Re: henry charles jelf
hi helen g
once again thank you for your hard work charls, george , ernie was brothers
and i think it was said by my mother that henry was the oldest then there was charles . then george senior then ernest , then william , and they are all eversham connected
they had lands in eversham and houses there as well,plus they came to birmingham and set up business,s in brum and had there shops with dwelings as well
they came from the old village of honeybourne and brettonford whichis still satueated with jelfs sibblings from bretonford and honey bourne some with the market gardens
by the way if you go back to the history of eversham in he 1700.s -1800,s
eversham was formerly known as gresham i cannot remember excact when they
dropped the letters from it and made it eversham, i don,t know this was before the big battle that took place downon the entry into eversham where in the history books
of today states that this big battle of round heads or the romans. i will have to check it out and it states the green hill road that takes you into eversham which goes down a hil on entry to the town centre states that the road with blood and it was i beleive
it was after that period the name changed
but getting back to charles oh and if you look at the record in our libary
it states that all the jelfs lived very close together and even about a mile apart from each other in those days in and around the villages.like wise when they came to birmingham they styed closed together with there shops and dwellings which also was with in a mile of each other and they never spoke to each other but they always
sold there shops to each other ,the last remaining cottage in honeybourne
which i remember and living in [thatch cottage ] with no electric and a water well for water was sold off by ernest jelf ,and that was around 1955 when victoria hinton
the wife of ernest died she was the business lady behind the scenes whom kept every think in check and she kept in short of money so when she died he quickly sold it to an out sider , because this cottage had been in the jelfs possession since
the 1700.s my mother was the only child to them and it was after he sold it did he tell her what he had done she was belistic to him he was a bounder of a man
and he broke her heart so i do know they are connected to eversham
they was connected to the church of cow honeybourbe they played a big part in that church there provisions to the church when they sold it of is all stored inthe abbey of eversham i did have a book written andcompiled by the villagers that went to print
of all the villagersduring and after the war years .it was a limited edition
i beleive there was so many printed andi have lost it
it was called the honeybourne millium which tells all about thejelfs involment
with the church and of course the cottage ivydene cottage
george became the star and the wealthy i have assertain his will when he died in
1935 he set up ernie and william in business , william faild ernie the rogue
built up and expandedand fel out with ivy andnever spoke in forty years
i will be going into worcester city today to see if they are any old maps of waddbourough and any named street the one in honeybourne the farm is still
there but the street name as changed i went into the old farm house and sat at the very same table in front of the old stone fire place and spoke with the owners
whom was a major jenning he had not changed any think of its orinional brick
work and i told him of my child hood there he got some sketching paper out
and asked me to draw what it was like around the farm and the lane
and what was the farm like i was going back intime and do you know it was like just yesterday he villagers the old habbitants remember them ernie victoria and of
course my mother playing as a child the kents family whom was also known
in brum had a little house and it was a little sweet shop they made that as a listed building because that was there as well with a plaque with there name onas well
also hariss,s bakelite mouldrs the owner came from there as well
they was on the flat at lodge rd hockley my father worked there for him as he knew my grand parents and my mother personaly
helen, i think i had better stop here i amwaffling on abit
so once again many thanks helen for your valuable information and your time ,
have a nice day best wishes astonian ;;
