Timberscombe Schoolchildren in 1924 with Head Teacher, Miss Salome V. Wallace
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Timberscombe Schoolchildren in 1924 with Head Teacher, Miss Salome V. Wallace
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The St. Petrock's History Group was created in June 2018 to provide lectures of historical and general interest, with the first talk held on the 16th of July 2018. Just as important was to research, collate and preserve information relating to the history of Timberscombe --which must have already been underway. The 1924 school photograph seen here was donated either in August or October of 2017 by Joan Vaulter of Aville Farm, during conversations with Marion Jeffrey, the founder of the History Group. Born as Evelyn Joan Griffith in 1925, at the hamlet of Aville, just outside of Dunster (1), Joan certainly had an attachment to this photograph. Her husband, Donald Stuart K. Vaulter, who passed away in 1999 (2), is the little boy on the front row, fourth from the right, clutching a toy animal or bird of some sort. Joan pointed out to Marion that Donald was wearing hobnail boots with studs and metal heels.
The photograph was likely taken in conjunction with another 1924 school photograph seen at SP-078, utilising the same area of the schoolyard but from another angle. In both photographs, a small boy sits in the centre of the front row (here, just to the left of Donald) holding a placard, probably a piece of slate, with "Timberscombe School 1924" chalked on it. This photograph shows an unclear word, followed by a "2", just to the bottom right of the date. The photograph at SP-078 is more blurred but appears to have a "1" chalked in at that spot. Likely the students were divided into groups and indeed no child is in both photographs.
Also divided among the two photographs are the teachers. Assistant teacher, Elizabeth Isabella Wallace (but known as Miss B. Wallace) is pictured at SP-078. On the photograph shown here, her sister, Head Teacher Salome Valentine Wallace stands firmly on the left end of the back row (sporting a new hairstyle that has not been seen on previous photographs and won't reappear on later ones). Born respectively in 1873 and 1872 at Islington, London, both the older and younger sister began at Timberscombe School on 26 March 1920, living at School House, semi-detached to the schoolroom (3). By the time Salome Valentine Wallace retired in 1932, she had purchased a house called St. Valentine's on Millbridge Road in Minehead, for herself, her sister and as a home for other retired female teachers. Designed by Minehead architect, W.J. Tamlyn, it was later renamed Hafod (4). Salome and Elizabeth Wallace were buried separately at St. Petrock's Church in Timberscombe in 1947 and 1959 (5).
To the left of the schoolchildren and Miss Wallace is a hut of sorts, probably built as a project that continued to appear as a background for school photographs, at least until 1925 or 1926 (6). Unseen but behind the hut is Timberscombe School's original schoolroom, built beginning in 1805. As the background behind the students is a long view of the left and rear side of a much-needed second schoolroom constructed in 1876 and 1877 (7). Made of red sandstone and rubble with diamond paned windows, it is an impressive structure that still stands in modern times but sadly is largely covered over by later renovations. Past the schoolroom, on the right edge of the photograph, is a building that first appeared as a school structure on the 1844-1888 Ordnance Survey Map . What is visible here was likely part of an extension added to the building that appears on the 1921-1943 map. None of it still stands.
Also wearing hobnail boots with studs and metal heels and seated just to the right of the little boy with the placard, is the boy known as Victor Reginald Vaulter, assumed by many to be a twin brother to Donald Vaulter--although they don't look that much alike. Both boys started school on the same day, 24 April 1922, enrolled by John Vaulter, who was working at the time at Kitswell Farm, midway between Timberscombe and Dunster. At admission their names were recorded as Donald Vaulter and Victor Cowlin, with both having Kitswell listed as their address (8) . Donald was born to John and Mary (nee Jennings) Vaulter on the 31st of October 1916. Victor was born on the first of January 1917 in Hackney, Greater London, to "a girl who had a baby". The surname of Victor's mother on the Birth Certificate was "Cowlin" (9). As an infant, Mr. and Mrs. Vaulter decided to foster Victor so as to prevent him being taken to a workhouse and for the rest of their lives, Donald and Victor considered themselves brothers (10). On the 21st of November 1923, Salome Wallace listed Victor as "Victor Cowlin" in the school's Log Book, when he and another boy were examined by Dr. Meade-King at Timberscombe School. Yet by the 14th of December 1928, Miss Wallace was identifying him as "Victor Vaulter", when he was awarded a Good Conduct Medal (11). In 1938, working as a Bricklayer and Mason, "Victor Vaulter" was the official name on his marriage license to Ada J. Bindon (12). They lived in Washford and Old Cleeve and when he died in 2003, Victor was buried as Victor Vaulter (13).
After working at Kitswell, John and Mary Vaulter took both boys to live at Aville Farm and at the outbreak of World War II, Evelyn Joan Griffith volunteered to work there as a Land Girl. She became Joan Vaulter when she and Donald married in 1946, taking over the farm from his parents and living and working there the rest of their lives (14). Joan passed away on the 22nd of November 2019 (15).
When donating this photograph in 2017, Joan Vaulter was only able to identify one other boy and one girl, both from the Stenner family. Joan was correct about the family but named the wrong girl. On the right end of the last row, the girl with a large bow in her hair is holding a doll--just as Donald Vaulter is holding a toy. Other children are doing the same and even more children are holding dolls and toys at SP-078, another factor connecting these two photographs. Joan Vaulter identified this girl as "Mavis Stenner". Mavis Cynthia Stenner was indeed the youngest Stenner child, who did attend Timberscombe School but was not even born until October 1924 (16). The girl seen here is her sister, almost certainly Agnes Beaumont Stenner, born in May 1915 and who was admitted to Timberscombe School in June 2019 (17). Agnes married William John Hill, an "Estate Carpenter " in 1939 and they lived at Brake Farm in Wheddon Cross (18). Later they moved to Minehead, where William died in 1981 (19) . Agnes passed away at the age of 90 in 2005 (20).
Correctly identified by Joan was Samuel (Sammy) Douglas Stenner, third from the left of the centre row, born in 1917 . He is practically holding a smaller boy in his lap (who also is holding a toy animal) that very likely is Herbert Charles Stenner, born in 1919, a younger brother of Sammy and Agnes. He would have just recently started school in August 2024 (21). The parents of the Stenner children were Samuel James and Adelaide Julia (nee Carter) Stenner. Mr. Stenner ran a village butcher shop next door to the Stenner home on Brook Street in Timberscombe (both demolished c. 1960s) and sadly will die within two years at the age of 36 (22). Julia Stenner and her children moved over to the western side of the village into the recently built No. 6 Council House, later renamed No. 6 Bemberry Bank (23). On the 1939 England and Wales Register, Sammy and Herbert were the only Stenner "children" still with their mother. Herbert was an Apprentice Jeweller and Watch Maker and Sammy had taken over his late father's business (he listed himself on the Register as a "Slaughterman"). Around this time might be when Sammy met Constance M. Burns, a young Welsh woman working as a cook in Dulverton (24). They married in Glamorganshire, Wales (25) but returned to No. 6 Bemberry Bank , living there for most of Sammy's working life (26). Later he and Constance did move to No. 5 Willow Bank (27), the next row of newly built homes in the village.
Sammy's brother, Herbert, waited until 1951 to marry Dorothy J.E. Webber (28), originally from Week Farm at Bridgetown (29). Herbert Stenner died in 2000 at Taunton (30). Before his passing in 2003, Sammy Stenner was out walking and ran into Maurice Huxtable, born in Timberscombe in 1932. Sammy asked Maurice if he realised that they were the two oldest men in the village. Maurice, 15-years-younger than Sammy, retorted that they were not, with Sammy quickly replying that they certainly were the two oldest men in the village that were actually born there (31)!
Other children can be identified with varying certainty. Without a doubt the girl in the white pinafore on the left end of the second row is Trinet Holland, born 19 August 1913 and the little boy, whose head she is grasping, is her brother, John Holland, born 19 September 1918. Their parents were John and Rebecca (nee Roberts) Holland (32). Trinet's firm hold on her little brother is somewhat indicative of their lives. The Hollands were a gipsy family (in the terms of the time), living at Hill Cottage in Holes Square, Timberscombe (33). The boy standing in the third row, third from the left, is very likely Trinet and John's brother, Frederick Holland, born 24 August 1915 (34). By the time of the 1939 Register, Frederick had gone elsewhere, Rebecca Holland had died and Trinet was firmly the"Head of the Household", describing herself as a "Dealer in Waste Materials". Her father, John, was identified as "assistant to daughter" and her brother, John, was listed as "no profession, assistant to sister". Still living at Hill Cottage, Trinet died and was buried in 1970 at St. Petrock's (35). Nine years later, Hill Cottage was demolished (36).
Another brother and sister are in the centre of the photograph, with Maud Gooding, born 9 September 1915, wearing a white pinafore and seated fourth from the left end of the second row . Her brother, Gilbert John Gooding, born 21 January 1913, is standing directly behind her. They were respectively the last and next-to-last of the nine children of Walter Gooding, a General Labourer and Emma (nee) Winter (37). The Gooding family had moved around quite a lot in Timberscombe as their children grew and it must have been a relief to settle into No. 3 Council House (later renamed No. 3 Bemberry Bank and just a couple of doors away from the Stenner family) probably around the time of this photograph (38). Gilbert died in 1934 at the age of 21. On the 1939 England and Wales Register, Maud was the only one of her siblings still living with her parents, employed as "Domestic Worker". She died at the age of 67 in 1983 (39).
Sitting just to the right of Maud Gooding are two girls, obviously sisters. They are surely Daisy Alice Kate Baker, born the 4th of February 1913 and holding a doll is Frances Maud Baker, born 25 August 1914, the daughters of Robert and Blanche Mary (nee Palmer) Baker. At the time of this photograph, their family would have been living at Holes Square (40). Both girls missed a lot of school because of illness (41). In 1937 Daisy married Lesley R. Pope a "Thresher Feeder" and they settled in Williton but in 1950, aged 38, Daisy passed away at Taunton (42). On the 20th of December 1924 (the year of this photograph), Frances left Timberscombe School and was directly transferred to a sanatorium to be treated for tuberculosis (43). Fortunately she survived, married twice and as Mrs. Lesley Bryant, passed away at the age of 84 in Sussex (44).
The Baker girls are probably flanked by three of their brothers. The boy on the immediate right of Frances may be Albert John Baker, born the second of July 1916. He left school in 1929 with a tuberculosis medical certificate (45). Albert married Violet May Fry in 1939, when she was working as a Domestic Servant at Cornerways, on The Ball in Minehead (46). He died in 1981 (47). Standing directly behind Albert, may be his older brother, Robert (Bob) George Baker, born the 23rd of January 1912 (48). He married a classmate, Kathleen Priscott (pictured in SP-078), but sadly Bob died aged 26 in 1938 (49). Because of family resemblance, it seems very possible the little boy holding the placard (balanced on a tin drum) is Henry Baker, born the 29th of September 1918 and who was admitted to Timberscombe School on the 1st of October 1923 (50). The honour of holding the placard seems to have favoured four-year-olds. Henry died in Taunton at the age of 57 (51).
The group of children chosen to be in this photograph seems to have focused on siblings and the three girls on the right end of the front roll also appear to fit that bill. From left to right, they are probably Kathleen May Slade, born 20 February 1917, Doris Elizabeth Slade, born the 3rd of September 1915 and Olive Blanche Slade, born 23 July 1918, the daughters of Herbert and Elizabeth (nee Blackmore ) Slade (52) . Like the Holland and Baker children, they too lived at Holes Square, with the Slade family situated at the house actually called Holes Square, later known as The Studio and in 2022 renamed as Finnbar. It was a convenient address for their father as it was near the Timberscombe Quarry where Herbert Slade was a Foreman (53).
Both Kathleen and Olive served as members of the Women's Land Army during World War II. Kathleen resigned at the end of the war to marry Herbert Edwin Upson in 1946 at Exmoor, before relocating to his birthplace at Ipswich, Suffolk, where Kathleen died in 2001, aged 84 (54). Olive left the Land Army in 1944, also to marry. Her husband was Leonard James Fowler and they lived at 24 Friday Street in Minehead (55). Mr. Fowler died young in 1950, while Olive lived until 14 June 2001. They are buried together in the Minehead Cemetary, where their gravestone was engraved "GONE TO JOIN LEN" (56). In 1934, older sister, Doris, married Frederick J. Bryant, a Builder's Labourer and they settled in the Lowerbourne section of Porlock (57). He died in 1973 and Doris died in 2000 and they are buried at the Porlock Cemetery (58).
Possibly another brother and sister are represented in this photograph. The little girl on the right end of the second row, not only holding a doll but also with a baby carriage, appears to be Margaret (mostly known as Maggie and sometimes Meggie) White, born 24 June 1917. Her brother, Roland James Harvey White (always called Jim), born 5 April 1913, was attending the school in 1924 and possibly is the boy just to the left of Head Teacher Wallace (59). Their parents were Thomas White, a farmer and thatcher and Florence (nee Harvey) White. On the 1939 England and Wales Register, the four members of the White family were still together at Witheridge Farm near Exton with 22-year-old Maggie and 26 year-old Jim described as working with their father. After their parents died, Jim continued , like his father, as a farmer and thatcher and at their own deaths in 2009 and 2008, living in Cutcombe, 96-year-old Jim was still working and 91-year-old Maggie was still taking care of him (60).
The photograph was likely taken in conjunction with another 1924 school photograph seen at SP-078, utilising the same area of the schoolyard but from another angle. In both photographs, a small boy sits in the centre of the front row (here, just to the left of Donald) holding a placard, probably a piece of slate, with "Timberscombe School 1924" chalked on it. This photograph shows an unclear word, followed by a "2", just to the bottom right of the date. The photograph at SP-078 is more blurred but appears to have a "1" chalked in at that spot. Likely the students were divided into groups and indeed no child is in both photographs.
Also divided among the two photographs are the teachers. Assistant teacher, Elizabeth Isabella Wallace (but known as Miss B. Wallace) is pictured at SP-078. On the photograph shown here, her sister, Head Teacher Salome Valentine Wallace stands firmly on the left end of the back row (sporting a new hairstyle that has not been seen on previous photographs and won't reappear on later ones). Born respectively in 1873 and 1872 at Islington, London, both the older and younger sister began at Timberscombe School on 26 March 1920, living at School House, semi-detached to the schoolroom (3). By the time Salome Valentine Wallace retired in 1932, she had purchased a house called St. Valentine's on Millbridge Road in Minehead, for herself, her sister and as a home for other retired female teachers. Designed by Minehead architect, W.J. Tamlyn, it was later renamed Hafod (4). Salome and Elizabeth Wallace were buried separately at St. Petrock's Church in Timberscombe in 1947 and 1959 (5).
To the left of the schoolchildren and Miss Wallace is a hut of sorts, probably built as a project that continued to appear as a background for school photographs, at least until 1925 or 1926 (6). Unseen but behind the hut is Timberscombe School's original schoolroom, built beginning in 1805. As the background behind the students is a long view of the left and rear side of a much-needed second schoolroom constructed in 1876 and 1877 (7). Made of red sandstone and rubble with diamond paned windows, it is an impressive structure that still stands in modern times but sadly is largely covered over by later renovations. Past the schoolroom, on the right edge of the photograph, is a building that first appeared as a school structure on the 1844-1888 Ordnance Survey Map . What is visible here was likely part of an extension added to the building that appears on the 1921-1943 map. None of it still stands.
Also wearing hobnail boots with studs and metal heels and seated just to the right of the little boy with the placard, is the boy known as Victor Reginald Vaulter, assumed by many to be a twin brother to Donald Vaulter--although they don't look that much alike. Both boys started school on the same day, 24 April 1922, enrolled by John Vaulter, who was working at the time at Kitswell Farm, midway between Timberscombe and Dunster. At admission their names were recorded as Donald Vaulter and Victor Cowlin, with both having Kitswell listed as their address (8) . Donald was born to John and Mary (nee Jennings) Vaulter on the 31st of October 1916. Victor was born on the first of January 1917 in Hackney, Greater London, to "a girl who had a baby". The surname of Victor's mother on the Birth Certificate was "Cowlin" (9). As an infant, Mr. and Mrs. Vaulter decided to foster Victor so as to prevent him being taken to a workhouse and for the rest of their lives, Donald and Victor considered themselves brothers (10). On the 21st of November 1923, Salome Wallace listed Victor as "Victor Cowlin" in the school's Log Book, when he and another boy were examined by Dr. Meade-King at Timberscombe School. Yet by the 14th of December 1928, Miss Wallace was identifying him as "Victor Vaulter", when he was awarded a Good Conduct Medal (11). In 1938, working as a Bricklayer and Mason, "Victor Vaulter" was the official name on his marriage license to Ada J. Bindon (12). They lived in Washford and Old Cleeve and when he died in 2003, Victor was buried as Victor Vaulter (13).
After working at Kitswell, John and Mary Vaulter took both boys to live at Aville Farm and at the outbreak of World War II, Evelyn Joan Griffith volunteered to work there as a Land Girl. She became Joan Vaulter when she and Donald married in 1946, taking over the farm from his parents and living and working there the rest of their lives (14). Joan passed away on the 22nd of November 2019 (15).
When donating this photograph in 2017, Joan Vaulter was only able to identify one other boy and one girl, both from the Stenner family. Joan was correct about the family but named the wrong girl. On the right end of the last row, the girl with a large bow in her hair is holding a doll--just as Donald Vaulter is holding a toy. Other children are doing the same and even more children are holding dolls and toys at SP-078, another factor connecting these two photographs. Joan Vaulter identified this girl as "Mavis Stenner". Mavis Cynthia Stenner was indeed the youngest Stenner child, who did attend Timberscombe School but was not even born until October 1924 (16). The girl seen here is her sister, almost certainly Agnes Beaumont Stenner, born in May 1915 and who was admitted to Timberscombe School in June 2019 (17). Agnes married William John Hill, an "Estate Carpenter " in 1939 and they lived at Brake Farm in Wheddon Cross (18). Later they moved to Minehead, where William died in 1981 (19) . Agnes passed away at the age of 90 in 2005 (20).
Correctly identified by Joan was Samuel (Sammy) Douglas Stenner, third from the left of the centre row, born in 1917 . He is practically holding a smaller boy in his lap (who also is holding a toy animal) that very likely is Herbert Charles Stenner, born in 1919, a younger brother of Sammy and Agnes. He would have just recently started school in August 2024 (21). The parents of the Stenner children were Samuel James and Adelaide Julia (nee Carter) Stenner. Mr. Stenner ran a village butcher shop next door to the Stenner home on Brook Street in Timberscombe (both demolished c. 1960s) and sadly will die within two years at the age of 36 (22). Julia Stenner and her children moved over to the western side of the village into the recently built No. 6 Council House, later renamed No. 6 Bemberry Bank (23). On the 1939 England and Wales Register, Sammy and Herbert were the only Stenner "children" still with their mother. Herbert was an Apprentice Jeweller and Watch Maker and Sammy had taken over his late father's business (he listed himself on the Register as a "Slaughterman"). Around this time might be when Sammy met Constance M. Burns, a young Welsh woman working as a cook in Dulverton (24). They married in Glamorganshire, Wales (25) but returned to No. 6 Bemberry Bank , living there for most of Sammy's working life (26). Later he and Constance did move to No. 5 Willow Bank (27), the next row of newly built homes in the village.
Sammy's brother, Herbert, waited until 1951 to marry Dorothy J.E. Webber (28), originally from Week Farm at Bridgetown (29). Herbert Stenner died in 2000 at Taunton (30). Before his passing in 2003, Sammy Stenner was out walking and ran into Maurice Huxtable, born in Timberscombe in 1932. Sammy asked Maurice if he realised that they were the two oldest men in the village. Maurice, 15-years-younger than Sammy, retorted that they were not, with Sammy quickly replying that they certainly were the two oldest men in the village that were actually born there (31)!
Other children can be identified with varying certainty. Without a doubt the girl in the white pinafore on the left end of the second row is Trinet Holland, born 19 August 1913 and the little boy, whose head she is grasping, is her brother, John Holland, born 19 September 1918. Their parents were John and Rebecca (nee Roberts) Holland (32). Trinet's firm hold on her little brother is somewhat indicative of their lives. The Hollands were a gipsy family (in the terms of the time), living at Hill Cottage in Holes Square, Timberscombe (33). The boy standing in the third row, third from the left, is very likely Trinet and John's brother, Frederick Holland, born 24 August 1915 (34). By the time of the 1939 Register, Frederick had gone elsewhere, Rebecca Holland had died and Trinet was firmly the"Head of the Household", describing herself as a "Dealer in Waste Materials". Her father, John, was identified as "assistant to daughter" and her brother, John, was listed as "no profession, assistant to sister". Still living at Hill Cottage, Trinet died and was buried in 1970 at St. Petrock's (35). Nine years later, Hill Cottage was demolished (36).
Another brother and sister are in the centre of the photograph, with Maud Gooding, born 9 September 1915, wearing a white pinafore and seated fourth from the left end of the second row . Her brother, Gilbert John Gooding, born 21 January 1913, is standing directly behind her. They were respectively the last and next-to-last of the nine children of Walter Gooding, a General Labourer and Emma (nee) Winter (37). The Gooding family had moved around quite a lot in Timberscombe as their children grew and it must have been a relief to settle into No. 3 Council House (later renamed No. 3 Bemberry Bank and just a couple of doors away from the Stenner family) probably around the time of this photograph (38). Gilbert died in 1934 at the age of 21. On the 1939 England and Wales Register, Maud was the only one of her siblings still living with her parents, employed as "Domestic Worker". She died at the age of 67 in 1983 (39).
Sitting just to the right of Maud Gooding are two girls, obviously sisters. They are surely Daisy Alice Kate Baker, born the 4th of February 1913 and holding a doll is Frances Maud Baker, born 25 August 1914, the daughters of Robert and Blanche Mary (nee Palmer) Baker. At the time of this photograph, their family would have been living at Holes Square (40). Both girls missed a lot of school because of illness (41). In 1937 Daisy married Lesley R. Pope a "Thresher Feeder" and they settled in Williton but in 1950, aged 38, Daisy passed away at Taunton (42). On the 20th of December 1924 (the year of this photograph), Frances left Timberscombe School and was directly transferred to a sanatorium to be treated for tuberculosis (43). Fortunately she survived, married twice and as Mrs. Lesley Bryant, passed away at the age of 84 in Sussex (44).
The Baker girls are probably flanked by three of their brothers. The boy on the immediate right of Frances may be Albert John Baker, born the second of July 1916. He left school in 1929 with a tuberculosis medical certificate (45). Albert married Violet May Fry in 1939, when she was working as a Domestic Servant at Cornerways, on The Ball in Minehead (46). He died in 1981 (47). Standing directly behind Albert, may be his older brother, Robert (Bob) George Baker, born the 23rd of January 1912 (48). He married a classmate, Kathleen Priscott (pictured in SP-078), but sadly Bob died aged 26 in 1938 (49). Because of family resemblance, it seems very possible the little boy holding the placard (balanced on a tin drum) is Henry Baker, born the 29th of September 1918 and who was admitted to Timberscombe School on the 1st of October 1923 (50). The honour of holding the placard seems to have favoured four-year-olds. Henry died in Taunton at the age of 57 (51).
The group of children chosen to be in this photograph seems to have focused on siblings and the three girls on the right end of the front roll also appear to fit that bill. From left to right, they are probably Kathleen May Slade, born 20 February 1917, Doris Elizabeth Slade, born the 3rd of September 1915 and Olive Blanche Slade, born 23 July 1918, the daughters of Herbert and Elizabeth (nee Blackmore ) Slade (52) . Like the Holland and Baker children, they too lived at Holes Square, with the Slade family situated at the house actually called Holes Square, later known as The Studio and in 2022 renamed as Finnbar. It was a convenient address for their father as it was near the Timberscombe Quarry where Herbert Slade was a Foreman (53).
Both Kathleen and Olive served as members of the Women's Land Army during World War II. Kathleen resigned at the end of the war to marry Herbert Edwin Upson in 1946 at Exmoor, before relocating to his birthplace at Ipswich, Suffolk, where Kathleen died in 2001, aged 84 (54). Olive left the Land Army in 1944, also to marry. Her husband was Leonard James Fowler and they lived at 24 Friday Street in Minehead (55). Mr. Fowler died young in 1950, while Olive lived until 14 June 2001. They are buried together in the Minehead Cemetary, where their gravestone was engraved "GONE TO JOIN LEN" (56). In 1934, older sister, Doris, married Frederick J. Bryant, a Builder's Labourer and they settled in the Lowerbourne section of Porlock (57). He died in 1973 and Doris died in 2000 and they are buried at the Porlock Cemetery (58).
Possibly another brother and sister are represented in this photograph. The little girl on the right end of the second row, not only holding a doll but also with a baby carriage, appears to be Margaret (mostly known as Maggie and sometimes Meggie) White, born 24 June 1917. Her brother, Roland James Harvey White (always called Jim), born 5 April 1913, was attending the school in 1924 and possibly is the boy just to the left of Head Teacher Wallace (59). Their parents were Thomas White, a farmer and thatcher and Florence (nee Harvey) White. On the 1939 England and Wales Register, the four members of the White family were still together at Witheridge Farm near Exton with 22-year-old Maggie and 26 year-old Jim described as working with their father. After their parents died, Jim continued , like his father, as a farmer and thatcher and at their own deaths in 2009 and 2008, living in Cutcombe, 96-year-old Jim was still working and 91-year-old Maggie was still taking care of him (60).
Creator
Anonymous
Source
Date
1924
Contributor
Language
English
Identifier
The schoolchildren of Timberscombe School in 1924 with Head Teacher Salome Valentine Wallace / Village centre
Acquisition Date
2018
Acquisition Method
Gift
Category
PEOPLE: School Groups / Timberscombe
PEOPLE: Occupations / Timberscombe
PEOPLE: Occupations / Timberscombe
Condition
Good
Condition Notes
entered by Tom Sperling
Condition Date
2023
Dimension Type
W X L
Dimension Units
cm
Dimension Value
13 X 24
Institution Name
St. Petrock's History Group
Notes
(1) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2005 (2) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (3) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Indexes, 1837-1915 and Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910-25 March 1947, page 183 (4) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910-25 March 1947, page 239 and as recalled in 2021 by Bernadette Brunker of School House (5) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, Find My Past.com, England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2007 and St. Petrock's Churchyard Levelling List of Graves, 1971 (6) as seen at SP-248 (7) Victoria County History.ac.uk and Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 8 March 1872-31 August 1892, pages 97 and 114 (8) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, 1897-1944, Nos. 409 and 410 (9) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Indexes, 1916-2007 and as recalled in 2017 by Joan Vaulter of Aville Farm (10) as recalled in 2017 by Joan Vaulter (11) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910- 25 March 1947, pages 239 and 371 (12) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (13) 1939 England and Wales Register, UK Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (14) as recalled in 2017 by Joan Vaulter, England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and UK Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 (15) England & Wales, Civl Registration Death Index, 1989-2021 (16) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 and Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 492 (17) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 380 (18) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and 1939 England and Wales Register (19) Web, UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014 (20) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (21) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 414 and 428 (22) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (23) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 and 1939 England and Wales Register (24) 1939 England and Wales Register (25) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (26) as recalled in 2020 by Andy and Sarah Heard, the current owners of No. 6 Bemberry Bank (27) UK Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 (28) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (29) 1939 England and Wales Register (30) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (31) as told in 2019 by Maurice Huxtable of Ye Olde Malthouse on Brook Street (renamed The Old Malt House in 2023) to Tom Sperling (32) England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Indexes, 1837-1915 and 1916-2007 and Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 369 and 423 (33) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914, Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910-25 March 1947, page 145 and Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 369, 393 and 423 (34) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 393 (35) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (36) as recalled in 2020 by David and Wendy Cook, who built their home, Blackball House, just east of the site of Hill Cottage (37) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 391 and 354 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Indexes, 1837-1915 (38) 1939 England and Wales Register (39) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (40) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 347 and 379 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Indexes, 1837-1915 (41) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 3 April 1910- 25 March 1947, pages 255-307 (42) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005, 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (43) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 379 (44) 1939 England and Wales Register and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (45) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 335 (46) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and 1939 England and Wales Register (47) England and Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (48) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 346 (49) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (50) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 424 (51) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (52) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 413, 394 and 422, England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (53) 1911 England Census (54) UK, World War II Women's Land Army Index Cards, 1939-1948, England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (55) UK, World War II Women's Land Army Index Cards, 1939-1948, England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1998 (56) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (57) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and 1939 England and Wales Register (58) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (59) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, Nos. 456-417 (60) UK Electoral Registers, 2003-2010, England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Indexes, 1989-2021 and as recalled by Jim Bruce in 2020, who knew both Jim and Maggie White well
Storage Location
St. Petrock's History Group Archive
Storage Date
2023
Storage Notes
St. Petrock's History Group PHOTOGRAPHS
Item Reference
SP-079
Technique
Copy
Citation
Anonymous, “Timberscombe Schoolchildren in 1924 with Head Teacher, Miss Salome V. Wallace,” St. Petrock's History Group, accessed May 18, 2024, https://stpetrockshistorygroup.omeka.net/items/show/3519.
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