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17 July 2026

Four weddings and some
Wolseley funerals: stories
of marriage and divorce
in a Staffordshire family

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Wolseley Hall, destroyed in a serious fire in the early 1950s and demolished in 1966 … the ancestral home of the Wolseley family Patrick C...

Daily prayer in Ordinary Time 2026:
71, Friday 17 July 2026

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‘At that time Jesus went through the cornfields on the sabbath’ (Matthew 12: 1) … walking through fields in Hopwas, between Lichfield and Ta...

03 July 2026

The Shrewsbury peerage
case and how branches of
the Talbot family fought
over old titles and lands

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The Talbot Arms in Rugeley became the Shrewsbury Arms after Lord Talbot became the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1860 … it is now called ‘The Shrew...

02 July 2026

The Chetwynd divorce trial
that was a society sensation
and scandal beyond Lichfield
and Staffordshire in the 1860s

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Longdon Hall, between Lichfield and Rugeley … at the centre of a sensational divorce case in 1864-1865 (Photograph: Longdon Hall School) P...

16 May 2026

Finding the other Lady Fitzgerald
who had family roots in Lichfield,
who was married three times, and
whose life was marked by tragedy

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Dam Street, Lichfield, where Lady Fitzgerald’s grandfather Christopher Heveningham was a mercer and draper (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) ...

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Four weddings and some Wolseley funerals: stories of marriage and divorce in a Staffordshire family

Daily prayer in Ordinary Time 2026: 71, Friday 17 July 2026

The Shrewsbury peerage case and how branches of the Talbot family fought over old titles and lands

The Chetwynd divorce trial that was a society sensation and scandal beyond Lichfield and Staffordshire in the 1860s

Finding the other Lady Fitzgerald who had family roots in Lichfield, who was married three times, and whose life was marked by tragedy

Four weddings and some
Wolseley funerals: stories
of marriage and divorce
in a Staffordshire family

Daily prayer in Ordinary Time 2026:
71, Friday 17 July 2026

The Shrewsbury peerage
case and how branches of
the Talbot family fought
over old titles and lands

The Chetwynd divorce trial
that was a society sensation
and scandal beyond Lichfield
and Staffordshire in the 1860s

Finding the other Lady Fitzgerald
who had family roots in Lichfield,
who was married three times, and
whose life was marked by tragedy