http://www.hildicksmith.com en-gb hildicksmith.com 2008-6-25T00:00:00Z hildicksmith.com http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#26013 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1behaviorurlieooui Style Definitions table.MsoNormalTable msostylenameTable Normal msotstylerowbandsize0 msotstylecolbandsize0 msostylenoshowyes msostyleparent msopaddingalt0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt msoparamargin0cm msoparamarginbottom.0001pt msopaginationwidoworphan fontsize10.0pt fontfamilyTimes New Roman msoansilanguage0400 msofareastlanguage0400 msobidilanguage0400 Some time now since my last update and really there has been little to report until now. I continue to get contacts through Genes Reunited some from those who are distantly related and others with queries about various names and dates that may be of relations but turn out not to be. There have been one or two contacts who have furnished some extra names but the most exciting one relates to Grandfather Don HildickSmith. I had some time ... 2008-6-25T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#22051 So sorry that I havent added any news since January I can hardly claim pressure of work can I Such a lot has happened since January so I will briefly summarise it below. We have been to Egypt for a cruise on the Nile and a week in Luxor and had a fabulous time of it. Mum and sister Jackie came over for Mothers Day weekend we went up to Leicester for cousin Pats 60th celebrations had a huge family reunion in Oxfordshire with step relatives over from Canada and attended a funeral of an old family friend back in Worcestershire at the end of this week staying overnight with Debbie in Herefordshire. The poor old car is starting to fell the pressure As fart as the family history goes the main amendments are as follows Since putting the Royal links into the tree and downloading the lot onto the Genes Reunited website I have been contacted by several other enthusiasts all with connections to the family. Lots of bits and pieces have been added but nothing with any big impact on the close fa... 2008-3-29T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#18242 Hope you all had a very good Xmas and a great New Year we cetainly did and thanks for all the cards presents and birthday greetings. I have had a chance to have a look at the tree and have now added details of our connections to the current Royal family. Apparently the Prince of Wales is our 15th Cousin I dont think that this gives us any titles or estates but at least we can have boasting rights I have had several notable presents that have had a lot of effect on the history. My sister Jackie found a bundle of sale documents relating to Chaddesley Corbett and she also found two more Hildick and Hildick company bills as well as a book on the Church charity in Warwick which has a lot on Chaddesley. I also got several CDs which contain records from St Mathews Church in Walsall re the Hildick family The Heraldry of Worcester and the Visitation of Worcester 1634 re the Oldnall Perowne and Russell families and an old catalogue with early makers marks for Sheffield in the 1700s. They wil... 2008-1-6T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#17509 I have now updated the family tree to reflect the work I have done on the RussellOldnall side but have yet to add the text to the main document as there is much checking to do. I have also had contact with an old pupil of John HildickSmiths who has added some background to his time teaching at the Masonic School in Bushey. John was Dads best man. I have also taken the Smart tree back to William the Conqueror just because I could Various sources tell me that the preset Queen has direct ancestry going back to Edward II of England and as he is my our 23rd GreatGrandfather that makes us some kind of cousin to Her Majesty. So Ill wish all my subjects a very Happy Christmas and New Year and take myself off to Sandringham for the holidays 2007-12-14T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#17437 I have done some more work on the site generally tidying up and adding a few more birth death and marriage dates. I have also been tracking some more Oldnalls and RussellOldnalls and OldnallRussells. All descended from the original Oldnall Roger c 1560 and once holders of Hill Pool amongst other places. I revisited the book my sister Jackie gave me Chaddesley Corbett by The Stroller 1932 which has been a treasure trove of snippets and have now established a link to Sir William OldnallRussell b 1735 an eminent lawyer and a high court chiel justice in Bengal in the 1830s. His family included I think Henry Cairns Oldnall whose memorial is in Chaddesley Churchyard the cross on the wall facing the main street by the other war memorial. He was killed in the Boer War. One of his sisters Helena Frances married The then Bishop of Worcester the Rt Rev Perowne and one of their sons went on to become an eminent historian and orientalist. I now believe he married albeit briefly the renowned author... 2007-12-12T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#15526 More updates to the tree have been added recently. As well as adding a few more names there is now 1877 names in the database I have updated some notes for the US Hildicks and tidied up other notes that seem to have gotten scrambled in the conversion process. I have had several new pieces of information mostly from Carol Button who you will recall passed on a lot of information re Applejack. This time it is an article from the American Wine and Liquor Journal March 1934. It describes the production of Applejack in the family firm from that date and includes photos and plans of their plant I will add the photos and text later as I need to convert the article into a manageable format first. Carol also sent lots more information on the financial dealings of the Distilled Liquors Corporation and also some poetry written by one E.B.Hildick who I assume to be Eleanor Beatrice Hildick b1891 who I know little of. I have put this on a separate new page on the site. I have also found an artic... 2007-10-16T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#14547 More information has arrived from a direct descendant of Walter heeley Hildick who started Hildicks Applejack. Carol Button is his great granddaughter and came across the site after I posted the birthday greetings for the other Walters 101st birthday. She has sent me links to information on the family business. Walter H had a son another Walter H whose son William Kenneth Hildick is Carols father. The business survived stock exchange upsets in the early 30s a change of name and was finally sold by William and his brother Alan in the mid 80s after Walter H Jnr died. The company staggered on for a while but sank without trace soon after being sold. Carol sent me a link to an article about Walter and the cider trade he was President of the American Cider and Cider Vinegar Association in the 1920s. I attach a photo below taken in 1922 from the article published in The Glass Container the trade magazine of presumably a Glass makers federation but I will in due course be adding a lot more d... 2007-9-16T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#13716 I have very recently recieved contacts from the website which have further added to the wealth of detail regarding both the Hildick side of the family and from the Smart side my grandmothers mother. Firstly from Australia Darren Weise in Melbourne contacted me via Curious Fox where I had left a note relating to Frances Smart. Her father and Darrens great grandfather were brothers and he is just starting to put together his family history. he says he has photos of his grandmother and her parents. This is exciting as I have no photos of Frances or her family at all and would be a welcome addition to the archive. The other was from Patricia Maxson nee Hildick who is a direct link to the US Hildicks concerned with the Apple Brandy trade. Her father Walter Edmund Hildick celebrates his 101st birthday on August 21st having been born in 1906. She says he is very fit and well and enjoying life. Walters father was Francis J Hildick who along with his brothers Walter H and Thomas Hildick emigr... 2007-8-16T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#13509 I have not been doing much lately but I did notice some additional matches with names from Genes Reunited. I have made contact with John Butt who is related through James Hildick b1891. He married Ethel Sandwell and one of her sisters who married a Fahy is the link down to John. He was very helpful and with permission to see his tree I have been able to add some more Hildicks to the tree these ones living mainly in Canada. I also had a contact from Gail Melvin who is related to the Biddle family and therefore via my mothers father to the Johns family. I had already added most of the BiddleJohns side but she kindly supplied her tree which details much info on her side of these families. I havent added all this to the site as it gets too unwieldy and difficult to follow but she suggested I add the whole of the tree to GR as she has had much success in getting additional contacts from her side of these families so I think I will do that. Lets hope it will bear fruit on other branches of... 2007-8-8T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#12735 I havent had much to report lately but I have had another contact. Joanne harrison is the great grandaughter of Sarah Hildick 1884 the daughter of Francis Spencer Hildick. She has recently purchased 2 watercolours by Mabel S Hildick who produced the postcard detailed earlier on in the blog. She got a hit on the site when trying to research Mabel. Although i couldnt help her with any firm details except that already on the site she kindly supplied details of her family which I have now added. She also says she will give more info and perhaps copies of the paintings at a later date. So more progress made. 2007-7-16T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#10915 I have had additional information from three more sources who have made contact. The first was from Paula Entin who is Assistant Curator of Rare Books at Princeton University NJ. She was documenting some books who once belonged to Rev Thomas Foley. He married Elizabeth Bache see Bache family page. He collected books relating to or written by Joanna Southcott who was a religious mystic and somewhat of a cult figure in England at that time who is still followed in certain quarters. Paula is documenting and digitising some of these books and was interested to learn some more details of Rev Foley and his family. I was able to fill in some gaps in her knowledge of his family as they attribute collections and like to know something of the people who collected them. I havent really got round to finding out where the books originated but they were apparently willed to the University by an ancestor on the Foley side of Rev Foley who I know little about except he was the Rector of Oldswinford C... 2007-5-15T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#9518 I have been quiet on the family history front for a while due to moving Mum down to Cornwall. All went well the place is brilliant and I think she was genuinely overcome with it all. We got pretty straight on day one went out for a meal and christened the house with a couple of bottles of champagne. We came back last Friday and got back to normal the poor old car has been racking up the miles having done the Hythe Lowestoft Hythe Cornwall run in good style. I have now reconnected Mums old scanner at home and caught up with a few bits and pieces. Below is a sample of a calender from 1942 that Dad did as a school project when he was at Hartlebury Grammar and I intend to get the originals framed and put up somewhere. There are 6 lino cuts in all although Dad only did 5 of them the other one done by MJB anyone know who he was This is part of one he did of St Cassians Church in Chaddesley Corbett a bit Art Deco in the sky department but I like it very much. ... 2007-3-22T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#8437 I have recently revisited the Churchill Forge website and have gleaned much more information about all the branches of the Bache family. This has been incorperated into my tree information and the text of the Bache pages will be selectively incorporated in due course. Notables include a female Bache who married into the Salter family of West Bromwich the famous manafacturers of weighing scales and a West bromwich Albion England Amateur footballer and Worcestershire cricketer who was killed in his prime at Ypres in 1916. have a look in the tree for Harold Godfrey Bache. The spring is almost upon us now and as usual the garden starts to take precedance over the work on the tree which incidentally now contains 1640 individuals. I have sown tomatoes leeks cauliflower brocolli flowers of several varieties as well as broad beans all in my new propogator. I have also started chitting the potatoes and have the onion sets ready to go when the weather allows access. I hope to get all these wel... 2007-2-17T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#8120 Due to a computer failure and various infections none of which have escaped I have been off line for several days. The problems have all been solved but I have lost most of my software and it is taking me a while to resurrect all of them. The site details have had to be put on the backburner for a while but I will get back to you as soon as I can. 2007-2-7T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#7146 This is a photo of Gilbert Torrance who was Jessie Isabellas brother. he was a succesful businessman on the Isle of Man and involved in the Non Conformist Church at Douglas as was his father Gavin. For more detail have a look at The Hildick family pages. 2007-1-7T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#7084 I have been doing some further research on Jessie Isabella Torrance who married John Hildick. I have found references to the family on the Isle of Man and the business they ran there. The updated text can be found on The Hildick family page. As yet I have not updated the family tree but in due course I will add all the information relating to Gavin Torrance his children and also some detail of subsequent generations. 2007-1-5T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#6361 Just a few lines to update you on what has been happening with the website lately. The frank answer is Not a lot I have been pottering on updating and tweaking it all but have no definite additions to report. I have come to a bit of a dead end with research on the Smiths after Lindsey contacted me and I havent heard more from her yet. You will recall she thought we were related through Joseph Howes Smith somehow. I have looked hard but although we are definitely from the same roots she has an album with photos of him I cannot for the life of me find out where. One thing I did find was the photo shown below. It came from a website run by a photo enhamcement company David Hambly Photography from Liskeard Cornwall. On his restoration page there was a sample of his work and the picture is of some Hildick ancestors and looks to be early 1900s in date. Does anyone out there know who they are 2006-12-8T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#6018 I had a letter today from Greta Morley nee Hildick. Some time ago she had written to to Edmund Wallace Hildick after her son Giles had read one of his books A Cat called America. She wondered if he was related and his reply to her indicated that he was albeit distantly. I have now linked him into the family. We have mutual Great Great Great Grandparents in Francis 17671812 and Martha Hildick. Moore their son b1796 is our line and Gretas and his brother Thomas 1794 is Edmunds line. In fact Thomass line includes most of those Hildicks who went to America and includes the Hildicks Applejack Brandy dynasty. Im not sure when Edmund went to America but he is well known as an author of childrens fiction as any internet search will tell you. The letter written from Ireland gives details of his grandfather Edmund Septimus Hildick a prosperous saddler from Walsall. he was also involved in local politics and was a town councillor there at the same time as both John Hildick and Joseph Howes Smith... 2006-11-22T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#5969 I have now heard back from Churchill Forge and have got permission to put a link into their site and I have also copied some of the text and photos about the family. Have alook at the new page Churchill ForgeBache family. I know we are not closely related but the Bache family seemed to have aninfluence on both the Page and HildickSmith families so I have included the details out of interest. As yet i have not updated the Family Tree or Names List pages I have some more work to do on these and will update ithem soon. I think the count of people has gone up to over 1300 now since I started who knows where it will finish. I have also made a few tweaks to the text in the document to reflect a few new contacts who have supplied me with previously unproven links and names so its worth a re read from time to time. 2006-11-20T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#5678 If you have read the text relating to the Smith family of Walsall you may know that it was rumoured that we were in some way related to the family of Sir Edwin Thomas Smith who made a name for himself in Australia in the latter part of the 19th C. He was a well respected local and national politician in Adelaide South Australia where there is a statue in his memory as well as having roads and parks named after him. From Mona HSs letter she thought he was one of the grandchildren of Thomas and Ann Smith i.e. that our Frederick Bentley Smith Jane Howes Smith were his parents. I tried this out but it didnt work so had dismissed this connection. Through Ancestry.com I received an E mail from Lindsay Brown which seems to show there really may be a link with this side of the family. She is related to Edwin Smith b 1804 in Walsall who I thought was brother to Frederick Bentley Smith. At least they are closely related somehow. This is born out by the fact that she has a photo album presented ... 2006-11-8T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#5197 I have had another hit on the web site from David John Oldnall Page. He is the grandson of Joseph Page b1871 youngest brother to John Oldnall Page b1857 who was my great grandfather. many years ago I recall visiting two old brothers who lived at Hoarstone Bewdley. I always thought it was called Horseshoes for some reason. This must have been in the late 50s or early 60s sometime. Joseph 1871 had 3 sons John Oldnall Page b1898 who was David Johns father0 Elliot Oldnall Page b 1899 and Roger Oldnall Page b1900. All three were born at Hoarstone Farm where there father Joseph was a farmer like most of that generation of Pages. The two younger brothers Elliot and Roger never married and lived on until the late 80s at Hoarstone Farm. I dont know what happened to it after that. I have e mailed David for any more info or pictures he may like to share with us and it was good to add yet another branch of the family to the ever growing tree. I have also just e mailed the Churchill Forge site to ... 2006-10-20T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#5124 Well not really much to report. We are busy sorting the garden out for the winter but after recent rain it has perked up no end and it seems a shame to rip it all up at the moment. Weve done well for beans spinach carrots and salads but its now time to put the veggie patch to bed. The onions and garlic will keep us going through the winter and does anyone know what to do with several dozen chillies Our trip to Luxor has been cancelled due to lack of demand so we have opted for a later trip to Malta sometime in April. The car is due its MOT this week and as it is very long in the tooth now I am not expecting a smooth run through. It will have to last for a few more years yet if possible as cash is in short supply for the time being although if we want to eat we may need to shell out on a new cooker soon. On the Family History front I have added many more names to the database. Many are distant relatives so I will spend the long days of winter writing them up and adding them to the hi... 2006-10-17T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#4725 You will recall that I was in contact with Pat Mangwana re some photos of Aaron and Elizabeth Hildick and their descendants. pat has now got hold of the album and is busily scanning them as we speak. look out for a sample of them on the website soon. I will put them on a new page for all to see. Go to Aaron and Elizabeth Hildick Page for latest. I have been fairly quiet lately but have been busy adding evidence for the people in the trees as I was starting to doubt some of the links its easy to get carried away with creating trees without recording where you found the evidence. Going back I realised I had added little in the way of notes so have been busy doing that and in the process altering some of the previous family trees. I have also added all the Smart family members these go back to Kings of England and I had them in a seperate set of files. My new software can now handle all these people so I have added them. Unfortunately some got scrambled in translation so its been a devi... 2006-9-28T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#4441 I have now added at least 130 new names to the database. Primarily these all the descendants of my Grandmother Elsie Oldnall Page and her illustrious forebears stretching back through the Smart family to Elizabeth Woodville Wydeville. I have also made several ammendments and corrections to the Hildick family records and have added further notes relating to the evidence for connections births marriages and children. I now have access to all the census records from 1841 to 1901 and much more on the American Hildicks but a mass of data still remains to be checked and addedammended. Warch this space 2006-9-14T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#4217 Pat mangwana has contacted me again. She is now in possession of Hildick family bible pages and a photo album which has photos of some more Hildick family members. These relate to her branch of the family descending from Thomas Hildick b1755. We are a bit further back from there. However it all adds to the overall tree and I have been able to add many more names to the tree and intend to write them up probably as a seperate chapter in the story. I took the plunge and joined Ancestry.com only as a Pay per View member and have also got much more detail of the Hildicks in the earlier Census data 18411851 and 1861. This has supplied more names to investigate and also given me access to US Census records other than the LDS on line records. I now have a whole raft of US Hildicks to investigate at my leisure. Many happy hours this winter to look forward to. 2006-9-4T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#3937 Kathy and I together with sister Debbie went to lunch with Greta Morley nee Hildick on Monday. She lives in Guildford in a house she has lived in for more than 40years. She gave us a real welcome and we spent a long time chatting about the Hildicks of Lapworth and her family. I didnt learn anything very new just confirmed a lot of detail and was able to give her a full history and an improved blowup of the photo she lent to Debbie. She had cuttings from a Walsall paper about John Hildick her Grandfather our Great Grandfather and showed us an ashtray from the Hildick and Hildick Tube Works. She also had some lovely miniature cast metal figures of Horses and Hounds which were manafactured by Hildicks in the factory although they were a lot older I think than the recent output of the factory. I think that the factory was sold after WW2 to a rival firm Hopes of Walsall. She also had a bracelet which dated back to the TorranceAllen period. they were married on the Isle of man and their daug... 2006-8-22T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#3671 I have now updated the story of the family with all the latest research and have added more photos to the three galleries on show. I have also updated the names lists and trees to reflect the additional research derived from the latest contacts relating to the Hildick family and the PageOldnall connections. Enjoy If anyone has more photos which you think will be of interest please let me know and i will try to get them on the site. 2006-8-11T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#3488 Ive just submitted the site for inclusion on Cyndis List which is one of the better known genealogical websites which acts as a filter and search site for all sorts of stuff relating to family history. if accepted i will be hoping for more hits on the site and hopefully more information on the origins of the family. At the moment i am concentrating on the Hildicks with much more information gleaned on another branch of the Hildicks after Pat Mangwana visited the site and made contact. She is descended from Mary Hildick 1785 sister of Aaron 1795 who together with his nephew Robert who I am currently seeking info on started the firm of Aaron Hildick in Sheffield. They were the makers of fine edge tools which come up for sale on E Bay etc from time to time. Pat also kindly supplied copies of newspaper articles on Elizabeth Hildick nee Dukes who was Aarons 1795 wife. I had already seen some information about this lady who lived to be 101 and very nearly lived to see 3 centuries 18th 19th... 2006-8-2T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#3323 I have continued to refine the tree and names part of the site and it now has some of the glitches sorted out. I had a hit on the site from Patricia Mangwana who is related back to Aaron Hildick. Our bit of the family is a further generation back but it is still nice to hear from another distant family member. She has a considerable amount of info on the family Hildick from her side so am looking forward to receiving any further detail that she has kindly offered to supply. Nice to hear from you Patricia. I have also done some work on the Smith conundrum i.e. what happened to Frederick Charles Smith I thought I had cracked it when I found a death entry for a Frederick Smith who died in St Petersburg Russia between 1911 and 1913. However on receipt of the certificate it proved to be a wrong un this Fredericks death was reported by his son Frederick who was 33 when his father died. So unless Fred was leading a double life then it is definitely not him.... Oh Well back on the trail. I ... 2006-7-24T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#3115 I have now done some more work on the site. 1. The poor family tree pages have been removed 2. These have been replaced by a package that enables you to look at any family member and create a tree from that. Its a package called GedHtree and although I havent played with it fully it allows a tree to be generated on screen. Obviously personal details of those who are still around have been restricted. 3. There is no facility as yet to download a Ged file but if you want one to play with let me know and Ill send you one. The new stuff can be found under Family History. 4. I have also added a site visitor counter and an internal search facility and upgraded the meta files so that external searches will find the site. 5. I have also submitted the site to Ancestor Connections for inclusion for named searches for people looking for ancestors with the same surname hence the award graphic. 6. I have also discovered how to download files using FTP software which makes it easier to add fi... 2006-7-11T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#3049 Well The house seems a little quieter now that all the visitors have gone and we had a lovely letter from Andrew saying thanks for the visit so they arrived home safely via Scotland and London. The photo below shows us all in the garden we had a barbeque and the weather was great. Sister Debbie came over to say hello as well. Debbie came over early this week 372006 and we went to Beaulieu to see The Who in concert. It was brilliant and it took us all back to the good old days. I first saw them in 1967 when I was down here in Southampton doing my training at the Ordnance Survey. It was an allnighter at the Top Rank suite in Bitterne and cost 126d to get in. Keith Moon threw a drumstick at us and I caught it and still have it somewhere probably lost in the loft In about 1971 at least it was just before Keith died I saw them again at Mothers in Erdington Birmingham. I took sister Noni with me and they went down a storm playing themselves to the point of... 2006-7-7T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#2822 I spent yesterday updating the family history between football matches. It now includes additional dates and info re Greta Morley and a few new photos. I also tried to tidy up the Trees but am having severe problems with the graphics so it is not as user friendly as it could be. Also looked at the Ancestor links but havent yet cracked the files needed to bring up info relating to each person where I have any. The weather makes me a lot keener to get out in the garden and I suspect this will keep me away from the computer until later on in the year. 2006-6-24T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#2675 We were happy to have Andrew and Hughie HildickSmith to stay with us fro a couple of days. Debbie came over on Monday last and met the family for the first time. After a barbeque we all went down to the shore at Lepe for an hours stroll by The Solent. Tuesday was a visit to Portsmouth for a look at The Mary Rose and HMS Victory. On Wednesday they all left to travel by plane to Edinburgh for a trip into Fife to look at Nettie Gray Youngers birthplace near St Andrews. After a few days in Scotland they return to London by train for a few days in the capital sightseeing and then back to Boston. It was great to have them and there will be photos on the site soon when I have sorted it all out. Andrew left me with lots of information re his Grandmothers family The Youngers who have roots in Scotland way back and although this line was not one of my original tracks of research I will be adding some to the main family document for those who are interested in The Duncan Gray and Younger familie... 2006-6-14T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#2623 We were very happy to be invited by Janet Marsh to her mother Idas 90th birthday party at Wherwell on Saturday 10th June 2006. Ida is the daughter of Gavin HildickSmith. She is a wonderful lady full of life and all her American nephews and their families came over so there were over a dozen HildickSmiths in attendance. Her brother peter very sadly died in January 2006 after a long illness but it was lovely to see his wife Kit there the first time we have met. I gave ida a framed photo of the original Hildicks and Smiths and we spent a long time talking about the family. Andrew Hughie and their boys are coming to stay tomorrow Peter is flying back to the States on Monday but his wife and children are staying on here for several days. They may also pay us a visit. Ill post some photos etc soon. 2006-6-11T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#2571 Before the wedding we managed to pay a visit to Lapworth. We found John and Jessies grave and in the church is a beautiful window dedicated to Martha and Benjamin Hildick dedicated by Joseph Hildick. Martha lived firstly at The Hall and then moved to Gospel Oak where she demolished the old house and built the new one. We passed by there and very imposing it is too. We also had lunch at The Boot by the canal. Although there are a number of other Hildicks buried at Lapworth Church we were unable to find any others and the vicar was not around. Ill be updating the document soon. 2006-6-7T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#2502 Well we are just back from the wedding and a fantastic time was had by all Congrats to Mike and Carole. I will be posting lots of photos in due course but here is a taste. It will take me a while to download and create the video and I will put a new gallery with the wedding photos on it. We all had a great time the weather was gorgeous and the venue at Corse lawn perfect. 2006-6-4T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#2344 If you have dipped into the Page family page then you will know that Hill Pool where my Granny was born came to the Page family in the early 1700s. Before that it was owned by the Oldnall family. I had a contact through the website from Elwyn Bull who is related to a branch of the Oldnalls of Chaddesley. She kindly sent some photocopies from a rare book on Kidderminster that she has obtained and also a family tree relating to the Oldnalls called The Visitation Of Worcester of 1642. Down the line from Roger Oldnall of Stone c1580 is shown John Oldnall of Hill Pool who died in about 1669. I am now sure that he bought Hill Pool from a Francis Smith in 1656 and when in this branch of the male line of Oldnalls died out and Sarah Oldnall 1727 married Edward Blakeway the farm passed to the Blakeways for a short time. On Edwards death Sarahs daughter who had married Joseph Page 1740 took over at Hill Pool and Joseph founded the current dynasty of Pages in Chaddesley Corbett in 1807. Now I kno... 2006-5-26T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#2251 I have now added lists of Family Surnames and Individuals to the site. As yet there is no link to individual names nor any other details.You will get an unavailable page screen at present but at least you will be able to see names and dates of individuals. If you want more info on any of these you will have to contact me directly by E Mail. This is to protect the living but in the future I will add a link to an edited Gedcom file for anyone to download. This may be some time in the future when I have reached a suitable point in the research. 2006-5-20T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#2213 New photo just recieved via Debbie. Ive got most of the names and it includes the first picture I have of Frederick Charles Smith. I reckon the photo was taken around 1905 or so Standing LR John Hildick 1857 poss Alan Hildick 1889 Ida HS 1888 Douglas Hildick Johns son 1887Mona HS 1892 Howard Hildick 1885 unknown lady poss Fredk Atwood HildickSmith 1889.Sitting middle LR Jessie HS 1885 Frederick Smith 1858 Mary Jane Howard Hildick nee Smith Fredericks sister1855 Jessie Hildick 1855. Front LR John Norman HS 1894 Joseph Don HS 1895 Dorothy HS 1890. Some of these may be a little muddled for example Alan Hildick bears an uncanny resemblance to Attwood HS from other photos I have and its a bit suprising that Gavin HS does not appear. Datewise it must be about 1905 judging by the smaller childrens appearance. Greta Morley thinks it was taken at Victorias Jubilee in 1898 but that would put my grandfather at only 3 so I think that is wrong. Also I had suppose... 2006-5-18T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#2070 Debbie has reported back from her meet with Greta Hildick and has given me lots more on the family. We have a lot of new relatives but I wont be putting the info onto the website to protect the living. I will however update my master document soon so if anyone wants a copy just ask. Plans fixed for Andrew and hughies visit they may go and stay with Jackie if they can fit it in otherwise Jackie may pop over for a visit. 2006-5-10T00:00:00Z http://www.hildicksmith.com/page3.htm#1971 Although I am not going to be doing this daily I will add anything that crops up particularly with the family history. Recent developments Andrew and Hughie HildickSmith are coming over to England in June and will be camping with us for a few days. We spend a great day with them in Boston last year and although we cant give them whale watching we will do our best. A contact with Greta Morley nee Hildick who is our 2nd cousin once removed or is it twice removed. Sister Debbie was in the Telegraph and she contacted her via the paper. Debs is going to visit next week. She is the daughter of Howard grandaughter of John Hildick 1857. John was brother to Sarah Hildick who is my paternal great grandmother. I spoke with her on Saturday last and she has filled in lots to do with Lapworth where her grandfather lived. Howard her father ran Hildick and Hildick for many years. More later. If you have read the history Joan HildickSmith Gavins daughter sister to the late PeteAndrews father was k... 2006-5-5T00:00:00Z