Introduction John Madden Chairman: Bartons’ History Group This has been a year of anniversaries - Waterloo (1815), Magna Carta (1215) and as I write we are approaching St Crispin’s Day - Agincourt (1415). The most far-reaching of these was the Great Charter, which still today forms the basis of our legal system, and those of many other countries too. The result of Waterloo defined the course of European history for nearly a century, and has some special connections to our part of the country - see pages 23-27. But the focus in this, the 6th Bygone Bartons (including the special Jubilee Edition), is once again on, well, the Bartons. Many of you may have wondered how ‘Purgatory’ got its name - we don’t know either, but Chris Edbury lists the possible derivations. Then we have a tale of immorality in Steeple Barton in the 18th century, some curiosities dug up, and a little-known connection to the famous writer of detective stories, Dorothy L. Sayers. And last, but most certainly not least, we continue to capture as much oral history of the Bartons as possible - this time we are very grateful to Dorrie Cox for sharing with us her memories. At our last AGM it was suggested that we include more short items, so Denise Roberts has kindly provided various snippets of information about sights of interest in the village, originally compiled for the Family Treasure Hunt in 2013. I hope you have as much enjoyment in reading all this as we had in putting it together! n o i t c u d o r t n I The re-enactment of Waterloo in June 2015 1 Barton Sights 2 c e T I i W p c o r W H e u T s 1 e s m 1 1 e w w h w M c n a n t u a n o a s a a 7 3 9 p o u r h h o a a i

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Bibliography and References: George Laws, History of the Bartons, 1970s, edited by Audrey Martin William Wing, Annals of Steeple and Westcote Barton, 1866 A History of the County of Oxford; Volume 11, 1983 www.british-history.ac.uk Sheer Purgatory , article in Oxford Mail 1978, with photograph

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It had all started so well. Thomas was the second eldest, surviving son in a family of t well-to-do farmers in Steeple Barton, and was baptised in St. Mary’s Church in 1736. 8 1

9 His future in-laws, Giles and Mary Ibell, also yeoman farmers, moved into Steeple Barton sometime after their wedding in Banbury. Their daughter, (another) Mary, was born in 1749. Both families were wealthy enough to support live-in servants to help with the work and chores around the houses and farms.

The 1760s, though, was a decade of change for the Fortnam family. Thomas’s mother died in 1760 and his two surviving siblings, Elizabeth and William married and started raising their own families before him. Eventually, in 1767 when Thomas Fortnam was 31 and Mary Ibell (daughter) was 18, they married in St. Mary’s church in Steeple Barton. Two years later in 1769 Mary’s father, Giles Ibell died, leaving his farm to his wife who continued to farm it. He specifically bequeathed to his daughter, now Mary Fortnam, £100 in trust which provided her with a small, independent income adequate to live on. It may be that Giles Ibell had already seen that Mary’s marriage wasn’t working too well and was providing his daughter with an escape route.

After her father’s death, Mary Fortnam spent more time on her mother’s farm which was large enough by then to have at least four servants: William Stockford, Thomas Bedding, John Carter a boy of 14 years, and a maid, Mary Scaresbrook in her thirties. In 1772, Mary Fortnam’s mother decided to add a new shepherd as well, Thomas Palmer. It soon became apparent to the farm servants that Mary Fortnam and Thomas Palmer had taken quite a shine to each other. The details of what happened next were provided by the farm servants in their testimonies at the subsequent divorce proceedings initiated by Thomas Fortrnam. William Stockford declared he had seen the two:

‘walking in the Fields and to continue out alone together for as much as two or three hours at a time and often saw them kiss each other in a lewd, amorous and indecent manner.’ 4

Mary Fortnam seemed to take every opportunity to be alone with her new Thomas, bringing him his meals, and never missing his invitation to go and see his lambs in the fields. e c r In the Spring of 1773, the boy servant John Carter became seriously ill, having been o v kicked on the head by a horse. He was nursed back to health in a spare bedroom at i

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8 it is believed that Thomas Palmer was upon Mary Fortnam and that they had carnal use 5 1 of each other’s bodies.’ 10 John Carter could only hear, not see, what was happening since Mary and Thomas had taken the precaution to draw the curtains around his bed.

Later, in August of that year Mary’s mother and her servant left the farm for a week to visit friends leaving her daughter in charge. Perhaps remembering the earlier episode on the floor, Mary Fortnam immediately transferred her mother’s bed to a spare room over the dairy where she was able to entertain Thomas Palmer overnight relatively undisturbed. The maid, Mary Scaresbrook, who slept in the room opposite, later declared that while dressing in the early morning:

‘She look’d through the Latchet Hole of her Bed Chamber Door and saw the Door of the room over the Dairy …. open and having watched through the …. Latchet Hole for some time she …. saw Thomas Palmer go out of the Room …. with only his shirt on, which threw …. her into a trembling as …. she believed …. Mary Fortnam and Thomas Palmer were in …. the same Bed naked and alone …. and had committed the Crime of Adultery together.’ 6

On another evening, Thomas Palmer quietly left his bed in the manservants’ room in a ‘distant’ part of the farm at around 11pm. William Stockford was still awake and persuaded his fellow servant, Thomas Bedding, to follow the shepherd to the dairy. They blockaded both doors of the dairy bedroom for two hours (!), hearing nothing more than low murmuring. In the morning, William and Thomas decided to confront the shepherd who confessed privately he had been with Mary Fortnam overnight. He was: ‘indeed fearful of Thomas Fortnam’s anger, if he was found out, and would have to leave the farm immediately without any wages ’. 7 William and Thomas admonished the shepherd to give Mary Fortnam up and left it at that. By the time Mary’s mother had returned from her visit to her friends, her bed was back in its normal place and she was none the wiser. e c

The servants gossiped amongst themselves that ‘this was no way for a married r woman to carry on, especially with a person so inferior in the station of a shepherd’. o v Realising the servants knew, Thomas Palmer and Mary Fortnam seemed to have i D ‘cooled it’ and the servants, for the time being at least, kept their secrets. y r u

However, things came to a head in the following year, in the summer of 1774, when t

Mary Fortnam presented her husband, Thomas Fortnam, with a baby daughter who n was baptised Charlotte in St. Mary’s Church. Many in the village doubted Thomas e C Fortnam was the real father and eventually Thomas learnt of the gossip of his wife’s h infidelities. He left his wife immediately and went back to stay with his widowed t 8

father on the family farm. Things became heated between the couple and Thomas 1

11 felt the need in November of the same year to publish a notice in Jackson’s Oxford Journal: ‘Whereas, from the Misconduct of MARY, my wife, we have for some time past lived sepa - rately, and the crime she has committed being of such a Nature as I cannot forgive; in Order, nevertheless, that she should have a proper Support, and be taken due care of, I had provided her a Lodging and proper Accommodations in a very creditable Family, to which place she has refused to go. I do therefore give this Publick Notice, That I will not be answerable for, or pay, any debt that she shall contract. And I do hereby give this further notice, that I will prosecute, with the utmost Severity, any Person or Persons who shall harbour her. ’ 8 Why on earth would Thomas broadcast by newspaper to all of Oxfordshire the ruinous state of his marriage? Perhaps Mary had been running up the bills and expecting Thomas to pay? Perhaps Mary was now openly living with her shepherd or yet another paramour to Thomas’s embarassment? Anyway, as 1775 began, Thomas determined to permanently solve his problems by legally separating from his wife. In the 18th century, a full divorce required an Act of Parliament, an immensely expensive procedure for a yeoman farmer. However, the ecclesiastical court under the authority of the Lord Bishop of Oxford had the power to grant a separation on the grounds of a wife’s ‘incontinency’. The case was heard in the Consistory Court at Oxford in autumn 1775, testimonies being provided mainly by the farm servants. Thomas Fortnam was advised that the case might be expensive and hard to win since the servants’ testimonies were entirely based on circumstantial, aural evidence. Nobody in the household had actually seen Mary Fortnam and Thomas Palmer together ‘in flagrante delicto’. He was further advised, hard though it was, to seek testimony from the shepherd, Thomas Palmer, which stated that adultery had actually occurred between the shepherd and Mary Fortnam. This would virtually guarantee Mary’s conviction at less cost. For Thomas Fortnam, asking the shepherd for precise

e details and times of the shepherd’s adultery with his wife was probably a bridge too c

r far. Neither Mary Fortnam nor Thomas Palmer was present at the subsequent trial o or left any testimony. v i

D In the end, the servants’ testimonies were accepted and Mary Fortnam was found

y guilty of multiple acts of adultery with Thomas Palmer. For each act, the Court’s r

u near-biblical judgement was: t n ‘the said Mary Fortnam, being wholly unmindful of her conjugal vow, and not having the e

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1 foul crime of adultery together, and that this was and is true…….. ’ 12 The Court granted Thomas Fortnam a legal separation from his wife but he remained prohibited, of course, from re-marrying. Some of Thomas’s pride must have been restored. After the birth of Charlotte Fortnam the Steeple Barton Parish Records show two further children were born to Mary: Elizabeth in 1782 and Matthew in 1784 by which time Mary was 35 years old. Charlotte and Elizabeth have both Thomas and Mary Fortnam as parents on their baptismal records but Matthew was firmly marked as an illegitimate son of Mary Fortnam. Thomas may not have wanted Matthew, an uncertain Fortnam to say the least, as a potential claimant on his estate, 18th century property inheritance being mainly through the male line. Sadly, Elizabeth and Matthew both died in infancy. Charlotte lived on, but was never recognised by Thomas as a Fortnam. However, she was remembered by Thomas as he lay dying. Another clause in his Will states: ‘I give to Mary Ibell’s (his wife’s) daughter Charlotte the Legacy or Sum of Five Pounds of like lawful Money ’ 1 This was five times more than the sum of one Guinea which was all Thomas had been prepared to leave Charlotte’s mother. I wonder what Mary and Charlotte Fortnam did with their Guineas?

Postscript In the late 18th century in Steeple Barton, illegitimacies were not uncommon. In the ten years between 1770 and 1780, 4 baptismal entries were marked as illegitimate in the records, and two entries were missing the father. This amounts to 1 in 20 of the total baptisms in the decade. The real total, of course, is likely to be higher than just the explicitly recorded ones. Interestingly, one of these records was of an infant, Sarah, in another branch of the Fortnam family around the time Thomas Fortnam was divorcing his wife. e c r

As time moved on, most members of the Fortnam family found their way into o v Steeple Barton churchyard. Some tomb memorials 10 have been recorded and the i D grave plots for Elizabeth, George and Thomas Fortnam are B29B, B19A and B20A

11 y on the churchyard plan displayed in the entrance area of the church. These graves r u are in the centre of the yard. Mary Fortnam was also buried in the churchyard in an t unknown location in December 1803, 18 years after her husband, Thomas. n e C

The 1775 divorce case brought by Thomas Palmer against his wife became well h

known in Oxford and Oxfordshire in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. No doubt t there were many other cases of rustic infidelity across the country but few which 8 were as well publicised or which ended up in an ecclesiastical court. Perhaps this 1 13 talked-about case of country misbehaviour gave artists the inspiration to paint such scenes as William Holman Hunt did in ‘The Hireling Shepherd’ in 1851, 78 years later:

Manchester Art Gallery. Wikipedia 12

References 1 http://documents.bartonshistorygroup.org.uk/Wills/Fortnam.pdf. 2 Oxfordshire Sinners and Villains, Carl Boardman, 1993 ISBN 0-7509-0416-X pp 18ff. 3 Cake and Cockhorse, Banbury History Society Volume 15 Number 6 ISSN 6522-0823 pp 205ff. e 4 Depositions before Oxford Consistory Court, William Stockford, 12 October 1775. c r 5 Depositions before Oxford Consistory Court, John Carter, 3 October 1775. o 6 Depositions before Oxford Consistory Court, Mary Scaresbrook , 12 October 1775. v i 7 Depositions before Oxford Consistory Court, Court Judgement Autumn 1775.

D 8 Jacksons Oxford Journal November 12th 1774, pp2.

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Quaker Cottage, Jacobs Yard A Quaker Meeting House was established here in 1700s. The cottage appears on the Enclosure Award. There were only five burials (from 1705 to 1749) in ground opposite, none of whom were

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a Heyford and Duns Tew, although thirteen Barton g n r i Quakers were buried in Banbury. In 1770-1856 it was two cottages. It was o h secularised in 1856. It was sold by the Quakers for £50 and by 1900 it was f

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B and fined for causing a disturbance.)

18 THE BOY FROM COCKSPARROW HALL The Dorothy L Sayers Connection Denise Roberts When we moved to Westcote Barton as a very young married couple in 1973, the two elderly ladies from whom we bought our cottage gave us this postcard as it showed our house as it was around 1929/30.

Soon afterwards I showed it to another elderly neighbour, Mr Ken Bauckham (long deceased), who told me “that’s Ivy Shrimpton on the bridge – you know, ‘er that took in (voice dropped to a whisper) illegitimates!” I later discovered that one of the “illegitimates” taken in by Ivy Shrimpton was John Anthony, son of Ivy’s cousin Dorothy L Sayers, the well known author of detective

fiction, and in particular the Lord Peter Wimsey novels. Ivy looked after John and s r

also two little girls, Isobel and Rosemary, in Cocksparrow Hall (just out of sight in e this picture), on the small hill above the bridge. If this is indeed a photograph of y t a e

Ivy Shrimpton, then it follows that the little boy on the pony is John as the age would S g .

r be about right, and the girl on the right would be Isobel, another of Ivy’s charges, L o

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In 2005 Margaret Keeping (who was then living in South Street, Middle Barton) t w o

wrote an excellent article for the Dorn Free Press about Dorothy L Sayers and her r t o s connection with the Bartons, which began by quoting part of a letter from Dorothy e to her cousin Ivy: D L

19 “Dear Ivy – I’m so glad you’ve found a cottage at last. I think it sounds rather jolly – with, as you say, the possible exception of the water-tap. (I hope it is not frozen up at this moment!) … If the cottage is 200 years old it is probably solidly built and on the warm side – none of your single-thickness-of-brick-blown-together-in-the- night outfits. Of course it would be rather fun if it were haunted – only it might be bad for the children.” The cottage in question was Cocksparrow Hall in Westcote Barton, at the time a thatched, stone-flagged, oak-beamed house built in 1727 with no mod cons but a big wild garden that was ideal for the children to play. Ivy apparently let the garden and grounds become a veritable jungle, which the children enjoyed as she didn’t allow them to play with the local children. Dorothy herself had several connections with Oxfordshire. She was born on 13th June 1893 in the headmaster’s house at Christ Church Cathedral School where her father, Rev. Henry Sayers, M.A., was Headmaster at that time and also Chaplain of Christ Church Cathedral. She was therefore christened at Christ Church Cathedral, a fact of which she was very proud. Her second name, Leigh, was her mother’s maiden name, and in adult life she was much irritated if anyone left out the “L” of her name. She lived in Oxford until she was four. From then she was brought up in Cambridgeshire but later won a scholarship to Somerville College in Oxford where she graduated in modern languages with first class honours. Women could not be awarded degrees at that time, but Dorothy was among the first to receive a degree when the position changed a few years later. One of her early jobs was as a copy editor at Blackwells, a publishing company in Oxford. Perhaps less well known is that later, while working as a copywriter at S H Benson’s advertising agency in London she wrote some well known advertising slogans such as the one for the famous Guinness Toucan holding a glass of Guinness on his bill: If he can say as you canGuinness is good for youHow grand to be a ToucanJust think what Toucan do. s

r She is also credited with coining the slogan "It pays to advertise!" e t y While in London in the 1920s she fell in love with a Russian poet, John Cournos, e a who unfortunately had no interest in marriage. Soon after, on the rebound, she g S r entered into an unhappy affair with Bill White, an unemployed motor car salesman, . o f L which resulted in her secretly giving birth to an illegitimate son on 3rd January 1924,

e y whom she named John Anthony. Of course to give birth to an illegitimate child at h w t

that time carried an appalling stigma, and had it become known her reputation would t o r have been in shreds, more so as she was already becoming recognised for her writing. s o In an attempt to keep her good character and also to protect her elderly parents, e L D Dorothy concealed John’s existence, even from close friends, and gave birth to him

20 alone under an assumed name in a “mothers’ hospital” on the south coast. She turned to her cousin Ivy Shrimpton for help. Ivy was unmarried and living in Cowley at that time, and needed to support herself. She did this by fostering three children. John Anthony was one of them; he lived with Ivy from birth and was passed off as Dorothy’s nephew. Ivy was sworn to secrecy about John Anthony’s true identity. Two years later Dorothy married Captain Oswald Atherton Fleming, a Scottish jour - nalist known as “Mac”, who was divorced with two children. The couple formally adopted John Anthony, who later took on the surname of Fleming, but he never lived with them. By her own admission Dorothy had no instinct for motherhood. In another letter written to Ivy in 1928 she states “I really must try to feel thrilled about him (John Anthony) but I don’t believe I ever should about any child under whatever circumstances!” She did however visit John Anthony and Ivy at Westcote Barton, frequently arriving on her motorbike, but the local story states that she never went inside Cocksparrow Hall - Ivy would bring John Anthony down to the gate to see his mother there. However, Dorothy continued to fund her son generously throughout her lifetime, paying for his education through public school, university and beyond. John Anthony, who preferred to be known as Tony, was an academic but socially awkward boy. He won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, but did not fare well with women or family life, his first two marriages ending in divorce. Tony and his second wife, Gabrielle, had two daughters, Jennifer and Gabrielle, who both died at the young age of 26 (but in different years) in unpleasant circumstances, Jennifer from a suspected drug overdose and Gabrielle from falling down a flight of stone steps at her home in Lausanne, Switzerland. Dorothy never acknowledged John Anthony as her son during her lifetime, but did have contact with him through visits and letters, although her letters were rather brusque. A quote from a letter to him when he was aged 18 states “Sorry you find life so boring”. Although very few people knew of their true relationship during Dorothy’s lifetime, Tony himself found out when he needed his birth certificate to

get a passport in the post war period, but presumably kept the secret. Perhaps this s was because he regarded Ivy Shrimpton as his real mother, and when she died on r e y

t 29th March 1951 at the Horton General Hospital, Banbury, it was Tony who under - a e took all the burial arrangments. S g r . o L f

Dorothy L Sayers will always be remembered for her Lord Peter Wimsey novels but, y e h

as well as being a prolific letter writer, she also wrote other detective stories, poetry, t w

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plays, essays, articles, and became a lecturer on religious subjects. However, she r s

herself felt that her best work was her translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, a great o e D L undertaking which unfortunately she did not live to finish. On 17th December 1957

21 she had just returned from a day spent Christmas shopping in London when she died of a heart attack. Upon her death it was revealed that her “nephew” John Anthony was actually her son, and that he was the sole beneficiary under his mother’s will. John Anthony himself died, aged 60, on 26th November 1984 in St Francis’s Hospital, Miami Beach, Florida. His third wife, Fortuna, survived him.

Acknowledgements: 1. Margaret Keeping for her original article in the Dorn Free Press. While living in Middle Barton Margaret started a writing group, and has since gone on to have her own novel published about the War Poet Edward Thomas. It is called “A Conscious Englishman”. 2. The post card is one of the Packer series. This and other Packer photographs can be found on the history group’s web-site at: http://photos.bartonshistorygroup.org.uk/westcote_barton/content/0001a_large.ht ml .

Bridge at the ford in Fox Lane The River Dorn enters Westcote Barton in Laundry Lane (on the left just before entering Sandford-St-Martin village), runs through Manor Farm to the bridge on the Enstone Road. It then goes through Park Farm, below the Rectory, to the ford at the foot of Fox Lane. From there it flows to the Kiddington Road bridge. The next crossing, apart from the footbridge in the path from North Street past the ex-chapel (The Dock), is the ford and footbridge in Mill Lane. It then goes under two bridges y at Steeple Barton, around r s e r

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Dorrie Cox Bartons’ History Group Publications

‘The Changing Faces of the Bartons’ £8.50 by Audrey Martin Includes pictures of people, streets, houses and events from Victorian times onwards

‘Middle Barton School – Aspects of School Life 1866-1996’ £2.50 by Audrey Martin A terrific read with photos and turn-of-the-century quotes from the school log-book

‘Middle Barton – a village walk’ £0.80 Alerts you to sights you may never have been aware of before

‘It Happened in the Dorn Valley’ £3.50 A vivid account of life in the Bartons during WW2 through the eyes of the Women’s Institute.

‘The History of the Bartons’ by George Laws £2.00 An overall history starting 1000 years ago

1920s prints £1.50 each Fox Lane, Mill Lane, North St, South St, Worton Rd and the School

Silver Jubilee Celebrations in the Bartons (1977) £5.00 A compilation of three films taken during the celebrations, now on a single DVD

Barton Abbey £1.00 An updated (2010) leaflet now in colour

Bygone Bartons, Vols. 1, 2, 3 & 4, and the Jubilee Edition £3.00 each The first four of the series and the special Jubilee edition (or all 5 for £10) s n o i t a c i All publications available from Rosemary Wharton tel: 01869 347638 l b u P

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