Re: HAROLD JAMES ARKINSTALL
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Re: HAROLD JAMES ARKINSTALL
12/10/99
Peter C Turner
e-mail: [email protected] Telephone 0121 422 4406
67 Halesowen Road
Halesowen
West Midlands, B62 9BB
Dear Joyce
I'm composing this off-line to get all the information together as I often find I lose a
connection while writing letters.
Q. Your g grandfather was a child of John/Sarah and he had 11 siblings? My database
indicates 12 children born at reasonable dates to John & Sarah of Gt Bolas.
You ask about my parents (and my Arkinstall connection I assume); my grandfather
James Charles Turner had four sisters, one, Gertrude, married Dennis Arkinstall.
Dennis was one of7 children born to George/Thomas Arkinstall & Mary Elizabeth
Glover. The first two children had the middle name Gymry and the surname Glover -
all the other children had the surname Arkinstall. There is no evidence of any marriage.
The single offspring of Dennis and my grandaunt Gertrude was my cousin Donald
Arkinstall. It is for this never-met cousin that I am attempting to elucidate his forebears.
Both Mary Elizabeth and George Thomas all but defy unravelling; Mary never knew
her father who died when she was a tiny infant; this mirrored her mother's early life.
Both married men considerably older than themselves, by three decades in the case of
George and Mary.
I use Thomas/George as when one George Arkinstall moved in c1905 he was George
Arkinstall, watch maker, in the former address and Thomas Arkinstall, watch maker, in
the next address. There is no George Thomas/ Thomas George in 1881 census or the
IGI.
As I wroteearlier I have never met my cousin Donald, grandson of Thomas/G but he
has been helpful in my primary quest, that of recording basket making (wicker working)
in the English Midlands. My grandfather referred to above was the last in a line of at
least four generations of craftsmen. As a child I watched him at work; I was not
specially interested, it was just what granddad did. Since he died nearly 20 years ago his
picture has appeared so frequently in various historical publications usually with wholly
inadequate, sometimes totally erroneous, captions, that I am endeavouring to put the
matter straight.
I hope you feel more in the picture now.
Looking forward to further revelations...
Regards Peter.
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