Category: Family names
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Wartime memories of an evacuee: Trevor Cradduck
Original pdf can be found here – War memories pdf , or you can read it below. My parents and I lived in Plumstead, South East London at the beginning of World War II. We were located not so very…
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Hilda Bradford’s diaries, 1896 & 1898
Hilda was one of seven children of William and Mary Bradford of Moorlands House, North Street, Martock. The Bradfords were from Thorney, and set up a coal business that diversified into general builders supplies, a company which is still family…
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The Lye family and Wellmans, East Street
“Wellmans” – East Street Martock Mar 27th 1866 Mortgage between SAMUEL LYE of the one part and THOMAS FOOKS of the other part Dec 31st 1872 Mortgage between SAMUEL LYE of Martock, Baker, of the 1st part; WILLIAM STUCKEY of…
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Butler and Dight
BUTLER (Dight), JOHN BUTLER, office holder, merchant, militia officer, jp, politician, and landowner; b. c. 1760 in England, son of Joshua Dight and Elizabeth Butler; d. 2 July 1834 in Windsor, N.S. John Butler Dight was a protégé of Joshua…
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The Suggs and Loveless West
Ted Sugg has built up a powerful story of the struggle of people without the security of a strong family, security of house tenure and the struggle to make a wage and care for a family. Read on! Jane Sugg’s…
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The Occomore family
My family has been traced back to Great Durnford in Wiltshire with the baptism of William, son of William OCKERAM 1652, and the baptisim of George, son of Christopher OKERUM in 1646. I have now found two other family groups…
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George Bailey’s letter
Stephen England was born at Peppercorn Cottage Lambrook Rd Shepton Beauchamp in 1860 one of 8 children He enlisted at Ilminster in the Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia on July 1877. He went to the South African Zulu war with…
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Early surnames in Martock
The 1327 Lay Subsidy Roll is the first record of people’s names in Martock. These rolls of parchment record the names of all people wealthy enough to be worth taxing in England in 1327. At the beginning of the 14th…