Last November at the time marking the 100th anniversary of the Armistice, I as was looking through some old family stuff and shared what I was doing with my sister. Now by chance she has a friend who is into geneology, family trees and all that "Who do you think you are" stuff.
A few weeks ago this friend, doing some research on Ancestry.co.uk and Find My Past, unearthed some interesting stuff about my mothers side of the family.
Now when I was a kid my mams sister used to visit a village called Eakring in Nottingham about twice a year and I never knew why. Turns out my maternal grandad got married there ( he was from Usworth) and lived there for a while. Looking at the family tree I had a great grandmother who lived there with her 2 sisters and a brother.
Eakring is not far from Sherwood Forest so I had jokingly said to Mrs Ken before we saw the results that I may be related to Robin Hood !.
" More like Friar Tuck" came the speedy reply.
Be that as it may, ( stick with this please, nearly at the punchline) on the 1891 census form there is a household reference which had 12 people, 7 from the same family and 5 servants. 2 of the servants were my great grandmother and her sister.
At the very bottom of the census is the house name :- North Laiths. So I'm reading this and decided to google North Laiths.
It came up with North Laiths Farm, MAYPOLE BREWERY
I got quite animated by this revelation - what a find. Turns out the farm buildings are now the home to several businesses, one of which is the brewery
In the Good Beer Guide the Maypole Brewery has the description :-
"The Brewery opened in 1995 in a converted 18th century farm buildings"
Im going to email them and suggest a new dark beer name :- "Ken's Ancestral Home"
Could be a top seller.
