Eversley, Heversham, Cumbria

Eversley, Heversham, Cumbria

Eversley is a mid‑Victorian limestone country house near Milnthorpe in south Cumbria, once in old Westmorland, looking across the Kent estuary to the Lakeland fells. Built in the 1850s for cotton merchant Frank Atkinson Argles, it later became the Drew family home...
Jack Drew (1881-1933), aka John Malcolm Drew, of Burnley, Lancashire

Jack Drew (1881-1933), aka John Malcolm Drew, of Burnley, Lancashire

Born in 1881 into the calico‑printing Drews of Burnley, our great‑grandfather Jack Drew was a Charterhouse boy who skied St Moritz, studied textile innovation in Germany and married the enigmatic “Woman in Black,” Sylvia Peart Robinson. Their five children, shifting...
Isabella Sloan (1848-1922), née Drew

Isabella Sloan (1848-1922), née Drew

Isabella Drew, eldest daughter of Alexander Drew of Dalmonach and Blairmore, married Charles Tennant Sloan in 1874, founding a Sloan branch that intertwined with Odlum and Wood families. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...

The Drew Family – Contents

Origins: The Drew family of Glasgow Joseph Drew (1742-1808) of Glasgow and North America Alexander Drew (1815–1899) of Dalmonach & Blairmore, Argyll, Scotland Sandy Drew (1847–1936), aka Alexander Drew junior, of Holme Lodge, Burnley, Lancashire Isabella Sloan...