{"id":828,"date":"2016-08-05T17:27:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/?p=828"},"modified":"2016-08-07T14:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T13:42:31","slug":"john-sapsford-the-sapsfords-the-burys-and-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"John Sapsford, the Sapsfords, the Burys and the Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently I am preparing publication of an article based on the writings of John Sapsford.\u00a0 As some of you may know already, John Sapsford (1922 &#8211; 2010)\u00a0 wrote extensively about the history of High Wych and Sawbridgeworth.\u00a0 I received a lot of help from John&#8217;s daughter, Wendy Oxborough who supplied me with some lovely photographs. Amongst those is the below\u00a0 picture taken in 1907 at the wedding of Alice Sapsford and Walter Bird. Perhaps some of your ancestors are in it as well!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1907-wedding-of-alice-sapsford-to-walter-bird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-829\" src=\"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1907-wedding-of-alice-sapsford-to-walter-bird-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"1907 wedding of alice sapsford to walter bird\" width=\"501\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to John Sapsford&#8217;s writings the people in the above photograph are:<\/p>\n<p>Backrow left to right: Frank Bury, Susanna Thurgood, Percy Saban, Harry Tucker, William Bird, George Childs, Emma Thurgood, Nellie Thurgood, William Sapsford, Jim Eaton, Bertha Rickett, Minnie Rickett.<\/p>\n<p>Middle row left to right: Lilian Bury, May Tucker, Louisa Sapsford, Walter Bird, Alice Bird, Alfred Sapsford, Liza Saban.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom row left to right: Leonard Thurgood, Harold Thurgood, William Bury, George Rickett, Emily Tucker, Arthur Sapsford, William Rickett.<\/p>\n<p>Talk to you soon. Best regards,\u00a0 Theo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently I am preparing publication of an article based on the writings of John Sapsford.\u00a0 As some of you may know already, John Sapsford (1922 &#8211; 2010)\u00a0 wrote extensively about the history of High Wych and Sawbridgeworth.\u00a0 I received a lot of help from John&#8217;s daughter, Wendy Oxborough who supplied me with some lovely photographs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8,6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vandebilt.co.uk\/history\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}