This is the first chapter from the book, The Three Dorset Captains at Trafalgar: Thomas Masterman Hardy, Charles Bullen, Henry Digby by Alexander Meyrick Broadley, R. G. Bartelot and published by J. Murray, 1906.
Dorset and her famous sailors
December 2, 2008 at 4:00 am (History)
Tags: Bullen, Digby, Dorset, Hardy
Ancient Shooting Butts at Evershot
September 16, 2008 at 4:00 am (History, Location)
Tags: Cardrow, Dorset, Edwards, Evershot, Fisher, Hallet, Hardy, Lennard, Pound, Reade, Strowd, Wilkins
The following letter, concerning a complaint that some men at Evershot had been subjected to actions for trespass when attempting to practice therie archery, was published in Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset, Volume VIII
Tradgedy at Langton Herring
August 8, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Hardy, Langton Herring, Mowlam, Mowlan, Vivian
On a gravestone in the churchyard at Langton Herring, Dorset, England is carved the epitaph, “REMEMBER John Hardy aged 7, Henry Mowlam aged 8, Richard Mowlan aged 6, Charles Vivian aged 8 who died together in 1852 at play in the village limekiln”.
Roll of Honour – World War I
November 10, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Crabb, Dunford, Ecclestone, Edwards, Eyton-Lloyd, Freeston, Gaisford, George, Hardy, Hodson, Horler, House, Peach, Pennell, Rixton, Sanders, Selway, Starr, Tompkins, Warr, Willetts, Wilsher
The following members of my extended tree gave their lives for their Country during the First World War. If you are connected with or have further information on any of them I would be pleased to hear from you.
The Dorsetshire Labourer
October 4, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Dorset, Genealogy, Hardy
The Dorsetshire Labourer by Thomas Hardy first appeared in Longman’s Magazine, July, 1883.
