Bessie Thorne and her Family

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Title

Bessie Thorne and her Family

Description

The woman in the top photograph is Bessie Thorne, who lived from 1873 to 1958. Perhaps she would not have appreciated being remembered as having a hard life, although she certainly did. Her husband died at the age of 36, leaving her a widow with six children. Five were sons, with four dying as young men (three in their teens), two of them in World War I. She survived all of these deaths, seemingly resolutely continuing on to each next stage of her life.

Bessie was born on the 28th of May 1873 at Lilstock, Somerset (about 8 miles northeast of Williton), third of the ten children of Joseph, a gamekeeper and Ruth (nee Denning) Mannings. Even in an era of large families, both of Bessie's parents had an abundant number of siblings. Joseph's father, William, an agricultural labourer and his mother, Elizabeth (nee Alford) Mannings had sixteen children. Ruth's parents, Sampson and Anna Greenland (nee Horler) Denning had seventeen (seven of their children were from Mr. Denning's first marriage). Among her siblings, Bessie was one of nine girls with William, her only brother, being the seventh child. By the age of eighteen, Bessie Mannings had left home and was working as a servant to a family in Glastonbury (1).

On the 19th of November 1896, Bessie married Sidney Vellacott Thorne at St. Andrew, the Parish Church of Clevedon. They were both 24 years old. At the time of their marriage, Bessie's father was deceased and Sidney's father, Richard Thorne, listed himself as a "Publican" (2), having retired from farming 300 acres at Higher Thorne Farm in Exford (3). In 1856, when Richard Thorne married Sidney's mother, Ann Blackmore Vellacott, he was farming in Withypoole (4). Ann's parent's, Nathaniel and Agnes (nee Blackmore) Vellacott had come from Devon to Exford in the early 1850s to farm Higher Thorne (5). Mr. Vellacott passed away at Exford in 1876 (6), and his son-in-law and daughter took over the farm. By the time they left Withypoole to farm Higher Thorne, seven of Richard and Ann's eight children had already been born, the youngest of them being Sidney. The eighth child, born while at Higher Thorne, was Sidney's younger sister--also named Bessie (7).

Sidney's second eldest brother was William Henry Vellacott Thorne. ("Vellacott", the surname of William and Sidney's maternal grandfather, Nathaniel Vellacott, became almost a de-facto middle name of almost all subsequent Thorne children, sometimes not given until later in life) (8). Older than Sidney by twelve years, by 1891 William was in Timberscombe working as a farmer with his wife, Eva Marion (nee Norman) Thorne and their 2-year-old son, William George. At least when the 1891 census was taken in Timberscombe, 17-year-old Sidney was staying with them. This was five years before his marriage to Bessie but places Sidney in the village where he would return as a husband and father.

Bessie and Sidney's first child, Sidney Richard Vellacott Thorne was born on the 26th of March 1897 at Horsham, Sussex and was baptised on the 25th of April at Westhampnett, Sussex, near Chichester and where Sidney was working as "Innkeeper" (9). On the 1st of February 1899, the young family was in Bridgwater, Somerset, when Arthur Reginald Vellacott Thorne was baptised at St. John's Church. His baptism record indicated Sidney's occupation had changed to "butcher" (10). By the 1901 Census, the Thorne family was back in Sussex. The lettering on the census is not clear but Sidney was working at either the Sandage or Sausage Factory--considering his newer profession, quite possibly the latter. Also noted on the census, he and Bessie had a new son, one month old and not yet named. Born in Chichester on 27 February 1901, the infant will be called William Joseph Vellacott Thorne (11), growing up to be the young man pictured in the second photograph.

The Thorne family remained in the Chichester area for a while. They had moved to 74 Victoria Row (later "Road") in Portfield when Edwin James Vellacott Thorne was born. He and William were both baptised there on the 7th of June 1903. The family was at the same address when Cecil Charles Thorne was baptised on 3 September 1905 (12). Sidney Thorne's parents, Richard and Ann Thorne had also relocated to the area, where they were listed on the 1901 Census as operating The White Swan at Westhampnett and is where Ann died in 1902 (13). Indeed the elder Mr. and Mrs. Thorne may have been here as early as 1896, as The White Swan may be where Richard was "Publican' at the time of Sidney and Bessie's marriage and could well be where Sidney was working as "Innkeeper" when his first son was born. Both Westhampnett and Portfield were small villages that ultimately became suburbs of Chichester.

Everyone appears to be back in Timberscombe on the 2nd of September 1907 when the younger Sidney and his brothers, Reginald, William and Edwin were all admitted to the Timberscombe School (14). Cecil (who may have avoided having "Vellacott" in his name--it is not recorded nor is it on his tombstone) was admitted on the 4th of September 1908 as an Infant(15). By then, Bessie and Sidney's last child, Ivy Beatrice Vellacott Thorne, (who does have "Vellacott"as a middle name, so it wasn't just for male offspring) had been baptised at St. Petrock's Church on 25 April 1908, where her father's profession was now listed as "Labourer"(16). The elder Sidney may have been labouring for his brother, William H.V. Thorne, who he had stayed with in Timberscombe when he was seventeen. William's first wife, Eva Marion, had died in October 1897, when she was 33-years-old. In August 1898 he had married Elizabeth Marsh in Exton and they were now farming at Beasley, just south of Timberscombe and also where the widowed Richard Thorne now lodged (17).

Less than six months after the birth of his daughter, Sidney Thorne died. He was buried at St. Petrock's on the 24th of October 1908 (18), ultimately memorialised with his parents. Their current and still standing tombstone reads "RICHARD THORNE, who died at Beasley, July 14, 1914, ANN THORNE, his wife, died at Chichester Jan 2, 1902, interred in Chichester Cemetery, also SIDNEY VELLACOTT THORNE, their son, who died at Timberscombe, October 17th 1908, aged 36 years".

When Ivy Thorne was baptised and the family address was recorded, it was simply listed as "Timberscombe", as residences within the village often were. If Sidney and Bessie were living at Beasley with William H.V. Thorne, the address would likely have been given as "Beasley". It seems that Sidney and Bessie's family moved into Corner Cottage at Timberscombe before their children had registered for school, when their address was also given as "Timberscombe". It is certainly where Bessie and her children were at in 1911 and 1921 and hopefully where their father was, at least for a short time, before his death.

On 25 January 2022, the St. Petrock's History Group was contacted by Philip V. Thorne of Loughborough, the grandson of William Joseph Vellacott Thorne and great grandson of Bessie Thorne (and his "V. ", of course initialed "Vellacott"). Philip Thorne and other members of his family had visited Timberscombe but had never determined where Corner Cottage had been located. His contact was well-timed and appreciated as he soon supplied a copy of the 1921 Census entry for Corner (as it was sometimes called, as well as Corner House), very quickly after it had been only partially released. This helped verify that Corner Cottage had been on the western side of Great House Street just before it reached a junction with Willow View Lane. Corner Cottage was not actually on the corner and its doorway would have probably have been the last facing Great House Street. It appears to have straddled the area where a rear addition was later added to Willow Cottage, built in the early 1980s and where the house called Hillcrest currently stands (19). In 2022 , Mr. Edward M. Schofield of North Hawkwell Farm, who was born in 1938, recalled living here as a boy and the house was still known as Corner Cottage. On the actual corner during Bessie's time was Hill View Cottage, built and occupied by Mr. William Floyde, with his front door likely facing south, overlooking Willow View Lane (20). That he was next door to Bessie had already been noted in a 1911 Summery Book printed after the 1911 Census was released and was now verified by the 1921 Census release.

When Bessie was listed at Corner Cottage in 1911, she was with five of her children, from Reginald, aged 12 to three-year-old Ivy. Missing was the oldest boy, Sidney, who at the age of 14 was staying at 7 Trinity Street in Taunton with his uncle, Richard Nathaniel Vellacott Thorne and his wife, Helena. Richard Thorne, an "Implement and Cake Agent", was the eldest of Sidney's father's siblings and was hosting the boy as he was in Taunton "Learning Butchering"(21). Less than three years later, at the outbreak of World War I and just having turned 17, Sidney lied that he was 18-years-old and enlisted with the Coldstream Guards. Six months later he was promoted to Lance Corporal and a month after that, in October 1914, Sidney was at the infamous Battle of Ypres, continuing from 30 October to 21 November. He was returned to the UK for a short leave but it is not likely that included any time at Timberscombe. Turning 18 (but with his commanders probably thinking he was 19), Sidney was sent to the trenches of Givenchy and for the next year was in constant battle and rain with only periodic relief from either. On the 15th of September 1916, Sidney was deployed to the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, where on the first day of battle, there were a total of 425 casualties-- men killed, missing or wounded. Nineteen-year-old Sidney Thorne was among the dead and missing. His body was never found (22). It took three years but when belongings left by Sidney were returned to his family, the only name designated to receive them was written in red ink, simply reading "Bessie" (23).

The name that Arthur Reginald Vellacott Thorne went by was Reginald. On the 12th of February 1912, when he had just turned 13, Reginald left Timberscombe School to work in the building trade (24). When he turned 18, on 8 January 1917, he was conscripted for service, enlisted in the 35th Training Reserved Battalion and sent to Wool, Dorset for training (25). When conscripted, it is probable he did not know if his brother was dead or alive. Listed as a Private, Reginald was assigned to the Princess Charlotte of Wales Royal Berkshire Regiment, 9th Battalion but before being sent overseas, he became ill. Reginald was sent to an Isolation Hospital in Salisbury, which treated infectious diseases, in particular diphtheria and scarlet fever (26). He died on the 5th of June 1917. The "UK, Soldiers Who Died in World War I" records described his death as "Theatre of War: Home". On the 9th of June, Private Reginald Thorne was buried at St. Petrock's. He is the only one of the eleven men who died in the war and are listed on the memorial in Timberscombe, who is buried where he had lived. His grave was marked with a Commonwealth War Grave Commission Headstone.

Philip Thorne believed the age of his grandfather, William Joseph V. Thorne, in the photograph seen here (that he provided, as well as the photograph of Bessie), was around 18 years. Germany signed an armistice agreement on the 11th of November 1918, officially ending the war. Having lost her two oldest children, Bessie Thorne must have been relieved her third son did not turn 18 until 27 February 1919. By the time of the 1921 Census, William Thorne was boarding with the Kingdom family in Exeter, where he was employed as a Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist at the General Post Office (27).

Back in Timberscombe, on the 1921 Census 18-year-old Edwin James Vellacott Thorne was still at Corner Cottage with his mother and 13-year-old Ivy. Edwin listed his profession as "Blacksmith", working for "H. Phillips, Blacksmith" at Cowbridge and Timberscombe. Mr. Phillips was Harry Phillips, from a well-known blacksmithing family and who purchased Cowbridge in 1916 (28). In a previously undated photograph, seen at SP-012, Harry Phillips is depicted in front of Timberscombe's Old Forge with the name of his father and himself over the door and standing with a younger man. Edwin's entry on the census reveals a time period when the photograph could have been taken and after Philip Thorne was emailed a copy, he replied that the younger man could "certainly could be Edwin", adding that his "sticking out ears" were a family characteristic.

Notably missing at Corner Cottage on the 1921 Census was Bessie's youngest son, Cecil Charles Thorne, who would have been about 16-years-old at the time. As stated above, Cecil had been admitted to Timberscombe School in 1908--when he was not yet three-years-old. He was withdrawn seven months later, returning in April 1910 when he had turned five (29). Ominously on the 3rd of October 1913, the Head Teacher, Mr. Herbert Shephard, wrote in the school's Log Book as follows: "Cecil Thorne has had several attacks of a kind of fit, in school this week. They last only a minute, or less but leave him very pale and exhausted. It is questionable whether he should remain in school but as his mother is at work all day, he is at least safe and more under control here. He has suffered, intermittently from these attacks during the last two years" (30). It is possible that Bessie's place of work at this time was at Timberscombe School as a Caretaker (31).

There were increased attacks in 1914 and on 27 May, Cecil was taken to the "Williton Infirmary for a time" and was "therefore removed from the books"(32). Mr. Shephard had accepted a new position and his last day at Timberscombe was 26 June 1914. Ironically his final entry in the Log Book concerned Cecil's brother, William, happily recording he had done well on exams and would be awarded either £20 or perhaps £25. Indeed William had done extremely well. The "exams" were the Ellsworth Exhibition examination, held in Dunster and 13-year-old William was the first candidate to qualify and be sent up by Timberscombe School "for some years". He would receive his award money annually for at least two more years (33).

William's success would have been a needed bright spot for his mother. On 7June 1915, Bessie was able to return Cecil from an infirmary to school but on the 16th and the 17th, he had four more violent attacks on each day and again during a doctor's examination on the 18th. Seven days before Christmas, Cecil was taken"To London for indef. time". Again though Bessie brought Cecil back to school in March 1916 but just a month later he was taken to an "Epileptic Home" (34). On May 2nd 1916, the current Head Teacher, Mrs. Florence Miller, wrote about Cecil saying he was at "a home for epileptics in Bucks" (35). This was the last mention of Cecil. He died on 12 May 1922, aged seventeen (36). He was buried at St. Petrock's next to Reginald's grave and on his tombstone, below "IN MEMORY OF CECIL THORNE, AGED 17", Bessie added "ALSO HIS BROTHER, SIDNEY, AGED 19", the son she was not able to bury.

Incredibly these were not the last graves added to this cluster. It is not clear how long Edwin Thorne continued blacksmithing at the Old Forge but it is known he was an avid bellringer and can be seen at SP-068, seated in a charabanc on an outing with other Timberscombe bellringers. Above is a photograph of an engraved clock, shared by his great nephew, Philip Thorne, that was Edwin's wedding gift from fellow bellringers when he married Beatrice May Gould in January 1929 (37). He would have known her for most of his life as Beatrice was born in Timberscombe and her brother, Edward, rang bells with him. Edwin--better known in Timberscombe as "Eddie"--- and Beatrice lived at Mayfield in Cowbridge. However, less than 11 months after his marriage, he was buried at St. Petrocks in a grave inscribed by his wife, reading "MY DEAR HUSBAND EDWIN J.V. THORNE DIED NOVEMBER 29 1929". HIs grave is immediately to the left of Cecil's grave. Nine years later, Beatrice Thorne died at the age of 41 and was buried just behind and to the right of her husband's grave (38).

Only William and Ivy outlived their mother. On the 11th of October 1930, William Thorne married Edith Kate Mitchell in Exeter, her hometown (39). During the 1939 England and Wales Register, they lived on Sweetbrier Lane in Exeter with twin sons born in 1933, Geoffrey and Michael. The family was at Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey by 1964 (40), where William died on the 2nd of July 1987. Edith Kate (but known as "Daisy" by her family) also passed away there on 23 January 1994 (41).

Ivy Thorne is identified in a Timberscombe School photograph at SP-246. It is dated 1914, when Ivy would be about five-years-old. Her brothers, William and Cecil were at the school at various times in 1914 and could be among the boys that are not identified in the photograph. Ivy was enrolled by Bessie on the 31st of March 1911 in the Infants division. She was briefly withdrawn in April and then readmitted in May. After that she was at Timberscombe School until the 18th of October 1915, when she left again. The "Cause of Leaving" listed was "Gone to Bath" (42).

Possibly Ivy's leaving was related to the difficulties (and expenses) of Cecil's worsening conditions--which also could have been a factor in Reginald being allowed to leave school when he was only thirteen. Ivy's relocation to Bath was shortly before Cecil was sent to the infirmary in London. Bessie had connections in both cities. Her father grew up in Wellow, a village five miles from Bath, the city where he married Bessie's mother (43). At least two of Bessie's sisters lived in or near London (44). Bessie brought Ivy back to Timberscombe School in October 1916, less than three months after Cecil was placed in the Epileptic Home where it seems he remained.

On the 1921 Census, Bessie gave her occupation as Caretaker at Timberscombe School. Ivy was not listed as at school. As in the case of Reginald, she left school aged 13, on the 13th of July 1921 with a Labour certificate and likely went into service (45). She married Harold Dyer of Minehead in 1928 (46). On the 1939 England and Wales Register, Ivy was in Devon at Tiverton with her occupation listed as "Unpaid Domestic Duties", which was current census lingo for "wife". However the line where Ivy's husband would be listed has been blacked out. At Probate, after her death on 26 May 1970, she was identified as Ivy Beatrice Vellacott Dyer, living at Beauvais on The Avenue in Minehead, with no survivors recorded. Beauvais might have been a boarding house that she may have run and where it has been speculated Ivy collapsed and died in the kitchen (47). Harold Dyer remarried in 1973 and was buried alone at the Minehead Cemetery in 1987 (48).

Bessie not only moved on, she remarried. She had recently turned 55. The 66-year-old groom was her brother-in-law, William Henry Vellacott Thorne. While still farming at Beasley, in 1925, William's second wife, Elizabeth, had died (49). BessieThorne and Mr. Thorne married on the 18th of June 1928 at the Wesleyan Chapel in Minehead (50). By 1939 and retired from farming, William and Bessie had moved to Williton and lived at Woodville House on West Street at least until his death in September 1940 (51).

Bessie Thorne died the 7th of January 1958. On 26 July 2022, Philip Thorne and his mother were able to supply a copy of Mrs. Thorne's Death Certificate. At the time of death, Bessie was 84-years-old and was living at Canberra House, 13 Warden Road in Minehead. On 27 July, the current occupants of that address suggested it may have been a Care Home in 1958, as there had been others in the immediate area. The certificate also listed "I.B.V. Dyer" (Ivy) as Informant, with her address at Haley House on Irnham Road. In 2022, Haley House was a Medical Centre at No. 2 Irnham Road, on the other side of the same block as Warden Road. The nurse at Reception recalled that in 1958 Haley House was a hotel/ boarding house, perhaps not unlike Iyy Dyers's location at her passing in 1970. Regardless, in 1958, she was living very close to her mother's location.

The final photograph was taken on 22 July 2022 in what was described as the "Old Grave Yard" on the southern side of St. Petrock's (52). The first tombstone, seen standing on the right side of the photograph with a curved top, is the grave of Richard and Anne Blackmore Thorne and their son Sidney, Bessie's husband and the father of her children. The white stone to its left is the Commonwealth War Grave of Private Reginald Thorne. The small stone to its left marks the grave of Cecil, with its memorial to Lance Corporal Sidney Thorne. Difficult to see but the tuft of grass immediately to the left of Cecil's grave is the back right post of a flat four-post kerb, the grave of Edwin Thorne. A smaller standing stone, to the right of the tuft of grass and seen between the graves of Cecil and Reginald, is the grave of Beatrice, Edwin's wife.

On the left end of the photograph is a more apparent four-post kerb, where William Henry Vellacott Thorne was buried in 1940. To its right is a cross on a large and heavy plinth that has collapsed, obscuring what might be engraved on its front. In a graveyard survey completed in 2022, this grave was not identified but a 1971 report identifies it as the grave numbered 227, the burial site of "Elizabeth Thorne". According to notes of the Thorne family this is the grave of Elizabeth (nee Marsh)Thorne, William H.V. Thorne's second wife. It is not yet known where Bessie Thorne might have been buried or perhaps cremated.

Creator

Anonymous /
Anonymous /
Anonymous /
Thomas Sperling

Date

undated but perhaps 1930s or 1940s
undated but likely c. 1919
undated
detail of the above
23 July 2022

Language

English

Identifier

Bessie (nee Manning) Thorne, perhaps in the 1930s or 1940s / William Joseph Vellacott Thorne, c. 1919 / undated photograph, with a detail, of a clock presented to Edwin James Thorne as a wedding gift on 6 February 1929 / 2022 photograph of grave sites of Thorne family members at St. Petrock's Church, Timberscombe

Acquisition Date

2022
2022
2022
2022

Acquisition Method

Gift
Gift
Gift
Research

Category

PEOPLE: NAMED / Timberscombe

Condition

Good

Condition Notes

entered by Tom Sperling

Condition Date

2022

Dimension Type

W X L

Dimension Units

cm

Dimension Value

20 X 14
10.5 X 14.5
7.5 X 10
4 X 8 (detail)
10 X 15.5

Institution Name

St. Petrock's History Group

Notes

(1) 1881 and 1891 England Censuses (2) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 (3) 1881 England Census (4) Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 and 1861 and 1871 England Censuses (5) 1851 and 1871 England Censuses (6) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (7) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 and 1881 England Census (8) as described on 1 February 2022 by Philip V. Thorne of Loughborough, great grandson of Bessie Thorne (9) West Sussex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 and 1901 England Census (10) Somerset, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1914 (11) 1901 England Census and 1939 England and Wales Register (12) West Sussex, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1920 (13) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915 and England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (14) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER 1997-1944, Nos. 225, 226, 227 and 228 (15) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 243 (16) Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914 (17) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915, Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations, 1754-1914 and 1911 England Census (18) UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (19) Ordnance Survey Map, 1921-1943, Ordnance Survey Map, 1844-1888 and as recalled in April 2021 by Allan Sutton of No. 1 Willow Bank, Timberscombe. (20) as recalled in 2019 by Maurice Huxtable of Ye Old Malthouse, Timberscombe (21) 1881 and 1891 England Censuses (22) Global Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and Other Select Locations, 1300s-Current and "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 (23) UK, Army Register of Soldier's Effects, 1901-1929 (24) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, 4 April 1910-25 March 1947, page 40 (25) UK World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1919 and "TIMBERSCOMBE'S FALLEN of WORLD WAR I" (26) UK Soldiers Who Died in the Great War, 1914-1917, "TIMBERSCOMBE'S FALLEN OF WORLD WAR I and UK, Army Register of Soldier's Effects, 1901-1929 (27) as donated by Philip Thorne, 1 February 2022 (28) TimberscombeVillage.com/ History of Timberscombe/ Other Historic Structures/ Cowbridge Mill, written by Lesley Webb and "1916 PARTICULARS, PLANS and CONDITIONS OF THE KNOWLE ESTATE SALE, sales particulars booklet, prepared by Messrs. W.R.J. Greenslade & Co., Taunton and Wellington for the July 20 1916 Public Auction of the Knowle Estate (which included Cowbridge Mill) (29) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, no. 243 (30) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, page78 (31) Bessie Thorne's occupation on the 1921 Census was listed as Caretaker at Timberscombe School (32) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, pages 89 and 90 (33) Timberscombe School LOG BOOK, page 95 and a clipping from an unidentified newspaper, dated 25 June 1914and headlined "TIMBERSCOMBE " and "EXAMINATION SUCCESS", supplied in 2023 by Ms. Jan Harrower of Oxfordshire, the grand-daughter of Herbert and Gladys Shephard (34) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER and Timberscombe School LOG BOOK , pages 110 and 111 (35) Timberscombe School LOB BOOK, page 119 (36) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 and UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (37) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (38) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 and UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (39) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and 1901 England Census (40) London, England, Electoral Register, 1832-1965 (41) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index and Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 and a Thorne Family Tree shared by Philip Thorne on 1 February 2022 (42) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER, No. 272 (43) 1841 and 1851 England Censuses and England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 (44) 1911 England Census (45) Timberscombe School ADMISSION REGISTER (46) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 (47) England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 and 8thFTM2012FamilyTree, Ancestry.com (48) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current (49) England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 (50) England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 and "TIMBERSCOMBE'S FALLEN OF WORLD WAR I" (51) 1939 England and Wales Register, England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 and England & wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1858-1995 (52) as described on the 1971 Graveyard Survey of St. Petrock's Church Yard, as can be viewed on the North Porch at St. Petrock's

Storage Location

St. Petrock's History Group Archive

Storage Date

2022

Storage Notes

St. Petrock's History Group PHOTOGRAPHS

Item Reference

SP-324

Technique

Copies

Comments

Citation

Anonymous / Anonymous / Anonymous / Thomas Sperling, “Bessie Thorne and her Family,” St. Petrock's History Group, accessed March 28, 2024, https://stpetrockshistorygroup.omeka.net/items/show/3583.