| 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.
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