Originally Posted by Gremlin (Post 1011903)

Roland Tregurtha lived on Roe Greave rd for 40 years and died a month ago

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 1011910)

I didn't know he'd passed away. That's sad.

I presume, seeing as it's the same surname, and he lived on there, that it's the same person who was the lollipop man at the crossing near the junction with Roe Greave, and the former caretaker at Moor End School?

If so, he was a lovely man.

R.I.P.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1011938)

unusual name, yet i know one same name, yet different to those 2 guys.:)

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 1011948)

I think a lot of surnames that begin Tre- are Cornish Cashy.

Originally Posted by Gremlin (Post 1011935)

Not same Roland
This one was a potter at Holdens from aged 14 until they closed.
He never married, his sister Dorothy moved out the house 10 years ago and lives in sheltered accommodation near Ossy coop.

Originally Posted by janloot (Post 1011988)

my father married into the catlows, they originally had the pub, was barbara married to jack catlow decorater, or was she their daughter?, my step mother was hilda,

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 1011948)

I think a lot of surnames that begin Tre- are Cornish Cashy.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 1012001)

I always presumed they were originally Cornish.

I always thought he looked like he could have been an extra in Poldark.

Very dark wavy hair, swarthy complexion.

There are quite a few families in the area, with ties to Cornwall.

I think they came for work in the mills, when the tin mines were laying folk off.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1011951)

Yeh may be right Di, the tribe i knew came from Plymouth originally.;)

Originally Posted by janloot (Post 1011922)

my name is mcclinton

Originally Posted by janloot (Post 1011988)

my father married into the catlows, they originally had the pub, was barbara married to jack catlow decorater, or was she their daughter?, my step mother was hilda,

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 1011997)

Sorry for butting in again, but that post reminded me of another shop, that was just round the corner, from the start of Roe Greave Road, and was there, certainly in the sixties, because I was togged out in there.

Hilda's Baby Linen shop.

On the other corner was Reader's fruit and veg.

They had a daughter who was a teenager then, a friend of my Mum's, called Kathleen Reader.

Originally Posted by Gremlin (Post 1012043)

I am guessing the tribe you knew cashy lived on Dowry street, their name was Tregartha, not Tregurtha. They were Ronnie and Edna, and had a few sons and daughters, Norman, Rowland, Sheila, Ann and some more. They are distant relations to the Tregurtha's, we think many years ago when the records were hand written some one didn't finish the "a" off at the top so it looked like a "u" and from then on that branch was Tregurtha.
Norman changed his surname to Blight after his mother's maiden name, she was from Plymouth also.

The two families are related through the great grandfather so the mistake must have happened from him onwards.

Originally Posted by janloot (Post 1012330)

did she have a sister, kathleen rings a bell, be 50 years since i left ossy, memorys a bit dodgey.i think barbaras dad was called jack, jack was one of my stepmothers brothers.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1012370)

See the Gobstoppers didn't work.:D

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 1012377)

No, well they wouldn't.

I posted the order of the kid in front of me.

I only ever bought those childrens' cigarette sweets, and wine gums.

Or for special occasions, a Spanish pipe, and edible baccy.

:D

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 1012366)

The chippy's still there, though the old sweet's shop's a barbers.

When I started going into the sweet shop in the sixties, it was called Mrs. Taylor's.

You could take a short cut to Moor End if you went through the ginnel, that ran between the sweet shop and the doctor's surgery, which is now the dentist's.

It only sold sweets.

All the usual jars, coconut mushrooms, humbugs, mint imperials etc., and a few boxes of chocolates for the rare adult.

Two glass cases of penny sweets, for her more usual, tiny customers.

She must have had the patient of a saint.

'One, no two white mice please Mrs. Taylor, and one Black Jack, some Spanish shoelaces, one shrimp please, and I'll have the rest in gob stoppers.'




:D