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BIOGRAPHY: Written by Clifford Pedley:
Tom Pedley, the eldest son of George, obtained his MD at Charing Cross and was among the earliest to obtain the RCS diploma in dentistry. Tom started his career as a ship's doctor on the popular and busy P & 0 LINE of steamships plying to India. One day, when approaching the Port of Burma, Uncle Tom was stabbed in the neck by one of the passengers with delirium tremens. He recovered in hospital in Rangoon and stayed there to practise medicine for 44 years. He became Colonel-in-Chief of the Indian Medical Corps and was awarded the Kaiser-I-Hind medal. In 1925, at age 73, he died while having an after-lunch nap on his surgery couch. When I came to Johannesburg in 1936, I was invited to call on a local medical practitioner, Dr Peacock. When he had satisfied himself that I was indeed a nephew of the late Colonel Tom Pedley, he showed me a set of dental forceps Tom had given him when Dr Peacock served under him in the I.M. Corps. 1 happened to know that this was a gesture my uncle liked to make to young MO's who had pleased him. There were six or more forceps housed in a black leather folder.DEATH: From R. J. Wilkinson, Rangoon.
The following are the facts, as far as I can relate them, regarding Tom's death: -
On Friday evening last the 13th January, shortly after I had go home from office, I was called on the 'phone by Mr. Hood (I should say here that Tom had let his house when he went to England last year to Mr and Mrs Hood, and when he returned he asked them to stay on and live in the house with him.) Mr Hood said Dr Pedley was in a state of collapse, and I am afraid is dying. I immediately went down to Bridge House which is only 5 minutes away from Belmont. Mrs Hood met me in the portico and said that Dr Douglas had just arrived and was upstairs with Dr. Pedley. It would then be about 5:40 p.m., I think. Tom was lying on his bed on his back minus his coat and waistcoat, and with his shoes off. To me he seemed asleep but with his mouth wide open. I asked Dr Douglas what he though of him and he said "I am afraid he is already gone, but if so can only be just have gone within the last minute or two". I waited while Dr Douglas felt him in various ways but he soon turned to me and said that he was undoubtedly dead but the end must have come in sleep and absolutely painless.
The Revd. Drysdale come over from his house and I invited him to come up to the bedroom and we neither of us seemed to realize that he was actually and so very suddenly gone. Mrs Hood told me that Dr Pedley had had a very bad night on Thursday, telling her in the morning that he had had some heart seizure and scarcely slept all night so he did not go out before breakfast as usual, but lay in bed until 10:00 a.m. or so, sleeping. After that he felt better and got up and went to his consulting rooms in town seeing his patients there and then went his round visiting his patients. Mrs Hood said he came home about 3 p.m. which was earlier than customary, and told her he felt very tired and would go up to his room and get a little sleep. About 5 p.m. she went up to see him and asked if she could get him some tea, or did he fancy anything else. He asked for a cup of cocoa and this she brought him and left him. Some Burmese patient came to see him and he sent word down for him to come up to his bedroom as he was too tired to go down to his consulting room. The patient did so and left in a few minutes. At 5.20 p. m. Mrs Hood heard Dr. Pedley go along the corridor upstairs (probably to the bathroom) and return again to his room. She had when taking him the cocoa asked if she should call a Doctor and he said she might ring up for Dr Whitmore if she likes. She did this bet he was out and Mr Hood who had come then rang up in succession for Dr. Scott, Dr Kelsall, and Dr. Spence, but every one of these Doctors were out. He then rang up for Dr. Douglas and fortunately he was at home and came at once. . Mrs Hood went upstairs while her husband was telephoning and she thought Dr Pedley looked as if asleep but when Mr Hood cam e up he feared the worst and phoned for me. So far as the Hoods knew Dr. Pedley had never complained of heart trouble before the attack of Thursday but he had several times in recent weeks complained of slight asthmatic trouble and attributed it to the excessively dust laden atmosphere of the town at this time of year. In fact he had only a few days before mentioned it to me and remarked that a cold that I then had was due to dust more than anything else. Dr Douglas waited on the bedside for some time and eventually said "there is nothing more can be done but if I can be of any assistance to you in any way I shall be only too glad to help you." He remarked that to be thus cut off in full harness working up to the very last and dying painlessly after all was the best fort of death any man could desire and merely added that poor old Pedley has been overworking himself of late and certainly should have never attempted to work that day. I took advice from Douglas about the funeral and he said that in the ordinary course the funeral should take place next morning and I should phone to the undertakers at once also their place would be closed for the night. I asked Dr Douglas if a Post Mortem would be necessary and he said "Not at all. I can write out the Death Certificate certifying the death as from Heart Failure" and this he did. I asked him about the proper laying out of the body and he said the undertakers would see to that, but I said I new the relatives would like it more reverently done so he kindly promised to do his best and get a Minto nurse to com and went of at once and returning very soon after, bringing the senior Minto matron and a nurse back in his car with him, and these two ladies shortly after performed the necessary offices whilst Mrs Hood kindly got them what they wanted.
After this and consulting with the Revd., Drysdale, who was anxious to help in every way, I found that there would be little chance of securing burial in the Cantonment Cemetery (now closed to all save Military and Government Officials) if the funeral had to be in the morning, so I appealed to Dr. Douglas again and he said I might safely defer it to the afternoon. Mrs Drysdale then undertook to see the Chaplain of the Cemetery and urge from him permission for a grave to be allocated near that of Minnie, and also to say that Dr Pedley had surely some claim to that Cemetery as he was a Volunteer Officer for 40 years standing. This seen to, I sent of a cablegram to Croydon, and a telegram to Allahabad, and then phoned the local newspapers to get the announcement of his death and the time and place of the funeral inserted in the Saturday morning issues. After this I went upstairs to see Tom, and the face was now quite set and the features more peaceful looking. I remained on at Bridge House answering telephone calls and personal callers until 10 p.m. The Revd. Drysdale had come in again at about 9 p.m. saying the Cantonment Chaplain would meet me in the cemetery at 7:30 in the morning. I returned to Bridge House soon after 6 a.m. on Saturday and at 7.15 am Mr Drysdale and I went to the cemetery and me Chaplain Thursfield. I took them to Minnies Grave, and although there was no vacant space on either side there was room for 3 graves in front, but on consulting the register it was found two of them were secured by right to relatives of the adjoining graves. Eventually after scanning plans and sided by the memory of the Native Curator, we found we could get the plot almost in front of Minnie's, and without any intervening grave. The Curator then asked who the grave was for, and on being told Dr Pedley, the poor man burst into tears, and said he had known him for over 20 years. All Saturday morning was spent answering verbal and telephone enquiries, etc., I had phoned on Friday night to the officer commanding the Port Defence Force, and their Adjutant came to see me in the morning and said they hoped to arrange a Military Funeral and he would try to get the Royal Scots to provide a Band and Firing party. He did his best but at 4 p.m. had to let me know it could not be managed as it being Saturday afternoon the Volunteers could not be so hurriedly got together, ad the Royal Scots unfortunately where booked elsewhere. The St. John Ambulance Brigade asked if they might attend in uniform and be allowed to carry the coffin from the cemetery gates to the grave, and this was readily granted, and I told them I knew their section would be appreciated by Dr Pedley's relatives. Knowing that Minnie, Ray, Charles and Jack were all Church of England, I asked Chaplain Thursfield to take the Service, but said I would appreciate it, and I believed you all would too, if the Revd. Drysdale was allowed to take some part as he was such a close personal friend of the Doctor. The Chaplain said he felt sure this could be arranged. Later the Bishop 'phoned saying he was most anxious to pay his respect himself, and be allowed to pronounce the Benediction and he said he fully approved of Mr Drysdale reading the Lesson. So far as could be done, notice of the funeral was circulate generally throughout the town, but indeed it scarcely needed this as the news had spread to most quarters on Friday night. Troops of friends of all races came to Bridge House all day Saturday and were allowed to see the body, but about 1 p.m. after I had, in company with Mr Drysdale see the corpse, carefully and reverently placed in the coffin, we both thought it wiser to have it closed. Beautiful Wreaths kept coming in all day from all sorts of people and people themselves continued coming all afternoon, both European and Eurasian as well as members of Burmese and other races.
The funeral left the house at 4.30 p. m. the coffin and the hearse being covered with wreaths. It was followed first by the St. Johns Ambulance Squad, then by me in company with the Rev. Drysdale and Mr Hood. After many motors and carriages and a crowd on foot. It reached the cemetery at 4.50 where a very large crowd, mostly Eurasians were awaiting it. Immediately the ambulance men shouldered the coffin the chaplain preceded, reciting the usual verses, and then Mr Drysdale. Arrived at the graveside Mr Drysdale read the lesson, and then the Bishop took the whole of the commitment Service and finally pronounced the Benediction.
Of the Doctors present I saw Colonel Dee, Colonel Lalor, Colonel Penny, Major Kelsall, Major Scott, Major Parakh Whitmore, Dr Parakh, Dr. Murray and Dr Spence. There was a goodly few military Officers in Uniform, including the Station Staff Officer and some Gunner Officers. There were many government officials, and very many of the Mercantile Community, but the most notable feature was the variety of different communities represented. I felt that in everything had been done as far as it was possible for me, in the way Tom's absent relatives would have wished.
At the close of the Rev. J. A. Drysdales sermon at the Scots Kirk, Rangoon on Sunday evening 15th Jan, he said as follows:-
“Very suddenly on Friday evening we lost from the Company of the Church Militant a dear friend, neighbour, and fellow worshipper - Thomas Franklin Pedley - I do not trust myself at this time to speak many words of one who honoured me with his friendship, and to whom I owe many and great kindnesses. But I am only one of many who desire to pay to his memory a tribute of affection and of esteem. Born sixty seven years ago last Christmas Eve, DR Pedley gave forty two years of a vigorous, active, many sided Christian life to this city of Rangoon and to this land of Burma, which he loved. We need not praise him. His own life, his deeds, his memory are eloquent with high service and generous purpose.
When last evening the great company of all ranks and classes of the community cam to lay to rest in the Cantonment Cemetery what was mortal of him, we all knew we had lost one who's place will not be filled in our life and hearts.
There is given to the great profession of which Dr. Pedley was an honoured member - more perhaps than to any other - a certainly in a wider and more general way - a key to the hearts of men. That is the key of close personal interest, and of sympathy, of help, of friendship. This key to many hearts Dr Pedley had. It is an encouragement to us to remember, at a time when so many of our Burmese and Indian fellow subjects disbelieve in our concern for them and their welfare, we had one of our number in who all those who met him and knew him could not disbelieve. He was a Christian gentleman, who, because of his own Christian faith, was enabled to maintain these long years - and more especially these later years shadowed by death and the absence of his loved ones - a deep and patient sympathy with the afflicted of all races and creeds.
If it is not possible to believe that this full, active, kindly life is at an end, any more than to believe that the great river ceases to flow when it passes over a fall in its course. WE give thanks to the Awful Disposer of Life and Death for this gift to us of a strong, brave, triumphant life, and we surrender back to Him what he lent to us for a season. We mourn one who was dear to us. We give our sympathy to his bereaved daughter and sons, to his family, and to the wide circle of his friends. We ask for them the consolations of God. We have no need to sorrow as those who have no hope.
Come away: for life and thought
Here no longer dwell
But in a City glorious
A great and distant city and have bought
A mansion incorruptible
Would they could have stayed with us!DEATH: Amen”
The whole of this was delivered by the Minister with deep emotion which his voice betrayed.
The service closed with the beautiful hymn beginning -
"How Bright those glorious spirits shine."
The following are the facts, as far as I can relate them, regarding Tom's death: -On Friday evening last the 13th January, shortly after I had go home from office, I was called on the 'phone by Mr. Hood (I should say here that Tom had let his house when he went to England last year to Mr and Mrs Hood, and when he returned he asked them to stay on and live in the house with him.) Mr Hood said Dr Pedley was in a state of collapse, and I am afraid is dying. I immediately went down to Bridge House which is only 5 minutes away from Belmont. Mrs Hood met me in the portico and said that Dr Douglas had just arrived and was upstairs with Dr. Pedley. It would then be about 5:40 p.m., I think. Tom was lying on his bed on his back minus his coat and waistcoat, and with his shoes off. To me he seemed asleep but with his mouth wide open. I asked Dr Douglas what he though of him and he said "I am afraid he is already gone, but if so can only be just have gone within the last minute or two". I waited while Dr Douglas felt him in various ways but he soon turned to me and said that he was undoubtedly dead but the end must have come in sleep and absolutely painless.
The Revd. Drysdale come over from his house and I invited him to come up to the bedroom and we neither of us seemed to realize that he was actually and so very suddenly gone. Mrs Hood told me that Dr Pedley had had a very bad night on Thursday, telling her in the morning that he had had some heart seizure and scarcely slept all night so he did not go out before breakfast as usual, but lay in bed until 10:00 a.m. or so, sleeping. After that he felt better and got up and went to his consulting rooms in town seeing his patients there and then went his round visiting his patients. Mrs Hood said he came home about 3 p.m. which was earlier than customary, and told her he felt very tired and would go up to his room and get a little sleep. About 5 p.m. she went up to see him and asked if she could get him some tea, or did he fancy anything else. He asked for a cup of cocoa and this she brought him and left him. Some Burmese patient came to see him and he sent word down for him to come up to his bedroom as he was too tired to go down to his consulting room. The patient did so and left in a few minutes. At 5.20 p. m. Mrs Hood heard Dr. Pedley go along the corridor upstairs (probably to the bathroom) and return again to his room. She had when taking him the cocoa asked if she should call a Doctor and he said she might ring up for Dr Whitmore if she likes. She did this bet he was out and Mr Hood who had come then rang up in succession for Dr. Scott, Dr Kelsall, and Dr. Spence, but every one of these Doctors were out. He then rang up for Dr. Douglas and fortunately he was at home and came at once. . Mrs Hood went upstairs while her husband was telephoning and she thought Dr Pedley looked as if asleep but when Mr Hood cam e up he feared the worst and phoned for me. So far as the Hoods knew Dr. Pedley had never complained of heart trouble before the attack of Thursday but he had several times in recent weeks complained of slight asthmatic trouble and attributed it to the excessively dust laden atmosphere of the town at this time of year. In fact he had only a few days before mentioned it to me and remarked that a cold that I then had was due to dust more than anything else. Dr Douglas waited on the bedside for some time and eventually said "there is nothing more can be done but if I can be of any assistance to you in any way I shall be only too glad to help you." He remarked that to be thus cut off in full harness working up to the very last and dying painlessly after all was the best fort of death any man could desire and merely added that poor old Pedley has been overworking himself of late and certainly should have never attempted to work that day. I took advice from Douglas about the funeral and he said that in the ordinary course the funeral should take place next morning and I should phone to the undertakers at once also their place would be closed for the night. I asked Dr Douglas if a Post Mortem would be necessary and he said "Not at all. I can write out the Death Certificate certifying the death as from Heart Failure" and this he did. I asked him about the proper laying out of the body and he said the undertakers would see to that, but I said I new the relatives would like it more reverently done so he kindly promised to do his best and get a Minto nurse to com and went of at once and returning very soon after, bringing the senior Minto matron and a nurse back in his car with him, and these two ladies shortly after performed the necessary offices whilst Mrs Hood kindly got them what they wanted.
After this and consulting with the Revd., Drysdale, who was anxious to help in every way, I found that there would be little chance of securing burial in the Cantonment Cemetery (now closed to all save Military and Government Officials) if the funeral had to be in the morning, so I appealed to Dr. Douglas again and he said I might safely defer it to the afternoon. Mrs Drysdale then undertook to see the Chaplain of the Cemetery and urge from him permission for a grave to be allocated near that of Minnie, and also to say that Dr Pedley had surely some claim to that Cemetery as he was a Volunteer Officer for 40 years standing. This seen to, I sent of a cablegram to Croydon, and a telegram to Allahabad, and then phoned the local newspapers to get the announcement of his death and the time and place of the funeral inserted in the Saturday morning issues. After this I went upstairs to see Tom, and the face was now quite set and the features more peaceful looking. I remained on at Bridge House answering telephone calls and personal callers until 10 p.m. The Revd. Drysdale had come in again at about 9 p.m. saying the Cantonment Chaplain would meet me in the cemetery at 7:30 in the morning. I returned to Bridge House soon after 6 a.m. on Saturday and at 7.15 am Mr Drysdale and I went to the cemetery and me Chaplain Thursfield. I took them to Minnies Grave, and although there was no vacant space on either side there was room for 3 graves in front, but on consulting the register it was found two of them were secured by right to relatives of the adjoining graves. Eventually after scanning plans and sided by the memory of the Native Curator, we found we could get the plot almost in front of Minnie's, and without any intervening grave. The Curator then asked who the grave was for, and on being told Dr Pedley, the poor man burst into tears, and said he had known him for over 20 years. All Saturday morning was spent answering verbal and telephone enquiries, etc., I had phoned on Friday night to the officer commanding the Port Defence Force, and their Adjutant came to see me in the morning and said they hoped to arrange a Military Funeral and he would try to get the Royal Scots to provide a Band and Firing party. He did his best but at 4 p.m. had to let me know it could not be managed as it being Saturday afternoon the Volunteers could not be so hurriedly got together, ad the Royal Scots unfortunately where booked elsewhere. The St. John Ambulance Brigade asked if they might attend in uniform and be allowed to carry the coffin from the cemetery gates to the grave, and this was readily granted, and I told them I knew their section would be appreciated by Dr Pedley's relatives. Knowing that Minnie, Ray, Charles and Jack were all Church of England, I asked Chaplain Thursfield to take the Service, but said I would appreciate it, and I believed you all would too, if the Revd. Drysdale was allowed to take some part as he was such a close personal friend of the Doctor. The Chaplain said he felt sure this could be arranged. Later the Bishop 'phoned saying he was most anxious to pay his respect himself, and be allowed to pronounce the Benediction and he said he fully approved of Mr Drysdale reading the Lesson. So far as could be done, notice of the funeral was circulate generally throughout the town, but indeed it scarcely needed this as the news had spread to most quarters on Friday night. Troops of friends of all races came to Bridge House all day Saturday and were allowed to see the body, but about 1 p.m. after I had, in company with Mr Drysdale see the corpse, carefully and reverently placed in the coffin, we both thought it wiser to have it closed. Beautiful Wreaths kept coming in all day from all sorts of people and people themselves continued coming all afternoon, both European and Eurasian as well as members of Burmese and other races.
Of the Doctors present I saw Colonel Dee, Colonel Lalor, Colonel Penny, Major Kelsall, Major Scott, Major Parakh Whitmore, Dr Parakh, Dr. Murray and Dr Spence. There was a goodly few military Officers in Uniform, including the Station Staff Officer and some Gunner Officers. There were many government officials, and very many of the Mercantile Community, but the most notable feature was the variety of different communities represented. I felt that in everything had been done as far as it was possible for me, in the way Tom's absent relatives would have wished.
At the close of the Rev. J. A. Drysdales sermon at the Scots Kirk, Rangoon on Sunday evening 15th Jan, he said as follows:-
Very suddenly on Friday evening we lost from the Company of the Church Militant a dear friend, neighbour, and fellow worshipper - Thomas Franklin Pedley - I do not trust myself at this time to speak many words of one who honoured me with his friendship, and to whom I owe many and great kindnesses. But I am only one of many who desire to pay to his memory a tribute of affection and of esteem. Born sixty seven years ago last Christmas Eve, DR Pedley gave forty two years of a vigorous, active, many sided Christian life to this city of Rangoon and to this land of Burma, which he loved. We need not praise him. His own life, his deeds, his memory are eloquent with high service and generous purpose.
Constance is related to the Lewis / Walleys
85. Lessy Brown
Presumed female, for data entry purposes
89. Elizabeth Yoxall
BIOGRAPHY: 90 Mill street, Monks, Coppenhall at time of marriage
BIOGRAPHY: Levi Sorton age 24, Bachelor , "Grocer", 110 Greengate, Salford, UK
162. John William Sorton
Commercial Traveller Leeds
163. Edwin Sorton
Chile South America
164. Mary Yoxhall Sorton
Manchester
165. Ethel Sorton
Manchester
166. Rachel Sorton
Burgons Restaurant, Manchester
Dairy Farmer Willaston
of Sandbach
America
105. Richard Pedley Walley , Jp
1 _ELEC
2 DATE 1907
2 PLAC Justice of the Peace for Chester Castle Bench
1 _ELEC
2 DATE BET. 1910 - 1919
2 PLAC Councillor for the Tattenhall Division of Cheshire County Council
1 _MDCL At 5 pm on 13th. Feb. 1922 he slipped and sustained a broken thigh. Four days later he died.
"Another generous supporter of the Church was Mr. R. P. Walley of CottonAbbotts, who, although usually worshipping at Waverton PresbyterianChurch because of the distance to Tarporley, remained a convinced Baptistall his life. Like Mr. Roger Bate he was a Justice of the Peace and aCounty Councillor. Many of Mr. Walley's large family have givenoutstanding Christian service both within our own Church and far beyondit. One son, Mr. R. H. Walley, was both Secretary and Treasurer of ourChurch, 1937 - 1951." (source: Information taken from the booklet"Tarporley Baptist Church - An Introduction to its History", by Martin R.Jupe, 1958.)BIOGRAPHY: Became a Justice of the Peace in 1907
Buried at Brassey Green (source: copy of family tree from GaryHnatowich, received August, 1998)
Buried at Brassey Green on 28 May, 1927 (source: copy of family treefrom Garry Hnatowich, received August, 1998)
"Private (Gunner) Harold Herbert Walley 54310, 19th. Heavy Battery RoyalGarrison Artillery.
Killed 17th September 1917 aged 20. Buried Plot 1, Row F, Grave 49,Bleuet Farm Cemetery, Belgium.
Son of Richard Pedley Walley & Jemima Walley of Cotton Abbots, Waverton,Near Chester."
(source: Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Maidenhead, Berks. tel.01628 34221)
193. Helen Walley
Adult baptism on 28 January 1916 (source: copy of family tree from GaryHnatowich, received August, 1998)
In 1928 served as a missionary in India
Never married.
Buried at Brassey Green Baptist Chapel along with her parents.
106. Christiana Walley
Had 8 children. Died before the age of 40. (source: copy of family treefrom Gary Hnatowich, received August, 1998)
She was obviously staying with her sister Mary at the time. The cause of death certified, by Dr Justyn GD Douglas, was Phthisis pulmonalis (or TB) from which she had been suffering for 2 years plus a sudden Haemoptysis (coughing up of blood). The death was registered by Hamlet Kinsey, Christiana's Brother-in-Law who was present when she died.
MARRIAGE: On Thursday I received the marriage certificate form Christiana Walley and Thomas Henshall Ward (Ref GRO Dec 1871 6a 1420, Oswestry, Shropshire). It contains the following information:
Marriage date : 21 November 1871
Place : Frankton Independent Chapel, district of Oswestry, according to Rites and Ceremonies of Congregationalists
Minister : E D Wilks, Baptist Minister
Thomas Henshall Ward - 25 years, Bachelor, Farmer, residing at Sidway Hall near Market Drayton. Father was Thomas Ward, deceased, a Farmer
Christiana Walley - 20 years, Spinster, residing at Frankton in the parish of Whittington. Father was Stephen Walley, deceased, a Farmer.
Witnesses were George Ward and Mary Pedley Walley
Registrar - D C DaviesTH was a Farmer. He began farming on his own account at Hassall, Cheshire, in 1867, when he was barely 21. Two years later he took over Sidway Hall Farm, near to Ashley. In 1876 he took over the tenancy of Ellerton Grove, Shropshire, and later that of Ellerton Grange.
In 1895, while still the tenant of 5 large farms, he moved to Lubstree Park, between Wellington and Newport. Lubstree Park was situated on the Duke of Sutherland's land. When in 1912 the Duke put all his land around Lillieshall up for sale (with the exception of the Lillieshall monument) TH bought it. The land included not only the farm at Lubstree but several other farms and large houses - Sidney House and Kinnersley.
A Pioneer in the use of artificial manures and concentrated feeding-stuffs, TH was one of the most enterprising and successful farmers of his generation, and his reputation as a feeder of fat stock was high all over the Midlands6.
Both TH and Christiana were members of the Congregational Church. TH remarried a few years after Christiana’s death.
The cause of death as certified by Dr J McC McCarthy is recorded as diabetes over 18 years, Cardiac disease (mitral) 7 years and Coma 4 days. The death was registered by TH's daughter, Marie Minshall. TH is buried in Market Drayton Cemetery.
Had four children
Lawrence was the third brother of his generation to farm in Shropshire. He farmed at Golding, Shropshire. At one point he was also a member of the Atcham Rural District Council.6 He met his wife in Australia while on a world tour.
She returned to Australia with her children after her husband’s death
Lived in Bournemouth (source: copy of family tree from Gary Hnatowich,received August, 1998)
108. Rev Stephen Cawley Walley
"Stephen Cawley Walley 1856-1936 wrote his memoirs in 1926 and was a Vicar in the Church of England serving from 1912 at Hardingham in Norfolk, where he and his wife Mercy Mary nee Densem are buried" (source: Rev. Phillip Cook, in a letter to David Walley dated 11 Sept.1998)
Vicar of St Peter's Warmfield from 1889 to 1912 or possibly 1911 as his successor dates from 1912. I am sure that various records kept in the Diocesan Archives by the West Yorkshire Archive Service will confirm this. They hold three Service Registers from 1888 - 1912 which cover the period as well as various minutes and memoranda. The Diocesan Archivist is Mrs Ruth Harris Tel: 01924 305992/ 30590, Fax: 305983,
aka "Mercy Mary Densem" (source: Rev. Phillip Cook, in a letter to DavidWalley dated 11 Sept. 1998)
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