Adkins families

Notes for Poole FIELD

Of Jerring's Hall, Shirley, Solihull, Warwickshire (now West Midlands), UK SP121762 'The Fields of Jerring's Hall were sometimes referred to as 'of Blackford.' Blackford House, Shirley Heath, for generations the name of the Beach family is nearby, and the immediate neighbourhood was often called Blackford. The Beaches were early makers of scales at Blackford, the business being later transferred to Digbeth, Birmingham, where it was a forerunner of the great firm of Avery. The Beaches being inter married with that family.'

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