn-ruardean-woodside/">https://www.gloucestershirepubs.co.uk/pubs/roebuck-inn-ruardean-woodside/</a></p>
<p><em>The land, the subject of the application, is known as Roebuck Field. This is an area of some 4 acres in size and<br />
bounded on the south by the Memorial Hall, Roebuck Meadows and Marfell’s Way; <span style="color:#f00;">on the north by The Patches</span> a<br />
public highway; between residential premises fronting Wesley Road on the western side, and premises fronting<br />
Duttons Lane on the east.</em></p>
<p><em>The new development at Roebuck Meadows and Marfell’s Way stands roughly on the location of the former Roebuck Inn,<br />
demolished as a precursor to this development. At present the only formal access to this field lies along<br />
Marfell’s Way which abuts the field, ending at a vehicular gate and a stile. There was until a few months ago,<br />
an easy pedestrian access into the field along the side of the memorial hall. This has now been fenced off by<br />
the objector. The field itself slopes down from the east.</em></p>
<p><em>It is grassed with the western most half being cut fairly short, whilst the eastern half being rather<br />
scrubbier in appearance. Three mature Sycamore trees stand in a line at the entrance to the field off Marfell’s Way<br />
marking the division between cut grass and scrub.</em></p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My ancestor, Richard Bradley (1726-1793) left a will in which he describes his land as: &quot;my piece or parcel of Land situate lying and being at Vonestow in the Parish of Ruardean in the County of Gloucester Called or known by the name of The Pleck&quot;. I understand that &quot;pleck&quot; is a Hereford word meaning the plot. I've never been able to find another reference to The Pleck in Varnister. I live in Canada and I'm now writing up this Bradley family's story and was hoping that I could describe it a bit better than it being a plot. <br />
Thanks for any help you can provide. <br />
Donna</p>
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