Estate of Thomas Jennings, Yardley, 1891

Birmingham Daily Post, 12 Jan 1891

Re Thomas Jennings, deceased – Pursuant to an Act of Parliament made and passed in the 22nd and 23rd years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, cap 35, intituled “An Act to Further Amend the Law of Property and to Relieve Trustees.” Notice is hereby given, that all Creditors and Persons having any claims or demands upon or against the Estate of Thomas Jennings, late of Yardley, in the county of Worcester, licensed victualler, deceased (who died on the 26th day of April 1885, and whose Will with a codicil was proved by Walter Jennings, of Yardley, aforesaid, the son of the deceased, and William Mainwaring Sterry of Lawley Street, Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Hotel Proprietor, the executors named in the said codicil, on the 16th day of June 1885, in the District Registry at Worcester of the probate division of the high court of Justice) are hereby required to send in the particulars of their claims and demands to us, the undersigned, solicitors for the said executors, on or before the 19th day of January instant.  And notice is hereby also given, that after that day the executors will proceed to distribute the assets of the deceased among the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims of which the said executors shall then have notice; and that they will not be liable for the assets or any part thereof, so distributed to any person of whose debts or claim they shall not then have had notice – dated this 8th day of January 1891.

Beale & Co, 3 Newhall Street, Birmingham

Solicitors to the executors

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Christmas Meat Show, Birmingham, 1874

Birmingham Daily Post 16 Dec 1874

Christmas Meat Show

James Jennings

Purveyor to Her Majesty

93 Smallbrook Street

Will exhibit on Thursday next

December 17 and following days

Some prime Devon Oxen and Heifer, fed by Sir Thoms Boughey, Bart., Aqualate Hall, Newport, Salep. Four prime short-horn heifers, fed by Mr Isaac Jennings, Yardley, near Birmingham.  Also several shorthorn and Hereford Oxen; also prize sheep from Bingley Hall Show.  Hampshire Downs, bred and fed by Alfred Morrison, Esq, Tisbury, Wilts; Horned Dorset, bred and fed by Herbert Farthing, Esq, Bridgwater Somerset, and a quantity of prime Southdowns, fed by Charles Thornton, Esq Curdworth, near Birmingham.

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Bennett’s Dept Store, Derby

Another Family Connection – which I had placed on Facebook earlier

Bennett’s Department Store in Derby was founded, and run by George Bennett, who had the great taste to marry Sarah Paulin, sister of Frederick Paulin.

I will begin with a chart…..

bennettThe store has just closed – sad, but there are a lot of articles on the internet which describe the store and its history, particularlythis one

George Bennett, a retired Master Mariner, bought the company in 1864. He lived on North Parade, a Georgian terrace in the Strutts Park area of Derby, as steeped in local history as Irongate. Bennett lived at number 13, a house with four storeys, high ceilings and a garden that stretched down to the River Derwent.

He expanded the company even further. Goalposts, tennis nets, cricket bats and croquet sets were sold alongside farming tools and guns. Being an old sea dog, he had the store laid out like a sailing ship. Wrought iron stairways climbed up to nautical-style landings throughout. Examples of these can still be seen above the Ironmongery Department, which retains a ship-like quality, as if in memory of George.

Bennett passed the company down through his family. He had five daughters and four sons, but only one grandson, who was killed in the First World War. The last remaining Bennett sold the company in 1937, when it became Bennetts Irongate Limited, but continued to thrive as an independent family business

 

Others below describe its closing, and give great pictures…..

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-news/troubled-bennetts-department-store-claimed-2524922

https://blog.derby.ac.uk/2019/10/the-fall-and-rise-of-bennetts-of-derby-a-tale-of-two-business-models/

https://uk.fashionnetwork.com/news/Derby-department-store-bennetts-sold-to-french-sole-owner,1112053.html

 

Forde Abbey, Somerset

Another connection made!

While doing a generic internet search for family names I came upon Forde Abbey in Chard, Somerset.

I will start first with the chart:

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According to the Abbey’s website, Elizabeth Roper inherited the property from one of her cousins, named William Herbert Evans.  She and her family moved in in 1905, and have been living there since. The building is now a venue as well as a family home.

According to the family chart I have the current owner, Alice Roper is my fifth cousin once removed.  So close – right?

 

 

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