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...further info on my paternal grandparents:-
Sidney James Tucker, one of 11, born 1892, Down St Mary. After school, worked at one time at Owen Tucker's (understood not to be a relation) farm at Hele Lane
Mabel Ellen Partridge, born 1894, Woolfardisworthy. Lived as a child / teenager for some time with her mother, Ellen Partridge, nee Drew, and I think her (became blind) father and siblings at what is now White Witches cottage, just across the road from Hele Lane Chapel (destroyed by fire in I think 1954), at which my grandparents met and my great grandmother is buried (she died in 1929; my great grandfather had died in 1918, but is buried at Woolfardisworthy, it being understood that my great grandmother was more 'chapel'). White Whitches cottage is some 200 yards down the road from what was Owen Tucker's farm as referred to above...
They married Thelbridge, 1912; lived briefly at Mare Cottage, Black Dog before WW1, moving to Kennerley (house no longer there) until 1921 after which they moved to Millmoor (Farm - I think more of a rented smallholding then, my grandfather and later Uncle Fred working mostly at the landlord's farm; can't recall the name, but now ? egg farmers / producers) just outside Witheridge, at which my own father, Dennis James Tucker, brother of Fred, Leslie, Edwin and others, was born in 1926. In 1931, they moved to Little Burne Farm, near Bickleigh (Devon), before retiring to Broadclyst in 1954. All the sons (and the eldest daughter) remained in farming, as do some of the grandchildren today.--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Replying to: I've been trying to track down a copy of the publication above, so far without success. Do you by any chance have any remaining copies from which I might be able to purchase one...? Also, are you able perhaps to point me in the direction of any published material / photographs available for the surrounding villages / hamlets of Black Dog, Hele Lane, Woolfardisworthy, Kennerley, Thelbridge and Down St. Mary, in particular from the mid 19th to mid 20th century. Am interested in all aspects from the parish churches / chapels to local industry / agriculture and markets, Boar and Great War activity etc etc.
Love the website; interested to see the 1928 Witheridge British School photograph, which I hadn't before seen (I have copies of the 1924 and 1926 ones).
Look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Chris Tucker
nephew to Fred, Leslie and Edwin Tucker - all now recently gone, I'm afraid - in the above referred to photographs; great nephew (not too sure on these relationships - he was my grandfather's brother) to Albert Francis Tucker as recorded on the Morchard Bishop war memorial, and great grandson to the Tuckers as buried - eventually, as I understand my great grandmother (nee Davis I believe) had to be exhumed because she had originally been put in the wrong grave...?! - in MB churchyard (previously at Down St Mary, where my grandfather used to 'blow the organ in 1902' as my grandmother used to put it - they met at Hele Lane Sunday School, marrying in 1912 at Thelbridge); the Partridges as buried in Woolfardisworthy churchyard and Ellen Partridge (nee Drew) as buried at the old Hele Lane chapel. For anyone local to the area reading this, does anyone have any photographs of my great grandparent's generation - including of Albert Francis...?
Hope you'll excuse me going on, it's just that once I'd started...
Need to get back to Devon to further research, esp re the photos (including one I have of a venerable white haired old lady + ? Jack Russell, likely late 19th century, familiar 'mourning' dress, discovered after my grandmother's death in 1981, who appears to be a mystery in that none of my grandmother's children (including Fred, b. 1914, a great source of knowledge, referred to above) could recognise her... |
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