Cabble

1) John Kibbol (Cabble)

2) John Kibbol [same as last?]

DD/S/BT/19/10/1 - 1] Stephen Earl of Ilchester 2] John Cabble of Compton Dundon, farmer Lease for lives of Bradleys wood (4.5a), Compton Dundon. Rent 10s.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1756.

DD/S/BT/19/10/2 - 1] John Cabble 2] James Grenville of Butleigh Assignment of Bradleys wood. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1763.

3) Michael Cabble b. 1829 Butleigh, labourer, s.o. John and Hannah Cabble of Kingweston

In 1841 Michael lived with his parents in Longburton, Sherborne, Dorset then lived with them on Abbotts Hill, Pendomer in 1851. His sister Jane (24) was Keinton born. Nfi

Callard

1) Anne Callard bur. 5 Jan 1772 Butleigh [possible misreading of Callow?]

Calley

1) James Calley b. 1835 Butleigh, labourer

Aged 5 in 1841, James had boarded with John (35) and Elizabeth Clark (25) at Compton Martin. In 1851 he was reported as visiting his 'relative' John Clark (43) and wife Elizabeth at the Coomb, Compton Martin. Possibly the illegitimate son of Elizabeth Clark? Nfi

Callow

Callow, Calloway and Kelway seem to have the same origin - from Osbern de Cailly born circa 1025 in Cailly, Rouen, France. The Callow family were one of the more numerous inhabitants of Butleigh but finding a solution to the genealogical sequences with all the Edmunds, Thomases and Henrys is proving difficult due to missing records and some speculative solutions below may need revising if more information surfaces.

1) William Callow

DD/S/BT/25/6/5 - 1] Sir Edmund Peckham and son George 2] Joan eldest daughter of William Callow of Butleigh, husbandman Copy lease for 299 years of a messuage and 1 3/4a, toft and fardel with Hoggeshaies (1a), toft and fardel at Wootton, croft adjoining (1a), 4a in Butleigh Date: 1562.

1) Joanne Callowe Butleigh married 25 Oct 1581 John Kellway #

2) Joanne Callow Butleigh married 25 Jun 1585 John Tutton #

3) Doona Callow married Butleigh 3 May 1593 Roger Knolles #

4) Margaret Callow married Butleigh 15 Apr 1591 Philip Pirry #

5) Jane Callow Butleigh married 29 Apr 1619 George Talbot #

6) Maria Callow Butleigh married 29 Sep 1631 Clement Meacher #

7) William bur. 16 Mar 1616 Butleigh (Dwelly's PR)

8) Dunstan Callow bur. 3 Oct 1608 Butleigh

9) William Callow

See Mathew Knolls will for details of family

DD/S/BT/4/3/8 1] Thomas Symcockes 2] Sir John Meller of Little Bredy, Dors., kt, his son and heir Robert, Wolley Meller of Upcerne, Dors., and William Coward of Wells Grant for lives of Barbara Keeping's messuage, water grist mill and 3a, Katherine Symcockes' s messuage and 36a, Thomas Samwayes's messuage and 70a, a messuage and 70a late Joan Callow decd, the Churchhouse, a messuage late Joan Sutton decd, Tillye Walton's messuage, Rowley messuage and 70a, Joan Seymor's messuage and 18a and a messuage and 40a in Water lane, Butleigh trust to raise £1,500 for Thomas's younger children. 1641 (?)

10) John Callow bur. Dec 1630 Butleigh

11) Thomas Callow

12) Edmund Callowe

Rabody is an unusual forename – on 4 Nov 1610 a Rabody C.... married Roger Hatch [see Rabodya Chedd]. Had Edmund died and his widow re-married? Alexander is recorded as paying 1s 8d in rates to the Overseers of the Poor in 1673, the year he died.

12a) Edmund Callow Chr. 25 Nov 1604 Butleigh, buried in 1691 Butleigh

A 'widow' Callow appears in the churchwardens accounts in 1680. There may be generation slippage here – the Edmund who d. 1691 may be a son of Edmund b. 1604.

Edmund Callow appears amongst the commoners on the 1672 list and the OOP rates list in 1673. He paid rates on land in South Moor 1673-77. In 1677 he (or another Edmund? - probably not since the South Moor rates were no longer paid) also paid rates in Butleigh to the OOP [mostly as neighbour of Humphrey Callow sen]. The rate was paid in Butleigh 1677 – 1691/2 when Edmund was replaced by Thomas. Edmund was buried in 1691 (OOP).[An Edward Callow (1689, 92 and 1710 - CWA) might be meant for Edmund or be another member of this family -Edmund and Edward are easily confused when reading poor script]

12a2) Thomas Callow

Thomas, a mason, immediately followed Edmund (in the same place in the OOP ratepayer list) and must have been his son or brother. 1693 accounts are lost but he paid rates on the same property from 1694 – 1710. He appeared in the churchwardens accounts in 1692, 1708 and 1710 as a mason. The next Edmund may have been his son, or brother.

12ax) Edmund Callow mason

Edmund is mentioned in 1696 when he built part of Pirkes house (OOP). Edmund Callow appears in 1706 in the churchwardens accounts as a mason. This Edmund paid rates in 1708, 09, 10 and 1711. The OOP accounts record an Edward (Edmund?) supplying stones and carrying them to Waleyeate [Bridge].

DD/S/BT/6/5/20-22 …..and Edmund Callow of Butleigh, mason Covenant to levy a fine on a house Date: 1706.

12a1) Humphrey Callow of Butleigh, born c. 1638, died 1694? or bur. 5 Jun 1718 Butleigh?

The Callows lived in Water Lane before 1653. A Humphrey Callow, ironworker-smith appears in the churchwardens accounts between 1673 and 1714. A child (NN) of a Humphry Callow was buried in 1689 Butleigh (OOP). Humphrey paid rates to the OOP from 1679 and in 1681 was called 'senior' (and placed next to Edmund Callow in the rates list). He continued to pay the rates 1682 until 1694. He paid rates on land in South Moor in 1687, 88, 94 and 1695.

12a1A?) Humphrey Callow, bur. 9 May 1736 Butleigh -?

Possibly the Humphrey who fixed the church lock and made a key for the tower door in 1716 (and another key for the door in1718). In 1725 made a new key for the church door and two keys for the coffer and an iron latch for the pew. In 1726 he made a bolt for the church door and in 1727 mended the church and tower locks (and again in 1728 – comment upon his quality of work!). See next Humphry

12a1Ai?) Humphrey Callow bur. 23 Apr 1743 Butleigh?

The dates of deaths of these Humphrey fathers isn't certain. In 1712 Humphrey Callow junior (suggests that a 'senior' Humphrey was still alive) received relief from the OOP for his 'family in their sickness at several times'. In 1713 he received money from the Symcockes and Webb bequests plus further money to releive him in his sickness at several times. In 1714 he received house rent as well as relief in his sickness and in 1715 for house rent. His rent was paid to landlord Henry Pope in 1716.A Humphry, in straightened circumstances, was having his rent paid to Henry Pope in 1717 (OOP). In 1718 Dr. Periam was paid for 'curing' his finger. In 1720 his rent was paid again, and in 1721. In 1722 the overseers paid £1 2s 6d to have him carried to gaol! In 1736 Humphrey was paid by the OOP in his sickness and also received 3 pecks of wheat and part of his house rent. In 1739 an Ann Callow gave evidence against inkeepers who were on trial. Probably the same Anne who received 20 weeks relief in 1739 and 26 weeks in 1740. (OOP)

12b) Henry Callow Chr. 2 Sep 1609 Butleigh

13) Henry Callow died 1692-3 [too old to be 13b – possibly his son]

Possibly the Henry Challor appearing in the churchwardens accounts in 1680 making a donation to the building of St. Paul's Cathedral? A Henry appears paying rates to the OOP in 1674 – 1685 (in 84 and 85 he was paid to care for Alce Grimes). He paid rates 1685-1692, 1693 records are missing and in 1694 he was replaced in the rates list by Thamesin Callow, presumably his wife (or daughter?). Thomsin/Thamesin paid the rates 1694-99 in which latter year she paid jointly with Thomas Symcockes. The next year the rate was paid by Henry Callow, presumably her son.

13a) Henry Callow bur. 13 Mar 1739 Butleigh

Henry paid the rate from 1700 to 1737 after which the property seem to have gone to Mrs. Elizabeth Pope of Lydford.. He was churchwarden in 1717-18. In 1718 noted 'for late Will Strode'. From 1719 - 22 he also paid rates jointly with Edward Blenman. In 1733 he was paid 1s 3d a week for 28 weeks for keeping Jane Gregory. In 1736 he received rent for Thomas Pollett. In 1738 the OOP record that he sat up with a chimney sweep who died at John Difford's stall and helped stretch him out when dead. An Ann Callow was paid by the OOP in 1738/9 for giving information against inkeepers – the Ann Callow for whom the OOP bough a coffin in 1748/9?. A Henry Callow (son?) was taken to prison in 1741/2 along with Thomas Pollett and William Grant (OOP).

Ann married John Clothier in Butleigh on 5 Jan 1763. #

X) Widow [+ Margaret] Callow

Not certain which 'widow' this may be. In 1676 and 77 she cared for the Grimeses children (see Henry (14) 1684/5 doing the same) and in 1678 Margaret Callow cared for them (+ Elner Russell). Obviously not the wife of Henry (13). In 1680 Margaret Callow was the Grimes' carer but in 1683 'Widow' Callow cared for the Grimeses while Margaret cared for Alce Manfield. - so two people concerned here? (mother and daughter?). In 1684 Henry took ovee the Grimes children while Margaret continued with Alce Manfield. Then in 1685 the Widow Callow took on Alce Manfield. But in 1686 it was Margaret again and finally again in 1687 (see 16).

14 Anna Callow married Butleigh 30 Mar 1725 Andrew Sweet # Anna's birth would fall in the 1677-1714 PR gap

15) Edmund (Edward) Callow

Daughter Grace married John Callow (34) # Edward's (?) child received relief in 1734, 1735 – see (31)

16) Margaret Callow bur. 28 Dec 1728 Butleigh [daughter of Henry ?]

17) Thomas Callow

A Thomas was paid 18s by the OOP in 1730 – not stated what for. In CW accounts for 1742 paid for three days work – 3 shillings. In 1743 he was given 1 shillings worth of ale for assisting in pulling up the 5th bell in the church. In 1743/4 he was paid for supplying coal and liquor to the plumbers (CW). In 1746/7 he was paid in liquor for shutting a bell-clapper. He appears in 1747/8 again as a supplier of liquor to men working on the church.

Mary Callow married John Periam Butleigh 8 Apr 1760 witness Stephen Callow (brother?) #

DD/S/BT/8/2/6 - 1] John Rocke of Butleigh 2] Elizabeth wife of Philip Avery of Butleigh 3] Thomas Callow of Butleigh and wife Ellen, Sarah and Anna Slade, daughters of John Slade deed by Elizabeth 4] John Slade of Butleigh, yeoman Assignment of Dunhill and Hobbses Hill, Date: 1730.

17a) Thomas Callow Chr. 12 Aug 1726 Butleigh bur. 21 May 1785 (pauper) Butleigh?

17a1) John Callow Chr. 1 Aug 1771 Butleigh, stonecutter, died 1853 (Dec Q 5c/391 Wells) 41-13, 51-27 [John was one of twins, his brother being Thomas]

This couple lived together in Butleigh 1841 and in 1851 were at Oddway. Hope was a servant in Sutton Long in 1841 and married James Reynolds in 1845 (Sep Q 10/711 Taunton) and they lived in Street. She died in 1860 (Jun Q 5c/435 Wells). John and Jane's daughter Jane married Joseph Locke in 1845 (Mar Q 10/745 Wells). # In 1851 they had their daughter Jane and her husband Joseph plus children, living with them. Jane Callow snr died in 1851 and John Callow died in 1853.

17a1A) Seth Callow b. 1816 Butleigh, shoemaker, died 1887 (Sep Q 5c/302 Wells) 51-28, 61-53

Seth junior visited Elizabeth Andrews, next door neighbour of Slade Callow, in Oddway 1851. His parents lived at Pond Head in 1851 but moved to Oddway by 1861. Like his brother, Seth snr travelled for work, and in 1871 - 81 he lodged in the Sadler's Shop, High Street, Stogursey. Seth died aged 74 in 1887. Seth jnr, a drainer, boarded at 2, Caribs Cottages, Stogursey in 1871. In 1881 he lived at Stockham Cross, West Bagborough with his wife Emma Parish (b. 1837 Bishops Lydeard) and three children. His wife had been a widow and her daughter Hannah Parish (21) lived with them. In 1901 Seth and Emma lived at Stockham Cross, West Bagborough with their son Eli (23). Jane married labourer Edwin Seeward in Butleigh on 14 Feb 1867 (Mar Q 5c/807 Wells) and in 1871 besides her own 2 children, had her mother and Nimshi/Munshi residing with her at 30, Queen Street Keinton Mandeville. # Elizabeth, her mother, died in 1877 aged 60. Jane died shortly after in 1880 (Dec Q 5c/274) aged 31. Nimshi Callow married Emily Moody 1879 (Mar Q 6a/23 Bristol) and in 1881 lived at Butler Buildings, Radstock and visited by their niece Laura Seward (13). His wife died and Nimshi married Mary Jane Watts in 1889 (Sep Q 5a/262 Warminster) - they had a daughter (7) by 1891 (in Radstock).

17b) Stephen Callow bur. 27 Oct 1769 Butleigh

Stephen occurs several times in the CW accounts for killing vermin – in 1743/4

DD/S/BT/14/2/27-8 - 1] James Corpe of Butleigh, labourer and wife Mary executrix of Joan Strickland decd her grandmother 2] Stephen Callow of Butleigh, mason Assignment of a messuage in Butleigh. Enclosed probate (1764) of will (1738/9) of Joan Stickland of Butleigh, widow. Date: 1764.

DD/S/BT/14/2/43 1] Mary Callow of Butleigh and son John Callow of Wells 2] James Grenville Surrender of two messuages in Butleigh, part Jackletts tenement.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1787. (?)

18) Israel Callow bur. 13 Jun 1736 Butleigh

19) Ann Callow bur. 11 Aug 1737 Butleigh

An An(n) Callow paid by the OOP in 1731 for keeping Stephen Gegory's four children. [see 21]

20) Jane Callow d.o. John bur. 4 Jul 1749 Butleigh

21) Anne Callow bur. 11 Jul 1756 Butleigh

22) Thomas & Ann Callow bur. 24 Dec 1768 Butleigh

23) Elizabeth Callow bur. 2 Aug 1801 Butleigh

24) Anna Callow married Andrew Sweet Butleigh 30 Mar 1725 #

25) Elizabeth Callow married William Holman Butleigh 1 Sep 1747 #

26) Elizabeth Callow married William Cooke Butleigh 5 Aug 1756 #

27) Elizabeth Callow married William Vagg Butleigh 17 Aug 1760 witness Stephen Callow (brother?) #

28) Hellen Callow married James Cooke Butleigh 23 May 1763 James Cooke # (see below)

29) Mary Callow married William Eades Butleigh 23 Jul 1772 #

DD/S/BT/6/7/6 - 1] William Eades of Butleigh, yeoman, and wife Mary [Callow] and Thomas Cooke aged 16 2] William Holman of Butleigh, yeoman Partition of an estate by assignment of a house, High Croft (4a), Breach (20a), Heal (16a) and Wheatland (3.5a) to William and Mary Date: 1773.

30) Edward Callow

31) Edward Callow [bur. 15 Dec 1728 Butleigh? see 8b-1]

In 1727 the OOP accounts record: pd Mr. Martin his bill about Callow when in custody and carried to Bridwell 9s 6d – and - pd Mad. Webb for money laid out by her in hospitall 4s 6d and 4s 6d more in expences at sessions when Edward Callow was try’d about John More’s wheat. The consequences being that in 1728 the OOP had to pay for relief for Edward Callow's child and in 1729 [kept by Edward's father] and in 1729 'pd in expences on ourselves and horses two days one night at Wells to wait on the justices to gett them to signe the said indentures and for a warrant that Callow had for us to show caus why he should have noe more than 1s a weeke for keeping his son Edward’s child'. In 1729 Elianor received 6d to relive her in sickness. In 1730 Elianor Callow was paid in her necessity and a shroud and coffin paid for her child by the OOP. Elianor's house rent was paid and Edward's child had received 27 weeks relief. In 1731 the OOP paid 55 weeks relief for the keeping of Edward Callow's child. In 1732 the OOP paid for horsehire and expenses in going to the Justices about Eleanor and also paid her rent. She received relief in her necessity and was tended by Hannah Grant at several times in 1733 and her rent was paid. She also was sick and Edward's child received relief for 50 weeks. Edward Callow's child received relief in 1734 and 1735 (OOP). In 1735 CW accounts is a reference to a payment to Stephen Barns in part payment of John Groves expenses regarding Eleanor Callow.

An uncertain James Callow (son?) was paid by the churchwardens in 1742/3 and 1743/4 for killing several dozen sparrows.

33) Mary Callow illegit. d.o. Elinor Callow and Thomas Pollet bur. 26 May 1733 Butleigh

This Eleanor could be the widow of either Thomas or Edward above depending upon when Thomas died.

34) John Callow bur. 25 Jan 1764 Butleigh

A John Callow received house rent from the OOP for Margaret Chasey in 1736. A John Callow butcher received wood and relief in 1739/40 (OOP). The Lydia bur. 5 Jul 1755 Butleigh may also have been related: In 1738/8 Lydiah was paid for attending Anna Sweet for a week (a John Callow was paid for keeping the same Anna). Lydi/Lydeth's rent was paid until her death in 1755 when the OOP paid for her coffin.

DD/S/BT/11/2/20 1) John Callow and wife Jane eldest daughter of William Talbott deceased - 1732

35) John Callow

Dorothy may have been the widow of Thomas Colmer (9).# A John Callow was paid by the churchwardens in 1747 for 'a tutt and matt for Mr. Hoods pew'. He was the sexton in 1750-1 and paid for cleaning the church (CW)

36) Edward Callow bur. 25 Jun 1764 Butleigh?

37) Edward Callow of Holy Rood, Southampton

38) Humphrey Callow bur. 20 Oct 1776 Butleigh

A Humphrey Callow and a Mrs. Creech were involved in a court case at Wells in 1742/3 for which the churchwardens had to pay £1 17 4d in costs. A Humphrey Callow was also paid for killing a hedgehog and 2 dozen sparrows that year. (CW). Leases of various houses held of the manor of Charlton Mackrell by grants of the Lockyer family (to 1782) and Mary Smith, wid. (1799). Lessees: Culling and related Tucker, King, Penny, and Summers.. [Somerset Archive and Records, Dickinson Mss] Date range: 1743 - 1799.

39) John Callow b. 1731, died 14 Apr, bur. 6 May 1814 Butleigh aged 84

John started paying rates, as neighbour of Mary Sheat (for part of Chasey's) in 1758. Rates were paid in this name until (1790+). Contract between John and James Grenville in 1774, renewed in 1815. Gravestones in churchyard give ages and death dates.

DD/S/BT/9/4/23 - 1] James Grenville 2] John Callow of Butleigh, husbandman Lease for lives of a messuage in Butleigh. Rent 1s.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1757.

DD/S/BT/7/2/9-10 1] James Grenville 2] John Callow of Butleigh, husbandman Lease for lives of a messuage in Butleigh. Rent 1s. Endorsed with note of exchange. Enclosed agreement for a lease (1757).. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1757.

DD/S/BT/24/4/11 John Callow's assignment to Joseph Periam of arable in Butleigh West field.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1757.

DD/S/BT/9/4/29 - 1] James Grenville 2] John Callow of Butleigh, husbandman Lease for lives in reversion of a messuage in Butleigh. Rent 1s.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1772.

DD/S/BT/7/2/14 1] James Grenville 2] John Callow of Butleigh, husbandman Lease for lives in reversion of a messuage in Butleigh in consideration of a surrender of Avery's tenement. Rent 1s.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1774.

DD/S/BT/7/2/7 1] John Webb 2] Thomas Periam of Butleigh, blacksmith Lease for lives of house and 1/2a, 1a at Park gate and 2a in Butleigh West field. Rent 1s 6d. Endorsed with note of reversionary grant to John Callow (1774).. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH Date: 1711.

39a) Edward Callow Chr. 2 Apr 1776 Butleigh, s.o. John & Grace Callow. Died 1847 (Mar Q 10/435 Wells) bur. 18 Jan 1847 Butleigh 41-6

Edward lived in the High Street with shopkeeper Matilda Andrews and lodger Frederick White.

40) Ann Callow m. John Clothier Butleigh 5 Jan 1763 witness William Callow (sister of next?)

41) William Callow, widower, Chr. 15 Oct 1743 Butleigh s.o. Thomas and Eliza Callow, bur. 15 May 1824 Butleigh aged 82

William started paying rates in 1773 for 'late Stock's house'. In 1798 William was awarded a certificate for 'the setting apart of part of the dwelling of William Callow as a dissenting place of worship for the Independents'.

D/S/BT/14/2/34 1] James Grenville 2] John Periam of Butleigh, blacksmith, Ann Callow and Jane Periam of Butleigh Release to Grenville in reversion of 3yds at Berhill, Butleigh. [DD/S/BT/14/2/34-41 tied together]. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS Date: 1785. [This Ann Callow?]

DD/S/BT/8/7/7 1] James Grenville 2] William Callow and John Squiar Lucas of Butleigh Agreement to exchange Whiteland (2.5a) and Sower down (1a) in Butleigh for Ffoley (1.5a, 1a), Sugg (1a) and 1/2;a in Whiteland furlong in Butleigh. [DD/S/BT/8/7/1-14 tied together]. [Somerset Date: 1796.

DD/S/BT/10/3/11-13 1] William Ryall of Butleigh 2] William Callow of Butleigh, mason and John Squire Lucas of Butleigh, yeoman 3] James, Baron Glastonbury Lease and release of Stroud's Bridge (4 1/4a) in Butleigh With fine.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT Date: 1801.

DD/S/BT/10/8/2 - 1] William Ryall, William Eades, Richard Holman, Nathaniel Look and Mary Newport of Butleigh, John Wheller of West Pennard, William Look of Butleigh, John Castle of Butleigh, glazier, Thomas Dominey of Butleigh Wootton, yeoman, William Callow of Butleigh Date: 1805.

DD/S/BT/25/1/34 - Agreement by William Callow and wife Ann to perform covenants with William Reynolds on moiety of tenement in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1818.

Stephen Ryall Callow Chr. 16 Jul 1815 Butleigh, farmer, married: Butleigh 11 Apr 1844 (Jun Q 10/863 Wells) Ann Champeney d.o. William Champeney. Absolutely no trace after 1844.

43) Mary Callow Chr. 26 Oct 1754 Butleigh illeg. d.o. Elizabeth Callow

44) John Callow Chr. 18 Aug 1764 Butleigh s.o. Thomas and Helen Callow

This must be the John Callow who was the father of the Illegitimat child, Richard bapt. 22 Apr 1800, son of Mary May to whom he paid bastardy pay (OOP).

45) Ellen Callow b. 1805 Butleigh m. 23 Apr 1829 High Ham Thomas Perren (b. 1799 Long Load) carpenter, and they lived in High Ham in 1851, 1861.

46) William Callow b. 1776 [Chr. 7 Apr 1773 Butleigh] Somerset, labourer, [s.o. William and Mary Callow], died in 1847 (Mar Q 10/437 Wells) bur. 23 Jul 1847 Butleigh 41-10

William Lodged in the High Street with William Knight, tailor.

47) Slade Callow b. 1807 Butleigh, stone mason, died 1888 (Jun Q 5c/269 Langport) Barton St. David 51-28

A Christening, without forename given, in Butleigh on 7 Feb 1808 to John and Jane Callow is probably this one for Slade. Slade and his wife had lodged with George Witcombe in Barton St. David in 1841. In 1851 Slade (44) occupied Bethel cottage with his wife Elizabeth (38) and children Tom, Matilda and Job plus John Simpson (22) a lodger. One room of house was used as a chapel but some rebuilding took place c. 1855. On the 1861 census he was located on Butleigh Road, Barton St. David with his family, and later in 1871 at No. 7 Jarmany - just down the road over the Parish boundary from Oddway. Elizabeth died in Barton St. David in 1875 aged 62. Slade lived in 1881 at the same address in Jarmany, with his daughter Phillis Culling (26) and her family, until his death in 1888 aged 81. Tom married Maria Jeannes from Butleigh in 1873 (Dec Q 5c/811 Langport) # and in 1881 they were in Shute Lane, Long Sutton, with daughters Ada (7) and Elizabeth (1) and Slade was a stone cutter. In 1891 he was on his own, lodging at 9, Maxwell Street (next to the Weslyan Chapel) in Ystradyfodwg, Glamorgan. He died there in 1898 (Jun Q 11a/212 Cardiff) aged 53. Maria had stayed in Barton St. David in 1891 (nfi). Matilda disappears after 1861 and is likely to be the one who died in 1864 (Jun Q 5c/322 Langport).

Job joined the Army and in 1871 is found as a private in the Grenadier Guards at Brentwood Barracks, Essex. He married Eliza Sams from Long Sutton in 1877 (Mar Q 5c/541 Langport) and in 1881 they lived at 5, Jarmany, Butleigh Road, Barton St. David with their daughters Elizabeth (3) and Lillian (1).

Cammell

1) John Cammell 1457 Rector of Ditcheat

The Cammell family had been wealthy landowners in Butleigh and retained some influence there. John's Will of 1458 bequeathed a prayer book to John Hobbes, the vicar of Butleigh. Another John Cammell, his nephew? from Glastonbury left money in 1487 for the repair of the highway between Butleigh and Wootton as well as money for the fabric of the church - his alabaster effigy lies in St. John's, Glastonbury. As late as 1548 another John Cammell made bequests to the church.

Cam(p)bell

1) Clara Cambell Chr. 26 Sep 1875 Butleigh d.o. shoemaker William and wife Mary Cambell

2) Kate Campbell Chr. 7 Jan 1877 Butleigh, d.o. shoemaker, William and Mary Campbell [reads Lampler?]

No further information on this family.

Candy

1) James Candy b. 18 Oct 1813 Butleigh, linen warehouseman, s.o. Thomas and Hannah (née Rex) Candy, d. 6 Dec 1870 Oak Lodge, Wick Glos.

James married Louise Ann Clark (b.c. 1814, d.o. John and Mary Clarke) on 28 Jun 1840 Bristol and in 1851 they lived at 5, Elton Terrace, Horfield, Gloucs., with four children. In 1861 they lived at Elm Villa, St. James & St. Paul, Bristol with James listed as a linen merchant. They had eight children in all and Louise died on 20 Feb 1892 Bristol.

Canniford

1) Eliza Canniford b. 1818 Broadhembury, Devon, bur. 3 Aug 1891 (Sep Q 5c/298 Wells) Butleigh 91-118

In 1891 Eliza was a widow living on her own means in three rooms in the High Street. Her husband had been John Canniford, an agricultural labourer who died in 1875. A John Canniford married Eliza Newberry in 1840 (Mar Q 10/179 Honiton) which may be this person's marriage.

Cannon

A John Cannon is mentioned as 'occupier' in 1777/8 on a property owned by Caleb Dickinson of Kingweston.

1) John Cannon b. 1772 Kingweston, ag. lab., bur. 31 Mar 1855 (Mar Q 5c/540 Wells) Butleigh 41-9, 51-25

This couple lived in No. 7, Compton Street in 1841 but after Jane's death John lodged in the High Street in 1851, with Charles Davis. Also lodging there was Martha Pike. Martha had been John Cannon's servant in Compton Street and she died in 1858 (Sep Q 5c/353 Wells), three years after John. There is a grave memorial in the churchyard for John.

1a) William Cannon Chr. 15 Oct 1797 Butleigh, bur. 8 Oct 1862 (Dec Q 5c/405 Wells) Butleigh 51-23, 61-48

In 1851 William and Mary ran the Parsonage Farm (Home Farm) in Compton Street as a boarding house. In 1861 they occupied the Post Office (situated between the Church and first houses in the High Street?). Their niece, Susan Steward (Howard) (35) # visited them from London on census night. William died in 1862. Their daughter Mary married Henry Green in Butleigh on 10 Sep 1868 (Sep Q 5c/784 Wells) - he had been an agricultural labourer in Pilton in 1861. # In 1871 Mary Cannon, (66) now widowed was the postmistress living with her daughter Mary and son-in-law Henry Green, then called a baker. Mary Cannon died in 1872. Her daughter Mary Green died in 1878 (Sep Q 5c/336 Wells) aged just 33. Henry didn't waste much time and married Delilah Kick # from Butleigh, daughter of William Kick, shopkeeper and Minister of the Chapel a few months later (1878 Dec Q 5c/681 Langport) and he appears in Barton St. David in 1881 as a master baker with two baby children. Susan Howard, Mary's niece from London (38) was his servant (see above) - nfi. An Ann Cannon b. 1821 in Kingweston, a servant in 1841, may be related to the above. She worked in Shepton Mallet (Kilver Street) in 1861.

2) John Cannon b. 1781 Babcary, farmer, died 1856 (Mar Q 5c/307 Langport)

Not all children are listed here. In 1861 the unmarried Sarah was visiting her brother-in-law George Whitty at the Bailiff's House in the High Street with her nephew George W. Cannon (son of her brother Charles). Ann Cannon, Sarah's sister, had married George Whitty in 1847 (Jun Q 10/671 Langport). # In 1871 Sarah Cannon lived with her brother Charles in Babcary and they were still there in 1881.

2a) Charles Cannon b. 1818 Babcary, cattle dealer, died 1892 (Mar Q 5c/316 Langport)

In 1851 Charles Cannon snr lived at Babcary with his wife Margaret plus Henry (5), Charles (4), born Butleigh, and Fanny (8 months), b. Babcary. In 1861 he had besides, his wife, his two youngest children plus his widowed mother Honor and sister Sarah.

Charles b. 1848 was a pupil at Bishops Hull, Taunton in 1861 with his brother Henry b. 1846. In 1871 Charles senior was visited by his sister Sarah (b. 1824). In 1881 Charles snr and Margaret lived at Kingweston Rd., Keinton Mandeville with their widowed son Charles, unmarried son Herbert and unmarried sister Sarah (67) as housekeeper. In 1891 Charles senior and junior lived at 7, Queen Street, Keinton Mandeville. Living with them was Margaret, Charles' wife, and Ann Wittey [Whitty] (71) his widowed sister (mistakenly described as single).

Henry lived, in 1901, with his young wife Beatrice (b. 1873 Babcary) at Brixton Deverill, Wilts. He was retired from the U. S. Army. In 1901 Charles jnr lived in Queen Street with just his aunt, Ann Witty (76).

George W. became a cattle dealer and married Fanny R. Fessler (b. 1853 Geneva Switzerland) in 1876 (Sep Q 6a/122 Bristol) and in 1891 lived in Charlton Mackrell. Fanny was a servant in Shottesham St. Mary, Norfolk in 1871 (pob Aboyes-Vaud, Switz.). Overton died 1871 (Sep Q 5c/278 Langport) aged 14.

Herbert became a cattle dealer and married Adelaide Culling (b. 1854 Keinton Mandeville) and settled at 24, Queen Street, Keinton by 1891.

3) Sarah Cannon b. 1811 Butleigh, housekeeper

Sarah, unmarried, lived at St. Mary, Marylebone in 1851. The same Sarah Cannon (Camron) 'b, 1805' was housekeeper to the Baroness Garbagh at 31, Worlman Square, St. Marylebone, London in 1871 Nfi.

4) Emma Jemima Cannon b. 1842 Batcombe, housemaid, d.o. John and Jane Cannon 61W-63

Emma lived in Charlton Mackrell with her parents in 1851. She worked at Wootton House in 1861. Emma married Wallace French in 1870 (Sep Q 5c/620 Langport).

Capron

1) Mary Ann Capron b. 14 Aug 1842 (Sep Q 4/364 Richmond, Surrey) Mortlake, Surrey, d.o. Richard and Elizabeth Caprin 51-37

Mary Ann was the niece of George Bampfield and his wife Ann, and was visiting them at Butleigh Hill Tilery on census night in 1851. Mary Ann ended up as a servant like most girls - she was back in Wotton, Surrey by 1881.

Cardwell

1) James Cardwell b. 1823 Wells, Somerset, apprentice carpenter, died 1901 (Jun Q 5c/302 Wells) 41W-15

James worked with Joseph Grant in Butleigh Wootton in 1841. He married Betsy Vowles (b. 1824 Wedmore) in 1846 (Sep Q 10/748 Wells) and by 1851 they lived in Vallis Way, Wells. He remained in Wells for all the subsequent censuses though his wife was later an Ann Hayes.

Carey - see Cary

Carow

1) John Carow bur. 20 Aug 1750 Butleigh (a mistake for Callow?)

Carr

1) George Tidcombe Carr b. 1873 (Jun Q 5c/715 Keynsham) Keynsham, Som., baker and confectioner 01-134

In 1881 George had lived in the High Street, Keynsham with his parents and five siblings. In 1891 he lived at 84, Wells Road, Bedminster, with his father Henry, a boot maker, and mother Jane plus two sisters. George lodged at 8, High Street in 1901. His occupation was as a clicker. He had married in 1895 but the whereabouts of his wife and children on census night in 1901 isn't certain, though in 1899 they were in Cardiff. Thereafter she joined George in Butleigh where they had two more children. In 1911 George, Fanny and their four children lived in Baltonsborough where George ran his bakery.

Carrier

1) Eleanor Carrier b. 1794, Horningham, Wilts, widow in 1851, died 1870 (Jun Q 5a/114 Warminster)

1a) William Carrier b. 1822 Horningham, Wilts, Farm labourer, died 1897 (Dec Q 5a/81 Warminster) 51-37, 61-52

William lived with his widowed mother Eleanor, and brother Thomas, in Horningsham in 1841 and he married Charlotte in 1844. In 1851 William Carrier (29), his wife Charlotte (27) plus two lodgers, one of whom was his brother Thomas Carrier lived at No. 4 Quarry House. The couple had a child and moved to Oddway by '61. The family later returned to Horningsham in Wilts. (by 1871) from where William had originated. Henry Tom = Thomas who appeared as a coachman in 1891 at 39, Hyde Park Garden Terraces, Paddington with his wife Adelaide (b. 1858 Ledbury, Glos.) and son Henry (b. 1887 Horlingsham, Wilts).

1b) Thomas Carrier b.1829/34 Horningham, s.o. Eleanor, lab., d. 1897 (Jun Q 5a/89 Warminster) 51-37, 61-52

Thomas lodged with his brother William (above) in 1851 but married and moved into a dwelling in Banbury Lane by 1861. He was back in his birthplace, Horningsham, Wilts by 1863 and appears there in 1871 with Caroline, and four children, one of whom, Ellen, had been born in Butleigh in 1861. In 1881 he had six children living with him (including Ellen described as 'housemaid') and he died in Horningham in 1897, aged 65. Ellen, also called Eleanor, appears in 1891 as a servant-nurse at 60, Chaucer Road, St. Paul, Bedford, Bedfordshire. In 1901 as Helena she was a Hospital Nurse working at a private house, "Aldershaw", Wall, Staffs., and in 1911 she was a sick nurse (still single) working at 4, First Avenue, Cliftonville, Margate, home of Robert Hall, timber merchant.

Carter

1) Thomas Carter b. 1809, died 26 Mar 1857 aged 48

Nothing more is known about this father and daughter apart from what is on their gravestone in the churchyard. No burial recorded in the PR and not found on the censuses.

2) Tom Carter b. 1866 Bathealton, Som. gardener, s.o. Richard and Mary Ann Carter, died 6 Dec 1918 01-145 P P2

Tom Carter was the son of Richard Carter, gardener at Bathealton Court, Somerset (1871 - 81). Tom had also worked as a gardener, in Streatham, London in 1891 before arriving in Butleigh in 1895 or earlier. He and his family lived at Court Gardens. Tom played the part of King Arviragus in the Butleigh Revel of 1906 (once shown holding “Bobbie”) and his two eldest children played a part in the Maypole dance with Joan being the Rose Queen. In 1911 the family lived together in the 5 rooms of Court Gardens, Hilda being listed as a school monitor. They are noted as having had six children, all alive.

Tom's parents Richard (b. 1837 Hatch, Som) and Mary Ann (b. 1834 Broadway, Som.) had retired and in 1911 lived in Rose Cottage, Butleigh. Richard was bur. 24 Nov 1920 Butleigh and Mary Ann on 1 Feb 1922 Butleigh. Richard and Mary Ann are recorded as having 9 children, 7 of which were still alive in 1911.

Tom died as the result of post-operative shock at the General Hospital, Bristol and was buried 12 Dec 1918 in Butleigh. Hilda Joan married Charles Luke Hallett of Butleigh and she died in 1980, Ashford, Kent. Victor Ernest married Mary, and Doris May married Charles James Matthews on 23 Jul 1928 Bridgwater (she d. 1 Jan 1987 St. Albans – ashes scattered on Carter grave at Butleigh). Richard Dunster married Mabel Annie Jennings on 4 Nov 1937, died 2 Nov 1897. P STORY

3) Mary A. Carter b. 1840 Frome 91-120

Mary was a widow - and housekeeper at Holman's Farm, 1891. Nfi.

4) Ann Carter b. 1839 Coxley, servant 71W-86

Ann served at Wootton House in 1871. In 1861 she had been a housemaid at 6, Pultney Buildings, Melcombe Regis, Dorset.

5) Bessie Hannah Slocombe Carter Chr. 28 Dec 1865 (Dec Q 5c/603 Wells) Butleigh Wootton, apprentice draper, d.o. William Slocombe Carter and Jane Barwell Carter

Bessie lived with her farmer father (430 acres) in 1871 and she worked for a draper in Fore Street, Bridgwater in 1881. Her second forename at baptism was Anna, not Hannah.

Cary

[Carey, Curry]

1) George Cary died 1679/80?

George paid rates to the OOP from 1673 – 1679 [1680 missing]and was replaced by Agnis Cary who may have been his daughter rather than a third wife. She paid the rates until 1692. after which the Semer family paid the rate.

2) John Care? (unc. surname)

3) Betty Cary Chr. 2 Dec 1749 Butleigh d.o. John and Elizabeth Cary, died 26 Dec 1756 aged 7

On her gravestone the visible legend begins “ ...lieth the body of [ ]Cary who died 16th August [ ] aged 84/34, also Betty etc.”

4) Thomas Cary Chr. 28 May 1758 Butleigh s.o. Edward and Christiane Cary of Baltonsborough

5) Henry Carey married Mary Streat in Butleigh on 2 Jun 1755

6) Betty Cary Chr. 30 Dec 1762 Butleigh d.o. George and Virtue Cary of Barton St. David

This could be the Elizabeth Carey bur. 15 Jul 1779 Butleigh.

7) William Carey b. 1828 West Curry, labourer 51-33

William lodged with James Davis at No. 2 Brittons Court in 1851. Possibly one of the two William Currys of the same age living in North Curry in 1841. One was the son of George and Mary Curry and he was still in North Curry in 1861, the other one married a Martha and moved to Broomfield sometime in 1851 - 61. Nfi.

8) Jacob Cary b. 1828 Barton St. David, farm labourer, s.o. Charles Cary, died 1913 (Sep Q 11a/332 Cardiff) 51W-38, 61W-65, 71W-86

Jane Windsor may be the girl who, at 14, was a servant in Wellington in 1841. Jacob was still living with his father in 1841 and he married Jane in 1848. In 1851 Jacob and Jane lived in part of Wootton Hill Farm. In 1861 they were living in the village with five more children. Another child, Henry, had arrived by the 1871 census when a sister of his wife, Martha Windsor, visited them. Jacob and Jane stayed in Butleigh until after the 1871 census then moved to 50, Bedford Street, St. John, East Cardiff where Jacob became a greengrocer. Living with them, besides two sons Henry and Edward were Frank Birch (Burch), John Birch and the latter's wife Ann (née Carey) and child Bessie - all from Butleigh. By 1891 the families were still living together but now only Edward lived with Jacob, who was widowed by then. In 1901 Jacob was with his son-in-law John Birch at 73, Mackintosh Place, Roath, East Cardiff . He is listed as a market trader and his son Edward, still unmarried, was a coal trimmer.

Charles and Albert had disappeared in the 1870's, Ann had married John Birch in 1877 (Sep Q 11a/374 Cardiff) but Edward never married and remained living with his father. #

Eli was a visitor at the Speech House (Hotel), West Dean, Glos. in 1881. He seems to have been part of a hunting party that spent the night at the hotel and in the census margin was written " belong to near Cowbridge, S. Wilts.". He was born in Butleigh Wootton and (as Elias) appeared there in 1861 and 1871. Nfi

A Lucy Winifred Cary married in Glamorgan in 1880 but not known if it this Lucy - nfi. Henry died in Wales in 1890 aged 26.

9) James Carey bur. 9 Aug 1859 (Jun Q 5c/536 Wells) Butleigh

No age given for this James in the PR (need the death Cert.) - he died in Wells Union Workhouse.

Case

1) James Case b. 1845, bur. 19 Jun 1857 (Jun Q 5c/394 Wells) Butleigh

No further information on this child.

2) George Case Chr. 8 Jun 1815 Langport, blacksmith, s.o. James and Mary Case 51-37 (reads Cave on census)

In 1851 George lodged with Charles Petty in Dumb Lane. In 1861 he was in Street and in 1871 in Chilton Polden.

Casset (?)

1) Richard Casset (surname not certain) appeared in the churchwardens accounts of 1699 for killing 2 polecats.

Castle

The Castle family lived in Butleigh from the early mid 1700's and Cornelius was a favoured name though three sons Christened with it died shortly afterwards. This family seems to have had an unusually high mortality rate for infants.

1) Cornelius Castle

Cornelius appears in the OOP accounts in 1748/9 when he paid them £1 7s 6d.

2) John Castle Sojourner, glazier, bur 12 Mar 1768 Butleigh

This must be the John Castle who had the illegitimate child, Betty Chr. 24 Jul 1744, with Mary Sauld – and perhaps this Mary became his first wife. Betty married Richard Periam on 15 Aug 1767 Butleigh with the surname Castle which suggest that this is what happened. John was paid in 1746/7 for glazing (plus a bill and attendance upon him by Andrew Larcombe) and for his soldering work in 1748, 49 by the churchwardens. In 1750/1 he leaded the church tower roof and carried out more glazing (CW). The OOP paid for two journeys to Widworthy in 1764/5.

The fact that the name Cornelius was important to John, and also to his son John suggests that the father of this first John was Cornelius. It was only successfully used in the third generation, though no Christening yet found - see below. Agnes married James Frost of Ilchester in Butleigh on 9 Apr 1781. Jane married William Sweet on 4 Jun 1781 Butleigh.

DD/S/BT/8/3/12 - 1] Joseph Greenham of Chiselborough 2] Philip Avery of Butleigh 3] Edward Blinman of Butleigh 4] John Castle of Butleigh, glazier Assignment of mortgage term on Browns well (6a), Shelfhedge (6a), 1a arable adjoining Stones piece, 2a by highway from New Date: 1766.

2a) John Castle glazier, Chr. 23 Jan 1751 Butleigh died before 1812

For this John and his second wife Mary no Butleigh burial found which suggests that they moved away. Seven of their eleven children died in infancy and only John of the two surviving sons married and had children. John Castle started paying rates on 'late Talbots' from 1787/8.

DD/S/BT/10/8/1 1] John Castle of Butleigh, yeoman 2] Aaron Wheller of Butleigh, labourer Assignment of Nive Batch in Kings Sedgemoor, Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1801.

DD/S/BT/10/8/2 1] William Ryall, William Eades, Richard Holman, Nathaniel Look and Mary Newport of Butleigh, John Wheller of West Pennard, William Look of Butleigh, John Castle of Butleigh, glazier, Thomas Dominey of Butleigh Wootton, yeoman, William Callow of Butleigh Date: 1805

DD/S/BT/13/3/11-12 - 1] Mary, John and James Castle of Butleigh, administrators of John Castle decd 2] James, Baron Glastonbury Assignment of common in Kings Sedgemoor, Butleigh. Enclosed contract (1812) to sell to William Ryall.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT Date: 1812.

2a1) John Castle Chr. 5 Oct 1779 Butleigh, bur. 11 Feb 1827 Butleigh

Mary already had an illegitimate son Richard May when she married. # Another child born after marriage was probably the Rachael Castle bur. 19 Jun 1822 Butleigh aged 2.

Brother and sister William and Sarah lived together in 1841 in Compton Street. Sarah married Levi Gilham in 1843 (Sep Q 10/675 Wells) and they lived on Butleigh Hill in 1851.p# Elizabeth married Robert Stride in Butleigh on 13 May 1839 (Jun Q 10/803 Wells). #

2a1A) James Castle Chr. 27 Oct 1805 Butleigh, publican, bur. 19 Jan 1885 (Mar Q 5c/423 Wells) Butleigh 81-102

In 1881 James Castle (75), retired publican, and wife Elizabeth (73) lived at (?25,) High Street. They had appeared first in Queen Camel in 1841, with a boy James (b. 1838), - James was then a gardener. In 1851 the boy James was absent and was probably not James's son but his nephew (s.o. Cornelius) absent from Butleigh? - see (2a). Hannah Allen, James' mother-in-law (b. Barton St. David) was visiting in 1851, along with Sarah Ann Stride (born 1840, Butleigh), his niece. Sarah Ann also appears listed in 1851 in Compton Street with her parents. # .In 1861 James was a coachman living at Fars Hill, Wimborne Minster, Dorset - no children recorded. In 1871 James(Caille) ran the "Crown Inn" in Milford, Hampshire with his wife Elizabeth. James died in 1885 and his wife Elizabeth died in 1887 aged 79.

If the boy James in 1841 was James' son then what happened to him? A James (b. 1838 Churchill) was staying with his uncle John in Churchill in 1851, described as 'dumb idiot from birth' and was in Axbridge Workhouse from 1861 - 1901 dying in 1902 (Dec Q 5c/328 Axbridge) aged 64. But there seems no Queen Camel or Butleigh connection to this Churchill born James, and the above scenario (2a) is most likely.

2a1B) William Castle Chr. 25 Jun 1815 Butleigh, s.o. John Castle, bur. 3 May 1888 (Jun Q 5c/351 Wells) Butleigh 41-11, 51-36, 61-57, 71-79, 81-103

William married Hannah in 1842 and they lived all their lives in Oddway from 1851 until their deaths. Hannah died in 1877. Of their children; The 17 year old Isabella married labourer Emanuel Walters in Butleigh on 26 Sep 1860 (Sep Q 5c/891 Wells) and thereafter lived in Glastonbury. A John Castle married Fanny Stevens from Wells in 1871 (Dec Q 5c/735 Langport), an Asylum attendant. He became a Gardener and Inn Keeper in All Saints, Birmingham in 1881. This was probably the Fanny b. 1849 Kingweston (51K-43, 61K-68, 71K-90)

Emma became an under-housemaid in Abbey House, Chilkwell St., Glastonbury (home of James Austin) in 1871. In 1881 she was a cook at the home of the curate, Richard Murray, in Baltonsborough.. In 1891 She was the cook at Hound Street, Sherborne and she married George Lambert in 1894 (Sep Q 5a/658 Sherborne) and they lived in Sherborne. She was a widow by 1911 living at Mogador, Reigate, Surrey, and never had children – occupation 'cure taker'..

William Castle married the widow Jane Talbot in 1878 (Mar Q 5c/731 Wells) but she died in 1879 (Jun Q 5c/401 Wells) aged 50. William lived alone in the New Road in 1881. At this second marriage he stated his father was Cornelius and the witness was also Cornelius!? Probably confused by the excitement of the occasion.

He married a third time in 1883, to Elizabeth Cary but died in 1888 aged 75. His widow remarried in 1889.

2a1Bi) Frederick Castle Chr. 4 Mar 1847 (Mar Q 10/518 Wells) Butleigh 51-36, 61-57, 71-79

Frederick married Annie in 1875 and became an attendant at the County Asylum by 1881. He was still there as an attendant 1891, living at Bath Road, with his wife and three children. In 1901 [Custle] he was listed as a 'Hotel landlord' and lived at 25, St. Thomas Street, Wells with Annie and their two daughters. In 1911 he was landlord of the 'Goat Inn' 8, Thomas Street, Wells and lived there with Annie and daughter Blanche.

3) Cornelius Castle b. 1811 Butleigh, labourer. bur. 16 Aug 1884 (Sep Q 5c/329 Wells) Butleigh 41-5, 51-26, 61-50, 71-80, 81-95

In 1841 Cornelius and his family lived in the High Street and lodging with James Birch next door was his son Edwin Castle aged 7 (grandson of William and Mary Hodges - William lived three doors away in 1841). Cornelius had twin girls Martha and Mary. James, an older boy (4) was absent and may have been living with relatives (appeared with James Castle (35) at Queen Camel? - (1a1A)), returning in 1851.

In 1851 Cornelius Castle lived with Eliza (36), James (14), Mary (11), Martha (11), Tom (7) and Ann (2). Son Tom lodged with his grandparent William and Mary Hodges - as was Edwin still. Mary married labourer Edward Davis in Butleigh on 8 Nov 1860 (Dec Q 5c/1101 Wells). #

In 1861 Cornelius lived with his wife Eliza (46) and Ann (12), Elizabeth (8), John (5) and Fanny (1). James lodged with Richard Higgins while Martha was at Barton Rd., Edwin and Tom still lodged with William Hodges. Martha married George Laver in Butleigh on 30 Dec 1861 (Dec Q 5c/1062 Wells) and after his death married Thomas Gregory in 1890 (Dec Q 6a/193 Barton Regis) #

In 1871 Cornelius seems to be at Pound Cottage, 30, High Street with his wife Eliza (53) and Ann (22), Elizabeth (18) John (14), Fanny (10) and grandson Frederick (8 months). Frederick was the second of Ann's illegitimate children, the first having died shortly after birth in 1868. Annie never married - see below. Elizabeth married John Talbot in 1878 (Jun Q 5c/853 Wells).# John went to board in Bridle Lane, Ripley, Derbyshire 1881 where he worked for the Midland Railway Co. as a Number Taker. He later married Elizabeth Astle (b. 1864 Chellaston) in 1885 (Mar Q 7b/491 Shardlow). They had several children and lived in Willington, Derbys (1891). By 1901 he was a signalman living at 3, Rock Mound, Fairfield, Derby. In 1911 he was a Midland Railway signalman living at 1, Lea Bank, Tarrfield, Buxton with his wife and daughter Emily Elizabeth (15) – one of the two sirviving of his originally four children. Edwin - nfi after 1861.
In 1881 Cornelius Castle (67), shepherd, lived with wife Eliza (65) and daughters Annie (31), a laundry maid and Fanny (21), also a laundry maid, plus grandson Frederick (10). Cornelius died in 1884 aged 75. Tom Castle never married and died in 1887 aged 43.

In 1891 Eliza Castle (74) widow, lived in three rooms with daughters Annie (42), Fanny (40) and grandson Fred Castle (20). Fanny died in 1895 (Sep Q 5c/286 Wells) aged just 34. Her mother Eliza died in 1897 aged '74' or 87 (questioned in PR) - actually 82.

Frederick married Annie Bennett (b. 1868 Devizes, Wilts) in 1897 (Mar Q 5a/137 Devizes) and by 1901 they lived in 2, Priory Road Wells with a daughter Aldrey plus his mother(-in-law) Annie. Annie Bennett had been the nurse at the Corner House, Butleigh in 1891, home of Ethelreda Stopford. #

3a) James Castle Chr. 30 Jul 1837 Butleigh, brick and tile maker, bur. 24 Dec 1904 (Dec Q 5c/297 Wells) Butleigh 51-26, 61-58, 71-78, 81-99, 91-127, 01-140

James Castle married Susan Higgins in 1862 and James became the brick and tile moulder at Bakers Grave [Brick Kiln Cottage] in 1871. They remained there all their lives. An infant Mary Ann buried 24 Jan 1868 (Mar Q 5c/408 Wells) Butleigh was probably a child of this couple.

Frances Ann married the gamekeeper James Hill in Butleigh 22 Feb 1882 (Mar Q 5c/743 Wells) and they thereafter lived at Whatley. #

George became a carpenter's apprentice lodging in Mill Lane, Castle Cary with Alfred Hill, Wheelwright (1891), who had married Emily Higgins from Butleigh. # George married Elizabeth [Eliza] Richards (b. 1870 Castle Cary) in 1892 (Dec Q 5c823 Wincanton) and moved to 72, St. Thomas St., Wells by 1901. In 1911 they were at 24, St. Thomas Street, Wells with their three children.

Tom was a 'stores porter' in the Somerset and Bath Lunatic Asylum, Wells in 1891, and married Fannie Elizabeth Vincent from Glastonbury in 1892 (Dec Q 5c/963 Wells). In 1901 they lived at 3, Cross Park Terrace, Heavitree, Devon where Tom was a clerk and store keeper. His son Leslie was born there in 1895, plus Gladys (5) and Reginald (3). Tom was bur. 12 Nov 1918 Butleigh.

Edwin married Lillie (Lily) Thomas in 1893 (Sep Q 6a/345 Barton Regis) and is found at 18, Lansdown Rd., Clifton, Bristol in 1901 where he was a labourer in a brewery. By 1911 the couple had 11 children at the same address and he was now engineman at the brewery.

Ernest married Bessie Hunt in 1900 (Sep Q 6a/92 Bristol) from Castle Cary and moved to South Highbridge, as a carpenter (1901). By 1911 they lived at Bath Road, Wells with their three children.

By 1901 James and Susan lived with just their daughter Eva (26) a dressmaker. James died in 1904 aged 67.

Eva married blacksmith Ernest Edward Stark (b. 1877) of Keinton Mandeville in Butleigh on 29 Oct 1903 (Dec Q 5c/919 Wells). In 1911 they lived in Keinton Mandeville with their two children plus Susan Castle, Eva's mother.

4) William Castle b. 1821 Somerset, labourer 41W-15

William lodged with Charles Roop in 1841. He could be the son - born Kingston, who lived with his parents; a John and Eliza Castle, at Rowbarton, Taunton in 1851 - nfi.

5) Ann Castle b. 1812 Butleigh - daughter of John and Mary?

This fits an Ann Field, b. 1812 Butleigh wife of carman Isaac Field (b. 1792 Middlesex) who lived at St. Marylebone, London in 1861. In 1851 they are shown childless. In 1841 however, Isaac and an 'Anne' have sons - the oldest being James b. 1822. - but the wife Anne is given dob of 1801 and a London birth. This wife must have died and the entry for the marriage of Isaac Field to Ann Castle in 1843 (Dec Q 1/261 Pancras) suggests she is the Ann, b. Butleigh, on the later censuses.

Catley

1) Henry Catley b. 1871 Cucklington, Som., son of Alfred Catley of Cucklington, a gardener 91-121

Henry lodged with Elizabeth Merriott at 50, Chapel Lane, Butleigh in 1891. He had lived with his father in 1881 - nfi

Cates

1) Edwin Alfred Cates b. 1846 (Dec Q 1/233 Marylebone) Marylebone, Middlesex, London, pupil teacher. 61-49

Edwin was an apprentice teacher in 1861 at the Schoolmaster's House, 18, High Street. On the census his name is given as Cate/Cats. In 1871 he was at 'The School' Great Amwell, Herts - with his mother Sarah (b. 1806 Winchester, Hants) as housekeeper. By 1881 he was already married, wife Mary Ann (b. 1845 Gt. Amwell), a certified schoolmaster and had three children - they lived at Little Torrington, Devon. By 1891 he occupied the Schoolhouse, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex with his family. In 1901 he appeared lodging (alone but still married) at the Brook, Great Dunmow, Essex, - still as schoolmaster.

Cave – see Case

1) The widow Cave – Rates were paid between 1734 and 1737 (OOP and CW) for the widow Cave (Case?) usually by John Rocke, the vicar.

Cavendry

1) John Cavendry Vicar of Butleigh from 1428-1451

Chalker

1) John Chalker b. 1843 Shepton Mallet, Som., grocer

These two were the granddaughters of Susanna Killen, widow of John Killen of Cameley and were visiting her in 1881 at the farm next to the Rose and Portcullis being run by Susanna's daughter-in-law Eliza Ann Killen. In 1901 Evangeline, still single, and her mother, appear as visitors at 'Berry Hill, Winterbourne' Mangotsfield, Glos. - the home of Charles Hecks, Colt trainer. About Maud Mary - nfi

2) Mary Ann Chalker Chr. 7 Jun 1829 Butleigh d.o. John and Elizabeth Barber

On the 1911 census at Keinton Mandeville, widowed, she states she married 60 years before, had 9 children (eight still living) and was a 'British subject by parentage'. Her husband had been George Chalker who had married in 1845 (Mar Q 10/639 Langport) and had a child Caleb William (b. 1845 N. Berrow) but his wife died and he married Mary Ann in Bath in 1849 and their first child was called Lavinia (b. 1850 K.M). See under Barber.

Chamberlaine

1) Jonathan Chamberlain married Mary Hodges Butleigh 14 Nov 1748

2) Hester Chamberlain married Richard Coles Butleigh 15 Jan 1750

3) Frank Chamberlaine b. 1867 North Cadbury, labourer, s.o. Elias and Eleanor Chamberlaine 91W-115

This couple lived in four rooms at No. 9, Butleigh Wootton in 1891. The couple are next found in South Barrow, Somerset with three children (1901).

Chambers

1) Robert Chambers b. 1828 Frome, shoemaker, d. 1854 (Dec Q 5c/376 Wells)? 51-36

2) William Chambers b. 1830 Frome, stonemason 51-36

These two people, probably brothers, lodged with William Tucker in Barton Stone. The Chambers came from Frome and one Robert died there in 1854 while another died in the same year in Wells registry district. William married Hannah in 1852 and their first child (of 6) Mary Ann, was born in Street in 1855. In 1871 they appear together at Byford Fields in Frome with five children. They moved to "Devizes Road Hotel", Fisherton Anger, Wiltshire by 1881 where William was the Innkeeper.

Champeny

[Champery]

1) William Champery b. 1816 Somerset 41-6

DD/S/BT/27/6/9 Agreement between Revd George Neville Grenville and William and Ann Champeny for letting a cottage in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1838.

2) Elizabeth Champery b. 1816 Somerset 41-6

3) Edward Champery b. 1821 Somerset, carpenter 41-6

William (25) and his (sister?) Elizabeth (25) with brother Edward (20) lived in the High Street, Butleigh in 1841 - nfi. Lodging with them were Ann Barratt (10) and Robert Barratt (7). These latter seem to have been the children of Ambrose (a carpenter) and Mary Barratt of West Lydford (1851). Not known if there is a connection to the Champerys. An Edward Champent died in 1841 (Mar Q 10/360 Wells).

Champion

[Champen]

1) William Champen bur. 27 Jan 1629 Butleigh

The Will of Margaret lists her children as being William and Joan and grandchildren James and Richard Withers. There is no mention of Edward nor Mary below, the latter possibly having been born out of wedlock between her marriages if it was this Margaret who was the mother.

DD/S/BT4/4/3 - 1] Thomas Rush of Street, yeoman 2] William Champion of Butleigh Wootton, yeoman Assignment of Peckham lease (1562) of Chambers house at Wootton and lands except 4.5a in common field of Wootton (1/2a in North field by Whites house, 1a at Kingfurlong, 1a Date: 1628.

PROB 11/265 Will of Margarett Euwins Widow Butleigh, Somerset Date: 1657;

“In the name of God Amen, The seventeenth day of December in the yeare of our Lord God 1655 Margarett Euwins of Wootton in the parish of Butleigh in the county of Somersett widdow being sick of body but thanks be to God of perfect remembrance doe ordaine and make this my last will and testament in manner and forme followingeFfirst I give and bequeath my soule unto Almighty God And my body to be buried in the churchyard of Butleigh aforesaid. Item I give to the church of Butleigh aforesaid five shillings. Item I give to the widdow Sill one shilling & Item I give to my sonne William Champion my bedsteed within the chamber doorr & within the hall and my bed and bedsteed in the chamber and foure pewter dishes Item I give to my sonne William Champion's wife one coffer which is in the kitchin chamber Item I give unto my grandchild James Withers fforty shillings to be paid to him when he is one and twenty yeares of age by my executor. Item I give to my grandchild Richard Withers twenty shillings to be paid to him when he is one and twenty yeares of age by my executor but if either of themdoe dye before they be one and twenty yeares of age his legacie shall remaine to him that is then living but if they dye both of them before they be one and twenty yeares of age then there is none to be paid. Item all the rest and residue of my goods not yett given and unbequeathed I also give and bequeath unto my daughter Joane Champion whom I doe make my whole and sole executor & my funeral discharged and my debts paid In witness whereof I have to this my last will and testament sett my hand and seale the day and yeare first above written The signe and seale of Margarett Euwins signed sealed and delivered in the presence of us William Turner the marke of Gilbert Wooll Tho Attwooll. The Will was proved at London the thirteenth day of June in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred fifty seven before the Judges for Probate of wills and granting administration lawfully authorized by the oathes of Joane Champion the daughter of the said deceased and sole executrix named in the said will to whom was committed administration of all and singular the goods chattles and debts of the said deceased shee the said Joane Champion being first sworne in due forme of law by vertue of a commission well and hereby to administer the same.

1a) William Champion

William appears in a court case - Information of William Champion of Wootton in the parish of Butleigh concerning the loss of a black heifer the body of which was found in the slaughter house of William Spurlocke of Somerton, and the hide hid under the bed mat on which his wife was lying. William Spurlocke said that he bought the heifer from Philip Masters of Wootton, but offered no explanation of the hide being found under his bed. All given to John Barker 2 5th Oct. 1659. William Champion listed amongst the commoners in 1672.

DD.S.BT.4/4/4 - 1] William Bennett of Butleigh Wootton, husbandman 2] William Champion the same Assignment of lease (1651) for lives by Thomas Symcockes of Upper Close of Peirce Sugg (6a) in Butleigh Wootton. Rent 2d.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS Date range: 1658-1659.

2) Maria Champion Chr. 4 Nov 1632 Butleigh d.o. Margaret Champion

The mother is probably the widowed Margaret who married John Ewens in Butleigh on 2 May 1636 #

3) Edward Champen

Edward was paid in 1673 for caring for Grace Clap (OOP) and may have died that year. In 1675-77 widow Champion was paid for her relief (+ two sacks of coal in the latter year). In 1678 she was identified as Mary Champion.

4) Mary Champion married John Sparkes in Butleigh on 31 Jan 1675

5) Ann and Mary Champion

These two paid rates jointly from 1681 – 1684 {mother and daughter?) and from 1685 Ann paid the rate alone until 1690 when John Coombe paid the rate, her husband – see below.

An Ann Champion of Butleigh Wootton appears in a settlement of 1690 and is probably a daughter: DD/S/BT/5/1/14 - 1] Ann Champion of Butleigh Wootton, John Coombe the younger of Compton Dundon, yeoman 2] John Lymbery of Compton Dundon, yeoman, James Chapman of Butleigh, yeoman John Meade of Street, yeoman Settlement of Chambers house and lands in Butleigh Wootton for the marriage of Ann Champion and John Coombe. From 1694 the adjoining property is called 'Late Mary Champen' suggesting that Mary was Ann's mother (same Mary as (3) wife of Edward?).

DD/S/BT/5/1/14 1] Ann Champion of Butleigh Wootton, John Coombe the younger of Compton Dundon, yeoman 2] John Lymbery of Compton Dundon, yeoman, James Chapman of Butleigh, yeoman John Meade of Street, yeoman Settlement of Chambers house and lands in Butleigh Wootton for the marriage of Ann Champion and John Coombe. Date: 1690.

6) Charles Champion blacksmith, bur. 22 Nov 1791 Butleigh

First mention of Charles is in 1750/1 when the churchwardens paid him for his smithing work. In 1752/3 he was paid for 'jemys and nails for ye [church] chest'. Charles started paying rates (OOP) in 1756 as neighbour of William Colmer – and in the same year the CW paid his bill and 'about the bees'. He paid the rate until 1792 and then it was paid by John Champion.

Charles was a widower at his second marriage. An Elizabeth had a bastard child William Chr. 17 May 1781 Butleigh and the only candidate mother is Betty Chr. 1761. Ann Champion married William Hodges in Butleigh on 19 Aug 1766. # Catherine married Mathew Tarswell in Butleigh on 26 Jun 1775. # In 1753 the churchwardens paid Charles for 'jemys & nails for ye cheste'. In 1789 Doctor Worth of Somerton was paid for curing Charles' maid.

DD/S/BT/13/1/21 - 1] Ann Hodges of Butleigh 2] Charles Champion of Butleigh, blacksmith Assignment of a cottage in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1775.

DD\BR\ho/14 Two houses, one orig. belonging to Champion of Butleigh, one, in Water Lane, to Colmer of Butleigh. Probate will, John Periam, sen., of Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, DEEDS OF THE NEVILLE...] Date range: 1670 - 1835.

6a) John Champion Chr. 25 Jan 1750 Butleigh died c. 1820

John paid rates on his father's property from 1793 – 1820. The OOP issued a warrant for John in 1777. Catherine married Thomas Trout of Kingweston in Butleigh on 24 Sep 1810

8) William J. Champion b. 1857 Savannah, S. Georgia USA [British Subject] apprentice carpenter, s.o. James (b. 1817) and Keziah Champion 71-80

William lodged with William L. Stacy at the Carpenter's Shop, High Street, Butleigh in 1871. In 1881 he boarded with James Millard, carpenter in Blackford Road, Wedmore. Nfi - returned to the USA? Possibly related to the Staceys since their eldest son was christened John Champion Stacey in 1857. Related to the Champions of Butleigh in the mid/late 1700's?

Chancellor

1) John Chancellor

John appears on the list of commoners for Tything in 1672 but no other reference. In 1673 the OOP paid 10s house rent for James Beavel (Bovel) to Joane Chancsler. She appears in the accounts once more in 1697 when the overseers paid for a warrant concerning her.

2) Jane Chanceler – in the OOP accounts 1752/53 she was paid for 'curing' Hester Fidhole.

Chandler

1) Annie Chandler b. 1861 London 81-94

Annie was a servant at Butleigh Court in 1881. Nfi

Channel

(Chanl)

1) Mary Channel/Chanl - married Thomas Bulgon alias Sweet in Butleigh on 7 Jun 1756 #

Mary appears in the OOP accounts in 1737 when she received relief in her necessity. In 1738/9 the OOP paid for her room at Mary Gregory's and bought her two sheets and thread as well as paying relief at several times. Hannah married John Dominy in Butleigh on 4 Apr 1763 # A Mary Channel was still having her rent paid in 1769 – a daughter?

2) John Chanl bur. 24 Jan 1798 Butleigh (misread as Chant?)

In 1752/3 John Chanl was paid for 6 dozen sparrow heads. (CW). [In Somerton there was a family Chant]

Channing

1) Samuel Channing Chr. 7 Jul 1745 Butleigh illegit. child of Mary Channing (see Mary Channel), fathered by Samuel Cox

Chantor

[Chanter]

1) Richard Chantor b. 1834 Exeter, Devon, commercial traveller in Tea Trade, s.o. Charles Chanter 81W-106

Mary was a house servant in Bloomsbury in 1851. By 1861 she was married and living with her in-laws William and Mary Coombes in Moorlinch (husband away) and had a five year old son Gilbert.

She was a widow by 1871 and a schoolmistress living at the National School, Wootton. She married Richard Chantor in 1873. They lived with their nieces, Mary Sawtell (30) # a governess, and Mary Warrey Coombes (14)# in Butleigh Wootton in 1881. After Mary's death in 1886 Richard boarded in Holdenhurst, Bournemouth, Hampshire in 1891, then South Highbridge in 1901.

Chaplin

1) Edward Chaplin Chr. 13 Feb 1759 Ashcott d. 1742, s.o. Edward Chaplen

Edward was churchwarden in 1711-12. He paid rates to the OOP 1703 – April 1742 then rates were paid by a Mrs. Johnson. In 1709 he took an apprentice, Elner Roley.

DD/S/BT/4/5/34 1] John Webb and Katherine Webb 2] Edward Chaplen the elder of Ashcott, yeoman Lease for lives of Morehouse and 1a, the Common (3a), 6a by house, Newmead (2a), Broadmead (1a), 3yds at Blackthorne, Voley (1a), 2a at Bolster corner in West field, 2a at Sower Down in West field, and five half acres and 3yds in the East field, Butleigh. Rent 11s. Date range: 1701 - 1702.

Chapman

1) Thomas Chapman?

2) James Chapman

'Chapmans' listed amongst the commoners in 1672. James was a donor towards the building of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1680 and churchwarden in 1681-2 and 1693-4. He last appears in the churchwardens accounts in 1698. James paid rates on land in South Moor from 1673-89. In Butleigh he paid rates 1673 – 1708 then was followed 1709-12 by Joane Chapman – together with John Pope. Thereafter John Pope paid the rate alone. In 1723 two overseers were elected to represent the properties of the late James Chapman – at Butleigh Hill and at Wootton.

DD/S/BT/5/1/14 - 1] Ann Champion of Butleigh Wootton, John Coombe the younger of Compton Dundon, yeoman 2] John Lymbery of Compton Dundon, yeoman, James Chapman of Butleigh, yeoman John Meade of Street, yeoman Settlement of Chambers house and lands in Butleigh Wootton for the marriage of Ann Champion and John Coombe Date: 1690. Other references from 1680 – 1706 [DD/S/BT//6/5/20-22/+/6/8/2//5/5/5]

3) Samuel Chapman

Possibly the son of James since the following concerns property at Nurslinge Gate that James had previously been assigned.

DD/S/BT/6/8/4 - 1] Samuel Chapman of Butleigh, yeoman 2] Richard Hyatt of Kingweston, carpenter Assignment of 1a at Nurslinge gate in Butleigh West field.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date range: 1706 - 1707.

4 David Chapman married Lydia Brice Butleigh 28 Aug 1749

5) Mary A Chapman b. 2 Mar 1856 Gurney Slade, servant, d.o. Isaac and Elizabeth Chapman 71-81

Mary worked at Joseph Hickman's Drapers Shop in the High Street, Butleigh in 1871. She had lived with her parents in Ashwick in 1861. Nfi

Chapple

[Caple/Chappell]

1) Alice Caple 17 Dec 1580 [uncertain whether burial or baptism]

This is probably a baptism since in Butleigh on 9 Oct 1601 Alice Caple married Daniel Hellier #

2) Walter Caple bur. 2 May 1593 Butleigh

3) John Caple Chr. 29 Jan 1590 Butleigh son of Margaret Caple

4) Elizabeth Caple bur. 13 Apr 1598 Butleigh (Dwelly's PR)

5) Maria Caple married 12 Apr 1602 Nicholas Pimfeder?

6) Robert Chapple

7) Robert Chappell [of Baltonsborough]

Mary Chapple married John Higgins Butleigh 17 Oct 1748 #

8) Mary Chapple married Richard Holman Butleigh 8 Oct 1730 #

9) Robert Chapple married Margaret Strickland Butleigh 31 Oct 1743 (2nd marriage of (2)?)

10) Samuel Chapple married Grace Westlake Butleigh 31 Jul 1745

11) Richard Chapple married Jane Stucklous Butleigh 17 Oct 1748 (Stucklinch/Strickland?)

12) Alfred Chapple b. 1815 Glastonbury, farmer 51-35

In 1851 Alfred Chapple (36) lived with his wife Sophia (26) and son Alfred in Oddway, Butleigh. The Chappells left Butleigh after William had been born in 1855 for Martock where Alfred snr became a dairyman (1861) and son Alfred became a footman (1871). In 1881 Alfred J. was a servant at 36, Cadogan Place, Chelsea and he then married Alice Elizabeth Pitman from Dunkerton in 1889 (Sep Q 5c/887 Clifton), Somerset before becoming an Assurance agent and living in two rooms at 9, St. Michael's Park, Bristol (1891). In 1901 they were at 5, Chisbury Street, Stapleton, Bristol, living with Alfred's father-in-law Charles Pitman (b. 1815 Crewkerne). They never had any children and were still in Bristol at the same address in 1911.

John, a gardener, married Elizabeth (b. 1852 Norton, Suffolk) and in 1891 lived at Manchester Road, Pendlebury, Lancs. In 1901 he was at Springwood Cottage, Swinton Park, Pendleton, Salford with his wife. The couple were at Stutts Farm, 2 Swinton Park, Pendleton in 1911, and childless, both their children having died.

William became a gardener and in 1881 lived at 30, Wellington St., Moss Side, Manchester with his wife Louisa (b. 1851 Jersey), daughter Louisa Sophia (3) and brother Arthur (20). In 1891 William and Louisa lived in four rooms of "Victoria Villas", Kenyon Lane, Heapey, Lancs with their three children. By 1901 William was widowed and lived with just two children at that address, the oldest of which, Louisa (23), a cotton weaver, had been born in Jersey. He lived at 'The Villa, Norton, Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk in 1911 with his sister Elizabeth Ann Chappell (b. 1863 Long Load) and a niece Annie Carter..

13) George Chapple b. 19 Dec 1840, Chr. 21 Jan 1841 (Mar Q 10/495 Wells) Baltonsborough, s.o. John Chappel, a labourer, and wife Ann (née Dennis). 51-31 (Chappel)

Born December 1840, George appeared with his parents John and Ann Chappel in Baltonsborough in 1841. Aged only 10 he worked in 1851 as a house servant in the home of James Gilbert, butcher in Water Lane, Butleigh. George emigrated to Australia aboard the “Orwell” together with his younger brother Sidney, arriving in Victoria in January 1855. He went on to marry in 1869, had seven children and died in 1888 in New South Wales.

14) Elizabeth [Betty] Chapell b. 1770 Moorlinch 61W-65

Elizabeth aged 91 was visiting her daughter Caroline Mogg at Sedgemoor in 1861. In 1841 and 1851 she had been living alone in Moorlinch. She was the widow of George Chappell who had been Parish Clerk. Probably the Elizabeth Chapel who died in 1861 (Mar Q 5c/336 Langport)?

Charles

1) Margaret Charles buried 31 May 1741 Butleigh [error for Castle?]

Charlton

1) William Charlton b. 1833 Charlton Mackrell, farm labourer, s.o. James and Ann Charlton, bur. 8 Jun 1898 (Jun Q 5c/305 Wells) Butleigh 71-76, 81-100, 91-120

The family first appear in 1871 on Butleigh Hill. They had arrived there by 1869 from Charlton Mackrell where William and Joan's first four children were born. A child, George Henry, died shortly after birth in 1870. On the 1871 census the oldest son John is called Burrows and is older than Joseph - his birth, like his parents marriage, seems unrecorded. By 1881 the family were in Sealy's Row where they stayed for all the later censuses. Joseph and William Pierce [Pearce] had left home. Joseph was a baker living with Eliza Browning, his aunt, a baker in Ilchester. William Pierce completely disappears from the census.

Maurice married Alice and was found living in 1891 in Doulting and Arthur lodged with him before marrying Jane from Queen Camel and becoming a bricklayer living at 44, Irvine St., West Derby, Liverpool in 1901. By 1911 Arthur was widowed and lived with his four children at 48, Milroy Street, Liverpool. Maurice is found in 1901 with his wife and 8 children in Church Lane, Evercreech.

William and Jane are listed at 32 Sealy's Row in 1891 and had their oldest son Burrows living with them, a road labourer. William died in 1898 aged 65. Bertha seems to have then left home and may have been a domestic servant in Bournemouth in 1891 but she returned home by 1901 when she lived with her widowed mother Jane, referred to as 'Paralytic' (presumably after a stroke), and brother Burrows John. Bertha was a dressmaker working from home. Jane (called Joan on the record) died in 1902 aged 70. In 1905 (Jun Q 5c/934 Wells) Bertha married George Pike. #

Chasey

1) Andebras Chasey

In 1672 Andebras or Andribus appeared on the list of commoners. He was a donor towards the building of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1680 according to the churchwardens accounts. He paid rates from 1673-1685 and was followed by Agnes Chasey widow 1686-90 after which she was referred to as the 'late Agnes Chasey'. His wife Agnes had appeared in the churchwardens accounts in 1689.

2) Ann Chasey bur. 3 Jan 1667 Butleigh

3) John Chasey died 1703/4

In the churchwardens accounts a John Casey's name appears between 1689 and 1711. John was churchwarden in 1673 and 1691 and Overseer of the Poor in 1686 and 1702. In 1687 he received relief for Joan Walton for 2 weeks. The wardens took out a process against him in 1702. John Chasey [senior] paid rates between 1673 and 1703. John died around 1703 and from 1705-17 the rates were paid by his widow Mary.

Exchequer E 134/23 & 24 Chas 2 - Richard Cabell, Richd. Helyar, John Rock, clerk, John Norton, Robt. Talbott, John Raymond, John Chasey. v. Sir Thomas Mack-worth, Bart., John Webb, Richard Tomlyns, Gawen Lowry.: Manors of Butley, Street, and Glastonbury, and the moore or waste ground, called "South Moore" alias "Alder Moore" (said to be parcel of the late abbey of Glastonbury), lying in or near the parishes of Butleigh, Street, and Glastonbury. Touching the inclosure of moor, and allotments made to Chas. 1., to the lords of the manors, and to those having right of common on the manor. Common of estovers, &c., &c.: Somerset Date range: 1671-1673.

3a) John Chasey

John is recorded as killing 2 foxes, 4 polecats and three hedgehogs up to 1711. By 1713 John junior became impoverished and received 1s 6d from the Symcockes bequest. This is probably the John that emigrated to America between 1 Jun 1718 and 23 Apr 1719. By 1746 he lived in Middletown, Monmouth Co. N.J. Where he worked as a currier (leather worker). It is quite possible that he left Margaret behind in Butleigh (assuming it is the same one) because from 1728 she seems to be in dire straits. She received from the OOP firewood, sheets, neckcloth, several 'changes', coverlet, and relief in her necessity. She must have been incapacitated because a Hester Tutton did her washing and was in attendance – they even moved Hesther from Hill, with all her goods, to live and care for Margaret. This situation carried on all through 1730 with Hester washing and attending to Margaret. Firewood was bought for them both and their rent paid and new stockings bought for Margaret. In 1731 Hester was paid 55 weeks attendance for looking after Margaret who herself received 55 weeks relief. She received firewood in 1731 and she and Hester lived at Chases Backhouse, where the OOP paid their rent. Margaret also received a sheet and a change. Margaret continued to be in receipt of OOP relief until her death.

DD/S/BT/11/1/28 - 1] John Chasey the younger and John Chasey the elder of Butleigh, yeomen 2] Thomas Avery of Butleigh, blacksmith and wife Mary Release of Hendley (7.5a), Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1700.

On 23 Apr 1719, George Aston registered his apprentice, John Chasey, with the New York City authorities. An abstract of the record reads

"Registered for George Aston the 23rd of April Anno Domini 1719. Indenture of John Chasey, late of the Parish of Butleidge in the County of Somerset in Great Britain to George Aston, Tanner Currier, for seven years from June 1st, 1718...and shall also find and provide unto the said Apprentice sufficient Meat, Drink, Apparell, Lodging, and Washing fitting for an Apprentice, and at the end of the Said Apprentice to allow his Said Apprentice a good New Sute of Apparell. Signed June 1st, 1718 by John Chasey. In the prsence of John Smith, William Jackson, Christopher Hopkins. Acknowledged June 1st, 1718 before John Cruger, Alderman" (New York Hist. Soc. Collections, 1909, p. 119).



Doc. DD/S/BT/24/8/1 Notes on Chasey's tenement, Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1751.

4) Jone Chasey married Jonas Lucas Butleigh 24 May 1740

5) Elizabeth Chasey married widower Charles Champion of Butleigh in East Pennard on 11 Sep 1768 #

A John Chasey married Anne Dymock in East Pennard on 12 July 1747 - parents of Elizabeth?

6) Mary Chasey bur. 24 Feb 1765 Butleigh

7) Stephen Chasey bur. 7 Jan 1787 Butleigh

Stephen Chasey had married Mary Newport in East Pennard on 2 Nov 1763 - the Mary bur. 1765 (3) above? In 1731 a Stephen Chasey was paid for attending a court case in Bridgwater, for two days and a night (OOP) and in 1735/6 (CW) he gave information in a case at Pylle about illicit alcohol selling. In 1756/7 his house rent was paid by the OOP.

Cheaweller

1) Jane Cheaweller

A Jane Cheaweller occurs just once in the OOP accounts when she received money from the Dyer Symcockes bequest in 1691. Cowell?

Chedd

1) John Chedd bur. 19 Jun 1610 Butleigh?

A widow Maria Ked.. (Chedd?) married Butleigh Dec 1611 Robert Seymer – widow of John Chedd? On 4 Nov 1610 Butleigh a Rabody C.... married Roger Hatch. A John Chedd was in recipt of Poor relief in 1606, 1607 and 1613 – the latter suggesting that the burial aove may have been of a son?

2) Joanne Chedd bur. 30 May 1664 Butleigh

Chelniam

1) Henry Chelniam bur. 7 Nov 1813 Butleigh aged two. (uncertain surname)

Chick

1) John Chick b. 5 Jan 1818 Uffculme, Devon, carpenter, s.o. Thomas and Anne Chicke. Died 1864 (Jun Q 5b/305 or Dec Q 5b 329 Tiverton)

1a) Thomas Chick 1842 (Mar Q 10/298 Tiverton), Willand, Devon, carpenter, s.o. John and Elizabeth Chick, d. 16 Jan, bur. 19 Jan 1918 Butleigh 81-93, 91-114, 01-133

Thomas and Arabella appeared in 1881 at No. 1 Compton Street, presently called Woodbine Cottage, which had been built in 1879. Thomas was born in Willand, Devon in 1842, the eldest son of John Chick, a carpenter, and his wife Elizabeth. At the census in 1871 he was a carpenter and wheelwright in Willand, still unmarried aged 29 and living as head of the family, with his widowed mother and several brothers and a sister. He married Arabella in London in 1871. On the 1871 census she had been a cook at "Ashfield", Great Malvern, home of the Rev. Alfred F. Hanbury Tracy. Thomas and Arabella had at least two children in Willand; Eliza and Eva and then moved to Butleigh, most likely in 1879. He was probably the first tenant of No. 1 since his son Herbert Henry was born there in 1880. Thomas' brother Albert aged 18, a groom, also lived with them.

In 1891 the house was given the number '1' on the census. Thomas Chick, then described as a 'joiner', still inhabited the house but his brother Albert had returned to Willand (where he married a girl called Kezia) while Thomas' daughter Eliza was boarding in Harbury, Warwicks. as a pupil teacher. Her sister Eva (now 14), still living at home, was also described as a pupil teacher.

In 1901 Thomas was referred to as a 'foreman carpenter' and Herbert a carpenter. Eliza had returned home to Butleigh as Assistant schoolmistress while Eva had moved away, to Hornsea, Middlesex where she was a teacher in the National School there. In 1911 Thomas and Arabella lived at 1 Butleigh with their school teacher daughter Eliza with a niece, Maud Burnell as domestic help.

2) Jane Chick b. 1833 Walton, housemaid, d.o. John and Frances Chick

Jane served as under-housemaid at Wootton House in 1851. She married John Perry (b. 1837 Walton) in 1857 (Dec Q 5c/1014 Wells) and they lived in Walton, where they had both been born.

Chilcott

1) Albert Chilcott b. 1879 Stogursey farm labourer s.o. Charles and Ann Chilcote

In 1901 Albert lived with his parents in North Petherton. Bessie had lived with her parents in North Petherton in 1891 but was a servant at Bishops Hull in 1901. In 1911 the family lived in two rooms at 23 Butleigh Wootton

Chinn

1) John Chinn b. 1869 Hinton St. Mary, Dorset, d. 30 Jul 1926, bur. 3 Aug 1926 Butleigh

In 1891 the couple lived in Gillingham Dorset where John was an agricultural labourer. By 1901 they lived in Church Street, Keinton Mandeville where John was then a gardener. In 1911 they lived in Ditcheat. On Albertina's grave John's burial place is touchingly referred to as 'near the acacia tree'.

Chinnock

1) Emily Ann Chinnock b. 1882 (Mar Q 5c/511 Shepton Mallet) East Pennard, d.o. Alfred and Caroline Chinnock 01-137

In 1891 Emily lived at the Cottage, Hornblotton with her parents and siblings. Her father was an agricultural labourer. She was a general servant at Park Farm in 1901. Emily Ann married Harry Davis of Butleigh in 1909 (Jun Q 5c/932 Wells). #

2) Jane Chinnock b. 14 Dec 1887 Hornblotton, servant, d.o. Alfred and Caroline (nee Walker) Chinnock

In 1911 Jane worked as a general servant at Rowley Farm home of Robert Knight. She was the younger sister of Emily above.

Chislett

1) Thomas Chislett surveyor

In 1784/5 the Overseers paid the bill of 17s for a survey of the Parish made by Thomas Chislett and also his bill of 6s for wood.

DD/S/BT/3/6/21 Thomas Chislett's survey of a tenement in Butleigh with notes from early 19th century surveys for comparison. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1784.

Christie

1) Edwin Langdale Christie b. 1863 (Mar Q 8b/306a West Derby) Aigburth, Lancashire, retired army officer, s.o. Robert Christie P

Edwin was the son of a wealthy cotton broker, married to Mary (b. 1862 Almondsbury, Yorks). In 1891 he had lived with his wife, two small children and his sister at Turville Court, Bucks and in 1901 lived with her and his sister Elizabeth in Charlton House, Charlton Mackrell - 'on his own means'. He had rented the house since 1894 from the Dickinson family of Kingweston, who owned it. They left the house in 1905 when Sir Arthur Thring bought it and they moved to Charlton Horethorne. He played the handsome King Arthur in the Butleigh Revel. Edwin had been a Yeomanry Officer in the Boer War and in Charlton Mackrell was church warden, then Parish Councillor from 1895 serving with Archdeacon Brymer. Two of the latter's children also played in the Revel.

Chubb

1) Mr. Chubb

In 1763/5 the churchwardens paid his bill – relating to deal boards £9 6s 4d.

DD\GB/152/122 Receipted bill of Messrs. Hurford and Chubb for deal boards supplied to Wm. Gore (signed John Chubb). 1750. (same business?)

Churches

1) John Churches b. 1826, Meare, farmer, s.o. Robert Churches (farmer)

After their marriage in Butleigh, 1851 Sarah and John lived in Meare where they farmed 40 acres. Sarah was still there, in Godney, in 1901. Several of John's siblings emigrated to Michigan, USA, in the 1840's.

Churchill

1) David Churchill Chr. 17 Nov 1793 Crewkerne, tailor and innkeeper, s.o. David and Susannah Churchill

It is not proven that David married twice - however, both Davids were tailors and the above fits the PR records. Mary Maria married watchmaker John Sully in 1847 (Jun Q 10/560 Bridgwater) and they lived in Somerton before moving to Tredegar, Bedwellty, Wales.

David, Maria and Susan lived in New Street, Somerton in 1851. In 1861 Susan and her widowed father lived in West Street, Somerton. Susan Amanda married tinman James Henry Indoe (b. 1842 Somerton - Mar Q 10/457 Langport) in 1862 (Dec Q 5c/799 Langport) and they lived in Wedmore from then until past 1911. They had two children, both still alive in 1911.

1a) George Churchill b. 1823 Butleigh, carpenter

In 1851 George and Elizabeth lived in Harrison Street, Grays Inn Lane, St. Pancras, London. By 1861 they lived at 216, Pentonville Rd., Clerkenwell with daughter Elizabeth (9).

1b) David Churchill b. 1824 Butleigh, saddler, died 1890 (Mar Q 5c/423 Axbridge)

The newlyweds, David and Ann, lived at 2, Market Street, Burhham in 1851. In 1861 they lived in Church Street, Burnham and had a daughter Elizabeth (9). By 1871 David had a new wife, Harriett, who he had married in 1863 plus three young children (aged 6 - 2) by her. In 1881 he lived in Victoria St., Burnham with his wife and seven children.

1c) Charles Churchill Chr. 1 May 1825 Butleigh, tailor

Charles married Caroline Voake [Coake] (b. 1831 Somerton) in 1858 (Mar Q 5c/621 Bridgwater) and lived in North Street, Somerton in 1861 with her and son Henry (2). In 1871 they were still there with Henry but no more children had been born. By 1881 the three had moved to West Street - Charles' dob then given as 1833.

2) Robert Churchill b. 1813? Sidmouth, farmer s.o. George Churchill

A Tryphena Bampfield died in 1849 in Honiton, Devon who may have been Tryphena's mother. The only other Tryphena on the censuses was born in 1817 at Salcombe Regis, Devon and she appeared at Fortfield House in Sidmouth Devon, as a housemaid in 1861. Robert is probably the unmarried labourer (b. 1813 Sidmouth) living with his sister in Sidmouth in 1861. This Robert appears at 1, Marlborough Place, Sidmouth in 1871 married to 'Phillis' a lodging house keeper - and they are possibly this couple (though Phillis gives dob 1824 and pob Dean Prior). The reason they married in Butleigh was probably that George Bampfield (b. 1817 Salcombe Regis), who lived the village was Tryphena/Phyllis's brother. Nfi #

Clap(p)

1) John Clapp bur. 8 Nov 1627 Butleigh

A widow Alice was bur. 21 July 1635 Butleigh who may have been John's wife [but could equally be the wife of Valentine or Thomas below].

DD/S/BT/4/2/10 - Assignment of 1.5a in Austins Pits in East field, 1/2a on High St., 1/2a under mill hedge in West field and house lately erected in place of a stable at the end of Valentine Clapp's house with two plots one of which adjoin's Richard's new barn, part of Peckham lease (1562) to Alice Burdham, later wife of John Clapp. Rent a peppercorn and 9d.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1672.

Agnes married Thomas Bartlett in Butleigh on 20 Jan 1612. # A Margaret married Edward Burnard in Butleigh on 7 Jul 1608, another daughter? #

1a) Valentine Clapp

DD/S/BT/5/7/1 - 1] Valentine Clapp of Butleigh, tailor 2] Thomas Wilton of Butleigh, husbandman Assignment of 5yds in Butleigh West field. Rent 4d. [Tied together with DD/S/BT/5/7/2 and 5/7/3]. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1636.

1a1) Edward Clapp Chr. 9 Nov 1617 Butleigh bur 26 June 1667 Butleigh

The widow Clapp who received relief in 1675 may be Hester? Grace Clapp received assistance from the Overseers of the Poor in 1673 (and had her shoes mended) and then in 1690 'in her weeknis and in her trouble'. In 1691 money was paid to Katherine Adams for the relief of Grace an hir child plus rent and clothes – and Dr. Periam was paid for 'curing' her. A warrant was taken out about Grace in 1692 and then no more mention of her.

2) Thomas Clapp

4) Roger Clapp

3) John Clapp bur. 30 Jul 1669 Butleigh

John Clapp tailor, elected 'Parish Register' in 1653. The John bur. 9 Apr 1641 Butleigh could be this John's son or No. 1?

DD/S/BT/13/1/7 - 1] John Clapp and son Roger of Butleigh, tailors 2] Thomas Looke the elder of Butleigh, husbandman Assignment of 1a at Biggs, Butleigh. [DD/S/BT/13/1/5-10 tied together]. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1662.

5) Roger Clapp (son of John, see previous?) blacksmith died circa 1683

The property 'Clapps' is listed in the 1672 commoners list. Roger appears in the churchwardens accounts carrying out smithing work between 1673 and 1683. Roger Clapp labourer paid for work on church bell 1676. In the overseers accounts he is listed in 1673 as making William Slade's grave. In 1674 he took in Walton's children and received relief for them also in 1675. In 1676 he was caring for Joan Walton and Joane Millard and in 1677-83 Joan Walton still. He also did some tailoring work to Thomas Gane's clothes in 1680. In 1684 Elizabeth Clapp took over looking after Joane Walton. In 1685 there are two references to the widow Clapp receiving relief. !686 was a bad year as she received relief several times for her family 'in their time of trouble' and 'in their sickness' and wood for heating etc. In 1687 she received house rent and relief for a year. This relief continued every year until her death in 1715/6. It constantly refers to her 'children' and it may be that this is a younger Elizabeth? In 1689 an Elizabeth Clapp [therefore a child] was indentured to Edward Jacklett to clothe her – a daughter of this Elizabeth (the child of Elizabeth who died that year? see next paragraph). A warrant was taken out by the OOP concerning Elizabeth in 1693. In 1696 an elderly widow Elizabeth Clapp had bad legs for which she required 'salve' as well as her usual relief. During the period 1687 – 1715 Elizabeth was in regular receipt of coal or wood for heating. In 1717 her rent was paid to John Squire [postdates the death in Dec 1715].

In 1690 – 3 a Roger son (child) of Elizabeth Clapp received assistance from the Overseers. This doesn't seem to be the above family since Roger b. 1666 would be too old to be considered a child by then. Obviously a generation gap here. A child of Elizabeth Clapp buried in 1689 suggests that this Elizabeth had two or more illegitimate children. She was possibly a child of Stephen next?

DD/BR/ho/19 - 3 cottages 'abutting against the Streate... [and] the garden belonging... to the ancient house formerly called Clappes', with land in East Field, purchased from Clapp by Squiar family of Butleigh. Marriage settlement, John Squiar, jun., of Butleigh and Elizabeth Browning, 1715..

6) Stephen Clapp tailor, Died before 1690

Stephen appears in the Overseers accounts 1673 – 83 and churchwarden's accounts in 1681 and 1685. In 1673 Stephen made Thomas Gane's clothes. He was a ratepayer 1677-83 [replaced by Richard Holman – relative of Stephen's wife?]. In 1690 there is reference to 'the tenement Late Stephen Clapp. In 1891 the OOP accounts record 'late Elizabeth Clapp' for the same property. Uncertain who this Elizabeth was – the widow of Roger Clapp, or a second wife of Stephen? The daughter Mary married Humphrey Colmer #

DD/S/BT/8/5/11] John Slade of Butleigh mercer and wife Elizabeth executrix of George Burdham decd, Humphrey Colmer the elder of Butleigh and wife Mary daughter of Stephen Clapp decd 2] John Squiar of Butleigh, broadweaver Assignment of a messuage, 2a in West Wood and Date: 1705.

9) Margery Clapp

Margery was in receipt of OOP relief from 1673 – 1686. In 1681 her rent was paid and it was mentioned that she was sick. She possibly died in 1686.

8) Hester Clapp bur. 26 May 1751 Butleigh

From 1739/40 Hester had her house rent paid by the OOP.

Clare?

1) Sarah Clare of Costcombe bur. 23 Aug 1737 Butleigh

Clarke

[Clark - Clerk]

1) Robert Clarke bur. Apr 1639 Butleigh

Roger received one shilling from the fine paid by William Kelway in 1683 for not burying his wife in woollen.

DD/S/BT/4/5/18 - 1] John Webb 2] Roger Clarke of Butleigh, husbandman Lease for lives of 2a 3yds at Sandpitts, in West field, Butleigh. Rent 6d.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date range: 1667-1668.

1a) John Clarke Chr. 2 Sep 1610 Butleigh

2) George Clarke

3) Sauraha Clarke Butleigh married 1 Aug 1669 John Backhouse #

4) Secily Clarke Butleigh married 2 Nov 1671 Thomas Sam #

DD/S/BT/4/5/19 - 1] John Webb 2] Cicely Clarke of Butleigh Lease for lives of a cottage, Butleigh. Rent 2s.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date range: 1667-1668. DD/S/BT/4/5/27 - 1] James Webb, Anna Webb his mother and Katherine Alleine of Bristol 2] John Sheate worsted comber Lease for lives of a cottage in Butleigh, late Cicely Clarke. Rent 2s.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date range: 1680 - 1681.

5) William Clark died 1702?

William Clark paid rates to the OOP for land in South Moor from 1673-1703. He was succeeded by James who was presumably his son. James paid rates on South Moor land 1704 – 1729.

DD/S/BT/4/5/29 1] Thomas Abbot of Butleigh, yeoman, his wife Mary, William Clarke of Lovington, Francis Jennings of Lovington and William Clarke of Ripple, Wookey 2] John Pirkes son of John of Butleigh, husbandman Lease for lives of a cottage south of Sincklers lane, Date: 1683.

DD/S/BT/11/1/26 1] William Clark of Lovington son and executor of James decd, William Clark of Wookey executor of Richard Clark decd, Mary Abbott of Butleigh. 2] Richard Abbott of Butleigh, yeoman, son of Mary Assignment of a cottage, 4a in West field and 2a in East field, messuage and closes (16a), close in east field, 4a in west field and 3a inclosed in Butleigh Southmoor, reserving half house and garden for Mary Abbott. Date: 1698. (?)

DD\BC/127 Robert Clarke of Babcary, mercer: The property described below (except the cottage and yard); to hold to R. C. for terms of 99 years and 99 years determinable on the deaths of himself, wife Eliz. since decd., and James Clarke, son of William Clarke of Lovington, husbandman. Date: 1702.

5a) James Clarke

Paid rates on South Moor 1704 – 1729+ (and possibly later – thereafter called Mr. Clarkes until 1735-9 (when becomes 'or occupiers'), Mr. Clark again until 1770, then 'or occupiers' and in 1772 'late Clarkes').

6) John Clark bur. 18 Feb 1738 Butleigh s.o. William Clark

In 1728/8 the CW paid 1 shilling in expences at Samuel Sweete about Mr. Clark taking an apprentice. Possily this Mr. Clark since he seems to be a resident of Butleigh.

7) John Clarke, bur. 5 Jun 1785 Butleigh (father or son - see below?)

8) William Clarke, bur. 18 Jan 1788 Butleigh (or son - see below?)

8a) Samuel Clarke Chr. 23 Nov 1781 Butleigh, market gardener, s.o. William and Hannah Clarke

In 1851 Samuel lived in Uphill with son Alfred. Nfi but see (12) for another possible son Samuel.

8a1) John Clark Chr. 21 Aug 1810 Butleigh, Beer house owner and brewer

John ran the "Gigant Brewery" in Gigant Street, Salisbury St. Martin in 1851. Wife Mary was b. 1800 Sussex

9) Elias Clark Chr. 20 Mar 1831 Compton Dundon, ag. labourer, s.o. John (b. 1800 Yeovil Marsh) and Edith Clark (b. 1799 Compton Dundon), bur. 16 Feb 1900 (Mar Q 5c/418 Wells) Butleigh 61-49, 71-73, 81-103, 91-122

In 1841 Elias had lived with his parents and sister Jane (b. 1828), brothers George (b. 1829) and Uriah (b. 1839) in Compton Dundon. Elias' mother died 1871 (Jun Q 5c/299 Langport) and father John in 1883 (Jun Q 5c/299 Wells) aged 83. Elias married Eliza Higgins in 1851. By 1861 Elias and his wife had moved into part of the Cottage known as 'Late Keepers' with their first three children. In 1871 Elias and Eliza still had George and Cyrus at home plus two new daughters; Jane b. 1866 and Edith b. 1868. Only one Cyrus of the right age surfaces on a later census, and he is from Somerset, but claims a pob as Churchill - he was a coal miner living at 26, Hopkinstown Road, Llanwonno, Glam., with a wife Mary Ann (b. 1858 Bristol).

Susan was staying with her grandparents John and Edith in Compton Dundon in 1871. In 1881 she was a servant at Lays House, Keynsham [mistress Hester Clapp b. Butleigh, wife of Hungerford Clapp]. She married labourer Richard Hayman (b. 1862 Bridgwater) in 1881 (Sep Q 5c/997 Keynsham) and they lived Keynsham in 1891. Another child Rose, was born in 1874 but then her mother Eliza died in 1879.

Jane died in 1881 Mar Q 5c/420 Wells) aged 15. By 1881 Elias with Edith and Rose went to live in New Road, Butleigh. He married again in 1889, to Elizabeth Castle and in 1891 they lived in four rooms of Rocke Cottage. Elizabeth Ann died in 1899 aged 61 and Elias died in 1900 aged 67 - in Wells Union Workhouse.

George became a sergeant in the Royal Marines, East Stonehouse Devon (1891) - where he married Emma. He then became an army pensioner and rural postman in South Brent (1901) having remarried - to Grace.

Rose/Rosannah was a scullery maid in 1891 at "Lytherley", Christchurch Road, Christchurch, Hamps. She married stationary engineman and widower Richard Wainhouse (b. 1861 Beverley, Humberside) in 1909 (Sep Q 9b/1079 Leeds) and in 1911 they lived at Aylesford Terr., Leeds with 5 of his children.

Edith probably left Butleigh and then married - nfi.

10) Sarah Clark b. 1847 (Sep Q 10/420 Wells) Somerton, daughter of the carpenter William Clarke (b. 1807 Crewkerne) and Philis (b. 1804 Compton Dundon) 61-54

Sarah was a servant at Hill Farm in 1861. In 1851 she lived in Somerton with her parents and three siblings. In 1871 she is found in service at 9, Portland Terrace (Portland Lane), All Saints, Southampton, Hants (home of the chaplain of the Royal South Hants Infirmary).

11) Paul Clark b. 1882 (Jun Q 5c/577 Axbridge) Redhill, Som., footman, s.o. Arthur and Tryphena Clarke 01-134

Paul was in service at Butleigh Court in 1901. In 1891 he had lived with his parents in a cottage belonging to Cribbs Farm, Wrington, Som. His father was a farm labourer.

12) Samuel Clarke b. 1811 Butleigh, builder [s.o. Samuel and Rachel? Not in PR]

Samuel lived in 1851 at Beach, Weston Super Mare. In 1861 they were still in Weston but Samuel was by then a carpenter.

13) Amelia Elizabeth Clarke b. 1870 (Jun Q 3b/97 Northampton) Stanwick, Northants, nurse, d.o. Rowland and Amelia Clarke 91W-117

Amelia worked at Wootton House in 1891. In 1901 was living again, as a laundress, with her parents in Carters Row, Oundle.

14) Maj. Hugh Bryan Clark O.B.E., M.C. b. 1887 (Sep Q 5c/601 Wells), s.o. Francis Joseph and Elizabeth Mary Clark, died 4 Feb 1977 OBIT

Hugh was the second eldest son of Francis Clark, Boot and Shoe manufacturer of Street. In 1891 he appeared with his parents, two sisters and brother in Nether Leigh, Street and in 1901 he appears at The Friends School, 51, Bootham, St. Michael's le Belfry, York. From there he went to Reading Friends School at Leighton Park, and then joined C & J Clark's in Street in 1905. On the 1911 census he appears with his parents at Nether Leigh, Street.

In the Great War he was commissioned in the A.S.C. (Motor Transport) on the Western Front and awarded the Military Cross. DOC After the War he returned to work at the family business and lived in the Old Vicarage, Butleigh, (Butleigh House) which he rented from the Neville family (listed there in 1923 and 1935 in Kelly's). He appears on several passenger lists to New York and Boston. He married Lilian Genevieve Brooking PHOTO(b. Jan 1887 Tacna, Chile) in Paris on 9 May 1917 at the British Embassy.[CSG May 18 1917 report] She was the daughter of George E. Brooking of Dartmouth, and sister of Ysabel Anita Brooking who married Conrad Donald Im Thurn. The latter was buried in Butleigh in 1930 (viz.) Lilian Brooking had an earlier connection with this area when she appeared on the amateur stage at the Royal Court in London in 1910 alongside William Francis Dickinson of Kingweston in the play 'American Citizen' – a friendship maintained when she lived in Butleigh House. During both World Wars she was a Censorship Officer and in peacetime Honorouble Assistant Keeper at the British Museum. Hugh was a past President of the Butleigh Branch of the British Legion. In 1937 when Hugh was elected to Street Parish Council, his address was given as 23, York Terrace, Regents Park, London but he and Lilian moved to South Court, Castle Cary by April 14th 1939 and he retired from Clark's in 1957. Lilian died in 1963 and Hugh in 1977.

Classey

1) Edward Classey Chr. 9 Jun 1765 Pitney, s.o. Edward and Elizabeth (nee Scot) Classey, d. 1805

1a) Charles Classey Chr. 15 Jul 1798 Pitney, baker, died 1848 (Dec Q 10/324 Wells) 41-11

Adopted Edward's children on his death in 1834 – see below.

1b) Edward Kingsdon Classey Chr. 12 Jul 1795 Pitney, s.o. Edward and Jane (nee Tinney) Classey, d. 4 Nov 1834

From 1814 Beulah House in Butleigh High Street was occupied by the Classey family, bakers. In 1841 Charles and Elizabeth, who seem to have had no children of their own, operated the bakery with Charles' oldest nephew while a second nephew, John Classey, lodged with George Bartlett as shoemaker's apprentice. Charles died in 1848 and the bakery was run from then on by his widow. By 1851 Edward Classey had married Mary Ann Webber, in 1849 and set himself up as a baker in Sadler street, St. Cuthbert, Wells and didn't return to live in Butleigh (he died in 1909). # In 1851 the widowed Elizabeth Classey ran the bakery with Virtue as assistant, Charles as baker, plus a journeyman baker, Philip Arthur from Woolavington (son of Jeremiah Arthur at Perriams cottage). # Virtue married Josiah Grinter in 1854 (Sep Q 5c/941 Wells) and they had two children, Charles (b. 1855 Street) and Elizabeth (b. 1858 Street) - Josiah died in 1858 (Dec Q 5c/432 Wells) and Virtue Grinter, as she now was, after running another shop in Butleigh (1861-71#) left Somerset and died in 1878 in Swansea. By 1861 Charles Classey was head of the bakery and his Aunt had retired. Charles had Robert Wilcox (17) from Middlezoy as his assistant. By 1871 Elizabeth moved to live with her other nephew, Edward, who was now a baker in Wookey, where she died in 1872. Charles had married Anne in 1866 and by 1871 lived in Beulah House with his wife and three children.

1b1) Edward Classey Chr. 27Apr 1823 Kingsdon, baker, died 1909 (Jun Q 5c/280 Wells) 41-11

In 1851 Edward and Mary Ann lived in Sadler Street, Wells with son Charles and Henry Webber (b. 1838 Butleigh), Mary Ann's brother. In 1871 the family lived at Wookey and in addition to five children, Edward now had his aunt Elizabeth (73) living with him and a nephew - Charles Edward Grinter (15) from Street. His son Albert was in Butleigh working with Virtue Grinter in her grocery shop. He next appears in 1881 as a warehouseman living at 61, Gt. Bland Street, Trinity Newington, London - married to Annie Phipps. from Kent and with two children (he shared the house with another family). They had married on 25 Mar 1877 at St. Saviours, Southwark. Albert had several occupations, grocer, foreman at a fishworks and pickle manufacturer before they left as missionaries for South Africa in 1898. Albert was connected with the Railway Mission at Braamfontein and died three days before his 94th birthday in 1947. He left a daughter, Mrs. F. E. McGhee, in South Africa and two sons, Will and Albert, in England.

In 1881 the Classeys were at the Baker's Shop, Westbury and besides two children they had John P. Webber (91) father-in-law with them. In 1891 their property was called 'Manchester House' Brass Square, Westbury and they lived there with two children, Annie Classey being a music teacher. In 1901 they were at "The Cross", Westbury where Edward was a retired baker and Annie specifically a piano teacher. Son Edward married Mary Reidy in 1891 and they emigrated to the USA where he died in 1912. Edward died in 1909 and his Will dated 2 Feb 1899, had probate granted 14 May 1909 to Hamilton Garibaldi Classey leaving leaving shop, outbuildings and two gardens to his wife value £390 13s 6d.

1b2) Charles Classey Chr. 11 Apr 1830 Kingsdon, baker, d. 1922 41-11, 51-26, 61-50, 71-73, 81-95, 91-119, 01-136

In 1881 Charles still ran the bakery, his son Albin being called Lucas on the census. By 1891 Charles Classey and Annie had retired and son Leonard was the head baker (and corn dealer) working with his brother Alexander. Lucas [Albin] visited his uncle Albin Creed in 1891 [Clossey] and then married Annie Smith in 1893 (Jun Q 5c/913 Shepton Mallet). In 1911 A.E.S.C. Lucas Classey was a provision importer and boarded with his wife and only child Muriel at 8/6 Clansicarde Gdns Kensington.

Charles' wife Annie died in 1891. In 1901 Charles was retired, but still living with his two unmarried sons Leonard and Alexander, the latter then classified as a cycle dealer. Ann must have died in the 1890's. In 1911 Charles was still living with his two sons, Leonard and Alexander and on census night they had four visitors: John Classey (86, widower and bootmaker) Charles' brother, Elizabeth Lucas (60, single) M. Jennie Lucas (50 widow) and Edward Lucas (10)

Aged 46 and calling himself a baker, Leonard married 21 year old Ada Kathleen Gilks in Butleigh on 24 Feb 1916 (Mar Q 5c/857 Wells) and they had three daughters between 1917 and 1923. Leonard was bur. 19 Feb 1957 Butleigh.# Alexander married Emily Maud Prince in Butleigh on 22 Oct 1917 - they latterly lived in Portishead where Alexander died in 1932, and Emily was bur. 17 Jan 1979 Butleigh.#

2) Eleanor Mary Classey b. 1858 (Sep Q 1a/390 Marylebone), d.o. John and Leonora (née Smith) Classey 71-81

In 1871 at the Shop, High Street, Virtue Grinter (née Classey) (45) widow, lived with her nephew Albert Classey (16) and niece Eleanor Mary Classey (12). Eleanor was the daughter of John and Leonora Classey (b. 1834 Cheltenham), married 1854 (Jun Q 5c/1105 Wells) and in 1891 she appears with them at 37, Seymour Pl., St. Marylebone, London where she is described as a 'Teacher of swimming' - her father being a bootmaker (from Tinctonall - Tintinhull). Her father died in 1918.

Clatworth

1) Rebecca Clatworthy b. 1825 Yearlscombe [Yarnscombe?], Devon, housekeeper 61W-63

Rebecca, a widow, worked at Wootton House in 1861. Nfi

2) Arthur James Clatworthy b. 1875 (Sep Q 11a/555 Bridgend) Cowbridge, Glamorgan, saddler

Arthur and family lived in North Petherton in 1901 where he was classed as a general labourer. By 1911 they lived at Longstock, Stockbridge, Hamps. And Ivy and Arthur's p.o.b. given as Glastonbury.

Clements

1) Thomas Clements widower, married Jane E(a)stment widow, Butleigh 26 Oct 1778

Jane/Jone Eastment was born Jone Rowley and had married Thomas Eastment in 1764

2) Emma Clements b. 1856 Glastonbury, domestic worker 01-145

In 1901 Emma worked at Butleigh Cottage Hospital. She was married to Frank/Francis Clements, a boot rounder, and they appeared in Cranhill Road, Street in 1881 and again in 1891, with their four children.

Clifford

1) William Clifford b. 1869 London 81-95

William appeared as a visitor of the Rev. John Warren Danford at Corner House, High Street in 1861. Nfi

Clinton

1) Mr. [Revd] Guido Clinton – from 1673-1694 this clerk from Wells was visited in Glastonbury by the Butleigh vicar to have the accounts approved. See under Cross for his daughter and heir.

Close

1) Alice Elizabeth Close b. 1876 (Dec Q 5c/507 Wells) Baltonsborough 91-126

In 1881 Alice lived with her widowed mother Elizabeth, a dressmaker, at 7, Mill Street, Baltonsborough. In 1891 she was a servant at the home of Joseph Connock butcher in Oddway. In 1901 she was a ladies maid in 'Kimberley', Brownlow Road, Wood Green, Middlesex.

2) Mary A. Close b. 1851 Baltonsborough 01-145

Mary was the wife of Stephen Close, a sawyer, of Rockland Villa, Baltonsborough. On the 1881 census they were shown with two children. In 1901 she was a patient at the Cottage Hospital, Butleigh.

3) Emea Close b. 1867 (Emma Jane Jun Q 5c/602 Wells or Leah Dec Q 5c/535 Wells) Butleigh, embroidress

Emea was a visitor (and single) in 1891 at the house of Charles Hilborn in 67, High Rd., Kilburn, Willesden. Emma Jane, born the same year stayed in Baltonsborough including 1891 but Leah left Baltonsborough and was missing in 1891. She died in 1897

4) Eliza Close b. 1856 Butleigh

Wife of William Close (b. 1860 Balt.) of Baltonsborough. In 1911 she stated she was married 29 years and had five chilldren. In 1891 lived at Tilham Street Baltonsborough with step-dau. Mary Close (b. 1876 Butleigh) and four other children born post 1886 Baltonsborough. No marriage traced.

Clothier

1) John Clothier

Possibly unrelated – but in 1769 the OOP paid £15 15s 1d to have the Clothier family removed to Keinton Mandeville. It was expensive because of the cost of going to court in Wells and transporting their goods to Keinton.

Coat(e)

1) Henry Coate

Henry was the ratepayer and successor to John Heiate, paying rates in 1701-3. Probably the same Henry Coate who then paid rates 1723 - 31 in succession to Henry Collins, and passed to Charles, Edward and John Strode.

DD/S/BT/6/8/3 1] John Hiett late of Butleigh but now of Pennsylvania, America and wife Mary 2] Henry Coate of Kingsbury, yeoman Mortgage of Hiett's messuage, 6a in the moor, Darksome (1/4a), 4a at East end by Barton river, 2a at Whitewell, 6a at Shilfehedge, 6a at Brownswell Date: 1700.

DD/S/BT/8/3/1-2 1] Henry Coate of Kingsbury and wife Anne 2] Philip Avery the elder of Butleigh, carpenter Lease and release of Brownswell (6a), Shilfhedge (6a), 1a arable adjoining Stones piece, 2a by highway from New gate, 1/2a in Longhill, 1a south of Clayhill, two Date range: 1701 - 1702.

DD/S/BT/6/1/2 1] Henry Coate of Kingsbury and wife Anne 2] William Colmer the elder of Butleigh, yeoman Assignment of a Peckham lease (1562) of Harepitts furlong (2a), 3/4a under Sower Down, 3/4a in Long Gaston and 3/4a in Mounshill, Butleigh. Rent 1d. Endorsed Look Date: 1702.

DD/S/BT/6/5/31 1] William Strode of Butleigh, yeoman, Charles Strode of Ashcott, yeoman, Edward and John Strode of Butleigh, masons and George Strode of Butleigh, yeoman, sons of William decd 2] Henry Coate of Kingsbury, yeoman 3] Henry Talbott and William Hodges of Date: 1731.

DD/S/BT/12/1/13 1] James Willey of Stembridge, Kingsbury, yeoman, nephew of Henry Coate decd 2] William Curtis of Butleigh, yeoman Release of 7a in Butleigh West field and 1/2a in the East field.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1750.

DD/S/BT/8/7/10-12 1] Jonas Lucas of Butleigh, butcher 2] Robert Lucas of Baltonsborough, woolcomber 3] John Squiar Lucas of Butleigh, yeoman 4] James Grenville of Butleigh Assignment of Ragg (3a), Butleigh. Enclosed 1702 lease by Henry Coate and Ann to John Squiar nd copy Date: 1797.

2) Fancy Coat b. 1836 Charlton, farm servant 51-36

In 1851 Fancy worked on the farm of William Dyke at Barton Stone, Butleigh. Nfi

Coatley

1) John Coatley Chr. 16 Jun 1780 Butleigh s.o. Robert (?) and Elizabeth Coatley

Cockman

1) William Cockman b. 1874 (Jun Q 5a/200 Alderbury, Wilts) Salisbury, Wilts, butler, s.o. Edward and Marion Cockman 01W-141

William worked at Wootton House in 1901. In 1891 he was Kitchen Boy at "The Bedford", 2, Bedford St., St. Martins in the Fields, London.

Cocks - Cox

Coggan

(Coggin)

1) John Coggen tallow chandler of Somerton

John Coggen started paying rates in Butleigh in 1734 (OOP). Previously they had been paid by Andrew Abbott to 1728 then his widow Elizabeth to 1732. In 1735 it was John 'or the occupiers' (CW). Elizabeth Coggen paid the rates in 1736 (OOP) and was Overseer of the Poor in 1736 [Wiliam Gattern acting on her behalf] though John was named as ratepayer in 1736 and 1737 according to the CW accounts. Both CW and OOP accounts then name John as ratepayer until 1741 but in 1742 it is Elizabeth or 'Widow Coggens' – then the property seem to be taken back by her son James Abbott.

DD/S/BT/5/3/7-8 1] John Coggan of Somerton, tallow chandler and wife Elizabeth former wife of Andrew Abbot of Broadway, clothier, decd, son of Richard decd 2] John Stocker Norton of Somerton and Nicholas Bicknell of Long Sutton, yeoman Assignment in trust of a messuage, closes of meadow and pasture (16a), 9-a close of arable, East end (5a 1p), 6a at Saddle Combe and 8a 3yds in the East and West fields of Butleigh part Peckham lease (1562). Endorsed Gould 1758. With counterpart. , Date: 1735.

DD/S/BT/5/3/14 1] Mary Withy of Somerton, executrix of John Coggan of Somerton, tallow chandler whose wife Elizabeth was wife of Andrew Abbot of Broadway, clothier, decd 2] James Abbot Assignment of any right to the leasehold estate of Andrew Abbot, Elizabeth and their daughter Ann. Endorsed Gould 1758 Date: 1746.

2) Charles Coggin

In February 1801 the OOP paid 10 shillings and 6 pence for the relief of Betty Withers and in March 17 shillings. Her son John was bapt. 8 Mar 1801 in Butleigh. In April the OOP paid a constables bill of 14 shillings concerning Charles Coggins and in May 2 warrants were issued against him. By July he was arrested and held for one night, made to pay for Betty's 'lying in' and ten weeks mainenance and then began paying regular 'bastardy' money. He was identified as the father in the OOP account for October 1801. Three marriages in Somerton refer to a Charles Coggan – on 26 Oct 1777 to Susannah Hopkins, on 29 Jan 1781 to Ann Hodges and on 27 Jun 1796 to Jane Hurd.

Coles

A) Joane Colles – in 1699 this person appears briefly in the OOP accounts when she attended John Strode and his family in their sickness ( 3 weeks at 5 shillings a week). Bridget look was paid for helping with the delivery and Ann Hayden for staying two week in attendance.

1) Richard Coles married Hester Chamberlain Butleigh 15 Jan 1750

2) John Coles sojourner,

3) John Coles b. 1840 gardener, s.o. John Coles (farmer)

In 1851 Sarah had lived with her parents in Bishops Hull where her father was an auctioneer. After 1867 nfi.

4) Job Coles b. 1823 Odcombe, labourer, died 1903 (Sep Q 5c/275 Wells)

In 1871 Job appeared in Street with his first wife and four children (aged 16 - 1). In 1881 1891 the family lived in Leigh Lane, Street with three children from the first marriage plus a daughter of Harriet's by her previous marriage. By 1891 they lived at Lover's Walk, Street where Job was a sawyer and general labourer. In 1901 just Tom lived with his parents at 44 Leigh Road (as a shoemaker), next door to the family of Noah Blackmore (49). In 1911 Thomas lived in Leigh Rd., Street with his wife Ellen Hooper (b. 1880 North Petherton) and son Gilbert (3). They had married in 1905 (Mar Q 5c/529 Bridgwater). Kate married Charles Moore in 1904 (Mar Q 5c/709 Wells) and in 1911 they lived at 1, Kimberley Terr. Chard with their two children and mother-in-law Harriett Coles (67).

4a) Joseph Coles b. 1852 East Chinnock, sawyer, s.o. Job and Maria Coles

Augusta lived in Street with her parents in 1881 and she married Joseph Hooper in 1896 (Mar Q 5c/730 Wells) and they lived in Street with her brother Fred Coles (b. 1884 Street). In 1891 she lived with her parents and her pob was then stated as Street.

5) Fanny Coles b. 1827, bur. 30 Sep 1865 (Sep Q 5c/360 Wells) Butleigh

Nothing found for this 38 year old woman - related to the above? A child Kate (Katherine) b. 1850, bur. 23 Jun 1864 (Jun Q 5c/426 Wells) Butleigh was probably her daughter.

Collibear

1) James Collibear b. 1758, joiner, bur. 23 Apr 1839 (Jun Q 10/342 Wells) Butleigh

Mary was the widow of William Leach who had died in 1802.

DD/S/BT/19/3/8 - 1] John Gear of Baltonsborough, yeoman, 2] John Dauncey of Baltonsborough, yeoman, 3] James Collibear of Butleigh, joiner - Mortgage of the Common (3a) at North wood, Baltonsborough. 1817

Collings

1) Sarah Collings Chr. 17 Aug 1814 Baltonsborough, servant, d.o. Thomas and Susan Collins 51-27

Sarah was aged 35 and unmarried in 1851 when she visited the home of William Look in Oddway. Nfi unless she is the Sarah Collins at Shapwick in 1841.

Collins

A) Joan Collins

DD/S/BT/5/6/1 1] William Kipping of Butleigh, parchment maker 2] Thomas Kellway of Butleigh, husbandman and Joan Collins of Henley in High Ham Assignment of 1a by the 'gurle' on Southernhill in Butleigh West field part Peckham lease (1562).. [Somerset Archive and Records, Date: 1634.

B) Edward Collins

Edward paid rates 1681-11697 and was immediately followed by Henry in the same property who paid the rates from 1698 – 1721 (in 1722 he is the late Henry Collins). Henry appears in the churchwardens accounts in 1684 and 1701 for killing polecats (total 3 for which he was paid one shilling). It is possible that Mathew and Henry were both the sons of Edward but that the older son had set himself up in business during the lifetime of his father. Henry Collins seems to have been followed by Henry Coate.

Ba?) Matthew Collins whitebaker died 1713?

Mathew (spelt Mathu) appears in the churchwardens accounts in 1683 when he killed 2 polecats and 6 hedgehogs. He and Edward Collins both started paying rates in 1781 but with Edward paying the higher rate (1s 4d against 8d). He paid rates until 1695 then his circumstances must have changed for the worse. In 1702 - 4 he received Symcockes legacy money (for the poor). In 1704 he received 2 weeks relief (4s) from the OOP but they spent 5s 4d in expences to stop the order for his relief. He must have become ill because in 1705 he received a year's relief 'in his sickness'.i Between 1706 and 9 he must have become totally dependant and received relief, house rent, clothing and wood for heating – and mention is made again of his sickness. It was the same in 13/14 his rent was paid but he received relief for just 12 weeks suggesting that he died in 1713 (most likely – or left the village).

DD/S/BT/4/2/11 - 1] William Parker of Knoll, Long Sutton, husbandman 2] Matthew Collins of Butleigh, whitebaker Assignment of a house and 2.5a in Butleigh. Endorsed that Matthew Collins sold Austins Pits in East field to William Looke in 1695 for 4d rent. Tied to previous.. Date: 1677.

DD/S/BT/4/2/12 - 1] Matthew Collins of Butleigh, baker 2] William Stock of Butleigh, tailor Assignment of a house and plot north of Nodway on the east of the West field in Butleigh, late Richard King's. Tied to previous.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT Date: 1702.

1) John Collens of Baltonsborough married Martha Eades of Baltonsborough Butleigh 2 April

2) Thomas Collins

Thomas appears solely in 1709 when he received Symcockes bequest money – possibly the son of Mathew.

3) Edward Collins bur. 18 Oct 1811 Butleigh

4) John Collins married Sarah Davis of Street Butleigh 3 Oct 1814 (John b. 1771 below?)

5) William Collins, bur. 27 Feb 1763 Butleigh

Mary Collins was given medicine (paid for by the OOP) in 1763.

6) James Collins, bur 4 Nov 1812 Butleigh

A Jemmy [James] Collings bill for making clothes for the poor was paid by the OOP in 1751/2, 1752/3, 54/5 etc. His rent was being paid by the OOP in 1777.

7) Henry Collins, cooper

7a) William Lambert Collins b. 1830 Oakhill, Som., gardener 61-49, 71-73

William had lived in 1851 with his widowed mother Sarah (an artificial flower maker) and brother Henry (a pawn broker) in Torr Lane, Wells. His father had been Henry, a cooper (1841 census). In 1861 William lived in the Gardener's cottage with his wife, two children and his niece Elizabeth Horler (13). In 1871 he was joined by his mother but she died in 1873. In 1871 young Robert and Henry lodged with William Edwards in Wells - Robert as a Solicitor General clerk. By 1881 William and Anna had also returned to Wells (77, High Street).

8) John Collins Chr. 12 Feb 1871 Stourton, Wilts, groom, s.o. John and Mary Collings 91-115

John lived over the stables at Butleigh Court in 1891. Nfi

9) Hobart [Hubert] Collins b. 1849 (Jun Q 10/522 Wells) Butleigh

Hobart was the youngest child in 1851 of George (b. 1807 Edgarley) and Ann Collins who lived in Baltonsborough. George was a carpenter and peripatetic. His other children were mostly Baltonsborough born. In 1861 Hubert's pob was also given as Baltonsborough.

10) Reuben Collins b. 1849 Butleigh, labourer

In 1871 Reuben lodged in Pill Town, West Pennard. Nfi

11) Maurice Collins b. 1894 Edinburgh

In 1911 Maurice was an apprentice butcher to George Turner at Sweets in Butleigh. In 1901 he had been at boarding school in Bridport Dorset. nfi

Colly

1) Peter Colly

Colmer

A) Agydius Collmer bur. 6 Nov 1584 Butleigh

B) Rabodya Colmer married Butleigh 6 Jul 1590 Edmund Callowe #

C) William Colmer bur. 1 Feb 1610 Butleigh ?

1) William Colmer bur. 20 May 1627 Butleigh ?

Daughter Maria married Maurice Alwood in Butleigh in Oct 1613 # The above arrangement of 'Williams' is not proven.

DD/S/BT/4/6/1-2 1] William Colmer of Butleigh 2] Robert Grimstead of Baltonsborough, yeoman Lease for 220 years of Benhorseys (3a), Butleigh. Rent 5s. With counterpart. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date range: 1626 - 1627.

DD/S/BT/4/2/3 - 1] William Colmer of Butleigh 2] William Wooll or Atwooll of Butleigh, tanner Assignment of 9a arable newly-inclosed from West field part Peckham lease (1557) and assigned to him by Jane Colmer. Rent 3s.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT Date: 1629.

DD/S/BT/27/2/4/ - 1] Jane Colmer of Butleigh 2] Humphrey Colmer her son Copy assignment of 2.5a and a messuage in Yeator Lane, Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1629.

DD/S/BT/4/2/2 - 1] Jane Colmer of Butleigh 2] John Colmer her son [ABSENT FROM READABLE PR] Assignment of 2.5a arable and a messuage in Water Lane part Peckham leases (1557, 1559) as administratrix (1627) of her husband William son of William Colmer. Rent 12s.. [Somerset Archive and Records, Date: 1629.

1a) Thomas Colmer

1b) William Colmer 'the elder' bur. 21 Mar 1668 Butleigh

William Colmer churchwarden in 1675. Thomas Colmer paid for working on the church bells 1675 – also mentioned amongst the commoners in 1672.

1b1) William Colmer 'the younger', later 'senior' d. 1714/5?

William was churchwarden in 1674 and 1675 and occasionally witnessed the accounts. He was Overseer of the Poor in 1683. He paid rates from 1673 to 1715 and is mentioned in the accounts in 1675 (called 'senior') when he took Mary Gill as apprentice, and 1685 as landlord of Mary Backhouse. In 1715 rate it says 'or occupier' and in 1716 the property (acc. sequence in the rates list) was in the name of Thomas and William Hodges – see below. The record doesn't say 'grandson of the 'late William Colmer' and so the William Colmer, baker of Baltonsborough, buried in Butleigh 16 Mar 1730 could be this William – or his son (b. 1670).

DD/S/BT/6/5/25 - 1] William Colmer the elder of Butleigh Wootton, yeoman 2] William Hodges of Butleigh, yeoman, grandson of William Colmer Assignment of four cottages, Ashemead brook (12a), Fishwell (3a) and 1/2a in Little Furlong in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, Date: 1715.

1b2) Thomas Colmer Chr. 14 Feb 1641 Butleigh

The Commoners list of 1672 places a Thomas Colmer next to Humphrey Colmer. In the churchwardens accounts blacksmith Thomas Colmers appear 1673-5, 81, 92 [ordered bells for the church], 98 and 1712 and 13 (latterly simply as cleaner of the bells). He wasn't a rate payer but mention of him occurs in the OOP accounts as follows: 1682 – a warrant was taken out for his removal. 1685 – another warrant against him, 1691 received Symcockes bequest money (for the poor), 1694 – relief for his sick wife, 1697 recived 6d for his relief, 1703 - 8 received Symcockes money and sometimes also Rocke money. This bequest money was paid in all the years where it was itemised upto 1713.

1c) Humphrey Colmer Chr. 23 Sep 1604 Butleigh 'the elder' bur. 24 Mar 1672 Butleigh

DD/S/BT/6/9/11 - 1] Humphrey Colmer the elder of Butleigh, yeoman 2] James Weeks of Walton, yeoman Assignment of 2.5a in Mounshill, 1/2a at Petty Gaston and 3.5a in Whiteland in Butleigh [Tied together with DD/S/BT/6/9/12-15]. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT Date: 1667. Humphrey listed amongst the commoners in 1672.

1c1) Humphrey Colmer died 1683

Humphrey was an Overseer of the poor in 1676 and 1677 and paid rates from 1673 – 1684. In 1685 he was called 'the Late Humphrey Colmer'.

DD/S/BT/4/5/26 - 1] James Webb, Ann Webb widow and Katherine Alleine of Bristol 2] Humphrey Colmer of Butleigh, yeoman Lease for lives of a messuage in East field and 2.5a ar, Butleigh. Rent 2s. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1679. A Humphrey Colmer appearing in the churchwardens accounts in 1678 for killing a fox is probably this one – but see next.

1c1A) Humphrey Colmer Chr. 28 Sep 1669 Butleigh bur. 6 Jan 1733 Butleigh

Humphrey Colmer who was churchwarden in 1694 and who appears there 1691-1711 and Overseer of the poor in 1709 must be this one, the son. He was recorded as receiving payment for killing 1 polecat, 4 hedgehogs and 18 sparrows! He appears paying rates from 1686 – 1634. Daughter Mary married Charles Champion in Butleigh 24 Nov 1744 # The PR seems to read that Elizabeth was born and the mother, Mary, buried the same day. Some confusion – Humphrey must have re-married, also to a Mary, since DD/S/BT14/2/25 – has 1] Mary Colmer widow of Humphrey Colmer decd 2] Thomas Periam the younger of Butleigh, blacksmith Assignment of bakehouse converted to dwelling in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1741. It is likely that two sons born in the PR gap were Humphrey and John.

NOTE: Possible that there are two Humphrys married to Marys here – in 1721 rates paid by both a Humphry Colmer senior and junior. In 1722 the latter is called Humphrey Colmer factor, and paid rates until 1726. The other (senior) Humphrey paid rates until 1729 (OOP) and 1734 (CW).

A Humphrey Colmer was one of the chief ratepayers involved in the court case at Bridgwater in 1731, agaist Messrs. Periam Kelway and Weekes.No rates were paid in 1734 and in 1743 the Overseers seem to have taken over his house.

DD/S/BT/6/5/20-22 - yeomen, Thomas Samm of Butleigh, whitebaker, John James and James Chapman of Butleigh yeomen, Samuel Sweet of Butleigh carpenter, Humphrey Colmer and John Kelway of Butleigh, yeomen, Joan Difford of Butleigh, John Vagg of Butleigh, husbandman and Edmund Date: 1706.

1c1Ai) John Colmer bur. 7 May 1744 Butleigh

A John Colmer started paying rates in 1730 – 32. He no longer paid rates on that property but in 1743 a John started paying rates in succession to Thomas Colmer who presumably was deceased. [see below]. It must be this same John since he paid the rates until 1744 and then became 'the late John Colmer'. In 1744/5 the rates were paid by 'John Colmers children' and in 1745/6 they are called John and William Colmer. They paid the rates jointly until 1755 and from 1756 they were paid by William alone until 1772/3 when they were paid by Catherine Colmer until 1780. On 1 Jan 1780 Catherine Colmer Butleigh married Solomon Reynolds. In 1737 the OOP paid John for making two journeys. In 1740/1 the CW paid John Colmer his arrears of £5.

Ann may be the Hannah who married Edward Abbott in Butleigh on 24 Jul 1746 #

DD/S/BT/12/1/7 - Copy will (1744) of John Colmer of Butleigh, yeoman, proved 1745. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1745. DD/S/BT/8/7/20 - 1] Richard and Stephen Holman of Butleigh Wootton sons of Richard decd 2] Edward Talbot of Butleigh yeoman and John Stock of Butleigh tailor, executors of John Colmer decd 3] Ann Hodges of Butleigh Assignment of 3a in Southmoor, Henly (3a) and Darksham Date: 1746.

Online Doc. IR 26/289 Administration letter of Catherine Reynolds Butleigh, Somerset . Proved in the Court of Bath and Wells. Date: 1809.

1c1Aii) Humphrey Colmer, cordwainer, bur. 30 Mar 1760 Butleigh

In 1750/1 the OOP paid Humphrey Colmer's house rent and did so until 1760 after which it was paid to Mary Colmer until 1768. In 1769 the rent was paid for Colmer's daughter. It was probably this Humphrey's house that was taken by the churchwardens and used as a poor house. At a vestry in 1764 the deeds to the house were locked into the church chest.

DD/S/BT/11/2/30 - 1] Humphrey Colmer of Butleigh, cordwainer and wife Mary daughter of William Talbott decd. DD/S/BT/11/2/31 refers to Humphry, cordwainer in 1738

The parents of Hannah were given as Humphrey and Hannah and at her burial just Hannah - ? No Baptism for Mary bur. 1751 and she may be an adult. The following burials my relate to this family too;

i) Ann bur. 19 Mar 1761 Butleigh

ii) Ann bur. 25 Jan 1765 Butleigh

iii) Jane bur. 16 May 1772 Butleigh

1c2) Elner Colmer Chr. 12 Apr 1659 Butleigh bur. 3 Apr 1732 Butleigh

Elner paid rates from 1677 – 1732 (when called 'late). No mention of senior or junior and appears to be one person. In 1731 the OOP paid rent on her house for James Armstrong.

2) Joanne Colmer Chr. 30 Mar 1674 Butleigh d.o. Joan Colmer

In the OOP accounts for 1675 mention is made of counsel being hired at Bridgwater sessions about an order concerning the 'bastard child born of the body of Joan Colmer'.

3) Mary Colmer – Occurs in the OOP accounts of ratepayers just once in 1684. Nfi.

4) Elizabeth Colmer - the person who received beef in lieu of money from the Symcockes bequest in 1690 and 2 shillings in 1692.

5) Alce Colmer

Alce/Alice received Symcockes bequest money (for the poor) from 1700 – 1713 (and sometimes also money from the Rocke bequest).

6) Humphrey Colmer of Baltonsborough, bur. 8 Aug 1730 Butleigh

7) William Colmer baker of Baltonsborough bur. 16 Mar 1730 Butleigh

8) Ann Chr. 25 May 1721 Butleigh illegit. d.o. Ann Colmer, bur. 30 May 1721 Butleigh

9) Thomas Colmer died 1733/4. ?

In 1716 rent for James Armstrong was paid to a Thomas Colmer but this is probably the shoemaker and rate payer Thomas Colmer (from 1723 CW, 1724 OOP) 1725 (CW), 26 (CW, OOP) – 1733 (CW) when he was replaced by John Colmer [for late Thomas].

X) Thomas Colmers bur: 17 Dec 1726 Butleigh, 22 Mar 1729 Butleigh, 23 Nov 1735 Butleigh and 18 Sep 1743 Butleigh

Of these three deaths one must apply to at least (9) above or (10) below. The 1726 burial may be of the son of (10).

10) Thomas Colmer

11) Mary Colmer [bur. 4 Oct 1777 Butleigh?]

There are several possibilities - child (1) could be the offspring of the widow Mary, or of the Mary who died in 1771. A Mary Colmer married widower William Bowley in Butleigh on 8 May 1781.

12) Jane Colmer Pauper, bur. 22 Jan 1804

Combs

[see Coombes]

Conant

1) Ada Blanche Conant b. 1882 (Mar Q 5b/30 Honiton) Sidmouth, Devon, cook 01-145

Ada worked at the Cottage Hospital in 1901 as cook. She married in 1912 (Sep Q 5b/45 Huish, Devon) - nfi

Connock

[Cornick]

1) Jonah [Jonathan] Connock b. 1778 Coat, Som., farmer, bur. 17 May 1851 Butleigh 41-8, 51-31

In 1841 Jonah Connock and his wife Rebecca lived with their sons James and John in Sycamore cottage in Water Lane. Rebecca died in 1848. Their son James married and became a road constructor living in the High Street. In 1851 Jonah Connock (73) farmer of 31 acres (and butcher) lived with his son John (33), son's wife Maria (31) and their daughter Mary (4 months). Jonah died a few weeks after the census in 1851. John moved to Pilton, from where his wife had originated but was widowed by 1860.

1a) James Connock Chr. 4 Nov 1810 Butleigh (in PR s.o. Jonathan & Rebecca Cornick), Road Contractor, bur. 14 Nov 1896 (Dec Q 5c/326 Wells) Butleigh 41-8, 51-32, 61-62, 71-78, 81-99 (Ganes), 91-127

Caroline Gilbert and her brother had lived in Butleigh in 1841. After their marriage in 1842 James moved to Silver Street where he and his wife had two children by 1851. They then moved to Folley Cottage (Wood Lane) by 1861 where James farmed 12 acres. Sarah had left home and appears in Othery in 1861 as housekeeper - to Alfred Gotfry at Stride farm. James's wife Caroline died in 1867 and in 1871 James was living in a 'Private House' [Folley Cottage?], Wood lane, with his two children, Sarah having returned home. In 1881 and 1891 he lived there alone and died in 1896. Meanwhile his two children had set up house together in Oddway.

In 1881 Joseph Connock (33) was a butcher and his sister Sarah (37) was his housekeeper. They remained in Oddway together in 1901 and 1911 latterly described as farmer and assistant. Sarah Connock died in 1914 (Sep Q 5c/473 Wells) aged 71 and was bur. 20 Aug Butleigh. Joseph was bur. 28 Sep 1918 (Sep Q 5c/478 Wells) Butleigh.

1b) John Connock Chr. 15 Feb 1818 Butleigh, farmer, d. 1911 (Sep Q 5c/562 Wells) 41-8, 51-31

John lived with his father and after his marriage, his wife joined him there. In 1851 his son William was staying with his grandfather William Somers in Pilton. After his father's death and then after John's wife died, in 1859, John moved (by 1861) to his father-in-law's house in Shepton Mallet, as a carpenter. John had with him his five children.

By 1871 John was living with Mary (b. '1825 Wells') and they had a daughter Henrietta (4). John's age varied on the censuses as did that of his wife. This second 'wife' was actually Mary Oatley who he only married in 1873. They appeared together in 1881 and Henrietta was by then a servant working at 12, Broad Street, Wells. In 1891 the couple lived in 76b Southover, Wells and were still there in 1901 together with Henrietta, who was deaf. John died in 1911 aged 93. On Henrietta's birth certificate no father is named, but she adopted the surname Connock when she married 36 year old Fred Rodway at Wells Registry Office on 2 Oct 1904.

Mary [Cornick] served in 1871 at 27, New Street, St. Cuthbert, Wells. She married George Sparkes (b. 1852 Glastonbury) in 1873 (Jun Q 5c/1043 Wells) and they lived in Bathford (1881), Westbury on Trym (1891) and Bristol (1901). In 1911 they were at 8, Victoria Rd., Westbury Park, Bristol with two adult daughters. Elizabeth was a housemaid in Yatton in 1871. She married Arthur Coles in 1873 (Jun Q 5c/1044 Wells) and they lived at Butcombe and went on to have eleven children. Rebecca was also a servant - at 10, Market Place, Wells, the home of Thomas Phillips, cabinet maker and photographer in 1871 but she died in 1872 aged only 19. William in 1881 was a carpenter married to Emma (b. 1847 Bruton) and lived at Walnut Cottage, Pilton with their five children and his brother Albert. The latter, by 1891, was married to Sarah (b. 1859 Pilton) and they lived in Gable House, Pilton with their two children. In 1901 Albert lived with Sarah and four children at Gable Villa, Pilton. On the 1891 census, still in Pilton, William Somers was given pob Butleigh.

In 1911 John aged 93 lived at 76, Southover Wells with his wife Mary (66).

2) Samuel Connock Chr. 25 May 1802 Butleigh, wheelwright, s.o. Samuel and Jane Connock, died 1858 (Mar Q 5c/491 Shepton Mallet)

Samuel and Martha lived at Kilverstreet Hill, Shepton Mallet in 1851 with their three children and a granddaughter. In 1861 the widowed Martha lived in Prospect Place, Shepton Mallet together with her daughter Jane who had married the Butleigh born William Andrews in 1860 (Sep Q 5c/881 Shepton Mallet). #

Constantine

1) James Constantine b. 1862 Sunderland, Durham, labourer 01-140

This couple lived in 4 rooms on Butleigh Hill (Hoods Cottages) in 1901. Nfi unless James was from Bishop Wearmouth (agricultural labourer at Ryhope in 1881) - no marriage traced. In 1911 they lived at Picton cottages, Yarm Stokesley, Yorks. They never had children.

Cook

Cook and Look can be easily confused in PR's and on censuses. There is considerable unravelling to take place before the genealogy below can be considered in any way reliable.

1) Isabella Cooke bur. 5 May 1583 Butleigh

2) Humphrey Cook younger bur 22 Aug 1619 Butleigh

3) Thomas Cooke bur. 27 Dec 1598 Butleigh (Dwelly's PR)

Alice married Butleigh 16 Jul 1612 John Joyce. # An uncertain girl (Margaret?) married 13 Feb 1618 – Maurice Waltond?. Margaret was in receipt of Poor relief from 1606 – 1614. Another Margaret Cooke appears on the list of commoners in 1672 (6)

4) Thomas Cook

5) George Cooke bur. 17 Aug 1662 Butleigh

6) Margaret Cooke died 1689

Margaret appears in the commoners list of 1672 and was an overseers of the poor in 1675. She appears paying rates from 1673-89 and in 1690 was 'the late Margaret'. Her tenement was rented out up to 1695 then seems to have been acquired by Stephen Slade or John Tagwell.

7) John Cook d. 1678/82

John paid rates from 1674 until 1678. Several pages are missing or torn but from 1683 his property is listed as 'lands ate John Cooke'.

8) Thomas Cooke died 1685?

Thomas was churchwarden in 1680 and Overseer of the Poor in 1683. Thomas appeared on the list of commoners in 1672. He appears in the accounts 1673-1683 – he supplied bellropes to the church. In 1683 he was paid by the OOP for caring for Dorithy Browning – another payment was made in 1684/5. Mary appears as neighbour of a Thomas Cooke paying rates in 1686 and thereafter (or very close by) until 1713, in 1790 she is first referred to as widow. There was no Cooke successor to her property in 1716/17. The Mary who appears jointly with a Thomas and then Thomas and John is a different generation. It would seem from this that her husband probably passed away in 1685 and that the other Thomas was her son. Unravelling the Thomas Cookes is a problem. A Thomas Cooke was also paying rates on South Moor Grounds from 1673 and may have been a different person, especially since his name often occurs twice paying rates there. In 1682 a second Thomas Cooke appeared paying rates in Butleigh (or this Thomas paying two lots of rates?).

DD/S/BT/4/5/20 - 1] John Webb 2] Thomas Cooke of Butleigh Wootton, yeoman Lease for lives of a messuage and 1a in Butleigh, 2a in Eastmead, 4a in closes by house, 6a in East field and Moorhills (5a) lately inclosed. Rent 11s 5d.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH Date range: 1669-1670.

8a?) Thomas Cook Chr. 18 Jan 1666 Butleigh bur. 24 Aug 1732 Butleigh

A Thomas Cooke was overseer of the poor 'for his mother's estate' in 1722 (possibly the son)

[see also under Rebecca for Thomas sequences] If the above Thomas was the father of this one and died c. 1685 then it was this Thomas who paid rates in Butleigh after 1685 (into the 1730's), was church warden in 1703 (and paid for killing four hedgehogs the previous year). From 1687, after a few years of a single Thomas Cooke paying rates in South Moor there were two again. In 1699 an (X) appears next to Thomas' name and only one Thomas paid rates in South Moor. In 1702 we have Thomas (X), plus Thomas & Rebecca in Butleigh and Thomas in South Moor. In 1703, the year Thomas was churchwarden, ee have Thomas (X) and Rebecca (alone) in Butleigh and Thomas in SM. In 1704 it was as in 1702 and remains that way until 1708 when the Thomas in SM paid rates jointly with Rebecca. In 1709 to 1711 only Rebecca's name given as ratepayer in SM and in 1711 the Thomas Cook (X – alone) in Butleigh disappears leaving just the joint Thomas & Rebecca. A second Thomas appears in Butleigh next to Thomas & Rebecca and this may be their son – the Thomas junior who takes over South Moor when Rebecca dies?

In 1732 a Mary called alias Browning [a John Browning was replaced as ratepayer in 1711 by a Mary Browning who paid rates until 1732 – joined by a Thomas Browning 1728-32 – link?]

8x) Rebecca Cook bur. 15 Feb 1729 Butleigh

X) Cook rate paying record

In 1701 there was a Thomas Cooke paying rates in Butleigh and one paying rates on South Moor Grounds. In 1702 the Thomas still paid rates on South Moor but in Butleigh a Thomas Cook has an X by his name (seems to indicate he paid rates but didn't live in Butleigh) and immediately adjoining a Thomas and Rebecca paid rates together. In 1708 the Southmoor Grounds rates are paid by Thomas and Rebecca together though in 1709 paid by Rebecca alone [Thomas and Thomas + Rebecca paying rates in Butleigh]. This situation continued in 1710 but in 1711 the Thomas (X) disappears from Butleigh and the X is by the name of Thomas and Rebecca there, Rebecca still paying rates too in South Moor. In 1712-15 this situation continues [though next the Thomas & Rebecca in Butleigh appears Thomas Cooke or occupiers']. In 1716 Thomas Cooke is next to Thos. & Rebecca but in 1717 the Thomas (alone) disappears. In 1718 it is Thomas John and Mary Cooke next to Thomas & Rebecca. Rebecca cook remains paying rates in South Moor until 1628 when, in 1629 she is replace by a Thomas Cooke junior. In 1730 in Butleigh the following appear as neighbours; Thomas Cooke/John Cooke/Mary Cooke/Emanuel Cook/James Cooke/ plus a property rated jointly by John, James & Emanuel Cook.

Thomas paid rates in Butleigh 1731-2 and in South Moor 1731 - 64 . In 1744/5 a Thomas began paying rates in Butleigh until 1759 [sometimes appears with James Gregory until 61 – then Henry Gregory pays rates -late called alias John Cook!] – in 1764 Thomas pays rates on part of Mr. Periams alongside a John Cook until 1770/1 when John is moved next to the Gregorys and a John Cook (alias Henry Gregory) – probably the same person [properties listed Periams Eastend, White Field and other lands]. In 1777 a Thomas Cook is replaced by John Cook (for his late father – one year only) and a Thomas Cook junior takes 'part of Kelways'. Mary paid rates 1731-2. John paid rates 1731-4 (last CW) alone but jointly with Emanuel from 1731 - 1757/8 . Emanuel paid rates 1731 – both individually and jointly with John (and James up to 1743) to 1757/8 then alone.

In 1778 the ratepayers are in alphabetical order and there are: Thomas Cook for half Brownings [until 1779/80 when it goes to junior? 2 Thomas again after 1781], Thomas Cook junior for part Kelways and Periams Eastend, from 1779/80 plus Brownings (-1790+), Mary Cook for Park Yeat (-1790+), John Cook for Whitefield and Common and Emanuel Cook until 1780 when James and John pay rates for late Emanuel – from 1782 just James (-1790+)

15) Thomas Cook bur. 8 Apr 1759 Butleigh

This must be the Thomas who paid rates from 1744/5 to 1759 in Butleigh. The family seem to have been closely linked to the Gregory family – see next

8a1?) Thomas Cook bur. 25 Sep 1777 Butleigh

Mary was the daughter of Henry Gregory, butcher, who paid the rate from 1759. or in the name of son John Cook.

DD/S/BT/10/6/1 - 1] Henry Gregory of Butleigh, butcher, Thomas Cooke of Butleigh, yeoman and wife Mary [Gregory] and son John 2] John Curtis of Butleigh, yeoman Lease for 80 years of 1/2a at Sower Down, Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1770.

8a2) John Cook

There may be several Johns involved here, or one John with several marriages, probably the former. A John Cooke was churchwarden in 1720-21.

8a3) James Cook bur. 30 Jul 1743 Butleigh

James paid rates from 1730 both individually and jointly with John and Emanuel until 1743.

DD/S/BT/7/4/2 - 1] William Gregory of Butleigh, husbandman 2] James and Emmanuel Cooke of Butleigh, husbandmen sons of Thomas 3] John Kellway the younger Assignment of Frames Croft (5a) and Littlefield (5a) in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT Date range: 1726-1727. DD/S/BT/7/4/6 - 1] Henry Talbot of Butleigh Wootton, yeoman and wife Sarah sister of John Kelway the younger decd 2] Joseph Periam of Butleigh, yeoman, executor of Mary Cooke and administrator of James Cooke 2] Thomas Periam of Butleigh, husbandman Assignment of Frames Date: 1744.

8a31) James Cook b. 1736, bur. 21 Feb 1828 Butleigh [s.o. James and Joan Cook?] aged 92

8a31A) James Cook b. 1768, bur. 6 Jun 1833 Butleigh

Ann was the widowed mother of Rebecca Arthur with whom she lived in 1851 in Perriams Cottage, High Street, Butleigh. She died in 1851. In 1841 she seems to have been living alone in South Brent. Mary probably married John Blacker in Butleigh on 17 Feb 1808 but a Mary Cook was bur. 6 Mar 1790 Butleigh (?) #

8a31Ai) Emmanuel Cook Chr. 11 Nov 1791 Butleigh, formerly butcher, s.o. James and Ann Cook, died 1866 (Dec Q 5c/391 Axbridge)

Emmanuel and his wife lived in Banwell and first appeared in 1841 in West Street, and then again in 1851. A visitor was Alfred Hacker (8) from Banwell. The widowed Emmanuel and Alfred were both together in 1861.

8a31aii) Stephen Cook Chr. 16 Jun 1800 Butleigh, mason, s.o. James and Ann, bur. 3 Oct 1876 (Sep Q 5c/349 Wells) Butleigh 41-3, 51-36

Living in Quarry Lane in 1841-1851 Stephen, a mason, and his wife Mary were Butleigh born and had all their children there. Their daughter Ann then may have married though several died in the 1850's. Eleanor married George Higgins in Butleigh on 10 Dec 1854 (Dec Q 5c/1011 Wells). # Emanuel disappeared.

Stephen and Mary were in Shentons Elm, Street (with children James and Sarah) in 1861 and Mary his wife died there in 1869. Stephen was still there with daughter Sarah in 1871 but he died in 1876.

Mary was a servant on a farm in Gollick, Clayhidon, Devon in 1861 and servant on a farm in Compton Dundon in 1871. She seems to have married Robert Edwards in 1875 (Dec Q 5c/655 Langport) and they lived in Compton Dundon. Sarah - nfi. James, a stonecutter, was lodging in Dumb Lane, Butleigh with William Higgins in 1851 but lived in Street with his parent in 1861. In 1871 he was living in Street with Sarah J. White (b. 1833 Ashcott) who he had married in 1867 (Mar Q 5/837 Wells). She was given pob Butleigh in 1871. James disappeared and may have died in 1876. Sarah Cook lived on as a widow in Street.

8a4) Emanuel Cook d. 12 Jun 1780 Butleigh ? (misread Look in PR)

Emanuel Cook son of Thomas – appeared in the churchwarden's accounts in 1711 (paid for killing a polecat). Churchwarden in 1748. Emanuel paid rates 1730 – both individually and jointly with John (and James up to 1743) up to 1757/8 then alone until 1780 when James and John pay rates for late Emanuel – from 1782 just James (-1790+)

9) Grace Cooke – received a years relief and a change of clothes 1701 (OOP)

11) John Cook

12) John Cook bur. 27 Oct 1757 Butleigh

13) James Cook bur. 4 Dec 1763 Butleigh

14) Sarah Cook bur. 5 Jul 1769 Butleigh

16) John Cook bur. 5 Oct 1788 Butleigh

Could be one of the above Johns – see 8a2, 11

DD\BR\ho/10 Cook Jn. Probate will, of Butleigh Wootton, yeo., 1788.

17) Mary Cook bur. 6 Mar 1790 Butleigh

18) Ann Cook bur. 29 May 1791 Butleigh

19) Anne bur. 10 Feb 1808 Butleigh

20) Mary Cook b. 1798 bur. 10 Nov 1821 Butleigh, aged 23, mother of next?

21) James Cook bur. 10 Nov 1821 Butleigh aged 6 months

22) William Cooke, bur. 10 Mar 1764 Butleigh?

A warrant was taken out against William in 1739. A William [as youth] killed 35 dozen sparrows in 1745, with Edward Cook for which they received 5s 10d from the CW. Rebecca Cook married Stephen Combes in Butleigh on 11 Aug 1789. #

DD/S/BT/6/7/6 1] William Eades of Butleigh, yeoman, and wife Mary [Callow] and Thomas Cooke aged 16 2] William Holman of Butleigh, yeoman Partition of an estate by assignment of a house, High Croft (4a), Breach (20a), Heal (16a) and Wheatland (3.5a) to William and Mary and Samson's house and 2a, new house and 2 3/4a, 6a in Harepitts furlong, 4-a close of arable, 5.5a meadow at Eastend, 8a mortgaged meadow, Kelways house and 2a, and Park Gate, Butleigh to the use of Thomas Cooke Date: 1773.

23) Betty Cook b. 1771 Som., died 1849 (Jun Q 10/364 Wells), bur. 21 Apr Butleigh 41-6

Betty lived in Butleigh High Street in 1841 with William Green and family as lodgers. Nfi

24) William Cook b. 1829 Lovington, under gardener, s.o. William and Jenny Cook 71W-86, 81W-106

William and Elizabeth lived in Butleigh Wootton from c. 1868 to sometime after 1881. They arrived there from Lovington where they had lived in 1871 with their two eldest children. Fanny died in 1872 (Sep Q 5c/345 Wells) aged 4. Emily married plumber William Walter (b. 1859 Glastonbury, s.o. James Walter) in Butleigh on 27 Dec 1881 (Dec Q 5c/917 Wells) and they lived at 22 Magdalene Street, Glastonbury in 1891 with their two daughters.

William and Elizabeth had moved to 'Farm Cottage', Goose Lane, Chilton upon Polden by 1891 and lived with their daughter Louisa and her journeyman baker husband Clement Brooks (b. 1866 Keinton Mandeville). They had married in 1891 (Mar Q 5c/559 Bridgwater). In 1901 William, now widowed, lived with Louisa and Clement Brooks in Water Street, Martock. Emma and Louisa are probably the same person. In 1911 Louise and Clement Brooks lived at Martock with their only child William Francis (19) an engineer's apprentice.

Samuel became a footman in Westminster, London in 1881 and by 1891 was living at 85 Cheston Rd., Fulham with wife Frances and two children. By 1901 they lived at 79, Barchester Street, Bromley with six children.

25) Ann Cook b. 1866 Lydford 81-94

Ann was a servant in the house of the bailiff George Duffill in Compton Street, in 1881. Nfi

Cooling

(Cullen)

1) John Cooling bur. 11 Feb 1832 Butleigh aged 72

Hannah was the widow of Richard Sweet who had died in 1790.

Coombs

[Combes/Coombes]

Unravelling the Coombes genealogy requires access to the Compton Dundon Prs and Wills

1) John Combe

John Coombs the younger of Compton Dundon possibly pre-deceased John Combe the elder who was still alive in 1701. See references below. Two Catherine's? Confusion between Katherine of Compton and Catherine of Butleigh?

DD/S/BT 5/1/14 1] Ann Champion of Butleigh Wootton, John Coombe the younger of Compton Dundon, yeoman 2] John Lymbery of Compton Dundon, yeoman, James Chapman of Butleigh, yeoman John Meade of Street, yeoman Settlement of Chambers house and lands in Butleigh Wootton Date: 1690.

DD/S/BT/4/4/5-6 1] John Coombe the younger of Compton Dundon, yeoman 2] William Roe the elder and William the younger of Butleigh, yeomen Assignment of Peckham lease (1562) of Chambers house at Wootton and lands in trust for the marriage of John Coombs and Katherine Roe . Date: 1693.

DD/S/BT/4/4/7 Certificate of probate in the prebend of Compton Dundon for Catherine Coombe of Compton Dundon decd.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1700.

DD/S/BT/25/1/4 Combe the elder v. Catle concerning a horse taken from Sedgemoor in Compton Dundon. 1701

1a) John Coombe died 1724? 1738 or before 1762? [three Johns?]

A 'John Combe' was a ratepayer from 1681 – 1783. The rates were paid as neighbour of the Periams 1681-1701 but from 1702 onwards as neighbour of the Roods or Lymbrys. This possibly represents father and son with the former being the John of Compton Dundon (?) and the probable father this John who fathered William. The picture isn't clear because in 1725 John Coombe was replaced by Katherine Coombe as ratepayer and then in 1726 reverted to a John Coombe. In 1729 Katherine was joint ratepayer with John Lymbry. Katherine was the sister of John son of John Coombe of Compton. [see documents below] – Compton records need consulting to sort this out. From 1730 a John started paying rates on a property in succession to the late Susanna Roe (wife of Catherine's brother). A John Coombs was Churchwarden in 1735/6 and went with John Rocke to Shepton Mallet to get the Charity money of Dyer Symcockes.

In 1738/9 the rates were paid by 'the occupiers of John Coombe', called the 'late John Coombe' in 1739. Only in 1744 does it again become rated to John Coombes again. There was a change in the rating pattern in 1758 when the rates were divided into three parts – a) John Coombes, b) for part of Mr. Lymbry's and c) for his son's common. This son is identified in 1772 as William Coombes (on coming of age). in 1775, John paid rates on an additional share of Thomas Hoopers property and William ceased paying rates. Somewhere there was a transition between the Johns.

1a1) John Comb

1a1A) John Coombes s.o. John Coombes of Compton Dundon, bur. 19 Apr 1783 Butleigh

John was the ratepayer until March 1783 then his widow, Jane paid the rates. A Betty Comb bur. 13 Jan 1753 Butleigh may also have been a child of this family. Ratepayer from 1726? John was an Overseer of the Poor in 1760/1

DD/S/BT/9/6/1 1] Joseph Hare 2] John Coombe and wife Mary, Joan Curtis Fine on a house and land in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1736. (?)

DD/S/BT/13/3/1-2 1] Thomas Rocke of Somerton 2] John Coombe of Butleigh son of John of Compton Dundon decd 3] William Periam of Butleigh son and heir of Ann Periam decd Lease and release of Pharswood or Wood Close (6a arable), Butleigh. [Tied together with DD/S/BT/13/ Date: 1762.

DD/S/BT/9/6/2 1] Robert Tucker of Puriton 2] Thomas Rooke of Somerton 3] John Coombe of Butleigh son of John of Compton Dundon decd 4] Jas {James?} Grenville of Butleigh 5] William Ekins Peirs of Wookey Assignment of Dallyham (2a), 1/2a at stones piece, 1.5a at Cuckow Date: 1762.

DD/S/BT/9/6/3-8 1] Thomas Rooke of Somerton 2] John Coombe of Butleigh son of John of Compton Dundon decd 3] James Grenville of Butleigh Lease and release of Dallyham (2a), 1/2a at Stones piece, 1.5a at Cuckow Close Hedge, 2a behind Copley, 1a at Copley Shard, 4.5a at Date: 1762.

DD/S/BT/12/1/45 1] Sarah Parfitt of Wells, Elizabeth, Katherine and Frances Parfitt executrixes and legatees of their father Thomas Parfitt of Wells, joiner, decd 2] Edward Strode of Butleigh, yeoman, William Merrick of Moorlinch, yeoman, John Coombs of Butleigh and wife Date: 1769.

DD/S/BT/4/4/15 1] George Reynolds of Kingsdon, yeoman and wife Catherine daughter of John Coombe decd and next of kin to her aunt Ann Limbery decd, executrix of John Limbery decd husband of Ann and administratrix of her grandfather John Coombe decd 2] John Coombe of Butleigh, yeoman, brother of Catherine 3] Col. Richard Grenville of Butleigh Assignment of 3a in Allermoor and 2a at Westwood part Date: 1779.

DD/S/BT/10/3/3-5 - 1] John Coombes of Butleigh and wife Jane 2] Edward Strode of Butleigh and wife Hannah 3] William Merrick of Moorlinch and wife Maria 4] John Rocke of Butleigh Deed of partition of a messuage and 7a, 3a meadow, Popes close (4a), Park Corner (3a), Eastend Date: 1774.

DD/S/BT/28/1/5 Letter of administration for the goods of John Coombes of Compton Dundon decd granted to his daughter Catherine wife of William Reynolds.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1777. [different John? - see Online Doc. IR 26/289 Admin. Letter of Catherine Reynolds proved in Court of Bath & Wells 1809]

DD\BR\ho/22 Probate of will of Jane Coombes of Butleigh, wid., 1792, pr. 1797.

1a1A1) Stephen Coombs b. 1761 cooper, bur. 22 Jul 1843 (Sep Q 10/318 Wells) Butleigh 41-12

The widowed Stephen lived in Oddway in 1841 and died in 1843.

DD/S/BT/13/1/37-8 1] George Coombes of Butleigh, yeoman, nephew and heir of James Coombes of Bristol decd son of John decd 2] Mary Coombes of Butleigh, widow of James 3] Stephen Coombes, son of John 4] William Rocke of Bristol, distiller eldest son of John Rocke of Butleigh Date: 1798.

DD/BR/ho/22 - Part of waste called Baker's Grave/Butleigh Laines, conveyed by Stephen Coombes of Butleigh, cooper, to Grenville.. [Somerset Archive and Records, DEEDS OF THE NEVILLE.] Date: 1838.

1a1A1i) William Coombs Chr. 9 May 1792 Butleigh, cooper, died 18 Dec 1863 (Dec Q 5c/455 Wells) bur. 24 Dec Butleigh 41-12, 51-27, 61-57

William Coombs (48), Cooper, lived with his wife Mary (45) in Oddway in 1841. Ann Webber, possibly Mary's sister (?) was visiting them, possibly because Mary was sick. Mary died in 1841 and William married Betsy in 1843. They appeared together in 1851 at [Oddway] when William was called a nurseryman. In 1861 'grocer' had been added to Williams occupation and Betsy was shop mistress. William died in 1867 and in 1871 Betsy was an 'annuitant' with a servant - she died in 1875, in Keinton Mandeville. Combs on tombstone.

DD\BR\ho/27 Houses and land, leased by Wm. Coombs of Butleigh, yeo., for 299 years (original lease 1786). Copy will, Wm. Eades of Butleigh, mason, 1814; admon. Mary Coombs of Butleigh, 1841.

DD/S/BT/24/7/31 - 1] Charles Budd of Ditcheat, yeoman 2] William Tucker of Kingweston, yeoman 3] William Coombes of Butleigh, yeoman and Betsy 4] George Curtis Lucas of Tredegar, Monm, yeoman and Susanna 5] John Guppy of Shepton Mallet, blacksmith 6] George William Nalder Date: 1845.

1a1B)? James Coombes son of John, bur. 31 Oct 1795 Butleigh

DD/S/BT/13/3/27-81] George Coombes of Butleigh, yeoman, nephew and heir of James Coombes of Bristol decd son of John decd 2] Mary Coombes of Butleigh, widow of James 3] Stephen Coombes, son of John 4] William Rocke of Bristol, distiller eldest son of John Rocke of Butleigh Date: 1798.

DD/S/BT/6/9/32 - 1] George Coombes of Butleigh, yeoman 2] Maria Coombes widow of James decd 2] Thomas Looke of Butleigh, mariner Assignment of Corps Fishwell (2a) and Footlands (2a) in Butleigh. [The above 2 items tied together]. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH Date: 1799.

2) William Coombes bur. 8 Jan 1783 Butleigh

The son of John Coombs paid rates on his common from 1758 and in 1772 (when of age) paid rates as William Coombs in his own name. In 1774/5 his common is referred to as Lymbry's common though the rate was paid by him or occupier and in 1775 he paid no rates. An Ann Combs married William Lemon Butleigh 8 Oct 1796 #- could this be William's widow - the witness was Maria Coombs (not Mary) - her daughter-in-law?

2a) George Coombes Chr. 26 Apr 1772 Butleigh, s.o. William and Ann Coombs, buried 6 Oct 1829 Butleigh

George was described as a sojourner at marriage. The Maria who died 1843 is almost certainly the above but could be the Maria Curtiss who had married James Combes on 30 Apr 1795 Butleigh? Mary had lodged with Charles Seymour in Sealy's Row in 1841. Jane Coombes b. 1805 married William Knight Butleigh 14 Dec 1829 and died 1892 (Dec Q 5c/317 Wells) #

DD/S/BT/13/1/37-8 - 1] George Coombes of Butleigh, yeoman, nephew and heir of James Coombes of Bristol decd son of John decd 2] Mary Coombes of Butleigh, widow of James 3] Stephen Coombes, son of John 4] William Rocke of Bristol, distiller eldest son of John Rocke of Butleigh, decd. 5] James, Baron Glastonbury. Conveyance of Hill House and lands, Butleigh. Enclosed power of attorney to give livery of seisin. Date: 1798.

DD/S/BT/6/9/35-8 1] George Coombes of Butleigh, gent 2] Gen. Richard Grenville of New Burlington St., London Assignment of Gardners Close (3a), piece of West wood, Little Langley (3a) and Footlands (2a) in Butleigh. Enclosed grant of annuity by George Coombes to Maria Date: 1799.

DD/S/BT/13/3/21 1] William and Hannah Curtis, George Coombs and wife Maria of Butleigh 2] William Grant in service of Lord Glastonbury 3] Richard Holman of Butleigh Covenant to levy a fine on two messuages and orchard, Bolster corner (2a divided by a trench), Whitewell Date: 1817.

DD/S/BT/13/3/27-8 1] Richard Holman of Butleigh 2] George Coombs of Butleigh, yeoman 4] William Grant of Butleigh 4] James, Lord Glastonbury 5] Revd Henry Gould of Glastonbury Lease and release of Bolster corner (2a), Butleigh with assignment of term to attend the inheritance.. Date: 1818.

DD/S/BT/13/3/26 1] William Curtis of Butleigh, yeoman 2] Hannah Curtis of Butleigh 3] George Coombs of Butleigh, labourer 4] William Grant in service of Lord Glastonbury Further charge on two tenements, Bolster corner (2a) and Whitewell (3a.), Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive Date: 1822.

2a1) James Coombes Chr. 16 Oct 1811 Butleigh, lodge porter, s.o. George and Mary Coombes, died 1889 (Sep Q 5c/267 Wincanton)

In 1851 James lived James at the Porters Lodge, Bowood House, Bowood, Wilts with his wife Elizabeth and three children. In 1871, described as widower, he lived with his widowed sister Jane Knight (b. 1805 Butleigh).

3) Elizabeth Combes bur. 3 Jul 1796 Butleigh

4) Mary Combes b. 1789 bur. 28 Mar 1819 Butleigh [aged 30 – misread? Wife of James?]

5) Mary Ann Coombs b. 1835 Catcott/Moorlinch, schoolmistress, died 1886 (Sep Q 5c/250 Bridgwater) 71W-86 #

Mary Ann lived at the National School, Butleigh Wootton in 1871 and married Richard Chantor in 1873 (Dec Q 5c/1012 Wells). She was previously married to Mark Coombes, a carpenter, and lived at Moorlinch with him and his parents there in 1861. In 1881 they were visited by her 'niece', Mary Warrey Coombes

6) Mary Warrey Coombes b. 1866 Meare, daughter of Mark and Martha Coombes 81-106.

Mary married Innkeeper Richard Pepperd and lived with him, together with her widowed mother Martha, in Westonzoyland in 1891.

7) Theresa M. Combs b. 1873 Shelton, Oxon., private nurse 01-145

Theresa worked at the Cottage Hospital in 1901. Nfi - surname probably Coombs.

Coope

1) John Coope

A Thomas Coope donated 6d towards the building of Chelsea College in 1617 – a relative?

Cooper

1) Frank Cooper b.1865 North Wootton, carpenter 81-101

Frank boarded with Harry Higgins carpenter in the High Street in 1881. Nfi

Corbaz (Corbay)

1) Daniel Corbaz sojourner, bur. 24 Apr 1804 Butleigh

Corck

1) Susannah Corck of Bristol bur. 27 May 1825 Butleigh

Cornick

[see Connock]

1) Lilly Cornick b. 1853 Evershot, Dorset, d.o. James Cornick, farmer

Lilly married the groom Charles Woolfries (b. 1848 Puddlehinton, Dorchester - s.o. George Woolfries) in Butleigh on 31 Mar 1873 (Mar Q 5c/819 Wells). # In 1881 the couple lived at 1, Bryanstone Mews, Marylebone, London where James was listed as a coachman.

Cornish

1) Elizabeth Cornish married Butleigh 29 Oct 1668 Will Jurdex?

2) Mary Cornish bur. 16 Jan 1670 Butleigh

3) Gabree? Cornish married Butleigh 24 Nov 1671 William Stokes #

4) Samuel Cornish bur. 1 Jan 1673 Butleigh

Samuel may be the father of Richard (next) who pays rates from 1673, probably on the property recorded in 1672 as 'Cornishes'.

5) Richard Cornish died 1701

Richard was an overseer of the poor in 1685. He paid rates from 1673 until 1699, and jointly with Thomas from 1692. Thomas paid rates then until 1712 after which the property was 'late Cornish'. Richard's situation must have deteriorated post 1692 and in 1694 he and his wife were receiving relief from the Overseers {plus a rug and shoes for Richard]and in 1695 it was they who paid for her shroud and buried her. Richard received relief and clothes until 1701 when the OOP paid for his shroud, burial and ringing the bell. Thomas was mentioned in the OOP accounts in 1708 when he was paid for having an apprentice.

DD/S/BT/3/8/1 - Survey of tenement of Richard Cornish of Butleigh, tailor, and of the tenement late James Periam's, found in DD/S/BT/3/8/2.

6) Robert Cornish b. 22 Aug 1791, Chr. 2 Oct 1791 Kingsdon, farmer, died 18 Aug 1841 (Sep Q 11/184 Clifton?), buried 21 Aug 1841 Butleigh 41-4

In 1841 Robert Cornish seems to be the occupant of Higher Rockes Farm with wife Elizabeth and children Mary (14), Elizabeth (10), Thomas (8) Hannah (6) Henry (4) and Emma (1). Elizabeth snr is found in West Town, Baltonsborough, in 1851 with Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Thomas, Henry and Emma. She died on October 10th 1866. Mary Ann married the auctioneer John Geare Maidment in 1851 (Jun Q 10/881 Wells) and lived in Keinton Mandeville by 1871. Their son Levi Robert Maidment later married Ellen Louisa Hoddinott of Butleigh and they farmed Smithfield Farm, Butleigh Wootton in 1881. # After John Maidment's death Mary Ann married farmer Thomas Rawlings (b. 1826 West Lydford) in 1881 (Mar Q 5c/685 Shepton Mallet) and lived near her unmarried daughter Emma in West Lydford in 1881/91.

Elizabeth married George Yeates Hunter (b. 1832 Margate, Kent) on 8 Nov 1857 at Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea, their first son Edward being born eleven days later. George Hunter was a surgeon with the Indian Medical Service in Bombay, where they went to live for many years. In 1891 they lived at 48 Philbeach Gardens, Brompton, Kensington with two mature children (25 & 23) plus brother Thomas Cornish and his son William. William Robert became a Surgeon General in Madras and awarded the C.I.E. he died in Worthing in 1877. Hannah is probably the Hatti Cornish (b. 1835 Butleigh) boarding as a pupil at Church Building, Martock in 1851. Emma was an assistant governess at the home of the naturalist James A. Brown in West Street, Reigate in 1861. From 1871 - 91 Hannah is also found in Reigate, Surrey - firstly in 1871 with her sister Emma where they are both 'daily governesses' living with their Hunter nephews and niece (and next door to James and Clara Balfour) - then in 1881 as School Principals at Somer's Road and in 1891 Hannah alone (Lesbourne House) with two of her Cornish nieces from Ballarach, Australia and Madras India. In 1901 Hannah lived at 108, Grosvenor Rd., Westminster, retired, and with her niece Emily (36) and husband John Maidment, a tea dealer. Thomas became a mining engineer and went to Australia. In 1891 he was visiting his sister Elizabeth Hinton in Brompton, Kensington - a widower, together with his son William (b. St. Kilda, Victoria) and in 1901 boarding at 92, Denbigh Street, Belgravia. He seems to have died in Warwickshire? in 1904 (only record found), though his abode was recorded as Cannington in the PR, and was buried in Butleigh. On the gravestone described as 'mining engineer of Ballarat' died aged 71.

Henry was called to the Bar, 28 Jun 1876. In India he was a prominent journalist and founder of the Times of Madras. He next (ex-India) appeared in 1881 at 15, Nottingham Place, Rectory, Marylebone, London with wife Emily Henrietta (b. 1855 Clapham) and three children [Henry b. 1877 Madras India, as was Grace E. b. 1879 while a second Grace was 'under 1 month, born London]. Henry was a Public writer (Newspaper agent). He next appeared in Brighton in 1891 married to Emma - he was then a Barrister. By 1901 he was living in Lovelace Road, Surbiton, Surrey and he called his house 'Glastonbury'!. Henry, his wife and their son Henry Dauncey, plus his two unmarried daughters still lived at 'Glastonbury' in 1911. Their only other child, son Charles Lawson Cornish (b. 13 Aug 1887) was killed at Ypres on 13 Nov 1914 in WWI

PROB 11/1954Will of Robert Cornish Gentleman Butleigh , Somerset Date: 10 Dec1841.

7) William Cornish b. 1816 not Somerset born, agricultural labourer 41-10

William lived at 18, High Street, the School master's House in 1841. His marriage may be that to Ann Wood in 1838 (Mar Q 10/692 Wellington). Charles Cox emigrated to Australia with his parents in 1848/9 and the following is an account of his suicide in the Advertiser, Adelaide on Thursday 8th December 1904:

SUICIDE OF A CIVIL SERVANT. MR. C. C. CORNISH HANGS HIMSELF. Very general regret will be felt concerning the death of Mr. C. C. Cornish (secretary to the Attorney-General), and at the circumstances under which the sad event took place. For a good many years Mr. Cornish had been in ill-health. As far back as 1893 he broke down entirely, and in June that year he was granted l8 months' leave of absence. Five years later, owing to mental strain, he again had to give up office work for some months, and since then, though able to carry out his official work, he had been far from well, the state of his health causing his friends much anxiety. Early on Wednesday morning Dr. Brummitt was called to Mr. Cornish's residence at Warwick-street, Walkerville and he there learned that Mr. Cornish had hanged himself in a shed at the rear of the house. The funeral will take place to-day: An Old Civil Servant. Mr. Charles Cox Cornish came of family that some hundreds of years ago resided in Cornwall, but in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the Cornishes left the ancient duchy and settled near Ipswich, Suffolk. Some of their descendants moved to Somerset, and at Butleigh, near Glastonbury, in that county, the late Mr. Cornish was born on July 6, 1841. When 7 years of age he sailed with his parents for South Australia in the ship Glenelg, arriving at the Semaphore on .February 13 1849. He first lived with his parents on the Government Reserve, North-terrace, then at Kensington, afterwards at Payneham and for the greater portion of his life at Walkerville. As a youth he learnt farming near Port Elliot, but after finishing his education in the city he entered the office of Messrs. Fenn & Wearing, who were then one of the leading firms of solicitors in Adelaide. In 1861 he was offered an appointment in Mr. R. Stow's office, and remained there four years. Through the instrumentality of Mr. Stow, who became Attorney-General in 1865, Mr. Cornish was appointed to a position in the Lands Titles Office on January 13, 1865 and on the recommendation of the Crown Solicitor (Mr. Wearing) Mr. Cornish was appointed his clerk on September 26 1865. He at once took charge of the criminal business, and managed it satisfactorily for 23 years. During that time there were 23 changes in the office of Attorney-General, and Mr. Cornish served under four Crown Solicitors..... He refused several offers of promotion because he preferred leg work and was fond of circuit court travelling. In 1888, however, on the resignation of Mr. G. E. De Mole, he a accepted an offer by Mr. C. C. Kingston of the position of secretary to the Attorney General, and he held that position to the time of his death, having since July 1 1902 the additional duties of secretary to the Minister of Education. Mr. Cornish was occasionally called on to do other work than that directly connected with his official positions. He had drafted many Bills, and in 1873 the Government gave him a valuable honorarium for preparing the Criminal Laws Consolidation Bill. He was also secretary to the Gawler Police Enquiry, and received the thanks of the Government for his work. During the six and a half years that Mr. Kingston was Premier of South Australia Mr. Cornish accompanied him as secretary to numerous conferences with the Premiers of the other States.

The late Mr. Cornish was a keen an enthusiastic sportsman.. In the sixties he was an active footballer, in addition to being secretary of the Adelaide Football Club, and he figured in many matches against the military men then stationed in Adelaide. In later years he showed his interest in the game by attending all the principal matches. Frequently he was to be seen inside the fence of the Adelaide Oval walking up and down the edge of the playing-ground and cheering his side on. He also took a prominent part in military matters. He was an active non-commissioned officer in the Adelaide Volunteer Artillery, under Colonel Torrens, being senior "driver." He took much interest in athletics and racing, and as a pedestrian ran under the name of "Swift." He took part in a number of the races on the Thebarton course as a rider, and on one occasion, after a very exciting finish, he was second on Harvey's Brenda to Little Dan in the Adelaide Amateur Cup. Subsequenty he rode his own horse Ginger in amateur events. For 11 years from the opening of St. Peter's Cathedral Mr. Cornish was an hon. warden, and he was also warden of St. Andrew's Church, Walkerville, for about 12 years, and precentor in the choir for 27 years.

The deceased gentleman left a family of four sons and two daughters. The sons are Mr. C. P. Cornish, of the Education Department; Captain A. F. Cornish, of the Treasury; and Messrs. E. H. and H. L. Cornish, of the Lands Titles Department.

Statement by the Attorney-General. On Wednesday morning the Attorney General (Hon. R. Homburg) said: "Mr. Cornish was in the office yesterday attending to his ordinary duties, and so late as a quarter to 6 he was in conference with me about the necessity of holding an inquest and the burial of a man who was found drowned at Kangaroo Island. He then appeared to be in his usual state of mind. Indeed, he took some trouble to direct my attention to the real responsibilities of the relatives and the duties of the State in cases of this description, and I certainly had not the slightest suspicion that he was either depressed or that he had any trouble or worry, and I know of no reason why he should have been in the slightest degree concerned about any work in the office. After the session in Parliament had ceased the amount of his labour was considerably diminished, and the bulk of the arrears had been disposed of by last Thursday. It certainly was a great shock to me when I heard of his death this morning. In his prime he was regarded as a typical man for the position of clerk to the Crown Solicitor, and it was recognised that the efficiency he brought to bear on his work as clerk to the Crown Prosecutor was quite professional. Although I have been out of office for over 10 years, I can say that from my previous experience of him as secretary to the Attorney-General, he was a splendid officer, but during the last few years, and in consequence of his illness, he was unable to give that amount of attention to the office work which I experienced in former years. But there was nothing whatever to induce me to make any complaint in this respect. Four of his sons are in the service, and those of them with whom I have come in contact have all obtained the positions which they now occupy by merit and hard work.''

The Inquest. The City Coroner (Dr. W. Ramsey Smith) held an inquest at the deceased's residence, Warwick-street, Walkerville on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. C. P. Cornish, clerk in the Civil Service, identified the body as that of his late father, who was 63 years of age, and whom he last saw alive on Monday evening. At 20 minutes past 7 on Wednesday morning he received a message, and at once proceeded to a shed where he had been told his sister had gone. Saw the deceased hanging; cut the body down, and sent for a doctor and a constable. The deceased was ill some years ago for a long period and was attended by Dr. Jay. He was very fond of outdoor exercise, and went for long walks and rides for the benefit of his health. This was before his illness, He was a good deal worried before he broke down. He had been kept working beyond the usual office hours, and usually reached home between 6 and 7 o'clock. At times he would say he had a worrying day, and he made a remark to that effect on Monday. He seemed very tired. He had never made any remark to lead the witness to think that he would do any harm to himself, and he had no financial worries. Dr. M. R. H. Jay said he had attended the deceased for the past 21 years. His first breakdown was in 1893-4 for a period of l8 months, and five years ago he was taken ill again. He suffered from excessive nervous depression-melancholia. In the first instance over-anxiety regarding his work caused the attack, and in the second it followed influenza, aggravated by grief at the death of his wife. He did not ever recover from the first attack sufficiently to be fit for the same amount of work as he used to be. Extra and worrying work would have been bad for him, and might actually unhinge his mind. Mr. G. G. Martin chief clerk of the Law Department, said he had known the deceased for 24 years, and worked for that period in the same department with him. Last saw him alive a little after 5 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, when he appeared in his usual health. He was not able to apply himself to his work with the same energy after his illness as before it. Parliamentary work had caused extra hours. His work was of a responsible sort as secretary to the Minister, and was sometimes of an anxious nature. It was a natural tiling for an officer holding such a position to be anxious. Constable J. D. Renfrey also gave evidence, and stated that no letters from the deceased had been found. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased committed suicide by hanging whilst of unsound mind, brought on by illness and anxiety as regards his work.

8) William Henry Cornish b. 1871 Glasgow, Scotland

In 1901 the family lived at 88, Overleigh, Street where William was a gardener (domestic). A master R. Cornish took part in the "Revel" in 1906 – mistake for one of the older boys? In 1911 Emma and her nine children lived on Butleigh Hill but her husband was not at home on census day.

Corp(e)

Corpe is one of the commonest surnames in Butleigh in the 1700's but by 1800 they had almost all disappeared.

1) Elizabeth Corpe married Butleigh 11 May 1615 xxx Pyne (Dwelly's PR)

2) William Corp of Baltonsborough

3) John Corpe

4) Joan Corpe d.o. John of Baltonsborough bur. 16 May 1731 Butleigh

5) Richard Corpe 'the Elder', bur. 21 Feb 1761 Butleigh

Richard seems to have acquired property in Butleigh in 1734 from Anne Cross the sole heir of the Rev. Guido Clinton.of Wells. He started paying rates in 1735 for 'part of Weekes' as neighbour of Anne Cross. He was churchwarden in 1743 and continued to pay rates [latterly identified as 'the elder' to distinguish him from his son] until 1754 (as neighbour of David Bell). A Betty Corpe married John Brook in Butleigh on 10 Jun 1752 #

DD/S/BT/11/2/21-2 1] Anne Cross of Wells daughter and administratrix of Guydo Clinton of Wells decd 2] Richard Corpe of Butleigh, yeoman Assignment a messuage and 1/2-a croft, 1a in Eastmead, 23a arable in fields and 2a in Westwood. With copy. [Somerset Archive and Records, Date: 1734.

DD/S/BT/14/2/20-1 1] Richard Corpe of Butleigh, yeoman 2] Joseph Cary of Shepton Mallet, clothier Mortgage of a messuage, 13a 3yds arable in Butleigh fields, and 2a in Westwood. Counterpart.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1737.

DD/S/BT/12/1/19 - 1] Richard Corpe the elder of Butleigh, yeoman 2] John Brooke of Keinton Mandeville, mason Assignment of a messuage and croft (1a), 13a 3yds arable in Butleigh fields and 2a in West wood.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1752.

DD/S/BT/12/1/24 1] Joseph Cary of Shepton Mallet, clothier 2] John Brooke of Keinton Mandeville, mason 3] Richard Corpe the elder of Butleigh, yeoman 4] James Grenville of Butleigh Assignment of 12a 3yds arable in Butleigh fields and 2a in West wood.. [Somerset Archive Date: 1761.

5a) Richard Corpe 'the Younger' Chr. 20 Feb 1715 Butleigh, bur. 22 Jul 1783 Butleigh

A girl called Jane was buried 18 Jun 1746 Butleigh is specified as daughter of Richard (but the elder or younger?). Richard the younger started paying rates [property called 'late Tars'] in 1749/50 as neighbour of John Bishop and continued to pay until his death in 1783 when he was replaced as ratepayer by John Corpe who was still paying rates in 1789.

DD/S/BT/4/5/52 Copy court roll admitting Richard Corpe the younger to 5.5a ar in the fields, Butleigh. Endorsed with surrenders 1776 and 1780.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1736.

DD/S/BT/11/2/31 1] Humphrey Colmer of Butleigh, cordwainer 2] Richard Corpe the younger of Butleigh, yeoman Assignment of 1a at Clayhill and 1.5a at Austins Pitts in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1738.

DD/S/BT/11/2/33 - 36 - 1] William Hodges the elder of Butleigh, yeoman 2] Richard Corpe the younger of Butleigh, yeoman Assignment of Ivyleafe house in Butleigh. Rent 2s.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date range: 1741-1742.

DD/S/BT/12/1/18 1] Richard Corp of Butleigh, yeoman 2] John Haggett of Butleigh, yeoman Assignment of 1a at Clayhill and 1.5a at Austins Pitt in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1751.

DD/S/BT/12/1/29 1] Richard Corp of Butleigh, yeoman 2] Richard Gould of Wells 2] James Grenville of Butleigh 3] Revd Samuel Hood of Butleigh Assignment in trust of Ivyleafe house and 2 1/4a arable in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1763.

DD/S/BT/9/4/28 1] Richard Corp 2] James Grenville Agreement to sell 1.5a in Butleigh East field and 1a in West field.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1769.

6) Jane Corp of Butleigh married Thomas Rogers in Charlton Mackrell on 5 Mar 1738

7) William Corpe [bur. 1 Feb 1756 Butleigh -or one of the Williams below?]

8) John Corp [see below and 3 above]

The OOP paid the house rent for a John Corp from 1756/7.

9) John Corpe

10) John Corpe

11) James Corpe bur. 7 Mar 1788 Butleigh?

James Corpe house rent paid in 1765.

DD/S/BT/14/2/27-8 - 1] James Corpe of Butleigh, labourer and wife Mary executrix of Joan Strickland decd her grandmother 2] Stephen Callow of Butleigh, mason Assignment of a messuage in Butleigh. Enclosed probate (1764) of will (1738/9) of Joan Stickland of Butleigh, widow.. Date: 1764.

12) James Corp [bur. 22 Jan 1806 Butleigh? - father or son] second marriage of above?

12a?) Richard Corpe

DD/S/BT/26/3/10 - 1] Lord Glastonbury 2] Richard Corpe of Butleigh, schoolmaster Conveyance of the reversion of a messuage in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1805.

Uncertain Corpe burials

a) John Corpe bur. 26 Jun 1757 Butleigh

b) Thomas Corpe bur. 15 Aug 1757 Butleigh

c) Nanny Corpe Chr. 15 Jan 1758 d.o. Samuel and Christian Corpe of Baltonsborough

d) John Corpe Chr. 13 Feb 1776 Butleigh, bur. 3 Mar 1776 Butleigh illegit. s.o. Ann Corpe

e) William Corp Chr. 5 Apr 1779 Butleigh illegitimate s.o. Mary Corp

f) Mary Corpe bur. 27 Jan 1798 Butleigh (see 11, 12, 13)

g) Sarah Corpe bur. 6 Apr 1798 Butleigh (13)

h) William Corpe bur. 12 Jul 1804 Butleigh illeg. s.o.Mary Grove

13) Henry Corp b. 1761 Somerset, died 1844 (Mar Q 10/412 Wells) bur. 16 Mar Butleigh 41-9

The widower Henry lodged with Charles Davis in Compton Street in 1841. The Jane who died in 1837 was 24 years older according to her age at death - seems more like his possible mother rather than his wife, no other Jane found.

14) Emily Corp b. 1857 Butleigh, d.o. James and Mary Corp

In 1861 Emily and her whole family had been together in Sticklinch. In 1871 Emma lived with her relative Stephen Dunkerton and his wife Mary on their farm at Sticklinch, West Pennard. Her Corp brothers and sister (Joseph 18, Celia 12 and Sidney 10) lived there too. James and Mary Corp, her parents had had 9 children and in 1871 they seem to have been developing a new farm - Wood Hill Farm at Brinkworth, Wilts, leaving some of their children including Emma back in Sticklinch where their old farm was situated. James died in 1874. In 1881 Emily was still at home with her parents - at Woodcock Farm, Charlton, Malmesbury Eastern, Wilts. By 1891 Emily (35) lived with her sister Sarah and brother-in-law John Greenham at Ridgeway Farm, Purton, Wilts. She was still there aged 42, as a domestic help in 1901 and in 1911.

15) Agness Emily Corp b. 1860 West Pennard, d.o. Leos and Sarah Corp 81-104

Agnes was a servant at Lower Rockes farm in 1881. Previously lived at Northwood, Baltonsborough with her parents, her father being a labourer.

16) John Corp b. 1878 (Dec Q 5c/534 Wells) West Pennard, son of Frederick Corp and Mary 91-114

John lived at New Road, West Pennard with his parents in 1881. In 1891 he was a servant at Lower Rockes farm but by 1901 had returned to live with his parents at New Road, West Pennard.

Cottle

1) Emily Cottle b. 1891 Bruton, nurse (domestic)

In 1911 Emily worked for James Gane, farmer, at Higher Rocks farm as a nurse. She was single. The only Emily Cottle who seems to fit the bill is the d.o. Thomas and Elizabeth who lived in Glastonbury in 1901, Emily being one of their eleven children.

Court

1) Matthew Court married Grace Gregory Butleigh 29 Sep 1758

2) Samuel Court b. 1843 Galhampton, blacksmith, s.o. Charles (a blacksmith) and Anna Court. 61-59

In 1851 Samuel lived with his parents at North Cadbury. He lodged with Charles Petty in Dumb Lane in 1861. Samuel married Sarah-Ann Britton in Butleigh on 21 May 1863 and they emigrated to New Zealand. #

Cousins

[Cozens]

1) Eli Cousins b. 1869 (Mar Q 5c/741 Keynsham) Brislington, police constable 01-138

In 1891 Eli was an unmarried constable lodging at Ammerdown Terrace, Hemington, near Frome. Lillian's parents came from Caerleon, Mon., and her father is described as 'painter' and address in 1881 was 63, Upper Maudlin Street [Foresters Arms], St. James, Bristol. In 1891 Lillian had been a kitchen maid in Queen Elizabeth's District Hospital, St. Augustine, Bristol. Eli Cousins (32) police constable, lived in Oddway in 1901 with wife Lillian L. (30) and children Minnie (5), John (3) and Eli (1). By 1911 Eli and Lilian lived at East Pennard with just Eli junior.

Coward

1) Alice Coward married Butleigh 18 Jun 1592 George Slade #

2) Maria Coward married Butleigh 19 Oct 1597 Humphrey Orum #

3) Elinore Coward married Butleigh 25 Oct 1624 Thomas Marten?

Elinore married II Thomas Stoney Butleigh 12 Oct 1635 #

4) Andrew Coward

5) William Coward

The offspring of this family later took the surname Symcockes. Christopher Coward donated one shilling towards building Chelsea College in 1617. In his Will Christopher, of 'Cutteryne' in Evercreech left £20 to the Poor and his son in law Christopher Overton, Frances his wife and children of his sister Smith. On Jun 20 1656 after the death of Francis the residue went to Humphrey Orme, nephew.

DD/S/BT/17/1/1 1] James Levingston, Groom of the Bedchamber 2] Thomas Symcockes of Butleigh and Christopher Coward of Evercreech Assignment of 30a of Southmoor or Aldermoor in Glastonbury manor. Rent to Crown 30s.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS Date range: 1633 - 1634.

DD/S/BT/6/2/1 - 1] Thomas Powlett of Melplash, Dors and wife Alice 2] Thomas Symcockes of Butleigh son of Alice and Christopher Coward of Cutterne Mills Assignment of Moorhouse messuage, Butleigh 1637

DD/S/BT/6/3/1 - 1] Thomas Symcockes and wife Dorothy daughter of Sir John Meller 2] Sir John Meller of Little Bredy, Dors., kt 3] William Coward of Wells Settlement in trust for Dorothy of Butleigh manor, demesnes and advowson.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH Date: 1638.

DD/S/BT17/1/6 - 1] Thomas Symcockes of Butleigh and Androwes Overton of Babcary, executor of Frances widow of Christopher Coward 2] John Webb of St Martin in the Fields, Msex Assignment of 30a in Southmoor.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1653. also DD/S/BT/18/2/12

6) William Coward Esq b. 1634, d. 6 April 1705 Wells, bur 12 April 1705 'Sergeant at Law and Recorder' – from Chamberlain Street. Son of William Coward and Catherine Doddington.

William was related to family (5) and paid rates on South More land from 1673 until 1699. In the period 1700-1705 the ratepayer was given as either Sari, William, Sargin, or Sergeant Coward. In 1706 the rate was paid in the name of 'the late Sargin Coward' and from 1707 – 1716 it was William Coward again (the son). In 1712 William junior was taken to court in Taunton to force an apprentice upon him. In 1715 it was noted that his tenant was Steven Slade and in 1717 it was recorded that the rate payer was 'the late William Coward'.

William Coward Gent. of Wells was recorder and MP for Wells and of Lincoln's Inn.

Cox

1) Thomas Cockes bur. 11 Mar 1641 Butleigh

Grace married Butleigh 21 Feb 1622 Thomas Samwayes, # Margaret married Butleigh 16 Feb 1625 Robert Lovell # Grace, William Margaret and Philip were all beneficiaries under the will of Mathew Knolls, 1608, his godchildren.

1a) Philip Cox Chr. 16 Feb 1606 Butleigh

Grace married Butleigh 30 Nov 1672 Jeffery Grant #

2) Thomas Cox

3) John Cox

4) Ann Coxe married Butleigh 27 Sep 1634 xxx Piney (Dwelly's PR)

5) Grace Cox

Grace received one shilling from the Symcockes bequest in 1691 and in 1702 received relief for 50 weeks from the OOP plus a change (of clothes), pair of shoes a whitell (cape) and apron. In 1702 she received a year's relief again plus a change and a cap – then nfi.

6) Mr. John Cox died 1722

After John Cox died in 1722 (buried in St. John the Baptist church, Eltham, where there is a memorial to him and his family] the Southmoor property fell to his namesake (presumably his son) John. In 1724 'Mr. Cox' was listed as having 35 acres of South Moor and the rates on it were paid by John Periam, John Talbot and John Applin. From 1725 the tenant wasn't identified and Mr. Cox 'or occupiers' paid the rates up to 1777/8 after which they were paid by Mr. Burton and in 1788 they were passed to James Grenville [acres listed as of 'late Burton']. In the Eltham tomb besides the two Johns are Anne, wife of George Craddock, daughter of John Cox, d. 1772; and Gilbert Burton, d. 1785

DD/S/BT/17/2/17-23 1] John Cox of London, fishmonger and wife Sarah 2] Robert Sparke of St Mary le Savoy, ironmonger Deed to declare the uses of a fine on c. 34a in Southmoor. Enclosed pair of fines, copy will (1680) of Thomas Paxton of London, fishmonger, copy will (1696) Date: 1702.

PROB 11/583 Will of John Cox Fishmonger Eltham, Kent . Will of John Cox Fishmonger Eltham, Kent Date: 1722.

DD/S/BT/14/2/14 Copy probate of will (1176) of John Cox of Eltham, Kent, formerly of London, fishmonger, proved 1721/2.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date range: 1721 - 1722.

DD/S/BT/25/4/12 Power of attorney by John Cox of Eltham, Kent to Gilbert Burton of Greys Inn to collect Butleigh rents.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1760.

DD/S/BT/22/5/15-140 Vouchers and estate accounts for John Cox's estate in Butleigh and Street, later held by his executrix Ann Craddock, and correspondence concerning the estate and Southmoor lands land.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date range: 1739 - 1786.

DD\SAS\C/795/SE/122 John Walter and Sir Thos. {Thomas?} Trevor, of manor of Glaston for 99 years on trust, and subsequent instruments affecting Southmoor and Aldermoor sent to John Periam esq. by Mr.Burton, nephew of Mr.Cox of Eltham in Kent with a letter dated Oct.1st 1765. Date range: 1616 - 1800.

DD/S/BT/24/2/12 Rental of lands in Butleigh and Street late Ann Craddock of Eltham decd. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date range: 1771 - 1772.

DD/S/BT/17/7/1-2 1] Jane and Ann Shower of Hanwell, Msex, devisees of John Cox of Eltham, Kent 2] James Grenville Lease and release of 61a of land in Southmoor.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1777.

PROB 11/1132 Will of Gilbert Burton Eltham , Kent . Date: 1785.

7) John Cox married Mary Barnard Butleigh 4 Aug 1777

8) James Nicholas Cox of Woolavington, married Mary Davis Butleigh 16 Apr 1829 [d.o. John and Mary Hockey?] #

9) Sarah Cox b. 1760, bur. 5 Feb 1831 Butleigh - wife of John next?

10) John Cox of Wells, b. 1755, bur. 3 Oct 1834 Butleigh

11) Nehemiah Cox b. 1819 Westbury, blacksmith, d. 1852 (Mar Q 5c/446 Wells) bur. 21 Feb Butleigh 51-32

Nehemiah had appeared in Blackford, Wedmore in 1841 with Mary who he had married in 1840. In 1851 Nehemiah (32) lived in Silver Street Butleigh with Mary Jane (33) and Eliza Jane (9), Ellen (8), Frederick (6) and William (3). He died in 1852. It is uncertain what happened to his wife Mary - she may be the Mary who died in 1854 (Dec Q 5c/378 Wells), or the one who died in 1855 (Jun Q 5c/321 Langport). Joshua Davis lived in Dumb Lane in 1861 and part of his dwelling was let out to the two brothers, Frederick (16) and William Cox (13). The boys then moved out of Butleigh. Frederick is found in Glastonbury in 1891, married to Ellen and later by 1901 in Weston. He died in 1907 (Mar Q 5c/347 Wells). William was a coach trimmer in Tottenham by 1891 - nfi.

Jane Ann appears on the 1861 census at the home of Ann Summers (b. 1788 CM) in Charlton Mackrell where she is described as 'granddaughter'. She is probably the 'Annie' on the 1871 census living with John and Thirza Carey in Charlton Adam. In 1881 she was a servant at 'Yetton House', Hordle, Hampshire. She married Police Constable Edward William Simmonds (b. 1851 Bushey, Herts) in 1883 (Mar Q 3a/251 Edmonton, Middlesex) and they lived first in Enfield, then Walthamstow. By 1911 Edward had retired from the police and was a Custom Watcher. He lived with Jane Ann at 194, Ramsey Rd., Forest Gate E., Essex.

12) Eliza Cox b. 1836 South Brent, glover, servant 61-57, 91K-128

Eliza lodged with Hannah Folley in Sealy's Row in 1861. In 1841 Eliza had lived in South Brent with Anna Folley (50) a nurse - the same Hannah she lived with in 1861 - her grandmother? Also at the address was Elizabeth Cox (35) her mother (?) and Emma Cox (11). She appears later with her sister, Emma White, a glover, in Yeovil in 1871. Still a glover, she lodged at 44, Park Street, Yeovil in 1881 before returning to Butleigh - albeit Butleigh Wootton, in 1891, where she acted as sick nurse to Elizabeth Gardener's daughter Mary [Imbecile]. She is probably the Eliza Cox who died in 1900 (Mar Q 5c/325 Langport) aged 65.

13) Thomas Cox born 1840 (Dec Q 10/383 Langport - as Tom Cox Cox) Keinton Mandeville, bur. 11 Jun 1913 (Sep Q 5c/490 Wells) Butleigh 71-76, 81-97, 91-124, 01-145

Tom was a stone cutter boarding with John and Phoebe Stone in Barton St. David in 1861. He married Mary between 1861 and 71 (in Farmborough?). In 1871 Tom was an Inn Keeper in Barton Stone. In 1881 the couple were at Roods Farm where they remained in 1891. In 1901 they were at Reynolds. Mary died in 1910 aged 65 and Thomas died in the Wells Union Workhouse in 1913. He had last appeared living alone in 1911 at Harepits in two rooms.

14) Mercy Cox b. 1852 Northover, Ilchester 71-76

In 1871 on Butleigh Hill, George Spear, dairyman and wife Emeley (Emmaline) lived with Mercy Cox (19) a servant (and niece of Emeley). # Their immediate neighbours in 1871 were George and Mary Ann Stillman - Mary Ann Stillman was born in 1836 in Ilchester, as Mary Ann Cox. Nfi on Mercy

15) Lincoln Garibaldi Cox b. 1868 (Mar Q 5c/465 Langport) Compton Dundon, farmer, s.o. Charles and Eliza (née Lee) Cox 01-140 Photo

Lincoln lived with his parents in Compton Dundon in 1871 and 1881 but was absent from the census in 1891. He is recorded as living at Copley House as early as 1895 when his first child Mary was baptised in Compton. In 1901 Lincoln Garibaldi Cox (32), woodman, with his wife Bessie (27) and daughters Mabel and Dorothy still lived at Copley House. Mary Ann was with her grandparents Charles and Eliza Cox at Dundon Street, Compton Dundon in 1901. In 1911 Lincoln lived at Drumbridge Heathfield, Newton Abbot with their three daughters. He stated that he had had six children of whom 4 still lived – he was a carter on an estate.

16) Albert Cox b. 1847 East Coker, Som., farmer, son of Samuel and Sarah Cox 01-145

Albert lived with his parents in Up Coker at the time of 1841 census where his father farmed 33 acres. Their address in 1861 was given as 28 Up Coker village. In 1871 Albert lived alone at 27, Upper Coker Village, East Coker where he was described as "Sack manufacturer employing 2 men, 3 women or girls, farmer of 35 acres employing 2 men - Registrar of Births & Deaths, Subdistrict of Coker".

Between 1881/91 he had lived with his widowed sister Sarah E. Mitchell in Adber Rd., Trent, Sherborne, South Somerset where he managed her farm. Albert was a visitor at Eades Cottage in 1901, the home of Jane L. Smith and her daughter Sarah Cross.

17) William Cox b. 1863 Butleigh, shoemaker

William and Elizabeth lived in 1891 at Stone-Hill, Street. In 1901 the house number was 13, Stone Hill. They were still there in 1911 with son Ernest Henry (b. 1904).

18) Mary A. Cox b. 1896 (Jun Q 5c/372 Langport) Butleigh

In 1901 Mary, as granddaughter, lived with Charles Cox (58) and Eliza Cox (58), both Compton Dundon born.

19) Mary Cox b. 1814 Somerton, housekeeper 71W-87

Mary, a widow, was a servant at Broadway Farm in 1871. She moved by 1881 to Compton Dundon to live with her son Edward, a carpenter, and his family. She was still there in 1901 though she spent the 1891 census night at Sexey's Hospital in Bruton. She had previously lived in Bruton with her husband William.

20) Louisa Cox Chr. 1 Nov 1869 Butleigh, illegitimate d.o. Elizabeth Cox, bur. 29 Apri 1870 (Jun Q 5c/421 Wells) Butleigh.

There is no information on the mother (possibly Eliza Jane, d.o. Nehemiah above?) but the child died in 1870.

21) Mary Cox b. 1804, bur. 24 Feb 1844 (Mar Q 10/410 Wells) Butleigh - nfi (poss. wife of James Nicholas Cox?)

Craddock

1) Samuel Cradock

2) Rachell Cradocke married Butleigh 17 May 1641 Edward Forde #

3) Maria Cradocke married Butleigh 9 Sep 1641 George Poulett #

4) William Cradicke

5) Frances Cradocke

6) Eliza Marshall Craddock Chr. 1 Aug 1875 (Jun Q 5c/557 Wells) Butleigh, d.o. John Plaister M. Craddock Esq. and Mary Lucy Craddock (nee Holbrook)

In 1881 Eliza (pob Glastonbury) lived with her parents at Ivy Court, Axbridge. Her parents had married in 1874 (Jun Q 5c/913 Frome). Eliza still lived with her parents plus five more children in 1891 at Marston Villa, Lyncombe & Widcombe, Bath. By 1901 they all lived at 13, Sydney Place, Bathwick. In 1911 and still a spinster at 35, she lived with her widowed mother and two other sisters at 11, Dunsford Place, Bath.

Craft-Crate

also sometimes Croft [and Craat on PR]

In the early Parish Records of the 1700's the name is mostly Craft with one example of Crate but by the end of the century Craat and Croft also often occur and within one family's records one finds examples of two or more spellings. Perhaps as people learned to read and write they used their birth/marriage records as a guide to spelling and adopted one or other form, and some branches ended up with different surnames despite having a common ancestor in John Craft.

A) Margaret Craft bur. 28 Apr 1628 Butleigh

B) Hester Craft – rent paid in 1771/2 for her youngest child (OOP) – rent paid 1775

1) George Crate bur. 8 Mar 1724 Butleigh

The Overseers accounts for 1672/3 records payments (to Joane Burnard and Joseph Stickling) for the reliefe of George Crate's child and a shroud, shrouding and grave digging for Mary Crate. In 1674 James Adams looked after George's child and in 1675 looked after 'Craft's' relief. In 1676 Charles Burton shared the task of looking after George's child with James Adams. In 1692 a warrant was taken out regarding Joane Craft. In 1706 George received 1 shilling from the Rocke bequest and in 1707 1 shilling again plus 2 shillings from the Symcockes bequest. He received money from these sources each year to 1713. In 1710 he received extra relief from the OOP and in 1711 the same again (in his sickness) plus his house rent. In 1713 he received his house rent. >

2) William Craft Chr. 13 Jun 1745 Butleigh illegit. s.o. Betsy Craft and William Burch bur. 20 Mar 1748 Butleigh [See below for an Elizabeth Craft buried the same day]

3) Jane Craft bur. 25 Jun 1772 Butleigh

4) Jesse Craft bur. 10 Sep 1782 Butleigh

5) George Crate bur. 18 Jul 1742 Butleigh ?

Three George Craft/Crates were buried:- 18 Jul 1742, 9 Feb 1755 and 25 Feb 1762 Butleigh A George Craft received rent for Tamezin Gill in 1735. In 1741 George Craft senior received several payments from the OOP in his necessity – he also received bread and barley. George Craft senior bought a shirt in 1749.

DD/S/BT/11/2/15 1] William Hodges of Butleigh, yeoman 2] George Croft the elder of Butleigh, husbandman Lease for lives of Ivyleafe house in Butleigh. Rent 2s. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date range: 1726 - 1727.

DD/S/BT/1/2/33 - 1] George Croft the elder of Butleigh, husbandman 2] Richard Corpe the younger of Butleigh, yeoman Lease for lives of Ivyleafe house in Butleigh. Rent 2s.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date range: 1740 - 1741.

5a) George Craft (second marriage of (5) or his son?)

George junior twice received half a bushel of barley and relief from the OOP in 1741.His wife also received money in her necessity. In 1749/50 rent was paid to a George Craft for taking in the Fidhole family.(OOP). In 1766 a George Craft mention in OOP accounts as selling wood from Mr. Grenville to Elizabeth Davis.

DD/S/BT/7/2/8 - 1] James Grenville of Butleigh 2] George Craft the younger of Butleigh, husbandman Lease for lives of the pound house and pound, Butleigh. Rent 1s 2d. Endorsed that the house was exchanged for a cottage.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT Date: 1746. Also DD/S/BT/12/1/8 [1798]

6) John Craft bur. 1 May 1774 Butleigh

DD/S/BT/25/2/17 John Crate's warrant as hundred bailiff.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1771.

7) Anne Craat b. 1750 bur. 19 Mar 1813 Butleigh

8) Henry Craat b. 1769 bur. 21 Feb 1813 Butleigh

9) Henry Craat Chr. 17 Aug 1806 Butleigh illegitimate s.o. Anne Craat

10) James Craft

Mary is probably the mother of the illegitimate Eliza Exon Chr. 12 Feb 1815 Butleigh #

11) John Craft b. 1771 Butleigh, labourer, died in 1861 (Sep Q 5c/365 Wells - Craft) bur. 21 Sep Butleigh 41-14 (Croft), 51-25, 61-57 (Croft)

This John is probably the John Crate Chr. 16 Oct 1775 Butleigh, illegitimate son of Ann Crate.

In 1841 John Craft/Croft lived with his wife Mary and sons Joseph, Josiah and daughter Ann in Moorhouse. Living with them was Thomas Dauncey, 'lodger' born circa 1819 South Barrow.# He married their daughter Ann and they continued to live with John Craft in 1851 when he appears to have lived at the gardener's cottage (Court Gardens). Mary Craft died in 1848 and sometime after 1851 John Craft lived with another son, James, at Nodway/Oddway (on census there in 1861) and died in 1861 aged 88. Ann later remarried after Thomas Dauncey's death – to Thomas Hucker on 24 Dec 1857.

11a) George Craft (Craat) Chr. 26 May 1798 Butleigh labourer, s.o. John & Mary, bur. 16 Mar 1886 (Mar Q 5c/435 Wells) Butleigh 41-5, 51-28, 61-61 (Croft), 71-78 (Crate), 81-93

In 1841 the family were listed in the neighbourhood of the High Street but in 1851 were at Broadmoor Farm. Frederick was away in Baltonsborough (1841) and set up home at Blackdown House in 1851. Eliza had married Joseph Blacker in 1848 (Mar Q 10/753 Wells). # Jane had married Thomas Penfold in 1849 (Dec Q 10/775 Wells). # Mary Ann died in 1853.

George married and lived in the High Street but died in 1869. In 1861 the family were at Quarry Lane and George and Elizabeth had their grandchildren Frederick (10) and Mary A. (7) living with them. Frederick and Mary were the children of Thomas Penfold and Jane who were living at Gibs Cottage with their other six children. Elizabeth Craft died in 1870 aged 72. George Croft then lived with his grandson James (surname Crate) at Windmill on the 1871 census then next lived in Compton Street with son Frederick in 1881 and died there in 1886.

11a1) Frederick Craft b. 1823 Butleigh, labourer, bur. 30 Jul 1892 (Sep Q 5c/290 Wells) Butleigh 51-37, 61-47, 71-79, 81-93, 91-114

Frederick appears first as Frederick Crate - a manservant in Baltonsborough in 1841. Flora appeared in Hendford, Yeovil with her sister in 1841 as a servant. After their marriage in 1846 the couple appear at Blackdown House in 1851 with son James, his wife's name given on the census as Eliza. Since they shared the house with the widow Hannah Lester (b. 1799) and two of her children, it is almost certain that she is Flora's mother. Hannah had lived in Baltonsborough in 1841 with her husband John and six of their children, including Mark and Lot who came with Hannah to live with Frederick and Flora.

In 1861 Frederick is registered at Compton Street but his wife from now on is properly called Flora. The surname of this family appears variously as Craft, Croft and Crate! Hannah, sometimes called Annie, was deaf and dumb from birth - appeared in the District asylum for the Deaf & Dumb, Kent Road, Southwark in 1871 - she lived with her brother John in 1881, her parents in 1891 and her widowed mother in 1901.

In 1871 Frederick Crate [Craft] (48) lived with his wife Florence (47) and children John (17), Elizabeth (14) and nephew George in Barton Stone. Frederick's nephew George died in 1874 aged 14 and his own daughter Elizabeth died in 1875 aged 19. The eldest son James Crate lived at 'Windmill' with his grandfather George (1) in 1871. Frederick and Flora moved to No. 4 Compton Street by 1881 by which time the family surname was clearly written Crate. They had Frederick's father George and a granddaughter Louisa with them.

In 1891 they were still in Compton Street but now at No. 7. Their daughter Hannah had returned from the Institution, trained as a dressmaker and after living with her brother in 1881 now lived with her parents. Louisa, their granddaughter was still living with them. In 1892 Frederick died. In 1901 Flora Craft was still in Compton Street with Hannah but now also with another granddaughter, Rose. Flora died in 1907. Hannah lived in four rooms at 7 Butleigh in 1911, still a dress maker on her own account.

11a1A) James Craft b. 1847 Butleigh, labourer 51-37, 61-47, 71-78, 81W-107, 91W-116, 01W-141

In 1841 Harriet and her parents lived at South Moor, Watchwell alongside the Davis family who were her grandparents - in 1861 (aged 10) she was Housekeeper to William Davis, her grandfather.

In 1871 James and Harriet lived with his grandfather George in Windmill. By 1881 they had moved to Wootton Street, Butleigh Wootton and lived there with their two children. A child Clara born in 1881 died within a month (surname given as Crate). In 1891 the address was registered as No. 25, Butleigh Wootton and they had just four rooms - on the census the surname was Crate. Anna Maria (pob Butleigh Wootton - Crate) was a parlour-maid at the Vicarage, Norton St. Philip in 1891. In 1911 she was a cook in Taunton and still single.

In 1901 James and Harriet were still in Butleigh Wootton but the children had all left. In 1911 James and Harriet lived at 29 Butleigh Wootton in 3 rooms. Harry James Crate married Maude Julia Fordham (b. Bury St. Edmunds) in 1902 (Sep Q 1d/1732 Camberwell) and in 1911 lived lived with her and their daughter (two other children had died) at 66, Brayards Rd., Peckham.

11a1B) John Craft b. 1853 (Sep Q 5c/575 Wells) Butleigh, labourer, bur. 4 Jun 1908 (Jun Q 5c/205 Taunton - Crate) Butleigh 61-47, 71-79 (Crate), 81-103, 91- 126, 01-138

In 1871 Eliza Bassett had been a servant at 1, St. Andrew St., East Liberty, Wells (to Silas Fletcher, Vicar Choral) and before that in 1861 as a servant girl at "The Bushes", Hythe Bow House, Cheddar. Eliza and John married in 1878 then settled in New Road, by 1881, and lived there with two children and John's handicapped sister Annie (Hannah). They were in Oddway by 1891 and still there in 1901. Rosa lived with her grandmother Flora Craft in Compton Street in 1901. Mabel seems to be listed twice while she was a general servant in 1901 at Rosslyn Villa, Richmond Rd, Taunton, home of Theophilus Taylor, Glove manufacturer. She married (as Mabel Crate) labourer John Cross (b. 1880) of Piminster in Butleigh on 1 Apr 1907 (Jun Q 5c/947 Wells). In 1911 Mabel and John Cross in Poundisford, Pitminster near Taunton with sister-in-law Miriam Crate as housekeeper.

[Elizabeth] Louisa Craft married Charles West in 1906 (Dec Q 5c/977 Wells). Rose was a cook at 'the Poplars', Kenilworth, Warwick in 1911.

On the 1911 census Eliza lived with sons Frederick (shepherd) and Mark (saddler) and granddaughter Rosa West (b. 1907 Butleigh), d.o. Charles and Louisa West at 67 Oddway Butleigh..

Miriam (Crate) married baker Robert Burch from Glastonbury in Butleigh on 26 Jun 1912 (Jun Q 5c/986 Wells). Mark Lester was bur. 19 Mar 1942 Butleigh and Frederick bur. 18 Sep 1953 Butleigh.

11a2) George Croft Chr. 2 Oct 1831 Butleigh, labourer, d. 1869 (Sep Q 5c/350 Wells - Craft) 41-5, 51-28, 61-58 (Croft)

Ann Penfold was the daughter of William and Ann Penfold living in Compton Street in 1851. In 1861 George Croft (28) lived with wife Ann (28), children Mary Ann (7), Clifford (5), William George (3) and George (11 months) in the High Street. Ann Croft died in 1865 and George in 1869. William George had died in 1863 aged 5 and his brother George, who lived with his uncle Frederick in 1871, died in 1874 aged 14.

Eliza went to live in Cardiff with her aunt Eliza who had married Joseph Blacker. She is probably the Eliza Craft who married in 1881 (Jun Q 11a/383 Cardiff). Mary Ann went to live with her grandparents, William and Ann Penfold (who had lived in Compton Street in 1851) at Chillmeads House, Nuffield, Surrey, in 1871. William was then a labourer and his wife and Mary were laundresses.

Clifford Croft married Mary Anne Vincent (b. 1839/45 Butleigh) # in Butleigh on 13 Nov 1879 (Dec Q 5c/823 Wells) and they are found in 1881 living in Charlton Adam, Clifford as a labourer. By 1891 they lived at 6, Dranso Court, St. John, Cardiff where he was a mattress maker. Mary Ann died and he married a younger wife, Caroline Mary Kingdon in 1898 (Mar Q 11a/421 Cardiff) and by 1901 they lived at 4, Shakespeare St., Roath, East Cardiff - he died in 1905 (Mar Q 11a/312 Cardiff).

11b) John Crate Chr. 16 Feb 1800 Butleigh, butler, s.o. John and Mary 51W-39

John and Elizabeth both worked at Wootton House in 1851. Brother of George Craat/Crate/Craft - nfi but may be the servant at Cadbury House, North Cadbury in 1841.

11c) William Craft Chr. 8 Nov 1801 Butleigh, gardener, s.o. John and Mary Craft (Craat), died 1876 (Sep Q 5c/321 Shepton Mallet - Croft) aged 77 41-8

William Craft (35) and wife Martha (40) appeared with Mary (15), Elizabeth (14), John (12), Thomas (9), Mariah (6), Jeremiah (4 months) in the High Street in 1841.

Maria Craft lodged in the High Street in 1851 but the rest of the family, who appear as Croft on later censuses, - William, Martha, John and Jeremiah, appear subsequently in Limington, Somerset in 1851 and West Lydford in 1861. Mary Ann married labourer Edwin Bartlett in 1844 (Dec Q 10/867 Yeovil) and they also lived in Limington in 1851, later moving to Ilchester. After his death she married Thomas Moores (b. 1812 Ilchester) in 1867 (Jun Q 5c/749 Yeovil) and lived at Limington. In 1911 she was living with her son Charles Bartlett (b. 1845 Limington) and his wife at 13, Acreman Place, Sherborne.

Elizabeth was a housekeeper at Tottenhawe House, Savernake Park, Wilts in 1871. Thomas was a groom at Limington House, Limington in 1851 and was a valet in Crowmarsh Gifford, Oxfordshire in 1861. Thomas then became a butler at Weybridge Heath, Weybridge, Surrey (1881) but then bacame a lodging house keeper at "Riversdale", Church Street, Weybridge in 1891.

William, Martha, John, Jeremiah and Emma lived together in West Lydford in 1861, with George Bartlett, grandson (b. 1847 Limington).

Jeremiah married Mary Ann in 1864 (Jun Q 6a/35 Bristol)? and as a coachman lived at Burfield House, Westbury on Trym, Gloucs., in 1871. This was his profession on subsequent censuses - in 1881 and 1891 he was in the Gardener's Lodge, "Beechcroft", Oatlands Drive, Walton on Thames with his wife and children. In 1901 he was back in West Lydford as 'Posting Master'. In 1911 as a coachman he lived at Kingsdon, Som. with his wife and two of his four children.

Emma married William Walker and they lived in 1881 in East Lydford together with her sister Maria (44), still unmarried and 'formerly a nurse'. In 1891 they were all living 24, High Street, West Lydford. In 1901 they still lived together in - Barberry Villa, West Lydford.

11d) James Croft Chr. 14 Aug 1803 Butleigh, s.o. John and Mary Craat, bur. 10 Jul 1882 (Sep Q 5c/303 Wells - as Crate) Butleigh 41-13 (Croft), 51-27, 61-57 (Croft), 71-80, 81-100

James and Mary are found living on Butleigh Hill in 1841 and '51 but in 1861 lived in Oddway with James's father John Craft and another lodger, Ann Tucker (71). John died in 1861 and Ann Tucker in 1866. In 1871 James Craft (69) and his wife Mary (71) took in several lodgers. Mary died in 1881 and James then lodged in Barton Stone with Henry Wilcox [1881]. James was by then receiving Parish relief and died in 1882 (as James Crate!). This couple had no children according to the censuses.

11e) Thomas Crate Chr. 14 Aug 1808 Butleigh, gardener, bur. 6 Mar 1857 (Mar Q 5c/441 Wells) Butleigh 51W-39

Thomas and Mary lived at Compton Pauncefoot in 1841 with three children, the oldest born 1836. In 1851 they lived in Wootton Street without the oldest two children. After Thomas died in 1857 Mary lived in 1861 with just Anna - their pobs given as Burlescombe and Limington respectively. In 1871 Mary was housekeeper at Wootton House and died in 1881 aged 73.

11f) Joseph Croft b. 1811 Butleigh, gardener, died 1853 (Sep Q 5c/343 Wells) bur. 12 Aug Butleigh 41-14 (Croft), 51-35

In 1851 Joseph Craft (40) and wife Mary Ann (31) lived with Fanny b. 1846 and Ann Lye Craft at No. 5, Sealy's Row. Joseph died in 1853 just after they had had another child, Henry b. 1852. Mary Ann then married Samuel Wheeler in 1857 and they appear together at Curtis's in 1861 together with her children. Henry seems to have joined the Navy (on the 'Iron Duke' 1871). An Ann Craft died in 1865 (Jun Q 5c/398 Wells) who may be Ann Lye, Mary's daughter.

11g) Charles Craft Chr. 16 Aug 1812 Butleigh (Craat - Croft), labourer, s.o. John and Mary Craat, died 1854 (Sep Q 5c/339 Wells - Craft), bur. 4 Jul Butleigh 41-13, 51-29

In 1841 Charles and Sarah lived on Butleigh Hill but their home was listed as being in the neighbourhood Spring Gardens in 1851. Charles sen. died in 1854 and the rest of the family split up. Sarah is found in 1861 as a cook at Stapleton Villa, Stapleton, Gloucs. and staying with her widowed son-in-law Thomas Marsh (see below) in Chelsea (at 7, Cooks Ground) in 1871. In 1881 she was a nurse at 48 Mansion House Street, Hammersmith. Her children seem to have been left in Bristol in 1861 (all as Croft) - Ann was a housemaid at Camden House School, St. Michael's Bristol, Harriet was boarding at 12, Christmas Bldg, St. Michael's, Bristol, with Ann Bryan, and Charles (a scholar) was lodging at 2, Alfred Street with Elizabeth Tovey. Ann married Thomas George Marsh (b. 1838 Poole, Dorset) in 1861 (Sep Q 6a/250 Clifton) and her sister Harriet Croft also married, in Clifton in 1861 (Jun Q 6a/249 Clifton) - to Samuel Brooks. Of Charles and Mary Jane - nfi

11h) Josiah Croft (Crate) Chr. 14 Apr 1816 Butleigh, farmer, bur. 25 Jan 1884 (Mar Q 5c/388 Wells) Butleigh 41-14 (Croft), 61-51, 71-74, 81-98

In 1851 Mary Craft (41) lived in Oddway with her son Joseph and sister Elizabeth Barnard (38). Josiah was working away at St. Audries Farm, West Quantoxhead on census night. In 1861 Mary, Josiah and Joseph all lived together. By 1871, though still together, Josiah was now farming 13 acres. Mary died in 1875 and her son Joseph married Hannah later in the year. She and Joseph lived with his father in Oddway [1881]. Josiah died in 1884.

11h1) Joseph Craft Chr. 19 Sep 1843 (Dec Q 10/500 Wells) Butleigh, farmer, bur. 20 Feb 1911 (Mar Q 5c/345 Wells - Crate) Butleigh 51-27, 61-51, 71-74, 81-98, 91-126, 01-138

After appearing with her parents in Kilmington in 1841, Hannah had become a housemaid at Butleigh Vicarage by 1861. Joseph had lived with his father all his life and stayed in Oddway after his father's death 1891 - 1901. In 1891 Hannah's brother Andrew Mills had stayed with them and her sister Sarah had worked at the vicarage in 1881.

Hannah died in 1905 aged 67 and Joseph died in 1911. The couple had no children.

12) Elizabeth Croft b. 1807 Butleigh. Probably also a daughter of John and Mary above.

Farmer Henry Dyer (Chr. 27 Nov 1803 Walton) married Ann Reynolds in Butleigh on 2 May 1831 and appeared in 1841 with her. By 1861 he was married to Elizabeth b. 1807 Butleigh. An Elizabeth Croft seems to be the Elizabeth and the marriage took place in 1856 (Mar Q 5c/885 Wells) and the couple lived in Walton. Elizabeth died and by 1871 Henry had a new wife, aged only 24, Elizabeth Ann Brown, born in Compton Dundon.

13) Mary Ann Craft Chr. 18 Nov 1831 Sherborne, Dorset, nurse maid, d.o. John and Elizabeth Croft 51W-39

Mary worked for George Knight, sawyer, her uncle in Wootton in 1851 helping look after his four month old daughter Fanny. #

Crease

1) Joseph Crease b. 1811 Frome, stone mason 51-23

Joseph Crease (Creese) lodged at Parsonage House in 1851 amongst the many masons and bricklayers who were working on building Butleigh Court. He was listed as unmarried though in 1841 in Frome Selwood he was with his wife Sarah (née Greenland) and two daughters, and in 1851 his wife and children are found in Frome, at Thorns Rank at the Butts. By 1861 he was back in Frome, at Butts Road, with his wife, daughter Emma and sister-in-law. His profession was journeyman freestone mason and his wife was a wool picker. Sarah died in 1861 and Joseph in 1865.

Creech

1) Thomas Creech vicar of Butleigh from 4 Sep 1714, bur. 26 Jan 1722 Butleigh

Thomas's patron was Sir Giles Strangeways. Thomas appears in the CW and OOP accounts/rates from 1714 - 1721. The Elizabeth Creech who married James Armstrong in Butleigh 23 Mar 1734 is almost certainly a daughter of this couple. #

Creed

1) Joseph Creed of Bath, married Sarah Winsor Butleigh 13 Jan 1817

2) William Creed b. 22 Mar 1845, Chr. 2 Apr 1848 (aged 3) Barton St. David (Butleigh), labourer in brick works 61K-68?

William Creed was a lodger in Butleigh Wootton in 1861 and erroneously gave that as his pob. William married Dorcas Hellier [known as Tabitha] in 1870 (Sep 5c/619/549 Langport). In 1871 they lived at Charlton Adam with two visitors - Jane and Job Hellier - though William's name has been crossed out. In 1881 William's pob was given as Charlton, as was that of Dorcas (b. 1841). William lived in 1891 at Orchard Terrace 5, Glastonbury, with his wife Dorcas and three children.. Nfi.

Cribb

1) Thomas Crib of Barton St. David, bur. 3 Nov 1799 Butleigh

These may be two different Thomases but the above scenario seems most likely. A child Jane was bur. 1 Apr 1779 Butleigh (John?)

2) Edward Cribb b. 1801 Woolavington, tailor, died 21 Apr 1862 (Jun Q 5c/396 Wells) bur. 26 Apr Butleigh 41-7, 51-24, 61-48

Edward Cribb, a tailor, and his family lived in the High Street in 1841 and on the 1851 census the house seems to equate to No. 14. Their son John Cribb also became a tailor and was visiting Richard Goodhind, a baker at 4, St. Swithins Row, Lyncombe, Walcot (Bath) in 1851. In 1852 (Mar Q 5c/1032 Bath) he had married Amelia Goodhind, a stay maker, and by 1861 lodged at 3 Nelson Place, Walcot. In 1871 he was at 5, Chatham Row, Walcot, together with his father-in-law Richard Goodhind (79), who died in 1877. He was still there in 1881 and 1891 but by the latter census he had a new wife, Sarah Ann Millard (b. 1835 Bath) who he had married in 1889 (Mar Q 5c/1005 Bath). His brother Edward was a footman in 1851 and lodged at 26, Little Grays Inn Lane, Finsbury, London. He married Rachel Leah Chapple in 1859 (Jun Q 1b/690 Holborn) and by 1871 they had four children. In 1881 they lived at 8, Henry St., St. George the Martyr, Finsbury, London and Edward's occupation was 'Private Gate Keeper'. In 1891 they lived at 9, Wells Street, St. Pancras. He died in 1900 (Mar Q 1b/554 Holborn). James was a groom at the Hall, Elsenham, Essex in 1851 - nfi.

In 1861 Edward Cribb snr lived with just hs son William, now also a tailor. Edward died in 1862 and William went to lodge with William Higgins in St. James' Square, Butleigh. Henry became a footman on the Stoke Park Estate in Guildford (1861), then in 1871 a lodging house keeper in Brighton (wife Elizabeth, b. 1831 Bookham, Surrey) and in 1881 a lodging house keeper in Hove, Sussex (wife Lucy, b. 1835 Sussex).

Harriet became a servant to the Rector in East Hendred, Berks (1861). She married William Goodenough in 1864 (Dec Q 2c/647 Wantage) and they settled in East Hendred, Berks.

William, a gardener, married Sarah Bailey (b. 1840 Street) and lived at Hase Batch, Wookey in 1881, with his mother-in-law Sarah Bailey (78). In 1891 the three of them lived at Batcombe, Shepton Mallet.

Criddle

1) Helen Violet Criddle b. 1894 (Jun Q 5c/277 Williton) Williton, Devon, bur. 20 Feb 1952 Butleigh 01-140

Helen (7) boarded with Mary Davis in Quarry Lane in 1901. She was the daughter of Sarah Criddle who had married William Fredrick Davis in 1900. # In 1911 she is found with her parents living in Quarry Lane, Butleigh - Helen never married and died at 64, Oddway.

Crocombe

1) Ann Crocombe (née Trott/Canniford) b. 1841 Broadhembury, Devon, d.o. John and Elizabeth Trott, died 1916 (Mar Q 5c/641 Wells) aged 75 01-135

Ann Crocombe was the widowed sister-in-law of Charles Dyer saddler and postmaster at The Post Office in the High Street in 1901 and his wife Jane. She appears with her sister Jane and parents in Kentisbeare, Devon in 1851. Her occupation was cook and maybe she was acting in that capacity rather than being just a visitor or lodger. In 1871 she had lived with her husband John Curtis Crocombe (b. 1838 Lynton) in Western House, Stockleigh Pomeroy, Devon, where his profession was that of gamekeeper. At that time they had a two year old son John. Their son John became a police constable though reverted to farm labourer in Worcestershire after a sojourn in London. Her husband had died in 1880 (Jun Q 5b/333 Barnstaple) aged 42. In 1911 Anne lived alone in two rooms at 6 Butleigh.

Croft – see Craft

Croom

1) Charles Croom Chr. 13 Mar 1825 Witham Friary, Som., farmer, s.o. James and Elizabeth Croom, d. 2 Mar, bur. 7 Mar 1896 (Mar Q 5c/346 Wells) Butleigh 61W-64, 71W-86, 81W-106, 91W-116

In 1841 Charles had lived at Quarry Hill Farm, Witham Friary with his widowed father James and siblings. By 1851 he was still there but as head of the family, with three brothers and a sister, farming some 300 acres. Sarah Butt was a house servant at 2, Holley Farm, Kentish Town, St. Pancras London in 1851. Charles married Sarah in 1852 and by 1861 they were farming 245 acres in Butleigh Wootton with 9 men and 3 boys.

In 1871 they had their nephew Charles and niece Emily visiting them and at that time farmed 337 acres. In 1861 Charles (7) and his older brother William were pupils at Taylors Paddock School in Shepton Mallet. Emily still lived with her parents, John and Jane Croom, at Barrow Farm, Witham Friary, in 1851.

By 1881 the nephew Charles still lived with Charles and Sarah plus Sarah's mother Hannah Butt. Hannah died in 1882 and her daughter in 1887. Charles then married Eliza Ann Perry in 1888 and by 1891 they lived together with his nephew Charles at Home Farm, Butleigh Wootton. After the death of Charles snr in 1896 Eliza is found in 1901 as a visitor at the home of Sophia Vincent in Queen Camel.

Charles B. Croom married Sarah Bartlett Knight in Butleigh on 10 Mar 1898 and they are found in 1901 living at Priory, Woodlands, West Pennard where Charles was a farmer. Emily Jane was Charles' sister. In 1911 Charles and Sarah Bartlett Croom were still at Woodlands.

Cross

A) Madam Cross – in 1734 (OOP), 1735 (CW and 1737 (OOP) rates were paid in this name by Anne Cross, the sole heir of the Rev. Guido Clinton.. The property adjoined that of Richard Corpe.

DD/S/BT/11/2/21-2 1] Anne Cross of Wells daughter and administratrix of Guydo Clinton of Wells decd 2] Richard Corpe of Butleigh, yeoman Assignment a messuage and 1/2-a croft, 1a in Eastmead, 23a arable in fields and 2a in Westwood. With copy. [Somerset Archive and Records, Date: 1734.

1) John Cross of Kingweston married Betty Sealy Butleigh 7 May 1792

2) Robert Cross b. 1824 Stoke Trister, carpenter, s.o. John Cross 51-23

Robert boarded at the Parsonage House in Compton Street and probably worked on building Butleigh Court in 1851. He had appeared with his father and five siblings in Stoke Trister in 1841. In 1861 he was lodging with the Gray family in Addingham, Yorkshire where eventually he became 'step-father-in-law' to them (1901).

3) William Cross Chr. 29 Dec 1850 Saint John, Preston - Grimsargh, Lancs., s.o. Katherine Matilda and Major William Assheton Cross JP of Red Scar, Grimsargh (1861, 71). 01-13

William Cross, widower and civil engineer was a visitor at Butleigh Court in 1901. William's wife had been called Marianne.

4) Sarah A. Cross b. 1852 (Mar Q 5a/381 Sherborne) Trent, Dorset 01-145

Sarah A. Cross was the unmarried daughter of Jane Louisa Smith who came from Trent, Dorset, in 1891 where she ran the "Seymour's Arms Inn" - as licensed victualler, with Sarah. Previously they had lived in the "Roe and Crown" in Trent while Jane's second husband David (b. 1820) still lived. They lived in Eades cottage with Albert Cox (54) a visiting farmer on census night 1901. Jane died in 1906 (Jun Q 5c/296 Wells) aged 83.

Crossman

1) Peter Crosman

Peter paid rates from 1715 to 1725. The rate was then paid by Edward Pope. Charity Crossman was paid for the relief of John Pirkes junior in his sickness in 1699.

DD/S/BT/7/6/4 - 1] William Periam of Butleigh, carpenter 2] Peter Crossman of Hurcott, Somerton, husbandman and wife Charity residuary legatee of her brother Christopher Pope decd Assignment of 12a in Butleigh West wood.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT Date range: 1713 - 1714.

DD/S/BT/7/6/3 - Extract of Will of Christopher Pope leaving his brother Richard Pope of Bristol, who died soon after, and sister Charity Crossman his wood in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1713.

2) Dennis Crossman b. 1872 Walton, farmer, s.o. Henry and Elizabeth Crossman 01-145

Dennis was single and living with his parents Henry and Elizabeth Crossman at 114 Ivythorn, Walton in 1891. He married in 1895 and must have arrived in Butleigh circa 1898 since his son Fred was born there. Dennis farmed Roods Farm, High Hill in 1901. In 1911 they all lived at Somer Farm, West Horrington.

Crows

1) Moses Pool sojourner

These must be the parents of: Elizabeth Crows Chr. 17 Mar 1746 Butleigh d.o. Moses and Mary Crows, sojourner

Cullen

[Cullan, Cullin, Culling, Cooling]

1) John Cullinge of Charlton – in 1739 paid for his work, with others, on the church communion table (+ his liquor) £8 7s 6d.

Charlton Mackrell deeds DD\DN/131 Leases of various houses held of the manor of Charlton Mackrell by grants of the Lockyer family (to 1782) and Mary Smith, wid. (1799). Lessees: Culling and related Tucker, King, Penny, and Summers.. [Somerset Archive and Records, Dickinson Mss] Date range: 1743 - 1799.

2) Thomas Cullan b. 1796 Butleigh [Chr. 13 Jan 1793 Butleigh - Cooling s.o. John and Hannah Cooling?], pensioner, died 1876 (Mar Q 2a/84 Hambledon, Surrey) .

Thomas lived at Combe Lane, Chiddingfold, Surrey 1871. He is probably the Thomas Cullen living with wife Hannah and three teenage children at Heath Moor, Glastonbury in 1841, but listed in 1871 as unmarried.

DD/S/BT/27/10/30-1 Papers in William Nutt of Compton Dundon's attempted repossession of a house from Thomas Cullen.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1855.

3) Henry Bowles Cullen b. 1861 (Dec 5c/446 Langport) Low Ham, carter on farm, s.o. Henry and Ann Bowles, bur. 6 Nov 1937 Butleigh [91-119] 01-139

Henry lived with his parents under the name Bowles and appeared in Butleigh in 1891 under that name. # Henry and Ada lived in Oddway in 1901 with their child and Ada's sister Margaret Barber (33) a laundry maid. In 1911 Henry and Ada lived alone at 56 Butleigh where they eventually died in 1937.

Annie was a coal miner (carter) in 1911 in Midsomer Norton and living with her uncle Edwin and aunt Sarah Taylor (b. 1857 Butleigh, nee Barber) and married GWR porter Harold H. Hunt in Butleigh on 6 Jun 1921.

4) Mary A. Cullin b. 1843 (Dec Q 10/433 Langport) Compton Dundon, servant, d.o. Thomas and Mary Cullen 61W-65

Mary worked for Edward Mogg at Sedgemoor Farm in 1861. Nfi

Culliford

1) James Culliford b. 1832 Ilchester, carpenter, s.o. James Culliford, carpenter and Jane. 61-50

James lodged with Judith Perriam at 'Abbotts' in the High Street in 1861. In 1841 he had lived with his parents in Ilchester. He married Julia in 1849 but she died in 1857, probably as a result of the birth of Frederick She was the daughter of Henry and Lucy Gillett, the next door neighbours of James and his parents in Ilchester in 1841. Frederick was cared for by his widowed grandfather James Culliford at 6, The Mead, Ilchester, in 1861 while his brother William (7) was boarded in Market Place with William Handoner the schoolmaster. James himself probably died in 1861 (Jun Q 5c/307 Langport).

In 1871 William seems to be the boy described as an 'imbecile' and living at the Yeovil Asylum. Nfi.

Cupper

1) Thomas Cupper of St. John's Glastonbury

Cure

1) Elizabeth Cure

An Elizabeth Cure appears as joint ratepayer with Esther Fisher in 1730, in 1729 it had been Esther and Elizabeth Fisher so presumably Elizabeth had married [surname mistake for Cary?]. They paid jointly until 1741 then in 1742 Esther Fisher paid alone.

Curtis

[Curtiss]

The Curtis line goes back a long way in Butleigh. In Butleigh on 9 Jun 1740 William Curtis married Elizabeth Strode and this may be the origin of this name Strode occurring in the next few generations. John Strode Curtis Chr. 18 Jul 1747 Butleigh, married Ann Hooper on 28 Dec 1769 in Butleigh. They had a son John Strode Chr. 4 Jun 1778 Butleigh (not listed here) but it was their son Thomas who had a son John Strode, next, who had a son Strode.

A) William Curtis London

DD/S/BT/18/2/10 London, haberdasher, William Curtis and Thomas Allen of London, owners of Glastonbury manor Bargain and sale of 250a in Southmoor.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1641.

DD/S/BT/16/1/6 London, haberdasher, William Curtis and Thomas Allen of London, owners of Glastonbury manor Bargain and sale of part of Southmoor, Glastonbury in trust for tenants to have common pasture.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1641.

1) Ralph Curtes d. post 1683

Ralph was churchwarden in 1686. He paid rates (OOP) from 1679 until 1701 and always appeared in the rates list next to William Curtice.

DD/S/BT/4/5/14 1] John Webb of Butleigh 2] Ralph Curtice of Butleigh, husbandman Lease for lives of two half acres in East field, Butleigh. Rent 6d.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date range: 1664 - 1665.

DD/S/BT/4/2/13 1] Thomas Chancellor of Butleigh, husbandman and James Samson of Podimore Milton yeoman 2] Ralph Curtice of Butleigh, husbandman Assignment of 1/2a in Upper Whiteland in the South field of Butleigh part Peckham lease (1556). Rent 2d.. [Somerset Archive Date range: 1682 - 1683.

2) William Curtice died circa 1681?

A William and his wife Mary Curtis who received the large sum of £5 for their relief in 1680 were possibly this William and William may have died around 1681 since thereafter only Mary received relief.

DD/S/BT/4/5/15 1] John Webb of Butleigh 2] William Curtice of Butleigh, husbandman Lease for lives of 4a ar in Butleigh late Christopher Symcockes. Rent 12d.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date range: 1664 - 1665.

DD/S/BT/7/1/5 1] William Courtis of Butleigh, husbandman and son William 2] John Burnard of Butleigh, husbandman Assignment of 1a in Foxhanger in Butleigh East field part Peckham lease (1556). Rent 4d.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1679.

2a) William Curtice 'the elder' bur. 13 Apr 1719 Butleigh?

A William who paid the rates from 1681 onwards is probably this William (called son of William in 1664, born in 1640's?). William is recorded in the churchwarden's accounts as killing a polecat in 1711.

DD/S/BT/11/1/29 1] Richard Abbot of Charlton Adam yeoman and wife Elizabeth, Christopher Attwool of Butleigh, husbandman 2] William Curtice the elder of Butleigh, yeoman Assignment of 1a inclosed arable in Butleigh East field.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH Date: 1700.

DD/S/BT/5/3/6 1] Richard Abbot of Charlton Adam yeoman and wife Elizabeth, Christopher Atwell of Butleigh, husbandman 2] William Curtice of Butleigh, yeoman Assignment of 1.5a inclosed arable in Butleigh, part Peckham lease (1562). Endorsed Gould 1758.. [Somerset Archive Date: 1700.

DD/S/BT/6/9/4-5 1] William Curtice the elder of Butleigh, yeoman 2] Jane Periam of Butleigh Wootton Mortgage of two half acres in Butleigh East field. With counterpart. [DD/S/BT/6/9/1-6/9/10 tied together]. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1701.

DD/S/BT/4/5/36-7 1] John Webb and Katherine Webb 2] William son of William Curtice of Butleigh, yeoman Lease for lives of a messuage and 2.5a in East field, 1/2a by backside had by exchange for Clayhill, 3yds in East field and 1a in West field, Butleigh. Rent 2s. With Date: 1709.

DD/S/BT/6/9/6 1] Christopher Attwooll of Butleigh, husbandman 2] William Curtice the elder of Butleigh, yeoman Assignment of a house in Butleigh [DD/S/BT/6/9/1-6/9/10 tied together]. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1710.

DD/S/BT/14/2/10 1] William Curtice the elder of Butleigh, yeoman 2] Philip Avery the elder of Butleigh, carpenter Assignment of two half acres in Butleigh East field.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1714.

DD/S/BT/6/9/7-9 1] William Curtice the elder of Butleigh, yeoman 2] Philip Avery the elder of Butleigh, carpenter Mortgage of two half acres in Butleigh East field. With two bonds. [DD/S/BT/6/9/1-6/9/10 tied together]. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS Date: 1714.

DD/S/BT/14/2/11 1] William Curtice the elder of Butleigh, yeoman 2] Philip Avery the elder of Butleigh, carpenter 3] William Curtice the younger of Butleigh, yeoman, son of William the elder Assignment of 1.5a inclosed in Butleigh East field.. [Somerset Archive and Records, Date range: 1715 - 1716.

2a1) William Curtis senior [born c. 1690?] bur. 20 Nov 1762 Butleigh

This William was paying rates 1719 – 1762. He was called William Curtice senior and had been joined by William junior in 1739 [probably sharing the same property – rated next to each other].

DD/S/BT/6/9/10 1] William Curtis of Butleigh, yeoman 2] Thomas Look of Butleigh, yeoman Mortgage of a house and 1/2p and 2.5a in East field, Butleigh [The above 9 items tied together]. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1760.

3) John Curtis bur. 12 Mar 1730 Butleigh [probably a son of William born in the PR gap]

4i) Joane Curtice

Joane appears first in 1729 when she received from the OOP 1s 'in her sickness' then a pair of shoes and a further 1s and 4s 'to relieve her'. She also received two 'changes' and a coat. In 1730 she had her house rent paid and 1s 6d given to her in sickness and necessity. In 1732 she received money twice to relieve her in necessity and was bought a coat. In 1737 she received money from the OOP in necessity and Sarah Sweet was paid for attending on her during her sickness.

DD/S/BT/9/6/1 1] Joseph Hare 2] John Coombe and wife Mary, Joan Curtis Fine on a house and land in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1736. (?)

4ii) [William Curtice]

Same as Joane Curtice? Widow of 2a?

5) William Curtis junior born c. 1710 – 14?, bur. 16 May 1752 Butleigh

The adjoining property to the Curtises belonged to the Strodes from around 1709 – 1740's. William junior ceased paying rates in 1751 and in 1759 William senior had junior's wife Betty Curtis paying rates next to him. In 1759/60 she paid rates as Elizabeth but next to her relatives the Strodes but in 1760 was next to William again. In 1761 Thomas Look replaced the deceased William and Elizabeth was back next to the Strode family where rates were paid in her name until n 1768/9 a John and William Curtis paid the rates 1770/1 after which she was 'the late Eliz. Curtis'

A William Curtis was paid 4d for killing a hedgehog in 1743. The last two children could be the offspring of another daughter, called Elizabeth? A Jane Strode alias Collins was bur. 29 Dec 1751 Butleigh and may or may not be related to the above. The Jane above married William Isaac 26 Dec 1775 Butleigh

DD/S/BT/6/9/13 1] William Morse of Glastonbury, tanner and devisee of Susanna Roe 2] William Curtis the younger of Butleigh, yeoman Assignment of 6.5a arable in Butleigh common fields. [Tied together with DD/S/BT/6/9/11-12 and 6/9/14-15]. [Somerset Archive and Records, Date: 1738.

DD/S/BT/6/9/14 1] William Curtis the younger 2] Anne Henshaw of Glastonbury Mortgage of 6.5a arable in Butleigh. [Tied together with DD/S/BT/6/9/11-13 and 6/9/15]. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1738.

DD/S/BT/12/1/6 1] John Periam of Butleigh Wootton grandson and heir of John pope decd 2] William Curtis the younger and elder of Butleigh, yeomen Release of 15a of arable in Butleigh fields.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1744.

DD/S/BT/6/9/15 1] Anne Henshaw of Glastonbury 2] William Curtis the younger 3] William Withers of Butleigh, baker Assignment of 6.5a arable in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1749.

DD/S/BT/12/1/13 1] James Willey of Stembridge, Kingsbury, yeoman, nephew of Henry Coate decd 2] William Curtis of Butleigh, yeoman Release of 7a in Butleigh West field and 1/2a in the East field.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1750.

DD/S/BT/9/4/27 1] James Grenville 2] Elizabeth Curtis of Butleigh Lease for lives of Ivyleafe house in Butleigh. Rent 1d.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1767.

5a) William Curtis Chr. 25 Nov 1740 Butleigh, bur. 5 May 1824 Butleigh aged 83

In 1768/9 William and John Curtis paid the rates then from 1778 – 1790+ they paid and were named jointly again. William paid rates in his own name also on 'part of Hoopers'.

DD/S/BT/24/7/6 Agreement for exchange of land in Butleigh between the Curtice family and James Grenville.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1764.

DD/S/BT/24/5/10 Agreement by James Grenville and William Curtice to exchange land in Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1767. Also DD/S/BT/26/3/3

DD/S/BT/3/6/20 Mr Ashley's valuation of Chasey's tenement and other lands in Butleigh for William Curtice.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1768.

DD/S/BT/14/2/53 Affidavit by William Curtis of Butleigh that he has not mortgaged Gully Close, Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1815.

DD/S/BT/13/3/22 1] William Curtis of Butleigh 2] Hannah Curtis of Butleigh 3] George Coombs of Butleigh, labourer 4] William Grant in service of Lord Glastonbury Mortgage of two messuages and orchard, Bolster corner (2a) and Whitewell (3a.).. [Somerset Archive and Records, Date: 1818.

5b) John Strode Curtis Chr. 18 Jul 1747 Butleigh, bur. 5 May 1801 Butleigh

See last – John paid rates with William in 1768/9, [though 'late Elizabeth' their mother was listed thereafter] - from 1778 John and William jointly again. John paid rates for 'part of late George Strodes' in his own name from 1783.

DD/S/BT/28/4/1 Agreement between James Grenville and John Strode Curtice to exchange lands in Butleigh fields.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1767.

DD/S/BT/10/6/1 1] Henry Gregory of Butleigh, butcher, Thomas Cooke of Butleigh, yeoman and wife Mary [Gregory] and son John 2] John Curtis of Butleigh, yeoman Lease for 80 years of 1/2a at Sower Down, Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1770.

DD/S/BT/10/6/2-3 1] John Stroud Curtis and William Curtis of Butleigh, yeomen 2] James Grenville Lease and release of 1/2a at Sower Down, Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1784.

DD/S/BT/10/3/6-7 1] John Stroud Curtis of Butleigh, yeoman devisee of William Strode decd, and wife Ann 2] Charles Edwards of Compton Dundon, yeoman 3] James Edwards of Glastonbury, cooper Lease and release of 6a coppice in Butleigh. [Tied together with DD/S/BT/10/3/6- Date: 1791.

DD/S/BT/25/10/1 Copy lease by Strode Curtis of Butleigh, yeoman to William Eades of Butleigh, stonecutter of quarry land in Butleigh West field.. [Somerset Archive and Records, BUTLEIGH COURT PAPERS] Date: 1798.

5b1)? Thomas Curtis b. 1791 Somerset, [Chr. 16 May 1785 Butleigh, s.o. John and Ann Curtis?] agricultural labourer, died 1848 (Mar Q 10/425 Wells) bur. 11 Mar Butleigh 41-11

An Elizabeth b.c. 1820 [see also (4) below] was bur. 8 Sep 1833 Butleigh and may have been a child of this couple.

The house called Curtis's in the High Street takes its name from this family. In 1841 Thomas Curtis lived there with his wife and five of their children. Their absent son George was probably the one lodging in Baltonsborough with Mary Foster - he returned for the next census. Thomas died in 1848 and in 1851 Maria Curtis was then the head of the family. James appeared in Coats Lane, Bruton in 1861, an excavator on the railroad. He was married to Esther Ann (b. 1826 Bruton) who came with a daughter Ann Deacon (10). They were in Trevethin, Monmouth by 1881 where James was a plate layer.

George after being in Butleigh in 1851 next surfaced in Kelston, Somerset, as a labourer, married to Mary Ann b. 1823 Kelston, a laundress, in 1861. Hope, Thomas and Sarah were still living at home in 1851.

In 1861 Maria lived with her daughter Sarah. Hope married the sailor Herman Harris in Butleigh on 16 Sep 1854 (Sep Q 5c/915 Wells). p158 Hope lived in Lawford Essex in 1861 with children Harman (2) Sarah (3 months) while her husband Herman was a mariner at sea. In 1871 they were all together at Wignall Street, Lawford, Essex. In 1881 Hope was widowed and she was housekeeper to Hannah Webb at Colchester Road Brick House, Ardleigh, Essex. In 1891 she lived in Tottenham with her daughter Maria Dancey (widow aged 33). John also married but remained in Butleigh village - as a tiler and plasterer (1a).

In 1871 Maria was still living with daughter Sarah who was then a schoolmistress and the latter married farmer Sydney Parker (b. 1840, s.o. Uriah Parker) in Butleigh on 13 Jul 1875 (Sep Q 5c/835 Wells). Two scholars boarded with them - Arthur and Melbourne Silcox (sons of the publican Henry Silcox - to be found at the Greyhound Inn at Baltonsborough in 1881). Thomas was a 'drainer' in 1871 lodging in the High Street, Bruton. By 1881 he was married to the widow Eliza Barter (52) from Devon and lived with her, her son Frederick and their son Sidney John at Wares Buildings, Cowick Street, Exeter.

Maria (Hannah Maria) died in 1875 followed shortly after by her son John in 1876. The blue name plaque over the house bearing the date 1876 suggests that it was after the Curtises had left that the house was renovated.

DD/S/BT/13/3/26 - 1] William Curtis of Butleigh, yeoman 2] Hannah Curtis of Butleigh 3] George Coombs of Butleigh, labourer 4] William Grant in service of Lord Glastonbury Further charge on two tenements, Bolster corner (2a) and Whitewell (3a.), Butleigh.. [Somerset Archive Date: 1822.

5b1A) John Stroud (Strode) Curtis b. 1822 Butleigh/Nunney, plasterer and tiler, bur. 16 Sep 1876 (Sep Q 5c/349 Wells) Butleigh 41-11, 51-26, 61-56, 71-83


Elizabeth Coombs was a servant in Baltonsborough (at the Mill) in 1851. She married John Stroud Curtis in 1853 and in 1861 they lived in the High Street with their children Sarah A. (7), Anna M. (6) and Elias (1). Elias died in 1863. A daughter Jemima died in infancy in 1861 but another of the same name was born in 1862 and survived. Two more children, Strode and the optimistically named Elizabeth Hope were born in 1865 and 1868 but died together in early 1871. Sarah married John Porter (b. 1842 Kent, shoe maker and postman) in 1870 (Sep Q 1d/1127 Woolwich) and in 1871 they lived at 13, Church Street, Woolwich Dockyard. # In 1881 they lived at 20, Church Street and Jemima Curtiss lived with them. They lived at 14, Kidd St., Woolwich in 1901 when her mother Elizabeth, now widowed, sick, and a retired nurse appeared as a visitor.

In 1871 John and Elizabeth had just Anna and Jemima living with them and John died in 1876. Jemima, as shown above, moved in with her sister Sarah in Woolwich. Her mother Elizabeth became a housekeeper in Somerton, and in 1891 Elizabeth and Jemima also lived in Woolwich Dockyard, the latter as a dressmaker. Anna Maria married an Irishman in the Army, Charles Curran, in 1876 (Dec Q 1d/1565 Woolwich) and in 1881 they lived at the barracks at Weedon Beck, Northants where he was a 'bomb collar maker' in the Royal Artillery. In 1891 with a large family they appeared in Hemingbrough, Yorkshire where Charles was a watchman.

Jemima married Thomas Connor in 1893 (Dec Q 1d/1930 Woolwich) and in 1911 they lived at 1 Deansfield Rd. Wellhall Eltham with their four children.

6) James Curtis b. 1791 Butleigh Wootton, shoemaker, unmarried, died 1859 (Jun Q 5c/413 Wells), bur. 10 May Butleigh

In 1841 James lodged at Grove Lane, St. Cuthbert In and Out, Wells. He lodged at Water Lane Wells in 1851.

7) Thomas Curtis b. 1835 Butleigh, painter, s.o. Edward and Elizabeth Curtis

Thomas lived in 1851 with his parents and widowed grandmother Hannah Curtis, plus siblings at 3, Park Cottages St. Paul, Hammersmith. His parents were laundry workers. By 1861 Thomas had left home and lodged in Chiddington Kent as a 'cricket ball maker'. In 1871 Thomas, unmarried, lived at 12, York Terrace, Camberwell, Peckham, Surrey with his parents and two sisters. His father came from Winterbourne, Glos., and his mother from Bristol. On the 1871 census Thomas's dob was given as 1841. Nfi

8) Ann Curtis b. 1820 Butleigh - possibly d.o Thomas and Hannah Maria Curtis

Ann married James Bowden in 1847 (Jun Q 10/899 Wincanton) and lived in 1851 at Queen Camel. Ann had been a servant in Queen Camel in 1841 - at Camel Farm

Cutler

1) Nicholas Cutler Chr. 4 Nov 1598 Butleigh s.o. John Cutler alias Dagle (Dwelly's PR), bur. 13 Dec 1598 Butleigh

2) Agnes Cutler bur. 28 Mar 1598 Butleigh d.o. Nicholas Cutler alias Dagle (Dwelly's PR)

3) Isaac Cutler b. 1839 (Jun Q 10/467 Taunton) Cheddon Fitzpaine, policeman 61-60

Isaac lodged with Silas Higgins in 1861. In 1871, married to Elizabeth, he was the Innkeeper of the "Horse & Groom" Inn, Heavitree, Devon. In 1881 he was still running the same Inn.