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The Redlynch and District Local History Society The Redlynch Review The Redlynch and District Local History Society August 1999 Volume 3 Published by The Redlynch & District Local History Society All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. This is a revised and updated edition of The Redlynch Review published in August 1999. Copyright © 2018. The Redlynch & District Local History Society Front cover picture Woodfalls Post Office (late 1930s) Contents Chairman’s Report .................................................................................................................................. 1 Ambrose Shelley of Redlinch .................................................................................................................. 2 Canadian Letter ....................................................................................................................................... 4 Salisbury in the age of Cholera ............................................................................................................... 6 Notes on the Wiltshire Dialect ................................................................................................................ 8 Strange Goings on at Toad’s Flat… ........................................................................................................ 10 An Account of the Railway Accident at North Charford on 3 June 1884 .............................................. 11 From the Archives... .............................................................................................................................. 11 Entertainment in the Twenties and Thirties ......................................................................................... 12 Nomansland and How It Became Part of Redlynch .............................................................................. 14 Early Days of Scouting ........................................................................................................................... 17 The Poor of Downton Parish 1800 to 1835 ........................................................................................... 20 Chairman’s Report It is hard to believe that a year has gone by since I wrote the report for Volume 2 of our Redlynch Review. Time seems to go so quickly and, in spite of all our modern conveniences, there never seems enough hours in the day to accomplish all that is hoped for. This year, a small group has been working very hard on our book for the Millennium (see more details in the Journal) and it is progressing well. We hope to publish it by 1 November. I must thank this group for their commitment because it has turned out to be a bigger task than we thought and there have been moments when I have wished that I had never thought of the idea! However, I am sure that it has been worth all the hard work and that it will be a useful document both now and in, say, one hundred years time. Work on the churchyard memorials has not been forgotten but has been in abeyance during this spate of wet winters. We need fine, dry weather when the foliage has died down to be able to tackle it. I have recently gone 'on line' and am finding it a fascinating experience. At the moment I am receiving copies of the Downton Parish Registers by E-mail (at the rate of one a day) and, when these are all printed out, I am sure that they will be a useful source for those of you who are interested in family history. We have permission to copy the Redlynch Registers which are held at the County Record Office in Trowbridge and eventually, a copy of these will be available for consultation in the village. Attendance at our meetings has remained high with membership again around the 80 mark. Speakers have included Mrs Pamela Slocombe on Wiltshire Buildings, Mrs M Fay talking about Family History and Roy Spring on Diaries and Keepers of Journals. Andrew Deathe from Salisbury Museum kept us entertained with a talk which emphasized that, although few artefacts from past ages had been found in Redlynch, the village has had a long history interlinked with that of the neighbouring settlements. Rosalind Passmore used the 185l census as a basis for her talk on Village Trades and illustrated talks about Fordingbridge by Gerard Ponting and Redlynch by Robert Newman, helped by Stan Crouch, were an outstanding success. The year finished with a tour of the Cathedral Close, accompanied by Kathy Quinn who enthralled us with her mixture of history and gossip about past and present residents and their houses. We have an interesting programme planned for next year and have already booked Phil Harding of Time Team for our meeting in November 2000! Our Annual General Meeting will take place in October and, again we need your help in the running of the Society. Please think about taking a more active part. Finally, I must thank the committee for their work throughout the year and those who have contributed to this magazine in any way. Will Waite has again given his time and expertise to produce this Journal and special thanks go to him. Our next meeting is on Tuesday, 7 September. Pat Millington August 1999 1 Ambrose Shelley of Redlinch In the name of God Amen I Ambrose Shelley of Redlinch in the parish of Downton in the County of Wilts Broom maker... This is the beginning of the 1822 Will of my husband's great, great, great grandfather, a copy of which we obtained from Wiltshire County Record Office at Trowbridge. The Will goes on... First I give and bequeath unto my son James Shelley all that my dwelling house garden orchard premises and appurtenances which I now live in situate at Redlinch to have and to hold the said messuage garden orchard and pig sty opposite the dwelling house and piece of land strait from the corner of Mussellwhites allotment to Joseph Higg’s plot. Secondly... Thirdly I give and bequeath unto my son William Shelley all the house garden orchard and premises and the common land at the back side of the house that he liveth in in Trunk Bottem and also that piece of land 1 acre and a quarter joining to Wm. Nicholas’s called Old Backs. Fourthly I give and bequeath unto my son Stephen Shelley all that cottage or dwelling house called Roppell Pit with the land back and front adjoining it and Knob Crook Meadow and its allotment to it. Fifthly... Sixthly I give and bequeath unto my grand daughter Sarah the wife of Andrew Light all that cottage and land belonging to it called Robert Farmers unless that being disposed of and then Joseph Higg’s in Trunk Bottem. And also I give unto my son Stephen Shelley the sittings which he sitteth in the Church and also I give unto my grandson William Shelley his grandmother’s sitting in the church and also I give unto my grand daughter Sarah the wife of Andrew Light the sitting which she sitteth in in the Church I also give and bequeath all my broom stock in trade and all the farming crop on the land and also all the other land of allotment if any should be allotted to be equally divided between my four sons James George William and Stephen Shelley, the house and land at Nomansland to be sold and either Josephs Higgs or Roberts Farmers The mark of Ambrose Shelley Witnesses William Reeves, Rachel Shelley, Leah Musselwhite 2 On a visit to the Salisbury Local History Library last year, it was suggested I got in touch with the Redlynch Local History Society and as a result I was provided with some interesting information, for which we are most grateful. Furthermore, we were put in touch with the owners of two Redlynch properties who generously posted us copies of documents relating to their properties which included the names of Ambrose and James Shelley. We also acquired copies of the Redlynch Review for July 1997 and July 1998 and were particularly interested in the article Besom Making in Redlynch, Ambrose being a broom maker. Ambrose Shelley married Sarah Sheryer in 1768 and one of their sons William married Hannah Mussell In 1806. They also had a son, William, who moved to Surrey and is shown on the 1841 Census in Croydon. He later married and one of his twin daughter, Mary became my husband‘s grandmother. We would be delighted to hear from anyone who has any Shelleys mentioned in their house deeds and would, of course, refund postage and photo-copying costs. Another Shelley connection occurs in that James Shelley cast a bell for Downton Parish Church. He is shown on the 1841 Census as an Ironfounder. As yet we have been unable to tie him to the family of Ambrose Shelley. Could there be a connection to Foundry Farm, Redlynch. I wonder? Mr & Mrs David Shelley, Ashby, Woodlands, Llandough Hill, Penarth, South Glamorgan. CF64 2NA Programme for 1999/2000 7 September 1999 Cranbome Chase by Penny May AGM followed by ‘The History of Roads and Road Travel’ by John 5 October 1999 Chandler 2 November 1999 Scouting in the Thirties and ... Stan Crouch et at? 7 December 1999 Christmas Folk Carols by Steve Jordan 4 January 2000 tba 1 February 2000 The City Walk by Miss Kathy Quinn 7 March 2000 Recent Discoveries at Clarendon by Dr Tom James 4 April 2000 tba 2 May 2000 Tombstones & Epitaphs by Mrs Sybil Amor 6 June 2000 tba 3 Canadian Letter My name is Colin Cooper and until I was twelve years old I lived on Vale Road. Our home was the old bungalow with the red roof and black wooden sides and when I came back in May 1998, I was surprised to see that it was still being lived in. The road has changed a lot since we left and the sawmills have gone. The lawns in front of the house on the left seemed much shorter than I remembered and then I realized that now a pavement has been constructed. Mr & Mrs Hatch lived across the road, Mr W Green next door and our house was the last one on that side. An empty field was next; now I see houses right down the road. All the memories came flooding back as I stood looking around me. When we lived in the bungalow, it had a well and an outhouse (privy) in the backyard. Boy, do I remember the cold and wet nights although, of course, we had a pot if it was too late! The back garden went all the way to the saw mills.
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