Jean Edwards ( nee Forsyth) Archive
Jean Edwards ( nee Forsyth) is the 95 year old surviving Daughter of William Aiden Forsyth. Her Grand-Father was William Matthew Forsyth the 6th child of William Forsyth the sculptor. She also happens to be my God mother
Jean started researching her family history some time in the 1960's and has kept all documents from that time. I have kept back personal notes made by Jean about the family tree, and also several letters from other family members but the rest I've scanned and present it below in several sections
I have decided to put all of this together as Jean is delighted that her work can be kept and looked at by a wider audience and I felt it deserved keeping together as one 'archive' rather than splitting it up onto various James and William pages
Jean started researching her family history some time in the 1960's and has kept all documents from that time. I have kept back personal notes made by Jean about the family tree, and also several letters from other family members but the rest I've scanned and present it below in several sections
I have decided to put all of this together as Jean is delighted that her work can be kept and looked at by a wider audience and I felt it deserved keeping together as one 'archive' rather than splitting it up onto various James and William pages
James Forsyth's 'missing' Andromeda statue
Jean was certain that a copy of the Andromeda figure from the Poseidon fountain at Witley court existed, and had been bought by an Australian musem. The following documents show her correspondence in the 1960's and the result of that search
Frederick Grice
Frederick Grice was a senior lecturer at Worcester Technology college and in the 1970's started upon some research into the Forsyth brothers. Possibly through the Dorothy Winwood articles published in the Worcester News in the late 1960's ( see further below) he got in contact with Jean and the below shows their correspondence. I have not added the finished article by Grice as it contains assumptions and opinions that are not wholly accurate following the research by myself, Elizabeth Moncrieff and David Patten
The Monumental Studio
J.G.Hunts was a shop at 59/60 The Tything, Worcester almost opposite William Forsyth's 'Monumental Studio'
The documents below were given to Jean ( see letter below) by a descendant of the Hunt's and show an original Invoice for work done in 1892, the receipt for monies recieved to settle this bill signed by William Forsyth and the original monogrammed envelope the receipt was posted in to Hunt's shop
The Changing face of Worcester website has THIS IMAGE and THIS IMAGE attributed to Hunt's shop and I am trying to ascertain if either of these are the shop mentioned above ( although there are attributed to a maybe later shop in the High Street) and if the 'Severn Salmon' lettering shown is what William did
The documents below were given to Jean ( see letter below) by a descendant of the Hunt's and show an original Invoice for work done in 1892, the receipt for monies recieved to settle this bill signed by William Forsyth and the original monogrammed envelope the receipt was posted in to Hunt's shop
The Changing face of Worcester website has THIS IMAGE and THIS IMAGE attributed to Hunt's shop and I am trying to ascertain if either of these are the shop mentioned above ( although there are attributed to a maybe later shop in the High Street) and if the 'Severn Salmon' lettering shown is what William did
Newspaper articles
It is interesting to see the articles from the 1960's that prompted the preservation of the Witley Court fountains. They contain, in mine and others opinion, many inaccuracies, as do the later articles but I have uploaded them all anyway as a record of what was reported over the years
