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Redditch Heritage William Avery
Notes
1 ‘In memoriam William Avery, J.P., of Headless Cross, Redditch, born 1832, died
1899.’ by H. Page. Printed in the Redditch Indicator office in 1899. A copy can be
found in ‘The William Avery Memorial Volumes’, vol. 6, available in Redditch Public
Library.
2 ‘In memoriam William Avery, J.P., of Headless Cross, Redditch, born 1832, died 1899.
3 Ibid.
4 Pigot’s Directory of Worcestershire1842.
5 Available at http://www.queenscollege.org.uk/A-History-of-Queens-College
[Accessed August 2015]
6 Worcester Journal 8 July 1865, Worcestershire Chronicle 5 July 1865.
7 Available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Avery_%26_Son [Accessed September
2015.]
8 Worcestershire Chronicle 27 Dec 1871.
9 Available at http://www.coulthart.com/avery/special-topics-pages/england-trip.html
[Accessed August 2015] 10 Worcestershire Record Office: 705:414/8779/11/iv/5-11
1861-1914 (Deeds, covenants, copy correspondence and list of documents relating
to the purchase by J. English and Son Ltd. of Redditch of the business of needle, pin
and fish hook manufacture and dealing in small wares of William Avery and Son of
Headless Cross, Redditch.)
11 Birth, marriage and death indexes, census returns, Worcester Journal 8 July 1865,
Worcester Journal 6 October 1855, Worcestershire Chronicle 2 July 1856,
Worcestershire Chronicle 4 July 1860, Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 30 June 1860,
Worcester Journal 18 September 1869.
12 His letter to the Editor of the Birmingham Daily Post, 21 November 1891.
13 ‘In memoriam William Avery, J.P., of Headless Cross, Redditch, born 1832, died 1899.’
14 Address presented to William Avery 1891, available in Redditch Public Library.
15 ‘In memoriam William Avery, J.P., of Headless Cross, Redditch, born 1832, died 1899’
by Dr. H. Page.
16 For example, Worcestershire Chronicle 5 August 1899, Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
17 August 1899, Leicester Chronicle 19 August 1899, Cheltenham Chronicle 19
August 1899, Cheshire Observer 19 August 1899, Aberdeen People's Journal 19
August 1899, Morning Post 16 August 1899, Bristol Mercury 16 August 1899.
17 Worcestershire Chronicle 25 July 1849.
18 Foxall, A. (2008) ‘Bates Hill Methodist Church and Headless Cross Methodist Church.’
19 Worcester Journal 30 March 1895.
20 Photo supplied by Chris Jackson.
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