Dear Eardley's / Yeardley's Worldwide,
Firstly, do remember to pencil in 5th of July this year as the
'Eardley Stitch Day' at St.James, Audley, England at 11:00AM. Also, should you
wish to have a stitch put into the tapestry by proxy that will be fine. A family
can club together and designate someone to have the stitch inserted on behalf
of your family. A record for posterity, of your participation will be kept 'for
ever' so that future generations will be able to take pride in our achievement.
As the event nears we will post suitable venues where groups can arrange to
share a meal and chat about all relevant matters.Frank Eardley of Walsall, England
and myself will publish a pamphlet charting the history of Sir George Eardley
/ Yeardley and his contribution to Anglo-American History. Dennis Pickeral,
Flowerdew Hundred Historian, along with New World Tapestry creator Tom Mor will
lead the 'ceremony' by discussion of the Virginia settlement and Tom Mor will
present the New World Tapestry and its meaning at Saint James Church. Reverend
Peter Davies will also play his part along with Robert Jack Eardley and others.The
order of 'play' will become ever clearer as events evolve nearer 5th of July.
This week I discovered some letters written by Sir George Eardley / Yeardley.
They can be viewed online on a number of sites. On Yahoo.com type in
'Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 8' and then click on 'Table of contents'. His
letters and those of other household names can be viewed. The English used appears
to the 'flowery' phonetic variety as in our name Eardley and in common use in
Shakespeare's time which seems so strange to us today. Nevertheless, it makes
an interesting read and shows that George had friends and enemies in much the
same way as modern politicians do today. Land was the big issue and most letters
were concerned with how to get their hands on more. George, it appears was not
always in the best of health and on one occasion asks London to allow him to
live a quiet life in retirement. I need to read more and if you have an interest
do read them for yourselves and feel free to comment about them on the message
board. A new feature which we introduce today is to invite Eardleys to recommend
useful websites to each other so that we can all benefit from their contents.
www.eardley.org will devote a special section to this feature. Let me begin
by suggesting some sites which I find useful that you can link to below!
Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 8
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjser8.html
Great financial website.
www.moneysupermarket.com
My favourite travel site.
www.lastcallflights.com
Cheap DVD's etc
www.play.com
Discount washing machines etc
www.pluggedin.co.uk
Something about everything
www.about.com
Please allow us to share your favourite sites. Until we work out a method for
posting, type them on the Message Board with brief summary of what we can expect
to find there. Again,would you feel it useful if we were all know who was visiting
our website. Tell us who you are on the 'board' together with your e-mail address.
Some of us may wish to get to know each other by e-mail.
Best wishes to everyone,
see you at 11AM, 5th of July, 2003 Saint James Church, Audley, England for the
Eardley Family Get-Together Stitch Day.
Robert Francis Eardley
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