{"id":6920,"date":"2026-07-20T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/?p=6920"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:24:25","slug":"gwilliam-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/gwilliam-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwilliam Family of English Bicknor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Above &#8211; The family photo shows my dad with his family in English Bicknor in the 1920&#8217;s. The &#8230; photo shows my dad with his family in English Bicknor in the 1920&#8217;s. My grandfather Thomas in the centre owned Folly House colliery and White House farm.<br>&#8211; David Gwilliam<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dora Gwilliam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"773\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dora-gwilliam-773x1024.webp\" alt=\"A photo of Dora Gwilliam\" class=\"wp-image-6915\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:5px;border-top-right-radius:5px;border-bottom-left-radius:5px;border-bottom-right-radius:5px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dora-gwilliam-773x1024.webp 773w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dora-gwilliam-226x300.webp 226w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dora-gwilliam-768x1018.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/dora-gwilliam.webp 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dora Gwilliam. Soprano singer known as the forest nightingale. Born in Berry Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jack Gwilliam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/jack-gwilliam-642x1024.webp\" alt=\"A photo of Jack Gwilliam in naval uniform\" class=\"wp-image-6916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/jack-gwilliam-642x1024.webp 642w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/jack-gwilliam-188x300.webp 188w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/jack-gwilliam-768x1225.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/jack-gwilliam.webp 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">.Jack Gwilliam from English Bicknor in naval uniform 1941.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos of members of the Gwilliam family of English Bicknor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,58],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-6920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-berry-hill","category-english-bicknor","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6920"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6932,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions\/6932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungreen.co.uk\/sg-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}