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Redditch Heritage The Long Crendon Connection

Ann(ie) Feasey came from Long Crendon with her parents and married William Beckett (mentioned
as the wagon driver's son) in 1876 and lived in Studley, both continued in the needle industry.
They had 3 children, Ernest, Florence and Annie. Florence is my grandmother and married William
Yates from Cookhill, they eventually settled in Astwood Bank. They had 5 children, Sidney, Ernest,
Kenneth, Olive and John. Olive Yates was my mother. Rosemarie (from the group) is my cousin,
her father was Ken Yates.
What I didn't know and was really amazing to me was that I believed the Feaseys came from
Long Crendon when in fact I hadn't realised that there were many people with the name Feasey
from Redditch who originally went to Long Crendon to work and then came all the way back here.

My gg-grandmother was Eva Lewis, her father was William Lewis and his father was William Lewis
and so and and so forth. They were all involved in the needler making industry with the later
being noted as "employers" around the 1850's onwards. Two of Eva's sister inlaws on the Mutton
side married into the Shrimpton family. Sarah Ann Mutton married Fredrick Shrimpton and Ada
Mutton married Fredrick Ledbury, nephew of Fredrick Shrimpton. I do not know a great deal about
the Shrimptons but now understand the family came up from Long Crendon in the 1800's. I
understand this was due to industry moving on in the Birmingham area and so more work.

The information you provided backs and verifies what my own research has found about Long
Crendon, Redditch and the needle making industry. I was actually able to find (what I assume
to be) a relative on the list of people who made the journey to Long Crendon. His name was
Charles Lewis. From my research I am not able to find a link with our tree to Charles (yet) but
given both names I am confident there is a link somewhere as they were all needle makers.
Perhaps a brother or cousin.

I was able to find a census record with the four men (Thomas Cooper, Charles Chester, Richard
Stanley and Charles Lewis) all lodging in a house in Long Crendon so that was good to find that
verification.

My family originated from Long Crendon in the early 1700's. I always wondered how we got to
being in Birmingham and information on the RLHS web site has put it all into perspective. One
of my gt gt granddads George Pritchard b.1849 must have moved to Birmingham area from Long
Crendon to seek work. I don't know at what age he moved, all I know is, is that he got married
at the maypole to a woman from Langley , Warkwickshire. Is it feasible he moved with the needle
makers ?
George & Mary must have settled in Bearwood, Smethwick because 4 generations

including myself all lived at some point in the same house in Ethel Street, Bearwood,which is still
there today.

Source: Email from Gary Pritchard 20/11/2015

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