I AM researching the history of the Beadles family and wondered if any of your readers could assist? In particular I would like to find any information on Charles Fowler Beadles who lived in Mitchel­dean in the nineteenth century. There are records relating to him living their in 1830.

In addition in 1976 John Nathaniel Beadles was living at the Bachelor's House which I assume was also in Mitcheldean. The Bead­les family were related by marriage to the Abell family and Oliver Beadles married Eliza Wilton Abell in Mitchel­dean in 1961. This marriage produced four daughters: Agnes, Gert­rude, Gwendoline and Jessie.

If anyone has any information about the family – where they lived, anecdotes, photographs – I would be very interested! There were branches of the same family in Malmesbury and Broadway in addition to the original Welsh contingent from Pontypool. – F. S. Green, Yew Tree Cottage, Newcastle, Monmouth, NP25 5NT.