SURNAME ORIGINS:

ALDERTON
 This is an English locational name from any of the various places so called, although they do not  share the same derivations. Alderton in Essex is first recorded as 'Aelwartone' and  means 'Aelfweard's tun' meaning an enclosure or village. The Aldertons in Gloucestershire,  Northamptonshire and Wiltshire are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Aldntone' and this  means the 'tun' or village of 'Ealdhere's people'. These examples are from Anglo-Saxon personal  names becoming village (place) names and later, surnames. The Aldertones in Shropshire and Suffolk  (recorded as 'Alretuna' in Domesday Book) derive from the Old English 'alra', alder (trees)  and 'tun', and means 'the village by the alder wood'. One William Alderton was an early settler in  America, leaving London on the 'Primrose' in 1635 bound for Virginia. The first recorded spelling  of the family name is shown to be that of George Alderton, married Olivia Withers, which was dated  1547 Capel St. Mary, Suffolk, during the reign of King Henry VIII, 'Bluff King Hal', 1509 - 1547.

The ALDERTONS of BLACKMORE, ESSEX
 Much activity in rural Blackmore concentrated on farming. The church registers record that over a  half of the men living in the village were agricultural labourers. Family life was tough: as the  Victorian era commenced, 40% of the population died under the age of ten, and, with wages low, and  work scarce, many migrated from Blackmore, demonstrated by the fact that there was twice the  number of baptisms than burials recorded in the parish.

On Midsummer Day, June 1897, Blackmore was near the centre of the hundred square miles of Essex  which was devastated in a quarter of an hour. Hailstones fell as big as hens’ eggs. At Quince  Hall, about 22 acres of crops, was ruined and eight chickens killed. At Woodhouse Farm, 60 acres  was damaged, with the estimated loss, £300. The contemporary report said:   Reader C:

“A man was mowing grass at Blackmore, his horses ran away and smashed the mowing machine, one of  the knives of which entered the man’s chest and arms. If the knife had caught him lower down death  would have been inevitable”.  http://www.blackmorehistory.co.uk/blackmore_through_changing- scenes.html
 Reader B:

Ninety years later, the hurricane of October 1987 swept southern England, and more locally, in  August the same year a sudden cloudburst one Saturday afternoon flooded the church to a depth of  three feet. Residents in Church Street had to be rescued by boat. ...........................

GAULD:

This long-established surname, with variant spellings Gould, Goult Gauld and Gold, is of Anglo- Saxon origin, and has two possible sources. Firstly, it may be from a personal name or nickname,  derived from the Olde English pre 7th Century "Golda" (masculine), or "Golde" (feminine),  meaning "gold", originally given to one with bright golden hair, or perhaps in some cases to  a "precious" person. Hugo fillius (son of) Golda was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 for  Suffolk, and Ralph filius Golde was listed in the 1193 Pipe Rolls of Bedfordshire. The second  distinct possibility is that Go(u)ld/Goult is from a metonymic occupational name for a worker in  gold, a refiner, jeweller or gilder, derived from the Olde English "golda, golde" (as above). Job- descriptive surnames originally denoted the actual occupation of the namebearer, and later became  hereditary. The surname was first recorded in the mid 12th Century (see below), and may derive  from either source. Recordings from London Church Registers include: the christening of Ann Gould  on December 11th 1580, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, the christening of Margaret Goult on May 14th  1663, at St. Giles' Cripplegate, and that of Mary Ann Gauld at St Nicholas Church, Deptford, on  June 14th 1818. The Coat of Arms most associated with the name is a shield divided per saltire  gold and blue with a lion rampant counterchanged, the Crest being a blue demi lion rampant  bezantee. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Walter Golde,  which was dated 1165, in the "Pipe Rolls of Devonshire", during the reign of King Henry 11, known  as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189.

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GADSDEN:

This name is of English locational origin from Great or Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire.  Recorded as Gaetesdene in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, dated 944 and as Magna (Great) and Parva  (Little) Gatesden in the 1254 Pipe Rolls of that county, the name derives from the Olde English  pre 7th Century personal/nickname "Gaete" from "Gat", a goat, plus "denu" or "dene" a valley. The  surname is first recorded in the latter half of the 13th Century, (see below). One, Richard de  Gatisdene and a John de Gattsdene appear on record in Buckinghamshire and Norfolk in 1273 and 1275  respectively. On December 11th 1586 Marye, daughter of Thomas Gaddesden, was christened in  Hitchin, Hertfordshire and on May 11th 1623 Ann, daughter of Luke Gadsden was christened in  Hitchin. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Audufus de (of)  Gatesden, which was dated 1272, The Hundred Rolls of Bedfordshire, during the reign of King Edward  I, The Hammer of the Scots, 1272 - 1307

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THOSE WHO DIED IN WARS:
 BRINKLOW, Charles Frederick, (1891 - 13/11/1916, Private, Royal Fusiliers, Bn 24, Somme, France. BRINKLOW, George Charles, (1886 - 24/10/1918), Private, The Queen's Regiment, France. BRINKLOW, Thomas, (1879 - 3/7/1916), Private, Bedfordshire Regiment, Domme France. BRINKLOW, William Henry, (1883 - 4/4/1918), Private, Rifle Brigade, Bn 9, Flanders, France BRINKLOW, William John, (1884 - 29/8/1918), Corporal, Middlesex Rg, Bn 18, France. COLLINS, Dennis George, (1912 - 14/7/1945), Gunner, Royal Artillery, P.O.W. Sandakan, Malaya. GADSDEN, David,         (1909-23/11/1943),Sergeant, R.A.F, 7 squadron, Germany. LAGDEN, Harold John,(1894 - 14/5/1915), Private, Essex Yeomanry, Ypres, Belgium. OTTAWAY, Roy L, (1916 - 2/6/1944), American G.I. Lazlo, Italy. WWII. SAVAGE, John Thomas,(1881 - 5/10/1915), Royal Dublin Fusiliers, France. STAPLES, Harry Robert, (1900 - 5/3/1942), Stoker, HMS Electra, sunk in Java Sea.

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