Timberscombe School, c. 1888, with Schoolmaster, Samuel Overmass and Schoolmistress, Mary Ann Overmass (and 75 scholars)
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Timberscombe School, c. 1888, with Schoolmaster, Samuel Overmass and Schoolmistress, Mary Ann Overmass (and 75 scholars)
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In the late Spring of 2022, Ruth Humphreys and Stephen Humphreys of Stowey Farm made a monumental donation to the St. Petrock's History Group, a vividly blue, hand-bound volume entitled "VILLAGE HERITAGE BOOK, 1975", 29 X 52.5 cm in size, with a painted red and gold banner on its cover, labelled "TIMBERSCOMBE WI". Inside are 25 pages of original photographs, artwork, and historic items, collected and compiled by the Timberscombe Women's Institute of 1975.
On the 19th page, among the book's discoveries, was this photograph of the schoolchildren at Timberscombe School with "The School in 1889? Samuel Overmass was Headmaster for 22 years" handwritten under it. Below that is, amazingly, an almost complete list identifying the students pictured at the school, including George Welch, George Yeandle, Emma Glass, Alice Gooding and Sarah Chapman. Their last day at Timberscombe School was 23 April 1888. And on the 9th of March 1888, Maud Hensley, who had been absent for the previous three weeks, marched into the school, turned in her books and said she was leaving. As Maud was about to turn 14-years-old, Mr. Overmass would not have had much to say about it. All of these students are represented in this photograph, suggesting it was taken at least during or before February 1888 (1). Whatever the exact date, this is the oldest known surviving photograph of Timberscombe schoolchildren, linking them to the village's generations past and yet to come.
On page 274 of the school's Log Book, Samuel (Sam) Small Overmass wrote "Jan-rd 9th, 1882, I, Samuel Overmass take charge of this Mixed School, with fairly good attendance". He would serve here until his sudden death at the age of 48 on 21 February 1904 (2). Hired with Mr. Overmass, as "Schoolmistress", was his wife, Mary Ann (nee Taylor) Overmass. At the death of her husband and his burial at St. Petrock's Churchyard in Timberscombe, Mary Ann Overmass continued to run the school until Mr. John Talbot was able to take over as the new Schoolmaster (3).
Mr. and Mrs. Overmass had married at West Ham, Essex, London in 1880 (4). Sam Overmass is visible standing on the right side of the photograph seen here, with his hands on the shoulders of their son, Walter Seaton Overmass. Mary Ann is seated to their left, with their second son, Clarence Norman Overmass. Both boys were enrolled as "scholars" in the school at the time of this photograph (5). Two daughters, Hilda May and Olive Millicent were also born in Timberscombe, respectively in 1890 and 1894 and would also attend Timberscombe School (6).
Seated on the left side of the photograph is another adult woman (with a sort of scarf at her neck). She was Henrietta Bartram, born in 1868, the youngest of the 10 daughters of Timberscombe's Policeman, George Bartram and his wife, Charlotte Grace (nee Davey) Bartram (7). While Sam Overmass was Schoolmaster, the yearly Inspection Report listed Henrietta as "H. Bartram", the "School Monitor" and sometimes working with the Infants, despite suffering from rheumatism (8). In 1908 she married Robert Coles and until her death in 1924, they ran the Grocer and Draper Shop at Combe (also seen as "Coombe") House on Jubilee Terrace, at the storefront that in 1969 became Timberscombe's Post Office (9).
Standing on the left end of the back row is Thomas (Tom) Ferris, baptised 17 November 1876 in Dulverton, the son of Thomas James and Elizabeth (nee Bowden) Ferris (10). The elder Thomas was a farm labourer who moved his family between Dulverton, Timberscombe and Carhampton. Tom had a younger brother, John (Jack) Ferris, born in Timberscombe in 1880 (11), who is also in this photograph, the boy seated fourth from the left end of the fourth row. (Actually he is seated somewhat between the fourth and third row, wearing a white jacket.) Jack died when he was 16-years-old (12). Tom left school later in the same year of this photograph, which may have been fine with Mr. Overmass, who on 2 March 1888 recorded "Thomas Ferris-- a complete failure "(13).
Nevertheless Tom found work as a servant for the Cole family in Timberscombe and later became a hedger (14). By the 1901 Census, he had married Eliza Mitchell from Exton and they lived at Ford Cottage in Timberscombe, where Tom became an avid bellringer, as pictured on SP-067. Eliza died in 1904 and in 1917, Tom Ferris married Alice Sloman (or sometimes seen as "Slocombe"), known to most as "Nurse", being the local district nurse for many years. They lived at Gammins Cottage in Wootton Courtenay, where Tom Ferris died in 1961 (15).
Mr. Overmass was not pleased with Thomas White either, the boy standing to the right of Tom Ferris. Also called Tom, he was born c. 1877 in Timberscombe to Thomas, a thatcher and Elizabeth (nee Court) White. In 1885, when he was around 8-years-old, Tom White was awarded a book (titled "Distant Homes") for good attendance. Yet by August 1886, Mr. Overmass was having severe disagreements with Tom's parents who wanted continual leave of absences for the boy to help with the thatching. Such disputes continued for the rest of Tom's time at school, to the point that at the end of 1887, Mr. Overmass wrote Tom's multiple absences had rendered him "disgracefully irregular--any talking to the parents on the subject is quite useless" (16).
Hopefully Mr. Overmass thought more of Tom's younger sister, Clara White, the third little girl seated in the third row to the left of Mrs. Overmass. (Clara wears a dark collar around her neck). Clara White was baptised at Timberscombe in 1882 and by the 1911 Census, appears to be working as a servant in Hampstead and possibly emigrated to the United States (17). After school, Tom White did continue his father's work as a thatcher and farm labourer, marrying Florence Mary Harvey in 1900 at St. Petrock's. On the 1921 Census, he and Florence lived and farmed at Kiln Farmhouse in Timberscombe, with three of their children, Mary, Tom and Margaret . Tom White died in Exmoor, across the Devon border, in 1943 (18).
The boy to the right of Tom White apparently is Francis George Kingsbury, born 22 February 1877 at West Quantoxhead, where his father, John Kingsbury, farmed the 170 acre Weacombe Farm (19). It is not clear why George came to attend Timberscombe School in 1888. His father and mother, Mary (nee Date) Kingsbury were both raised in Watchet (20). By the 1891 Census, George was still at Weacombe Farm, but had left by the 1901 Census and for good reason (21). On the 27th of May 1902 he was in the United States where he married Anna Marilla Burkholder in Chicago. George Kingsbury died in 1964, while living in Lansing, Michigan (22).
To the right of George is William Henry Townsend, also the son of the owners of a large farm, East Harwood (225 acres in 1881) on the southwestern edges of Timberscombe. Indeed four of William (William Henry's father) and Mary Ann (nee Bishop) Townsend's children (and one niece) are in this photograph. William Henry was their eldest child, baptised at St. Petrock's on 26 March 1875. Albert (Bertie) Edward Townsend, baptised 18 May 1882, is the second boy from the right end of the second row (starting to the left of Mrs. Overmass). Baptised on 6 December 1884, Leonard JamesTownsend, is in centre of the front row, 6th from the right (23).
Their father, William Townsend, died at the age of 52, on the 30th of July 1897 when he fell from his horse (24). Perhaps a result of this is evident on the 1901 Census, when the three brothers, seen in this photograph, were boarding together on Canonbury Road in Islington, London and working as agricultural labourers. On the 1st of March in the same year, Bertie enlisted with the Imperial Yeomanry Metropolitan Mounted Rifles, serving in South Africa until September 1902 (25). Their other brother, John Bishop Townsend, born in 1880 (not pictured in the photograph) was farming East Harwood, at first with their mother, Mary Ann, until she retired to Wachet with her second daughter, Beatrice Mary (baptised the 1st of January 1879), as her companion. Mother and daughter later moved to Northway House on Kingston Road in Taunton (26). Mary Ann's eldest child, William Henry (the boy in the back row), had returned to East Harwood and died there in 1904 at the age of 29. He was buried at St. Petrock's (27).
By 1916, Bertie and Leonard emigrated to Canada (28). Bertie Townsend did return to live at Teignmouth, Devon, then died in Birmingham in July 1950, leaving a widow, Lizzie Townsend (28). It appears that Leonard remained in Canada, although when he sailed from Nova Scotia to London in January 1957, he gave his British address as "Northway, Taunton" (29).
Two girls, both in darker dresses, stand together, 4th and 5th from the right end of the 5th row. They are identified as "Jenny Townsend" (on the left) and "Annie Townsend". "Jenny" is Laura Jane Townsend, the first daughter of William and Mary Ann Townsend, baptised 6 November 1876 (30). In 1910 she married Richard Giles Thorne in Watchet and by the 1939 England and Wales Register, she and her husband also both lived at Northway in Taunton. It is not clear if they lived here with Jenny's mother and sister, who both died at Northway in December 1930, within three days of each other (31). Jenny Thorne died here in 1954, as had her husband in 1950 (32).
"Annie Townsend" in the photograph is not Jenny's sister, Beatrice Mary but is her cousin, Elizabeth Ann Townsend, born in 1877, the daughter of John and Betsy (nee Dascombe) Townsend. In Timberscombe, her father had been the miller at the Old Mill, a butcher and a farmer and was an older brother of William, Jenny's father (33). In 1901, Annie Townsend was a patient and housemaid at the District Metropolitan Asylum of Northern London but by the 1911 Census and the 1939 Register she was working as an Assistant Nurse in Suffolk. Later, Annie was back at Timberscombe, living at Owey View in Cowbridge, where she died in 1965 (34).
George Henry Welch stands in the centre of the back row and his sister, Harriet Louise (called "Cissy" at school) Welch is the second girl from the right end of the 4th row--she is directly behind Mrs. Overmass. Born respectively in 1873 at Birkenhead, Cheshire and in 1875 at Islington, London (35), while attending Timberscombe School George and Harriet lived at Knowle House with their parents, Thomas and Emily Welch. Mr. Welch was the Coachman for Worsley Battersby, who had purchased the Knowle Estate c.1885 (36). On the 1891 Census, George also worked at Knowle House as a Gardener and Harriet listed herself as a Dressmaker. Mr. Battersby died in 1896 (37) and by 1901, the Welch family was in the Clifton District of Bristol, Gloucestershire, where Thomas was a Groomer and Coachman and George worked as a Coachman. However by 1904, in West Yorkshire, George, then a labourer, was arrested for "Begging" and went to prison for 10 days (38). Harriet worked as a servant in St. Pancras, London (39). Her brother was buried 4 November 1933 at Holy Trinity in Horfield, Bristol, near where their parents would be buried (40).
The youngest three of the nine children of Robert and Eliza (nee Morle) Williams are in this photograph, with Francis (Frank) Williams fourth from the left end of the back row. Emma Williams is standing to the left of Jenny Townsend (sixth from the right end of the fifth row) and Alice Maud Williams is peeking out, fourth from the right end of the third row (starting to the left of Mrs. Overmass). By 1888, the family lived on No. 1 Jubilee House (as called then and to the right of Combe House), where Robert worked as a Cordwainer (a boot and shoe maker) (41).
Frank Williams was born c. 1875 in Timberscombe. Throughout his entire time at Timberscombe School he was in trouble, often caught stealing and running away. Apparently Frank's problems were not just at school, as on the 8th of July 1881, his mother rushed into the classroom and beat the 6-year-old boy with a stirrup leather during the first lesson (42). By 1891, like so many young men and their families from the Timberscombe area looking for employment, Frank Williams was working as a coal miner at Langynwyd, Glamorgan, Wales. Frank, aged 16, was boarding there with George Wyburn, aged 18 and who had left Timberscombe School a couple of years before Frank. By the 1901 Census, Frank worked as "asst. storekeeper" at the Hertfordshire County Lunatic Asylum and in 1911, he was still "asst. storekeeper" but also a "patient" at Hertford Convalescent Home at West Hill, Leonards on Sea. After that Frank Williams disappeared.
His sisters had better lives. Emma Williams was born 1877. In 1901 she went to St. Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, to work as a servant but by 1911 was back in Timberscombe at her parent's location (later re-addressed as No. 3 Jubilee Terrace), running a "Boot, Shoe and Fancy Goods Shop". She married James Jeffery, a part-time Methodist minister in 1918 (43). Emma died in 1940 but her husband continued to run the shop, now known as "Jeffery's-- where anything could be found" until his death in 1953 (44).
Alice Maud Williams, born in 1880, married the well known photographer, Herbert John (Bert) Hole, at St. Petrock's on 28 July 1902 (45). Alice managed her husband's studio on Swain Street in Watchet and raised five children there. Bert Hole died in 1915 and Alice later ran the Swain Street location as a Tobacco Shop (46). Alice Maud Hole passed away at the age of 90 in 1971 at Portsmouth, Hampshire. SP-149 and SP-326 are variations of a pre-1900 photograph, credited as taken by Herbert Henry Hole, the father of Bert, of the storefront at No. 3 Jubilee Terrace with Robert and Eliza Williams in front (he holds a shoe), along with two of their daughters and one son, very likely Frank..
Third from the right end of the back row, seemingly with his arms crossed, is Frank Luxton, born c. 1875 (47). On the 1881 Census, he was entered as "grandson", living in the centre of Timberscombe with his grandparents, George, a tailor and Caroline (nee Winter) Edwards and Frank's mother, Lucy Edwards, a dressmaker. On the 1871 Census, 14-year-old Lucy had gone to Bristol to live with her 19-year-old sister, Rhoda, a "Staymaker"-- a corset-maker. Frank was born in Bristol. On the 22nd of October 1888, Mr. Overmass sent a message to the Edwards' home wanting to know if Frank had left school as he had not been there since the 1st of October. An uncle replied he didn't know (48).
By 1891, Lucy was in Bedminster, married to a Blacksmith, Robert Parkman and the mother of a newly born Hilda Parkman. Also in the household, listed as "Lodger" was her son, 16-year-old Frank Luxton. He later returned to Bristol, where he worked as a Box Maker (for packing) and had a wife, Ellen and a daughter, Gertrude (48). The three of them relocated to Cardiff where Frank became the Overseer of a Flour Mill (49). It appears that by 1921 , Frank Luxton had emigrated to Wentworth, Ontario, Canada (50).
Three of the children of a carpenter, George Blackmore and his wife Elizabeth (nee Hale) Blackmore, are in this photograph, who followed their older brother and sister, John, and Emily in attending Timberscombe School. (John can be seen at SP-208 as a member of the St. Petrock's choir in 1885--as was Sam Overmass.) The junior George Blackmore, born in Luxborough in 1878, stands in the back row to the right of Frank Luxton, Martha Alice Blackmore is third from the left end of the 4th row--her dark hair (all of the Blackmore children have dark hair) is pulled back-- and James Blackmore sits on the ground, third from the right end of the front row.
The Blackmore family lived at Hole's Square (51), in the house that would later be known as The Studio and in 2022 was renamed Finnbar. On the 3rd of October 1887, after a day of songs, Mr. Overmass told George Blackmore he had no voice and "not to attempt to sing", which presumably no one ever said to John Blackmore, the choir member. George's (and Frank Williams') last day at Timberscombe School was 31 March 1889 (52). Returning to Luxborough, George worked as a "Farm Servant"at Westcott Farm and by 1903 was in Bristol where he married Kate Ellen Weeks (53). George Blackmore was a Railroad Guard by 1911, a position he held for many years and he died in Bristol in 1950 (54).
James Blackmore was born in 1880 and like his father, worked as a carpenter (55). James married Bessie Parkman Grabham in 1914 at St. Petrock's (56). He died in 1945 and James and his wife are buried together in Porlock (57). Martha Alice, who was called "Alice", was born the 4th of March 1875 and after leaving school ,worked as a housemaid for at least 15 years in Oxfordshire (58). Here is where Alice likely met Elizabeth Buy, also working there as a housemaid and in 1904, Alice returned to Timberscombe to marry John Buy, a blacksmith and Elizabeth's brother (59). John and Alice Buy eventually lived in Wandsworth, London, where John died in 1936 (60). On the 1939 England and Wales Register, Alice had moved to Abington, Berkshire, living with her sister-in-law, now Elizabeth Surman and her husband, Arthur. Alice died later in the year (61).
A smaller boy stands on the right end of the back row. He is George Yeandle, born in Timberscombe in 1878. There are three other boys in the photograph with the same surname, Walter Yeandle, William Yeandle and Albert Yeandle. The latter two are brothers and all four are cousins with convoluted family connections. George appears as a three-year-old on the 1881 Census, identified as the grandson of 78-year old Thomas Yeandle, a widower and Cordwainer. Mr. Yeandle's wife, Jane (nee Chapman) had died in 1877. Two grand-daughters, 10-year-old Ellen and 7-year-old Rose are also listed and completing the household are Thomas Yeandle's daughters, 52 year-old Mary Ann Yeandle and 49-year-old Eliza Yeandle, both listed as Washerwomen (62).
They were interesting women. Eliza was the mother of George, Ellen and Rose. In 1849, her sister, Mary Ann had a baby boy, James Yeandle who died two years later after which Mary Ann bore Thomas (1857), Harriet (1873) and Emma Yeandle in 1876. Eliza's first child, Ellen Yeandle was born in 1871 when Eliza was 39-years-old. Ellen appears to have had a twin sister, Emma Yeandle, who died when she was 5-years-old --the same year Mary Ann 's daughter, also named Emma Yeandle, was born (63). By the 1891 Census, George's sisters, Ellen and Rose, had left Timberscombe at young ages to work as servants. George was 13-years-old, had finished school, was working as an agricultural labourer and lived with his 61-year-old mother, Eliza---although she now identified herself as his aunt.
In 1901 George Yeandle worked as a servant at the Vicarage in Cutcombe and a year later, now a Gardener and a Groom, he married Alice Mary Baker at the Cutcombe Church (64). By 1911 George was a Market Gardener and he and Alice Mary lived at Ruby Cottage in Alcombe, which remained their home until his death in October 1938 (65). His mother, Eliza had died in 1907, aged 80 and living at the Union Workhouse on Long Street in Williton (still in use as private residences) and was buried at St. Petrock's in Timberscombe (66).
Eliza and Mary Ann Yeandle's younger brother was Robert, born in Timberscombe and baptised in January 1833 (67). Robert worked as a servant in Bampton when he was 18-years-old but by the age of 28, he had returned to Timberscombe working as an Agricultural Labourer, married Harriet (nee Chapman) and lived at Pitt Cottage, on the southeastern edge of Timberscombe (68), where his first son, Thomas, was born in 1855.
By the 1881 Census, Robert and Harriet had moved into the village with a 3-year-old grandson, "Willie Yeandle", born 8 November 1877 (69). It is not clear who were the parents of "Willie". On the 1891 Census, Robert (then working as a Road Contractor) and Harriet still have a 13-year-old grandson living with them, now identified as Walter John Yeandle but who is likely the child called "Willie" in 1881 and appears in this photograph on the 4th row, 5th from the right end (wearing a dark jacket, directly in front of Annie Townsend). In 1904, aged 27, Walter John Yeandle married Bessie Shire in Pitminster, Somerset, where he listed his grandfather, Robert as his "father" (70). His grandmother, Harriet Yeandle had died in 1902 but at the age of 78 in 1911, Robert Yeandle still lived with Walter and Bessie. Walter also worked as a Road Contractor and was later promoted to Road Foreman, when he and Bessie lived at No. 1 Jubilee House on Jubilee Terrace (71). Walter John Yeandle lived until 1954 (72).
The aforementioned eldest son of Robert and Harriet Yeandle, Thomas Yeandle, married Sarah Bowden in 1875 at Timberscombe (73). Their eldest son was William Henry Yeandle, baptised in April 1880 in Wootton Courtenay (74), followed on Christmas Day 1881 by Albert Yeandle. William Henry is the last boy seated on the right end of the second row (with Mrs. Overmass to his right). Albert is on the same row, the second boy on the left end. On the 1881 Census, their family lived in Timberscombe, almost next door to Robert and Harriet Yeandle and by 1891, they were neighbours to Eliza and George Yeandle. Likely all of these related families were in and out of each other's homes. William Henry worked as a Coachman and married Annie Cross in 1903 at Tavistock (75). They later moved to Harborne, Birmingham where William died in 1935 (76). Albert signed up with the Royal Navy in 1897, serving on the ship, Impregnable, and by 1901 was boarding in Bilbrook, working as a Groom and Gardener (77). In 1927 he married Susan Manley at Williton and died in 1939 (78).
The little girl on the left end of the 5th row is Bessie Hurford. While "Bessie" was a popular name in this era, her given name was Elizabeth Ann Hurford, born in July 1877 to George and Elizabeth (nee White) Hurford. Both parents were born in Timberscombe and George was a Shoemaker, the son of John (also a Shoemaker, born in Timberscombe as well) and Elizabeth (nee Pike) Hurford (79). Bessie's parents had married in 1871 at St. Petrock's and her sister, Minnie, had been born in 1873 (80). When attending Timberscombe School, Headmaster Overmass complained repeatedly about the absence of both girls, even charting in 1882 that Bessie had missed 18 days out of a possible 37. Minnie was even worse. She missed 21. Yet Mr. Overmass also wrote that the girls missed school "as had to keep house as Mrs. Hurford is dead" (81). Indeed Elizabeth Hurford had died in May 1879, before Bessie was even 2-years-old (82). When Bessie left school in 1888, she had just turned 11, three years younger than Mr. Overmass would have liked. Minnie also left young and went on to work as a servant in Minehead (83). Bessie married Thomas Kirby, a Blacksmith's Striker, in 1903 at Swindon (84) and she passed away in October 1966, while living in Birmingham (85).
To the right of Bessie is Eva Jane Floyde, born in March 1877. Her brother, William (known as Willie and Bill at various ages) Floyde is the 6th boy from the left end of the second row (his face is almost flashed out against the white outfits of the girls seated behind him). William was born in September 1878. He and Eva Jane were the children of William Henry Floyde, a Stone Mason and Alice (nee Hale) Floyde. At the time of this photograph, the Floyde family likely lived on the left side of two semi-detached residences on Brook Street (the site of the future Brook Cottage), where it curves southward toward the village's centre (86).
William Henry Floyde died in 1898 and it seems that his widow and their son, William, moved a short walk to the left into a smaller house, The Retreat (later Ivy Cottage), semi-detached to Berrowcote, where the Village Post Office was situated. Eva Jane was living and working as a domestic servant, probably by this time at Knowle House on the northeastern edge of Timberscombe. By 30 December 1899, 22-year-old William had purchased the post office and possibly to secure an ongoing income for his family, conveyed its ownership to himself, his mother and his sister (87). They never lived there (the post office was occupied and run by Mrs. Mary Lyddon) and William's mother, Alice moved into Rose Cottage, just behind the post office, where she worked as a Sick Nurse until her passing in 1917 (88). Eva Jane continued working at Knowle House and by 1911 was a housemaid in Oxfordshire (89). Like his father, William became a Stone Mason and built a house for himself and his wife, Minnie (also seen as "Minna"). Called Hill View, it was at the junction of Great House Street and Willow View Lane. William later demolished and replaced it with two cottages, No. 1 Willow View for himself and his wife and No. 2 Willow View for their daughter, Joyce Marguerite Floyde. William Floyde also was a constant on the Timberscombe football and cricket teams (90).
Ironically later in life, Eva Jane and her brother both did some postal work. William and Minnie semi-retired to Williton, where he worked as a Sub Post Master. Eva Jane returned to Timberscombe and moved into Rose Cottage, where her mother had lived. She is remembered for making and selling ice cream there but also became a Post Office Deliverer, recalled as a small, elderly woman in dark clothes carrying a mail bag from door to door (91). William died on Christmas Day 1947, back at Willow View and Eva died at Rose Cottage in August 1949 (92).
Annie Webber stands third from the left end of the 5th row with Emma Webber, Annie's (at least half) sister, sixth from the left. Annie's full name was given as Anne Davis Webber when she was baptised at St. Petrock's in 1877. Her mother was listed as Mary Ann Webber, a "single woman" (93). On the 1881 Census, 4-year-old Annie Davis Webber lived with 57-year-old Robert Webber and 58-year-old Ann Webber, her grandparents (94). Also with them was 3-year-old Emma, born in Timberscombe in 1881 to Mary Ann and also identified as "grand-daughter" to Robert and Ann. (On the 1891 Census, the girls' mother, 32-year-old Mary Ann Webber, was listed as a "visitor" to Tom Wyburn, a 24-year-old farmer at his farm in Exton. She was accompanied by Ida, William, James, Arthur, George and Florence, aged from 11 to 2 , all listed as a "visitor" and with the surname "Webber". Mary Ann Webber and Tom Wyburn married on 3 May 1891, remaining together until their respective deaths in 1950 and 1946 and are buried with each other at St. Nicolas Churchyard in Withycombe (95).
By 1891 and when she was 14, Annie Davis Webber was working as a servant for the Greenslade family at Parsonage Farm in Luxborough but by 1901, now named Annie Bartlett, she was a Housekeeper for her uncle, Thomas Webber, a Hawker (a seller of wares, usually pushing a handcart and calling out what was being sold) and the eldest child of Robert and Ann Webber (96). Annie's husband was Joseph Bartlett, originally from High Ham, Somerset and who worked as "Guard of Trains"(97). By the 1911 Census their address was Uxbridge Terrace in Notting Hill, London and Annie Bartlett died in 1949 at Islington, London (98). It appears that Emma Webber had moved to 38 Acres Cottage in Wellington, Somerset by 1911 and before 1950 had emigrated and lived at Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York in the United States (99).
Standing near the front of Annie Webber is Charles (Charley) Webber, the 5th child from the left in the 4th row--his hair is parted at the middle of his head. There is no clear connection between him and Annie or Emma Webber. Charley was the youngest child of William Henry and Mary Ann (nee Hobbs) Webber. On the 6th of September 1886, Mr. Overmass reported Charley and his brothers, James, Thomas, John and William to the Attendance Officer for excess absence, although Overmass conceded it was not always easy for them getting to school as these boys were "living at Clicket, about two miles from Timberscombe Village" (100).
While Clicket remains a mystery on why it was abandoned, the ongoing life of Charley Webber can be traced. Born in 1878, Charley's address while at school was indeed Clicket. However by the 1891 Census, the entire family was living in Timberscombe, with William Henry and all of his sons, including 13-year-old Charley, working as Agricultural Labourers. Charley married Rosa Webb in 1901 at Winsford and by 1911, they lived at 15 Victoria Terrace in Alcombe (101). Charles Webber died in August 1932, by which time he and Rosa had relocated to Manor Farm in Alcombe (102).
Siblings, Sarah Ann, Rosina and Arthur William Chapman were the 5th, 6th and 7th of the 12 children of William and Sarah (nee Bowering) Chapman. Sarah Ann is the 4th girl standing from the left end of the 5th row, with Rosina being the last girl on the right end of the same row. Born in 1876, on the 1891 Census, at the age of 15, Sarah Ann was working as a servant for the Colley family in Chelsea, London. Sarah Ann likely secured this position as she would have known Florence Brewer, a member of the Brewer family in Timberscombe and a niece of the Colley family--and who was also visiting at their house at the time of the census. Sarah Ann stayed on in London and ten years later worked for Mrs. Martha Mason in Kensington (103). After that details of her life are murky--she possibly died in 1945 and was buried at Coggeshall, Essex. (104).
Rosina (also known as "Rose") Chapman's life is easier to detail. Born in January 1878 and at the age of 13, Rosina had left Timberscombe School and worked as a servant for the Reed family in Wootton Courtenay (105). Like her sister, in 1901 she was employed as a servant in London (106). She however returned to Timberscombe, possibly at the passing of her father, William, who died in July 1910 (107). By 1901, her parents had moved to Pitt Cottage, just southwest of Timberscombe and Rosina moved in with her mother, Sarah, now 65 years old and began work as a Charwoman (108). At St. Petrock's Church on Christmas Day 1911, 34-year-old Rosina Chapman, married 24-year-old Ernest Clatsworthy, a Farm Carter (109). They were living on Great House Street when Rosina Clatworthy died in 1952 (110).
Born in October 1881, Arthur William Chapman is the 4th child from the left end of the front row. After leaving school, Arthur had remained at Pitt Cottage, working as a Farm Carter with his father (111). On the 4th of February 1902, he married Harriet (nee Slade) Evitt, a young widow (112). During World War I, Arthur served with the Royal Engineers (113). A younger brother to Arthur, Sarah Ann and Emma, Francis (Frank) Chapman, born in 1887, was killed in the war on the 13th of September 1914 at the first Battle of Aisne in France (114). By 1939, Arthur and Harriet lived on the Williton Road, where he worked as a Road Stone Quarrier (115). Arthur William Chapman died at Exmoor in 1957 (116).
The 5th girl from the left on the 5th row has been identified as "Caroline Dorey." This is likely a mistake. Caroline Dorey, the daughter of James Dorey, a Hawker by profession and his wife Hannah Maria (nee Maunder) Dorey did attend Timberscombe School but in 1888, Caroline was only two years old. She had three older sisters, Sabina, Eliza and Louisa Dorey, all admitted to the school on 23 May 1882 --although Eliza actually arrived too late to be registered that day (117). Sabina was born in 1868 and Eliza was born in 1869, so both would have left Timberscombe School before this photograph was taken. Baptised at St. Petrock's on the 25th of April 1879 (118), Louisa is likely the girl in this photograph. Sadly little else is known about her. On the 6th of May 1889, Louisa stayed away from school because she had the mumps (119) and on 7 November 1890, she missed some days at school because she had been away helping her father, "with the cart" (120) but there are no verified records of her after that.
Two Dorey sons are in this photograph. Stephen Dorey, baptised at Timberscombe on Christmas, 1877 (121) is the 7th child from the left of the 4th row. On the 13th of September 1883, Sam Overmass had to "administer corporal punishment" to Stephen for stealing apples and on 24 June 1889, 12-year-old Stephen informed Mr. Overmass he was leaving school to work with his father (122)--apparently on "the cart". Stephen Dorey died when he was 18-years-old and was buried at St. Petrock's in July 1895 (123).
The youngest Dorey son, born in 1884, is the small boy, 5th from the right of the first row. He was named Moses. (An elder Dorey son, born in 1872, was named Solomon, who is pictured in the 1885 photograph, at SP-208, of the St. Petrock's choir, along with Mr. Overmass.) In 1907, Moses was in St. Thomas, Devon where he married Frances Pepperall, born in nearby Exminster (124) . Moses worked in Exminster as an attendant at the Devon County Lunatic Asylum (125). From 1914 to 1920, he served with distinction. enrolled in the Second Dragoon Guards (126). By the time of the 1939 England and Wales Register, Moses was with Frances and their son, Clarence, back in Exminster, still working at the Asylum but promoted to "Head Male Mental Nurse". Moses Dorey died in January 1959 living at Ferndale in Exminster (127).
The tall girl in the centre of the 5th row (7th from the left end) is Emma Jane Butland, born at Carhampton in 1876 to James and Eliza (nee Clatworthy) Butland. Her father was originally from Cornworthy, Devon and her mother was born in Cutcombe and by May 1882, when Emma Jane began school, her family was living and farming at Croydon Farm (128). By the 1901 Census, Emma had married Philip Edward Durham, also a farmer and in the same year it seems they and most all of Emma's family emigrated to Canada (129). Emma Durham died in 1944 and was buried with her husband in Manitoba (130).
Third from the right end of the 5th row, the girl with a fringe is Emma Cane and to her right is Alice Gooding. Both girls were among the sicker children in 1884 when the school had to be closed for a week because of Scarlet Fever (131). Emma was baptised in Dunster on 21 October 1877 as the daughter of Thomas, a Labourer and Elizabeth (nee Ward) Cane, who had married, also in Dunster on the previous 30th of April (132). For unknown reasons, by the 1881 Census, aged 3, Emma Cane lived in Timberscombe as the niece of either Robert or Mary (nee Hole) Hale (the actual connection is not yet clear). Her actual parents went on to have ten more children, while Emma continued to live with Mr. and Mrs. Hale until leaving school (133). By 1901, Emma Cane worked as a Housemaid in Weston-Super-Mare and in 1911, was a servant at the Cairo Lodge on Highbury Hill in the same seaside town--a striking building demolished in 2011 (134). In 1922 , she married Thomas Tanner, a General Labourer born in Weston- Super-Mare, where Emma died at the age of 58 years (135).
Alice Gooding's younger brother and sister, William (Willie) and Mary Jane, are also in this photograph. Their father was William Gooding, born 1830 in Cutcombe. Mr. Gooding's first wife, Martha (nee Middleton) was also from Cutcombe. They had three sons, John, Fredrick and Walter, before Martha died in May 1875 and was buried in St. Petrock's Churchyard (136). William married Mary Webber, a dressmaker, at Timberscombe in 1876 and Alice, Willie and Mary Jane are the children of the second marriage (137).
Alice Gooding was baptised at St. Petrock's on 22 July 1877 (138). After leaving school, Alice had ended up as a servant in London but for unknown reasons, in June 1904 was placed in the Britten Street Workhouse of Kensington and Chelsea, a home for the infirm and /or poor (139). It is not clear when she was released. In 1913, Alice married Joseph Jenkins, a Labourer at Greenwich, London (140)--although by the 1911 Census, Alice was in Lewisham, London, where she identified herself as already married to Mr. Jenkins and they had four sons. The Census taker "presumed" they had married in 1903. Alice Jenkins lived to be 100-years-old and died in Slough, Berkshire, where her youngest son, Walter, was living. He died, aged 68, the next year (141).
William Gooding is the first little boy at the left end of the second row. He seems to have been born in 1881 but was not baptised until 10 January 1884 (142). At the age of 20, he lived and worked with his 71-year-old father as an "Ordinary Agricultural Labourer". On the 1911 Census he was boarding with his former schoolmate, Thomas White (still working as a thatcher) and his wife, Florence, at their house in Cowbridge. On the 1939 England and Wales Register, William is recorded as a boarder at the former Brook House on Brook Street, living with Alfred and Elizabeth Bryan. His profession then was described as "Heavy Farm Worker". William Gooding died in Exmoor c. 1955 (143).
Looking very small, Mary Jane Gooding is on the third row, the second child to the left of Mrs. Overmass. Born in 1884, on 28 October 1908 Mary Jane married Albert John Carter, the son of the village Constable, who gave his profession as "Innkeeper" (144). Indeed Mary Jane and her husband were the last proprietors of The Rose and Crown Inn on Brook Street before it closed in 1915. By that time, she and Albert were living in Wootton Courtenay and with the outbreak of World War I, Albert was serving with the Army Service Corps (145). After the war, Mr. Carter worked as a Jobbing Gardener in Wootton Courtenay and it is where Mary Jane Carter passed away in May 1971 (146).
Rosina (Rose) Coles stands on the left end of the 4th row, looking older than the other students and while standing directly behind Henrietta Bartram, she might be thought to be another teacher. Rosina was still a pupil, but aged 14, she is in her last year of school. Rosina was baptised at St. Petrock's on the 3rd of April 1874, the daughter of John and Emma (nee Mitchell) Coles (147). At the time of this photograph, she lived with her parents at Great House Farm on Church Street and was still with them on the 1901 Census. Emma Coles was nine years older than her husband and died in 1907 (148). In 1909, John Coles went to Taunton and returned, married to Jesse Abbott, 34 years his junior (149). Conceivably this could be why on the 1911 Census, Rosina has relocated to Finchley, Middlesex, living with and working as Domestic Housekeeper for her older sister, Emma Jane (nee Coles) Featherstone. Rosina eventually returned to West Somerset and passed away at the age of 57 while living in Alcombe (150).
Annie Tudball stands just to the right of Rosina Coles and her sister, Lucy Tudball is in the centre of third row, the 6th girl from the left end. They are the daughters of John and Emma (nee Mogford) Tudball. Born respectively in 1877 and 1878 (151), the girls were recorded as being from Luccombe, although the family lived at Harwood Cottages (later called Pero Cottage and East Harwood Cottage) on Harwood Lane, just southwest of Timberscombe. Indeed. Annie was baptised at Timberscombe on the 21st of October 1877 (152). Harwood Cottages were part of the estate of East Harwood Farm, considered to be in the parish of Luccombe, a village actually over four miles away from where the Tudball family lived. In 1883 East Harwood Farm and the Harwood Cottages became part of the civil Parish of Timberscombe (153) and thus is where Annie and Lucy would attend school.
Annie's full name was Sarah Ann Tudball. After leaving school she worked as a servant for Thomas and Edith Hensley at their grocer and draper shop at Combe House on Jubilee Terrace (154). At St. Petrock's Church on the 28th of May 1900, Annie married Walter George Cornish, a bricklayer from Minehead (155). Walter served with the Royal Army Corps during World War I, being discharged with disability in January 1919 (156). Continuing to work as a bricklayer, he and Annie settled at 31 Bampton Street in Minehead (157). Walter died in 1943 and Annie died in 1964 and they are buried together at the Minehead Cemetery (158).
Lucy Tudball moved in the other direction from Timberscombe, marrying Edwin Quick, a Labourer, in February 1903 at his hometown, Wootton Courtenay (159). They remained here, living at Ranscombe in 1911 and moving to No. 4 Council Home by 1939. Lucy died in 1966 and Edwin passed away in 1975 and they are buried together at All Saints Church in Wootton Courtenay (160).
Two younger brothers of Annie and Lucy are included in this photograph, identified as William and Sam Tudball. Both boys did attend Timberscombe School, but being born respectively in 1889 and 1892, they were not alive at the time of this photograph. The actual Tudball sons in this photograph, seated third and fourth from the right end of the second row, are George, born August 1881 and Thomas John, born on Christmas Day, 1884 (161). George was admitted to Timberscombe School on the 12th of April 1886. In November 1888, after some successive absences, Mr. Overmass wrote rather sarcastically that his parents' excuse was "Can't put on his boots"(162). In 1907 George married Frances Elan Pinburne from Plymouth and by the 1911 Census, they were living at Puck Cottage in Milton, Plymouth, while George was serving with the Royal Marine Artillery (163). George and Frances Tudball later moved to the house called Huntspill, in the Parks section of Minehead where George worked as a manservant, a position he held until his passing in December 1959 (164). He and his wife are buried together in the Minehead Cemetery (165).
Thomas John (Tom) Tudball was baptised on 20 January 1885 by his parents in Cutcombe, where Emma, his mother, was born. As a girl, she also lived at the Harwood Cottages, returning there after her marriage to raise her own children (166). By the 1901 Census, the Tudball family had moved to the nearby Bench Cottage, where Tom worked as a Carter, alongside his father. On the 29th of June 1904, Tom enlisted with the Coldstream Guards, returning to civilian life in 1907, while remaining as part of the army reserve. At the outbreak of World War I, he was called back to duty. By the 21st of August 1914, aged 31, Tom was in France, fighting in the first battle of Marne. On 25 January 1915, Private Thomas John Tudball was killed, along with 200 other men, when his battalion was attacked (167). He was buried at the Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery in Calais, France and awarded after death, the British War Medal and Victory Medal (168). In June 1915, his remaining effects were posted to "John", his father (169).
Brother and sister, Robert James (Jim) and Rhoda Quick, are in the photograph. They were the children of Robert Quick, a Farm Labourer born in Timberscombe and Mary (nee Pearce) Quick, born in Luxborough. Their family lived at Ford Cottage in Timberscombe (170). Jim is the 8th child from the left end of the fourth row. As "Robert James", Jim was baptised at St. Petrock's on the 12th of August 1877 (171). In October 1885, he, Rhoda and their older sister, Blanche were both very ill with Scarlet Fever and two younger brothers, seemingly George, born in 1884 and Thomas born in 1888, died of it (172). The following January, Jim had to leave school to go to Taunton, so as "to undergo an operation" (173). In June 1904, he married Emma Elizabeth Webber in Cutcombe, not to be confused with Emma Webber, his classmate. Jim's wife was the daughter of John and Mary Webber of Cutcombe (174). Sadly, Jim Quick died at Southwark, London in June 1908, at the age of 29 (175).
His sister, Rhoda, was born in April 1879 (176). She is on the third row, the 4th girl from the right of Miss Bartram. (Rhoda appears to have a page-boy styled haircut). She left Timberscombe school at the age of 12--no doubt to the disapproval of Mr. Overmass-- and worked as a housemaid for William and Eva Thorne in Timberscombe (177). On the 1901 Census, aged 22, she was employed as a servant in Clevedon. Rhoda Quick died at Market Harborough, Leicestershire (178).
Another brother and sister pictured here are William (Willie) Hole and Emily Hole, the 6th and 7th of (at least) the 10 children of Thomas and Mary (nee Blackmore) Hole. Mr. Hole was a Labourer at Beasley Farm where Willie and Emily partly grew up (179). Willie is the ninth child from the left end of the fourth row, seated to the left of a boy (Jim Winter), dressed in white. Born in 1879, after school Willie worked as a Labourer at both Burrow and Huntscott Farm in Wootton Courtney. The latter is likely where he met his wife. In July 1900, Willie married Eva Alice Baker, who boarded at Huntscott (180). By 1924, he and Eva left their home on Park Street in Minehead with three of their children, Violet, Cyril and Daisy and sailed to Quebec, Canada, where it appears they stayed (181). Eva passed away in 1954 and Willie died in 1961, both being buried at Brookside Cemetery in Winnipeg (182).
Emily Hole is in the third row, the 7th girl to the left of Mrs. Overmass (looking rather squeezed between two other girls). Born on the 5th of March 1881, she was only about a month old at the time of the census. On the 1891 Census, Emily was in Luccombe staying with her older sister, Elizabeth (nee Hole) Harris and her husband, Samuel Harris. Emily was probably there to help care for her sister and brother-in-law's new baby, also a month old and in his case, not yet named. On the 9th of December in 1901, Emily married Edward Rawle at Wootton Courtenay (183). By the 1911 Census they had settled at No. 64 Bampton Street, Minehead, where Edward was employed as a "Cab Driver (Not Domestic)", where in 1911, he was surely one of the first in Minehead to have that job. Mr. and Mrs. Rawle remained at 64 Bampton Street for much of the rest of their lives (184) . Edward died in 1947 and Emily died in 1957 (185).
There are five children with the surname of "Winter" in the photograph but from two (and possibly three) families. James (Jim) Winter is the aforementioned boy in white, the 3rd child seated on the right end of the 4th row. His brother, Sidney Winter is the 5th boy from the left end of the second row. Jim was baptised on 17 September 1876 at Kingsbrompton (later Brompton Regis) and Sidney was born in 1882 at Carhampton. They were the sons of John and Emma (nee Burgess) Winter, from, respectively, Kingsbrompton and Cutcombe (186). After leaving school at the age of 14, Jim worked for the Barton family at Westcott Farm in Luxborough but in 1901 both Jim and Sidney moved with their parents and all of their siblings--Eva, Harry, Eliza, Fred, Bessie, John and Tom--emigrating to Ebbw Vale in Monmouthshire, Wales, where John, the father and all of his sons worked in the coal mines. Jim returned to Chard, Somerset, where he died in 1917, aged 41 (187).
Sidney Winter also returned from Wales, presumably before 1907 when he married Ivy Slee from Dunster (188). Subsequently he had his own business as a Fishmonger in Minehead and he died in 1952 (189).
Eva Winter is one of the girls squeezing Emily Hole, the 7th girl in the third row, to the right of Miss Bartram. She is not the Eva Winter who went with John and Emma Winter's family to Wales. She and her brother, Robert Winter, the second boy seated from the right end of the front row, were the children of Thomas and Sarah (nee Pearce) Winter, both originally from Carhampton. Eva was born on the 16th of June 1882 and Robert was born 19 March 1880 (190). The family lived and worked at Beasley Farm around the time of this photograph. At Carhampton, on the 22nd of April 1907, Eva married George Herbert Tottle, a Railway Porter (191). By 1911, Mr. and Mrs. Tottle were living at 33 Harrow Road, Brislington, Bristol and Eva remained at Bristol until her death in 1954 (192).
Her brother, Robert, lived at 2 Victoria Terrace in Alcombe by 1911, where he worked as a Tanner and had married Elizabeth Annie Tame. By the 1939 England and Wales Register, Robert Winter was at the same address and with his same wife but had changed his profession to "Builder's Labourer". He passed away in Taunton in 1959 (193).
A girl in a pinafore is the last seated child on the right end of the fourth row (with three standing girls to her right, just behind Mrs. Overmass). She was identified as "Polly Winter". While Winter children were plentiful, there is no other record of a Polly Winter. It is probable "Polly" was a nickname and likely she is a member of one of the Winter families above. If so she could be Eliza Winter, born in 1880 to John and Emma and moved to Wales with the family, returning by 1898 to marry William Fox in Luxborough, later moving to Washford and died in 1977 (194). Also in the correct age range, the girl in the pinafore could be Elizabeth Mary Winter, born in Carhampton in 1879 to Thomas and Mary Winter. She married John Hunt, a Police Constable, in Carhampton and by 1939, they had moved to Torquay (195).
The tall girl in black, standing to the right of "Polly Winter" is more securely named Emma Glass, born 7 August 1874 to William Glass, a Gardener and Elizabeth Mary (nee Sedgebeer) Glass. Aged 14 in this photograph, she was probably in her last days of school (196). On the 19th of April 1897 Emma married a Labourer, Thomas Webber (197) and by 1901 they were living in Minehead where Mr. Webber had changed his profession to Gardener. The couple lived the rest of their lives in Minehead, moving to 15 Summerland Ave. and later to 9 Hemp Gardens, where as a widow, Emma died on the 4th of February 1958 (198).
On the right end of the same row and looking over the shoulder of Sam Overmass is Maud Hensley, the young woman who will soon turn her books over to him and announce she was finished with school. Her full name was Maud Merchant Hensley and her parents were Thomas Merchant Hensley, a Saddler/ Draper and Edith (nee Chave) Hensley, a Dressmaker, living at Combe House (also seen as "Coombe") on Jubilee Terrace. Maud's grandfather, George Hensley, listed as a Draper, still ran the shop located in Combe House's storefront --which in 1969 became the Timberscombe Post Office and also is the shop that in 1908 was taken over by the School Monitor, Henrietta Bartram after she married Robert Coles. It is not remembered now but this was likely Timberscombe's longest running shop, established by Thomas Merchant of Well Farm by 1841 and run by his four daughters. Three of them eventually went elsewhere, but Ann Merchant married George Hensley in 1842 when he was working as a Saddler at the Old Forge. The entry to his business was immediately across the street from her shop's door. They operated the shop the rest of their lives (199).
So likely when Maud Merchant Hensley left school, she knew she had employment, although at first she worked as a servant in Stogursey for a Mr. and Mrs. Rawlings (200). Still, she soon merged into the family business, marrying Alexander McColl Buchanan, a "Travelling Draper" from Yeovil, in April 1899 at St. Petrock's (201). In 1901, as Maud Buchanan, she was working in the Combe House shop with her parents and baby, Norman Thomas Buchanan, on the premises. Little Norman was born in 1900 at Yeovil, where his father was running his business (202). Maud and Alexander Buchanan almost seem a bridge to more modern times, travelling back and forth. Unfortunately Maud died in 1908, aged 33 and was buried in Yeovil (203).
Sarah Gould is the very erect-sitting little girl squeezing Emily Hole's right side, the 6th girl to the left of Mrs. Overmass, on the third row. Baptised at Timberscombe on the 18th of July 1880, Sarah was the daughter of William Henry and Jane (nee Tame) Gould (204). At the time of this photograph, the Gould family lived at Pitt Cottage (205). By 1901, Sarah worked as a "General Servant" in Durston, near Taunton, which is likely where she met her husband, John Loman, who gave his profession as "Plate Layer" when they married on the 25th of July 1901 at St. Mary's in Taunton (206). By the 1911 Census, Mr. Loman's job was more clearly defined as a Railway Labourer. He and Sarah continued to live in Durston, raising their daughters, Hilda and Gladys, until Sarah's passing at the age of 48, in July 1928 (207).
Just to the right of Sarah is Lilly Govier, born in Timberscombe on 18 November 1881 to William and Harriet (nee Blake) Govier (208). Lilly too, worked as a servant after leaving school. By 1901 she was employed by a widow and her daughter at 108 High Street in Dunster, where on the 15th of October 1904 she married George Gould (no direct relation to Sarah Gould) at St. George's Church. Her husband worked as a Mason (209) and on the 1911 Census they were living on Dunster's West Street. By 1939, George and Lilly Gould had relocated to Williton and on the 16th of November 1964, Lilly passed away while living at The Lodge (further described as an "Old Person's Home") in Wellington (210).
Maggie (Margaret) Huxtable, on the right end of the third row, just to the left of Mrs. Overmass is the only child out of the 75 pictured here, who died while still in school. On the 2nd of December 1889, Mr. Overmass wrote in the school's Log Book that "a sad and serious accident has occurred to one of our children (Maggie Huxtable) she having come in collision with a runaway pony + trap". On the 11th of December, Maggie "died from the effects of her accident" (211). The little girl had been born on the 22nd of December 1883 to John and Ann (nee Coles) Huxtable. The Huxtable family had lived at Brook Cottage (later called Pump Cottage and then Tiki Cottage) since before 1841 (212). The house was (and is) situated on Brook Street just before it turns south toward the village centre. Around 2020, Marion (nee Huxtable) Fewlass, the last Huxtable to live here before moving in the summer of 2021, recalled being told that a past relative had been killed in front of the house in such a manner. Maggie would have been the great great aunt of Mrs. Fewlass (213). Maggie Huxtable was buried on the 18th of December 1889 and years later her parents chose to be buried with their daughter (214).
Two brothers, Albert James Dart and William John Dart are the third and fourth boys seated from the left end of the second row. They were born respectively in 1883 and 1881 at Exton, Somerset to John and Bessie (nee Stevens) Dart, who were the proprietors of the village's public house, The Hare and Hounds (215 ) which was converted by 1927 to a private home, then called Church House (216). Mr. Dart also was the village blacksmith in Exton, the profession he continued when the family relocated to Cowbridge and maintained in 1901. By then, they had moved to Bridgwater, where they lived at Jubilee Terrace on Bath Road and the older brother, William was a "Pottery Worker".
During World War I, the younger brother, Albert served with the Army (217). In 1921, he had returned to Bridgwater, where he married Minnie Annie Elizabeth Greenslade (218). By 1939, Mr. and Mrs. Dart were at The Red House in Axbridge, where Albert was listed as "Grocer" and Minnie was "Manageress". Later they moved to Burnham-on-Sea, their home when Albert passed away in 1954 and Minnie died in 1964 (219).
William was no longer a Pottery Worker, listing himself as a Groom on 12 August 1907 when he married Gunhilda Gillard at West Monkton (220). On the 1911 Census and still working as a Groom, William and Gunhilda were at Ruishton, near Taunton, along with 2-year-old William Edward Dart. Toward the end of the next year, they had another son, Cyril James Dart, who died three months later (221). In 1915, William John Dart, aged 34, enlisted with the Durham Light Infantry, 13th Battalion (222). Private Dart served on the Western Front and on 27 December 1917, died of "Wounds from Battle" and was buried at the Giavera British Cemetery, at the Treviso district, Veneto, Italy (223).
Two other boys in the photograph were identified as "Jack Cowling" and "Nickel Cowling". They are not from the same immediate family and their surname was "Cowlin", although in earlier generations both families are sometimes listed as "Cowling". Jack was actually named Joshua John Cowlin. He was raised by his grandparents, John and Jane (nee Huxtable) Cowlin. The elder Mr. and Mrs. Cowlin had two sons and two daughter that were old enough to have been Jack's parents (224), but they are never revealed and Jack was with his grandparents from at least two years of age until he was old enough to leave home (225). Indeed on the 17th of April 1891, when Jack would have been 12, John Cowlin called on Sam Overmass, wondering if Jack could go ahead and leave school, where the boy was having a difficult time. Mr. Overmass, who often seems at war with various parents, writes of the meeting as a well-balanced discussion and John Cowlin left it saying he would have Jack back in class on Monday (226).
In the photograph, Jack, probably around 7-years-old, is the 5th boy from the right end of the second row. He was born on the 18th of November 1881 (227). After Jack did leave school, he first worked as a servant in Minehead (228). By the time he was 31-years-old, he was a servant and a waggoner at North Hawkwell Farm , employed by Frederick and Elizabeth Webber and in 1912 Jack married Matilda Bessie Greenslade at Brompton Regis (229). They had moved to Glamorganshire, Wales by 1917, where their son Harold was born, later settling in Cardiff, where Jack was a General Labourer and Cement Worker (230). Later in life, the family lived at 10 Burton Terrace, at East Aberthaw, Wales, where Jack Cowlin died in 1963 (231).
There seemed to be no indication of who "Nickel" Cowlin was, except that he was the boy seated third from the left end of the front row. However, he is William Cowlin, the only other Cowlin, besides Jack, mentioned at this time in the Log Book--and he was the 6th of the 10 children of Nicholas (hence the boy's possible nickname) and Elizabeth (nee Mogford) Cowlin, baptised 18 May 1879 at Cutcombe (232). While no direct connection to Jack and his grandparents, after leaving school, William (he seemed to leave "Nickel" behind) also worked as a Farm Labourer at North Hawkwell Farm, although earlier than Jack (233). Like so many in this era, William, his parents and most all of his siblings left for Wales. At Abersychan, Monmouthshire, in 1901, William Cowlin was a "Colliery Labourer (Below Ground)"--in the coal mines. At Pontypool. Monmouthshire, he married Alice Rose Aldridge (234). By the 1939 Register, William and Alice were at Feltham, Middlesex, England, where William was a Builder's Labourer and they were still here in 1965, living at 23 Vernon Road (235). William Cowlin's death was registered at Hounslow, Greater London in 1967 (236).
William (Willie) Wyburn is the last boy on the right end of the first row. Born on the 3rd of July 1879, he was baptised three days later at St. Petrock's by his parents, James and Betsy (nee Gamlin) Wyburn (237). Like so many of the children in 1886, Willie was very ill with Scarlet Fever --he was struck at the same time as William Hole, William Cowlin and William Winter (238). Willie Wyburn's family also relocated to Wales, in their case to Ystradyfodwg, Glamorganshire. On the 1901 Wales Census, his father and his brother, James, were both labouring in the coal mines, although Willie was a "Tea Seller/ Grocer". At some point he emigrated to Canada, where in October 1919 he married Ellen Elizabeth Crouch at Vancouver, British Columbia (239). She was born in East Sussex. Willie died on the 26th of February 1930, aged 51 . He was buried in Vancouver's Meadow View Cemetery, as was his wife at her death in August 1988. On Ellen's gravestone, in large letters, is "FROM ENGLAND" (240).
On the opposite left end of the front row, sitting on the ground and looking forlorn is Bessie Parkman Grabham, the daughter of William Grabham, the village blacksmith working at the Old Forge in Timberscombe and his wife Mary Ann (nee Parkman) Grabham. Mr. Grabham, originally from Otterford, Somerset, had met and married Miss Parkman in Dunster in 1882 and Bessie was born 29 May 1883 in Curry Rivel, Somerset, before the family came to Timberscombe (241).
Bessie Grabham has already been mentioned. She and her future husband are the only children in this photograph to marry each other. He too is sitting on the front row, James Blackmore, third from the right end. On the 28th of January 1914, when she was 30 and James was 33, they married at St. Petrock's (242). At that time, James was already working as a carpenter in Porlock, where they moved to Hill View Farm on Parson Street and remained until their deaths, James Blackmore in 1945 and Bessie Blackmore in 1939 (243). They are buried together in Porlock (244).
Bessie is the last of the students posing along the northern wall of Timberscombe School, but also attending school and living at School House, the semi-detached residence for the Head Teacher and family were Walter Seaton Overmass, standing on the right with his father holding his shoulders and Clarence Norman Overmass, seated on his mother's lap (245).
Walter Overmass was born the 22nd of May 1881 at Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northhumberland, at which time Samuel Overmass was Schoolmaster at West Maften in Northumberland (246). Three years after his father's death in 1904, Walter married Emelie A Le Chevalier at Brentford, Middlesex, London (247). The couple remained in the London area. By 1911, Walter was Salesman and they lived on Grays Inn Road at St. Pancras and he passed away in 1954 at Chelsea (248).
Clarence Overmass was born and baptised in Timberscombe in 1884 (249). During August 1906, Clarence enlisted with the 18th Queen Mary's Own Hussars. Eleven days after the outbreak of World War I, on the 15th of August 1914, he extended his service, remaining with the Hussars (250). Between the 15th and the 18th of October 1916, Sergeant Clarence Overmass died (251). He had been discharged on 16 May 1916 as "no longer fit for service" (252). It is not clear exactly how or where he died but on the 11th of November 1918, "Sgt. Clarence N. Overmass" was listed on the ROLL OF INDIVIDUALS as entitled to a Victory Medal and the British War Medal granted under Army Orders (253). Mary Ann Overmass applied to the British Army for a Clasp, in respect to her son's service. A Clasp was given on a medal to denote participation in a major ground conflict, implying Clarence had been wounded in battle, resulting in his later death. The Clasp was issued to his mother in February 1920 (254).
Clarence was buried at the Bromley Hill Cemetery in the London Borough of Bromley, with his gravestone engraved"CLARENCE NORMAN OVERMASS, SERGEANT 18th (QUEEN MARY'S OWN) HUSSARS WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY 15 OCTOBER 1916 AGED 32" (255).
Tom Tudball, raised in Timberscombe, killed in 1915, is rightly on the World War I wooden memorial plaque inside St. Petrock's Church. So is Frank Chapman, dead in 1914, the younger brother of Arthur, Sarah Ann and Emma Chapman, all pictured in this photograph. Willie Dart, raised in Cowbridge, educated at Timberscombe School, dead of his wounds in 1917 and Clarence Overmass, born and baptised in Timberscombe and who grew up at School House in Timberscombe but whose life was lost in 1916, are not.
On the 19th page, among the book's discoveries, was this photograph of the schoolchildren at Timberscombe School with "The School in 1889? Samuel Overmass was Headmaster for 22 years" handwritten under it. Below that is, amazingly, an almost complete list identifying the students pictured at the school, including George Welch, George Yeandle, Emma Glass, Alice Gooding and Sarah Chapman. Their last day at Timberscombe School was 23 April 1888. And on the 9th of March 1888, Maud Hensley, who had been absent for the previous three weeks, marched into the school, turned in her books and said she was leaving. As Maud was about to turn 14-years-old, Mr. Overmass would not have had much to say about it. All of these students are represented in this photograph, suggesting it was taken at least during or before February 1888 (1). Whatever the exact date, this is the oldest known surviving photograph of Timberscombe schoolchildren, linking them to the village's generations past and yet to come.
On page 274 of the school's Log Book, Samuel (Sam) Small Overmass wrote "Jan-rd 9th, 1882, I, Samuel Overmass take charge of this Mixed School, with fairly good attendance". He would serve here until his sudden death at the age of 48 on 21 February 1904 (2). Hired with Mr. Overmass, as "Schoolmistress", was his wife, Mary Ann (nee Taylor) Overmass. At the death of her husband and his burial at St. Petrock's Churchyard in Timberscombe, Mary Ann Overmass continued to run the school until Mr. John Talbot was able to take over as the new Schoolmaster (3).
Mr. and Mrs. Overmass had married at West Ham, Essex, London in 1880 (4). Sam Overmass is visible standing on the right side of the photograph seen here, with his hands on the shoulders of their son, Walter Seaton Overmass. Mary Ann is seated to their left, with their second son, Clarence Norman Overmass. Both boys were enrolled as "scholars" in the school at the time of this photograph (5). Two daughters, Hilda May and Olive Millicent were also born in Timberscombe, respectively in 1890 and 1894 and would also attend Timberscombe School (6).
Seated on the left side of the photograph is another adult woman (with a sort of scarf at her neck). She was Henrietta Bartram, born in 1868, the youngest of the 10 daughters of Timberscombe's Policeman, George Bartram and his wife, Charlotte Grace (nee Davey) Bartram (7). While Sam Overmass was Schoolmaster, the yearly Inspection Report listed Henrietta as "H. Bartram", the "School Monitor" and sometimes working with the Infants, despite suffering from rheumatism (8). In 1908 she married Robert Coles and until her death in 1924, they ran the Grocer and Draper Shop at Combe (also seen as "Coombe") House on Jubilee Terrace, at the storefront that in 1969 became Timberscombe's Post Office (9).
Standing on the left end of the back row is Thomas (Tom) Ferris, baptised 17 November 1876 in Dulverton, the son of Thomas James and Elizabeth (nee Bowden) Ferris (10). The elder Thomas was a farm labourer who moved his family between Dulverton, Timberscombe and Carhampton. Tom had a younger brother, John (Jack) Ferris, born in Timberscombe in 1880 (11), who is also in this photograph, the boy seated fourth from the left end of the fourth row. (Actually he is seated somewhat between the fourth and third row, wearing a white jacket.) Jack died when he was 16-years-old (12). Tom left school later in the same year of this photograph, which may have been fine with Mr. Overmass, who on 2 March 1888 recorded "Thomas Ferris-- a complete failure "(13).
Nevertheless Tom found work as a servant for the Cole family in Timberscombe and later became a hedger (14). By the 1901 Census, he had married Eliza Mitchell from Exton and they lived at Ford Cottage in Timberscombe, where Tom became an avid bellringer, as pictured on SP-067. Eliza died in 1904 and in 1917, Tom Ferris married Alice Sloman (or sometimes seen as "Slocombe"), known to most as "Nurse", being the local district nurse for many years. They lived at Gammins Cottage in Wootton Courtenay, where Tom Ferris died in 1961 (15).
Mr. Overmass was not pleased with Thomas White either, the boy standing to the right of Tom Ferris. Also called Tom, he was born c. 1877 in Timberscombe to Thomas, a thatcher and Elizabeth (nee Court) White. In 1885, when he was around 8-years-old, Tom White was awarded a book (titled "Distant Homes") for good attendance. Yet by August 1886, Mr. Overmass was having severe disagreements with Tom's parents who wanted continual leave of absences for the boy to help with the thatching. Such disputes continued for the rest of Tom's time at school, to the point that at the end of 1887, Mr. Overmass wrote Tom's multiple absences had rendered him "disgracefully irregular--any talking to the parents on the subject is quite useless" (16).
Hopefully Mr. Overmass thought more of Tom's younger sister, Clara White, the third little girl seated in the third row to the left of Mrs. Overmass. (Clara wears a dark collar around her neck). Clara White was baptised at Timberscombe in 1882 and by the 1911 Census, appears to be working as a servant in Hampstead and possibly emigrated to the United States (17). After school, Tom White did continue his father's work as a thatcher and farm labourer, marrying Florence Mary Harvey in 1900 at St. Petrock's. On the 1921 Census, he and Florence lived and farmed at Kiln Farmhouse in Timberscombe, with three of their children, Mary, Tom and Margaret . Tom White died in Exmoor, across the Devon border, in 1943 (18).
The boy to the right of Tom White apparently is Francis George Kingsbury, born 22 February 1877 at West Quantoxhead, where his father, John Kingsbury, farmed the 170 acre Weacombe Farm (19). It is not clear why George came to attend Timberscombe School in 1888. His father and mother, Mary (nee Date) Kingsbury were both raised in Watchet (20). By the 1891 Census, George was still at Weacombe Farm, but had left by the 1901 Census and for good reason (21). On the 27th of May 1902 he was in the United States where he married Anna Marilla Burkholder in Chicago. George Kingsbury died in 1964, while living in Lansing, Michigan (22).
To the right of George is William Henry Townsend, also the son of the owners of a large farm, East Harwood (225 acres in 1881) on the southwestern edges of Timberscombe. Indeed four of William (William Henry's father) and Mary Ann (nee Bishop) Townsend's children (and one niece) are in this photograph. William Henry was their eldest child, baptised at St. Petrock's on 26 March 1875. Albert (Bertie) Edward Townsend, baptised 18 May 1882, is the second boy from the right end of the second row (starting to the left of Mrs. Overmass). Baptised on 6 December 1884, Leonard JamesTownsend, is in centre of the front row, 6th from the right (23).
Their father, William Townsend, died at the age of 52, on the 30th of July 1897 when he fell from his horse (24). Perhaps a result of this is evident on the 1901 Census, when the three brothers, seen in this photograph, were boarding together on Canonbury Road in Islington, London and working as agricultural labourers. On the 1st of March in the same year, Bertie enlisted with the Imperial Yeomanry Metropolitan Mounted Rifles, serving in South Africa until September 1902 (25). Their other brother, John Bishop Townsend, born in 1880 (not pictured in the photograph) was farming East Harwood, at first with their mother, Mary Ann, until she retired to Wachet with her second daughter, Beatrice Mary (baptised the 1st of January 1879), as her companion. Mother and daughter later moved to Northway House on Kingston Road in Taunton (26). Mary Ann's eldest child, William Henry (the boy in the back row), had returned to East Harwood and died there in 1904 at the age of 29. He was buried at St. Petrock's (27).
By 1916, Bertie and Leonard emigrated to Canada (28). Bertie Townsend did return to live at Teignmouth, Devon, then died in Birmingham in July 1950, leaving a widow, Lizzie Townsend (28). It appears that Leonard remained in Canada, although when he sailed from Nova Scotia to London in January 1957, he gave his British address as "Northway, Taunton" (29).
Two girls, both in darker dresses, stand together, 4th and 5th from the right end of the 5th row. They are identified as "Jenny Townsend" (on the left) and "Annie Townsend". "Jenny" is Laura Jane Townsend, the first daughter of William and Mary Ann Townsend, baptised 6 November 1876 (30). In 1910 she married Richard Giles Thorne in Watchet and by the 1939 England and Wales Register, she and her husband also both lived at Northway in Taunton. It is not clear if they lived here with Jenny's mother and sister, who both died at Northway in December 1930, within three days of each other (31). Jenny Thorne died here in 1954, as had her husband in 1950 (32).
"Annie Townsend" in the photograph is not Jenny's sister, Beatrice Mary but is her cousin, Elizabeth Ann Townsend, born in 1877, the daughter of John and Betsy (nee Dascombe) Townsend. In Timberscombe, her father had been the miller at the Old Mill, a butcher and a farmer and was an older brother of William, Jenny's father (33). In 1901, Annie Townsend was a patient and housemaid at the District Metropolitan Asylum of Northern London but by the 1911 Census and the 1939 Register she was working as an Assistant Nurse in Suffolk. Later, Annie was back at Timberscombe, living at Owey View in Cowbridge, where she died in 1965 (34).
George Henry Welch stands in the centre of the back row and his sister, Harriet Louise (called "Cissy" at school) Welch is the second girl from the right end of the 4th row--she is directly behind Mrs. Overmass. Born respectively in 1873 at Birkenhead, Cheshire and in 1875 at Islington, London (35), while attending Timberscombe School George and Harriet lived at Knowle House with their parents, Thomas and Emily Welch. Mr. Welch was the Coachman for Worsley Battersby, who had purchased the Knowle Estate c.1885 (36). On the 1891 Census, George also worked at Knowle House as a Gardener and Harriet listed herself as a Dressmaker. Mr. Battersby died in 1896 (37) and by 1901, the Welch family was in the Clifton District of Bristol, Gloucestershire, where Thomas was a Groomer and Coachman and George worked as a Coachman. However by 1904, in West Yorkshire, George, then a labourer, was arrested for "Begging" and went to prison for 10 days (38). Harriet worked as a servant in St. Pancras, London (39). Her brother was buried 4 November 1933 at Holy Trinity in Horfield, Bristol, near where their parents would be buried (40).
The youngest three of the nine children of Robert and Eliza (nee Morle) Williams are in this photograph, with Francis (Frank) Williams fourth from the left end of the back row. Emma Williams is standing to the left of Jenny Townsend (sixth from the right end of the fifth row) and Alice Maud Williams is peeking out, fourth from the right end of the third row (starting to the left of Mrs. Overmass). By 1888, the family lived on No. 1 Jubilee House (as called then and to the right of Combe House), where Robert worked as a Cordwainer (a boot and shoe maker) (41).
Frank Williams was born c. 1875 in Timberscombe. Throughout his entire time at Timberscombe School he was in trouble, often caught stealing and running away. Apparently Frank's problems were not just at school, as on the 8th of July 1881, his mother rushed into the classroom and beat the 6-year-old boy with a stirrup leather during the first lesson (42). By 1891, like so many young men and their families from the Timberscombe area looking for employment, Frank Williams was working as a coal miner at Langynwyd, Glamorgan, Wales. Frank, aged 16, was boarding there with George Wyburn, aged 18 and who had left Timberscombe School a couple of years before Frank. By the 1901 Census, Frank worked as "asst. storekeeper" at the Hertfordshire County Lunatic Asylum and in 1911, he was still "asst. storekeeper" but also a "patient" at Hertford Convalescent Home at West Hill, Leonards on Sea. After that Frank Williams disappeared.
His sisters had better lives. Emma Williams was born 1877. In 1901 she went to St. Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, to work as a servant but by 1911 was back in Timberscombe at her parent's location (later re-addressed as No. 3 Jubilee Terrace), running a "Boot, Shoe and Fancy Goods Shop". She married James Jeffery, a part-time Methodist minister in 1918 (43). Emma died in 1940 but her husband continued to run the shop, now known as "Jeffery's-- where anything could be found" until his death in 1953 (44).
Alice Maud Williams, born in 1880, married the well known photographer, Herbert John (Bert) Hole, at St. Petrock's on 28 July 1902 (45). Alice managed her husband's studio on Swain Street in Watchet and raised five children there. Bert Hole died in 1915 and Alice later ran the Swain Street location as a Tobacco Shop (46). Alice Maud Hole passed away at the age of 90 in 1971 at Portsmouth, Hampshire. SP-149 and SP-326 are variations of a pre-1900 photograph, credited as taken by Herbert Henry Hole, the father of Bert, of the storefront at No. 3 Jubilee Terrace with Robert and Eliza Williams in front (he holds a shoe), along with two of their daughters and one son, very likely Frank..
Third from the right end of the back row, seemingly with his arms crossed, is Frank Luxton, born c. 1875 (47). On the 1881 Census, he was entered as "grandson", living in the centre of Timberscombe with his grandparents, George, a tailor and Caroline (nee Winter) Edwards and Frank's mother, Lucy Edwards, a dressmaker. On the 1871 Census, 14-year-old Lucy had gone to Bristol to live with her 19-year-old sister, Rhoda, a "Staymaker"-- a corset-maker. Frank was born in Bristol. On the 22nd of October 1888, Mr. Overmass sent a message to the Edwards' home wanting to know if Frank had left school as he had not been there since the 1st of October. An uncle replied he didn't know (48).
By 1891, Lucy was in Bedminster, married to a Blacksmith, Robert Parkman and the mother of a newly born Hilda Parkman. Also in the household, listed as "Lodger" was her son, 16-year-old Frank Luxton. He later returned to Bristol, where he worked as a Box Maker (for packing) and had a wife, Ellen and a daughter, Gertrude (48). The three of them relocated to Cardiff where Frank became the Overseer of a Flour Mill (49). It appears that by 1921 , Frank Luxton had emigrated to Wentworth, Ontario, Canada (50).
Three of the children of a carpenter, George Blackmore and his wife Elizabeth (nee Hale) Blackmore, are in this photograph, who followed their older brother and sister, John, and Emily in attending Timberscombe School. (John can be seen at SP-208 as a member of the St. Petrock's choir in 1885--as was Sam Overmass.) The junior George Blackmore, born in Luxborough in 1878, stands in the back row to the right of Frank Luxton, Martha Alice Blackmore is third from the left end of the 4th row--her dark hair (all of the Blackmore children have dark hair) is pulled back-- and James Blackmore sits on the ground, third from the right end of the front row.
The Blackmore family lived at Hole's Square (51), in the house that would later be known as The Studio and in 2022 was renamed Finnbar. On the 3rd of October 1887, after a day of songs, Mr. Overmass told George Blackmore he had no voice and "not to attempt to sing", which presumably no one ever said to John Blackmore, the choir member. George's (and Frank Williams') last day at Timberscombe School was 31 March 1889 (52). Returning to Luxborough, George worked as a "Farm Servant"at Westcott Farm and by 1903 was in Bristol where he married Kate Ellen Weeks (53). George Blackmore was a Railroad Guard by 1911, a position he held for many years and he died in Bristol in 1950 (54).
James Blackmore was born in 1880 and like his father, worked as a carpenter (55). James married Bessie Parkman Grabham in 1914 at St. Petrock's (56). He died in 1945 and James and his wife are buried together in Porlock (57). Martha Alice, who was called "Alice", was born the 4th of March 1875 and after leaving school ,worked as a housemaid for at least 15 years in Oxfordshire (58). Here is where Alice likely met Elizabeth Buy, also working there as a housemaid and in 1904, Alice returned to Timberscombe to marry John Buy, a blacksmith and Elizabeth's brother (59). John and Alice Buy eventually lived in Wandsworth, London, where John died in 1936 (60). On the 1939 England and Wales Register, Alice had moved to Abington, Berkshire, living with her sister-in-law, now Elizabeth Surman and her husband, Arthur. Alice died later in the year (61).
A smaller boy stands on the right end of the back row. He is George Yeandle, born in Timberscombe in 1878. There are three other boys in the photograph with the same surname, Walter Yeandle, William Yeandle and Albert Yeandle. The latter two are brothers and all four are cousins with convoluted family connections. George appears as a three-year-old on the 1881 Census, identified as the grandson of 78-year old Thomas Yeandle, a widower and Cordwainer. Mr. Yeandle's wife, Jane (nee Chapman) had died in 1877. Two grand-daughters, 10-year-old Ellen and 7-year-old Rose are also listed and completing the household are Thomas Yeandle's daughters, 52 year-old Mary Ann Yeandle and 49-year-old Eliza Yeandle, both listed as Washerwomen (62).
They were interesting women. Eliza was the mother of George, Ellen and Rose. In 1849, her sister, Mary Ann had a baby boy, James Yeandle who died two years later after which Mary Ann bore Thomas (1857), Harriet (1873) and Emma Yeandle in 1876. Eliza's first child, Ellen Yeandle was born in 1871 when Eliza was 39-years-old. Ellen appears to have had a twin sister, Emma Yeandle, who died when she was 5-years-old --the same year Mary Ann 's daughter, also named Emma Yeandle, was born (63). By the 1891 Census, George's sisters, Ellen and Rose, had left Timberscombe at young ages to work as servants. George was 13-years-old, had finished school, was working as an agricultural labourer and lived with his 61-year-old mother, Eliza---although she now identified herself as his aunt.
In 1901 George Yeandle worked as a servant at the Vicarage in Cutcombe and a year later, now a Gardener and a Groom, he married Alice Mary Baker at the Cutcombe Church (64). By 1911 George was a Market Gardener and he and Alice Mary lived at Ruby Cottage in Alcombe, which remained their home until his death in October 1938 (65). His mother, Eliza had died in 1907, aged 80 and living at the Union Workhouse on Long Street in Williton (still in use as private residences) and was buried at St. Petrock's in Timberscombe (66).
Eliza and Mary Ann Yeandle's younger brother was Robert, born in Timberscombe and baptised in January 1833 (67). Robert worked as a servant in Bampton when he was 18-years-old but by the age of 28, he had returned to Timberscombe working as an Agricultural Labourer, married Harriet (nee Chapman) and lived at Pitt Cottage, on the southeastern edge of Timberscombe (68), where his first son, Thomas, was born in 1855.
By the 1881 Census, Robert and Harriet had moved into the village with a 3-year-old grandson, "Willie Yeandle", born 8 November 1877 (69). It is not clear who were the parents of "Willie". On the 1891 Census, Robert (then working as a Road Contractor) and Harriet still have a 13-year-old grandson living with them, now identified as Walter John Yeandle but who is likely the child called "Willie" in 1881 and appears in this photograph on the 4th row, 5th from the right end (wearing a dark jacket, directly in front of Annie Townsend). In 1904, aged 27, Walter John Yeandle married Bessie Shire in Pitminster, Somerset, where he listed his grandfather, Robert as his "father" (70). His grandmother, Harriet Yeandle had died in 1902 but at the age of 78 in 1911, Robert Yeandle still lived with Walter and Bessie. Walter also worked as a Road Contractor and was later promoted to Road Foreman, when he and Bessie lived at No. 1 Jubilee House on Jubilee Terrace (71). Walter John Yeandle lived until 1954 (72).
The aforementioned eldest son of Robert and Harriet Yeandle, Thomas Yeandle, married Sarah Bowden in 1875 at Timberscombe (73). Their eldest son was William Henry Yeandle, baptised in April 1880 in Wootton Courtenay (74), followed on Christmas Day 1881 by Albert Yeandle. William Henry is the last boy seated on the right end of the second row (with Mrs. Overmass to his right). Albert is on the same row, the second boy on the left end. On the 1881 Census, their family lived in Timberscombe, almost next door to Robert and Harriet Yeandle and by 1891, they were neighbours to Eliza and George Yeandle. Likely all of these related families were in and out of each other's homes. William Henry worked as a Coachman and married Annie Cross in 1903 at Tavistock (75). They later moved to Harborne, Birmingham where William died in 1935 (76). Albert signed up with the Royal Navy in 1897, serving on the ship, Impregnable, and by 1901 was boarding in Bilbrook, working as a Groom and Gardener (77). In 1927 he married Susan Manley at Williton and died in 1939 (78).
The little girl on the left end of the 5th row is Bessie Hurford. While "Bessie" was a popular name in this era, her given name was Elizabeth Ann Hurford, born in July 1877 to George and Elizabeth (nee White) Hurford. Both parents were born in Timberscombe and George was a Shoemaker, the son of John (also a Shoemaker, born in Timberscombe as well) and Elizabeth (nee Pike) Hurford (79). Bessie's parents had married in 1871 at St. Petrock's and her sister, Minnie, had been born in 1873 (80). When attending Timberscombe School, Headmaster Overmass complained repeatedly about the absence of both girls, even charting in 1882 that Bessie had missed 18 days out of a possible 37. Minnie was even worse. She missed 21. Yet Mr. Overmass also wrote that the girls missed school "as had to keep house as Mrs. Hurford is dead" (81). Indeed Elizabeth Hurford had died in May 1879, before Bessie was even 2-years-old (82). When Bessie left school in 1888, she had just turned 11, three years younger than Mr. Overmass would have liked. Minnie also left young and went on to work as a servant in Minehead (83). Bessie married Thomas Kirby, a Blacksmith's Striker, in 1903 at Swindon (84) and she passed away in October 1966, while living in Birmingham (85).
To the right of Bessie is Eva Jane Floyde, born in March 1877. Her brother, William (known as Willie and Bill at various ages) Floyde is the 6th boy from the left end of the second row (his face is almost flashed out against the white outfits of the girls seated behind him). William was born in September 1878. He and Eva Jane were the children of William Henry Floyde, a Stone Mason and Alice (nee Hale) Floyde. At the time of this photograph, the Floyde family likely lived on the left side of two semi-detached residences on Brook Street (the site of the future Brook Cottage), where it curves southward toward the village's centre (86).
William Henry Floyde died in 1898 and it seems that his widow and their son, William, moved a short walk to the left into a smaller house, The Retreat (later Ivy Cottage), semi-detached to Berrowcote, where the Village Post Office was situated. Eva Jane was living and working as a domestic servant, probably by this time at Knowle House on the northeastern edge of Timberscombe. By 30 December 1899, 22-year-old William had purchased the post office and possibly to secure an ongoing income for his family, conveyed its ownership to himself, his mother and his sister (87). They never lived there (the post office was occupied and run by Mrs. Mary Lyddon) and William's mother, Alice moved into Rose Cottage, just behind the post office, where she worked as a Sick Nurse until her passing in 1917 (88). Eva Jane continued working at Knowle House and by 1911 was a housemaid in Oxfordshire (89). Like his father, William became a Stone Mason and built a house for himself and his wife, Minnie (also seen as "Minna"). Called Hill View, it was at the junction of Great House Street and Willow View Lane. William later demolished and replaced it with two cottages, No. 1 Willow View for himself and his wife and No. 2 Willow View for their daughter, Joyce Marguerite Floyde. William Floyde also was a constant on the Timberscombe football and cricket teams (90).
Ironically later in life, Eva Jane and her brother both did some postal work. William and Minnie semi-retired to Williton, where he worked as a Sub Post Master. Eva Jane returned to Timberscombe and moved into Rose Cottage, where her mother had lived. She is remembered for making and selling ice cream there but also became a Post Office Deliverer, recalled as a small, elderly woman in dark clothes carrying a mail bag from door to door (91). William died on Christmas Day 1947, back at Willow View and Eva died at Rose Cottage in August 1949 (92).
Annie Webber stands third from the left end of the 5th row with Emma Webber, Annie's (at least half) sister, sixth from the left. Annie's full name was given as Anne Davis Webber when she was baptised at St. Petrock's in 1877. Her mother was listed as Mary Ann Webber, a "single woman" (93). On the 1881 Census, 4-year-old Annie Davis Webber lived with 57-year-old Robert Webber and 58-year-old Ann Webber, her grandparents (94). Also with them was 3-year-old Emma, born in Timberscombe in 1881 to Mary Ann and also identified as "grand-daughter" to Robert and Ann. (On the 1891 Census, the girls' mother, 32-year-old Mary Ann Webber, was listed as a "visitor" to Tom Wyburn, a 24-year-old farmer at his farm in Exton. She was accompanied by Ida, William, James, Arthur, George and Florence, aged from 11 to 2 , all listed as a "visitor" and with the surname "Webber". Mary Ann Webber and Tom Wyburn married on 3 May 1891, remaining together until their respective deaths in 1950 and 1946 and are buried with each other at St. Nicolas Churchyard in Withycombe (95).
By 1891 and when she was 14, Annie Davis Webber was working as a servant for the Greenslade family at Parsonage Farm in Luxborough but by 1901, now named Annie Bartlett, she was a Housekeeper for her uncle, Thomas Webber, a Hawker (a seller of wares, usually pushing a handcart and calling out what was being sold) and the eldest child of Robert and Ann Webber (96). Annie's husband was Joseph Bartlett, originally from High Ham, Somerset and who worked as "Guard of Trains"(97). By the 1911 Census their address was Uxbridge Terrace in Notting Hill, London and Annie Bartlett died in 1949 at Islington, London (98). It appears that Emma Webber had moved to 38 Acres Cottage in Wellington, Somerset by 1911 and before 1950 had emigrated and lived at Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York in the United States (99).
Standing near the front of Annie Webber is Charles (Charley) Webber, the 5th child from the left in the 4th row--his hair is parted at the middle of his head. There is no clear connection between him and Annie or Emma Webber. Charley was the youngest child of William Henry and Mary Ann (nee Hobbs) Webber. On the 6th of September 1886, Mr. Overmass reported Charley and his brothers, James, Thomas, John and William to the Attendance Officer for excess absence, although Overmass conceded it was not always easy for them getting to school as these boys were "living at Clicket, about two miles from Timberscombe Village" (100).
While Clicket remains a mystery on why it was abandoned, the ongoing life of Charley Webber can be traced. Born in 1878, Charley's address while at school was indeed Clicket. However by the 1891 Census, the entire family was living in Timberscombe, with William Henry and all of his sons, including 13-year-old Charley, working as Agricultural Labourers. Charley married Rosa Webb in 1901 at Winsford and by 1911, they lived at 15 Victoria Terrace in Alcombe (101). Charles Webber died in August 1932, by which time he and Rosa had relocated to Manor Farm in Alcombe (102).
Siblings, Sarah Ann, Rosina and Arthur William Chapman were the 5th, 6th and 7th of the 12 children of William and Sarah (nee Bowering) Chapman. Sarah Ann is the 4th girl standing from the left end of the 5th row, with Rosina being the last girl on the right end of the same row. Born in 1876, on the 1891 Census, at the age of 15, Sarah Ann was working as a servant for the Colley family in Chelsea, London. Sarah Ann likely secured this position as she would have known Florence Brewer, a member of the Brewer family in Timberscombe and a niece of the Colley family--and who was also visiting at their house at the time of the census. Sarah Ann stayed on in London and ten years later worked for Mrs. Martha Mason in Kensington (103). After that details of her life are murky--she possibly died in 1945 and was buried at Coggeshall, Essex. (104).
Rosina (also known as "Rose") Chapman's life is easier to detail. Born in January 1878 and at the age of 13, Rosina had left Timberscombe School and worked as a servant for the Reed family in Wootton Courtenay (105). Like her sister, in 1901 she was employed as a servant in London (106). She however returned to Timberscombe, possibly at the passing of her father, William, who died in July 1910 (107). By 1901, her parents had moved to Pitt Cottage, just southwest of Timberscombe and Rosina moved in with her mother, Sarah, now 65 years old and began work as a Charwoman (108). At St. Petrock's Church on Christmas Day 1911, 34-year-old Rosina Chapman, married 24-year-old Ernest Clatsworthy, a Farm Carter (109). They were living on Great House Street when Rosina Clatworthy died in 1952 (110).
Born in October 1881, Arthur William Chapman is the 4th child from the left end of the front row. After leaving school, Arthur had remained at Pitt Cottage, working as a Farm Carter with his father (111). On the 4th of February 1902, he married Harriet (nee Slade) Evitt, a young widow (112). During World War I, Arthur served with the Royal Engineers (113). A younger brother to Arthur, Sarah Ann and Emma, Francis (Frank) Chapman, born in 1887, was killed in the war on the 13th of September 1914 at the first Battle of Aisne in France (114). By 1939, Arthur and Harriet lived on the Williton Road, where he worked as a Road Stone Quarrier (115). Arthur William Chapman died at Exmoor in 1957 (116).
The 5th girl from the left on the 5th row has been identified as "Caroline Dorey." This is likely a mistake. Caroline Dorey, the daughter of James Dorey, a Hawker by profession and his wife Hannah Maria (nee Maunder) Dorey did attend Timberscombe School but in 1888, Caroline was only two years old. She had three older sisters, Sabina, Eliza and Louisa Dorey, all admitted to the school on 23 May 1882 --although Eliza actually arrived too late to be registered that day (117). Sabina was born in 1868 and Eliza was born in 1869, so both would have left Timberscombe School before this photograph was taken. Baptised at St. Petrock's on the 25th of April 1879 (118), Louisa is likely the girl in this photograph. Sadly little else is known about her. On the 6th of May 1889, Louisa stayed away from school because she had the mumps (119) and on 7 November 1890, she missed some days at school because she had been away helping her father, "with the cart" (120) but there are no verified records of her after that.
Two Dorey sons are in this photograph. Stephen Dorey, baptised at Timberscombe on Christmas, 1877 (121) is the 7th child from the left of the 4th row. On the 13th of September 1883, Sam Overmass had to "administer corporal punishment" to Stephen for stealing apples and on 24 June 1889, 12-year-old Stephen informed Mr. Overmass he was leaving school to work with his father (122)--apparently on "the cart". Stephen Dorey died when he was 18-years-old and was buried at St. Petrock's in July 1895 (123).
The youngest Dorey son, born in 1884, is the small boy, 5th from the right of the first row. He was named Moses. (An elder Dorey son, born in 1872, was named Solomon, who is pictured in the 1885 photograph, at SP-208, of the St. Petrock's choir, along with Mr. Overmass.) In 1907, Moses was in St. Thomas, Devon where he married Frances Pepperall, born in nearby Exminster (124) . Moses worked in Exminster as an attendant at the Devon County Lunatic Asylum (125). From 1914 to 1920, he served with distinction. enrolled in the Second Dragoon Guards (126). By the time of the 1939 England and Wales Register, Moses was with Frances and their son, Clarence, back in Exminster, still working at the Asylum but promoted to "Head Male Mental Nurse". Moses Dorey died in January 1959 living at Ferndale in Exminster (127).
The tall girl in the centre of the 5th row (7th from the left end) is Emma Jane Butland, born at Carhampton in 1876 to James and Eliza (nee Clatworthy) Butland. Her father was originally from Cornworthy, Devon and her mother was born in Cutcombe and by May 1882, when Emma Jane began school, her family was living and farming at Croydon Farm (128). By the 1901 Census, Emma had married Philip Edward Durham, also a farmer and in the same year it seems they and most all of Emma's family emigrated to Canada (129). Emma Durham died in 1944 and was buried with her husband in Manitoba (130).
Third from the right end of the 5th row, the girl with a fringe is Emma Cane and to her right is Alice Gooding. Both girls were among the sicker children in 1884 when the school had to be closed for a week because of Scarlet Fever (131). Emma was baptised in Dunster on 21 October 1877 as the daughter of Thomas, a Labourer and Elizabeth (nee Ward) Cane, who had married, also in Dunster on the previous 30th of April (132). For unknown reasons, by the 1881 Census, aged 3, Emma Cane lived in Timberscombe as the niece of either Robert or Mary (nee Hole) Hale (the actual connection is not yet clear). Her actual parents went on to have ten more children, while Emma continued to live with Mr. and Mrs. Hale until leaving school (133). By 1901, Emma Cane worked as a Housemaid in Weston-Super-Mare and in 1911, was a servant at the Cairo Lodge on Highbury Hill in the same seaside town--a striking building demolished in 2011 (134). In 1922 , she married Thomas Tanner, a General Labourer born in Weston- Super-Mare, where Emma died at the age of 58 years (135).
Alice Gooding's younger brother and sister, William (Willie) and Mary Jane, are also in this photograph. Their father was William Gooding, born 1830 in Cutcombe. Mr. Gooding's first wife, Martha (nee Middleton) was also from Cutcombe. They had three sons, John, Fredrick and Walter, before Martha died in May 1875 and was buried in St. Petrock's Churchyard (136). William married Mary Webber, a dressmaker, at Timberscombe in 1876 and Alice, Willie and Mary Jane are the children of the second marriage (137).
Alice Gooding was baptised at St. Petrock's on 22 July 1877 (138). After leaving school, Alice had ended up as a servant in London but for unknown reasons, in June 1904 was placed in the Britten Street Workhouse of Kensington and Chelsea, a home for the infirm and /or poor (139). It is not clear when she was released. In 1913, Alice married Joseph Jenkins, a Labourer at Greenwich, London (140)--although by the 1911 Census, Alice was in Lewisham, London, where she identified herself as already married to Mr. Jenkins and they had four sons. The Census taker "presumed" they had married in 1903. Alice Jenkins lived to be 100-years-old and died in Slough, Berkshire, where her youngest son, Walter, was living. He died, aged 68, the next year (141).
William Gooding is the first little boy at the left end of the second row. He seems to have been born in 1881 but was not baptised until 10 January 1884 (142). At the age of 20, he lived and worked with his 71-year-old father as an "Ordinary Agricultural Labourer". On the 1911 Census he was boarding with his former schoolmate, Thomas White (still working as a thatcher) and his wife, Florence, at their house in Cowbridge. On the 1939 England and Wales Register, William is recorded as a boarder at the former Brook House on Brook Street, living with Alfred and Elizabeth Bryan. His profession then was described as "Heavy Farm Worker". William Gooding died in Exmoor c. 1955 (143).
Looking very small, Mary Jane Gooding is on the third row, the second child to the left of Mrs. Overmass. Born in 1884, on 28 October 1908 Mary Jane married Albert John Carter, the son of the village Constable, who gave his profession as "Innkeeper" (144). Indeed Mary Jane and her husband were the last proprietors of The Rose and Crown Inn on Brook Street before it closed in 1915. By that time, she and Albert were living in Wootton Courtenay and with the outbreak of World War I, Albert was serving with the Army Service Corps (145). After the war, Mr. Carter worked as a Jobbing Gardener in Wootton Courtenay and it is where Mary Jane Carter passed away in May 1971 (146).
Rosina (Rose) Coles stands on the left end of the 4th row, looking older than the other students and while standing directly behind Henrietta Bartram, she might be thought to be another teacher. Rosina was still a pupil, but aged 14, she is in her last year of school. Rosina was baptised at St. Petrock's on the 3rd of April 1874, the daughter of John and Emma (nee Mitchell) Coles (147). At the time of this photograph, she lived with her parents at Great House Farm on Church Street and was still with them on the 1901 Census. Emma Coles was nine years older than her husband and died in 1907 (148). In 1909, John Coles went to Taunton and returned, married to Jesse Abbott, 34 years his junior (149). Conceivably this could be why on the 1911 Census, Rosina has relocated to Finchley, Middlesex, living with and working as Domestic Housekeeper for her older sister, Emma Jane (nee Coles) Featherstone. Rosina eventually returned to West Somerset and passed away at the age of 57 while living in Alcombe (150).
Annie Tudball stands just to the right of Rosina Coles and her sister, Lucy Tudball is in the centre of third row, the 6th girl from the left end. They are the daughters of John and Emma (nee Mogford) Tudball. Born respectively in 1877 and 1878 (151), the girls were recorded as being from Luccombe, although the family lived at Harwood Cottages (later called Pero Cottage and East Harwood Cottage) on Harwood Lane, just southwest of Timberscombe. Indeed. Annie was baptised at Timberscombe on the 21st of October 1877 (152). Harwood Cottages were part of the estate of East Harwood Farm, considered to be in the parish of Luccombe, a village actually over four miles away from where the Tudball family lived. In 1883 East Harwood Farm and the Harwood Cottages became part of the civil Parish of Timberscombe (153) and thus is where Annie and Lucy would attend school.
Annie's full name was Sarah Ann Tudball. After leaving school she worked as a servant for Thomas and Edith Hensley at their grocer and draper shop at Combe House on Jubilee Terrace (154). At St. Petrock's Church on the 28th of May 1900, Annie married Walter George Cornish, a bricklayer from Minehead (155). Walter served with the Royal Army Corps during World War I, being discharged with disability in January 1919 (156). Continuing to work as a bricklayer, he and Annie settled at 31 Bampton Street in Minehead (157). Walter died in 1943 and Annie died in 1964 and they are buried together at the Minehead Cemetery (158).
Lucy Tudball moved in the other direction from Timberscombe, marrying Edwin Quick, a Labourer, in February 1903 at his hometown, Wootton Courtenay (159). They remained here, living at Ranscombe in 1911 and moving to No. 4 Council Home by 1939. Lucy died in 1966 and Edwin passed away in 1975 and they are buried together at All Saints Church in Wootton Courtenay (160).
Two younger brothers of Annie and Lucy are included in this photograph, identified as William and Sam Tudball. Both boys did attend Timberscombe School, but being born respectively in 1889 and 1892, they were not alive at the time of this photograph. The actual Tudball sons in this photograph, seated third and fourth from the right end of the second row, are George, born August 1881 and Thomas John, born on Christmas Day, 1884 (161). George was admitted to Timberscombe School on the 12th of April 1886. In November 1888, after some successive absences, Mr. Overmass wrote rather sarcastically that his parents' excuse was "Can't put on his boots"(162). In 1907 George married Frances Elan Pinburne from Plymouth and by the 1911 Census, they were living at Puck Cottage in Milton, Plymouth, while George was serving with the Royal Marine Artillery (163). George and Frances Tudball later moved to the house called Huntspill, in the Parks section of Minehead where George worked as a manservant, a position he held until his passing in December 1959 (164). He and his wife are buried together in the Minehead Cemetery (165).
Thomas John (Tom) Tudball was baptised on 20 January 1885 by his parents in Cutcombe, where Emma, his mother, was born. As a girl, she also lived at the Harwood Cottages, returning there after her marriage to raise her own children (166). By the 1901 Census, the Tudball family had moved to the nearby Bench Cottage, where Tom worked as a Carter, alongside his father. On the 29th of June 1904, Tom enlisted with the Coldstream Guards, returning to civilian life in 1907, while remaining as part of the army reserve. At the outbreak of World War I, he was called back to duty. By the 21st of August 1914, aged 31, Tom was in France, fighting in the first battle of Marne. On 25 January 1915, Private Thomas John Tudball was killed, along with 200 other men, when his battalion was attacked (167). He was buried at the Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery in Calais, France and awarded after death, the British War Medal and Victory Medal (168). In June 1915, his remaining effects were posted to "John", his father (169).
Brother and sister, Robert James (Jim) and Rhoda Quick, are in the photograph. They were the children of Robert Quick, a Farm Labourer born in Timberscombe and Mary (nee Pearce) Quick, born in Luxborough. Their family lived at Ford Cottage in Timberscombe (170). Jim is the 8th child from the left end of the fourth row. As "Robert James", Jim was baptised at St. Petrock's on the 12th of August 1877 (171). In October 1885, he, Rhoda and their older sister, Blanche were both very ill with Scarlet Fever and two younger brothers, seemingly George, born in 1884 and Thomas born in 1888, died of it (172). The following January, Jim had to leave school to go to Taunton, so as "to undergo an operation" (173). In June 1904, he married Emma Elizabeth Webber in Cutcombe, not to be confused with Emma Webber, his classmate. Jim's wife was the daughter of John and Mary Webber of Cutcombe (174). Sadly, Jim Quick died at Southwark, London in June 1908, at the age of 29 (175).
His sister, Rhoda, was born in April 1879 (176). She is on the third row, the 4th girl from the right of Miss Bartram. (Rhoda appears to have a page-boy styled haircut). She left Timberscombe school at the age of 12--no doubt to the disapproval of Mr. Overmass-- and worked as a housemaid for William and Eva Thorne in Timberscombe (177). On the 1901 Census, aged 22, she was employed as a servant in Clevedon. Rhoda Quick died at Market Harborough, Leicestershire (178).
Another brother and sister pictured here are William (Willie) Hole and Emily Hole, the 6th and 7th of (at least) the 10 children of Thomas and Mary (nee Blackmore) Hole. Mr. Hole was a Labourer at Beasley Farm where Willie and Emily partly grew up (179). Willie is the ninth child from the left end of the fourth row, seated to the left of a boy (Jim Winter), dressed in white. Born in 1879, after school Willie worked as a Labourer at both Burrow and Huntscott Farm in Wootton Courtney. The latter is likely where he met his wife. In July 1900, Willie married Eva Alice Baker, who boarded at Huntscott (180). By 1924, he and Eva left their home on Park Street in Minehead with three of their children, Violet, Cyril and Daisy and sailed to Quebec, Canada, where it appears they stayed (181). Eva passed away in 1954 and Willie died in 1961, both being buried at Brookside Cemetery in Winnipeg (182).
Emily Hole is in the third row, the 7th girl to the left of Mrs. Overmass (looking rather squeezed between two other girls). Born on the 5th of March 1881, she was only about a month old at the time of the census. On the 1891 Census, Emily was in Luccombe staying with her older sister, Elizabeth (nee Hole) Harris and her husband, Samuel Harris. Emily was probably there to help care for her sister and brother-in-law's new baby, also a month old and in his case, not yet named. On the 9th of December in 1901, Emily married Edward Rawle at Wootton Courtenay (183). By the 1911 Census they had settled at No. 64 Bampton Street, Minehead, where Edward was employed as a "Cab Driver (Not Domestic)", where in 1911, he was surely one of the first in Minehead to have that job. Mr. and Mrs. Rawle remained at 64 Bampton Street for much of the rest of their lives (184) . Edward died in 1947 and Emily died in 1957 (185).
There are five children with the surname of "Winter" in the photograph but from two (and possibly three) families. James (Jim) Winter is the aforementioned boy in white, the 3rd child seated on the right end of the 4th row. His brother, Sidney Winter is the 5th boy from the left end of the second row. Jim was baptised on 17 September 1876 at Kingsbrompton (later Brompton Regis) and Sidney was born in 1882 at Carhampton. They were the sons of John and Emma (nee Burgess) Winter, from, respectively, Kingsbrompton and Cutcombe (186). After leaving school at the age of 14, Jim worked for the Barton family at Westcott Farm in Luxborough but in 1901 both Jim and Sidney moved with their parents and all of their siblings--Eva, Harry, Eliza, Fred, Bessie, John and Tom--emigrating to Ebbw Vale in Monmouthshire, Wales, where John, the father and all of his sons worked in the coal mines. Jim returned to Chard, Somerset, where he died in 1917, aged 41 (187).
Sidney Winter also returned from Wales, presumably before 1907 when he married Ivy Slee from Dunster (188). Subsequently he had his own business as a Fishmonger in Minehead and he died in 1952 (189).
Eva Winter is one of the girls squeezing Emily Hole, the 7th girl in the third row, to the right of Miss Bartram. She is not the Eva Winter who went with John and Emma Winter's family to Wales. She and her brother, Robert Winter, the second boy seated from the right end of the front row, were the children of Thomas and Sarah (nee Pearce) Winter, both originally from Carhampton. Eva was born on the 16th of June 1882 and Robert was born 19 March 1880 (190). The family lived and worked at Beasley Farm around the time of this photograph. At Carhampton, on the 22nd of April 1907, Eva married George Herbert Tottle, a Railway Porter (191). By 1911, Mr. and Mrs. Tottle were living at 33 Harrow Road, Brislington, Bristol and Eva remained at Bristol until her death in 1954 (192).
Her brother, Robert, lived at 2 Victoria Terrace in Alcombe by 1911, where he worked as a Tanner and had married Elizabeth Annie Tame. By the 1939 England and Wales Register, Robert Winter was at the same address and with his same wife but had changed his profession to "Builder's Labourer". He passed away in Taunton in 1959 (193).
A girl in a pinafore is the last seated child on the right end of the fourth row (with three standing girls to her right, just behind Mrs. Overmass). She was identified as "Polly Winter". While Winter children were plentiful, there is no other record of a Polly Winter. It is probable "Polly" was a nickname and likely she is a member of one of the Winter families above. If so she could be Eliza Winter, born in 1880 to John and Emma and moved to Wales with the family, returning by 1898 to marry William Fox in Luxborough, later moving to Washford and died in 1977 (194). Also in the correct age range, the girl in the pinafore could be Elizabeth Mary Winter, born in Carhampton in 1879 to Thomas and Mary Winter. She married John Hunt, a Police Constable, in Carhampton and by 1939, they had moved to Torquay (195).
The tall girl in black, standing to the right of "Polly Winter" is more securely named Emma Glass, born 7 August 1874 to William Glass, a Gardener and Elizabeth Mary (nee Sedgebeer) Glass. Aged 14 in this photograph, she was probably in her last days of school (196). On the 19th of April 1897 Emma married a Labourer, Thomas Webber (197) and by 1901 they were living in Minehead where Mr. Webber had changed his profession to Gardener. The couple lived the rest of their lives in Minehead, moving to 15 Summerland Ave. and later to 9 Hemp Gardens, where as a widow, Emma died on the 4th of February 1958 (198).
On the right end of the same row and looking over the shoulder of Sam Overmass is Maud Hensley, the young woman who will soon turn her books over to him and announce she was finished with school. Her full name was Maud Merchant Hensley and her parents were Thomas Merchant Hensley, a Saddler/ Draper and Edith (nee Chave) Hensley, a Dressmaker, living at Combe House (also seen as "Coombe") on Jubilee Terrace. Maud's grandfather, George Hensley, listed as a Draper, still ran the shop located in Combe House's storefront --which in 1969 became the Timberscombe Post Office and also is the shop that in 1908 was taken over by the School Monitor, Henrietta Bartram after she married Robert Coles. It is not remembered now but this was likely Timberscombe's longest running shop, established by Thomas Merchant of Well Farm by 1841 and run by his four daughters. Three of them eventually went elsewhere, but Ann Merchant married George Hensley in 1842 when he was working as a Saddler at the Old Forge. The entry to his business was immediately across the street from her shop's door. They operated the shop the rest of their lives (199).
So likely when Maud Merchant Hensley left school, she knew she had employment, although at first she worked as a servant in Stogursey for a Mr. and Mrs. Rawlings (200). Still, she soon merged into the family business, marrying Alexander McColl Buchanan, a "Travelling Draper" from Yeovil, in April 1899 at St. Petrock's (201). In 1901, as Maud Buchanan, she was working in the Combe House shop with her parents and baby, Norman Thomas Buchanan, on the premises. Little Norman was born in 1900 at Yeovil, where his father was running his business (202). Maud and Alexander Buchanan almost seem a bridge to more modern times, travelling back and forth. Unfortunately Maud died in 1908, aged 33 and was buried in Yeovil (203).
Sarah Gould is the very erect-sitting little girl squeezing Emily Hole's right side, the 6th girl to the left of Mrs. Overmass, on the third row. Baptised at Timberscombe on the 18th of July 1880, Sarah was the daughter of William Henry and Jane (nee Tame) Gould (204). At the time of this photograph, the Gould family lived at Pitt Cottage (205). By 1901, Sarah worked as a "General Servant" in Durston, near Taunton, which is likely where she met her husband, John Loman, who gave his profession as "Plate Layer" when they married on the 25th of July 1901 at St. Mary's in Taunton (206). By the 1911 Census, Mr. Loman's job was more clearly defined as a Railway Labourer. He and Sarah continued to live in Durston, raising their daughters, Hilda and Gladys, until Sarah's passing at the age of 48, in July 1928 (207).
Just to the right of Sarah is Lilly Govier, born in Timberscombe on 18 November 1881 to William and Harriet (nee Blake) Govier (208). Lilly too, worked as a servant after leaving school. By 1901 she was employed by a widow and her daughter at 108 High Street in Dunster, where on the 15th of October 1904 she married George Gould (no direct relation to Sarah Gould) at St. George's Church. Her husband worked as a Mason (209) and on the 1911 Census they were living on Dunster's West Street. By 1939, George and Lilly Gould had relocated to Williton and on the 16th of November 1964, Lilly passed away while living at The Lodge (further described as an "Old Person's Home") in Wellington (210).
Maggie (Margaret) Huxtable, on the right end of the third row, just to the left of Mrs. Overmass is the only child out of the 75 pictured here, who died while still in school. On the 2nd of December 1889, Mr. Overmass wrote in the school's Log Book that "a sad and serious accident has occurred to one of our children (Maggie Huxtable) she having come in collision with a runaway pony + trap". On the 11th of December, Maggie "died from the effects of her accident" (211). The little girl had been born on the 22nd of December 1883 to John and Ann (nee Coles) Huxtable. The Huxtable family had lived at Brook Cottage (later called Pump Cottage and then Tiki Cottage) since before 1841 (212). The house was (and is) situated on Brook Street just before it turns south toward the village centre. Around 2020, Marion (nee Huxtable) Fewlass, the last Huxtable to live here before moving in the summer of 2021, recalled being told that a past relative had been killed in front of the house in such a manner. Maggie would have been the great great aunt of Mrs. Fewlass (213). Maggie Huxtable was buried on the 18th of December 1889 and years later her parents chose to be buried with their daughter (214).
Two brothers, Albert James Dart and William John Dart are the third and fourth boys seated from the left end of the second row. They were born respectively in 1883 and 1881 at Exton, Somerset to John and Bessie (nee Stevens) Dart, who were the proprietors of the village's public house, The Hare and Hounds (215 ) which was converted by 1927 to a private home, then called Church House (216). Mr. Dart also was the village blacksmith in Exton, the profession he continued when the family relocated to Cowbridge and maintained in 1901. By then, they had moved to Bridgwater, where they lived at Jubilee Terrace on Bath Road and the older brother, William was a "Pottery Worker".
During World War I, the younger brother, Albert served with the Army (217). In 1921, he had returned to Bridgwater, where he married Minnie Annie Elizabeth Greenslade (218). By 1939, Mr. and Mrs. Dart were at The Red House in Axbridge, where Albert was listed as "Grocer" and Minnie was "Manageress". Later they moved to Burnham-on-Sea, their home when Albert passed away in 1954 and Minnie died in 1964 (219).
William was no longer a Pottery Worker, listing himself as a Groom on 12 August 1907 when he married Gunhilda Gillard at West Monkton (220). On the 1911 Census and still working as a Groom, William and Gunhilda were at Ruishton, near Taunton, along with 2-year-old William Edward Dart. Toward the end of the next year, they had another son, Cyril James Dart, who died three months later (221). In 1915, William John Dart, aged 34, enlisted with the Durham Light Infantry, 13th Battalion (222). Private Dart served on the Western Front and on 27 December 1917, died of "Wounds from Battle" and was buried at the Giavera British Cemetery, at the Treviso district, Veneto, Italy (223).
Two other boys in the photograph were identified as "Jack Cowling" and "Nickel Cowling". They are not from the same immediate family and their surname was "Cowlin", although in earlier generations both families are sometimes listed as "Cowling". Jack was actually named Joshua John Cowlin. He was raised by his grandparents, John and Jane (nee Huxtable) Cowlin. The elder Mr. and Mrs. Cowlin had two sons and two daughter that were old enough to have been Jack's parents (224), but they are never revealed and Jack was with his grandparents from at least two years of age until he was old enough to leave home (225). Indeed on the 17th of April 1891, when Jack would have been 12, John Cowlin called on Sam Overmass, wondering if Jack could go ahead and leave school, where the boy was having a difficult time. Mr. Overmass, who often seems at war with various parents, writes of the meeting as a well-balanced discussion and John Cowlin left it saying he would have Jack back in class on Monday (226).
In the photograph, Jack, probably around 7-years-old, is the 5th boy from the right end of the second row. He was born on the 18th of November 1881 (227). After Jack did leave school, he first worked as a servant in Minehead (228). By the time he was 31-years-old, he was a servant and a waggoner at North Hawkwell Farm , employed by Frederick and Elizabeth Webber and in 1912 Jack married Matilda Bessie Greenslade at Brompton Regis (229). They had moved to Glamorganshire, Wales by 1917, where their son Harold was born, later settling in Cardiff, where Jack was a General Labourer and Cement Worker (230). Later in life, the family lived at 10 Burton Terrace, at East Aberthaw, Wales, where Jack Cowlin died in 1963 (231).
There seemed to be no indication of who "Nickel" Cowlin was, except that he was the boy seated third from the left end of the front row. However, he is William Cowlin, the only other Cowlin, besides Jack, mentioned at this time in the Log Book--and he was the 6th of the 10 children of Nicholas (hence the boy's possible nickname) and Elizabeth (nee Mogford) Cowlin, baptised 18 May 1879 at Cutcombe (232). While no direct connection to Jack and his grandparents, after leaving school, William (he seemed to leave "Nickel" behind) also worked as a Farm Labourer at North Hawkwell Farm, although earlier than Jack (233). Like so many in this era, William, his parents and most all of his siblings left for Wales. At Abersychan, Monmouthshire, in 1901, William Cowlin was a "Colliery Labourer (Below Ground)"--in the coal mines. At Pontypool. Monmouthshire, he married Alice Rose Aldridge (234). By the 1939 Register, William and Alice were at Feltham, Middlesex, England, where William was a Builder's Labourer and they were still here in 1965, living at 23 Vernon Road (235). William Cowlin's death was registered at Hounslow, Greater London in 1967 (236).
William (Willie) Wyburn is the last boy on the right end of the first row. Born on the 3rd of July 1879, he was baptised three days later at St. Petrock's by his parents, James and Betsy (nee Gamlin) Wyburn (237). Like so many of the children in 1886, Willie was very ill with Scarlet Fever --he was struck at the same time as William Hole, William Cowlin and William Winter (238). Willie Wyburn's family also relocated to Wales, in their case to Ystradyfodwg, Glamorganshire. On the 1901 Wales Census, his father and his brother, James, were both labouring in the coal mines, although Willie was a "Tea Seller/ Grocer". At some point he emigrated to Canada, where in October 1919 he married Ellen Elizabeth Crouch at Vancouver, British Columbia (239). She was born in East Sussex. Willie died on the 26th of February 1930, aged 51 . He was buried in Vancouver's Meadow View Cemetery, as was his wife at her death in August 1988. On Ellen's gravestone, in large letters, is "FROM ENGLAND" (240).
On the opposite left end of the front row, sitting on the ground and looking forlorn is Bessie Parkman Grabham, the daughter of William Grabham, the village blacksmith working at the Old Forge in Timberscombe and his wife Mary Ann (nee Parkman) Grabham. Mr. Grabham, originally from Otterford, Somerset, had met and married Miss Parkman in Dunster in 1882 and Bessie was born 29 May 1883 in Curry Rivel, Somerset, before the family came to Timberscombe (241).
Bessie Grabham has already been mentioned. She and her future husband are the only children in this photograph to marry each other. He too is sitting on the front row, James Blackmore, third from the right end. On the 28th of January 1914, when she was 30 and James was 33, they married at St. Petrock's (242). At that time, James was already working as a carpenter in Porlock, where they moved to Hill View Farm on Parson Street and remained until their deaths, James Blackmore in 1945 and Bessie Blackmore in 1939 (243). They are buried together in Porlock (244).
Bessie is the last of the students posing along the northern wall of Timberscombe School, but also attending school and living at School House, the semi-detached residence for the Head Teacher and family were Walter Seaton Overmass, standing on the right with his father holding his shoulders and Clarence Norman Overmass, seated on his mother's lap (245).
Walter Overmass was born the 22nd of May 1881 at Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northhumberland, at which time Samuel Overmass was Schoolmaster at West Maften in Northumberland (246). Three years after his father's death in 1904, Walter married Emelie A Le Chevalier at Brentford, Middlesex, London (247). The couple remained in the London area. By 1911, Walter was Salesman and they lived on Grays Inn Road at St. Pancras and he passed away in 1954 at Chelsea (248).
Clarence Overmass was born and baptised in Timberscombe in 1884 (249). During August 1906, Clarence enlisted with the 18th Queen Mary's Own Hussars. Eleven days after the outbreak of World War I, on the 15th of August 1914, he extended his service, remaining with the Hussars (250). Between the 15th and the 18th of October 1916, Sergeant Clarence Overmass died (251). He had been discharged on 16 May 1916 as "no longer fit for service" (252). It is not clear exactly how or where he died but on the 11th of November 1918, "Sgt. Clarence N. Overmass" was listed on the ROLL OF INDIVIDUALS as entitled to a Victory Medal and the British War Medal granted under Army Orders (253). Mary Ann Overmass applied to the British Army for a Clasp, in respect to her son's service. A Clasp was given on a medal to denote participation in a major ground conflict, implying Clarence had been wounded in battle, resulting in his later death. The Clasp was issued to his mother in February 1920 (254).
Clarence was buried at the Bromley Hill Cemetery in the London Borough of Bromley, with his gravestone engraved"CLARENCE NORMAN OVERMASS, SERGEANT 18th (QUEEN MARY'S OWN) HUSSARS WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY 15 OCTOBER 1916 AGED 32" (255).
Tom Tudball, raised in Timberscombe, killed in 1915, is rightly on the World War I wooden memorial plaque inside St. Petrock's Church. So is Frank Chapman, dead in 1914, the younger brother of Arthur, Sarah Ann and Emma Chapman, all pictured in this photograph. Willie Dart, raised in Cowbridge, educated at Timberscombe School, dead of his wounds in 1917 and Clarence Overmass, born and baptised in Timberscombe and who grew up at School House in Timberscombe but whose life was lost in 1916, are not.
Creator
Anonymous
Publisher
"VILLAGE HERITAGE BOOK, 1975", collected and compiled by the Timberscombe Women's Institute, 1975
Date
c. 1888
Contributor
Language
English
Identifier
The Timberscombe Schoolchildren, c. 1888 with Schoolmaster Samuel Overmass and Schoolmistress, Mary Ann Overmass / Timberscombe / Timberscombe School
Acquisition Date
2022
Acquisition Method
Gift
Category
PLACES: Schoolhouses / Timberscombe
PEOPLE: Named / Timberscombe
PEOPLE: Occupations / Timberscombe
PEOPLE: Named / Timberscombe
PEOPLE: Occupations / Timberscombe
Condition
Good
Condition Notes
entered by Tom Sperling
Condition Date
2022
Dimension Type
W X L
Dimension Units
cm
Dimension Value
16.5 X 27
Institution Name
St. Petrock's History Group
Notes
(1) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872- 31 August 1892, pages 387 and 385 (2) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 274 and Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 27 September 1892- 4 March 1910, pages 200 and 201 (3) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 27 September 1892-4 March 1910 (4) Essex, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1915 (5) 1891 England Census (6) 1891 and 1901 England Censuses (7) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 and 1871 England Census (8) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, pages 377, 366, 389, 434, 445 and 458 (9) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915, TIMBERSCOMBE 1910 LIST OF RESIDENTS, Mineheadonline.co.uk, 1911 England Census, England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 and TimberscombeVillage.com/ History of Timberscombe, Other Historic Structures, History of the Timberscombe Post Office, written by Tom Sperling (10) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1913-1914 (11) "The Ferris's of Stoke Pero", Ferris Family Document, compiled by Rachel Meek, Scotland, donated to the St. Petrock's History Group on 16 May 2020 (12) FindMyPast.com, Results of England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2007 (13) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 384 (14) 1891 England Census and "The Ferris's of Stoke Pero" (15) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915 (16) 1891 England Census, Somerset England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (the marriage of Thomas White';s parents, Thomas White and Elizabeth Court) and Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, pages 349-381 (17) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 and U.S. Newspapers.com, Marriage Index, 1800s-Current (18) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 and FindMyPast.com, Results for England & Wales Deaths, 1857-2007 (19) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 (20) 1851 England Census (21) 1891 and 1901 England Censuses (22) U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 1910 United States Federal Census, Cook County, Illinois U.S. Marriage Index, 1871-1920 and Bethany Klooster Hill's Family Tree, Ancestry.com (23) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (24) Somerset, England, Church of England Burials, 1858-1995 (where "Killed By a Fall from His Horse" is written in) (25) UK, Imperial Yeomanry Record, 1879-1902 (26) 1901 England Census and England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (27) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current and England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1995 (28) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (29) UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger List, 1878-1960 (30) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (31) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (32) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 and England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (33) 1851, 1871 and 1891 England Censuses (34) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1856-1995 (35) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Indexes, 1837-1915 (36) 1891 England Census (37) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (38) West Yorkshire, England, Prison Records, 1813-1994 (39) 1891 England Census (40) Bristol, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1994 and FindMyPast.com, Results for England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2007 (41) 1881 and 1891 England Censuses and Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 325 (42) 1881 England Census and Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 263 (43) FindMyPast.com, Results of England and Wales Marriages, 1837-2005 (44) FindMyPast.com. Results of England and Wales Deaths, 1837-2007and as recalled in 2019 by Joy Booth of The Knapp, Timberscombe (45) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (46) "Secure the shadow: Somerset photographers 1839-1939" by Robin Ansell, Allan Collier and Phil Nichols, The Somerset & Dorset Family History Society, 2018 and Kelly's Directory of Somerset, 1939 (47) 1881 England Census (48) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 394 (49) 1911 England Census (50) 1921 Census of Canada (51) 1891, 1901 and 1911 England Censuses (52) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1893, pages 379 and 401 (53) 1901 England Census and England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (54) 1911 England Census and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (55) 1939 England and Wales Register (56) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (57) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (58) 1939 England and Wales Register and 1891 and 1901 England Censuses (59) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1751-1914 (60) London, England, Electoral Registers, 1831-1965 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (61) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (62) Somerset, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1914 and 1881 England Census (63) Geneanet Community Trees Index (64) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 (65) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (66) Somerset, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1914 and Workhouses.org, 1813-1914, UK> Williton and UK, Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (67) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (68) 1861 and 1871 England Censuses (69) 1939 England and Wales Register (70) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegation, 1754-1914 (71) 1939 England and Wales Register (72) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (73) Geneanet Community Trees Index and Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (74) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (75) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 (76) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (77) UK. Royal Navy Registers and Seaman's Service, 1848-1939 and 1901 England Census. (78) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage, Index, 1916-2005 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (79) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914, England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915, Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 and 1901 England Census (80) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers , Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 and Geneanet Community Trees Index (81) Timberscombe School LOG BOOKS, 8 March1872-31 August 1892, page 280 (82) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915 (83) 1901 and 1911 England Censuses (84) 1911 England c
Census and Wiltshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1915 (85) Jason Ramsey Family Tree, Ancestry.com (86) 1881 and 1891 England Census (87) Conveyance of "Berrowcote" situate of Timberscombe in the County of Somerset, 1899 December 30th, in possession of Randall Alan Hines and Thomas Sperling, 2022 (88) 1911 England Census (89) 1901 and 1911 England Censuses (90) as recalled by Maurice Huxtable (1832-2021) in 2019 of Ye Old Malthouse, Timberscombe, 1901 and 1911 England Censuses and 1939 England and Wales Register (91) 1939 England and Wales Register, as recalled by Maurice Huxtable in 2019, as recalled by Pat Herniman in her book, "AWAY & HOME-WORLD WAR I , Somerset and Essex 1939-1945", published by Papermill Books, Little Baddow, in association with The Little Baddow History Centre, 2016 and as recalled by Ernie Munson in his interviews with Alan Hines for his book, "MILES FROM HOME, EVACUEES IN TIMBERSCOMBE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR', copyright by Alan Hines, first published 1 July 2022 (92) England & Wales, National Probate Calendars (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (93) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (94) 1871 England Census (95) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (96) 1871 England Census (97) 1871 England Census and 1939 England and Wales Register (98) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (99) 1911 England Census and 1950 U.S. Federal Census (100) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 363 (101) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 and 1911 England Census (102) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (103) 1901 Census (this Sarah Chapman is listed as born in Somerset) (104) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300's-Current (a Sarah Chapman is buried here with a matching birth date) (105) 1939 England and Wales Register and 1891 England Census (106) 1901 England Census (107) Somerset, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1914 (108) 1911 England Census (109) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 and 1939 England and Wales Register (110) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (111) 1901 England Census (112) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (113) UK, World War I Pension, Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 (114) "TIMBERSCOMBE'S FALLEN OF WORLD WAR I", compiled by Harvey Glenville, produced for St. Petrock's Church and the parish of Timberscombe to commemorate the centenary anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, 2014 (115) 1939 England and Wales Register (116) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (117) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 261 (118) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (119) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 402 (120) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 426 (121) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (122) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, pages 312 and 404 (123) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index , 1916-2007 and UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (124) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (125) 1911 England, Census (126) UK, British Army World War I Medal Rolls and Index Cards, 1914-1923 (127) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (128) Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, 1851 and 1881 England Censuses and Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 261 (129) 1901 Census of Canada (130) Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (131) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, pages 331 and 332 (132) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 , FindMyPast.com, Results for England and Wales Marriages, 1837-2005 and Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (133) 1881 and 1891 Censuses (134) "Weston-Super-Mere, North Somerset Historic and Architectual Development", Alan Brodie and Johanna Roeshe, Research Report Series, No. 1-2020, Volume 2, historicengland. org.uk (135) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (136) 1871 and 1881 England Censuses and UK and Ireland, Find a Grave Index, 1300s-Current (137) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 and 1881 and 1891 England Censuses (138) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (139) London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1764-1930 and workhouses.org>Chelsea (140) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 (141) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Indexes, 1916-2007 (142) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (143) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (144) 1891 England Census and Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (145) UK, British Army World War I Service Records, 1912-1920 (146) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (147) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms 1813-1914 (148) Somerset, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1914 (149) FindMyPast.com, Results of England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005 (150) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (151) 1939 England and Wales Register (152) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (153) Victoria County History.ac.uk (154) 1891 England Census (155) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (156) UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 (157) 1939 England and Wales Register (158) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (159) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (160) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 and UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (161) 1939 England and Wales Register and UK, DeRuvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 (162) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, pages 356 and 395 (163) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (164) 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (165) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (166) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (the birth of Emma Tudball and that she had lived at Harwood Cottages) (167) "TIMBERSCOMBE'S FALLEN OF WORLD WAR I" and UK, DeRuvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 (168) UK, Soldiers Who Died in the Great War, 1914-1919, Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and Other Select Locations, 1300s-Current and UK, World War I Service Medal and Award Roll, 1914-1920 (169) UK, Army Registers of Soldier's Effects, 1901-1929 (170) 1881 England Census (171) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (172) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, pages 349 and 350, 1881 England Census and Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (173) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 369 (174) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (175) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915 (176) 1881 England Census (177) 1881 England Census (178) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (179) 1881 and 1891 England Censuses (180) 1901 England Census and Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (181) Outward Passengers from UK, 1892-1960 and Canada Ocean Arrivals (Form 30A), 1919-1924 (182) Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (183) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (184) 1939 England and Wales Register (185) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Indexes, 1916-2007 (186) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 and 1901 England Census (187) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (188) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 (189) 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (190) 1881 and 1891 England Censuses and 1939 England and Wales Register (191) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (192) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (193) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (194) 1881 England Census, England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005, 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (195) 1881 England Census, England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and 1939 England and Wales Register (196) 1881 England Census and Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (197) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (198) 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Allegations) 1858-1995 (199) 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 Censuses (200) 1891 England Census (201) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (202) 1901 England Census (203) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (204) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (205) 1881 England Census (206) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (207) 1911 and 1921 England Censuses and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (208) 1939 England and Wales Register (209) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (210) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (211) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, pages 210 and 211 (212) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300's- Current, 1841 England Census and TIMBERSCOMBE TITHE MAP 1843, Source: Somerset Record Office, Taunton, researched and drawn by John Burns for Timberscombe School, February 1989 (which also indicated that the Huxtable family were in the Brook Street home in that year) (213) Marion Fewlass was the daughter of Maurice Huxtable, son of Dudley Huxtable, son of Frank Huxtable, born in1889 and would have been the younger brother of Maggie Huxtable. (214) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (215) 1881 England Census (216) Historic Environment Record, Exmoor National Park, MEM24704 (217) UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 (218) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (219) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (220) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (221) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 and Somerset, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1914 (222) UK, British Army World War I Service Records, 1914-1920 (223) UK, Soldiers Who Died in the Great War. 1914-1919, UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1920 and Italy, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current (224) 1881 England Census (225) 1881 and 1901 England Censuses (226) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 433 (227) 1939 England and Wales Register (228) 1901 England Census (229) 1911 England Census and Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (230) Wales, Anglican Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1570-1894 and 1939 England and Wales Register (231) Glamorganshire, Wales, Electoral Register, 1832- 1978 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (232) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (233) 1891 Census (234) Monmouthshire, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 (235) London, England, Electoral Register, 1832-1965 (236) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (237) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (238) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-13 August 1892, pages 349-353 (239) British Columbia, Canada, Marriage Index, 1871-1935 (240) Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (241) 1881 England Census, Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 and Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms 1813-1914 (242) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (243) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (244) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (245) 1891 England Census (246) 1881 England Census (247) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 (248) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (249) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (250) UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 (251) UK, British Army World War I Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 (252) Imperial War Museum, livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk (253) UK, World War I, Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 (254) UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 and Google.co,/search=clasps+world+war+I+medal+battle (255) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
Census and Wiltshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1915 (85) Jason Ramsey Family Tree, Ancestry.com (86) 1881 and 1891 England Census (87) Conveyance of "Berrowcote" situate of Timberscombe in the County of Somerset, 1899 December 30th, in possession of Randall Alan Hines and Thomas Sperling, 2022 (88) 1911 England Census (89) 1901 and 1911 England Censuses (90) as recalled by Maurice Huxtable (1832-2021) in 2019 of Ye Old Malthouse, Timberscombe, 1901 and 1911 England Censuses and 1939 England and Wales Register (91) 1939 England and Wales Register, as recalled by Maurice Huxtable in 2019, as recalled by Pat Herniman in her book, "AWAY & HOME-WORLD WAR I , Somerset and Essex 1939-1945", published by Papermill Books, Little Baddow, in association with The Little Baddow History Centre, 2016 and as recalled by Ernie Munson in his interviews with Alan Hines for his book, "MILES FROM HOME, EVACUEES IN TIMBERSCOMBE DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR', copyright by Alan Hines, first published 1 July 2022 (92) England & Wales, National Probate Calendars (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (93) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (94) 1871 England Census (95) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (96) 1871 England Census (97) 1871 England Census and 1939 England and Wales Register (98) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (99) 1911 England Census and 1950 U.S. Federal Census (100) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 363 (101) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 and 1911 England Census (102) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (103) 1901 Census (this Sarah Chapman is listed as born in Somerset) (104) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300's-Current (a Sarah Chapman is buried here with a matching birth date) (105) 1939 England and Wales Register and 1891 England Census (106) 1901 England Census (107) Somerset, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1914 (108) 1911 England Census (109) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 and 1939 England and Wales Register (110) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (111) 1901 England Census (112) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (113) UK, World War I Pension, Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 (114) "TIMBERSCOMBE'S FALLEN OF WORLD WAR I", compiled by Harvey Glenville, produced for St. Petrock's Church and the parish of Timberscombe to commemorate the centenary anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, 2014 (115) 1939 England and Wales Register (116) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (117) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 261 (118) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (119) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 402 (120) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 426 (121) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (122) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, pages 312 and 404 (123) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index , 1916-2007 and UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (124) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (125) 1911 England, Census (126) UK, British Army World War I Medal Rolls and Index Cards, 1914-1923 (127) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (128) Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, 1851 and 1881 England Censuses and Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 261 (129) 1901 Census of Canada (130) Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (131) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, pages 331 and 332 (132) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 , FindMyPast.com, Results for England and Wales Marriages, 1837-2005 and Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (133) 1881 and 1891 Censuses (134) "Weston-Super-Mere, North Somerset Historic and Architectual Development", Alan Brodie and Johanna Roeshe, Research Report Series, No. 1-2020, Volume 2, historicengland. org.uk (135) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (136) 1871 and 1881 England Censuses and UK and Ireland, Find a Grave Index, 1300s-Current (137) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 and 1881 and 1891 England Censuses (138) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (139) London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1764-1930 and workhouses.org>Chelsea (140) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 (141) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Indexes, 1916-2007 (142) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (143) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (144) 1891 England Census and Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (145) UK, British Army World War I Service Records, 1912-1920 (146) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (147) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms 1813-1914 (148) Somerset, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1914 (149) FindMyPast.com, Results of England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005 (150) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (151) 1939 England and Wales Register (152) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (153) Victoria County History.ac.uk (154) 1891 England Census (155) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (156) UK, World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923 (157) 1939 England and Wales Register (158) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (159) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (160) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 and UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (161) 1939 England and Wales Register and UK, DeRuvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 (162) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, pages 356 and 395 (163) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (164) 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (165) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (166) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (the birth of Emma Tudball and that she had lived at Harwood Cottages) (167) "TIMBERSCOMBE'S FALLEN OF WORLD WAR I" and UK, DeRuvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 (168) UK, Soldiers Who Died in the Great War, 1914-1919, Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and Other Select Locations, 1300s-Current and UK, World War I Service Medal and Award Roll, 1914-1920 (169) UK, Army Registers of Soldier's Effects, 1901-1929 (170) 1881 England Census (171) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (172) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, pages 349 and 350, 1881 England Census and Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (173) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, page 369 (174) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (175) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915 (176) 1881 England Census (177) 1881 England Census (178) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (179) 1881 and 1891 England Censuses (180) 1901 England Census and Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (181) Outward Passengers from UK, 1892-1960 and Canada Ocean Arrivals (Form 30A), 1919-1924 (182) Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (183) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (184) 1939 England and Wales Register (185) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Indexes, 1916-2007 (186) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 and 1901 England Census (187) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (188) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 (189) 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (190) 1881 and 1891 England Censuses and 1939 England and Wales Register (191) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (192) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (193) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (194) 1881 England Census, England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005, 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (195) 1881 England Census, England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and 1939 England and Wales Register (196) 1881 England Census and Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (197) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (198) 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Allegations) 1858-1995 (199) 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 Censuses (200) 1891 England Census (201) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (202) 1901 England Census (203) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (204) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (205) 1881 England Census (206) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (207) 1911 and 1921 England Censuses and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (208) 1939 England and Wales Register (209) Somerset, England, Marriage 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Storage Location
St. Petrock's History Group Archive
Storage Date
2022
Storage Notes
St. Petrock's History Group PHOTOGRAPHS
Item Reference
SP-243
Technique
Copy
Citation
Anonymous, “Timberscombe School, c. 1888, with Schoolmaster, Samuel Overmass and Schoolmistress, Mary Ann Overmass (and 75 scholars),” St. Petrock's History Group, accessed May 17, 2024, https://stpetrockshistorygroup.omeka.net/items/show/3515.
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