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Mechanics' Institute

JeanM — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:46:30 +0000

Founded in 1841, the aims of the Institute were to instruct members in science and useful knowledge by the means of lectures, conversation and readings as well as creating a library and museum and purchasing philosophical apparatus. Membership was primarily for boys who had left school and men, but ladies and children under the age of 14 were invited to certain lectures and social events. Lectures were held fortnightly in a room at the Town Hall, the first was entitled ‘The Science of Arithmetic’. A library opened in a room at Sarum House, with 587 volumes bein

St Thomas by Launceston

CoralP — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:17:27 +0000

This is one of the three Launceston parishes our volunteers are currently working in.

Civil Parish:

St Thomas by Launceston

Place Name:

Launceston, Cornwall

Bosbury Probate Material 1601-1620

SylviaP — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:07:25 +0000

From the start of the 17th century, more probate documents survive. There are surviving documents for 37 Bosbury people from 1601-1620. Three of them were proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.

John Bowley, husbandman, 1601

Richard Caple, 1601

Thomas Kent, 1604

Richard Knight, yeoman, 1604

William Mills, yeoman, 1604

John Mutlow, 1604

Richard Seborne, 1604

Thomas Knight, tailor, 1605

Joan Farley, 1605

John Mutlow, 1607

Richard Tyler, 1607

Margaret Woodend, 1607

Civil Parish:

Bosbury & Coddington

Place Name:

Bosbury

Bosbury Probate material 1581-1600

SylviaP — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:40:01 +0000

There are 19 surviving probate documents for Bosbury people between 1581 and 1600. Three of these were proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. These were for William Wood and Anthony Washburne, both described as 'gentlemen' and Thomas Lawrence, a fuller, which gives an indication of the importance of the cloth trade at this period.

Thomas Farley, 1583

John Finch, 1583

Thomas Mason, 1583

John Lawrence, 1588

Thomas Mutlow, 1588

John Brown, husbandman, 1589

William Wood, gentleman, 1590

Thomas Lawrence, fuller, 1591

Civil Parish:

Bosbury and Coddington

Place Name:

Bosbury

Bosbury Probate Material 1561-1580

SylviaP — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:11:43 +0000

There are 17 surviving sets of probate documents for Bosbury people between 1561 and 1580. Only one of them, Richard Harford, a wealthy landowner, had his will proved at the prerogative Court of Canterbury. The people involved are:

Richard Seborne, 1561

Morris Lyeth, 1566

John Knight the Elder, 1567

John Wodding, 1569

Joan Mutlow of Upledon in the parish of Bosbury, widow, 1570

Thomas Barclay, 1573

William Cornwall, 1571

Thomas Hall, 1571Elinor Mutlow, 1571

Elizabeth Sylvester, 1571

Current District:

Bosbury

Civil Parish:

Bosbury & Coddington

Place Name:

Bosbury

Nettlecombe Church, Somerset

MaryS — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:17:08 +0000

There has probably been a church at Nettlecombe since the late 13th century and by 1440 it was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. At that date it comprised chancel, nave, south chapel and tower, the last being a recent addition. The chapel was dedicated to St John the Baptist and was endowed as a chantry by Simon de Ralegh (d. 1440). The church was restored by Richard Carver c.1820 and more drastically between 1858 and 1870 by C E Giles under the guidance of the Trevelyan agent James Babbage who claimed the new clerestorey made the church look two centuries older.

Current District:

West Somerset

Civil Parish:

Nettlecombe

Place Name:

Nettlecombe

Richard Aldworth's Educational Charity

JeanM — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:09:18 +0000

Sir Richard Aldworth (d.1646) left money to the Corporation of Basingstoke to educate ten boys of good and religious poor men of the town and to afterwards place them into ‘honest trades’. The boys attended Aldworth’s Blue Coat School and were apprenticed out at the age of 16. Some of them stayed in the town but others were sent further afield, for instance to London, Newbury, Hungerford, Andover, Odiham and Southampton.

Current District:

Basingstoke

Civil Parish:

Basingstoke

Place Name:

Basingstoke

Richard Aldworth Educational Charity

JeanM — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:32:50 +0000

Current District:

Basingstoke

Civil Parish:

Basingstoke

Place Name:

Basingstoke

Richard Aldworth's Educational Charity, Basingstoke

JeanM — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:18:27 +0000

Sir Richard Aldworth (d.1648) left money to the Corporation of Basingstoke to educate ten boys of good and religious poor men of the town and to afterwards place them into ‘honest trades’. The boys attended Aldworth’s Hospital School (later known as the Blue Coat School) and were apprenticed out at the age of 16. Some of them stayed in the town but others were sent further afield, for instance to London, Newbury, Hungerford, Andover, Odiham and Southampton.

Current District:

Basingstoke

Civil Parish:

Basingstoke

Place Name:

Basingstoke

St Michael's, Alcombe

MaryS — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:40:41 +0000

Alcombe is now part of Minehead but was formerly a village in Dunster parish. The present church building dates from the early 20th century and the church community from the 1870s. However, Alcombe had a chapel in the Middle Ages.

Current District:

Wet Somerset

Civil Parish:

Minehead

Place Name:

Alcombe