Sunday 12 February 2017

Mother, Grandad Neild, and Sharston Farm


Family tree by Chris Preston, a lawyer in Australia

Notes I took from my grandmother in about 1962 while she was preparing Sunday lunch.

William Neild with his wife Hannah and their children. Courtesy of Chris Preston.






Pages from a record of household accounts for 1879. I do not know whose these were.

Sampler by Kezia Davies, embroidered c.1853. Now in the possession of Pamela Jenner.


Marriage certificate for Edward Neild and Georgina Henrietta Thomson
My great grandparents on their wedding day

A family photograph. I can recognise Mother, with her husband, and a child.




William Neild FRHS

A letter from auntie Maggie, Ted Neild's sister



















Letters concerning the purchase of Sharston Farm.

My grandmother on the right, uncle Billy on the left, and their paternal grandmother Hannah Neild née Steele

The barn at Sharston Farm, that became the tearooms.

Sharston Farm. These were painted by a travelling salesman who was a customer at the tearooms as a gift for Mother.

Sydney was killed walking home from school. He dropped his marbles, leaned over, and was hit by the dished wheel of a passing horse-drawn cart and crushed to death.


A school photograph


A school photograph

I would guess a pageant for the coronation in 1911

The Neild family: Eva, Ted, Phyllis, Mabel, Billy, Georgina and Walter

Ted, Billy, Walter, Eva, Gladys, Phyllis, Mabel and Georgina.
I think this is Gib Lane, Wythenshawe



Scout camp at Sharston Farm



Flowers being grown for market.

Sharston tearooms set for a wedding reception




Mother feeding geese




Eva Neild

Eva Neild

Eva Neild


Eva Neild with Phyllis

Eva Neild with Mabel and Dora Gent



The family guests at the wedding of Walter Neild and Ethel Hewitt




Gladys and Mother preparing her cake for her wedding reception at Sharston Farm.

Gladys Neild with her father Ted at her wedding


Gladys Neild and Leslie McConnell at their wedding.


Mother


Mother with Phyllis

Mother with her dog Nigger

Mother with some of her grandchildren



Mother

Mother with uncle Jimmie







Hannah Neild with, I believe, Polly, in Chorlton





Georgina and Ted Neild


The tombstone of Georgina and Ted Neild at Northenden

A recipe for apple chutney

Mother's Recipe Book






































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