Arthur Edward Featherstone b. 21 Jun 1900 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (Sep 1900 Nottingham NTT 7b 276) d. 28 Sep 1971 Sep 1971 Southwell NTT 3c 1113: Featherstone One Name Study

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Arthur Edward Featherstone[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

Male 1900 - 1971  (71 years)


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  • Name Arthur Edward Featherstone  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7] 
    Born 21 Jun 1900  Nottingham, Nottinghamshire (Sep 1900 Nottingham NTT 7b 276) Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7] 
    Gender Male 
    Name Arthur Featherstone  [3] 
    Residence 1901  Thurgarton Hill, Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • 9/12 age 9/12; Son relationship to head: son
    Residence 1911  Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • age 10; relationship to head: son
    Occupation 1939  [7] 
    horseman on farm 
    Residence 1939  Southwell, Nottinghamshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    • age 39
    Residence 1971  Bramley Cottage, Bleasby Road, Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Died 28 Sep 1971  Sep 1971 Southwell NTT 3c 1113 Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5] 
    • age 71
    Notes 
    • birth registration index Arthur Edward Featherstone Sep 1900 Nottingham NTT 7b 276

      1939 register RG101/6268F
      Southwell, Nottinghamshire
      Arthur E Featherstone M 21 6 00 M horseman on farm (heavy worker) special constable
      Elsie H Featherstone F 19 7 04 M unpaid domestic duties
      Ivy V Wilkinson F 31 12 12 M unpaid domestic duties
      closed record

      death registration index Arthur Edward Featherstone
      birth date 21 June 1900
      Sep 1971 Southwell NTT 3c 1113 age 71

      Probate 1971
      Arthur Edward Featherstone of Bramley Cottage Bleasby Rd Thurgaton Notts died 28 September 1971 Probate Nottingham 15 October £4170

      http://thurgartonhistory.co.uk/2010/12/the-featherstones-of-thurgarton/?fbclid=IwAR1jiVhpQeR6Z7BFKaiKZeYyWdKv0yolJrOeFW71OUTCRpfLD1LmDGBTNXI
      The younger son William continued to work as a farm labourer and remained at Hill Top Cottage where he and wife Mary raised a large family seen in the following census records.
      1901 census William Featherstone aged 36 Labourer, Mary wife 28, Jessie 8, Annie 4, William 2, Arthur 9 months
      1911 census William Featherstone aged 46 Stockman, wife Mary 38, Jessie 18, Arthur 10, Edith 8, Mary 6
      1906 school photo Thurgarton includes 1 Arthur, 2 Jessie, 3 Annie and 4 ? William Featherstone
      Two Featherstone boys served in the forces in World War 1. One of the boys was tragically killed at Bankwood Farm in the 1930s when he was caught by the drive belt of a threshing machine.
      Arthur and Elsie Featherstone
      Arthur had started working life as a chauffeur at Thurgarton Priory but then worked for many years for farmer John Thornton who owned Old Farm in Thurgarton. One of his main duties was ploughing with a team of shire horses. He and Arthur Crowder of Beck St would rise at 5am; after feeding, watering and harnessing, the horses were led out to till the arable fields with a single blade plough. It was a long day of backbreaking work in all weathers. Not surprisingly he left farming in later life and took up a less physically demanding job at the nearby Hoveringham Gravel Company as a loco driver; his friend Arthur Crowder followed him a few years later.
      Elsie Featherstone, known as ‘Feathers’ to her neighbours, had worked as a maidservant at Thurgarton Priory. She was a formidable woman. A keen gardener she was much annoyed by her neighbour planting a stand of poplar trees which shaded her vegetable plot, and she took to a nightly covert ritual of shaking the trees vigorously which eventually succeeded in killing them off.
      Arthur was a quiet man, sober and careful with his money - one wonders whether the family stories of hardship and poverty moulded his attitudes. If one inspects the photograph of Arthur and his horse team in the ploughing match one can see from the immaculate preparation of the horses and his concentration that here was a man who took pride in his work and no doubt some pleasure in a job well done.
      The Featherstones were not unusual, their story and similar ones can be found throughout the countryside but it was such households who formed the backbone of rural communities in England.
    Person ID I372421964387  Southern England
    Last Modified 14 May 2024 

    Father William Henry Featherstone,   b. 1864, Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire (Dec 1864 Southwell NTT 7b 256) Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1930, Sep 1930 Southwell NTT 7b 403 Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Mother Mary Ann Haywood,   b. Abt. 1873, Sheffield, Yorkshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 1892  Jun 1892 Southwell NTT 7b 721 Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Family ID F618  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elsie Henrietta North,   b. 19 Jul 1904, Sep 1904 Southwell NTT 7b 499 Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1996, Feb 1996 Basford NTT C28B 6852 298 Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 91 years) 
    Married 1928  Dec 1928 Southwell NTT 7b 1031 Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Last Modified 14 May 2024 
    Family ID F620  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1911 - Thurgarton, Nottinghamshire Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1939 - Southwell, Nottinghamshire Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S1435192670] England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, United States of America; Date: 2010;).
      Record for Arthur Edward Featherstone

    2. [S1435192690] England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916-2005, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, United States of America; Date: 2010;), General Register Office; United Kingdom; Volume: 7b; Page: 1031.
      Record for Arthur E Featherstone

    3. [S1435192704] 1901 England Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, United States of America; Date: 2005;), Class: RG13; Piece: 3193; Folio: 36; Page: 10.
      Record for William Featherstone

    4. [S1435192793] 1911 England Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, United States of America; Date: 2011;), The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey; Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911.
      Record for William H Featherstone

    5. [S1435192970] England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, United States of America; Date: 2007;), General Register Office; United Kingdom; Volume: 3c; Page: 1113.
      Record for Arthur Edward Featherstone

    6. [S1435192990] England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915, FreeBMD, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, United States of America; Date: 2006;).
      Record for Arthur Edward Featherstone

    7. [S1435193201] 1939 England and Wales Register, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2018;), The National Archives; Kew, London; 1939 Register; Reference: RG 101/6268F.
      Record for Arthur E Featherstone

    8. [S1435192672] England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915, FreeBMD, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, United States of America; Date: 2006;).
      Record for William Henry Featherstone


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The spelling of the name Featherstone has varied over the centuries, with additions and subtractions. Here is the list that we have registered with the Guild Of One Named Studies.

Featherstone, Featherston, Fetherstone, Fetherston, Featherstonhalgh, Featherstonehaugh, Featherstonhaugh, Fetherstonehaugh, Fetherstonhaugh.

We have examples from the Birth, Marriage and Death indexes where people were registered at birth with the final 'e' missing and were married with the final 'e' in the surname. The 'haugh' is more difficult to prove, but people have suddenly adopted it for no apparent reason, although we have instances where people adopted the name, usually when money was involved.

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Some common falacies

Featherstonehaugh or it's many variations is not pronounced Fanshaw which is a name in it's own right