COMERFORD WAY: Patrick Comerford: Wolseley

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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...

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) ...

15 May 2026

When Sir William Wolseley
married the widowed
Ann Whitby in 1752, who
was the real bigamist?

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Wolseley Hall was destroyed in a serious fire in the early 1950s and was demolished in 1966 Patrick Comerford Accusations of bigamy, adu...

17 April 2026

Saint Joseph and Saint Etheldreda
Church in Rugeley, a Gothic Revival
1840s church by Charles Hansom

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Saint Joseph and Saint Etheldreda, the Catholic church in Rugeley, was designed by Charles Hansom and built in 1849-1851 (Photograph: Patric...

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

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

When Sir William Wolseley married the widowed Ann Whitby in 1752, who was the real bigamist?

Saint Joseph and Saint Etheldreda Church in Rugeley, a Gothic Revival 1840s church by Charles Hansom

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

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

When Sir William Wolseley
married the widowed
Ann Whitby in 1752, who
was the real bigamist?

Saint Joseph and Saint Etheldreda
Church in Rugeley, a Gothic Revival
1840s church by Charles Hansom