If you are researching your family in the Frome area of Somerset, England I would highly reccomend that you join the Frome Research Group at Yahoo!
This group is for sharing information relating to family and social history in the Hundred of Frome, Somerset, namely the parishes of Beckington, Berkley, Cloford, Elm, Frome Selwood, Laverton, Lullington, Marston Bigot, Nunney, Orchardleigh, Road/Rode, Rodden, Standerwick, Wanstrow, Whatley and Woolverton. It also includes the adjacent Liberties of East Cranmore, Leigh upon Mendip, Mells and Witham Friary and the Peculiar of Buckland Dinham. There is a complementary website at http://www.fromeresearch.org.uk/
Rodney Blair said,
January 23, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Please could you tell me if there is a research group that covers adjacent Horningsham in Wiltshire? I am interested in tracing an ancestor called Joseph Trollip (born 1774) who emigrated to South Africa and settled on a property there Standerwick, so there may be some connection with Standerwick, Som. On the other hand, it may have been the leader of his emigration group, Charles Hyman who lived in Short Street, Westbury, Wilts (which is even nearer Standerwick), who had the Standwerwick connection. Can you help at all?
Brian Tompkins said,
January 23, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Try http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/westwilts/
Lilly May said,
December 5, 2011 at 5:27 am
Was your relative one of the ’1820 Settlers’ to S.A. ? My relative Richard Hinton of Beckington and his family were one of these first travellers. There is alot of information on the Settlers much by the hard working Sue McKay including lists of names. Richard was in the so called ‘James Group’ which sailed on the ‘Weymouth’ but there were other groups from the area.
If anyone has any information on the Hinton family from the Beckington/Rode/Berkley/Laverton/Corsley/Chapmanslade area in particular especially prior to 1800 I would love to hear from you.
Lilly May said,
December 5, 2011 at 5:48 am
Further details dug out from files!
Joseph Trollop bn 4 Mar 1775 Somerset died Bathurst, S.A. 22 July 1862.
married to Sussanah Crouch bn 18 Apr 1773 d August 1824
son
Joseph Anthony Trollop bn 12 March 1810 Warminster – bp Frome St. John the baptist 1810.
The family sailed on the Weymouth 7 Jan 1820 Hyman’s party
Jos. Jnr. I believe m Phoebe Whitehead about 1834 and lived in/near to Grahamstown.
You may already have these snippets but if not perhaps they may help you. I mention that the above is not all my own verified research and is not the full details on the family.
Lilly
Rodney Blair said,
December 8, 2011 at 3:26 pm
I very much appreciated receiving Lilly’s two lots of contributions. Thanks also to Jim Parsons for his comments. As regards the Hinton family in which Lilly is interested, there is some information on the 1820 Settlers Association website at http://www.1820settlers.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Genealogy&file=search
in which she might be interested (but she probably already knows all this).
As regards the Trollops, I am interested to find out who my ancestor Joseph Trollop really was (where he was born, what his occupation was, who his parents were and who they were descended from, going back as far as possible. I know that a lot of Trollops/Trollips/ Trollopes live in Horningsham and are associated with the non-conformist chapel there, unlike Joseph who was baptised in an Anglican church in Frome but became a devout Wesleyan. I also know that Sir John Thynne brought down a mason from Durham called Trollop to help build Longleat and I wonder whether Joseph might be descended from him.
I would also like to ascertain similar info re Joseph’s wife Susannah Crouch but so far have been unable to find any hard evidence or info regarding either her or Joseph. Put another way, there actually seem to have been at least four Joseph Trollops living in the area at roughly the same time and I cannot tell which of them was my ancestor (who was, however, definitely married to Susannah Crouch).
Finally, I would like to discover the connection which any member of Hyman’s Party (with which the family emigrated to S Africa) may have with Standerwick Court nr Frome (after which a property in SA was named).
Jim Parsons said,
August 19, 2010 at 6:18 am
I am the OPC for HORNINGSHAM and CORSLEY.
Some transcriptions are on the Wiltshire Pages of my Family Website.
TROLLOP and variants were connected to the Congregational Chapel. Watch out for more info soon.