This has resulted in my putting together a slide presentation that I demoed a couple of weeks ago to Hethersett Mothers' Union. It was well received as was today's presentation. I have tried to make it as interesting and informative as possible, featuring 14 people at the present time (I have a list of another nine that will form the nucleus of a second part).
Part one features a variety of different people including Temperance Flowerdew who came from a landed gentry Hethersett family and was one of the earliest pioneers of Virginia in the USA, Elizabeth Pulley who was born in Hethersett and was a one woman crimewave before being sent to Australia and becoming a pioneer of the area around Sydney, Captain Arnold Sandys-Winch who designed many of Norwich's parks and also the Norwich Ring Road, the Rev Frederic Jarvis who was Rector of Hethersett during the First World War and Sir William Steward, the last owner of Hethersett Hall before it became a care home. I also featured the racehorse Hethersett, winner of the classic St Ledger back in the 1960s. Sir William may or may not be a relative of mind (same surname but as yet no confirmation that we are related).
I am hoping to include much of my research on a website in the near future. Many thanks also for the group's kind donation to the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Charity SANDS in memory of our dear grandson Oliver who was stillborn in 2011.
On a personal note I had a blood test on Friday and apparently have high cholesterol so it looks like a change of diet is on the cards. Lots of oily fish, fruit and vegetables (yuck) instead of biscuits and cake!