Feniton History Group held the 27th
meeting at the Nog Inn on the 9th Feb. 2012
We
discussed the events we are involved with:
Invite
to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum
29th Feb 2012.
The
Nog Inn meeting on 8th
Mar 2012. Since the meeting I have been
in touch with Philippe Panel and he will be coming to talk to us.
The DRO event 17th
March. We will be taking a display board to
display the railway, War Memorial, and
the church. Jenny and Allan’s books will be on display, I will ask
Rosemarie if we can loan her Scrapbook. My laptop will be there to show any
files folk may ask about, and anything else the Group would like to put out.
David
then told us about his research of the Church and the finding of a brick
structure underground at the side of the wall with Feniton Court, intriguing as
to its purpose, a vault, or a septic tank!!!
The brick size is smaller than the ones made in the village in 1599!!!
The
low height of the door into the side porch was discussed, could be due to cost,
or the fact folk were shorter in those days. David passed around his folder of
notes and the idea of publishing it was mentioned.
David
asked us to follow up on who Thomas Denys was, was he a “Sir”, it turns out he was, and more about
him can be found on the internet. Thank you Maggie for doing this.
In
the Church there is a memorial to the Wright family of Curscombe, I have no
knowledge of them, so this something we can work on. The Wright family still in
the area at Talewater.
The
last unidentified coat of arms on the screen behind the pulpit is that of the
Acland Family, and not Clifford as first thought. We did not think to check the
Aclands as they were a later family, coming to Feniton in 1925/6.
Next
Alan entertained us with his dialect snippets, teacher asks boy in class, “ If
you have 50 sheep in the field and one escapes, how many would there be left?
Boy speaks up, “Well maister, there be none, if they be anthin like ower sheep
once one goes them all goes”.
The
use of the letter “H” was discussed, some drop them, others add them. All very
interesting. Many thanks Alan.
