Showing posts with label Edward Wollacott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edward Wollacott. Show all posts

Sunday, 2 December 2018

World War 1 puzzles

Bob Vickery from the Dawlish World War 1 project asks if anyone can help with information about a house called 'Faleide' at Southbrook.
and when did Edward Woollacott, a retired fur merchant, retire to Starcross?
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Does anyone know when Edward Wollacott  retired to Starcross? Here is a photo of him out driving with his wife (?) and another of him sitting in his garden on a strange garden seat that may have been made from tusks or whale bones.
Mr Wollacott was a retired fur merchant and may have had access to exotic animal remains.
Does anyone know of his house, 'Faleide' at Southbrook ? Is it an existing building since renamed?
His gardener, shown standing behind the garden seat, was William Stephens who had two sons, William Edwin and Leonard Reggie Stephens, who appear in a school photo of Starcross School ca 1903.
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Edward Wollocott (seated) in grounds of Faleide
Edward Wollocott (seated) in grounds of Faleide

Mr & Mrs Edward Wolllacott in their dogcart
Mr & Mrs Edward Wolllacott

 Starcross School ca 1903
Starcross School ca 1903
 The South West Heritage Trust hold a catalogue of the sale at Faleide, Southbrook, Starcross. "Furniture and effects, including carpets, escritoire, musical instruments, paintings, china, books etc. Sale by direction of the executors of Mrs E Langford, deceased. Auction by W Brock & Co on the premises on May 27th, 28th and 29th 1924. "
 

Wednesday, 5 September 2018

Edward Wollacott

Robery Vickery; researcher at the Dawlish World War 1 project,  would like information please, about Edward Wollacott who lived at Faleide, Southbrook, Starcross in 1911. Here's a photograph of him. He employed the widowed Emily Stephens as housekeeper. Emily was the mother of Leonard Reggie Stephens
Where was Faleide? 

Many thanks to Robert for this photograph of Edward Wollacott
Edward Wollacott, Faleide, Southbrook




in a Dawlish Gazette article,
Edward Wollacott is listed as a retired fur merchant