[WED]day/wall

[Mary Jackes]

Tim Curtin sent me an email while the reply set-up was for individuals
only.  But I thought it had lots of interesting stuff. He, and the others
who wrote to me, might like to copy their messages to the list?

We've been having a bit of a barney over cricket - and I thought it would
be interesting to get more details (as a follow up to the suggestion re
Wedmore area general topics - not just family relationships).

Tim wrote: 

Sarah Wall of Wedmore, daughter of
>Arthur, who was one of the 11 Walls who played that famous game of cricket
>(NOT an archaic game, I was deeply offended by that comment!!) However
>Arthur's father John Stone Wall was a famous single stick player, and that
>was indeed an archaic and dangerous game.

I learned about this from a really excellent book

Title: Avalon and Sedgemoor 
Author: Desmond Hawkins 1908-
Publisher: David & Charles, Newton Abbot (1973)

I had just glanced at it before, so I went back and looked at it a bit more
carefully - it  provides great background on the general area. There are
just a few pages on Wedmore specifically, and I see that Tim is right (I
had glanced too quickly and confounded two separate sports) - there were
two Wall brothers who were famous champions of this wooden sword sort of
thing, and then there was a cricket team composed entirely of Walls.

Does Tim (or anyone else) know more about the archaic contest and/or the
cricket team?  
Mary Jackes
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 0N8, Canada.