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Wheeler's Farm
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Hi lyn
Any info at all would be good. I'm researching the history of Wheelers Lane itself, and I thought that looking at the farm and family thhat gave it its name would be a good start! I've heard the farm can be found in the 1880s, and I assume it disappeared in the 1930s with all the housing development..?
Any info at all would be good. I'm researching the history of Wheelers Lane itself, and I thought that looking at the farm and family thhat gave it its name would be a good start! I've heard the farm can be found in the 1880s, and I assume it disappeared in the 1930s with all the housing development..?
I Have a mention of farms that was mentioned that around the 1919 and other dwellings were built at billesley farm kings heath, and pineapple
farm stirchley and stone house farm califfornia and elswhere in all 3,234 houses were erected under the 1919 scheme but no wheelers farm mentioned Alan,, Astonian;;;;;
farm stirchley and stone house farm califfornia and elswhere in all 3,234 houses were erected under the 1919 scheme but no wheelers farm mentioned Alan,, Astonian;;;;;
same here phil...ive looked on the old maps and the scottish overlay maps and i cant see a farm near to the junction of haunch lane and wheelers lane
lyn
OK, thanks for your digging...
I know a Catherine Wheeler lived on the lane at some point (I've yet to check the census records; just hoping to get a little head start...); this presumably led to Wheeler's Lane - with an apostrophe. The farm was maybe locally known as Wheeler's..? And maybe not where I thought?
Thanks for your help.
I know a Catherine Wheeler lived on the lane at some point (I've yet to check the census records; just hoping to get a little head start...); this presumably led to Wheeler's Lane - with an apostrophe. The farm was maybe locally known as Wheeler's..? And maybe not where I thought?
Thanks for your help.
barmad you most likely know this map site but just in case there seems to be a building just up from the smithy in haunch lane but no idea what it was...if you move the blue dot from left to right the map will fade into a then and now view
lyn
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=52.4258&lon=-1.8870&layers=6&b=3
lyn
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=52.4258&lon=-1.8870&layers=6&b=3
pjmburns
master brummie
I will scan it tomorrow but a version is available here https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/...Survey of Scotland First Series&download=true You need to scroll down to the right place
Also this site will give a series of maps showing the development of Wheeler's Lane https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/ you just input the post code
Finally Bill Dargue's site referst o wheeler's Lane before the turnpike of 1767 https://billdargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-k/kings-heath/
Also this site will give a series of maps showing the development of Wheeler's Lane https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/ you just input the post code
Finally Bill Dargue's site referst o wheeler's Lane before the turnpike of 1767 https://billdargue.jimdo.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-k/kings-heath/
Phil
Gone, but not forgotten.
Take a look at this thread that was posted back in 2009, It concerns Haunch Farm that was one of the farms in the locality. Mikejee links to a very interesting map of the area.
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/haunch-lane-farm-kings-heath.25296/
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/haunch-lane-farm-kings-heath.25296/
Robert victor wheeley, was a decendant and janet notes that; an ancester called sarah wheeley ran a charity for the poor in Edgbaston
and the family helped with clothes and food and left five houses to charity; In early 1810 distress swept the land and the poor families
Found it hard to earn the money to buy bread that was their staple diet,
Once again the wheeleys acted as good neibours, providing help for poor families with produce from there farm .
It was reported that mr john wheeley and mr Harrision of edgbaston, sold at there own houses, to the poor people nearly two hundred bushels
Of potatoes, at 8d per peck; and on saturday mr Samuel Wheeley brought also a large quantity to market.
Which he retailed at 10 d per peck. we trust the poor will show by there peaceful conduct, a proper and grateful sense of this liberal diispostion
In the opulent, and those who have the mens to relive their wants;
Unfortunelately hardship and hunger led to bread riots and atack were made on bakers and farmers including john wheeley
Three men were arrested, they were william cottm thomas davis, and mathew rushton found guilty of beginning to demolish and pull down wheeleys house, they was sentence to death,
After a reprieve they was transported for the rest of there lives,
As for the wheeleys samuel died in 1831 and left 500 pounds for the building of a new church in which became ST George,sEdgbaston
and the family helped with clothes and food and left five houses to charity; In early 1810 distress swept the land and the poor families
Found it hard to earn the money to buy bread that was their staple diet,
Once again the wheeleys acted as good neibours, providing help for poor families with produce from there farm .
It was reported that mr john wheeley and mr Harrision of edgbaston, sold at there own houses, to the poor people nearly two hundred bushels
Of potatoes, at 8d per peck; and on saturday mr Samuel Wheeley brought also a large quantity to market.
Which he retailed at 10 d per peck. we trust the poor will show by there peaceful conduct, a proper and grateful sense of this liberal diispostion
In the opulent, and those who have the mens to relive their wants;
Unfortunelately hardship and hunger led to bread riots and atack were made on bakers and farmers including john wheeley
Three men were arrested, they were william cottm thomas davis, and mathew rushton found guilty of beginning to demolish and pull down wheeleys house, they was sentence to death,
After a reprieve they was transported for the rest of there lives,
As for the wheeleys samuel died in 1831 and left 500 pounds for the building of a new church in which became ST George,sEdgbaston
devonjim
master brummie
https://www.kingsheathhistory.co.uk/history1.htm
No one seems to have mentioned this link, which is full of information about King's Heath 'though it doesn't answer the original enquiry. Anyone else unable to open the files in #17 and #18.
No one seems to have mentioned this link, which is full of information about King's Heath 'though it doesn't answer the original enquiry. Anyone else unable to open the files in #17 and #18.
devonjim
master brummie
oldMohawk
gone but not forgotten
The files also work for me and png files work ok on the forum but can be large compared to jpg.
The link contained in the word IMG in #21 takes me to Whitney Houston !!!
The link is below but I have broken it with underscores in https
ht___tp://%22%20above%20the%20thumb%20nail%2C%20always%20a%20bad%20omen%21%20maybe%20it%27s%20a%20m/s%20edge%20quirk!
The link contained in the word IMG in #21 takes me to Whitney Houston !!!
The link is below but I have broken it with underscores in https
ht___tp://%22%20above%20the%20thumb%20nail%2C%20always%20a%20bad%20omen%21%20maybe%20it%27s%20a%20m/s%20edge%20quirk!
So may be this wheeleys farm as they refered to in its hey day was only a small holdings plots of land with farm house just like way back in eversham there was a farm house and a field or two with orchard it was called green hill farm way back then and its still there today
may be that was the case then with wheelys farm but its mentionioned on the thread i mentionioned from cinns reference it said its farm in wheelys lane so it may have been only a farm house and abit of land like pneapple esteate was a series of little farms or houses that may have been the case it aint mentionioned as a farm
may be that was the case then with wheelys farm but its mentionioned on the thread i mentionioned from cinns reference it said its farm in wheelys lane so it may have been only a farm house and abit of land like pneapple esteate was a series of little farms or houses that may have been the case it aint mentionioned as a farm
Thanks for your help with this.
Further investigation has revealed that I was looking at the wrong timeframe. I have found a Catharine Wheeler and her three children on the 1834 census; I have a map showing that she owned a plot of land. Maybe it's coincidence that it was on Wheeler's Lane? but I'm trying to research the family history of her husband Thomas...
I'm curious though that it was called Wheeler's Lane in the 1760s..?
Further investigation has revealed that I was looking at the wrong timeframe. I have found a Catharine Wheeler and her three children on the 1834 census; I have a map showing that she owned a plot of land. Maybe it's coincidence that it was on Wheeler's Lane? but I'm trying to research the family history of her husband Thomas...
I'm curious though that it was called Wheeler's Lane in the 1760s..?
pjmburns
master brummie
Now I am confused - the earliest census is 1841 - isn't it?
Have found her on 1841 map but it just says "Alcester Lanes End" which does not necessarily mean Wheeler's Lane does it. As I said before if there is a farm then it could have been named after the Lane and not vice versa. Are you able to post a copy of the map?
Have found her on 1841 map but it just says "Alcester Lanes End" which does not necessarily mean Wheeler's Lane does it. As I said before if there is a farm then it could have been named after the Lane and not vice versa. Are you able to post a copy of the map?
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