[WED]day/wall

[Lyn Nunn]

Hi All

The information about stick playing has originally come from the Wedmore
Chronicles - see Michael's page. There may be more info there. From memory
it may have had something to do with the Stone family as well but we all
know what memory does. :)

Lyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Jackes" <mjackes@telusplanet.net>
To: <wedmore@lists.tutton.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 2:58 AM
Subject: Re: [WED]day/wall


> 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.
>
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