John A’Bear

Cashier (Originally published in Journal 66, August 2016) by Peter Bloomfield with a lot of help from David A’Bear and David Hanson The A’Bear name can be traced back to Norman times but what is not certain is was it a Saxon name which became normanised or a Norman name which became saxonised. John A’Bear was born […]

William Adams

Friends And Family

(originally published in Journal 28, Summer 2000, of the NLRHS) [Henry Daniel Martin, William Adams, John Carter Park and Henry James Pryce]   When, in February 1838, the East India Dock Company merged with the West India Dock Company to become, not unnaturally the East and West India Dock Company, it caused some prob­lems for […]