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Cheshire born, Cheshire bred..............?

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Valerie

Valerie Report 12 Feb 2004 01:19

Here's another Cheshire cat - and still grinning. Lovely to read all your messages. I too was born in Bromborough and raised in Bebington.Went to the fab.Wirral Grammar. Also have a branch of the family round the Nantwich area. Husband Robert was born in Birkenhead and raised in Willaston and went to King'sSchool Chester. Re the Wirral archers - I believe they were also an asset at Agincourt under Henry V.

Susan

Susan Report 31 Jan 2004 11:32

hi, i myself was born in cheshire and have lived here all my life, stockport to be exact.I think my kin folk are all true cheshire homebirds because not one person has left the county to live elsewhere, though to be honest its only circumstances that have kept me here, in another three or four years i will be doing the unthinkable and moving away.

Wendy

Wendy Report 30 Jan 2004 22:02

Born in Wallasey, live in Prenton, well it IS a Cheshire postcode!! Wend

June

June Report 30 Jan 2004 16:13

Hi all, though i wasn't born or bred in cheshire my mum was born and bred in Chester,so were my grandparents, so that gives me a good link with cheshire and i luv it there, june

Steven

Steven Report 29 Jan 2004 22:13

Any more cheshire cats??

Muriel

Muriel Report 23 Jan 2004 21:24

Response to Steven. I was born in Hale, Cheshire and went to school first to Stamford Park and then Bradbury Secondary. Left in 1949 when I married and went to live in Blackburn. Now live in Stretford, Trafford. Any more from Hale or Alrincham out there? Muriel Harrison (nee Norris)

Jane

Jane Report 20 Jan 2004 13:28

hi jane from macclesfield cheshire now in liverpool but lived there for twenty years what a great place till they knocked the hospital down and built a TESCO!!!!!!!!! yuk.

Here

Here Report 19 Jan 2004 21:21

Hi! Born in Crewe only because my grandparents moved from Shropshire to work on the railways (I think Crewe was put on the map 1840s/1850s.) My brother still lives there, but I moved about quite a bit and have landed back in Cheshire, just south of Stockport. Julie xx

EvG

EvG Report 19 Jan 2004 19:29

Steven. We Cheshire people are a wonderful lot. Unfortunatly none of my family have any interest in Geneology. Hense trying to find dead rellies. is almost impossible. My family is bad, my husbands GRESTYS and PEDLERS, I think have all moved to another planet!!!

Carol in Rochester, New York

Carol in Rochester, New York Report 19 Jan 2004 13:10

Marly, That would be the lovely old St. Barnabas. What memories that brings back. Now I feel quite homesick.Lol.

Linda

Linda Report 19 Jan 2004 12:24

I'm and Immigrant from devon but have lived in Crewe area for nearly twelve years but it seems a lot longer than that. does this count

Unknown

Unknown Report 19 Jan 2004 00:47

All my hubby Tony's birth family come from Birkenhead! Does that count?! Tricky blighters to find mind you! Whatever became of the Birkenhead Badley's that's what I'd like to know! It'd make our lives much easier if they came out of the woodwork and showed themselves!! Love Eleanorxx

 Valice in

Valice in Report 18 Jan 2004 23:27

Yes Marly any excuse to blame the hubbies. lol, after all they usually blame us for everything any way!! I'm a Brummy by birth, but have lived on The Wirral for nearly 50years, apart from a 7yr interlude in Kenya. Val

Steven

Steven Report 18 Jan 2004 22:18

Dear Evelyn, We suffer the slings and arrows, those of us lucky enough to have been cheshire born, Myself within the City walls, Hmmmn, seem to remember summat about welshmen & crossbows after 9 at night, chuckles.

Carol in Rochester, New York

Carol in Rochester, New York Report 18 Jan 2004 19:49

Marly, What a small world. I went to school in Acre Lane ( briefly) and my Grandparents lived in Bridle Rd. What church were you married in? I left Bromborough in 1962 although still have rellies in Eastham.

EvG

EvG Report 18 Jan 2004 19:13

Timperley. Born & raised. Now live in Canada. Relatives still in Cheshire. I am definatly not thick in the head.. Did you know the best archers in the world came from Cheshire, HenryVIII had all his Cheshire archers around him as body guard.

 Valice in

Valice in Report 18 Jan 2004 14:57

Hello Marly I could put exactly what you put!! lol My hubby is born and bred here but not me. Val

Carol in Rochester, New York

Carol in Rochester, New York Report 18 Jan 2004 13:07

Marly & Steven, I was born in Bromborough in the Wirral. Back then, it was in Cheshire. Does that count? Now I live in upstate New York.

Christine

Christine Report 18 Jan 2004 11:35

I lived in congleton cheshire and went to school there my dad was born there and my ancestors come from there, unfortuneatly i don't live in england anymore chris

Steven

Steven Report 18 Jan 2004 09:38

Strong in the arm & thick in the head, Where's the Cheshire contingent then ?? Any more for anymore ??