West Haddon

Here in West Haddon is where many more of our family were Hatched, Matched and Dispatched from the second half of the 19th Century.
This village is much larger than neighbouring Winwick, and in 1841 had a population of 1,103.

Thomas Orland and his wife Jane (née Kenney) were the first members of the Orland family to make the move to West Haddon, some time between November 1857 (when their son, William, my great great granddad, was baptised in Winwick) and July 1859 (when his younger sister, Elizabeth Jane, was baptised in West Haddon).

Many more made this very short journey over the coming decades. Thomas's Uncle John (1819) and Aunty Jane Orland (née Mortimer) had five children, and the four who survived into adulthood all migrated to West Haddon.

• Charles Alfred - 1848 to 1921 (pictured with his family below).
• George Benjamin - 1850 to 1931
• Ann Eliza - 1852 to 1858
• Mary Jane - 1855 to 1931
• John Mortimer - 1857 to 1918 (pictured with his family on the Winwick page).

Their father, John, saw out his days in Winwick and died relatively young at forty five. Tragically, their sister Ann never saw maturity and died aged five. The remaining children, however, brought up by Jane, all grew up to either settle with their families in West Haddon or marry there and move on.

The eldest son, Charles, married Eleanor Gurney in 1874 and produced a family of eleven children, ten of whom are pictured below in another wonderful family portrait. This one was taken in 1910.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the left hand side of the middle row, seated next to her father, is their eldest child Ann Eliza who married Harry Frank Mitchell at the above church in West Haddon and proceeded to have five sons. It is one of Ann and Harry's grandsons who very kindly allowed me to use this lovely and extremely well kept photograph.

Two views of Guilsborough Road around 1911, where brothers George and Charles lived with their respective families.

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