And though the Austen ladies did eventually make the trip to visit their cousins, the Coopers, at Hamstall Ridware in Stafffordshire , they decided it was time to leave Bath and give up the hunt for elusive good accommodation for ...
Great great grandfather, john, was the son of John and Elizabeth who were farming at Hay End in 1851. welive in Swansea but visited bHamstall Ridware/b recently and saw the graves in the churchyard. We were also shown round Hay End Farm. ...
"Edward Cooper is so kind as to want us all to come to Hamstall this summer, instead of going to the sea, but we are not so kind as to mean to do it. The summer after, if you please, Mr Cooper, but for the present we greatly prefer the ...