We can trace the Forresters dynasty to Edgmond in Shropshire (Salop as it was then known). Few records remain (due to a fire) but we definitely have roots here.Edgmond has remained to this day a small rural community with very little claim to fame. Even a rumour that Ossy Osborne lived there for a while…

Cheswardine was home to our ancestors the Forresters. It has changed little since James Forrester and his family left sometime in 1851. Harriet Forrester (Hugh Grant Stevenson’s mother) was born there and her father James was a regular visitor to the local “beak”. The gravestone of James’s father Thomas Forrester can still be found in…

Hugh Grant Forrester’s grandmother Mary Ann Martin was born in Wellington on the

Now part of Market Drayton.

St Oswald church was built around 1720 and in 1800 a tower was added. Our ancestors would however not recognize the building as it now stands since the size was doubled in 1850 by adding a wing. By then all our direct ancestors had moved elsewhere. The red sandstone used to build it was quarried…

According to Hinstock gravestones the Lockley’s lived for many generations in LockleyWood. Although the exact location where they lived in Lockleywood is not recorded we do know that Thomas Lockley’s farmhouse was located at the end of the lane called Lockley Wood, in the area known as Goldstone. Thomas Lockley was farmer here until the…