Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
Alfred Henry Richman was born in 1865 and was one of four brothers who left their village (Swavesey) in Cambridgeshire in the late 1800's. Alfred moved around a bit in England (mostly around Enfield and Cheshunt just north of London, where he worked in the royal armaments factories. He met his wife, Alice Louise Wilson in that area, she being a Scottish woman who had come down from Aberdeen or Inverness (I think). They had a large family, 8 or 9 (I'd have to look it up in my files). Much of this information comes from written information from the family bible of his son, Leondard Richman (who left it to his son, the late Leonard Richman (my uncle). However, I think it was originally Alfred Richman's bible. Alfred immigrated before 1914 to Windsor Ontario Canada where he worked at the newly established Ford Motor Company of Canada. According to my uncle, there is a group photograph taken of Ford employeess prior to 1919 and Alfred is somewhere in the picture. My uncle also had 2 photographs of Alfred (which I have copies of). One is a family group picture of a youngish Alfred and Louise with most of their young children, perhaps taken somethime in the 1890's. The other photo is of a much older Alfred with his grandson Leonard (my uncle) as a baby. This perhaps was taken around 1914. I think most, if not all Alfred's chilren followed him to Canada. My grandfather (Leonard) was one of his sons who after marrying in London and having his first child born there (ironically the same Leonard Richman born at Tower Hamlets in 1912 listed on the line above your query on the Genforum website from Aileen Richman), followed his father to Windsor and worked in the Windsor area throughout the First World War. Alfred Henry Richman died in Windsor during the Spanish Flu Epidemic in 1919, as did his daughter-in-law (my father's mother) a week later. Alfred's wife, although fairly old at that point, remarried in Windsor and remained their until her death at a later date. They are all are buried in Windsor Grove Cemetary in Windsor. Some of their grown children stayed in Canada and there are descendents in the Windsor and London areas of Ontario as well as some in Michigan. Some of them returned to England after the war, including my grandfather, Leonard (who had remarried after losing his wife in 1919). Only his eldest son returned with him to England (my aforementioned uncle Leonard). My father and his 2 young sisters were adopted by Canadian families and remained in Canada.
Meanwhile, two of Alfred Henry's brothers are known to have married in England and have descendents still living there. I have no information about the third, who moved to Devonshire. I have some photographs of Alred's 3 brothers, as well as several photos of their father and mother (Alfred and Mary, born in about 1835) and one picture of Alfred's father (John Richman, born in 1805), all the photos provided by Richman relatives in England.
I also have extensive history of the Richman genealogy in Cambridgeshire back to the late 1500's and keep in contact with some of the remaining Richman relatives in Canada and England. I would be happy to pass on any of this information to you, if you're interested. Incidently, the origin of the name "Richman" in this case comes from "Richmond", which in Cambridgeshire appears in a number of local place names, they being associated with the Honour of Richmond, a manorial estate system originally bestowed upon one of William the Conqueror's loyal soldiers in the 11th century in Cambridgeshire and elsewhere in England. Richmond Castle in Yorkshire was the seat of power and this manorial honour system continued up until the 17th century when it began to break down. John of Gaunt was Earl of Richmond in 1342. The Richmans probably lived or worked at one of these manorial holdings in Cambridgeshire and acquired the family name by association. Early documents concerning the Richmans use the Richman and Richmond interchangeably, sometimes even within the same document. After about 1750, the name was fairly consistently given as Richman. Their first appearance in the Swavesey parish register occurs in 1597 with the baptism of Paul and Mary Richmond's daughter, Elizabeth. the last Richman buried in the parish churchyard was within the last 20 years ago, so the Richmans have a 400 year plus association with this village. If you would like to know more about the village of Swavesey, the following internet sites are quite informative (http://www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/swavesey/index.html and http://www.themeridian.freeserve.co.uk/)
Followups:No followups yet |
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/richman/messages/39.html | ||
 |
Agreement of Use Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|