This brief biography is taken from ‘A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars: With Brief Biographical Notices’ by John Hutchinson and Published by Printed by Butterworth and Co. for the Honourable society of the Middle Temple in 1902
Robert Napier or Napper, Royalist (1611-1686)
September 22, 2008 at 4:00 am (Biography)
Tags: More Crichel, Napier, Puncknowle
John Tompkins (1834-1908)
June 30, 2008 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Abbotsbury, Burton Bradstock, Chideock, Compton Valence, Eyers, Matthews, Puncknowle, Shipton Gorge, Symes, Tompkins, Wynford Eagle
John Tompkins was born on November 1, 1834 at Looke in the parish of Abbotsbury, Dorset, England the fifth of eight children of Richard Tompkins and Ann Churchill. Despite being born in Abbotsbury, John was baptised in the parish church at Puncknowle, which was physically much closer to the family home.
Eliza Clark (1838-1903)
October 12, 2007 at 4:00 am (Biography, Genealogy)
Tags: Axminster, Bothenhampton, Clark, Fowler, Puncknowle, Southampton, Stoke Abbot, Swyre, Thorner, Tompkins
Eliza Clark was born at Puncknowle, Dorset, England in 1838, the eldest daughter of carpenter Richard Clark from Stoke Abbot, Dorset andhis wife Ann Northover from the nearby village of Swyre. Eliza grew up in Puncknowle and by the age of thirteen was engaged in the local trade of net making.
Henry Richard Tompkins (1781-1864)
August 29, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Biography, Cooper, Cox, Dorset, Genealogy, Hayes, Puncknowle, Thorner, Tompkins, Wallbridge
Henry Richard Tompkins was baptised on April 22, 1781 at Puncknowle, Dorset, England, the 5th of 8 children to Nicholas Tompkins and his wife Joan Wallbridge. On May 18, 1818 at Puncknowle witnessed by Bernard Cox and William Thorner he married Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph & Jane Cox.
