This description of the village of Stratton, Dorset, England is taken from “The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset” by John Hutchins, M.A., The Third Edition, Corrected, Augmented, and Improved, by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson. Vol. II, 1866.
Stratton, Dorset, England (1866)
June 20, 2008 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Bradford Peverell, Grey, Hutchins, Pitt, Smith, Stratton
When motor cars were made in Bournemouth
June 19, 2008 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Bournemouth
The days are long gone when motor cars were manufactured in Bournemouth and the surrounding area. But before the Second World War a number of cars were.
See the full story in the Daily Echo
Removal Order of Anne Hellyer 1826
June 18, 2008 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy, Location)
Tags: davies, Hellyer, Hotchkis, Kendall, Llanelly, Nunney
County of BRECON } To the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Llanelly in the said County of Brecon, and to the Church-Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Nunney in the County Somerset and to each and every of them.
Arthur Cowell Stark (1846-1899)
June 17, 2008 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Cox, Ladysmith, Stark, Torquay
Arthur Cowell Stark was born at Torquay, Devon in 1866, the eldest son of John Cowell Stark and Ann Wilkinson. Arthur. His father was a successful ironmonger and sometime manufacturer of teak furniture.
Wimborne Minster, Dorset (1911)
June 15, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Cuthberga, Dorset, Wimborne, Wimborne Minster
The following description of the town Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England is taken from the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
A village taxi in the days before pumps
June 14, 2008 at 4:00 am (Biography, History, Location)
Tags: Bere Regis
The fuel crisis in 1923 was of a slightly different nature. There were no petrol pumps at the side of shops, so, in this case, in Bere Regis the petrol was stored in a can buried under the pear tree.
Full story in the Dorset Echo
Royal Navy service records
June 13, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, History, Podcast)
Tags: National Archives
Mark Pearsall covers the main sources for officers and ratings service records in this introductory talk from the National Archives podcast series about Royal Navy Service Records from the late 18th Century to the early 20th Century.
Will of Mary Ann Mansell (1867)
June 12, 2008 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Boonton, Brait, Carsons, Cook, Cooper, Crane, Mansell, Norris, Norton, Peer, Price, Richards, Sanders, Siffield
From the Office of Surrogate Morris County New Jersey, United States, A copy of the Last Will and Testament Of Mary Ann Mansell deceased, Office of Surrogate Morris County New Jersey.
A lost mansion of Dorset
June 11, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Dorset, Eastbury
Dorset has been lucky in losing only a small number of its larger mansions over the last three hundred years, but one of the losses was the largest and most magnificent house ever built in the county – Eastbury. Jo Draper tells its story in the Dorset Life Magazine.
Read the full story here
