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| The sons, grandson and great-grandson of David Palethorpe |
The market garden that my family kept in the village of Gedling for over 150 years, always seemed to represent everything I thought I knew about my Palethorpe ancestors.
Independent, hard working but contented Nottingham folk who enjoyed their food! I certainly didn't associate them with scandal.
So, I was most surprised to discover that in 1858 there was a big Nottingham legal case - Palethorpe v Palethorpe - which disputed the very ownership of the garden.
The case, reported at length in the Nottingham and regional papers, arose after Thomas Oldknow Palethorpe left the garden to his son David in his will. The problem was, that in doing so, old Thomas overlooked two elder sons, Tom and John, and four elder daughters.
