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The Burntwood Family History Group Journal is published by the Burntwood Family History Group. The journal is published quarterly and available free to members including postal members and available at £1.00 to non members.
 
Copies of the journal can be obtained at any of our meetings, or by post from the Honorary Secretary, Geoff Sorrell, The Annex, Green Lane Farm, Green Lane, Burntwood, Staffordshire, WS7 9HB (01543 684340)
 
Cheques to be made payable to 'Burntwod Family History Group'
 
If you are a Family History Group or any other Group interested in exchanging journals,
please contact Geoff Sorrell
 
If you wish to advertise in the journal, or on our website,
please contact Geoff Sorrell for current rates and conditions
 
If you have any articles, photographs or stories you would like included in the Journal,
 please contact our Journal Editor Jenny Lee or 01889 586168
 
Contents of the Oct-Dec 2010 Journal 
 
From the Editor........
Chairman's 2010 report to the AGM
News from the Secretary
Burntwood's Servicemen
Will the 2011 Census be the Last?
Reviews of Guest Speakers
Have you a nutter in the family?
In Memoriam
A Hundred-Year Wait for Consecration
Results of Members' Survey
This isuues's Cover Photograph
Useful Addresses
Programme of Speakers
 
 
An extract from the October - December 2010 Journal
 
This Issue's Cover Photograph
 
Saint Stephen's Church, Fradley
 
 
Saint Stephen's Church, Fradley, was built in 1861 at the urging of the Vicar of Alrewas, Revd. R. H. Hazlehurst, and it was intended as a 'chapel of ease' rather than a church. In the mid-19th century, the local people of Fradley wished to worship and be buried in the village where they had lived rather than have to travel along the 'coffin trail' to the Parish Church in Alrewas. The then Earl of Lichfield is said to have contributed to the cost of the building
 
The church is home to 35 war graves, a number of which are the last resting places of Australian airmen, stationed at nearby Fradley airfield (known at the time as RAF Lichfield), who lost their lives in the Second World War. There is also a memorial site opposite the church in their honour. The war graves also include a Luftwaffe pilot who was shot down, and an infantryman from the First World War
 
The chimney which can be seen at the right of the building has now been demolished due to the building of a small extension at the side of the church, which is used as a meeting room
 
The churchyard, originally quite small, was extended by some half an acre in 1956 - an increase in size considered at the time to be be 'sufficient' to provide burials for the next 100 years or more
 
Read extracts from previous Journals, right back to the first issue in May 1988
 
More extracts from more Journals will be added in due course
 
Issue 1
August 1989
Issue 3
Issue 6
 
Issue 7
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
National Burial Register
 
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