Genealogy
We have received messages via this website from people looking for their ancestors and living relatives.
Please contact this website if you have any information on the following names:
CANNONS GARAGE
"I came across the Puckeridge Village web site when doing some family research.
I lived with my family in Puckeridge from 1931 until 1949 when we left Puckeridge to live in Australia. If you have any "missing links" from those years I may be able to help you.
My father was the owner of Puckeridge Garage (opposite White's butcher shop) and Cannon's Coaches."
Elizabeth Davies
PUCKERING:
"I'm looking for any descendants of the Puckering family, who originated from Puckeridge in the late 1600's to mid 1700's."
Mark Puckering
WREN:
The family came from the Puckeridge/Braughing area.
Does anyone remember the Wrens?
SPENCER or PAGE:
Florence Emily Spencer came from Puckeridge. Her father was a hay/straw dealer who lived in the centre of the village in the early 1900s. Florence married William Augustus Page.
Roy Spencer Page, their son, spoke often and fondly of Christmas in Puckeridge.
The Spencer's lunch of beef and goose was cooked by Arthy, the baker, and bought up to the house.
The massive farm shire horse, the grooms, the huge carts of hay and straw were sent down to the various mews in London.
Florence had a renowned ability to 'magic' away warts and unsightly blemishes - apparently 'patients' would turn up at the house out of the blue from far and wide, supply a hair from their head and Florence would make up a 'potion' including best steak and hair, bury it in the garden and within a week the offending blemish would disappear! It was said Florence inherited this ability from her own mother.
The Spencers had a fair few cottages in and around Puckeridge, and when Mr Spencer died, it was found that he insisted in his Will that all his tenants were bequeathed life tenancies and, of course, this was carried through. The cottages were sold one by one as the tenants themselves pased away, with the profit from each sale going towards updating the remaining cottages and so on until the final couple of cottages were sold shortly after Florence's own death.
A year or so ago the person who contacted this website was watching The Antiques Road Show on BBC1 . There was someone showing a collection of photos and amongst them was one of a shop in Puckeridge some time around 1900-1930 and above the shop window was the name 'PAGE'.
Does anyone have a picture of this shop or any information about it?
Does anyone remember a Page or Spencer family?
WE ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON:-
THE GRANGE, HIGH STREET, PUCKERIDGE to add to the information in History Articles.
and
THE PUCKERIDGE BILLIKEN
Carolyn Englert, a resident of the USA came across this little statue, labelled "Billiken", in her grandmother's china collection.
The Billiken was first produced in 1909 by an American art teacher and illustrator, Florence Pretz of Missouri, as a good luck charm. Florence Pretz had seen a vision of this mysterious figure in a dream. It became popular in Japan and is still being produced in a folk art way in Alaska.
The Puckeridge Billiken was produced by Grafton China. A transfer stamped upon the Billiken's back shows the hart of Hertford upon a representation of rivers inside a shield. The name Puckeridge is carried in a ribbon underneath the shield.
If anyone has any more information on this please contact the website.
