Herbert Hampson News Today

Family Memories - with Fay Hampson

Family Memories with Fay Hampson Here is my great-great-grandmother, Mrs Hayward, in 1880 with her three daughters, twins Polly and Sally, and Kitty born in 1854, who was my great grandmother. Sally married horse breeder Jack Jones, of Whitegate Farm Wrexham. The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) was so impressed by Jack’s Gold Cup winning horses at the Windsor Horse Show, that he started buying his carriage horses from him. Polly kept a summer boarding house on the North Wales coast. ...

Family memories with Fay Hampson... My grandfather loved fishing, but I never had him down as a hunting or shooting man. Imagine my surprise when, a few months ago, my brother told me that grandad had told him hed had a gun to "shoot the awks". Now my grandfathers name was Herbert Hampson, but as a true son of Denbighshire and the Shropshire borders, he took little notice of the initial "aitch" and often made me laugh by telling me he signed his name "Apostrophe dot Apostrophe ampson!" The ...

Gone fishing... I think I can safely say that the Hampsons were a fishing family. My grandfather, Herbert Hampson, represented Wrexham Borough Council on the Dee and Clwyd River Authority during the 1950s, and I can remember going with him at this time to a trout hatchery, where a tankful of small fish were loaded onto a lorry which we followed to the river Dee and watched them being released to fatten up for a few years only to be caught again! Three of the photos show what must have bee...