Dry Drayton Family History
Here we can post family history items connected with Dry Drayton - please send us your photographs and information.
A Village Will from 1648 - here is an image and a transcript of the will of Thomas Northroppe of Dry Drayton written in 1648. Fred Northrop (probably no relation) would like to know if anyone can link Thomas and his will with any later Dry Drayton residents.
The links below relate to queries and information about village families. Please E-mail webmaster@drydrayton.net if you want to be put in touch with any of our family history contributors
- Silk Family 1790-1799
- Charlie and Ada Baker
- Huddlestone Family
- Bell, Webster and Metcalfe families.
- Woodley Francis and Mary Clements families
- Patrick Edward Mitchell - one generation back
Useful Links
Cambridgeshire Family History Society
Old Cambridgeshire Photographers
Looking for photos of your ancestors who lived in Dry Drayton?
This link will take you to information about the Post Office Terrace Studio in Cambridge. http://www.fadingimages.uk/POT1.asp. This was a popular studio for portraits with clientelle from both in and around Cambridge. Many negatives from this studio have survived and are in the Cambridgeshire Collection. The following is a list of Dry Drayton names in the indices of these negatives. You can buy prints from these negatives from the Cambridgeshire Collection.
E.T.Hooley, Dry Drayton, WW1
Armstrong, C.H.A. The Rectory 5.2.1943
Armstrong, T Dry Drayton 17.6.1959
Binge E two children, Dry Drayton
Blake, Mrs S.W. Favonius, Dry Drayton 7.9.1967
Blake, S.W. Park Lane Dry Drayton 17.11.1965
Brackley, G. 6 Oak Crescent, wedding 8.6.1968
Bullen, J.J. Duck End 26.11.1949
Crisp, Miss Dry Drayton 1890s
Davies, Mrs J.J. The school house Childerley, Dry Drayton 16.8.1946
Dilley, N.W.H. Rectory Cottage, Dry Drayton 10.4.1943
Doyle, J The Old Rectory
Hewitt, C.K. Dry Drayton, Red Cross Nurse
Hooley, E.T. Dry Drayton
Hooley, Mrs Dry Drayton
Kidman, John Dry Drayton 1890s
Trohock, Mrs. Child, Dry Drayton