Thrale history
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Photos
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 | Bert Abrahams | 29 Jul 2025 | |
 | Michael Block | 10 Jul 2025 | |
 | Sandridge 1905 The children of the village. | 5 Jul 2025 | |
 | Charles THRALE From the 1963 Exhibition Catalogue "The Valleys of the Shadow of Death". | 24 Jun 2025 | |
 | Gilbert Daley | 23 Jun 2025 | |
 | Hazel Elsie TAVARES | 23 Jun 2025 | |
 | Alwen Thrale Repeat winner of the Newmarket Town Plate on 14 October 1937, riding her father's horse Jimmy's Pet. | 12 Jun 2025 | |
 | Thrales caterers and Confectioners Cake paper bag | 16 May 2025 | |
 | Village shield Sandridge village shield |
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11 May 2025 |
 | William Thrale 1738-1793 | 10 May 2025 | |
 | Ralph Thrale 1778-1852 In 1973, according to page 49 of A New Thraliana by Richard William Thrale, this portrait was owned by the Mardall family of Harpenden. | 10 May 2025 | |
 | Marshalswick House c.1920 Photograph taken a few years before its 1927 demolition. | 8 May 2025 | |
 | Streatham Park colour print, c.1820 by J. Landseer after S. Prout | 8 May 2025 | |
 | Streatham Park, 1790 Watercolour by unknown artist | 8 May 2025 | |
 | Park Street plaque of attack on Genral Haynau at Anchor Brewery
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 | 1726 graffiti by a John Thrale | 5 May 2025 | |
 | Sandridgebury in 1905 Rear of Sandridgebury House - previously was the front. | 5 May 2025 | |
 | N. Thrale shop 1898 Ernest Norman Thrale, Hannah Thrale (nee Green) and their son Norman Thrale outside their first shop at 80 London Road, St Albans c.1898. It was Hannah who about 1898 asked to be allowed to place a few sweets in the parlour window for sale; these were quickly sold, and a business was born. She worked all hours of all days, and the little confectionery business in London Road thrived. | 5 May 2025 | |
 | Streatham Park by Augustus Butler Inscribed. Streatham Park, Surry, the residence of L Jordan. Engraving by Augustus Butler 1854. | 5 May 2025 | |
 | Streatham Park by J. Landseer after S. Prout. | 5 May 2025 |
Documents
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 | Charles THRALE Exhibition programme. Charles Thrale’s exhibition of paintings created during his captivity as a Japanese prisoner of war was first displayed in January 1946, in London. After that initial showing, the exhibition toured the UK for approximately eighteen years, continuing until around 1964. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Corporal Charles THRALE Captured in Singapore on 15 Feb 1942. POW release questionnaire.
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 | Ferdinand Emmanuel DALEY Memorial booklet. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Hubert Nathaniel WELDS Memorial booklet. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Hazel Elsie TAVARES Memorial booklet. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Hedley Archibald WRAY Memorial booklet. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Herbert ABRAHAMS POW post-release questionnaire. Captured by German forces in France on 21 May 1940, likely during the Battle of France. Detained as a prisoner of war at:
Treated for appendicitis 26 November - 23 December 1940 (family oral history is that developing appendicitis and the the subsequent hospitalisation saved his life). During captivity, he was subjected to forced labour, including working in a brick factory at Deutsch Eylau (now Iława, Poland) between May 1943 and January 1945. Other forced labour camps were not listed on the form due to limited space. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Herbert Thrale Army record. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Gilbert Leopold DALEY Memorial booklet. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Incomplete USA Returning Resident Status form. Although she wanted US residency, so she could live with her daughter Delores who was a US resident, it is not known if she obtained this. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | William Alexander Ivory SMITH letter of death from Forces Chaplain. A hand-written letter from a Forces Chaplain dated 12 September 1915 describing William's army in-service death and burial at sea. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | William Alexander Ivory SMITH letter of death from Commander Hutton. A hand-written letter from Commander G F Hutton dated 6 October 1915 describing William's army in-service death, and his (incorrect) place of burial. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Frederick Edward Thrale. War record. Regiment: Royal Engineers. Regimental number: 242756. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Frederick Edward Thrale War Pension record Regiment: Royal Engineers. Regimental number: 242756. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Thessa Maud Eugenie WILLIE Memorial booklet. | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Olga Eulalee DALEY Memorial booklet | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Joseph Gladstone MCLAGGAN Memorial booklet | 20 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld. | 7 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Birth registration of Benjamin Jacob Bloch, 14 April 1878. His birthplace is Tallinn, based on:
However, translations of the Old Russian from his birth registration differ. Unless contrary evidence is found, we accept the other multiple sources which are in agreement that his:
For transparency, both translations are provided below. | 5 Aug 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | UK National Register 1939 67 Cleveland Street, St Marylebone, Middlesex, England
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Headstones
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 | Headstone for Mary Sibley nee Thrale nee 1809-1882 and John Sibley 1809-1877 Sacred TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN SIBLEY WHO DIED AT GUSTARD WOOD APRIL 23RD 1877 AGED 68 YEARS "HIS END WAS PEACE" -------- ALSO OF MARY THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED JULY 25TH 1882 AGED 73 YEARS SUFFER WE SHALL ALSO REIGN WITH HIM | St Helens Church | Located |
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22 Jul 2025 |
 | Headstone of John Munt 1771 - 1851 Sacred to the Memory of Mr John Munt who died April 21st 1851 Aged 80 years. | St Helens Church | Located |
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22 Jul 2025 |
 | Headstone of Thomas Thrale 1826-1886 and Elizabeth Thrale née Peacock 1827-1899 In loving memory of Thomas Thrale who departed this life December 1st 1886 aged 60 years Do not ask if we miss him there is such a vacant place can we ever forget that footstep and that dear familiar face. Elizabeth wife of the above departed July 1899 aged 72 years at rest. | St Helens Church | Located |
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22 Jul 2025 |
 | Norman Thrale 1830/1 - 1900 headstone In loving memory of NORMAN THRALE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH 18th 1900 AGED 69 YEARS GRANT HIM THY ETERNAL REST (Restored 1998) | St Helens Church | Located | 22 Jul 2025 | |
 | John Gladstone MCLAGGAN headstone TREASURED MEMORIES OF A DEAR HUSBAND FATHER GRANDAD AND GREATGRANDAD JOHN GLADSTONE McLAGGAN DIED 16.12.1978 AGED 67 RIP. REUNITED WITH HIS BELOVED WIFE HAZEL ELSIE McLAGGAN A LOVING MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER AND GREAT GRANDMOTHER DIED 14.3.2018 AGED 95 | Foster Hill Road Cemetery (aka bedford Cemetery) E9-207 |
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10 Jun 2025 | |
 | Headstone of Richard Thrale and Mary Manfield Restored in 1960 by his descendants. | St Leonards Church |
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12 May 2025 | |
 | Headstone of Richard Thrale Adjoining to this side of the Tomb lies the Remains of Mr. RICHARD THRALE late of the Pound Farm Sandridge & Husband of the above MARY THRALE who Died Aug:.19th.1755 Aged 66 Years Restored in 1960 by his descendants. | St Leonards Church | Located | 12 May 2025 | |
 | End grave for Richard Thrale and Mary Manfield Restored in 1960 by his descendants. | St Leonards Church | Located |
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12 May 2025 |
 | Sophia Thrale's mourning tablet By John Flaxman at St Leonards Church, Streatham. | St Leonards Church | 5 May 2025 | ||
 | Memorial to Susannah Arabella Thrale and Thomas Arthur Bertie Mostyn. St Leonards Church, Streatham. | St Leonards Church |
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5 May 2025 | |
 | Thrale family burial vault St Leonards, Streatham. | St Leonards Church | Located | 5 May 2025 | |
 | Headstone for Henry Thrale Cox and Beatrice Alice Cox | St Leonards Church At the rear of St Leonard's Churchyard | Located |
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20 Apr 2025 |
 | Henry Thrale's memorial tablet Erected on Friday 20 September 1782. The monument is by Joseph Wilton R.A. who also made George III's coronation coach. The Latin inscription is by Dr. Samuel Johnson. | St Leonards Church | Located | 13 Apr 2025 | |
 | John, Richard, John, Charles & Margaret (née Chaplin) THRALE mourning tablet, 1704 1704 mourning tablet for John Thrale, wife Margaret Thrale née Chaplin & sons Richard, John and Charles. Displayed the Thrale arms of a paly of ten or and gules impaling those of the Chaplin family, ermine on a chief indented azure, three griffins, heads erased or. This is the earliest known time that the arms of the family were monumentally displayed, having been adopted by John Thrale from the arms granted to the Threeles of Sussex. | St Albans Cathedral South transept. | Located |
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13 Apr 2025 |
 | Hester Maria COTTON mourning tablet By Joseph Wilton, epitaph by Dr. Samuel Johnson. | St Leonards Church | 13 Apr 2025 | ||
 | William Alexander Ivory SMITH memorial | Buried at sea |
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23 Feb 2025 | |
 | Cleveland Augustus WILLIE headstone Grave thought to be in South London | Not yet located |
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30 Jan 2025 | |
 | Marks WELLS (ABRAHAMS) and Henrietta Sarah ABRAHAMS née WELLS headstone
[Hebrew translation]Po nikbar Rav Mordechai ben Yosef Niftar vav Adar 5709 lamed Tehei nafsho tzrurah b’tzror hachayim Here lies Mr. Mordechai son of Yosef Passed away on the 6th of Adar 5709 May his soul be bound in the bond of life.
[Hebrew translation]Po nikbarah Marat Sarah bat Rav Avraham Niftarah aleph Tevet 5740 Tehei nafshah tzrurah b’tzror hachayim Here lies Mrs. Sarah daughter of Mr. Avraham Passed away on the 1st of Tevet 5740 May her soul be bound in the bond of life.
 Sarah’s Hebrew inscription identifies her father simply as "Mr. Avraham" without the traditional "son of" to indicate her father’s Jewish lineage. This was because converts are traditionally described as being the “child of Avraham Avinu” (Abraham our patriarch) the first monotheist and the spiritual “father” of all who join the Jewish people, rather than the biological paternal ancestry. | Edmonton Federation of Synagogues Cemetery Plot: Y1 Row/Grave: 24 06 & 07 | Located |
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30 Jan 2025 |
 | Rebecca and Joseph ABRAHAMS 'book' memorial
| Edmonton Federation of Synagogues Cemetery XS. Row 01. Grave 72. | Located |
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30 Jan 2025 |
 | Joseph and Rebecca ABRAHAMS née KOSKY headstone
| Edmonton Federation of Synagogues Cemetery XS. Row 01. Grave 72. | Located |
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30 Jan 2025 |
Histories
Videos
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 | BBC TV Arena: According to Beryl (2001). On 6 October 2001, BBC Television broadcast 'According to Beryl'. Their hour-long account of the family arrangement enjoyed by Samuel Johnson and the Thrale family of Streatham seen through the eyes of Beryl Bainbridge, author of the book on the same subject, According to Queeney. We also have an account of the Bery Bainbridge book According to Queeney, upon which this TV programme about Queeney, Johnson and the Thrale family is based. |
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5 May 2025 |
Their works
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 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1786. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson. Hester Lynch Thrale's first book. Her personal recollections of Samuel Johnson. | 20 Aug 2025 | |
 | Portrait by Charles THRALE Bob Cleeve aged 5, father of Mrs Tracy Atkinson (tracy.atkinson64@aol.co.uk) | 9 Jul 2025 | |
| Verses "Convolvulus" by Sophia Thrale aged 9. | 23 Oct 2024 | |
| Songs exchanged by Hester Lynch Thrale and Herbert Lawrence. In 1777-8 Hester Lynch Thrale’s account of:
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| Verses for hester Thrale's 35th birthday, written by Samuel Johnson. Verses written by Dr. Samuel Johnson on the occasion of the thirty-fifth birthday of Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury and recorded in Thraliana December 1777. | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "Youth" by Hester Lynch Thrale | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "To a Lady on April Fool Day" Hester Lynch Salusbury Written on 1 April 1758. Thraliana entry dated June 1777. | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "The Two Signs" by Hester Lynch Thrale Hester Thrale wrote in Thraliana and published in Public Advertiser 7 July 1779. | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "The Dean of Derry" by Hester Lynch Thrale | 16 Oct 2024 | |
 | Verses "Streatham" by Sophia Thrale aged 7. With added lines by her mother, Hester Lynch Thrale. | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "Sonetto dal Povoleri alla Sigra Thrale" by Hester Lynch Thrale | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "Robin Redbreast" by Hester Lynch Thrale | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "Political Alphabet" by Hester Lynch Thrale | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "My Dear Flo" by Hester Lynch Salusbury Written by Hester Lynch Thrale. Thraliana entry dated 1 September 1797. | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "Lady with an English watch" by Hester Lynch Thrale Written by Hester Lynch Thrale. Thraliana entry dated 21 January 1782. | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "Hagley" by Hester Lynch Thrale. Written in 1776. | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "Dover" by Hester Lynch Thrale | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "D'un amato & fido Cuore" by Hester Lynch Thrale Hester Lynch Thrale née Salusbury wrote alternative lyrics to Sacchini’s Song of Torna pure al carobene in 1787. The poem is about the pain of being separated from a loved one. The speaker describes how her heart “languishes” and “palpitates” in the absence of her beloved. She compares the pain to “affanno” (shortness of breath) and “fatica” (fatigue). The only thing that can soothe her pain is the thought of being reunited with her beloved. | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "Charade" by Hester Lynch Thrale | 16 Oct 2024 | |
| Verses "Bathing" by Hester Lynch Thrale | 16 Oct 2024 |
Individuals
| ID | Last Name, Given Name(s) | Born/Christened | Location | Tree | Branch | Last Modified |
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| I1623 |
 Corporal Charles THRALE |
b. 7 Mar 1918 | Woolwich, Kent, England  | UK Thrale family | 29 Jul 2025 |
| I384 |
Herbert ABRAHAMS |
b. 9 Jan 1919 | Whitechapel, Middlesex, England | UK Thrale family | 29 Jul 2025 |
| I356 |
Thomas THRALE |
UK Thrale family | 28 Jul 2025 | ||
| I55 |
John THRALE |
UK Thrale family | 28 Jul 2025 | ||
| I65 |
Sarah HALSEY |
b. | Kimpton, Hertfordshire, England | UK Thrale family | 27 Jul 2025 |
| I64 |
Ralph THRALE |
b. Bef 30 May 1712 | Nomansland, Sandridge, Hertfordshire, England | UK Thrale family | 27 Jul 2025 |
| I1384 |
Thomas THRALE |
UK Thrale family | 27 Jul 2025 | ||
| I1177 |
George THRALE |
UK Thrale family | 26 Jul 2025 | ||
| I323 |
John SIBLEY |
b. Between 24 Apr 1808 and 23 Apr 1809 | UK Thrale family | 22 Jul 2025 | |
| I62 |
John MUNT |
b. 1771 | UK Thrale family | 22 Jul 2025 | |
| I255 |
Thomas THRALE |
b. 2 Apr 1826 | Luton, Bedfordshire, England | UK Thrale family | 22 Jul 2025 |
| I610 |
John THRALE |
b. 11 Nov 1875 | The Village, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England | UK Thrale family | 22 Jul 2025 |
| I744 |
Rosetta WRIGHT |
b. Between 29 Jan 1878 and 28 Jan 1879 | UK Thrale family | 22 Jul 2025 | |
| I182 |
Mary CROUCH |
UK Thrale family | 22 Jul 2025 | ||
| I256 |
William THRALE |
b. 1829 | Luton, Bedfordshire, England | UK Thrale family | 22 Jul 2025 |
| I10 |
John Phillip MAYER |
b. 29 Jan | Saint Louis, St. Louis (city), Missouri, USA | US Thrall family | 22 Jul 2025 |
| I540 |
Rebecca DAVIS |
US Thrall family | 22 Jul 2025 | ||
| I263 |
Kendrick Allen THRALL |
b. 28 Jun 1902 | Angelo, Monroe, Wisconsin, USA | US Thrall family | 22 Jul 2025 |
| I234 |
Elizabeth FYLER |
b. 7 Aug 1708 | Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA | US Thrall family | 22 Jul 2025 |
| I229 |
Captain Moses THRALL |
b. 20 Apr 1702 | Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA | US Thrall family | 22 Jul 2025 |
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