I hope you are going to name your new spring Chad's Well
a well named after a person named after a place named after a well named
after a person
I love this sort of thing. Eat your hearts out EPNS! This is what place
names are really about...
Regards
John A.W.Lock
----- Original Message -----
From: Lois Chadwell Cruz <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 3:31 PM
Subject: St. Chad's Wells?
> Greetings all--
>
> I'm relatively new to this mailing list and have never posted to it, so an
> introduction is in order before I get to the point <g>. I'm a 43 year old
> mother and grandmother living in West Virginia in the US, an amateur
> genealogist for the last 25 years or so, a collector of folklore and a
> student of history. There are probably a variety of reasons for people's
> subscribing to this list, and mine is primarily (and perhaps obviously)
> genealogy related. Sometimes one must get a little creative in trying to
> unravel the ancestral mysteries!
>
> I am trying to find clues to my earliest US Chadwell ancestor's birthplace
> in the UK (most likely England); places to begin searching English
records.
> So far I know of two "St. Chad's Wells": one in Lichfield in
Staffordshire,
> and one in Lastingham in North Yorkshire. Does anyone know of any others,
> and would you be willing to share the info.?
>
> I live on a hilly farm, and have discovered a spring here that is very wet
> even at the end of the long summer drought we've had to endure. Inspired
> partly by the dedication and commitment to preserving and restoring wells
> that I've seen from you all, I'm undertaking to dig out the spring, line
the
> resulting pool with stones, build an enclosing wall and screen the top to
> keep it clean. Helpful to the wildlife and a pleasant place to visit!
>
> Thanks for allowing me to participate!
> Kind Regards,
> Lois Chadwell Cruz
>
>
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