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  One never knows where or how new genealogical information will be found, especially
when one keeps the antennae high!
  A chance encounter outside a Naples, Florida beauty salon with a beautifully coiffed
Englishwoman led to her revealing her hometown in England as NANTMEAL, CHESHIRE! (Was that guardian angel, the WADARD KNIGHT, again in charge here as he may have been during my visit to the Norman Conquest battle site near Hastings in 1983?)
  Some Woodward researchers believe the Quaker meetinghouse in NANTWICH was the
house of worship of our American Chester County, PA progenitors, brothers RICHARD AND ROBERT WOODWARD AND THEIR SISTER, ELIZABETH WOODWARD.
  Our new NANTWICH contact, Joan, reports that the meetinghouse today no longer is a
house of worship, but rather serves a little theater group. Further Joan sent along some drawings of the oldest buildings in NANTWICH: “Your forebears must have known these 400-500 year- old buildings before they left on that long and hazardous journey to Pennsylvania” [circa 1682].

Here they are for all of us to enjoy.


Churche's Mansion

 


Sweet Briar Hall

 


Welsh Row

 


The Queen's Aid House

St. Mary's Church, Nantwich

The High Street

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