Genealogy Forum UK

Not sure this is the right place to post have only just joined made contact with Northern Lass via Black Country Connections earlier

Earl of Dudley Farm known locally as Wrens Nest Family up until the 1960's was leased to a family called Martin 3 brothers Harold, Bill and David how can I go about finding more information on it

Mad x

give us what info you have an will see what we can find

looks like spittle might have it now ?

http://online.dudley.gov.uk/news/fullre ... recid=2011

Thank you Peter who is Spittle? I ask this because I have Spittles of Dudley in my tree

do you no the real name of the farm.

from previous post (link)

The winners were:
Richard Randall for Nature Study at Wren's Nest and The Limestone Woodland; John Smith for The Seven Sisters in the 1970s and Ancient Seabed rising from a Sea of Houses; Linzi Priest for Lords and Ladies in the Forest; Dave Stevens for The Seven Sisters from below; Sue Rose for Winter Comes to Wren's Nest; Philip Spittle for Wren's Nest Farm and Lime Kilns; P. Wolstenholme for Late Spring and early Summer; Barry Cook for Autumnal Mists; Sue Rose for Winter Walker at Trail Marker 3 and Karen Greenwood for Coral Reef by Moonlight.


going to move this mad to black county general disscusion ok

Oh I see

No my grandfather Bill Martin said that it was Earl of Dudley Farm but we all knew it has Wrens Nest Farm a interesting bit of info about it was that Bill and Harold started the footie team Wrens Nest Rangers (still going to this day and their descendents are still playing) they trained at the top of the nature reserve and used the barn when wet and according to it a young Duncan Edwards played there too

Mad x

Ok no probs thanks

Mad x

mad are you looking for history of farm, or the people who had the farm, or both ?

I have the recent history of the Martin family possibly going back a fair bit I'm not sure but defo the generation from the farm ~ its more the history of the farm for my dad as it was his home as a child and has memories also a picture would be good

Mad x

i leave it in this section then if its the farm your after

anyone with a map of the 60s to see what farms around wren nest hill ?

Photos would be at the archives at Dudley I would think
as would any info on farm...worth a look

http://www.blackcountryhistory.org.uk/result-list.aspx
put in wrens nest in search throws up some bits but not the farm

thank you both ~ Dudley archives had nothing either except that the Earl of Dudley did indeed own the farm

Mad x

I thought they would have had something.

National archives under Wills?
search putting in wrens nest ....not sure how you do it ...Mumbles and Gardener are good at finding stuff on there.
Track the families back that way?

AsMadasanHatter wrote:thank you both ~ Dudley archives had nothing either except that the Earl of Duley did indeed own the farm

Mad x

Hi Mad as a Hatter, won't be to easy to find, the Earls Of Dudley owned most of the Land in and around Dudley. You need to find where their family archives are held, probably the NA at Kew. HTH from Linell.

This link mentions Priory Farm

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cata ... ssmethod=0

If you know the addy Mad
then you can find out who was living in that house via the Electoral registers and they are at Dudley I think.
(depends on the area)

Do you know the actual address?
and farm name?

Then if you have find my past I think you can do a search via address
or
you can find that area address on ancestry just bit more difficult to search for
go in via the enumerators log