Thank you so much to those who replied. Your suggestions are appreciated and have proved very enlightening. Thank you again, John DUFFIELD (in Rugby) ________________________________ From: "eng-worcester-request@rootsweb.com" <eng-worcester-request@rootsweb.com> To: eng-worcester@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 10 February, 2010 8:00:39 Subject: ENG-WORCESTER Digest, Vol 5, Issue 22 Today's Topics: 1. Woodcote Green, Bromsgrove (John Duffield) 2. Re: Woodcote Green, Bromsgrove (Peter Booth) 3. Re: Woodcote Green, Bromsgrove (Gus Tysoe) 4. Re: Woodcote Green, Bromsgrove (Mike YEGWART) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:20:52 +0000 (GMT) From: John Duffield <bjdbjd2004@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: [WOR] Woodcote Green, Bromsgrove To: eng-worcester@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <908882.19370.qm@web27101.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 My ancestors were Agricultural Labourers in Woodcote Green in the early 19th. C. and I would like to find out more about the place. Can anyone tell me anything about the history of Woodcote Green, or suggest any sources of such information please? Thank you, John DUFFIELD (in Rugby) ________________________________ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:43:22 +1100 From: "Peter Booth" <pbo08596@bigpond.net.au> Subject: Re: [WOR] Woodcote Green, Bromsgrove To: "John Duffield" <bjdbjd2004@yahoo.co.uk>, <eng-worcester@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <000a01caa985$76c559b0$0300a8c0@family> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original John, Just try Google, but put "Woodcote Green" in inverted commas, so it looks for the phrase. I preceded the name with the word history and came up with this :- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43081&strquery=woodcote Peter ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:02:36 -0000 From: "Gus Tysoe" <gustysoe@tiscali.co.uk> Subject: Re: [WOR] Woodcote Green, Bromsgrove To: "John Duffield" <bjdbjd2004@yahoo.co.uk>, <eng-worcester@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <08E1852793BB492F9D13068A47E39506@Laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Hello John, FWIW Woodcote Green is at OS Ref SO 914 726 - and a quick look at the current 1:25,000 would seem to indicate that there's precious little there *now*... While it *is* shown on the 1830s 1" map, there wouldn't seem to've been much in the way of "development" in the intervening 170 years.... While it was within Bromsgrove Parish it was so only by the skin of its teeth at the time you're talking about, as it was then at the end of a skinny peninsula bordered to the South by Upton Warren, to the North by a detached portion of Upton Warren, and to the West by Chaddesley Corbett. It is possible that the Worcestershire VCH *may* make passing reference to it - try British History Online at < http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ > and work through by clicking on "Regions - Midlands" and then "Victoria County History - Worcestershire". Other than that I've few suggestions :-( Gus ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Duffield" <bjdbjd2004@yahoo.co.uk> To: <eng-worcester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:20 PM Subject: [WOR] Woodcote Green, Bromsgrove > My ancestors were Agricultural Labourers in Woodcote Green in the early > 19th. C. and I would like to find out more about the place. > Can anyone tell me anything about the history of Woodcote Green, or > suggest any sources of such information please? > > Thank you, John DUFFIELD (in Rugby) ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:57:58 +0000 From: Mike YEGWART <mike.yegwart@btinternet.com> Subject: Re: [WOR] Woodcote Green, Bromsgrove To: John Duffield <bjdbjd2004@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: eng-worcester@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <4B7169E6.2090705@btinternet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi John, I can only add that the people of Woodcote Green, were often hatched, matched and dispatched via St. John's in Bromsgrove. Baptisms from 1753 were giving abode and occupation. Also census data comes under Bromsgrove. Early spelling was sometimes Woodcott. You could also check the Tithe Map, 1836-1845 ish. This would give you the Land Owner, use and value of land or buildings, and _possibly_ the name of the occupier. The maps are surprisingly very accurate, down to the shape of the privy at the bottom of the garden. To be honest I don't think much happened there. Cheers Mike John Duffield wrote: > My ancestors were Agricultural Labourers in Woodcote Green in the early 19th. C. and I would like to find out more about the place. > Can anyone tell me anything about the history of Woodcote Green, or suggest any sources of such information please? > > Thank you, John DUFFIELD (in Rugby) > -- Mike Yegwart Branch Chairman BromsgroveBMSGH The Family History Site for North Worcestershire http://www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk/ ******************************** HANDS research site: http://yourhands.awardspace.com/ ------------------------------ To contact the ENG-WORCESTER list administrator, send an email to ENG-WORCESTER-admin@rootsweb.com. 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