tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23868493789747609722024-03-16T14:04:38.163-07:00Starcross History SocietyHistory in Starcross, Devon UKStarcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051848311248173068noreply@blogger.comBlogger424125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-40477035003199571392024-03-12T01:14:00.001-07:002024-03-12T01:23:17.705-07:00Powderham Event Wednesday April 17th 2024<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="539"><tbody><tr><td width="539" valign="top"><p align="center"><b><span lang="EN">KENTON PAST & PRESENT and</span></b></p><p align="center"><b><span lang="EN">STARCROSS HISTORY SOCIETY [SCHS]</span></b><b></b></p><p align="center"><b><span lang="EN"> </span></b></p><p align="center"><b><span lang="EN">Wednesday 17th April 2024</span></b><b></b></p><p align="center"><b><span lang="EN">7.00-8.30 pm</span></b><b></b></p><p align="center"><b> </b></p><p align="center"><b>The Music Room, Powderham Castle, Kenton</b></p><p align="center">by kind permission of the Earl of Devon<b></b></p><p align="center"><b> </b></p><p align="center"><b>David Holland</b> explores:</p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><b>The Exeter Conspiracy Through The Eyes Of</b></p><p align="center"><b>Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell</b><b></b></p><p align="center"><b> </b></p><p align="center"><b><span lang="EN">ADMISSION FREE</span></b></p><p align="center"><b> </b></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><div>
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</div><p></p><p><b>Introduction to an historical whodunnit </b> In the 1520s <b>Henry Courtenay</b>, King <b>Henry VIII</b>’s cousin and very close friend, was the most likely male heir to the throne. However, during 1536/37 the mood music dramatically changed.</p><p> </p><p><b>Henry Courtenay </b>and his family, staunch Catholics, were suddenly in deadly danger from Henry VIII’s all-powerful minister, <b>Thoma</b>s <b>Cromwell</b>, a Protestant. Cromwell accused the Courtenays and their powerful Catholic allies of plotting, <i>The Exeter Conspiracy</i>, to depose King Henry VIII, and replace him with a Catholic monarch… David Holland now takes up the story.</p><p> </p><p>Please <u>note the change in venue</u> from the SCHS’s and Kenton Past and Present’s usual ones.</p><p> </p><h2 dir="ltr">HILARY MANTEL’s <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-Bring-Bodies-Mirror-Light/dp/B084YYJTMW/ref=sr_1_2?adgrpid=104983863007&hvadid=435635296546&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9045302&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=9925188845502974573&hvtargid=kwd-317840479158&hydadcr=17143_1746188&keywords=wolf+hall+trilogy&qid=1707056064&sr=8-2">WOLF HALL TRILOGY</a> OF NOVELS and the TWO HENRYS: KING HENRY VIII & HENRY COURTENAY</h2><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr"><u>Prelude to David Holland’ talk on 17th April 2024 in the Music Room, Powderham Castle: The Exeter Conspiracy Through The Eyes Of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell</u></p><br><p dir="ltr">The Courtenay connection</p><br><p dir="ltr">Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived [just!] (1) is the well known chant to help remember the sequence of Henry VIII’s wives: that clutch of unfortunate, largely doomed ladies. Beside them sit other, less well-known victims like Sir Thomas More of Henry VIII’s psychopathic paranoia. In Henry’s paranoid mind his victims were possible threats to his throne and dynasty. So, anyone whose head popped above the successional parapet was liable to have it involuntarily removed. None more so than the family members [Plantagenets] of Queen Elizabeth of York (d.1503) wife of Henry VIII’s father, the Lancastrian Henry VII (r.1485-1509), </p><br><p dir="ltr">A Courtenay Story </p><br><p dir="ltr">A starting point for a Courtenay Story is the marriage of Queen Elizabeth’s youngest sister Catherine to William Courtenay of Tiverton Castle, at this time Powderham Castle was not the family’s main residence. The Yorkist curse fell on the shoulders of their son, Henry Courtenay, Henry VIII’s cousin, childhood buddy and then close friend. The Courtenays were the most powerful family in the West of England with extensive estates from which it could raise its own private army that could even threaten the king’s. For Henry C. all was well throughout the 1520s; he was Henry VIII’s leading courtier. And, as Henry VIII’s oldest male relative, he was a heartbeat from the throne. But note Henry C’s wife, Gertrude, was devoutly religious, a companion and friend of Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s ageing, infertile wife whom Henry VIII hoped easily to replace with the fecund, doe eyed Anne Boleyn. </p><br><p dir="ltr">Hilary Mantel’s First Two Novels in the Trilogy and Henry Courtenay</p><br><p dir="ltr">Wolf Hall Fate now cast its long, deadly shadow over Henry Courtenay. Henry VIII’s bitter divorce from Catherine of Aragon and the split from Rome saw Henry VIII replace the Pope as head of the Catholic Church in England so that he could marry Anne Boleyn. From c. 1530 Gertrude Courtenay, Catherine of Aragon’s staunch supporter, became closely involved with her and the Pope’s backers: Henry VIII’s enemies whom he hung, beheaded or burned. Hilary Mantel details how Gertrude’s religious fervour pointed to Henry Courtenay’s possible entanglement in this fevered poisonous web of rumour, accusations and duplicity but without any evidence of a conspiracy against Henry VIII. So, Henry C. survived, just, as a leading courtier. </p><br><p dir="ltr">Bring Up The Bodies continues the tale, with the Courtenays perhaps surprisingly in 1536 playing a major role as Henry VIII’s allies in getting rid of their hated enemy Anne Boleyn once Henry VIII’s love for her turned to loathing and his eye latched on to a younger, more fertile possible queen. So, in 1536 Henry had Anne decapitated and he married Jane Seymour. A year later Jane bore Henry VIII his greatest wish: a baby Lancastrian son - Prince Edward. Yorkist Henry Courtenay was now in deadly danger - a potentially murderous wicked uncle who on Henry VIII’s death would kill Prince Edward and seize the throne as had a Yorkist uncle Richard III some 50 years ago.</p><br><p dir="ltr">Note: wicked uncle Richard III, line 2, Catherine, line 4, fifth person along - second sister of Elizabeth of York who married the Lancastrian Henry VII</p><p dir="ltr"> <br></p><br><p dir="ltr"></p><p dir="ltr"><u>Henry Courtenay</u> </p><span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br><p dir="ltr">Henry is ranked second in the kingdom in the pecking order the procession reveals. </p><p dir="ltr">The three oval red circles on his surcoat are taken from the Courtenay coat of arms.</p><br><p dir="ltr"></p><br>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-3564482422727964942024-03-11T04:36:00.001-07:002024-03-11T04:47:12.935-07:00Please join us on Saturday afternoon <p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b></b></p><div><b>
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</b></div><b><br></b><p></p><p><b>A STARCROSS HISTORY SOCIETY WORKING PARTY: <i>STARCROSS CELEBRATES THE 1920S</i></b></p><p> </p><p>§ We need your help to <b>plan </b>and <b>manage</b> a <b><i>Starcross Celebrates the 1920s</i> </b>project. <b>Starcross History Society</b> is establishing a working party in liaison with <b>Devon History Society </b>to review what the Starcross programme might entail.</p><p><br></p><p>The project will happen in 2025.</p><p> </p><p>§ If <b>you are interested in the <i>Starcross Celebrates the 1920s</i> </b>projec<b>t</b> and might like <b>to join its working party</b>, we would be delighted if you could attend a<b> public meeting</b> on:</p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Saturday, 16<sup>th</sup> March at 3.00 p.m. </b>in<b></b></p><p><b>Starcross Pavilion, Generals Lane, Starcross, EX6 8PY</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p>If <b>you cannot attend,</b> but are interested in participating in <i>Starcross Celebrates the 1920s</i>, please let us know at <a href="mailto:starcross.history@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">starcross.history@gmail.com</a> and we will keep you informed.</p><p><br></p><p><span></span><span></span><br></p><p><b> </b></p>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-23399463103058787242024-02-08T02:35:00.001-08:002024-02-12T05:28:27.599-08:00Meeting at Powderham Castle Wednesday 17th April <div></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="539"><tbody><tr><td width="539" valign="top"><p align="center"><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>STARCROSS HISTORY SOCIETY [SCHS)</p><p> with <br></p><p>KENTON PAST & PRESENT <br></p><p>Wednesday 17th April 2024<br></p><p>7.00-8.30 pm</p><p>The Music Room, Powderham Castle, Kenton</p><p>by kind permission of the Earl of Devon</p><p>David Holland explores:</p><p>The Exeter Conspiracy Through The Eyes Of</p><p>Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell</p><p> </p><p>ADMISSION FREE</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><b>Introduction to an historical whodunnit </b> In the 1520s <b>Henry Courtenay</b>, King <b>Henry VIII</b>’s cousin and very close friend, was the most likely male heir to the throne. However, during 1536/37 the mood music dramatically changed.</p><p> </p><p><b>Henry Courtenay </b>and his family, staunch Catholics, were suddenly in deadly danger from Henry VIII’s all-powerful minister, <b>Thoma</b>s <b>Cromwell</b>, a Protestant. Cromwell accused the Courtenays and their powerful Catholic allies of plotting, <i>The Exeter Conspiracy</i>, to depose King Henry VIII, and replace him with a Catholic monarch… David Holland now takes up the story.</p><p> </p><p>The connection with the Courtenay family and hence their relevance to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy is previewed in <b>A TALE OF TWO HENRYS - Henry Courtenay and Henry VIII</b> on the Starcross History Society’s website <a href="https://starcrosshistory.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://starcrosshistory.<wbr>blogspot.com</a></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>David Holland</b> is kindly giving this talk as a prelude to the <b>“Wolf Hall Weekend”</b> event he is arranging in <b>June</b> at Cadhay House - <a href="https://wolfhallweekend.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://wolfhallweekend.com/</a></p><p> </p><p>Please <b><u>note the change in venue</u></b> for the 17<sup>th</sup> April meeting from the <b>SCHS</b>’s and <b>Kenton Past and Present’</b>s usual ones.</p><p> </p><p> </p></div><div><br></div></div></div><div></div></div>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-25762356866368151372024-02-08T02:25:00.001-08:002024-02-12T05:10:49.030-08:00Prelude to David Holland's talk on 17th April 2024 The Exeter Conspiracy Through The Eyes Of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell<h2 dir="ltr">HILARY MANTEL’s <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-Bring-Bodies-Mirror-Light/dp/B084YYJTMW/ref=sr_1_2?adgrpid=104983863007&hvadid=435635296546&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9045302&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=9925188845502974573&hvtargid=kwd-317840479158&hydadcr=17143_1746188&keywords=wolf+hall+trilogy&qid=1707056064&sr=8-2">WOLF HALL TRILOGY</a> OF NOVELS and the TWO HENRYS: KING HENRY VIII & HENRY COURTENAY</h2><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr">Prelude to David Holland’ talk on 17th April 2024 in the Music Room, Powderham Castle: The Exeter Conspiracy Through The Eyes Of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell</p><br><p dir="ltr">The Courtenay connection</p><br><p dir="ltr">Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived [just!] (1) is the well known chant to help remember the sequence of Henry VIII’s wives: that clutch of unfortunate, largely doomed ladies. Beside them sit other, less well-known victims like Sir Thomas More of Henry VIII’s psychopathic paranoia. In Henry’s paranoid mind his victims were possible threats to his throne and dynasty. So, anyone whose head popped above the successional parapet was liable to have it involuntarily removed. None more so than the family members [Plantagenets] of Queen Elizabeth of York (d.1503) wife of Henry VIII’s father, the Lancastrian Henry VII (r.1485-1509), Fig. 1. </p><br><p dir="ltr">A Courtenay Story </p><br><p dir="ltr">A starting point for a Courtenay Story is the marriage of Queen Elizabeth’s youngest sister Catherine to William Courtenay of Tiverton Castle, at this time Powderham Castle was not the family’s main residence. The Yorkist curse fell on the shoulders of their son, Henry Courtenay, Henry VIII’s cousin, childhood buddy and then close friend. The Courtenays were the most powerful family in the West of England with extensive estates from which it could raise its own private army that could even threaten the king’s. For Henry C. all was well throughout the 1520s; he was Henry VIII’s leading courtier. And, as Henry VIII’s oldest male relative, he was a heartbeat from the throne. But note Henry C’s wife, Gertrude, was devoutly religious, a companion and friend of Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s ageing, infertile wife whom Henry VIII hoped easily to replace with the fecund, doe eyed Anne Boleyn. </p><br><p dir="ltr">Hilary Mantel’s First Two Novels in the Trilogy and Henry Courtenay</p><br><p dir="ltr">Wolf Hall Fate now cast its long, deadly shadow over Henry Courtenay. Henry VIII’s bitter divorce from Catherine of Aragon and the split from Rome saw Henry VIII replace the Pope as head of the Catholic Church in England so that he could marry Anne Boleyn. From c. 1530 Gertrude Courtenay, Catherine of Aragon’s staunch supporter, became closely involved with her and the Pope’s backers: Henry VIII’s enemies whom he hung, beheaded or burned. Hilary Mantel details how Gertrude’s religious fervour pointed to Henry Courtenay’s possible entanglement in this fevered poisonous web of rumour, accusations and duplicity but without any evidence of a conspiracy against Henry VIII. So, Henry C. survived, just, as a leading courtier. </p><br><p dir="ltr">Bring Up The Bodies continues the tale, with the Courtenays perhaps surprisingly in 1536 playing a major role as Henry VIII’s allies in getting rid of their hated enemy Anne Boleyn once Henry VIII’s love for her turned to loathing and his eye latched on to a younger, more fertile possible queen. So, in 1536 Henry had Anne decapitated and he married Jane Seymour. A year later Jane bore Henry VIII his greatest wish: a baby Lancastrian son - Prince Edward. Yorkist Henry Courtenay was now in deadly danger - a potentially murderous wicked uncle who on Henry VIII’s death would kill Prince Edward and seize the throne as had a Yorkist uncle Richard III some 50 years ago.</p><br><p dir="ltr">Figure 1 Yorkist Family Tree : showing Catherine – sister of Elizabeth of York, wife of William Courtenay</p><span><img alt="A diagram of a family tree
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</div><br></div><div><br></div>Many thanks to Suzanne Jones, who made no charge for her wonderful presentation "240 Years of Gardening and Horticulture in Dawlish"<div>The Starcross History Society was able to donate £100 to the Turkey Earthquake Appeal</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div id="m-1719195966889902361" class="mail-message expanded"><div class="mail-message-header spacer"></div><div class="mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images "><div class="clear"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Disasters Emergency Committee</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:support@dec.org.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">support@dec.org.uk</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 6:33 PM<br>Subject: Thank you for your donation<br><br></div><br><br><div><u></u><div marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" class="zoom-out" data-zoom="1"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" bgcolor="#ffffff" class=""><table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" class=""><tbody><tr><td class=""><table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" class=""><tbody><tr><td width="100%" bgcolor="#ffffff" class=""><img alt="DEC - Disasters Emergency Committee" height="85" id="m_3627072658148643267m_-6148951201339517393logo" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhJBgcNsgNtCtAdV4-QGEoBzqXkC1bi48D6PFlXBCEJ6AfsX8CEibpf7kitDjKjw3JM3ZOFCHmYi-xfIyINRs1KFSD-Kxp2Cs_1lBbNaQg_TBGFedWFQGNiSQeBorucc06opRzcQHEfu5yAzH6DHdoqowSQ_S-OKkeeB8oaSUVbztOQ71LLoqDvviA8ltlmjWvw0bJnV5FxTZMy-a5hiQvCL2TR2PI=s0-d-e1-ft" width="600"></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div><table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" class=""><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class=""><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="left" class=""><h3>Dear Starcross History Society,</h3><p>Thank you so much for your donation to the DEC Turkey-Syria Earthquake Appeal.</p><div><table class=""><tbody><tr><td class=""><p>Donation amount:</p><p><b>£100.00</b></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td valign="top" class=""><div></div></td><td valign="top" class=""><img alt="Thank You" width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjqY6cmxfaJXzl2Xr0PmFZmquMBxxEABSBja8hzT4yjV3QC9-3PquRudsf8Vzo_zEvuMjmZvgkG50Y5ncBrd0wqdo_MjqEpnKzeOZyLbJDLN8FnOBC7qTLtKS_pDS72FFHIPnzQ7Ql2bpor9OfEKeIKXU_3fT2cMDnptzUEyiMWhZJdnjURzl8KLUiDopcT8aOAK4OmjI3c7TiA9BjZxRRNhD8S=s0-d-e1-ft"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff" class=""> </td></tr></tbody></table><table width="600" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#eeeeed" class=""><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff" class=""><table><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class=""><p>As you know, the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria have caused widespread devastation. Thousands of people have died and survivors have been left without shelter. They desperately need emergency shelter, medical care, food and clean water.</p><p>Your donation of £100.00 could be worth an extra £25.00 if we were able to claim Gift Aid on it. Please consider doing so by making a Gift Aid declaration – it can make a very substantial difference. 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Anyone may download it. </p><p><a href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:7b125fc5-ea93-495b-8c58-3903c33cd140" target="_blank">Captain George Peacock by Patricia E Barton</a></p><p><a href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:7b125fc5-ea93-495b-8c58-3903c33cd140" target="_blank"></a></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicWGDtQI7xkMMkH2zJ7yNIX-tD7yQ1-LLkXYgPCHtdxywkC6Ge9H-DM38UBJU-S_WGRNbb6YygQBROwTulpYeB8juO_3LLv9EswGl_rmlLU1y1qnoE5uh7W7pB-6YOkvc093cUpm0c7gbMnZHFqtCt6Ldd18Pd7L2b9VnaYsznbiob4oYUJeH7qb-icQ/s640/RIMG0004.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicWGDtQI7xkMMkH2zJ7yNIX-tD7yQ1-LLkXYgPCHtdxywkC6Ge9H-DM38UBJU-S_WGRNbb6YygQBROwTulpYeB8juO_3LLv9EswGl_rmlLU1y1qnoE5uh7W7pB-6YOkvc093cUpm0c7gbMnZHFqtCt6Ldd18Pd7L2b9VnaYsznbiob4oYUJeH7qb-icQ/s320/RIMG0004.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This bust of<br />Captain George Peacock<br />is with his descendants<br />in The Wirral </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>Some of this dissertation will be published on this weblog, in sections <p></p></div>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-18598729365914108132023-01-17T01:58:00.003-08:002023-01-17T01:58:48.634-08:00240 Years of Gardening and Horticulture in Dawlish <p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo2LT48-kOrdxtfXJdCHIeXonSH15DdkstT9qxSiWAh61KpiWesJ7G-wq0CXvic330lgo5iXFe-VdxOBQQCoMQ_uivsVcsSDFYaz7KQkSPCykFS6MdyPboRaFMvo4Guhtvn9nMShtg4fXRI31Vo_cQQLwDxm2WYPuaJXhhlOAh4hf_3nzhvwD0JTk-_w/s1209/rs=w_1209,h_855.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="1209" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo2LT48-kOrdxtfXJdCHIeXonSH15DdkstT9qxSiWAh61KpiWesJ7G-wq0CXvic330lgo5iXFe-VdxOBQQCoMQ_uivsVcsSDFYaz7KQkSPCykFS6MdyPboRaFMvo4Guhtvn9nMShtg4fXRI31Vo_cQQLwDxm2WYPuaJXhhlOAh4hf_3nzhvwD0JTk-_w/s320/rs=w_1209,h_855.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prize List for 1874<br />Dawlish Horticultural and<br />Cottage Garden Society </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>On Saturday, February 18th, from 3pm until 5pm in The Starcross Pavilion on the Starcross Sportsfield, Suzanne Jones will present </p><p>"240 Years of Gardening and Horticulture in Dawlish "</p><p>Suzanne will describe: the very active Garden Society, which was formed in 1861; what happened during both World Wars; and the large industry of horticulture that sustained many families and employed hundreds of people at its height.</p><p>Suzanne is intrigued by this subject and she continues her research, spending many hours every week searching local archives for information. </p><p>If anyone has any photographs, press cuttings posters or stories about the history of gardening in Dawlish and surrounds, please get in touch, or even bring them to the meeting.</p><p>Admission is free but it's around £40 for the hire of the pavilion and its facilities, so we sell tea and coffee, have a collection pot, and have a raffle.</p><p>Please bring a raffle prize</p><p>Thankyou </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><u></u> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-10432095480226537492022-11-28T14:47:00.006-08:002022-11-28T14:48:15.984-08:00Excellent details about The Atmospheric Railway <p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8lcdygJhDpRQ6-_KSJ9kTnp0I7DBrYcDeapobAArp0HZoa1sAonZUNps2kS-Ew2zMF9ufEYvJYiZWkmDTtjvP1rCy8cXEGNTsk5uVbWRo6BAAM94jTGUZReBENaDPKmnZ7o5tddIiLS3HjRzeTDXYO86BXqjXrp5m0VSBuMqQ_RjAqj3nlh1GNQI5Xg/s3648/IMG-20221117-WA0013.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2052" data-original-width="3648" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8lcdygJhDpRQ6-_KSJ9kTnp0I7DBrYcDeapobAArp0HZoa1sAonZUNps2kS-Ew2zMF9ufEYvJYiZWkmDTtjvP1rCy8cXEGNTsk5uVbWRo6BAAM94jTGUZReBENaDPKmnZ7o5tddIiLS3HjRzeTDXYO86BXqjXrp5m0VSBuMqQ_RjAqj3nlh1GNQI5Xg/s320/IMG-20221117-WA0013.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Entrance to the Brunel Tower,<br /> owned by<br /> The Starcross Fishing and Cruising Club </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>Link to an absolutely fabulous account about The Atmospheric Railway. Did you know that the Brunel Tower had to be rebuilt TWICE in 1845 and 1846?</p><p><a href="https://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/atmo/13_STARCROSS.html" target="_blank">The Atmospheric Road</a>.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-54636250170302181512022-11-28T02:20:00.004-08:002022-11-28T04:09:09.135-08:00Mr Charles W. Mayer<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhiC7yhaBECtXuNHReKqV4GG4tGaTJMR6mw5-97qk_5MF1SsfUvkjvYGGXtHGPs4HZ87KcVwBHqtoUYE04wNHxpD1LApGz6DmoxfJRr3iX6te0XVzKivya8rzoZWoavorV0_NzAO_CfNQ2A8R3r3uNh-s4HAF8de-PdtdJ_GDvzHONTFFPByIaZwS4Iw/s280/Royal%20Western%20Counties%20Hospital%20001smaller.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="280" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhiC7yhaBECtXuNHReKqV4GG4tGaTJMR6mw5-97qk_5MF1SsfUvkjvYGGXtHGPs4HZ87KcVwBHqtoUYE04wNHxpD1LApGz6DmoxfJRr3iX6te0XVzKivya8rzoZWoavorV0_NzAO_CfNQ2A8R3r3uNh-s4HAF8de-PdtdJ_GDvzHONTFFPByIaZwS4Iw/s1600/Royal%20Western%20Counties%20Hospital%20001smaller.jpg" width="280" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Royal Western Counties Hospital </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p>Please d<span face="sans-serif">oes anyone know anything about the Late Mr.Charles W. Mayer, who was Superintendent of the Starcross Western County Institutions during the 1920s? He was awarded the MBE (Civil) </span></p><p><span face="sans-serif">Are his descendants living in Starcross or anywhere else?</span></p><p><span face="sans-serif">A grateful man from Chennai, Tamilnadu, India is anxious to contact them.</span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"> He writes: </span></p><p><span face="sans-serif">" I am a state government retiree aged 69. I lived with my parents with the late Mr.George Hugh Mayer in Pune, in the state of Maharastra, India. He was very kind and gave me an education till he passed away in 1965. </span></p><p><span face="sans-serif">...I was 12 years old then. I am very grateful and cannot forget his kindness to me and my parents who are no more. I just want to know whether there are any ...descendants. I will be very grateful if you could help in searching them out...</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="signature-text" style="color: #888888;"><div dir="auto"><br style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" /></div></div>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-17275995991013629062022-11-20T04:50:00.003-08:002022-11-28T03:51:22.458-08:00Starcross Hospital. What the voices tell us. Part 4. <p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ELP05L509Lt6DgOFnxyHO4FMjIRjNeqeBgntLoiLUmUdG9l9L4k12Iw3QPyndaJLdw4PBXrRmprQJYcvLqdTe94saiy2jF3x4WwR4r3DMCkWCKqHOoSQaPaetAeKh2oHXVcxB_yYaBsyAnsIFTS3wXQvsBYSO_0JhCCjNxJVvYSH1RjQW6t_WtdJ2Q/s661/why%20can't%20I%20%20live%20in%20a%20house.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="602" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ELP05L509Lt6DgOFnxyHO4FMjIRjNeqeBgntLoiLUmUdG9l9L4k12Iw3QPyndaJLdw4PBXrRmprQJYcvLqdTe94saiy2jF3x4WwR4r3DMCkWCKqHOoSQaPaetAeKh2oHXVcxB_yYaBsyAnsIFTS3wXQvsBYSO_0JhCCjNxJVvYSH1RjQW6t_WtdJ2Q/s320/why%20can't%20I%20%20live%20in%20a%20house.png" width="291" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Western Counties Institution<br />Starcross<br />Twas a never ending world</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p><b><u>Why the Starcross era came to a close</u></b></p><p><i>quotes are from David King , The District General Manager, Exeter Health Authority, recorded as one of </i><i>the interviewees for the Starcross Oral Archive Project in 1988 .</i></p><p>With more and more admissions, but few discharges, of patients, the buildings became overcrowded and too full – not as intended by their philanthropic founders.</p><p><i>It is shocking that people were packed into hospitals in the recent past and hypocritical that the conditions were described as “Dickensian”, for in Dickens’ day the inmates enjoyed a better environment. Not only was the overcrowding squalid, it also contributed to the lowest standards of behaviour.</i></p><p>The peak in numbers was reached in the 1950s, but then there was a gradual removal of social pressure to place people in institutions.</p><p><i>The official attitude to learning disability was changing… No longer… regarded as disqualifications from membership of society but disadvantages to be solved or helped within it</i></p><p>In time, there was a realisation that institutional care was unsatisfactory.</p><p><i>For people with learning disabilities, the hospitals did more harm than good… there were better and more practical alternatives to help them. </i></p><p><br /></p><p><u><b>Why Starcross should not be forgotten</b></u></p><p>David King asked for an oral archive to be created before the memories of Starcross faded. He thought it right that the good intentions of those who had set up and run the institution should be recognised, and at the same time that the limitations should be remembered.</p><p>He foresaw a day when potentially the institutions would be recalled through rose-tinted glasses, and the realities forgotten, or those involved wrongly maligned.</p><p>Institutional care was a phase in our social history that should be recorded so it would be better understood in future years when the bricks and mortar of the Victorian hospitals were no longer there to remind us.</p><p>The project was also intended to help society understand the importance of succeeding with the difficult transformation from institutional to community care: </p><p><i>Enthusiasm for community care will only be generated if more is known about the handicaps of hospital life and how community solutions can better serve the varied needs of people. </i></p><p>Interviewed for the Starcross oral archive David was asked: What made you decide it was worthwhile to chronicle the history of Starcross and attempt this reconstruction of what it was like to be in Starcross? </p><p><i>It’s nice to get the voices and experiences of people down. Much that has been written about the hospitals has failed to bring out the fact that they, particularly the mental handicap hospitals, were creating a “sub-class” in society, people who were excluded from society permanently and, if they had any abilities, were treated as slave labour…One of the particular reasons was that funny little book called “The First Hundred Years” and its glowing appreciation of the Institution.</i></p><p>The First Hundred Years was a booklet published by Starcross Hospital in 1964</p>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-59835954056733683602022-11-18T14:15:00.008-08:002022-11-18T23:52:57.331-08:00The Preservation of The Brunel Atmospheric Pumping House<p> In June 1979, after a campaign by The Brunel Tower Action Group, who were based in Starcross, an application against a decision to refuse demolishment of Starcross's Brunel Atmospheric Tower and Pumping Station was withdrawn</p><p>Here's the link on the Teignbridge Planning website</p><p><a href="https://publicaccess.teignbridge.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=ZZZZY7PZXC875&activeTab=summary">79/00141/LBC | Demolition of building (appeal withdrawn) | Brunel Atmospheric Tower And Pumping Station (teignbridge.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The building was saved by Mr and Mrs Dick Forester, who moved into the derelict site with their family. They opened it as a museum about Brunel's Atmospheric Railway. </p><p>The <a href="https://starcross-fcc.com/" target="_blank">Starcross Fishing and Cruising Club </a> are now the proud owners of the tower, and they are anxious to preserve it. They acquired some old red sandstone which they had hoped to use to restore and preserve the tower, which Brunel built using local red sandstone from a now closed quarry. Sandstone has proved to be prone to weathering, </p><p>Planning permission was granted in 2009 for remedial work on the wall alongside the A379. The work was not allowed to be other than render. The result is a pink wall that doesn't blend in with the original red sandstone.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHd_TdlJHk6-Lfr1xBiEKNUloVUeuavRjE-h_DgRRIp-B3gkURh54yZf3pI2UjmW4engp5hP8eJMR_pXB651Mj7vlYI_0UQe_tVmUTNqPboK2OmNJF1e8K809c8wqaGP200o2iEcclDpI08Uz5BVP3FVdMLchu8S87ffGHnfCLIUG_A2gnSqcROwzZpg/s3648/IMG-20221117-WA0010.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="2052" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHd_TdlJHk6-Lfr1xBiEKNUloVUeuavRjE-h_DgRRIp-B3gkURh54yZf3pI2UjmW4engp5hP8eJMR_pXB651Mj7vlYI_0UQe_tVmUTNqPboK2OmNJF1e8K809c8wqaGP200o2iEcclDpI08Uz5BVP3FVdMLchu8S87ffGHnfCLIUG_A2gnSqcROwzZpg/s320/IMG-20221117-WA0010.jpeg" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rendered wall<br />next to original<br />red sandstone </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNJGciM2bxHI_jm0CTY2I5m7o8BVl7hW-iQ6Ha35q6lK_RNVUmmL-2EQuTrVDD5_Gsm3Az7SnN4hGdnc6w8bzBXBFixusbSJ5y4oirO09iAtiEoFkCdUB8Zk1fO2jfuBCTWCKTgXiAjyZ8djVYhy0NxvP4pmUZcE-ZeG673RlGtyl0o3w6YkCV5BzTcA/s3648/IMG-20221117-WA0013.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2052" data-original-width="3648" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNJGciM2bxHI_jm0CTY2I5m7o8BVl7hW-iQ6Ha35q6lK_RNVUmmL-2EQuTrVDD5_Gsm3Az7SnN4hGdnc6w8bzBXBFixusbSJ5y4oirO09iAtiEoFkCdUB8Zk1fO2jfuBCTWCKTgXiAjyZ8djVYhy0NxvP4pmUZcE-ZeG673RlGtyl0o3w6YkCV5BzTcA/s320/IMG-20221117-WA0013.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original red sandstone<br />at the entrance to<br />The Brunel Tower </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX6gsUNdUudsvqAw_EpRU3R1fr2-LiG-gOqJzrfvtfSw8pfNR7VUTVqTFHYoH0eV9plDHwoaDzkexTLAGzB2w9blUSQQTcwdlN5rmt9n39j3WrgxiDcZlseBJQ5JS9q9phrysMoYBDVjR3nLgQiIkzBcCz7Qa0if33VHAfy1HJNYt1JzHDc7n_TDrXsw/s3648/IMG-20221117-WA0015.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2052" data-original-width="3648" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX6gsUNdUudsvqAw_EpRU3R1fr2-LiG-gOqJzrfvtfSw8pfNR7VUTVqTFHYoH0eV9plDHwoaDzkexTLAGzB2w9blUSQQTcwdlN5rmt9n39j3WrgxiDcZlseBJQ5JS9q9phrysMoYBDVjR3nLgQiIkzBcCz7Qa0if33VHAfy1HJNYt1JzHDc7n_TDrXsw/s320/IMG-20221117-WA0015.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rendered wall adjacent to<br />original sandstone wall<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> <a href="https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/join/the-gift-of-membership?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=PPC&gclsrc=aw.ds&gclid=Cj0KCQiA99ybBhD9ARIsALvZavUl5ZG50GXJlvZ6pIx7LqR_D4Hsg4MSZZZ895XDCa5iiAoa_IZ8bGYaAiVGEALw_wcB" target="_blank">English Heritage </a>had no objections to this. Here's the link to the planning application, which was given "Conservation LBC LBD Approval" <div><div><a href="https://publicaccess.teignbridge.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=KGFXKBPZ02Q00&activeTab=summary" target="_blank">Application for remedial work to the walls</a><div><p>The 2022 planning application by The Starcross Fishing and Cruising Club, for repairs and rendering to the stonework has been withdrawn. Documents associated with this planning application include a forthright letter from " The Victorian Society (Listed Building Society) " </p><p><a href="https://www.victoriansociety.org.uk/site" target="_blank">The Victorian Society</a> object to the proposal and want it to be withdrawn so that a new application can have the input of a stone conservation specialist. Their letter can be viewed in the associated documents on this link</p><p><a href="https://publicaccess.teignbridge.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=RB03KVPZLM600" target="_blank">Link to the withdrawn planning application f or remedial work to the crumbling walls</a><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div></div>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-79644451856326293672022-11-14T09:16:00.000-08:002022-11-14T09:16:11.159-08:00Captain Peacock: Wedding Guest <p>Despite his death in 1883, Captain George Peacock was Guest of Honour at a wedding less than 30 years ago. Here's the picture </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk4GjVYrHTQEgRdMxJqHQ-J6WnGRrv6u83fCoS3_-luEMDKxLKJ7CxdeQVE-FjLOliwZaBhgXfcQsVVvI2KXny6HaTyLpemj7Fymxuc2aoPff7Dj_WlIUSfUDzonNlMNCneXXBbztZ6mPX_O-MwEabphPKi4TPq3KdNRbnlSLFIZ70WqqTiK4ZcJHwLQ/s640/IMG_0043.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk4GjVYrHTQEgRdMxJqHQ-J6WnGRrv6u83fCoS3_-luEMDKxLKJ7CxdeQVE-FjLOliwZaBhgXfcQsVVvI2KXny6HaTyLpemj7Fymxuc2aoPff7Dj_WlIUSfUDzonNlMNCneXXBbztZ6mPX_O-MwEabphPKi4TPq3KdNRbnlSLFIZ70WqqTiK4ZcJHwLQ/s320/IMG_0043.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Captain George Peacock<br />Guest of Honour<br />at wedding in the 1990s</td></tr></tbody></table>This marble bust of Captain Peacock has pride of place in the family home of his descendants, the Cookson family in The Wirral<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2GB34WJ_NGVyUc9zVdNBQEOUXsfj1dwOyruenlkMRwjAPU97J2hbbWCgWPV4BDh346qr-wWIYimpsQBP6sR6ZMV9eMmmROUMn1j6NJoxigp1UDt9YmKRZpBndxUpMAXNQh0-TPCd2ezia3Zi4kY1vAFDcj2YOpsNhRbnobBDjt3Gnkpn4goNkSiUADA/s640/RIMG0004.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2GB34WJ_NGVyUc9zVdNBQEOUXsfj1dwOyruenlkMRwjAPU97J2hbbWCgWPV4BDh346qr-wWIYimpsQBP6sR6ZMV9eMmmROUMn1j6NJoxigp1UDt9YmKRZpBndxUpMAXNQh0-TPCd2ezia3Zi4kY1vAFDcj2YOpsNhRbnobBDjt3Gnkpn4goNkSiUADA/s320/RIMG0004.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marble bust of<br />Captain George Peacock </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div>Neil Mathew Peacock Cookson writes that Captain Peacock still keeps a strict eye on the family </div><div><br /></div>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-50817280113612545842022-11-14T07:56:00.002-08:002022-11-14T07:57:51.587-08:00Captain Peacock's Walking Stick<p> Captain George Peacock's walking stick was cut for him on <span face="sans-serif">the Isthmus of Darien</span><span face="sans-serif">(</span> <span face="sans-serif">overlooking the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans) when he was undertaking an initial survey for what would later become The Panama canal.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgblSJOqY2aItmEIGUx8qZmmEb3CUX9TUXMWj0E_owx6wWoEcyd5bYKOK_uFK-XWgLoHBJ3GY7Qj4Znnb5kDabqTEefUUkzL1-yAsMJT2h4t2vihfMB8kqYya7q0ls2tyRavmT1SxIVFgKz82moXSvR0pHnS3j5RSlIXaGkNFRZiyUI3O8WSvh6cnLsNw/s640/RIMG0007.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgblSJOqY2aItmEIGUx8qZmmEb3CUX9TUXMWj0E_owx6wWoEcyd5bYKOK_uFK-XWgLoHBJ3GY7Qj4Znnb5kDabqTEefUUkzL1-yAsMJT2h4t2vihfMB8kqYya7q0ls2tyRavmT1SxIVFgKz82moXSvR0pHnS3j5RSlIXaGkNFRZiyUI3O8WSvh6cnLsNw/s320/RIMG0007.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Captain<br />George Peacock's Walking Stick </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span face="sans-serif">The top is also a snuff box. It's made in silver and engraved <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE65hy9c_s9uh8NGSOcnxph1HnbuG3YP8f3AJAyq6xiBYi7hunT7I2hfDlV6vx-u0-zPR7SyqtPY2k0-Dc4NtUzxBDw1msEszyLXzOzPHYX3boo4orZgOT1uTJuIduK7SqUY_KcsP04BTPcL-8oBF0eXHVOJELaRyI1aCtE5pxDMCNc5mccGGFwPqfdQ/s640/IMG_2898.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE65hy9c_s9uh8NGSOcnxph1HnbuG3YP8f3AJAyq6xiBYi7hunT7I2hfDlV6vx-u0-zPR7SyqtPY2k0-Dc4NtUzxBDw1msEszyLXzOzPHYX3boo4orZgOT1uTJuIduK7SqUY_KcsP04BTPcL-8oBF0eXHVOJELaRyI1aCtE5pxDMCNc5mccGGFwPqfdQ/s320/IMG_2898.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The engraved silver snuff<br />box on top of Captain<br />George Peacock's walking stick </td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><div>Many thanks to Neil Cookson for these photographs </div><div><br /><p></p><div><span face="sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif"><br /></span></div></div>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-18524903226018213782022-11-14T03:24:00.004-08:002022-11-14T03:25:28.848-08:00 Legitimately acquired Grecian marble <p> Starcross History Society has received some exciting new information about "our" Captain George Peacock 1805 - 1883. Our famous inventor, explorer and polymath was born and resided at Regent's House in The Strand, Starcross.</p><p>One of his descendants, Neil Cookson writes:</p><p><span face="sans-serif">"</span></p><p><span face="sans-serif">A</span><span face="sans-serif">s well as the Royal Order of The Redeemer the King of Greece also gave him a small section from the base of a marble column from one of ‘his’ temples.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi28zCFcAjP920jGwjBHeO8UXqQoOIb26kKKk7nRZzhzxr21v3JSlElvu6-SzZ5Cijm5sXhz3fZ68GrKV7V_0Mo_MPrh_Vb-4D5V6z-iBSy-JF-y-crlv63tNQ4qjT7_268eEQS1_gR3N7lcumjTfGG-vYw99JE4cVdFudZ3OkXf942dF1wcANU1G7ugA/s640/RIMG0072.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi28zCFcAjP920jGwjBHeO8UXqQoOIb26kKKk7nRZzhzxr21v3JSlElvu6-SzZ5Cijm5sXhz3fZ68GrKV7V_0Mo_MPrh_Vb-4D5V6z-iBSy-JF-y-crlv63tNQ4qjT7_268eEQS1_gR3N7lcumjTfGG-vYw99JE4cVdFudZ3OkXf942dF1wcANU1G7ugA/s320/RIMG0072.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Section from base of column <br />from temple belonging<br /> to the King of Greece</td></tr></tbody></table><span face="sans-serif"><br /></span><p></p><div style="font-family: sans-serif;">It’s not quite up there with the Elgin Marbles, but at least it was acquired legitimately!</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><div>It was in the garden at Regents House until my gran sold the property in the 1960’s after which it moved to Tedburn St Mary with my</div><div>dad’s sister, before coming to stay with me here on the Wirral in the early 2000’s. Where next I wonder?</div><div>"</div></div><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-80972629778386292142022-10-27T15:05:00.001-07:002022-10-27T15:05:50.328-07:00Saturday Afternoon Meeting <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC9ja__J8LztPu6Dx5YzyEji8UBmz1VLxYHkYueLPWdz3gpeazAbbTQ9IYlgKvOlwprJjSAFqcTuRe3s-iFD-_rspKtcYWhEuS4qxPVrOps9UkRlG_xRKy5h3kD5urqqRRuTvJ1SP8CIaPU4K8nBdPTjcK_w-uzm20UoRbVtEiYRB0wXT3oaoITeRc1g/s669/2914_starcross-pav.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="669" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC9ja__J8LztPu6Dx5YzyEji8UBmz1VLxYHkYueLPWdz3gpeazAbbTQ9IYlgKvOlwprJjSAFqcTuRe3s-iFD-_rspKtcYWhEuS4qxPVrOps9UkRlG_xRKy5h3kD5urqqRRuTvJ1SP8CIaPU4K8nBdPTjcK_w-uzm20UoRbVtEiYRB0wXT3oaoITeRc1g/s320/2914_starcross-pav.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> The Starcross History Society has decided to try a Saturday afternoon meeting. This will be on Saturday, 19th November, from 3.00pm until 5.00pm.<p></p><div>Everyone is welcome. There's no charge for admission, but we have to cover the room hire, which is £39.60p, so we'll sell teas and coffees, have a collection pot and a raffle.</div><div>PLEASE BRING A RAFFLE PRIZE</div><div><br /></div><div>We will bring some items from The Starcross Archive, some of which is housed in St Paul's Church. We'd like a completely accessible space for this archive; somewhere public that has no steps. If you have something from Starcross history that you'd like to share with us, please bring it along.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Starcross History Society is interested in the preservation of important pieces of our history. The magnificent, stone built, Royal Western Counties Hospital was demolished and all the stone went up country to build posh houses. There wasn't a trace of it until members of St Paul's Church organised this stone memorial which was placed in the memorial garden, next to a wooden bench. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh80v1FQJkEFx9a9OuCDMazsamD_IFr_eTAj61JbKVXWx9w-jmvIoregIDTT3Y7Eaktpeo4bgk1Xx8Q9fAU9q1165rEDGapaAxFlIZZuUANuJDlEt7tdlADFvYsWmaOP-Zf9meSKiU-xbFrXdz0B6FimAqyhMNdm9_cnwu4-edmhOpfXusdExrKbQLQxA/s720/Memorial%20stone%20RWCC%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="720" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh80v1FQJkEFx9a9OuCDMazsamD_IFr_eTAj61JbKVXWx9w-jmvIoregIDTT3Y7Eaktpeo4bgk1Xx8Q9fAU9q1165rEDGapaAxFlIZZuUANuJDlEt7tdlADFvYsWmaOP-Zf9meSKiU-xbFrXdz0B6FimAqyhMNdm9_cnwu4-edmhOpfXusdExrKbQLQxA/s320/Memorial%20stone%20RWCC%20(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The area is now a tranquil place for quiet reflection.</div><div><br /></div><div>Another building that was threatened with demolition was The Atmospheric Railway Tower. The Starcross Brunel Tower Action Group made a big song and dance about it, and their enthusiasm was rewarded when Dick and Valerie Forrester and family, moved into it, opened it up as a museum, and SAVED IT. Its continued onservation hasn't been straightforward. Its present owners, The Starcross Fishing and Cruising Club, have a quantity of red sandstone blocks put by for repairs, but have been unable to use this resource because it's not from the same quarry from which Brunel bought the stone. That quarry was closed many years ago. The Teignbridge Conservation Officer instead allowed a cemented repair to a roadside wall.</div><div>The Starcross History Society are quite baffled by this saga. </div><div><br /></div><div>We have been in contact with the descendants of the Peacock Cookson families. They are keen to preserve the pink marble monument in St Paul's Churchyard. When Monica, secretary of The Starcross History Society, first saw this monument, she searched around for the top section of what looked like it could have been a large stone cross on the top of the pink marble. There isn't a top section. A broken cross is the masonic symbol for a life cut short.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFXrnozg_S-zHHUxvJejgZJkWQ7iZCl2UAF1qTPeKXvRe8mtVxloTOf-vhGVe6jSgZcBupt3mO8YU5PI0l4-8vfnP1U7K4gj51oYtgYra5rGSrG9kXRypeibozsWxV9xincYVVj5hMb9B1-ZiTcNuaGtz84Fz7LBulfEO4Ck5hWIvh0YKJgeyInUfmPQ/s2400/Screenshot_20221027-225951.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFXrnozg_S-zHHUxvJejgZJkWQ7iZCl2UAF1qTPeKXvRe8mtVxloTOf-vhGVe6jSgZcBupt3mO8YU5PI0l4-8vfnP1U7K4gj51oYtgYra5rGSrG9kXRypeibozsWxV9xincYVVj5hMb9B1-ZiTcNuaGtz84Fz7LBulfEO4Ck5hWIvh0YKJgeyInUfmPQ/s320/Screenshot_20221027-225951.png" width="144" /></a></div>It's hoped to organise The Starcross History Club which will be an after-school club at Starcross School. The new club will be led by the children, to explore their interest. If any children would like to bring their parents along to this Saturday afternoon meeting, they will be most welcome.<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12051848311248173068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-9790073929545061402022-01-16T13:37:00.003-08:002022-01-16T13:50:47.533-08:00Haydon Family. Information sought<p>Brian Wood lives in Brisbane, Australia. He has<span face="sans-serif"> spent 10 years trying to track down the story of his Great Great Grandfather</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> He died called John Wood in 1889 but was almost certainly born William Haydon and I think came from Starcross or nearby (His probate clarifies the two names)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">I got as far as visiting Starcross cemetery several years ago, found lots of Haydons, but cant piece together the right potential person/family<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">I have a mix of fact and family legend<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">I would be so grateful if you can help or pass me on to someone who may be able to<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">I have detailed what I know below<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><b>Facts<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">Born around 1808-1811<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">Was in the Royal Artillery from 1832-1853 including serving in Jamaica<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">Married a Jane Fry and eventually settled in North East England<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">Large numbers of his descendants across 3 lines have had Haydon as a middle name (even to my son!)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">One of his sons lived in a house called Starcross in Monkseaton, Whitley Bay (later a residential care home)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">His census records have 2 x different possible birthplaces (Chudleigh or Bristol; quite probably both wrong). His occupation changed from in army in 1851, to Chelsea pensioner in 1861 to “Landowner of 45 acres in Devon” in 1871 to unemployed painter in 1881.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><b>Possibilities/family legends<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">He “was conned” out of a farm at some stage and could have been a wealthy landowner ( I have found From GENUKI a William Haydon was the occupier of a East Church and SHortridge Farm sold at Auction in 1821; and note some links of Haydons to Staplake farm)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">He deserted from the navy to join the army and changed his name to avoid detection (Army is proven, cant find any old naval records).<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">Seemingly his gravestone had John Wood on it, but was crossed out for Haydon. Grave destroyed in WW2.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;">He was from Kenton/Starcross. There was a tapestry family tree including him in the church in Starcross that my parents saw.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> There have been 2 previous requests for information on the Haydon family:<u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><u></u> <a href="https://starcrosshistory.blogspot.com/2020/05/haydon-of-staplake.html?m=1" target="_blank">Haydon of Staplake Lane</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="https://starcrosshistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-bell-family.html?m=1" target="_blank">Bell, Haydon and Ash Families</a><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br /></p>Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2386849378974760972.post-75211447721003648992021-11-17T11:38:00.007-08:002021-11-17T16:16:39.109-08:00Explore your archive<p></p><div id="wpfront-notification-bar-spacer" style="box-sizing: inherit; 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text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">As part of the annual Explore Your Archive week, two of the South West Heritage Trust’s archivists will talk about looking after the archival heritage of Devon and Somerset.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Our Archive and Local Studies Services have centres in Taunton, Exeter and Barnstaple where we care for 10 million archives dating from the 8th century to the present day. More than 350,000 printed reference works about Somerset and Devon are also held in the Local Studies collections. Together they are essential resources for anyone wanting to begin a journey through the history of the South West. But this doesn’t tell the full story of how rewarding, challenging and perplexing it can be to work with archives.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;">Join Esther Hoyle and Brian Carpenter from Somerset and Devon Heritage Centres to discover more about their work as archivists with the South West Heritage Trust. From favourite documents to interesting enquiries, Esther and Brian will give an insight into the work of an archivist. 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font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a brief outline of the issues I confronted and the sources I pursued in an effort to locate the final resting place of my paternal Great great grandfather from Starcross to no avail.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">James and Susanna Barratt were married in Starcross in 1837 and had a typically large family. They lived for a half century in various cottages in Church Street and New Road. James identified himself as a waterman or boatman in various census returns across the years. When his wife died in tragic circumstances in 1895, he was described in the newspapers as ‘</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">an aged mariner, who of late years has been widely known and respected as one of the Starcross boatmen’</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In fact, James bequeathed both his names to three successive generations of my family [to a grandson, great grandson and my brother, a great great grandson] so he has a special interest for me. He was also the subject of ‘family folklore’ in which it was claimed that as a boatman he sailed the boat that was in the form of a ‘cygnet’ that was connected to the well-known Swan boat on the River Exe and now on display in the Topsham Museum. A wholly as yet, unsubstantiated detail but one that has all the romance that many like me hope to discover in their family history researches I am sure. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 213px; overflow: hidden; width: 320px;"><img alt="Swan and Cygnet - Topsham Museum" height="213.0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-N9f8pAJgqx_bU7pMPXLpv8juShH0VEy1CE4INu7aJi9Aho7hLaOM4uAMoRJRNhD3hoy8R-jeO22yJPGZRuV0zIH1J5vjO780G_qBFzf0MJ0TkRAl0pG7omVKUQZabObzkxtK--I" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="320.0" /></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 214px; overflow: hidden; width: 284px;"><img alt="The last remainining Cygnet on display in Topsham Museum" height="214.0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/sq6ZjM6-r-LqAmgcnUYE1zkdN8T9dOhk5aXIvl5JtYQ6udAU5-SfEBaqPXrlRQU6DRHc-oCbNTBKufbCrm7e17G53V9x_2aVfZ-vQflWWuHx_r4znoJcOiL_Yw_3V7DMhYivyZxM" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="284.0" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[The Swan & The Cygnet – well known craft on the River Exe from the 1860’s. The restored Cygnet is the prize exhibit in the Topsham Museum] </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, as a consequence of my researches at the Devon Heritage Centre in Sowton [DHS], I discovered that both James and Susanna had sad and tragic ends to their lives. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Susanna</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’s death is covered in a separate article, so the focus herein concerns what happened to her husband </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">James</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and my efforts to find his final resting place after a few tempestuous final days in his life in March 1904. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In view of his residence and work in the village for so many years I believe he must have been well known while alive which was borne out to some extent by the newspaper referenced above. As my family had no surviving photographic image of my Great great grandfather, when the Atmospheric Railway museum in Starcross closed down many years ago, I made a belated effort to try and trace where the photographs were subsequently re-located. I recalled when visiting the Museum it had an extensive collection of photographs of local people which had not been displayed. Despite pursuing several lines of enquiry I didn’t make the progress I had hoped and when the trail went cold I abandoned that for the time being. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Living on his own after the death of his wife, James, was admitted to the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exminster Asylum</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as a ‘pauper lunatic’ and died within a few days in 1904 aged 89 years. The DHS revealed the register and documents relating to his admission on 25</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> March 1904. It was said that he had been a heavy drinker some twenty years before and had had a ‘magnificent’ physique and been a good boxer but was now found to be emaciated. He had started showing signs of unusual behaviour a fortnight before his admission which I don’t want to elaborate on here. He was described as being confused and distressed and unable to answer a single question, resisted all attempts to help him and refused to take food offered to him. It was pretty clear he was suffering from some form of dementia.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">James Barratt</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> died on 27th March 1904 at the Exminster Asylum after just three days. His death certificate describes the cause of death as ‘senile decay & bronchitis’.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 224px; overflow: hidden; width: 707px;"><img height="224.0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/KFBzXEGkN7fTY1uzaxwJv3ZLALIzT9t-CulcjU51Kg0QQZEvnnv6S3U0ihkAXP4CpSLrSlY5gb56aQ7uF2y_519vhafO5yWvPxM2Es4Vf1ZnqBzexldUL6G-wXTJFDjHcIicsjW1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="707.0" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[The Death Certificate of James Barratt, March 1904]</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I very much wanted to find where he was buried which is where the fun started. I had presumed that the burial would have been in Starcross parish where he had lived for most of his life. But no such luck, even though his wife was buried in an unmarked grave at St.Paul’s Church a decade earlier. It is perhaps worth mentioning that according to the Churchwarden there were problems with how some records, such as a map of the graveyard and burial locations, had been kept by a previous incumbent that had regrettably resulted in their current whereabouts being unknown. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Acting on a suggestion from the Churchwarden I subsequently contacted the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Starcross History Society</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> around July 2018 and they published an article about my search for the grave of James Barratt on their website. I also took the opportunity to ask if any of the members and readers had or could locate any photographs of ‘Old Starcross’ in a continuing effort to try and identify James or his family when they were living in the village. Grateful for the opportunity to widen the search it was disappointing that I had no responses.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I therefore assumed that my Great Great Grandfather had been buried on the site of the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exminster Asylum</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> where he had actually died. But the search of the records at the Heritage Centre with the help of the Archivist had revealed nothing. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Acting on the advice of the Archives staff at Sowton, I followed up my research by looking in the burial registers of parishes adjacent to and in the vicinity of Starcross including </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kenton, Powderham</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Exminster </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but all with no success. The Cemeteries Officer for Teignbridge DC checked the registers on my behalf for both </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dawlish </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Teignmouth Cemeteries</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> but also to no avail. Similarly Exeter City’s Bereavement Services confirmed that there was no burial record in their three cemeteries – </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Higher, Exwick and Topsham</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. As there seems to have been some issues about the correct spelling of the name – it is ’Barratt’, but it was entered at the Asylum as Barr</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">e</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tt and on other occasions as Bar</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">n</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">et[</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">t</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">] I had wondered if those looking in registers would pick up on any misspellings or not.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I lived with my frustrations on the matter of locating the grave until I was signposted to staff at the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DFHS Tree House </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">resource and research centre in Exeter in March 2020 [in particular the DFHS Committee member, Sue Bond] who agreed to help me and apply her knowledge and skills to my problem in view if the efforts I had already made to solve it myself, albeit unsuccessfully. Despite re-checking all the parishes mentioned above by looking at the original records for the first half of 1904 in order to throw up any issues I had about any variations on the name spelling, they were also unable to locate his grave. They even extended consultation to the burial records for </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary Tavy</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which was James’s ‘birth parish’ on the DFHS Members' Area just in case he had been returned there as well as checking the Exeter bereavement cards. It was the view of Tree House that a range of experts and others including them and me, had all looked at various sources to no avail.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So the search continues for the grave of James Barratt, my great great grandfather. What I hoped would be plain sailing in calm waters for my quest to find it, has proven elusive so far. But if any reader can help or comes across it in their own researches I would be very glad to hear from you. Sue Bond gave me the most optimistic response when she advised me to </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">keep looking from time to time as all of a sudden ‘</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it might just pop up’. I sincerely hope it does.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 20pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Les Gibbings</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><br /><br /><br />Starcross Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02057751773589975125noreply@blogger.com0