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November 2016 ISSN 2053-9592 This is a reminder that our what shops were where and November meeting will begin running to catch the bus back to with a short AGM. This will be Buckland after a trip to the followed by tales of World War I cinema. Others were entertained servicemen. If anyone feels that by details of ’s past they might like to serve on the glories as a major trading port. society committee, please get in We saw the merchants’ homes, touch with an existing committee including one owned by the Davie member. We do communicate by family of Orleigh Court fame. We email a great deal, so ideally passed the site where John committee members will have Wesley preached and learned of internet access. the town’s connection to the wife of Samuel Peyps. We even met We are also looking for members the resident mermaid! who are willing to contribute to our January members’ evening. Do you have an historical story to tell for 5 or 10 minutes? Perhaps you could bring an interesting object relating to the history of your house or family and ‘show and tell’.

Twenty people and a dog assembled on Bideford Quay in August for a tour round Bideford, led by Chris Braund. There were two distinct strands to this tour. A number of those present remembered Bideford in the 1960s and could reminisce about ∼♦∼ Contact Us The History The our of Parishand People its By email: [email protected] By telephone: 01237 451817 (Lyn Layton) By post: History Group: 2 Castle Cottages, Buckland Brewer, Bideford, EX39 5LP UK. Please visit our website. It contains all our latest news and is updated regularly, so keep checking back. http://bucklandbrewerhistorygroup.wordpress.com Buckland History Group Brewer In September, we had the privilege of using maps (old and new), aerial listening to member Cheryl Hayden from data in the form of the recent LIDAR

Brisbane talk about her research into the survey, photographs, personal records, Winslade family of Winslade Barton on the field walking etc. All this information is to Buckland Brewer- borders. Better be incorporated into what is known as a still, by the kind permission of the owners, GIS (Geographical Information System). In we were able to hold this meeting in the its simplest form you can think of it as a beautiful Winslade Barton itself. We were huge map accessed on a computer that joined by those who remembered Winslade enables you zoom in and out of the and its owners in the 1950s at it was truly a landscape. meeting to remember. But it is much more than that. You will be In October we were back to our usual ‘home’ able to pick and choose what you want to and Stuart Windsor entertained us with the see. For example, you may wish to only tales of his ancestor, Tom Robins, who was a view the field boundaries that are present hill farm on the edges of Exmoor and whose on the Tithe map. Or perhaps you may diaries for the period 1908-1958 survive. This wish to only view the features the were was not only a fascinating insight into early made visible as a result of the recent twentieth century farming life but also a LIDAR survey. Maybe you just want to see wonderful example of how the results of where known archaeological features are to painstaking research can be presented. be found. All these items, and more, are plotted on their own map layer that can be We shall be entering a Christmas tree in the viewed on the GIS individually or as a parish Christmas tree display. We hope you series of layers. will like it and perhaps feel that is worthy of your vote. We shall also have a stall at the Another aim of the mapping project is to craft market on December 3rd. Copies of identify features in the landscape that Rogers’ history of Buckland Brewer and the deserve further investigation. As new 1965-2015 scrapbook will be available. things are discovered they can be plotted on the GIS to see how they relate to Mapping Project Progress features already recorded.

The Buckland Brewer Mapping Project is It is intended that basic access to the making progress, maybe not as fast as I’d like information will be provided online. So but nevertheless progress is being made. anyone with Internet access will be able to Perhaps now would be a good time to remind view the information in a web browser. members what the aims of the Mapping Project are and how people will be able to If you have any questions do please get in access the results. First of all the project aims. touch: [email protected] or 07749 070 Simply put, the main aim is to gather as 526. much information regarding the archaeological landscape of Buckland Brewer Tony Gist 2 Papists, Recusants and Shorte and Elizabeth Arnell. Women Notorious Delinquents in were not included in the normal tax lists but as recusants, the men paid twice as Buckland Brewer much tax and it seems women too were assessed. After Cheryl Hayden’s talk to us in September about the Catholic Winslade Elizabeth Arnell may have been buried family, I wondered how common it was in Bideford in 1683 or in 1687. to be a non-conformist in the parish in Wilmot Short, widow, was buried in the days before . Buckland Brewer in 1649 but no burial has been found for Stephen. The Lucases In 1641, amidst growing tensions between and Richard Hamlin also disappear; King and Parliament, men were required none of them appear on a list of to sign an oath of loyalty to the King. It recusants taken seven years later. It is was to ‘protest against an arbitrary and possible that they may have fled to the tyrannical government’ and this continent. Richard Hamlin may have document is now known as the been connected to the Woolfardisworthy Protestation Oath Roll. A link to a family who later purchased transcription of the full list by Devon Court. Heritage can be found on our website. Go to the Projects and Data page and scroll In East Putford the following were down to click on the link to online recorded as recusants: Leonard transcriptions by others. Bochway, Geffry Sampson, Alice Trevillian, Sisley Bradford and Alice Three Buckland men appear on this list Coffin. There was also a long list of as recusants and diplomatically they were recusants in . Most absent from home at the time so were interestingly, in East Putford, was unable to sign. They were Richard William Gifford gent. ‘a recusant Hamlin gent., Stephen Short and William convict’. William is recorded as a Lucas. At this time, a recusant was one Buckland Brewer recusant in 1648. The who refused to attend the services of the same 1648 document mentions fellow Church of ; often but not always, recusant, John Coffin of Parkham and they were Catholics. The law which Anthony Gifford a recusant convict of penalised recusants for non-attendance Landcross. William Gifford may have at church was certainly aimed at been baptised in Parkham in 1582, son of controlling the perceived Catholic threat. John Gifford, gent.. There are a number of notable Catholic Giffords but none A tax assessment of 1642 also named that can be linked to William. Clearly recusants and this time included women. more research is needed here. So in Buckland we find William and Wilmot Lucas, Stephen and Wilmot The Committee for Compounding for 3 the Estates of Royalists and Delinquents commissioners divided themselves was formed in 1643 to deal with Royalist according to ordinance; for in 200 estates that had been seized. The owner , of 50 miles long, the could go to Goldsmiths’ Hall in committee have not sat 14 days these 2 and pay the value of the estate to have it years, which has been a great remora in returned to him. The value was usually the service, and a burden to the country equivalent to three times the annual and all honest people willing to give income generated by the estate. They informations. I have often spoken to also had to pledge to refrain from taking them, but they say they want committee up arms against Parliament in future. men for this north division. I beg you to remove this obstacle by appointing In 1648, during the upheavals following some. the first phase of the Civil War and at a April 6 1648 time of rising Puritanism, a survey was taken of ‘Papists and Delinquents Apart from William Gifford the recusant sequestered in ’. The list convict, three ‘notorious delinquents’ also recorded recusants. from Buckland were listed. There are no women on the list and it seems likely The list was transcribed in 1889 [Green, that these men were the heads of Mary Anne Everett Green (ed.) Calendar households who shared their beliefs. of the Committee for Compounding, Papists were those who followed the 1643-1660 General Proceedings London, Roman Catholic faith and none were H.M.S.O., (1889) pp. 97-98] and it seems listed in Buckland in 1648. those who were recorded may have been the tip of the ice-berg. The Amongst the Buckland ‘notorius commissioner, Robert Spry, complained delinquents’ was George Beare of the lack of manpower to conduct the ‘counsellor-at-law’. Several members of survey and I suspect, the hoped for the Beare family appear at Buckland informants did not report as many of Brewer in the Protestation Returns of their neighbours as expected. 1641/2 but not George. The tax assessment of 1642 lists George Beare Spry wrote: esq. in both and East April 6, . Putford, perhaps this was father and Rob. Spry, solicitor to the County son. Commissioners for Devon, north division, to the Committee for A George Beare, gentleman of Stone and Compounding. On your order for a his wife Grace had a daughter baptised return of the names of the notorious in Buckland Brewer in 1617 and this delinquents in the various counties, I George may be the delinquent or his speedily prepared it, but ten times more father. It seems that George Beare the might have been done had the county lawyer was born about 1627 and

4 matriculated from College, Marland’sThe Story Behind History the of Oxford in 1647. This seems rather young Stone for him to be listed as a Buckland Buckland Brewer Brewer head of household so perhaps both father and son were lawyers. In Whilst on a visit to Northlew recently, I 1660, George was appointed as serjeant- spottedIn the 1870s, this local gravestone antiquary ‘Marland’ in the 1t-law. A serjeant-at-law was an eminent churchyardwrote regularly and wondered in the North what I Devoncould barrister who normally undertook work discoverJournal . about He began the family. to write The about stone in the central courts. Significantly, this reads:Buckland Farewell. Brewer In memory in the of issue Catherine of 5 was the year that Charles II was restored wifeSeptember of Christopher 1878. In Clementdoing so, of he Buckland quotes to the throne and many of those who Brewerat length who from died many April earlier 1876 works. aged 29 had lost land or rank under The years. My husband and my children dear. Commonwealth were now back in IOn am a marble not dead tablet but at sleeping the east here. end:- I was favour. not“In yours memory but Christ’s of Edward alone. Lee He loved Esq., me of bestOrleigh and took Court, me 20home. years major of the The will of George Beare ‘serjeant-att- North Devon regiment of militia, who died Jan. 17th 1819, aged 51 years.” lawe’ was proved in 1662 at the Christopher was the son of Joseph and Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Grace Clement née Stonemanto be continued and had

Another delinquent, John Turner, may be the one who died unmarried in Buckland Brewer in 1655. Alternatively it could have referred to his father, a John Turner who, with his wife Mary, was having children baptised in Buckland in the 1610s and 1620s.

The final delinquent was Richard Saunders, who was also noted as being ‘poor’. A Richard Sanders, son of Edward, was baptised in 1616/7 in Buckland Brewer but he cannot be identified further.

Others notorius delinquents in the area were Hugh Prust of Monkleigh Mill and John Velley and Reuben Lawrence of Hartland.

An Episcopal Visitation of 1779 stated that there were no papists or dissenters in the parish. Janet Few

5 been born in Buckland Brewer in 1843; the Georgiana Elizabeth his wife, bapt. Oct. family farmed at Lower Twitchen. By 1861, 15th. Christopher had moved with his family to 1839 Sophia, daughter of William Speke Lower Farm in Halwell, next esq., of Orleigh Court, and Georgiana door to Northlew. Christopher appears to his wife, bapt. July 8th. have returned to the farm at Lower (Wm. Speke, esq. = a sister of the Twitchen on his marriage to Catherine person to whom Major Lee’s property Squire in 1873. They had two children, descended, and hence his residence at Alfred Thomas Squire and Bessie. Prleigh Court. He left circa 1845. I am informed on good authority that Capt. Catherine had been born in Northlew but Speke, the African traveller, was born at her family had been farming at Lower Orleigh but baptised at their other Croft Farm in for number of residence, ‘Jordans’ I believe it was years. After Catherine’s early death in called.) 1876, Christopher remarried to Mary Cleverdon. 1881 finds Christopher living at Penhill Farm in Fremington. He later moved to East Grinstead, Sussex. He died in Poplar, London in 1911, where his daughter Bessie was running a shop. Bessie died unmarried in Sussex in 1942.

Marland’s History of Buckland Brewer

In the 1870s, local antiquary ‘Marland’ wrote regularly in the North Devon Journal . He began to write about Buckland Brewer in the issue of 5 September 1878. In doing so, he quotes at length from many earlier works.

Speke of Orleigh

1830 Benjamin, son of William Speke esq., of Orleigh Court, and Georgiana his wife, baptised May 21 (now rector of John Hanning Speke Wake with West Dawlish). 1835 Georgiana Harriet, daughter of Wm. John Hanning Speke. From: Stanley and the White Speke esq., of Orleigh House, and Heroes in Africa (etc.) (H. B. Scammel, 1890). Own

scan. Public domain on account of age 6 Boteler of Buckland Brewer 1615 Anthony, filius Arthurii Chapman,

baptised Oct. 10, at East Putford. 1607 xiiij die Apli(s) (Jo)hes Vig(res &) 1615-6 Roger Ridgman was married to Maria Boteler despons. Erant. Hester Chapman, January 20. 1618 Willm. Boteler and Johan Simons 1616 Nycholas Shapleigh, gent. And married May 4 at Buckland Brewer. ___am Chapman, of East Putford, nupt. 1619 Mary, the daughter of William Butler March 4. bapt Aug 22. Buried Sept 24. 1617 Anthony, fils Arthurii Chapman bur. 1620 Marie the daughter of William Aug. 13 at East Putford. Butler and Johan his wife bapt. Sept. 1622 Wilmot, the daughter of Arthur 1655 Andrew Caddy and Joane Boteler Chapman, bap. Oct. 8 at East Putford. were married. 1626 John Chapman was buried 1656-7 William Boteler, junr., was buried November 8. January the 5th. 1640 Mr Arthur Chapman was buried 1666 Roger Boteler was buried November October the first. _____. 1643 John (?) the son of Ailse Chapman, 1666 Ann, the daughter of Edward widdow, of East Putford, was buried Nov. Boteler and Elizabeth his wife, baptised 2. Aprill 22nd. 1685 Elizabeth, the daughter of Richard 1669 William Boteler senr., was buried Chapman and Ann his wife, was baptised Aprill 8. December ye second. 1669 John Boteler was buryed December 1686-7 Mary, the daughter of Richard the _____. Chapman, gent. and Ann his wife was 1675 Mary Boteler, widow, was buried baptised February 25th. September 15th. 1686-7 Mary, the daughter of Richard 1685-6 Edward Sanders and Joane Boteler Chapman, gent. Feb. ye 28 (buried). were married January the 28th. 1688 John, ye son of Richard Chapman, gent, and Agnes his wife, bapt. April 11th. Chapman of Buckland Brewer 1689 Edward, the son of Richard Chapman and Ann his wife, was baptised 1609 xxviij die Julii Humf___ Chapman October the second. (in medio cancella) sepult erat. 1690 Richard Chapman, gent., was buried 1609 xxvij mob die Novembris Stephenus August 10th. Hogge and Jacoba Chapman (apud 1690 Edward, the son of Richard Bulkworthie depons. erat.) Chapman, gent., and Ann his wife, was 1613 Arthur Chapman, gent. And Alice baptised October 3rd. Salisburye were married November 2nd. 1728-9 Zachariah Chapman gent., and 1611 Duodecimo Decembris Juliana Mrs Elizabeth Deyman, were married Chapman de eadem (ie East Putford) January ye 19th. sepult. 1740 Zachariah Chapman, gent,, May 17th 1613 Elizabeth ye daughter of John (was buried). Chapman bap. Dec 24 (at Bulkworthie). to be continued 7

Remember Remember

The Exeter and Plymouth Gazette 4 September 1830

This account from nearly two hundred years ago shows that human nature does not change. It also throws up some interesting questions, not least of which where did the young lads obtain gunpowder? Can we positively identify the butcher and the ‘playground’? The concept of a playground as early as 1830 is fascinating. It seems likely that this was an area where young people gathered for games, rather than an officially designated playground. It needs to have been an area large enough for teenagers to kick a ball about and was almost certainly within the village itself.

I began a search for Buckland butchers at this date. Eleven years later, in the 1841 census, I found Robert Clarke as a butcher in Buckland. Robert, who was originally from Torrington, would have been in his forties in 1830. It was possible to find out more about Robert, who was described as being ‘of ’ when he married Ann Rowcliffe in Buckland Brewer in 1811. He and Ann had two sons before Ann’s death in 1815. Ann was some fifteen years Robert’s senior so was in her forties at the time. The eldest of the sons died at the age of two in spring 1813, a time when many young children were buried in Buckland, suggesting perhaps some kind of epidemic. In 1816 Robert remarried. His new wife Ann May, was from and they married in Parkham. Together they had a further Bb schoolten admissionschildren onbetween FMP 1877-1914 1817 and 1838. The baptism registers for Robert’s children THH 1904-1946 record him as being a butcher but the abode is no more specific than ‘Buckland GrantTown’, ‘Buckland Village’ or ‘Buckland Church Town’. This does at least place the family in the village itself, not in an outlying and it seems they remained there until Robert’s death in 1857.

8 The tithe map and schedule, compiled at for their father’s intolerance as Robert around the same time as the 1841 census confiscated and burnt yet another was taken, show cottages occupied by football. ‘Robert Clarke and others’. These include the present day Batsons and two groups In 1857, the year of Robert’s death, the of cottages in the area of what is now the Bible Christians purchased Ash House Methodist Church. It is very difficult to which was adjacent to a former stable unravel exactly what was where in the that they had been using as a chapel, centre of the village at this time but there from Anne Clarke and John Eddy. This seems to have been three, or possibly became the Providence Bible Christian four cottages that are referred to in the Chapel, which was later rebuilt and records variously as Dennises, The Old became the current Methodist Church. Bell (this is quite distinct from the current Bell Cottages) or Chapel Square. With the exception of young Samuel The chapel for which the cottages were Clarke who was working on a farm as a named was the Wesleyan Methodist carter, none of the Clarkes remained in Chapel, which was opened on the site of Buckland Brewer after Robert’s death. Wesley Cottage in 1827 and extended in His widow, Ann was returned here for 1842. These cottages are alongside the burial in 1865. Village Green and according to the 1851 census, Robert Clarke lived in one of Janet Few them. Behind these cottages, between the Wesleyan Chapel and Ashtons Row is another row of cottages, which I believe may be the five that are known as ‘Benjys’ and that they were destroyed by fire in 1873 (see our Newsletter number 11 February 2016).

So is seems that Robert Clarke was the irascible butcher who lived in Dennises Cottages, facing the current village green. He probably got fed up with the shouts of the youth of Buckland, whose footballs may have continually thwacked against his cottage walls. I wonder what his sons (whose ages ranged from one to seventeen in 1830) felt about the incident. Would they have joined the lads on the green or were they forbidden by their father from taking part. Perhaps they were ostracised by the local youths

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Buckland Emigrants—the home in Buckland Brewer, where eleven Sanders family of their children were born and where one, Frank Cecil was buried as an infant. A subsequent child was also named Neither John Sanders nor his wife Anna Franck Cecil. John farmed the 150 acres Maria née Glass were born in Buckland that then made up Galsworthy Farm. Brewer, in fact they came from Milton Damerel and Fremington respectively. By The children attended Buckland Brewer 1861 however John’s father was farming at School, with some of them transferring Holwell Farm in Buckland. After their from the school at Bulkworthy, others marriage in Bideford Register office, in later went to Thornhillhead School, 1863, John and Anna Maria made their which would have been closer to home.

From left to right. Julia seated, Mark standing, Thomas seated, Ethel standing, John Senior seated, Anna Maria seated in front and John junior standing, William seated, Anna seated, Bessie standing and Rev Ready seated.

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Dunedin

On 9 October 1886 the family, with the Canterbury, New Zealand, working as a exception of the second eldest daughter woolclasser, grading fleeces. He served Mary, left from Plymouth on the Arewa, in the New Zealand Army in the first bound for Dunedin, New Zealand. The world war and died in 1919. Ethel Otago Daily Times states that they Louisa went to live in Wellington. Two travelled with ten children but only of the sons went on to Australia. nine have been identified. William Bertram married at the cathedral in Perth, Western Australia Although most of the children married but died in Victoria. His brother Mark and had families in Dunedin, others Augustus also settled in Western went further afield. Frank went to Australia.

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William Friendship’s came to the stall again and then took Indiscretion away two pairs. This was too much of a joke for the shoemaker, and he handed Friendship over to the police. The next A newspaper report that came to our day he was taken before the Mayor and attention recently, concerns William T L. Pridham, Esq., who sent him to Friendship of The Bell Inn, Buckland prison for three months. He Brewer. The Exeter Flying Post of 28 acknowledged his guilt, but pleaded December 1864, reported an incident that intoxication as an excuse. suggests that William was taking the Christmas spirit a little too far. It has not been easy to track down William Friendship. There are no Some men do most strangely commit Friendships living in Buckland Brewer themselves; and perhaps one of the in 1861 and at first, it seemed likely that stupidest things ever done was enacted at he was the William Friendship who Bideford last week. Mr. William Friendship, was running the Union Inn in Mill of the Bell Inn, Buckland Brewer, came to Street, Torrington in 1861. This proved Bideford and helped to reduce the stock of not to be the case. In 1871, William had one of the publicans in that town. He then returned from prison and was at Bell passed through the market-place and made Cottages in Buckland Brewer with his very free with a pair of boots which were on family. This was not the same William the stall of Mr. William Ivey. He was seen as the licensee of the Union Inn. walking off with them, but was prevented by Maybe William’s offence lost him his the owner, who, taking the boots, allowed license as The Bell is no longer an ale Friendship his freedom. Ten minutes house and in 1871, William is by then afterwards the Buckland Brewer innkeeper an agricultural labourer

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16 November 2016 Buckland Brewer World War 1 Servicemen’s Stories and AGM December 2016 No Meeting this year 18 January 2017 Members’ Evening 15 February 2017 The to Taunton Line - Bruce Brown 15 March 2017 My Father’s WW2 experiences - Jim Lowe 11-15 April 2017 Devonshire Association’s Commemoration of Devon’s links with Newfoundland - Bideford event 19 April 2017 TBC 17 May 2017 The Lynmouth Floods - Act of God or Act of Man? - Pamela Vass

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