This is still a long
way from a faded paper, the heading of this website page. Early in December 2024 photogenic Honor
Wildblood lighted up a Mirror edition. She won a big bonus from her
employer, AO World of Manchester, at a “best-ever Christmas do.” The patriotic
dandy with the mike is electrical retail company head John Roberts. Honor is
the granddaughter of the equally photogenic rib-breaker immediately below.
This from
the March 1996 Rochdale Observer. An April 2010 Alec is seen on our own
News page. His equally handsome and trusted son Phil is still breaking ribs well beyond his own 50th
birthday.
The website author, Alan, turned 80 in December 2023. His 1943 baby book was passed around at the celebration. Gifts from the Wildblood side included booties and cash toward a highchair. Other donors (living in Trenton, New Jersey), included Annabel and Earl Snyder, Dot Golden, Virginia Schmidt, Miriam Dean, Grace Buxton and Jane Wolverton.
Here is what Dr. Wittenborn charged to deliver Alan. Nurse Miriam Dean, mentioned above as a donor, recalled that the obstetrician's hand slipped, causing a birthmark on Alan's right arm.
Accomplishment
of Kaitla’s aspiration of 2003 is proven under our (2023) News.
This Observer ad is from 1997. The family is still offering quality in nearby Norden in 2023.
Much earlier premises are shown under News.
The holder
of this certificate is shown under News by scrolling down to 2010.
We thank Andrew Davies of Weston-super-Mare for this scan. The Bible was handed down by his cousin, Betty Enid Taylor Wildblood née Hall. Some of the exact dates were new to the archivist when received in July 2020. Andrew is the nephew of our pioneering researcher, Harry Charie. Betty is the widow of John Kenneth Wildblood (1925-2013). The entries are for the 1849-68 births in Burslem of the children of William Wildblood and Mary Ann Bowers: Ann, Frank, Fred, Eliza, Charles, Ralph, twins Fred and Frank (again), Mary Dinah, Maria, Laura, Selina and Alice.
George Herbert Wildblood (1905-84) is shown below adjusting the medal he received a medal for his service at the Royal Ordnance Depot at Donnington, Shropshire, very near where he was born. The two illustrations were graciously provided by the recipient’s granddaughter, Linda Doolan née Wildblood.
George Herbert Wildblood, Esq.
Vita, the Champlain Monster, a whale of a tale told by Edward James Wildblood 1927-2002. Ed had secured the American border with Mexico and Canada and did not allow the creature to reach the Vermont shore where the Wildbloods lived. The beast, which had evolved from a well-fed perch in the "course" of one year, winked at Ed's son Eric and returned to the deep with much aggravated indigestion after devouring the New York half of an interstate ferry.
The cartoon artist and author of the above story was Grand Master of Freemasons in the Green Mountain State. During his contacts with the webmaster and other family history researchers, Ed expressed his hope of finding a Wildblood lodge member in the United Kingdom.
The following letter was sent by Garth Edward Wildblood (1950-1997) to researcher Harry Charie in 1990.The uncle in Manitoba he refers to was Robert Thomas Wildblood aka Willblood (1920-2013). The son of John then living in Australia was Denzil (1927-2004). Denzil's father was John William Wildblood (1906-1987) of Meifod and Oswestry. The Conard retiree was actually George William Wildblood (1888-1972) from Leeds. He and Peter Wildeblood are not (yet) related to Garth.
This cherished certificate awarded to Stanley Wildblood 1926-2004 on December 5, 1991 for service to the Order of St. John is preserved under glass on the wall of his daughter Carol Greenaway in Brierley Hill.
Here Stan is shown with wife Ruby holding the breast star medal associated with the honor. We are told that serving in this worthy organization ran in the Dudley Family.
First page of the Royal Air Force Observer's and Gunner's Flying Log Book belonging to Edward David Wildblood (1920-2015). The cover of the volume is shown below the 1941-1944 entries. In case you are unable to read what is written on the cover, it is "E D Wildblood." The entire log book was scanned and contributed by Ted's family living in Portugal in January 2016. More on the observer / gunner is found in a October 2015 News entry.
World War II OBSERVER'S AND AIR GUNNER'S FLYING LOG BOG belonging to Edward David Wildblood
More records of what Dad did in the war cherished by son David in Portugal
In November 1915 Miss Nellie Wildblood queries her mother about Nell's desire to work as a nurse in Serbia, a Great War ally of the British. This specimen is one of a bundle contributed by Nellie's grandchild, Sally Mitchell. The return address is Paddock House, where Nell
was attending to war wounded. Nell was a beginner in nursing but already an accomplished pianist and vocalist, having studied music in Bonn before the outbreak. Nell never went to war, instead raising four children, but her future husband, Percy "Jimmie" Hines, served twice in France. More about Percy and Nell can be found under "News."
To give your war-weary eyes a peaceful rest, here is a picture of the writer of the letter above and the one below, Nellie Wildblood of Trentham.
This page, distributed too small to read in the 2010 Wildblood family newsletter, shows that Nellie troubled her pretty little head about more things than just oppressed Serbia. Writing home in 1915, she serves as an inspiration to us all in vowing to explore family roots, Vernon not Wildblood, in Normandy.
If you read the condolence (right page, then left), you may guess that author "Charlie" was a man of the cloth. The writer is Rev. Charles Wildblood 1854-1931, a Wesleyan Methodist minister posted to Worcester when his cousin Dinah Wildblood 1875-1891 died in Burslem. The eloquent letter was addressed to
the clergyman's uncle and aunt, Edmund Wildblood 1836-1917, a pottery color maker and engraver, and Dinah's mother, before her marriage Mary Gregson. The old message of sympathy was passed from Edmund to Charles' son Walter Gordon Wildblood 1898-1977 and then
to archivist emeritus Harry Charie. We thank this chain of preservationists for guarding the treasured memories of "a flower that had just begun to unfold." No photo of Edmund or Dinah is known to exist, but here is Charles as a Great War chaplain. Before and after the conflict he served 14 different congregations, starting in Malmesbury in 1883 and retiring from Clayton-le-Moors in 1930. Charles' first wife was Marian Barrs 1857-1925. Her grave was found recently at Low Moor, Bradford, where Charles preached from 1909 to 1913. The pastor predeceased his second wife, Florence Lamb, "passing triumphantly home" from Timperley. His grave is at Ipsley churchyard, Redditch.
During the Great Depression the owner of Lee Wildblood Company was forced two sell property at the Jersey Shore. Levi Wooton Wildblood (1887-1962) signed, but his son Harold (1913-2000) typed the letter. Lee's mother, Hannah Mariah Walklett (1851-1935),
was born in the Old Country and the owner of the North Clinton Avenue residence, where tools were sold to the many potteries in the East Trenton neighborhood. Hannah did not allow Rider College student Harold to harbor the infernal machine manufactured by Remington and he had to keep it at a low key in the attic. Perhaps the elderly lady was right about the typewriter being the devil's tool. The Ortley Beach properties would be worth millions today. Lee was the grandfather and Harold the father of the website author.
Deprived of coastal breezes and maritime picnic sites, the signer, Lee, was thereafter compelled to roast his hotdogs and fry his burgers in the sweltering inland city.
Here is the rebellious teenage typist earlier that same fateful year in the Trenton High School yearbook.
It would appear that Hal was 472nd in his graduation class, but his secretarial skills surely ranked far higher.
This 1913 letter from EdwardHarold Wildblood 1878-1926 to Charles Stanton Wildblood 1868-1948 illustrateshow isolated Wildblood households were even as recently as 20 years ago, beforethe Internet brought distant cousins close together. The captain who served inIndia was not the only one who thought his immediate family comprised all theWildbloods of the world and feared the name would become extinct. This letterand the portrait of Charles under the letter are courtesy of the jam maker's grandson, Michael Checkley.
Until checking with the website author, Michael did not know the
relationship either. The letter writer and the recipient are actually second
cousins, both having William "the Engraver" and Dinah Wood of Burslem
as their great grandparents. My search for a photo of the sender only yielded a
family portrait furnished in 1999 by his grand nephew, Peter
Goldney. Sadly, Peter died before he could be asked whether he had an adult portrait of E. H.
The recipient: Charles Stanton Wildblood
The sender: Edward Harold Wildblood in a thumb cropped from a family portrait furnished a decade ago by the late Peter Goldney.
Our journey leads to Leeds. Staffordshire natives came to the West Yorkshire metropolis as potters but made their mark as stationers and brought home the bacon in the sausage trade. Throughout the 1890s Leeds Wildblood families were prominent in Liberal politics and mission organizations of the Methodist New Connection. More on these folks and their conclusions are forthcoming. But what were the names of the curly cuties that proffer the sign on the vintage takeaway bag? Porky and Butch? Pleased to meat you! Sammy and Eddie? Wildy and Limey? Kirk and Mark? Perhaps a descendant recalls their names from family lore. And was the bag printed by Wildblood & Ward? Feedback is solicited. Don't make me ham it up alone!
This sad news was published in the Barnsley Chronicle. Horace died on October 2, 1943, in Tunisia. His widow, Winifred May née Richer, passed away in 2000. The daughter born while he was overseas, is Dawn Cross née Wildblood.
The card was sent from Denver, NY, to Harold Levi Wildblood by his mother, born Bertha Bradbury, a few months before she died. He was 10 then, over 80 years have passed,
a lot of water has gone over the falls in the Catskills and Harold's obituary has been posted
The following item, from a Trenton, New Jersey, newspaper, refers to John Jackson Wildblood, not Wildwood.
Earlier posts of Wildblood documents are available for readers who found us after May 2006.
Here is what Dr. Wittenborn charged to deliver Alan. Nurse Miriam Dean, mentioned above as a donor, recalled that the obstetrician's hand slipped, causing a birthmark on Alan's right arm.
We thank Andrew Davies of Weston-super-Mare for this scan. The Bible was handed down by his cousin, Betty Enid Taylor Wildblood née Hall. Some of the exact dates were new to the archivist when received in July 2020. Andrew is the nephew of our pioneering researcher, Harry Charie. Betty is the widow of John Kenneth Wildblood (1925-2013). The entries are for the 1849-68 births in Burslem of the children of William Wildblood and Mary Ann Bowers: Ann, Frank, Fred, Eliza, Charles, Ralph, twins Fred and Frank (again), Mary Dinah, Maria, Laura, Selina and Alice.
George Herbert Wildblood (1905-84) is shown below adjusting the medal he received a medal for his service at the Royal Ordnance Depot at Donnington, Shropshire, very near where he was born. The two illustrations were graciously provided by the recipient’s granddaughter, Linda Doolan née Wildblood. 
George Herbert Wildblood, Esq.
Vita, the Champlain Monster, a whale of a tale told by Edward James Wildblood 1927-2002. Ed had secured the American border with Mexico and Canada and did not allow the creature to reach the Vermont shore where the Wildbloods lived. The beast, which had evolved from a well-fed perch in the "course" of one year, winked at Ed's son Eric and returned to the deep with much aggravated indigestion after devouring the New York half of an interstate ferry.
The cartoon artist and author of the above story was Grand Master of Freemasons in the Green Mountain State. During his contacts with the webmaster and other family history researchers, Ed expressed his hope of finding a Wildblood lodge member in the United Kingdom.
This cherished certificate awarded to Stanley Wildblood 1926-2004 on December 5, 1991 for service to the Order of St. John is preserved under glass on the wall of his daughter Carol Greenaway in Brierley Hill. 
Here Stan is shown with wife Ruby holding the breast star medal associated with the honor. We are told that serving in this worthy organization ran in the Dudley Family.
First page of the Royal Air Force Observer's and Gunner's Flying Log Book belonging to Edward David Wildblood (1920-2015). The cover of the volume is shown below the 1941-1944 entries. In case you are unable to read what is written on the cover, it is "E D Wildblood." The entire log book was scanned and contributed by Ted's family living in Portugal in January 2016. More on the observer / gunner is found in a October 2015 News entry.
World War II OBSERVER'S AND AIR GUNNER'S FLYING LOG BOG belonging to Edward David Wildblood
More records of what Dad did in the war cherished by son David in Portugal
In November 1915 Miss Nellie Wildblood queries her mother about Nell's desire to work as a nurse in Serbia, a Great War ally of the British. This specimen is one of a bundle contributed by Nellie's grandchild, Sally Mitchell. The return address is Paddock House, where Nell
was attending to war wounded. Nell was a beginner in nursing but already an accomplished pianist and vocalist, having studied music in Bonn before the outbreak. Nell never went to war, instead raising four children, but her future husband, Percy "Jimmie" Hines, served twice in France. More about Percy and Nell can be found under "News."
To give your war-weary eyes a peaceful rest, here is a picture of the writer of the letter above and the one below, Nellie Wildblood of Trentham. 
This page, distributed too small to read in the 2010 Wildblood family newsletter, shows that Nellie troubled her pretty little head about more things than just oppressed Serbia. Writing home in 1915, she serves as an inspiration to us all in vowing to explore family roots, Vernon not Wildblood, in Normandy.
If you read the condolence (right page, then left), you may guess that author "Charlie" was a man of the cloth. The writer is Rev. Charles Wildblood 1854-1931, a Wesleyan Methodist minister posted to Worcester when his cousin Dinah Wildblood 1875-1891 died in Burslem. The eloquent letter was addressed to
the clergyman's uncle and aunt, Edmund Wildblood 1836-1917, a pottery color maker and engraver, and Dinah's mother, before her marriage Mary Gregson. The old message of sympathy was passed from Edmund to Charles' son Walter Gordon Wildblood 1898-1977 and then
to archivist emeritus Harry Charie. We thank this chain of preservationists for guarding the treasured memories of "a flower that had just begun to unfold." No photo of Edmund or Dinah is known to exist, but here is Charles as a Great War chaplain. Before and after the conflict he served 14 different congregations, starting in Malmesbury in 1883 and retiring from Clayton-le-Moors in 1930. Charles' first wife was Marian Barrs 1857-1925. Her grave was found recently at Low Moor, Bradford, where Charles preached from 1909 to 1913. The pastor predeceased his second wife, Florence Lamb, "passing triumphantly home" from Timperley. His grave is at Ipsley churchyard, Redditch.
During the Great Depression the owner of Lee Wildblood Company was forced two sell property at the Jersey Shore. Levi Wooton Wildblood (1887-1962) signed, but his son Harold (1913-2000) typed the letter. Lee's mother, Hannah Mariah Walklett (1851-1935),
was born in the Old Country and the owner of the North Clinton Avenue residence, where tools were sold to the many potteries in the East Trenton neighborhood. Hannah did not allow Rider College student Harold to harbor the infernal machine manufactured by Remington and he had to keep it at a low key in the attic. Perhaps the elderly lady was right about the typewriter being the devil's tool. The Ortley Beach properties would be worth millions today. Lee was the grandfather and Harold the father of the website author.
This 1913 letter from EdwardHarold Wildblood 1878-1926 to Charles Stanton Wildblood 1868-1948 illustrateshow isolated Wildblood households were even as recently as 20 years ago, beforethe Internet brought distant cousins close together. The captain who served inIndia was not the only one who thought his immediate family comprised all theWildbloods of the world and feared the name would become extinct. This letterand the portrait of Charles under the letter are courtesy of the jam maker's grandson, Michael Checkley.
Until checking with the website author, Michael did not know the
relationship either. The letter writer and the recipient are actually second
cousins, both having William "the Engraver" and Dinah Wood of Burslem
as their great grandparents. My search for a photo of the sender only yielded a
family portrait furnished in 1999 by his grand nephew, Peter
Goldney. Sadly, Peter died before he could be asked whether he had an adult portrait of E. H.
The sender:
Our journey leads to Leeds. Staffordshire natives came to the West Yorkshire metropolis as potters but made their mark as stationers and brought home the bacon in the sausage trade. Throughout the 1890s Leeds Wildblood families were prominent in Liberal politics and mission organizations of the Methodist New Connection. More on these folks and their conclusions are forthcoming. But what were the names of the curly cuties that proffer the sign on the vintage takeaway bag? Porky and Butch? Pleased to meat you! Sammy and Eddie? Wildy and Limey? Kirk and Mark? Perhaps a descendant recalls their names from family lore. And was the bag printed by Wildblood & Ward? Feedback is solicited. Don't make me ham it up alone!
This sad news was published in the Barnsley Chronicle. Horace died on October 2, 1943, in Tunisia. His widow, Winifred May née Richer, passed away in 2000. The daughter born while he was overseas, is Dawn Cross née Wildblood.
The card was sent from Denver, NY, to Harold Levi Wildblood by his mother, born Bertha Bradbury, 
a lot of water has gone over the falls in the Catskills
The following item, from a Trenton, New Jersey, newspaper,