FACHRS Ref: BFMA01 Researcher Name: Martin Allen Name: John Clark Age in 1881 Census: 51 Source: - RG Number: RG11 Piece: 2215 Folio: 60 Page: 14 Reg. District: Tavistock Parish: Bere Ferrers County: Devon
Migration, Employment and Social Status
Police Constable Birth place: Bradninch, Devon Occupation of his father: Paper maker
Information from each census about x and the household he lived in:
YEAR 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891
CENSUS HO107 HO107 RG9 RG10 RG11 RG12
PIECE 224 1866 1381 2060 2215 1750
FOLIO 12 74 116 39 60 7
PAGE 19 5 1 4 14 10
REG DIS Tiverton & St Thomas St Thomas St Thomas Tavistock Tavistock Dulverton SUB DIS Broadclyst East Budleigh Kenton Silverton PARISH Broadclyst Otterton Mamhead Bere Ferrers Buckland Bradninch Monachorum
ADDRESS Millway Holleshead Sidmouth Ruggs cottages Coombe farm Road
TOWN Bradninch Broadclyst Otterton Mamhead Bere Ferrers Buckland Monachorum
COUNTY Devon Devon Devon Devon Devon Devon
RELATIONSHIP Son Son-on-law Head Head Head Head TO HEAD
AGE 12 21 31 41 51 61
OCCUPATION Boot & Police Police Constable Police Constable Police Pensioner shoemaker Constable
WIFE’s NAME Elizabeth Elizabeth Charlotte Charlotte Charlotte
NO OF 0 4 (4g) 5 (3b,2g) 4 (3b,2g) 2(1b,1g) CHILDREN 1 nurse child
Is this a Police No No Yes No House?
OTHER Wife died Children born Children born Died 1891 information 1863. Stockland Ashton, Starcross Remarriecd ,Lympstone 1864. Was in Milton 3 children Abbot in 1878 born Bradninch
Age at marriage? 21 & 34 He married Elizabeth Pope in 1850 and Charlotte Studley in 1864.
Did he have any other employment before becoming a Policeman? Yes – boot & shoemaker
Did he have any other employment after leaving the Police? No
Does he move to different locations as a policeman? Yes Do you think his social status changed over the period of his life? No, although one son became a Chelsea butler.
Did he get promoted while in the Police? No
How does your Policeman fit this stereotype? Nothing shows he was unhappy. He was moved from Milton Abbot to Bere Ferrers because he was not strong and would cope better. (Dell, Simon, The Beat on Western Dartmoor)
The Community
What is the size and type of the community he would have been serving in 1881? Bere Ferrers – tiny village
Can you answer the same questions for the other places he served in Otterton 1200, Mamhead tiny, Milton Abbot 880
Did the type of community he lived in change through his career? No all rural villages
Retirement
Did he retire? Yes
Did he get a pension? Yes
Family Connections
Did any other members of his family work in a Police Force? No Sons 2 gardeners, 1 butler.
Trade Directory or other Sources:
YEAR
Newspaper (OR Dell, Simon, The Beat on Western Dartmoor OTHER SOURCE)
PAGE NUMBER 79
INFORMATION He was moved from Milton Abbot to Bere Ferrers because he was not strong and would cope better.
There are various references to him in Trewman’s Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser in Woodleigh and Lympstone.