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Arthur Wood Antill
Spouses & Children
| Wife: Harriet Antill |
b. March 3, 1865 |
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June 10, 1889 in Christ Church, Mountsorrel |
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b. 1891 |
Harry Wood Antill |
b. 1893 |
Eva Antill |
b. March 17, 1895 in Mountsorrel |
Connie Antill |
b. March 15, 1897 |
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Arthur owned a general store next to The Clock . He sold fruit and potted meats.
Joe Evans wrote 2/7/03
Harrys wife was called Elizabeth. I will send you all the other setails along with the other names. I have seen Peggy today and she has given me loads of information to send you. My grandad said that the primitive methodist church was the one he used to attend. Thomas Wood-Antill who you have down was a lay preacher there untill his death in 1967. My mother atteneded the church there also. I will have to send some of the information Peggy has given me to you by air mail as there is far too much for me too type in. My grandad says that the building called the clock was the village hall. Its full name was Christchurch Hall, it was known as "the clock"v by the locxals. The origional building my grandad says has been knocked down but there is still a hall on the plot where the origional once stod. The shop was only 30 yards away from the clock my grandad said. Our family was famous fpor its potted meats, these were made by us up untill the 1980s, my grandad and his brother Ro! y were the last to make them. The family also made faggots which are a type of meat balls. They used to sell the meats to all the local villages like Rothley and Quorn on a mobile shop which was drawn by a horse. Peggy is going to give me a picture of this cart for you.. I managed to print off the pictures for you. My grandad is going to find some of the old pictures he has for you, as is Peggy. He was soo pleased to see the pictures.This contact between us has made an old man very happy.
By the way my grandad was wrong about the clock. He thought it was the building teh clock. after seeing Peggy yesterday she told me that the clock was called clock yard. It was a group of houses right next to the shop.
Joe
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