I
hope you won’t be bored with me repeating this, but again we had a jolly and
far reaching natter on various topics!
We
are thinking about marking the 50 years after the station closed on 3 Jan 1967,
which would be next year.
David
and I have been looking at emails from a researcher looking into the Pring
family of East Devon. One Martin Pring born here in 1580 turns out to be a
noted explorer. A Google search brings up various reports of his life as a sea
captain and explorer. He was baptised in the church on 23 Apr. 1580 - bur; 1627 St. Stephen’s Bristol. He was son of
John Pring of Thorne.
There
are two meetings planned, the first from Ottery Heritage by Jim on his book
commemorating WW1 in the area and Jenny and George have kindly said they will
show the Western Uprising PowerPoint which is nowing be updated to include new
research.
Chris
from Ottery Heritage has been working hard on the project to repair the
Patterson Cross Monument and has received consent to organise its repair.
Hoping to start in Sept, all being well. There will a Social Evening to raise funds.
The stone masons will require a welfare station on site adding to the costs.
Geoff,
while volunteering at the Devon Records Office has been indexing planning documents for Honiton dated 1920s / 1930s , this detailed the Reads garage pump on arm reaching on to the
High Street, and its necessary fuel tank
, the Turks Head Café and planning for the houses in Honiton Bottom. Plans for
Pubs and Inns in Honiton, Tavern Beer houses. The act of 1830 tried to put an end to too much
Gin!, but anyone could sale beer, but not spirits. The old water board site in
Kings Road was an aircraft factory war time, permissions for toilets in the
pubs. In 1932 the houses were to be built with bathrooms and a washroom/
scullery. This is a wonderful resource
for the social history of the town. There is also a plan of Cullompton after
the fire.
Brenda
has been working on the history of the Parr Cottages, they have a long and
varied past, as an Inn or Cider House,
as far back as 1649 when the “ale wife” served the church workmen, the
village meeting rooms. The property was part of the Feniton Court Estate and
the name Parr may have come from the village Par in Cornwall where the
Rashleigh’s who owned the Court had their main family home.
Jenny
and George took the Western Uprising talk
to the U3A meeting where it was well
received, but they had trouble with the Beehive hall equipment which did not match their own computer so did
the whole talk by the seat of their pants!! Jenny has copyrighted the talk to
Feniton History Group to protect it.
Jenny tells us she may have links to her own
family with the Frys, Quakers from Spicelands, Uffculm leading to a link with Cadbury
family and chocolate.
Alan
told us about the legend of the cottage near Buckerell Cross called “Prince James Lodge” this may be the son of King Charles 1st. Since the meeting Jenny has been doing some
research on this and found three men named Prince James, the most promising
candidate would be the Duke of Monmouth who was in East Devon after landing at
Lyme Regis. So an interesting task is in hand here!
The
then evolved into a chat about long distance footpaths used by fleeing Kings,
the Monarch’s Way and the Liberty Way
The
route of the Liberty Trail route is based on information recorded by six rebels
from various villages in Somerset and Dorset. Villagers from the two counties
made their way to join the Protestant Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.The rebels
wore green sprigs tucked into their hats to declare their support for Monmouth.
Weapons that they carried included farm scythes and other suitable agricultural
tools.
Roy
has been out and about and found some 13C
/ 14C finds including a pommel hilt in
the Membury area.
George
told us computer problems have stopped him progressing with the Nonconformist
research. He related the 1860s law
requiring a licence to use private
buildings as a church. He mentioned the Five
Miles act.
I
have had a query from a lady researching the Wreck of the Berar off Rousdon in
1896. The was said to be an oak bucket at the Railway Hotel saod to have come
from the wreck, the only link I could find was the landlord Fred, G Greenham
who married Elizabeth Loveridge of Axmouth in 1889. They were at the pub from
about 1910 to 1928.
Many
thanks to all, so many interesting snippets.
The
next meeting be in the Nog Inn 8 pm on 7th July.
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