Migration, Employment and Social Status

Migration, Employment and Social Status

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. .

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