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William Tudge
The Belladonna Tribe recorded origin started at the herd of William Tudge sometime in the middle of the ninteenth century. William was farming at the time not very far away from James Rea of Monaughty, at Llangunlo, Radnorshire.
Today this tribe is divided into five living families, and several extinct families
that some of the AI bulls are derived from. The five living families are, Gloaming,
Laura, Model, Spotlight and Venus. The further two families that we have semen from
are the Souvenir and Tamarind families. The five can be further sub divided into
four and one. The four are all descended from Belladonna's daughter Bracelet (20/643),
while the Venus family is descended from another daughter of Belladonna (9/228),
Bonnie Lassie (18/684). Bracelet (20/643) had three daughters, Britainnia (28/701),
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At the 2004 Three Counties Rare Breeds Day, the winning male and female came from this tribe. Shefford Model 4th won the female championship, while Street Talbot, from a Westwood Laura, won the male and Interbreed Championship.
The Regina Tribe started with the cow Lady (3/177) by Orleton 901, in the herd of William Tudge senior. It stayed in the hands of the Tudge family when they moved to Adforton in South Shropshire. The tribe continued in the ownership of the Tudge family until the early part of the twentieth century until Regina 2nd (32/165) was sold to the Robinson's Lynhales herd. Here the tribe became one of the more well known tribes of the breed, and on the dispersal of Lynhales in 1924 Regina 13th (54/546) and Regina 15th (60/519) were purchased by R S de Q Quincey of the Vern. Here the Regina tribe produced many outstanding females and two outstanding bulls, Vern Diamond and Vern Leopold. The tribe then went to Crownhead and then to Llandinabo, where the modern foundation for the tribe has its base. The Reginas are now widespread within the Club herd.
The Prettymaid Tribe is another of William Tudge's original tribes. This tribe stayed within the Tudge family for almost one hundred years. In the mid twentieth century a member of the tribe was purchased from H N Moore by G P Pollitt, who at the time had Tarrington Optimist as his stock bull. Quisne Empress was the result. This line of this tribe went on the Lower Hill where E J Williams bred the bull Lower Hill Winney, one of the AI bulls.
