Pritchard and Edmunds Family History
This is the family history of the Edmunds family of Halifax and the Pritchard family, originally from Middlesex but who travelled and settled in Adelaide, Australia in 1839 on the SS Hooghly. John Joseph Pritchard, my husband's father returned to England to study at Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in the 1930's. He married Muriel Edmunds on the 9th May 1940.
May 4th 2004-2007 marked an important day in our family history. It was the centennial celebration of the meeting between the Hon.Charles Rolls and Henry Royce who were introduced to each other by my husband’s great grandfather, Henry Edmunds. Henry was an enterprising and entrepreneurial man, born in Halifax in 1853. Much of his story is known and a biography was published called “The Godfather of Rolls-Royce” by Paul Tritton in 1993 .
Family names on the Edmunds side include: Edmunds, Pagden, Wayman, Hatton, Wigney and King Sampson, with links to America.
Family names on the Pritchard side include: Pritchard, Cooper, Cousins, Durant, Wallis and Richards. Most of this work has been done by Bill Pritchard in Adelaide and includes the Pritchard family beginning in Middlesex, emigration to Australia and back again to England.
For the last few years I have been researching my husband's family background and now I have started my own. Names include Mangan (Mangham), Chadwick, Verney, Childerstone and Bishop. This is in the very early stages of research and pages will be added in due course.
HELP NEEDED.
Looking for information on Daniel H. Mangan. On the 1901 census he was visiting the family of George Mangan in Pendleton, Lancashire. He gives his age as 19 and was a Private in the 2nd West Yorkshire Regiment and place of birth was Sheffield, Yorks. So far I have been unable to trace him. The only possibility was a Daniel Mangan whose birth was registered Dec 1884 in Chorlton, Lancs. Is this the same person? Was he bending the truth to get in the army? He is visiting a family with the same surname. What is the link?
