Timberscombe Cricket Club Players, Patrons and Supporters, in the Earlier 1960's (including the Rev. J.P. Martin)
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Timberscombe Cricket Club Players, Patrons and Supporters, in the Earlier 1960's (including the Rev. J.P. Martin)
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An undated photograph, likely in the early 1960's, of a gathering at the Timberscombe Cricket Club on Cowbridge Road. It must have been an important event, as the front row consists of some of the village's elder dignitaries, flanked by lifelong cricket players, Dudley Huxtable on the right and his son, Maurice Huxtable on the left. This copy of the photograph was donated by the younger Mr. Huxtable in the summer of 2020. It is possible a reason for the gathering was a new Pavilion, glimpsed behind the group and erected in 1960 (1).
Dudley Huxtable was born in Timberscombe in 1911. He listed his occupation as "carpenter", like his father, Frank Huxtable, a lifelong Timberscombe resident--and cricket player-- from 1889 to 1962 (2). When younger, Dudley also worked at the Cowbridge Petrol Garage, located at the Cowbridge Mill (3) as well at the motor spirit service station operated by his mother, Eva (nee Buttle) Huxtable (1886-1975) on Brook Street in front of the Huxtable family home (4). Occupied by the Huxtable family at least since the 1843 Tithe Map, the house was sometimes called Brook Cottage (5) but after Mrs. Huxtable's service station was in operation-- likely by the mid-1920's--it became known as Pump Cottage . The house was renamed Tiki Cottage in the mid-to-late 1980's when the pumps were finally removed (6). In 1937, Eva Huxtable took on the ownership of Cowbridge Mill, which she passed on to Dudley in 1959 (7), a position he would have been holding at the time of this photograph.
In 1932, Dudley Huxtable married Grace Irene Cook, born in 1915, originally from Wiltshire. Later in 1932, Maurice Huxtable was born (8). Their family lived at No. 3 Council House (later called Meadow View) across the road from the northern end of Brook Street (9). The face of Grace Huxtable can be seen (barely) in the photograph, at the middle of a third row (wearing spectacles), looking over the hat of the woman seated in the front row. Her son, Maurice, married Mary E. Palfrey in 1952 and worked for 34 years as a tractor and Land Rover mechanic at the Luttrell Arms Garage in Dunster. In 2020 at his home, Ye Olde Malthouse on the southern end of Brook Street, Mr. Huxtable was instrumental in identifying almost everyone else in this photograph. (In 2023, the name of Ye Olde Malthouse was altered to The Old Malt House.)
Seen to the right of Maurice Huxtable is Rev J.P. Martin, the minister of the Timberscombe Methodist Chapel, also known as Providence Chapel. John Percival Martin, born at Scarborough, Yorkshire on 5 August 1879, become a Methodist Minister in 1902, after which he served as a missionary in South Africa and an army chaplain at Palestine during World War I. Between the wars he worked in Northamptonshire as a "Chaplain to Farms" (10). After the death of his first wife, Nancy (nee Mann) Martin in 1944 and the end of World War II, J. P. Martin was making plans to retire when his daughter telephoned to tell him about one unsold house, No. 8, in a row of houses situated on a terrace cut out of red ironstone earth on the hillside called Willow Bank, originally built as housing for workers at the nearby Timberscombe Quarry. He purchased it by phone on 15 November 1947 and with his new wife, Jane (nee Sowerbutts) Martin, made their move in September 1948 .
J.P. Martin hardly retired. As he wrote in 1948, there was a chapel that he described as a good solid barn, shabby at the moment but with beautiful 19th century windows looking out onto the moor--which was actually faced across to his new home (11). Built in 1836 (12), it had been closed with a collapsed roof but which had been recently repaired. The chapel had reopened but with few attendees (13). J.P. Martin took over and by all accounts revitalized the chapel and over the years worked with the vicars at St. Petrock's towards a reunion of Methodists and Anglicans.
He also participated in village life and in this photograph was serving as Vice-Chairman of the Timberscombe Cricket Club (14). It would be interesting to know how many people in the photograph were even aware he had been writing, for over 50 years, what became the "Uncle" series of six children's books about a millionaire elephant living among neighbours not unlike some of those in Timberscombe. The books were published from 1964 to 1973 by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Random House, to worldwide acclaim, the last three appearing after Martin's death in March 1966 during a flu epidemic, after he had delivered pots of honey to his parishioners (15) .
Seated to the right of Rev. Martin is Walter John Copp. A tailor, born at Wootton Courtenay in 1889, he married Elizabeth Ann (Bessie) Stenner in 1915 at St. Petrock's (16). His wife partly grew up at the Lion Inn in Timberscombe, the youngest daughter of it's proprietors, Samuel and Jane (nee Hale) Stenner (17). Walter and Bessie Copp moved back to Timberscombe, along with their son, Cyril, born in 1918, after the death by Scarlet Fever in 1922 of their first child, Leonard Copp, born in 1917 (18). Walter Copp was a longtime member of the Board of Governors for Timberscombe School and the church organist for over 50 years at All Saint's Church in Wootton Courtenay (19). In relation to this photograph, Mr. Copp was a lifelong member of the Timberscombe Cricket Club, as a member of the team and later a coach. He can be seen in the 1909 photograph at SP-166 as a player, when he was about 20 years old.
Walter Copp passed away in 1970, as did the woman to his right, born Mary Edith Jacks in 1885 at Bristol, Glamorgan, Wales (20). In 1906 she married William Gibbs Morel at St. George's, Hanover Square, London (21). In 1916 they purchased Bickham, the manor house on the western edge of Timberscombe (22) and became active members of the community, with Mrs. Morel often providing events at Bickham for the school children (23). Mr. Morel died in 1951 (24) and Mrs. Morel sold Bickham Manor to Alexander Dru but maintained a home on the premises at Bickham Cottage (25). She was remembered as an avid cricket supporter by Maurice Huxtable in 2020 and Mary Edith Morel can also be seen at the clubhouse in 1968 at SP-177.
In 2020, Mr. Huxtable believed the gentleman between Mrs. Morel and his father was "Mr. Reed", likely John Reed, born in Washford about 1892. The son of Nicolas C. and Harriet Reed, the family was living in Timberscombe at the former Coombe Cottage by 1901 (26) . In 1922, John Reed married Margaret M. Binding of Watchet (27) and along with Mr. Copp, served as a member of the Board of Governors of Timberscombe School (28). He passed away in October 1964 (29), thereby dating this photograph before then.
The people behind the front row are a bit bunched but beginning from the left, the young man in a cricket jumper is Michael Cyril Hooper, born 13 September 1943 to Doris Bircham of Timberscombe. His stepfather was Frederick William Hooper, who married Doris in October 1946 and adopted Michael. Doris Hooper died in 1958 and Fred Hooper, in 1960, married Ellen Kate (but better known as "Nellie") Brewer of Sunnyside, Timberscombe. Michael's stepfather and now his new stepmother moved to 28 Marshfield Road in Alcombe, possibly a part time home of Michael Hooper at the time of this photograph, although he had been accepted in 1956 to study at BridgwaterTechnical School (30). In October 1965, Michael married Janet A. Burge in Exmoor (31). They later divorced and Michael passed away in December 2005 at Hammersmith and Fulham, London (32).
Maurice Huxtable remembered the man standing behind Michael as "Jimmy" with his surname being something close to "Colled". Wearing spectacles, to their right is Maurice Stoodley, born in Bridgwater in July 1918 (33). His parents, Percival Worth and Mabel (nee Dyment), moved to Timberscombe and the family was remembered during World War II living at No.5 Jubilee Terrace (34), where Percival worked as a chauffeur and gardener (35). Maurice Stoodley married Doris May Cane, of Minehead, in 1949 (36), who died, aged 41, in 1962. A bricklayer, Maurice died in May 2004 (37). The dark haired man behind Mr,. Stoodley is James (Jimmy) Guilfoyle, born in Montmellick, Ireland in 1919 (38). He married Mary J. Cullinan and by 1952, the year of the birth of their son, Anthony, they were at Beasley Farm, just south of Timberscombe . Their daughter, Anne Elizabeth was born there in 1960 (39) and later, Mr. and Mrs. Guilfoyle lived at No. 12 Meadow View (40). Jimmy Guilfoyle died in 1999 and is buried at Minehead Cemetery (41).
The dark-haired man looking over Jimmy's Guilfoyle's right shoulder has been identified as Richard Tucker by Maurice Huxtable. This could possibly be Richard William Tucker, of West Luccombe Farm, born 24 May 1921 and who died 29 September 1979 and was buried at Luccombe Extension Cemetery (42).
The woman in front of Mr. Tucker and the man directly to her right (wearing a cap) are wife and husband. She was born, in April 1907 at Battersea, London, as Dorothy Ava Meatyard but always was known as "Dot" (43). By 1939 she was in Timberscombe working as a cashier and living at Ford Cottage with Evelyn (nee Clatworthy) and George Elford. Evelyn was the sister of Frederick (Fred) James Clatworthy, who Dot married in 1946 (44). A mason, Fred was born in Timberscombe, the son of John and Bessie (nee Quick) Clatworthy (45). He was a lifelong cricket player and coach and Dot became a lifelong cricket supporter. Fred died in 1991. Dorothy passed away in February 2000 (46), later living at No. 10 Orchard Way (47).
Between Dot and Fred Clatworthy, wearing a white shirt is a gentleman identified as Bobby Hargreave but is likely Robert (Bobby) George Hargrave, who was born 2 November 1932 to Rose Hargrave and as a boy lived on Church Street in Williton (48). In September 1956 he married Amy Lilian Ferris of Timberscombe (49). Mr. Hargrave passed away in Taunton in June 2004 but had been a resident of Minehead before his death (50). Bobby Hargrave can be seen in 1949, as a younger football player at SP-174--as can a fellow team-mate, then and now, Edward G. Bircham. Mr. Bircham is also in this photograph, to the right of Mr. Hargrave and behind Mr. Clatworthy's cap. Edward Bircham was born 1936 in Timberscombe, the penultimate of the ten children of Ivan and Rose Charlotte (nee Agate) Bircham (51). His older sister had been Doris (nee Bircham) Hooper, the mother of Michael Hooper. Edward married Peggy M. Cridge in Oct. 1962 (52).
A taller woman with whiter hair peeks over the top of the aforementioned Grace Huxtable. She is Connie Gear, who was born as Constance May Cook on 9 November 1903 in Newberry, Berkshire, the daughter of Edward James and Emma (nee Warren) Cook (53). Connie was also the older sister of Grace, born 12 years later when the Cook family had relocated to Wiltshire and where Connie married Joseph Albert Gear, a dentist, in 1922 (54). In 1939 Mr. and Mrs. Gear lived in Charley, Lancashire (55). He passed away in July 1980 by which time he and his wife were living in Somerset (56). At the time of her death in July 1990, Mrs. Gear's address was 63 Poundfield Road in Minehead. (57)
The man just behind and to the right of Connie Gear is identified as Bob Prole. Robert Septimus Prole was a son of Harry and Annie (nee Wilsher) Prole, a member of a longtime family in Timberscombe (58) and an avid cricket player all of his life. He is remembered for "being mad about cricket" and a good left hander (59). Born in 1907, he would be around his mid-50's in this photograph and apparently still active with the club. A labourer and gardener, for a time he lived at the West Lodge (60), conveniently adjacent to the cricket field. Bob Prole lived until 1985 (61).
The man wearing a tie, to the right and in front of Mr. Prole, was identified by Maurice Huxtable as Bill Winter. He is likely William Henry Winter (1922-1999), who as a young man lived in Williton and worked as a Public Works Contractors Labourer (62). On 14 September 1950, Mr. Winter was in Timberscombe, where he and others as members of the Village Hall Management Committee, signed a Deed of Trust to establish a village hall. William Winter's official title at that occasion was representative of the Committee of the Cricket Club (63).
The gentleman wearing a cap, behind and to the right of Mr. Winter was identified as Les Chapman (64). A young man is to his right, his face half-hidden and unfortunately not yet identified (65). In front of him, the man in a sports jacket is Fred Barrell. He was born 19 March 1923, named Wyndham Frederick John Barrell and on the 1939 England and Wales Register, he was still living with his father, John, a Rabbit Catcher and his mother, Elizabeth Bessie (nee Cattle) Barrell at "Rona the Corner', a property on Great House Street in Timberscombe, later renamed as Paxholt. In 1939, Mr. Barrell worked as a Clerk to Auctioneers. In 1945 he married Bessie M. Pugsley (66). Later in life, he lived at 34 Ponsford Road in Minehead (67) and passed away in May 2005 (68).
On the right end is Fred Cane, wearing the white coat of a cricket umpire. Frederick William Cane was born 31 January 1920, the son of Arthur, a mason and Ellen Cane. Their family lived on Watery Lane in Minehead and he worked as an electrician (69). In 1947 he married Rose Hargrave (70), seemingly making him the stepfather of Bobby Hargrave. Mr. Cane died in June 1999 (71).
Dudley Huxtable was born in Timberscombe in 1911. He listed his occupation as "carpenter", like his father, Frank Huxtable, a lifelong Timberscombe resident--and cricket player-- from 1889 to 1962 (2). When younger, Dudley also worked at the Cowbridge Petrol Garage, located at the Cowbridge Mill (3) as well at the motor spirit service station operated by his mother, Eva (nee Buttle) Huxtable (1886-1975) on Brook Street in front of the Huxtable family home (4). Occupied by the Huxtable family at least since the 1843 Tithe Map, the house was sometimes called Brook Cottage (5) but after Mrs. Huxtable's service station was in operation-- likely by the mid-1920's--it became known as Pump Cottage . The house was renamed Tiki Cottage in the mid-to-late 1980's when the pumps were finally removed (6). In 1937, Eva Huxtable took on the ownership of Cowbridge Mill, which she passed on to Dudley in 1959 (7), a position he would have been holding at the time of this photograph.
In 1932, Dudley Huxtable married Grace Irene Cook, born in 1915, originally from Wiltshire. Later in 1932, Maurice Huxtable was born (8). Their family lived at No. 3 Council House (later called Meadow View) across the road from the northern end of Brook Street (9). The face of Grace Huxtable can be seen (barely) in the photograph, at the middle of a third row (wearing spectacles), looking over the hat of the woman seated in the front row. Her son, Maurice, married Mary E. Palfrey in 1952 and worked for 34 years as a tractor and Land Rover mechanic at the Luttrell Arms Garage in Dunster. In 2020 at his home, Ye Olde Malthouse on the southern end of Brook Street, Mr. Huxtable was instrumental in identifying almost everyone else in this photograph. (In 2023, the name of Ye Olde Malthouse was altered to The Old Malt House.)
Seen to the right of Maurice Huxtable is Rev J.P. Martin, the minister of the Timberscombe Methodist Chapel, also known as Providence Chapel. John Percival Martin, born at Scarborough, Yorkshire on 5 August 1879, become a Methodist Minister in 1902, after which he served as a missionary in South Africa and an army chaplain at Palestine during World War I. Between the wars he worked in Northamptonshire as a "Chaplain to Farms" (10). After the death of his first wife, Nancy (nee Mann) Martin in 1944 and the end of World War II, J. P. Martin was making plans to retire when his daughter telephoned to tell him about one unsold house, No. 8, in a row of houses situated on a terrace cut out of red ironstone earth on the hillside called Willow Bank, originally built as housing for workers at the nearby Timberscombe Quarry. He purchased it by phone on 15 November 1947 and with his new wife, Jane (nee Sowerbutts) Martin, made their move in September 1948 .
J.P. Martin hardly retired. As he wrote in 1948, there was a chapel that he described as a good solid barn, shabby at the moment but with beautiful 19th century windows looking out onto the moor--which was actually faced across to his new home (11). Built in 1836 (12), it had been closed with a collapsed roof but which had been recently repaired. The chapel had reopened but with few attendees (13). J.P. Martin took over and by all accounts revitalized the chapel and over the years worked with the vicars at St. Petrock's towards a reunion of Methodists and Anglicans.
He also participated in village life and in this photograph was serving as Vice-Chairman of the Timberscombe Cricket Club (14). It would be interesting to know how many people in the photograph were even aware he had been writing, for over 50 years, what became the "Uncle" series of six children's books about a millionaire elephant living among neighbours not unlike some of those in Timberscombe. The books were published from 1964 to 1973 by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Random House, to worldwide acclaim, the last three appearing after Martin's death in March 1966 during a flu epidemic, after he had delivered pots of honey to his parishioners (15) .
Seated to the right of Rev. Martin is Walter John Copp. A tailor, born at Wootton Courtenay in 1889, he married Elizabeth Ann (Bessie) Stenner in 1915 at St. Petrock's (16). His wife partly grew up at the Lion Inn in Timberscombe, the youngest daughter of it's proprietors, Samuel and Jane (nee Hale) Stenner (17). Walter and Bessie Copp moved back to Timberscombe, along with their son, Cyril, born in 1918, after the death by Scarlet Fever in 1922 of their first child, Leonard Copp, born in 1917 (18). Walter Copp was a longtime member of the Board of Governors for Timberscombe School and the church organist for over 50 years at All Saint's Church in Wootton Courtenay (19). In relation to this photograph, Mr. Copp was a lifelong member of the Timberscombe Cricket Club, as a member of the team and later a coach. He can be seen in the 1909 photograph at SP-166 as a player, when he was about 20 years old.
Walter Copp passed away in 1970, as did the woman to his right, born Mary Edith Jacks in 1885 at Bristol, Glamorgan, Wales (20). In 1906 she married William Gibbs Morel at St. George's, Hanover Square, London (21). In 1916 they purchased Bickham, the manor house on the western edge of Timberscombe (22) and became active members of the community, with Mrs. Morel often providing events at Bickham for the school children (23). Mr. Morel died in 1951 (24) and Mrs. Morel sold Bickham Manor to Alexander Dru but maintained a home on the premises at Bickham Cottage (25). She was remembered as an avid cricket supporter by Maurice Huxtable in 2020 and Mary Edith Morel can also be seen at the clubhouse in 1968 at SP-177.
In 2020, Mr. Huxtable believed the gentleman between Mrs. Morel and his father was "Mr. Reed", likely John Reed, born in Washford about 1892. The son of Nicolas C. and Harriet Reed, the family was living in Timberscombe at the former Coombe Cottage by 1901 (26) . In 1922, John Reed married Margaret M. Binding of Watchet (27) and along with Mr. Copp, served as a member of the Board of Governors of Timberscombe School (28). He passed away in October 1964 (29), thereby dating this photograph before then.
The people behind the front row are a bit bunched but beginning from the left, the young man in a cricket jumper is Michael Cyril Hooper, born 13 September 1943 to Doris Bircham of Timberscombe. His stepfather was Frederick William Hooper, who married Doris in October 1946 and adopted Michael. Doris Hooper died in 1958 and Fred Hooper, in 1960, married Ellen Kate (but better known as "Nellie") Brewer of Sunnyside, Timberscombe. Michael's stepfather and now his new stepmother moved to 28 Marshfield Road in Alcombe, possibly a part time home of Michael Hooper at the time of this photograph, although he had been accepted in 1956 to study at BridgwaterTechnical School (30). In October 1965, Michael married Janet A. Burge in Exmoor (31). They later divorced and Michael passed away in December 2005 at Hammersmith and Fulham, London (32).
Maurice Huxtable remembered the man standing behind Michael as "Jimmy" with his surname being something close to "Colled". Wearing spectacles, to their right is Maurice Stoodley, born in Bridgwater in July 1918 (33). His parents, Percival Worth and Mabel (nee Dyment), moved to Timberscombe and the family was remembered during World War II living at No.5 Jubilee Terrace (34), where Percival worked as a chauffeur and gardener (35). Maurice Stoodley married Doris May Cane, of Minehead, in 1949 (36), who died, aged 41, in 1962. A bricklayer, Maurice died in May 2004 (37). The dark haired man behind Mr,. Stoodley is James (Jimmy) Guilfoyle, born in Montmellick, Ireland in 1919 (38). He married Mary J. Cullinan and by 1952, the year of the birth of their son, Anthony, they were at Beasley Farm, just south of Timberscombe . Their daughter, Anne Elizabeth was born there in 1960 (39) and later, Mr. and Mrs. Guilfoyle lived at No. 12 Meadow View (40). Jimmy Guilfoyle died in 1999 and is buried at Minehead Cemetery (41).
The dark-haired man looking over Jimmy's Guilfoyle's right shoulder has been identified as Richard Tucker by Maurice Huxtable. This could possibly be Richard William Tucker, of West Luccombe Farm, born 24 May 1921 and who died 29 September 1979 and was buried at Luccombe Extension Cemetery (42).
The woman in front of Mr. Tucker and the man directly to her right (wearing a cap) are wife and husband. She was born, in April 1907 at Battersea, London, as Dorothy Ava Meatyard but always was known as "Dot" (43). By 1939 she was in Timberscombe working as a cashier and living at Ford Cottage with Evelyn (nee Clatworthy) and George Elford. Evelyn was the sister of Frederick (Fred) James Clatworthy, who Dot married in 1946 (44). A mason, Fred was born in Timberscombe, the son of John and Bessie (nee Quick) Clatworthy (45). He was a lifelong cricket player and coach and Dot became a lifelong cricket supporter. Fred died in 1991. Dorothy passed away in February 2000 (46), later living at No. 10 Orchard Way (47).
Between Dot and Fred Clatworthy, wearing a white shirt is a gentleman identified as Bobby Hargreave but is likely Robert (Bobby) George Hargrave, who was born 2 November 1932 to Rose Hargrave and as a boy lived on Church Street in Williton (48). In September 1956 he married Amy Lilian Ferris of Timberscombe (49). Mr. Hargrave passed away in Taunton in June 2004 but had been a resident of Minehead before his death (50). Bobby Hargrave can be seen in 1949, as a younger football player at SP-174--as can a fellow team-mate, then and now, Edward G. Bircham. Mr. Bircham is also in this photograph, to the right of Mr. Hargrave and behind Mr. Clatworthy's cap. Edward Bircham was born 1936 in Timberscombe, the penultimate of the ten children of Ivan and Rose Charlotte (nee Agate) Bircham (51). His older sister had been Doris (nee Bircham) Hooper, the mother of Michael Hooper. Edward married Peggy M. Cridge in Oct. 1962 (52).
A taller woman with whiter hair peeks over the top of the aforementioned Grace Huxtable. She is Connie Gear, who was born as Constance May Cook on 9 November 1903 in Newberry, Berkshire, the daughter of Edward James and Emma (nee Warren) Cook (53). Connie was also the older sister of Grace, born 12 years later when the Cook family had relocated to Wiltshire and where Connie married Joseph Albert Gear, a dentist, in 1922 (54). In 1939 Mr. and Mrs. Gear lived in Charley, Lancashire (55). He passed away in July 1980 by which time he and his wife were living in Somerset (56). At the time of her death in July 1990, Mrs. Gear's address was 63 Poundfield Road in Minehead. (57)
The man just behind and to the right of Connie Gear is identified as Bob Prole. Robert Septimus Prole was a son of Harry and Annie (nee Wilsher) Prole, a member of a longtime family in Timberscombe (58) and an avid cricket player all of his life. He is remembered for "being mad about cricket" and a good left hander (59). Born in 1907, he would be around his mid-50's in this photograph and apparently still active with the club. A labourer and gardener, for a time he lived at the West Lodge (60), conveniently adjacent to the cricket field. Bob Prole lived until 1985 (61).
The man wearing a tie, to the right and in front of Mr. Prole, was identified by Maurice Huxtable as Bill Winter. He is likely William Henry Winter (1922-1999), who as a young man lived in Williton and worked as a Public Works Contractors Labourer (62). On 14 September 1950, Mr. Winter was in Timberscombe, where he and others as members of the Village Hall Management Committee, signed a Deed of Trust to establish a village hall. William Winter's official title at that occasion was representative of the Committee of the Cricket Club (63).
The gentleman wearing a cap, behind and to the right of Mr. Winter was identified as Les Chapman (64). A young man is to his right, his face half-hidden and unfortunately not yet identified (65). In front of him, the man in a sports jacket is Fred Barrell. He was born 19 March 1923, named Wyndham Frederick John Barrell and on the 1939 England and Wales Register, he was still living with his father, John, a Rabbit Catcher and his mother, Elizabeth Bessie (nee Cattle) Barrell at "Rona the Corner', a property on Great House Street in Timberscombe, later renamed as Paxholt. In 1939, Mr. Barrell worked as a Clerk to Auctioneers. In 1945 he married Bessie M. Pugsley (66). Later in life, he lived at 34 Ponsford Road in Minehead (67) and passed away in May 2005 (68).
On the right end is Fred Cane, wearing the white coat of a cricket umpire. Frederick William Cane was born 31 January 1920, the son of Arthur, a mason and Ellen Cane. Their family lived on Watery Lane in Minehead and he worked as an electrician (69). In 1947 he married Rose Hargrave (70), seemingly making him the stepfather of Bobby Hargrave. Mr. Cane died in June 1999 (71).
Creator
Anonymous
Source
Date
c. earlier 1960s
Contributor
Language
English
Identifier
Timberscombe Cricket Club Players, Patrons and Supporters in the earlier 1960's / Timberscombe Cricket Clubhouse on Cowbridge Road / northeast of the village
Acquisition Date
2020
Acquisition Method
Gift
Category
SPORTS / Timberscombe
PEOPLE: Named / Timberscombe
PEOPLE: Named / Timberscombe
Condition
Good
Condition Notes
entered by Tom Sperling
Condition Date
2021
Dimension Type
W X L
Dimension Units
cm
Dimension Value
12.5 X 18.5
Institution Name
St. Petrock's History Group
Notes
(1) "VILLAGE HERITAGE BOOK" by the Timberscombe W.I., 1975 (2) 1939 England and Wales Register and Kelly's Directories of Somerset of 1919, 1923, 1931 and 135, which list Frank Huxtable as a carpenter (as well as a wheelwright) (3) as seen at SP-163 and TimberscombeVillage.com/ History of Timberscombe/ Other Historic Structures/ Cowbridge Mill, written by Lesley Webb (4) as seen at SP-164, as recalled in 2020 by Maurice Huxtable and as listed in Kelly's Directories of 1931 and 1935 (5) as listed on the Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, 1897-1944 when Dudley Huxtable was admitted (6) as recalled in 2019 and 2020 by Marion (nee Huxtable) and Roger Fewlass, current occupants of Tiki Cottage (7) TimberscombeVillage.com/ History of Timberscombe/ Other Historic Structures/ Cowbridge Mill, as written by Lesley Webb (8) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 (9) 1939 England and Wales Register (10) "J.P. Martin, Father of Uncle, A Master in the Great English Nonsense Tradition", by Stella Martin Currey, published by Matador, 2016 (10) 1939 England and Wales Register (11) "J.P. Martin, Father of Uncle, A Master of the Great English Nonsense Tradition" (12) "WELCOME!", church pamphlet for the Timberscombe Methodist Church, provided in 2018 by Martin and Joy Booth of The Knapp, Timberscombe (13) as written in "The Christian" on 21 April 1960 by Rev. H.L. Court, retired parson living in Minehead and reproduced in "J. P. Martin, Father of Uncle, A Master of the Great English Nonsense Tradition" (14) the photograph was also published and labeled as the photograph numbered "55.", on page 267 of "J.P. Martin, Father of Uncle. A Master of the Great English Nonsense Tradition', where the author, Stella Martin Currey (the daughter of J.P. Martin) captioned it with "J.P. Martin as a Vice-Chairman of the Timberscombe Cricket Club, on the field in the valley below the heights of Grabbist with its buzzards. Perhaps he is dreaming up the cricket match in Uncle between Dr. Lyre's School and a team of fully grown dwarfs from Tower 117..." (15) GoodReads,com (16) 1911 England Census and England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (17) 1911 England Census (18) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 and the Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910-25 March 1947 (19) Timberscombe School MINUTES BOOK, 3 April 1930-April 1974, a photograph of carvings created by Mr. Copp and placed on the Rood Screen in St. Petrock's Church where original versions had been lost or damaged, donated in 2020 by Joyce Smith of Ford Cottage, Timberscombe and as recalled in 2019 by members of All Saints Church, Wootton Courtenay (20) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 and UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (21) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 (22) as written in the Sales Particulars booklet, "THE KNOWLE ESTATE, DUNSTER, SOMERSET", of the 20th July 1916 Public Auction of the Knowle Estate, published by Messrs. W.R.J. Greenslade & Co. of Taunton and Wellington and shared in 2019 by Angie Gummer with St. Petrock's History Group (23) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, April 1947- April 1965, pages 27 and 28 (24) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (25) TimberscombeVillage.com/ History of Timberscombe/ Other Historic Structures/ Village Hall, written by Lesley Webb (26) 1901 England Census (27) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (28) Timberscombe School MINUTES BOOK, 3 April 1930-April 1974 (29) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (30) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, 1944-2012, no. 777 , England & Wales Civil Registration Birth Indexes, 1916-2007, England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 and as recalled in 2020 by Jo Atkins, of Minehead, the grand-niece of Nellie (nee Brewer) Hooper (31) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (32) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (33) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 (34) "AWAY & HOME - WORLD WAR II Somerset and Essex 1939-1945", memoir by Pat Herniman who was an evacuee living with her grandparents at Kiln Farmhouse in 1939 and recalled Maurice Stoodley next door, published by Papermill Books, Little Baddow, in association with The Little Baddow History Centre, 1916 (35) 1939 England and Wales Register (36) 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (37) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 (38) Ireland, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1864-1954 (39) England and Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 (with mother's maiden name) and Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 904 and 1058 (40) Electoral Register, Bridgwater (41) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (42) England and Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 and UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (43) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 (44) 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (45) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (46) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Indexes, 1916-2007 (47) Electoral Register, Bridgwater (48) 1939 England and Wales Register (49) Moore Family Tree, Tree Search of Robert George Hargrave (50) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1989-2019 (51) FindMyPast.com, England & Wales Births, 1837-2006 (52) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (53) 1911 England Census (54) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (55) 1939 England and Wales Register (56) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (57) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 (58) 1901 and 1911 England Censuses (59) "AWAY & HOME - WORLD WAR II Somerset and Essex 1939-1945", memoir by Pat Herniman where she recalled the cricket skills of her Uncle Bob Prole (60) "AWAY & HOME - WORLD WAR II Somerset and Essex 1939-1945" and 1939 England and Wales Register (61) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (62) 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (63) TimberscombeVillage.com/ History of Timberscombe, Other Historic Structures/ Village Hall, written by Lesley Webb (64) to be researched (65) to be researched (66) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (67) UK, Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 (68) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (69) 1939 England and Wales Register (70) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (71) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Storage Location
St. Petrock's History Group Archive
Storage Date
2021
Storage Notes
St. Petrock's History Group PHOTOGRAPHS
Item Reference
SP-175
Technique
Copy
Citation
Anonymous, “Timberscombe Cricket Club Players, Patrons and Supporters, in the Earlier 1960's (including the Rev. J.P. Martin),” St. Petrock's History Group, accessed April 29, 2024, https://stpetrockshistorygroup.omeka.net/items/show/3453.
Comments
Marion Jeffrey
Hi Tom
do you think it will be alright to use this image on the Cricket Club poster I need to prepare for the March talk?
Thanks, Marion