My great-grandfather Alfred Berry born in Battersea, London in 1887. My Berry family originated in the Farnhurst area, now known as Fernhurst, which is located in the modern county of West Sussex near the border with both Hampshire and Surrey. I have traced the Berry line reliably back to Edward Berry who was baptised in Farnhurst in 1743.

Annie Louisa Maud Russell was my great-grandmother and wife of Alfred Berry. She was born in Stratton St. Margarets in Wiltshire in 1893, although this line of Russells had lived for the previous hundred years in the St. Pancras and Holborn areas of London. I have traced the line back as far as Charles Russell born c1806.

My paternal grandfather Alfred Ernest Charles Berry, son of Alfred and Annie was born in Wandsworth in 1911, then part of Surrey. He married Margery Alice Gold in 1938.

My paternal grandmother Margery Alice Gold was born in Mumbles, just outside Swansea in Glamorgan in 1917. She was the daughter of Job Gold and Kate Noble.

My great-grandfather Job Gold was born in Melksham in Wiltshire in 1878. He enlisted in the Royal Artillery in 1894 and fought in the Boer War and WWI reaching the rank of Sergeant-Major. Job married Kate Noble in Hendon in 1908. I have traced this line of Golds back to John Gold baptised in South Moreton in Berkshire in 1712.

My great-grandmother Kate Noble was the illegitimate child of Alice Wiltshire born in Ash in Kent in 1883. That her father was indeed George Noble does not seem to be in doubt. I have traced this line of Nobles back to James Noble born in Whiteparish in Wiltshire in 1794.

My great-great-grandmother Alice Wiltshire was born in in Fawkham in Kent in 1866, the illegitimate daughter of Clara Packman and Henry Dalton. Both the Packman and Dalton lines come from the Medway area of Kent. Alice married George Henry Noble in 1885.

My maternal grandfather Henry James Bradley was born in Lawkland, near Long Preston in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1904. He was the General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists from 1953-1968 and was awarded the OBE in the Queen's New Year honours List in 1969. This Bradley line have lived in the Long Preston and Giggleswick area for centuries. I have traced the line back to John Bradley who was baptised in Long Preston in 1717.

My maternal grandmother Noel Constance Heaton Yewdall was born in Skipton in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1904. She married Henry Bradley in 1931. I have traced this Yewall line back to Abraham Yewdall who was born in Bradford in 1800.

My maternal great-grandmother Urania Boocock was born in Skipton in 1876. She married William Henry Yewdall in 1900. This Boocock line has been traced back to Thomas Boocock born in Skipton in 1768.

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