John Jeavons ...../Brierley Hill, South Street.

[oldun]

My mother lived in South Street and was born 1904. Their house was opposite the Baptist church graveyard. The house is gone but the Church is still there. Most of Mom's family are buried there and my father. Mom's dad was the barber and had his shop in the front room of the house. Mom and her sister used to have to wait up for the pub's to turn out in order to lather the men who came in for a shave. Years later Aunty Vi had a barber shop of her own at Round Oak.
They had a brother Cyril and all three went to Mill Street School. . Miss Parnell was a mistress there and a bit of a tarter. She would go bright red when her dander was up. Her graveyard is in St.Michael's churchyard. Mom wasn't much good at arithmetic but good at reading and writing. But she excelled in sewing and embroidery. The headmistress would have her sit in her office and knit her silk stockings. She also embroidered a flower on an Australian soldiers collar. He was the boyfriend of one of the teachers.
Mom was a bit of a tomboy and would follow her brother everywhere and the canal was a favourite place. They used to play kick the can outside their house where everyone used to hide and one would be on and have to catch someone running out and kicking the can before he was seen. They used to roam the fields on the far side of the Delph (housing estates now) without fear. On the opposite corner of South Street on the Delph side was the gasworks and the Managers house.
Mom's maternal grandfather had owned a Pottery at Silver End and it had been there through 3 family generations.
She could remember the Asian Flu coming when her mom, who was asthmatic was very ill with it. Mom was instructed by the Doctor to fetch some best steak and stew it with a small amount of water and give it her mother to drink. Mom said she had the FLu too and could feel the effects of it when she went to fetch the steak.
She left school at 14 and went to work at the tailoring works in Flood Street, Dudley. Oakley's shop a few houses below them supplied many of their needs.
She would go to Dudley on the tram which went so slowly you could walk as fast. But it had it's uses in Winter. From the top of the tram they could snowball the chaps as they went past. She remembered the end of WW1 when she was in Dudley and a soldier picked her up and twirled her around. She could also remember the paper boys having bare feet. They were hard times and if the rates weren't paid the furniture would be on the street. Mom and her siblings would often go to school with an empty stomach and her dad would bring a bun for them if he'd had a customer in to shave.
Their toilet was at the top of the yard and she said she'd never been afraid because of having to go in the dark. No electricity then. Nor did they have gusunders. She remembered the knocker upper and the lamp lighters and the cats following the milk man around, and the night soil men. They used to get rid of fish cheap on Brierley Hill market on a Saturday night and that was feast night.
Her paternal grandparents lived at Harts Hill in Harts Hill Cottage which overlooked Fens Pool before they built the housing estate. He was a teacher of music and church organist amongst other things. All a bit different from today.

[peterd]

are these jeavons ?

[oldun]

Mom's mom was a Jeavons from the Pottery.

[peterd]

Mom's mom was a Jeavons from the Pottery.

who was mom father ?

[peterd]

is this them

1911; Clent View, South Street, Brierley Hill, Staffs

James Jeavons 43 iron worker, puddler,
Sarah Jane Jeavons 40 Netherton, Worcestershire
Joseph Jeavons 19 lab in ironworks
Elizabeth Jeavons 15 Woodside, Worcestershire
James Jeavons 12 Pensnett, Staffordshire
Thomas Jeavons 10
Sarah Jane Jeavons 8
Harold Jeavons 65 (6)
Frederick Jeavons 4
Mary Jeavons 1
rest Brierley Hill

[oldun]

No. None of those. They lived at 47 South Street. My gran was Esther Elizabeth Jeavons, and her parents were John and Esther Jeavons nee Meese. My mom's dad was Arthur Joseph Randle. John Barnbrook 1784-1839 began the Pottery and married Esther Skidmore daughter of Obadiah Skidmore and Rebecca Shaw. Their daughter Dianah Catherine married Thomas Meese and had Esther Elizabeth (Meese) she married John Jeavons and amongst others they had my grandmother Esther Elizabeth Jeavons. The pottery was always handed down through the female till 1904 when John Jeavons died and it went to a son Thomas James Meese Jeavons.

[peterd]

here esther skidmore connects to linell

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/fa ... ore-Family

[peterd]

(odm)


John Barnbrook
Esther Skidmore
28 Apr 1811Kingswinford,Stafford,



(odm)

Thomas Meese
Diana Barnbrook

21 May 1834 Saint Thomas,Dudley,Worcester,



here john jeavons marriage

JEAVONS John MEESE Esther 1858 Amblecote, Holy Trinity West Midlands Dudley Register Office 015/001/355


1861; Pottery lane, Kingswinford

John Jeavons 29 iron puddler
Esther Jeavons 22
Thomas James Jeavons 1
all born Kingswinford


1881; Silver Street, Kingswinford

John Jeavons 49 Commercial Traveller Earthenware
Esther Jeavons 42
Thomas Jeavons 21 flower pot thrower
Harry Jeavons 16
Catherine Jeavons 12
John Jeavons 10
Esther Jeavons 3
all born Kingswinford

[peterd]

1891; 10 silver st, Kingswinford

John Jeavons 59 wid, flower pot manufacturer
Harry Jeavons 26 flower pot manufacturer
John Jeavons 26 flower pot manufacturer
Esther Jeavons 14
Eliza Wright 18 servant
all born brierley hill


1901; 10 silver st, Kingswinford

John Jeavons 69 earth potter
John Skidmore 11 nephew
both born brierley hill

[peterd]

who john father ? oldun

JEAVONS John MEESE Esther 1858 Amblecote, Holy Trinity West Midlands Dudley Register Office 015/001/355

[peterd]

JEAVONS Esther E RANDLE Arthur J 1898 Brierley Hill, St Michael West Midlands Dudley Register Office 210/005/365

[mallosa]

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
JEAVONS John of Silver Street, Brierley Hill died 22nd May 1904
Probate London 1st July to Thomas James Meese Jeavons potter and Thomas Priest wheelwright
Effects: £5453 3s 4d

[peterd]

1911; 29 South St, Brierley Hill

Arthur J Randle 34 Hair Dresser, Stourbridge
Esther E Randle 32 (married 13 years, 4 born, 3 living, 1 died) Brierley Hill
Violet E Randle 12
Cyril C Randle 9
Evylean M Randle 6
rest dudley

[oldun]

Thank you for the information. I started tracing in the 70s when mom was alive and lived in Collis Street opposite Harry and Jack's (Jeavons brothers) house they had built on the corner of King William St. I have been on Ancestry.com for a year but now my subscription is finished but the trees are still there. I think I've seen your name on the list of family trees. You must be a cousin somewhere along the line?
On tribal page:- I believe the Benjamin Skidmore 1717 with an unknown Mary is Mary Hatton. Her mother Mercy Corbett and father Obadiah Hatton 1700. I believe this is where the name Obadiah which was used down the line originated from. If this is of any use to you. By the way, we live at opposite ends of the country now. You live as much far north as you can get and I live 8 miles from South coast. Only moved here 3 years ago. Love it.

[peterd]

Dont think were related if it as added by peterd ive just added the info if it says connect to peterd then im related

hope this helps