There was relatively little information collected on the 1841 census compared with later editions but this does give an idea of the families in the village at the time. However the writing on the 1841 return is very hard to read and this does seem to have resulted in...
Written Records
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Chrishall Church Gravestone Inscriptions
Chrishall Churchyard (with thanks to The Village Web where this article was first published) There has been a church at Chrishall since before the Norman Conquest. Burial could have been offered to a Chrishall population consisting of 2 Freemen, 4 Sokemen (tenants of...
Susan Davies (Obituary)
Susan Davies was born in Chrishall on the 8th of July 1937. She was christened Jennifer Susan Mary but was always known as Susan, or Sue, leading to some confusion on official documents at times! Susan had a lovely country childhood and her love of the countryside...
Irene Cranwell – obituary
Irene Cranwell died peacefully at her home at Faerie Cottage in Crawley End on Thursday 7th January 2010. She would have been 100 years old in February. She was born Emily Irene White in 1910 but from an early age she was known as Irene or Irenie. The daughter of a...
Pam’s Memories of Nanny (Lil Flack)
Geoff & Phyllis Brooks came to Crawley End in 1964 and left in 1976 when they moved to the Yorkshire dales. The cottage referred to below is the right hand end of Mapletons, and is where Lil and Tubal Flack lived before moving to Pinkeneys, the bungalows in...
Lil and Tubal Moses Flack
(Geoff & Phyllis Brooks came to Crawley End in 1964 and left in 1976 when they moved to the Yorkshire dales. The cottage referred to below is the right hand end of Mapletons, Crawley End). Copyright G G Brooks 1993 - Chrishall 4 - Lil and Tubal Flack The old...
Memories from Dr Barbara Smith
Greetings from an ex-Chrishallite - Dr. Barbara Smith (May 2002) Back to: I have fond memories of Chrishall. I spent 5 years there as a child living in the first house on Mill Causeway (from the Elmdon end). At that time the house was a white pebble-dashed bungalow...
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