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Mrs. Julia Utten Browne & Cautley papers, Draft Will of Henry (Harry) Llewllyn Cautley of Buckenham Manor, Norfolk dated 3rd June 1908.
He appointed 2 Executors, his friend Daniel Hudson Kinahan and his brother William Oxenham Cautley. His wife Dorothea Julia Beatrice Gertrude, nee Browne, Cautley was the beneficiary.
His brother William Oxenham Cautley was a Major in the 3rd Suffolk Regiment and in WWI and died in Service on 9th May 1915. Harry Cautley married Dorethea Browne on 3rd June 1908
Harry Llewllyn Cautley was a twin born 27th March 1880, London to Captain William Thomson and Emily Marian Cautley, his twin was named George Reginald Cautley who died at the age of 7.
A bronze sculpture of a seal sitting on a post surrounding a lake in the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand. Off in the bokeh can be seen an elephant and a penguin sculpture, and what is either a dolphin or porpoise scupture over on the far right. Geotag will be of the seal sculpture. Taken by a Nikon D610 at ISO 400 with a Nikkor 35-135mm ƒ 3.5-4.5 AF lens. (at 85)
If an artistic executor of the sculptor(s), or the sculptor(s) him/her selves, has any copyright objections to this photo, Flickr-mail the poster (in English, please, he doesn't read Thai...) stating that you are such an executor/sculptor, state the objection(s), and it will be taken down...
While you are contacting the poster anyway, please tell him the name of the sculptor.
Brass figure of Sir Gyles Strangwayes 1562 in armour with heraldic tabard over, standing under 3 shields of arms
"Here lyeth Syr Gyes Strangwayes, knyght, who dyed the eleventh day of Apryll in thie yere of or Lorde God a thowsand fyve hundreth threscore and too"
Left Coat of Arms:
"The arms of Syr Gyles Strangways, knyght, and of Lady Jone his wyfe, eldest dowghter of John Wadham of Meryfylde esquyer"
Right Coat of Arms:
"The armes of Henry Strangwayes esquyer who dyed at the syege of Bolleyn, and of Margaret his wyfe dawter of ye Lorde George Rosse"
Sir Giles Strangways (1528 – 11 April 1562)
Giles was the eldest son of Sir Henry Strangways 1544 and Margaret daughter of Sir George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros 1513 of Hemsley / Hamlake Castle Yorkshire, and Anne St Leger 1526 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8655981246/ She was the sister of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland 1543. flic.kr/p/Jps2mJ
He was the grandson of Sir Giles Strangeways 1546 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/W0b1Qco0e8 & Joan Mordaunt
His father having died during the lifetime of his own father, Giles Strangways, at the Siege of Boulogne), Giles therefore succeeded his grandfather in 1546 in the family estates aged 18 .
He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was knighted in 1549. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dorset in 1553, 1554, 1555, 1558 and 1559. In 1557 he saw military service in France under the Earl of Pembroke.
He was five times MP for Dorset in 1553, 1554, 1555, 1558 and 1559.
He m Joan (1533-1603) www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/GPu1AgJc85 a daughter of Sir John Wadham 1578 of Merryfield, Ilton, Somerset and Edge, Branscombe, Devon, 2nd husband of Joan 1583 widow of John Kellaway 1513 who share a monument at Branscombe www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/1g06v0b165 - her mother was the daughter of John Tregarthin / Tregarthen & Jane daughter of John Trethurffe / Tretherf, & Elizabeth Courtenay
Joan was a sister of
A. Nicholas Wadham (1531–1609) who with his wife Dorothy Petrie flic.kr/p/96mKfT were co-founders of Wadham College, Oxford.
B. Florence 1538 - 1597 wife of John Wyndham 1572 flic.kr/p/96qFQ7 of Watchet,
C.. Margaret bc1540 - d pre 1611 wife of Nicholas Martyn 1596 at Puddletown flic.kr/p/96bhhH
Children - 4 sons & 2 daughters
1. Sir John Strangways 1548 - 1593of Melbury Sampford m Dorothy 1551 - 1592 daughter of John Thynne & Christian daughter of Richard Gresham by Audrey Lynn (Dorothy was the sister of Anne wife of John Coles (1607) at Pitminster flic.kr/p/u4LwkN ) John & Dorothy were the parents of John Strangways (1585-1666), an ultimate co-heir of Nicholas Wadham in 1609.
2. Edward b 1552
3. George b 1557 m Ursula 1607 daughter of Richard Sydenham of Wynford Eagle
4. Nicholas 1560 - 1639 m (3rd husband) Lady Elizabeth Berkeley dsp 1613 sole child of Brice Berkeley & Anne daughter and co-heir of Thomas Whittington; Widow of Edward Berkeley of Bradley Court, son of John Berkeley of Cam; & Sir Edward Berkeley, 2nd son of Sir Maurice Berkeley of Bruton
1. Anne b 1554 m Robert Bridgeman
2. Elizabeth c1559–29 January 1587 m John Buller 1598 of Lillesdon
Sometime after 1545 he and Joan re-built the Tudor period Melbury House.
Giles owned extensive estates in Dorset, including the site of the monastery of Abbotsbury. Through his wife his heirs acquired rights to considerable property in Somerset, which he himself did not live to enjoy. He also owned lands in Yorkshire, whence the family had moved to Dorset in the 15c. A license to alienate was granted in Oct 1546, viz. 'Sir Giles Strangeways to Sir Hugh Paulet... John Sydenham of Brympton... to the use of the said Sir Giles for Life'... He was a protestant during Edward VI's reign, when he served as a commissioner for church goods. After Mary's accession he came up to London to render an account of his proceedings in the latter capacity. He was one of those who ‘stood for the true religion’ in the Oct 1553 Parliament, and in 1555 he opposed a government bill, but he must have given the Marian government general support in the county, as he continued to serve on the Dorset commission of the peace and his wardenship of Neroche forest was renewed by a patent of Nov 1555. In 1557 he commanded 50 men in the expedition of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, to St. Quentin. Sir William Courtenay, who died on the campaign, appointed him an executor.
Giles lived and died extravagantly . In June 1555 he surrendered himself to the Fleet to avoid outlawry for debts that included over £100 to 2 London tailors. He sold 700 ewes, 600 wethers and 300 hogs, leaving 3 estates denuded of livestock.
When he died in his early thirties on 11 Apr 1562, he left his widow with at least 6 children under 21. His will, which he made before going on the St. Quentin campaign and to which he added two codicils, in 1558 and 1562, required his wife, if she married again, to give a bond of £2,000 to carry out her duties as executrix. The 13 overseers to whom she was bound received a total of £72 plus expenses. The executrix was compelled to sell all the household goods to pay debts amounting to over £3,000. Strangeways left 1,000 marks to his daughter Anne on her marriage and 600 marks to a younger son. Among numerous charitable bequests were some to poor prisoners at Ilchester and Dorchester, and to the lazar-house of Bridport.
Joan m2 Sir John Young / Yonge of The Great House, Bristol, having another son & 2 daughters
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Strangways_
Picture with thanks - copyright (1528%E2%80%931562)
Peter Kidd www.google.co.uk/search?q=melbury+sampford+church&sou...
Meatpacking District, Gansevoort Market Historic District, Manhattan
These buildings have a complex and fascinating history. When John Jacob Astor I died in 1848, his will specified that his executors were to provide for his "insane" son, John Jacob Astor, Jr. A residence was constructed for him (c. 1848-52) on the western portion of this site (then No. 237 West 14" Street), where he lived until his death in 1869. Leased from 1869 to 1875 by the Samaritan Home for the Aged, it was described by Rev. J.F. Richmond in 1871 as "a large double house, fifty feet front, constructed of brick, with three stories and basement." In 1875, James Stewart and his son-in-law, Philip Herrman, both builders, acquired this residence and the two lots to the east. The Scottish-born Stewart was the head of the firm of James Stewart & Son, 82 Horatio Street, and was the superintendent of construction of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church (1 873-75, Carl Pfeiffer), 705 Fifth Avenue. Herrman [see Architects Appendix] owned and built his carpenter shop next door at 405 West 14th Street [see] in 1878. Stewart and Herrman started altering the Astor residence in 1875-76 (Alts. 1179-, 1181-1875), but Buildings Department records indicate that the project was abandoned.
Stewart died in 1876 and his portion of this property was sold to Patrick Skelly and Patrick A. Fogarty. Patrick Skelly was a brewer and distiller who later (1886) acquired 21-25 Ninth Avenue and operated a wine and liquor business there; it was continued by his son, Hugh P. Skelly, until the 1910s. Patrick A. Fogarty was also a brewer and distiller, at five locations according to an 1880 directory. They were joined by business partner Hugh O'Reilly. The existing Astor structure was altered and expanded into an ale brewery and a flats building in 1876 (Alt. 820-1876), with a unified four-story facade by eminent commercial architect John B. Snook. The brewery building appears on an 1879 map as O'Reilly, Skelly & Fogarty's Centennial Brewery.
By 1899, O'Reilly, Skelly & Fogarty were in financial difficulty and their properties were sold at public auction in 1901. The brewery building reverted to James Stewart Hermann, Philip's son who also owned the flats portion after his father's death. In 1900-01 (Alts. 575-1900,35-1901), interior alterations were made "for stores, light storage and manufacturing," and anew storefront was installed. A party wall was removed, replaced by steel framing, in 1917 (Alt. 524-1917). A rear extension was constructed, and a metal canopy added to the front, in 1926 (Alt. 1417-1926). Until the 1970s, tenants have been primarily meat, poultry, and dairy merchants, with longer durations by Darling Bros. Co., Korner & Schwabeland Co.1 H. Schwabeland & Sons, and Nathan Schweitzer Co., a subsidiary of Amour & Co.
This wide Italianate style brewery and similar French flats building contribute to the historically-mixed architecture and varied uses - including industrial and market-related functions- of the Gansevoort Market Historic District. Constructed in 1876, during the second phase of development of the district, these buildings further contribute to the visual cohesion of West 14" Street through their Italianate details by an eminent commercial architect, metal cornice, cast-iron storefronts, and, in particular, as one of the district's earliest intact industrial structures.
----About the district----
The Gansevoort Market Historic District - consisting of 104 buildings - is distinctive for its architectural character which reflects the area's long history of continuous, varied use as a place of dwelling, industry, and commerce, particularly as a marketplace, and its urban layout. The buildings, most dating from the 1840s through the 1940s, represent four major phases of development, and include both purpose-built structures, designed in then-fashionable styles, and those later adapted for market use.
The architecture of the district tells the story of an important era in New York City's history when it became the financial center of the country and when its markets were expanding to serve the metropolitan region and beyond. Visual cohesion is provided to the streetscapes by the predominance of brick as a facade material; the one- to six-story scale; the presence of buildings designed by the same architects, a number of them prominent, including specialists in market-related structures; the existence of metal canopies originally installed for market purposes; and the Belgian block paving still visible on most streets.
The street layout is shaped by the transition between the irregular pattern of northwestern Greenwich Village (as far north as Gansevoort Street) and the grid of the 1811 Commissioner's Plan. Unusually large and open intersections contribute to the area's unique quality, particularly where Ninth Avenue meets West 14'~S treet and Gansevoort Street (which was widened in l887), and provide sweeping vistas that showcase the unusual building typology and mixed-use quality of the district. Aside from Tribeca, the Gansevoort Market Historic District is the only remaining marketplace district that served the once-flourishing Hudson River commercial waterfront.
The earliest buildings in the historic district date from the period between 1840 and 1854, most built as rowhouses and town houses, several of which soon became very early working-class tenements (all eventually had stores on the ground floor). The area's early mixed use, however, is evident in the rare surviving early factory building (c. 1849-60), on a flatiron-shaped lot, for Col. Silas C. Herring, a nationally significant manufacturer of safes and locks, at 669-685 Hudson Street.
This mixed use, consisting of single-family houses, multiple dwellings, and industry was unusual for the period. The stretch of Ninth Avenue between Gansevoort and West 15' Streets, albeit altered and interrupted with later additions, offers the vista of a distinctive Manhattan streetscape featuring twenty buildings of the 1840s: the rowhouses at Nos. 3-7 (c. 1849) and Nos. 21-27 (c. 1844-46), the Herring factory, and culminating in the rare, picturesque ensemble of twelve rowhouses and town houses, Nos. 44-60 Ninth Avenue and 351-355 West 14th Street (c. 1841-46), at the wide, angled intersection with Hudson and West 14" Streets. Another business from this period was the woodworking factory of the prominent building firm of James C. Hoe & Co. (c. 1850-54) at 52-58 Gansevoort Street (later altered).
After the Civil War, the area began to flourish commercially as New York City solidified its position as the financial center of the country, and construction resumed in the district in 1870. Two major businesses located here were A.H. Wellington's Merchants' Print Works (1 874, S. W. Johnson), cotton printers at 416-418 West 14" Street (later altered); and the Italianate style Centennial Brewery (1876, John B. Snook) at 409-41 1 West 14' Street.
The bulk of the buildings in the district date from the 1880s through the 1920s and were designed in then-popular historical revival styles. Residential and commercial development, including a variety of building types, was particularly spurred in the 1880s by two major factors. The first was the creation of two nearby municipal markets: the open-air Farmers' or Gansevoort Market (1 879), for regional produce, at Gansevoort and Washington Streets (adjacent to the historic district), and the West Washington Market (1889), for meat, poultry, and dairy products, on the river side of West Street. From the 1880s until World War II, wholesale produce, fruit, groceries, dairy products, eggs, specialty foods, and liquor (until Prohibition) were among the dominant businesses within the district in response to the adjacent markets, particularly along Gansevoort, Little West 12', and Washington Streets. The first of the two-story, purpose-built market buildings in the district were erected in 1880.
These vernacular and neo-Grec style structures typified the low-rise market buildings constructed in the district over the next 90 years: produce (or, later, meat) handling on the ground story, shielded by a metal canopy over the sidewalk, and offices on the second story.
Commercial construction during this period, which represents the highest percentage of the district's varied yet distinctive building stock, included not only low-rise purpose-built market buildings, but also, in a variety of period styles, stables buildings, and five- and six-story store-and-loft buildings and warehouses were constructed to house and serve these businesses. The warehouses, in particular, are among the most monumental structures in the district.
The second factor spurring development within the historic district was the 1878 partition of real estate owned by the Astor family, which had remained underdeveloped since John Jacob Astor 1's acquisition in 1819. Of the 104 buildings in the district, over one-third of them were constructed by the Astors and related family members. Astor improvements included the market buildings at 823-833 Washington Street and 32-36 Little West 12" Street (1880, Joseph M. Dunn, James Stroud); the distinguished Queen Anne style French flats building (with stores) at 440 West 14" Street (1887, James W. Cole), the block-long Queen Anne style produce market building at 859- 877 Washington Street (1887, Cole), and the handsome Romanesque Revival style stables building (1893, Thomas R. Jackson) for the New York Biscuit Co. (later Nabisco), the world's largest supplier of crackers, at 439-445 West 14" Street.
A number of other prominent owners also invested in real estate here and began to develop their properties: the Goelet family constructed the unusual flatiron-shaped store-and-loft building at 53-61 Gansevoort Street (1887, Dunn), which housed E.S.
Burnham & Co., clam canners; James AlfredRoosevelt owned the warehouse at 400 West 14thS treet (1886, Dunn); and former New York Mayor Hugh J. Grant developed the neo-Romanesque style warehouses (1 899-1900, George P. Chappell) at 97-103 Horatio Street. The Astors and other owners gave several commissions to architects Joseph M. Dunn, who designed seven buildings in the district, and James W. Cole, who designed three buildings in the district. These multiple commissions in the then-fashionable neo-Grec or Queen Anne styles contribute to the district's visual cohesion.
Between 1897 and 1935, nearly the entire block bounded by Gansevoort, Horatio, Washington, and West Streets was developed with a handsome neo-Classical style ensemble in tan brick, by noted architects Lansing C. Holden, J. Graham Glover, and John B. Snook Sons, that included a power plant and nine cold storage warehouses for the Manhattan Refrigerating Co. (incorporated 1894).
The company was responsible for installing the system of underground pipes that carried refrigeration to market-related structures throughout the district by about 1906. This infrastructure, along with the completion by the N.Y.C. Dept. of Docks of the nearby Gansevoort Piers (1894-1902) and Chelsea Piers (1902-10, with Warren & Wetmore), docks for the great trans- Atlantic steamships (and the busiest section of New York's port), had profound impacts on the district. The distribution of wholesale meat, poultry, and seafood, particularly for hotels, restaurants, and steamships, emerged as an important business throughout the district, resulting in new construction as well as bringing new uses to existing buildings. Some companies were subsidiaries of major national meatpackers, while other independent firms were among the nation's largest.
The underground refrigeration system, the new piers, and the emergence of new uses relating to the burgeoning hotel and steamship industry further triggered the 20th-century construction and architectural change and flexibility that has shaped the character of the Gansevoort Market Historic District. Typically, commercial redevelopments of neighborhoods in New York City involved the demolition of earlier buildings for structures housing new uses. However, one of the district's unique qualities is that earlier buildings were retained and altered to market uses. Earlier examples include the Centennial Brewery (409-41 1 West 14" Street), converted to meat, produce, and dairy use in 1901, and 21-27 Ninth Avenue, rowhouses adapted in 1923-24 as meat market buildings.
Over the years, the Astors continued their policy of high-quality architectural commissions by hiring distinguished architects known for their significant public, commercial, and residential buildings, such as the neo-Classical style offices and printing plant (1901-02, Trowbridge & Livingston) of P.F. Collier & Son, publisher of books and the nationally-known magazine Collier's, at 416-424 West 13' Street; the neo-Romanesque style liquor warehouse at 29-35 Ninth Avenue (1902-03, Boring & Tilton); and the Arts and Crafts style warehouse building (1913, LaFarge, Morris & Cullen) at 5 Little West 1 2 '~S treet.
The completion of the Holland Tunnel (1927), the elevated Miller Highway (1931), and the New York Central Railroad's elevated freight railway (1934) providedeasier access between the area and the metropolitan region and spurred another major phase of new low-rise construction and the functional conversion of existing buildings for market use in the district. New structures included the earlyInternationa1 style General Electric Co. annex (1929-30, Lockwood Greene Engineers, Inc.) at 414 West 14' Street, and the Moderne style John Morrell & Co. meat market building (1936-37, H. Peter Henschien) at 446-448 West 14'~S treet.
The unusually wide Gansevoort Street assumed its distinctive character of low-rise market buildings with metal canopies at this time, through such new construction as the fruitlproduce market building (1938-39, Charles H. Stadler) at No. 46-50, and the Moderne style R&L Restaurant (1949), at No.69, and newly adapted structures, including No. 52-58 (formerly James C. Hoe & Co.), altered as a market building in 1937, and No. 60-68 (1880-81 tenements), reduced to a two-story market building in 1940.
By World War II, poultry- and meat- packing had consolidated as the main commercial activity within the district. Maritime commerce along the Hudson River waterfront declined by the 1960s, however, with the end of the ocean liner era and the rise of containerized shipping. Changes in the meat and poultry industries meant a lessening presence in this area. The Manhattan Refrigerating Co. closed in 1979 and its buildings were subsequently converted to apartments.
The completion of several more transportation and development projects (most located outside the historic district) in the 1930s spurred another major phase of new low-rise construction and functional conversion for market use of existing buildings within the historic district. Easier access was provided between the market area and the metropolitan region. The construction of the elevated Miller Highway (1929-3 1) necessitated the displacement of some produce and meat and poultry merchants in both the Gansevoort and West Washington Markets, including the demolition of several buildings at the latter. The Port of New York Authority built the Union Inland Terminal No. 1 (1931-32, Abbott, Merkt & Co.), a unified truck-rail terminal (modeled functionally after the Starrett-Lehigh Building), just northeast of the district and occupying the entire block at Ninth Avenue and West 15" Street.
The New York Central Railroad's elevated freight railway (193 1-34) passed through some thirty buildings on its route southward to the new St. John's Park Freight Terminal at West and Clarkson Streets. This railway also used part of the Gansevoort Market site, and additionally, the City constructed a meat processing plant on the market site (1939). The Lincoln Tunnel (1937) provided a second automotive route to New Jersey. The Ninth Avenue el, which ran through the district, was demolished (c. 1940); streetcar tracks located below the el had been taken up in 1936.
The first new purpose-built low-scale (one-story) market building in the historic district was 14-20 Little West 12" Street (1928, John B. Snook Sons), for the Wendel family and used initially by produce merchants. The P.F. Collier & Son building at 416-424 West 13" Street became a warehouse of the General Electric Co. in 1929; an early International style annex (1929-30, Lockwood Greene Engineers, Inc.) was constructed next door at 414 West 14" Street. Owned by Vincent Astor, this was the last of the Astor improvements within the district. 13 and 15 Little West 12' Street (1933, Martin Smith) were one-story fruit market buildings. Designed in the Moderne style were the John Morrell & Co. meat market building (1936-37, H. Peter Henschien) at 446-448 West 14th Street; the meat market building at 837-843 Washington Street (1938, David M. Oltarsh); and the fruitlproduce market building at 46-50 Gansevoort Street (1938-39, Charles H. Stadler).
Built at a time when the growing prevalence of the automobile resulted in the predominance of new market types throughout the U.S. (such as drive-in markets, chain grocery stores, and supermarkets), these buildings are rare and late examples of the older market building typology.34 Many of the buildings in the district that were architecturally adapted for market functions were properties acquired through foreclosure at the height of the Depression. Most of these buildings were functionally maximized at two stories (vacant, formerly residential, upper stories were no longer necessary): the lower story was refrigerated for produce or meat use and the upper story held offices. The unusually wide Gansevoort Street assumed its distinctive character of low-rise market buildings with metal canopies at this time, largely through such newly-adapted structures, including the vernacular style No. 52-58 (formerly James C. Hoe & Co.), altered as a fruit and produce market building in 1937 (S. Walter Katz); the neo-Grec style No. 60-68 (five 1880-81 tenements), reduced to a two-story market building in 1940 (Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith); and No. 7 1-73 (aka 8 17- 821 Washington Street) (three 1886-87 Queen Anne style French flats buildings), reduced to three stories in 1940 for use as a meat market building. The neo-Grec and utilitarian style 823-833 Washington Street and neo-Grec style 32-36 Little West 12" Street, 1880 two-story market buildings, were also altered in 1940-41 for meat merchants.
By World War II, poultry- and meat- packing had consolidated as the main commercial activity throughout the district. The opening of the Queens Live Poultry Terminal Market (1941) caused poultry dealers to move from the West Washington Market, replaced in part by produce merchants. The creation in 1950 of the Gansevoort Market Meat Center on the site of Gansevoort Market and the demolition of the remaining West Washington Market buildings, with the associated displacement of the businesses at both locations, hastened changes within the district. In 1959, the Gansevoort Market area was referred to in the New York Times as "the largest meat and poultry receiving market in the world. In the district, 408-412 West 13" Street (1941, Charles N. & Selig Whinston) was a new two-story market building used by hides/skins and meat businesses, while 36- 40 Gansevoort Street (aka 831-835 Greenwich Street) (1947-48, Horace Ginsbern & Assocs.), for poultry businesses, was the last new purpose-built market building in the district. The Moderne style R & L Restaurant (1949), 69 Gansevoort Street, resulted from the alteration of a three-story house.
Alterations associated with conversions to meat market uses included 809-813 Washington Street (aka 70-74 Gansevoort Street) (1940-42, Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith), a freight trucking depot altered in 1950; 402-404 and 406 West 13th Street (1840s rowhouses) altered in1950 and 1955 (Abraham L. Seiden); and 15 and 13 Little West 12" Street (c. 1961 and 1969 additions, bylattributed to Seiden).
Today, the Gansevoort Market Historic District is a vibrant neighborhood of remaining meatpackers, high-end retail commerce, restaurants, offices, clubs, galleries, and apartments, that retains, despite recent changes, a strong and integral sense of place as a market district, due to its distinctive streetscapes, metal canopies, notable buildings, both purpose-built and those adapted over the years for market use, and unusual street pattern with its Belgian block paving.
- From the 2003 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
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A friend sent it to me via this link:
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I wonder who'd win in a battle between the Star Wars Executor Class battleship vs. the V Mothership or a Borg Cube?
Mrs. Julia Utten Browne & Cautley papers, Draft Will of Henry (Harry) Llewllyn Cautley of Buckenham Manor, Norfolk dated 3rd June 1908.
He appointed 2 Executors, his friend Daniel Hudson Kinahan and his brother William Oxenham Cautley. His wife Dorothea Julia Beatrice Gertrude, nee Browne, Cautley was the beneficiary.
His brother William Oxenham Cautley was a Major in the 3rd Suffolk Regiment and in WWI and died in Service on 9th May 1915. Harry Cautley married Dorethea Browne on 3rd June 1908
Harry Llewllyn Cautley was a twin born 27th March 1880, London to Captain William Thomson and Emily Marian Cautley, his twin was named George Reginald Cautley who died at the age of 7.
Rio Tocantins na cidade de Marabá.
Julgamento do assassinato dos ativistas José Cláudio e Maria dos Espírito Santo, que foram mortos em março de 2011 em Nova Ipixuna. O resultado do júri, que aconteceu nos dias 03 e 04 de abril, foi a condenação dos executores Alberto Lopes e Lindonjonson Silva, e absolvição de José Rodrigues, acusado de ser o mandante do crime. A ação provocou revolta nos familiares e movimentos agrários que acompanhavam o caso em vigília no Fórum de Marabá (PA).
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This Indenture, made the 24th day of April 1867 between the Reverend William Procter the younger of Doddington in the County of Northumberland Clerk of the 1st part (,) Isabella Young Gilchrist of Berwick upon Tweed, Spinster of the second part and the Reverend Aislabie Proctor of Alwinton in Northumberland Clerk B.A. and Arthur Baxter Visick of Berwick upon Tweed Dentist (,) for themselves and theirs heirs executors and administrators herein after designated the said Trustees of the third part. Whereas a marriage is intended to be solemnised between the parties hereto of the first and second parts and it has been agreed to such settlement as herein after is mentioned Witnesseth that in consideration of the intended marriage they the said William Proctor the younger and Isabella Young Gilchrist do hereby convey assign and transfer unto the said Trustees All sum or sums of money which he the said William Proctor the younger is entitled to in reversion under his Father and Mothers marriage settlement (,) which may come to him at any time from any member of his family descent or will and also all lands tenements or hereditarments now belonging to the said Isabella Young Gilchrist or which may belong to her or over which she has or may have any controlling power and All sum or sums of money which she the said Isabella Young Gilchrist is entitled to in reversion or which may come to her at any time from any member of her family by descent or will (.) To hold the same unto the said trustees upon Trust to call in (,) alter and vary the securities from time to time and invest the same upon Government (,) or real securities (,) or any railway stock upon which all calls which are paid (,) or on preference stock as they (with the consent in writing of the said William Proctor the younger and Isabella Young Gilchrist during their lives and of the survivor according to the discretion of the said Trustees) may think proper and with the like consent to sell all real estate and to give discharges for all purchase moneys (.) And upon trust to pay the rents (,) dividends and interest arising therefrom to the said William Proctor the younger during his life and after his decease (,) upon Trust to pay the same unto the said Isabelle Young Gilchrist for her life (,) then several receipts alone after they fall due to be the only discharge for the same and after both their deaths then upon Trust to pay the said rents (,) dividends and interest towards the maintenance and education of the said intended marriage (,) if any (,) and upon trust to divide the capital and the produce of the real estates equally between or amongst such children as and when they come to the age of twenty one years or day or days of marriage. But if any one or more of such children shall die leaving child or children (,) the child or children so left shall take their parents share and if there shall be no children or all of them shall die before they take a vested interest (,) then as to the property hereinbefore mentioned belonging to the said William Proctor the younger upon Trust to dispose of the same as he shall by will appoint and in default of such appointment to his next of kin according to the statute of distributions as if he had never been married and had died intestate (.) And with respect to the property hereinbefore settled belonging to the said Isabella Young Gilchrist upon trust to dispose of the same as she may by will executed either while covert or discovert appoint the same and in default of such appointment to her next of kin according to the statute of distributions as if she had never been married and had died intestate. And each of them the said Willian Proctor the younger and Isabella Young Gilchrist for himself and herself and for his (,) her and their heirs (,) executors and administrators and assigns hereby irrevocably appoints the said Trustees to be his (,) her and their lawful attorney and attornies to sue for and get in all monies which may arise or fall due to him (,) her and them by virtue of this settlement. And to act for him (,) her and them as fully as he (,) she or they could have acted if they had remained single and unmarried. In witness where of the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and the year first above written –
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Draft Will of Emma Adeliza Bedford, York Villa, Ramsgate, Kent, 1885, that was amended 1886, 1887, 1888, 1890. Solicitor, Snowden & Wotton.
Attached to this draft will was a letter from R.M.W(?) Browning dated 9 January 1888 re changes to Will and that Mrs. Bedford is ill.
Emma Adeliza Bedford died at the age of 72 in 1898.
Mrs. Julia Utten Browne & Cautley papers, Draft Will of Henry (Harry) Llewllyn Cautley of Buckenham Manor, Norfolk dated 3rd June 1908.
He appointed 2 Executors, his friend Daniel Hudson Kinahan and his brother William Oxenham Cautley. His wife Dorothea Julia Beatrice Gertrude, nee Browne, Cautley was the beneficiary.
His brother William Oxenham Cautley was a Major in the 3rd Suffolk Regiment and in WWI and died in Service on 9th May 1915. Harry Cautley married Dorethea Browne on 3rd June 1908
Harry Llewllyn Cautley was a twin born 27th March 1880, London to Captain William Thomson and Emily Marian Cautley, his twin was named George Reginald Cautley who died at the age of 7.
In Highnam churchyard
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In loving memory of
Mary Anne Pearce Died June 27 1887 Aged 85
A faithful servant and dear friend
Fear not, for I have redeemed thee
Isaiah XLIII.1
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Intriguing
The Squire, Thomas Gambier Parry was the executor of her will.
She had been living at the Sacristan Lodge, as an Annuitant, at least during the 7 years leading up to her death. (The lodge appears to have been used sometimes to provide a home for retired estate workers.)
Her name does not appear on any census as a servant at Highnam Court, not in all the time that Parry owned the Highnam estate.
And yet she is a 'faithful servant and friend'
She never married.
Using the 1881 census as my guide, she was born around 1803, in Southampton., and now lives in Highnam.
Thomas Gambier Parry was born in 1816 and has been Squire since 1839.
His second wife, Ethelinda (Lear) was born around 1827.
The connection seems most likely to have been with the Lear family.
There's a Mary Pearce in the 1841, living at Chilmark with (and probably a servant of) Francis and Isabella Lear.
She's not mentioned in the 1851 census, possibly because, Isabella is away from home visiting another family member.
In 1861, she is staying at the home of the Bishop of Salisbury, and listed as a visitor and a Ladies Maid. The wife of the Bishop is Isabella Elizabeth Hamilton, sister of Ethelinda, who is by now married to Thomas Gambier Parry, and her mother, Isabella, is also staying with her at that time.
In 1871, Mary A. Pearce, now aged 66, is working as Housekeeper for Isabella Hamilton
I have been unable to determine whether Mary Ann Pearce was the nanny for the children of Francis and Isabella Lear, but although the evidence is not conclusive, she does appear to have been close to the members of the Lear family for over 40 years.
The headstone looks weather beaten now, but that's not a plain design.
"A faithful servant and friend"
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A fountain / sculpture on the .Zeil pedestrian street in the Altstadt (old city) of Frankfurt, Germany. Taken by a Nikon D610 at ISO 400 with a Nikkor 50mm ƒ 1.4 AF-D lens.
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Moderno e inspirador projeto do arquiteto e projetista Emílio B. Zanon, idealizador de inúmeras igrejas no Brasil. Na obra foram consumidas 150 toneladas de ferro, 2.400m³ de pedra e 23.000 sacos de cimento. O executor do projeto foi o engenheiro Júlio César Zanon.
A Catedral é construída num estilo inovador, onde o concreto armado dá a tônica principal, harmonizado por vitrais de excepcional beleza encaixados em precisos recortes nas paredes de concreto, conferindo exuberante beleza no interior do templo..
Os vitrais foram projetados e executados por Emílio Zanon. Também a cruz monumental, o altar e o conjunto do presbitério são obras de sua autoria.
Fonte: www.diocesetoledo.org/d_padroeiro/exibe/?c=2
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Church of St Margaret,
Monument to Bussy †1719 and Mary †1730 Greene. Marble, 1745, Signed Robt Page Fecit. Commissioned by his daughter and executor, Mary. Now east wall of north nave, moved from south wall of chancel, east end in 1881.
The impressive monument would once have filled the south wall of the chancel, at the very east end, before it was moved by the architect R.M. Phipson in 1881 to make way for a new window. It is dominated by the beautiful veined grey pyramid, decorated with the family coat of arms on a scrolled cartouche, with oak leaves and scallops. The pyramid rests on the base which houses the inscription, now difficult to make out because of the pews, and frames the darker commemorative chest. This rests on lions’ paws and the upper tiers rise to an acorn, symbol of strength and growth and is flanked by two mourning youthful angels. One sheds a tear while wiping his other eye, his foot resting on a skull, while his companion clutches his hands in palpable grief.
The inscription is the only source of information about Bussy and Mary Greene. It included four of their children whose deaths dated from 1709 down to 1737. Both the impressive scale of the monument, with its accomplished handling of a range of colour within a deliberately limited palette, and its original position in the chancel underline the inscription’s reference to Bussy Greene as a gentleman of Catton, who died when he was fifty two years old.
detail of mourning angel on right
cementing the floor base
shakedown buy back roll over
coordinated syndicated sell buy ...
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"Here is the place of James Harington, of Exton, Knight with his wife, Lucy, daughter of William Sidney, Knight, by whom he had 18 children, of whom 3 sons and 8 daughters entered into marriage. The eldest son John, Knight, married the heiress of Robert Kelway, surveyor of the Courts of Wards and Liveries.
The second, Henry, Knight, married one of the heiresses of Francis Agar, The third, James, Esquire, one of the heiresses of Roberts Sapcots, Esquire. The eldest daughter, Elizabeth, was married to Edward Montague, Knight, The second, Frances, to William Lee, Knight, The third Margaret, to Don Benito de Sisneros, a Spaniard, of the family of the Dukes of Fantasgo, The fourth, Catharine, to Edward Dimmock, Knight.
The sixth, Mabel, to Andrew Noel, Knight, The seventh, Sarah had for her husband Lord Hastings, heir of the Earl of Huntingdon. The eighth, Theodosia, Lord Dudley of Castle Dudley.
The said James and Lucy lived 50 years in Wedlock. She died first in her 72nd year. He departed this life when eighty years old, in the year of man’s redemption 1591, the 34th of Queen Elizabeth. Both appointed as their sole executor their son James, who, to perform his duty to his parents, and to leave testimony of his filial affection to posterity erected and dedicated this monument to their lasting memory.
If an old family and ancient busts on the walls; if the badge of a Knighthood, the reward of peculiar virtue; if a numerous offspring and the absence of all complaint throughout 50 years of married life; if late decay and a rapid death; lastly, if a happy estate, and more happy than any estate, a liberal hand, untainted honour, reverence for heaven have made either a happy life or a blessed death, they have made both life and death blessed for us. Now when the fates have bid us to have done with life and the stars demand out spirits, the affection of our heir has gathered our ashes and bidden them rest under this mausoleum".
James was the son of Sir John of Exton 1589 & Elizabeth daughter of Robert Mutton of Peckleton and Phillippa daughter of Richard Willoughby
He was the grandson of John Harington 1524 and Alice Southill www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Z0M1j4
He m Lucy daughter of Sir William Sydney of Penshurst & Anne / Agnes daughter of Hugh Pakenham / Packenham / Pagenham www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/863734281/
Children
1. Sir John 1613 m Ann heiress of Robert Kelway 1570 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/V45gL3 (John & Anne received Exton manor on their marriage)
2. Sir Henry m ...... co-heiress of Francis Agar
3. James 1613 m1 Frances 1599 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/F81dXr daughter of Robert Sapcote 1600 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8U15k6 and either Catherine or Eleanor daughters of William Prestland m2 1601 Anne 1629 daughter of Francis Bernard of Abington, Widow of John D'oyley of Merton who m3 Sir Henry Poole of Kemble & Oaksey 1632 widower of Griselda daughter of Sir Edward Neville, 7th baron Abergavenny and Catherine Brome
1. Elizabeth m Sir Edward Montague 1601 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/016g98 of Weekley & Boughton 2. Frances m Sir William Lee
3. Margaret m Don Benito de Sisneros
5. Catharine m Sir Edward Dimmock / Dymock
6. Mabel c1560-1603 m Sir Andrew Noel son of Sir Andrew Noel and Elizabeth Hopton, bringing Exton estate to the Noels (parents of Lucy wife of William 4th Baron Eure 1646 son of Mary Eure of Ludlow www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4Z987J & Edward Noel, 2nd Viscount Campden who m Juliana 1680 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/m2ie9z daughter of Baptist Hicks 1st Viscount Campden 1629 of Chipping Campden www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/S9aY17and grandparents of Baptist Noel 3rd Viscount www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9sXm6d & Charles Noel at Brooke www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/R4U3L6 )
7. Sarah m Francis Baron Hastings heir of Sir George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon 1604 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/37bp86 Sarah m2 Sir George Kingsmith, m3 Edward 11th Baron Zouche, m4 Sir Thomas Edmondes)
8. Theodosia m Lord Dudley of Castle Dudley.
- Church of Saints Peter & Paul, Exton Rutland
1705-1759 Thomas Spencer of London, merchant, who by his industry, candour and integrity acquired an affluent fortune with unblemished reputation. ................
monument signed by "Gyl Tyler .......sculpt"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyler_(architect)
Will of Thomas Spencer of St Mary, Bothaw, City of London. Merchant.
He left the bulk of his Estate to his sister, Esther Spencer, spinster: he left her all his possessions in the Manor of Weston in Holderness, Yorkshire, including Court Leet, Court baron, farms, etc. Also, £8,000.
He wishes his friends, James Norman, and John Cornwall, of London, merchants, and George Clifford his co-partner in trade – to be the Executors of his Will, but they declined in favour of the Testator’s sister, Esther when the time came.
His other property, situated in the County of York, and in the counties of Durham, Essex, Kent, and ‘elsewhere’ he left in trust to his 3 named Executors to whom £100 would be paid each, the arrangement being that his brother Richard Spencer & his heirs would enjoy these Estates.
To his niece, Dorothy Askew (late Boulby) now wife of Henry Askew - £5,000.
Brother-in-Law, John Jefferson - £3,000.
Brother-in-Law, Adam Boulby Father of his niece, Dorothy Askew) - £200.
Uncle, Ralph Ward, Esq. - £200.
Cousin, William Gansell, Esq. - £200.
Cousins, Ralph, Thomas, and Rebecca Ward - £200 each.
Cousin, George Jackson - £200. And to his brother, Ralph Jackson, and three sisters, Esther, Hannah, and Dorothy - £100 each.
Cousin, Francis Fox - £500, and to his brother John Fox, and his sister, Mary Saunders - £100 each.
Cousin, William Manley, and his sister Rebecca - £100 each.
--- Cooper, spinster, residing in my house with my family/with my sister Esther Spencer - £1,000. Christian Poppe, my book-keeper (if in my service at the time of my decease) - £100.
To each clerk over 12 months in his service at the time of death - £50.
To the Poor of the Parish of Guisborough, Yorks., “where I was born” - £50
To Edward Dans, formerly of Riga, merchant, but now of Shottesbrook, Berks. One annuity of £50.
Will dated 7th October, 1758.
(Also he left all his Estates at Hornchurch, Essex, to his 3 named Executors ).
‘Here lyeth in hope and expectation of that joyful day of the resurrection, when the Saviour of the whole World shall appear in power and judgment, to awake all those who have slept in him, to be pertakers of the everlasting blessedness of his eternal kingdom, Sir Wymond Carye of Snettesham in the county of Norfolk Kt. sometime of Thremhall Priory in Essex, first branch of that family of the Carys which is descended from Edmund Beanford, duke of Somerset, and so from John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster, erected by his only brother, Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham in Hertfordshire, master and treasurer of his majesties jewels and plate, and of Sir Henry Carye of C — in Bucks, son and heir of the said Sir Edward Carye joynt executor of the last will of Sir Wymond Carye, who lived about 75 years, & in peace and happiness and in the comfortable testimony of a good conscience and stedfast faith in Christ, died April 3, 1612.’
Lying on a huge monument flic.kr/p/tWipyH in the Emmanual chapel of the north transept which he had reduced c1597 along with the demolition of the chancel, is Sir Wymond Carye 1612.
Born in 1537, he was the eldest son of Vice Admiral Sir John Cary 1552 of Hunsdon & Cockington & Joyce daughter of Sir Edmund Denny of Cheshunt and 2nd wife Mary daughter and coheir of Robert Troutbeck of Bridge Trafford, Chester. Well connected, Joyce was the widow of William Walsingham and mother of Sir Francis Walsingham spymaster for Queen Elizabeth . She was also the sister of Anthony Denny, groom of the stool to Henry Vlll who m Joan Champernowne, cousin to Katherine Ashley née Champernowne, the governess of the future Queen Elizabeth
Through his father Wymond was the nephew of William Carey 1st husband of Mary Boleyn sister of Queen Anne Boleyn
Sir Wymond who was knighted at Whitehall in 1604, had rented the lordship of the manor from the Crown under Queen Elizabeth and James I, it was later acquired outright by his nephew Sir Henry Carye in 1614.
Aged at least 50, he m Catherine Jernegan coheiress daughter of John Jernegan of Somerleyton who was the widow of Henry Crane 1586 of Chilton, Suffolk with a son Robert Crane 1643 flic.kr/p/nD5wiM
Wymond & Catherine had no children
HOWEVER a Sir Wymond Carye styled " Lord Warden of ye Stanneries, Master of ye First Fruits Office, & Knight of ye Bath" fathered a child Jayne Davys who was the mother of Mary wife of Sir Gilbert Prynne 1627 of Chippenham flic.kr/p/61UL8F
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carey_(courtier) - Church of St. Mary Snettisham Norfolk
There was never any doubt I would go to Rob's funeral. Rob was born just two weeks before me, and in our many meetings, we found we had so much in common.
A drive to Ipswich should be something like only two and a half hours, but with the Dartford Crossing that could balloon to four or more.
My choice was to leave early, soon after Jools left for work, or wait to near nine once rush hour was over. If I was up early, I'd leave early, I said.
Which is what happened.
So, after coffee and Jools leaving, I loaded my camera stuff in the car, not bothering to program in a destination, as I knew the route to Suffolk so well.
Checking the internet I found the M2 was closed, so that meant taking the M20, which I like as it runs beside HS2, although over the years, vegetation growth now hides most of it, and with Eurostar cutting services due to Brexit, you're lucky to see a train on the line now.
I had a phone loaded with podcasts, so time flew by, even if travelling through the endless roadworks at 50mph seemed to take forever.
Dartford was jammed. But we inched forward, until as the bridge came in sight, traffic moved smoothly, and I followed the traffic down into the east bore of the tunnel.
Another glorious morning for travel, the sun shone from a clear blue sky, even if traffic was heavy, but I had time, so not pressing on like I usually do, making the drive a pleasant one.
Up through Essex, where most other traffic turned off at Stanstead, then up to the A11 junction, with it being not yet nine, I had several hours to fill before the ceremony.
I stopped at Cambridge services for breakfast, then programmed the first church in: Gazeley, which is just in Suffolk on the border with Cambridgeshire.
I took the next junction off, took two further turnings brought be to the village, which is divided by one of the widest village streets I have ever seen.
It was five past nine: would the church be open?
I parked on the opposite side of the road, grabbed my bag and camera, limped over, passing a warden putting new notices in the parish notice board. We exchange good mornings, and I walk to the porch.
The inner door was unlocked, and the heavy door swung after turning the metal ring handle.
I had made a list of four churches from Simon's list of the top 60 Suffolk churches, picking those on or near my route to Ipswich and which piqued my interest.
Here, it was the reset mediaeval glass.
Needless to say, I had the church to myself, the centuries hanging heavy inside as sunlight flooded in filling the Chancel with warm golden light.
Windows had several devotional dials carved in the surrounding stone, and a huge and "stunningly beautiful piscina, and beside it are sedilia that end in an arm rest carved in the shape of a beast" which caught my eye.
A display in the Chancel was of the decoration of the wooden roof above where panels contained carved beats, some actual and some mythical.
I photographed them all.
I programmed in the next church, a 45 minute drive away just on the outskirts of Ipswich, or so I thought.
The A14 was plagued by roadworks, then most trunk roads and motorways are this time of year, but it was a fine summer morning, I was eating a chocolate bar as I drove, and I wasn't in a hurry.
I turned off at Claydon, and soon lost in a maze of narrow lanes, which brought be to a dog leg in the road, with St Mary nestling in a clearing.
I pulled up, got out and found the air full of birdsong, and was greeted by a friendly spaniel being taken for a walk from the hamlet which the church serves.
There was never any doubt that this would be open, so I went through the fine brick porch, pushed another heavy wooden door and entered the coolness of the church.
I decided to come here for the font, which as you can read below has quite the story: wounded by enemy action no less!
There seems to be a hagioscope (squint) in a window of the south wall, makes one think or an anchorite, but of this there is little evidence.
Samuel and Thomasina Sayer now reside high on the north wall of the Chancel, a stone skull between them, moved here too because of bomb damage in the last war.
I drove a few miles to the next church: Flowton.
Not so much a village as a house on a crossroads. And the church.
Nothing so grand as a formal board outside, just a handwritten sign say "welcome to Flowton church". Again, I had little doubt it would be open.
And it was.
The lychgate still stands, but a fence around the churchyard is good, so serves little practical purpose, other than to be there and hold the signs for the church and forthcoming services.
Inside it is simple: octagonal font with the floor being of brick, so as rustic as can be.
I did read Simon's account (below) when back outside, so went back in to record the tomb of Captain William Boggas and his family, even if part of the stone is hidden by pews now.
I had said to myself, that if I saw signs for another church, I might find time to visit. And so it was with Aldham, I saw the sign pointing down a narrow lane, so I turned and went to investigate.
First it looked like the road ended in a farmyard, but then I saw the flint round tower of the church behind, so followed the lane to the church gate.
There was a large welcoming sign stating, proudly, that the church is always open.
St Mary stands on a mound overlooking a shallow valley, water stand, or runs slowly, in the bottom, and it really is a fine, fine location for a church.
I pushed through the gate and went up the path to the south porch, where the door swung open once again.
The coolness within enveloped me.
An ancient font at the west end was framed by a brick-lined arch, even to my untrained eyes, I knew this was unusual.
There were some carved bench ends, some nice fairly modern glass, but the simplicity of the small church made for a very pleasant whole.
I no longer watch TV much, so was unaware of the view and indeed church being used in the TV show, The Detectorists.
One of Suffolk's hidden treasures, for sure.
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I cycle past this church often - or, at least, the top of the lane that leads down to it. Traffic rushes along the busy Ipswich to Sudbury road not far off, but there is a quieter, parallel road which not many people seem to know about. It leaves Ipswich through Sproughton and will take you all the way to Sudbury, visiting the likes of Burstall, Kersey and Little Waldingfield on the way. Aldham as a village is little more than a straggle of houses, but they lie along this road, and just beyond a cluster of houses you take a sudden turn to the left, on to a pretty track to Aldham Hall. Down through fruit trees you descend, until the walls become older, and there at the end are the farm buildings. Beyond them, is this pretty church.
If the church is pretty, the view from it is doubly so - to the south, the land drops away alarmingly, into a valley full of sheep. You may even think you recognise it, and you could well be right, for the second season of the popular TV series The Detectorists was filmed here, as a small display in the porch of the church reminds you. The church appeared in the opening credits of each programme, the two main characters searching for buried treasure in Aldham Vale below the churchyard.
This is lovely, and splendidly English. Nothing could be more peaceful. But beyond, the land rises to a dark sea of trees, the mysteriously named Wolves Wood, now an RSPB reserve. Looking along to the right, the other hilltop is where the Protestant preacher Roland Taylor was burned at the stake in the 1550s, a site of pilgrimage for his many American descendants. Whatever your reading of the English Reformation, Taylor's burning was a terrible event. One imagines the villagers gathered outside this church, watching the flames and smoke rise.
I remembered the first time I came here, back in the 1990s. We arrived on one of those humid, overcast summer days, on our way to the Bildeston Beer Festival. My young children scattered off to play hide and seek with their mother in the precipitous graveyard. An elderly man was pottering about, looking at 19th Century graves, so I apologised for my family (as you do). But he seemed genuinely pleased that they were running about like mad things. He was tracing his family, and had come down from Norfolk to look for a particular grave of an ancestor. And he'd found it. He was pretty pleased about that, too. He was also following up a theory that his ancestor had been a Rector of this parish. His address had been Aldham Rectory. Did I have any idea how he could find out? I suggested that the church might have a board of 'Rectors of this Parish'. Many do. These are a pleasant Victorianism, intended to overcome the 16th Century breach by claiming a history of the CofE that extended back before the Reformation. We could go inside, and take a look. And we did - the church was militantly open, the inner door wedged wide. We found the board - but the name wasn't there. So, the mystery remained unsolved.
This church was pretty well derelict by the mid 19th Century, and underwent a fairly late restoration, in 1883. The tower was rebuilt, as was the south wall of the nave. The roofs were replaced, giving an overwhelmingly Victorian appearance, although Sam Mortlock detected the Norman, and possibly Saxon, ancestor. The hill itself suggests a very early foundation, perhaps on a site of pagan worship.
The architect was WM Fawcett, and there was another restoration of the inside in the early 20th Century under the eyes of diocesan surveyor and renowned antiquarian H Munro Cautley. The resulting interior is one of those neat and shiny jobs that is certainly grand, and pleasant enough, but rather dated now. Our early 21st Century spirituality seems to respond more to dusty, ancient interiors than to these High Church ritualisations. But you get a sense of a church that is still much loved, well-cared for, and used regularly.
Aldham parish have gone one further than a wedged-open door, and a big sign has been erected at the bottom of the lane proclaiming that Our Church is Always Open, and so it is easy to step inside. And it is not without survivals, some of them fascinating. The benches are mostly Cautleys from the 1920s, but he incorporated a couple of earlier ones. These are unlike anything else I've seen in Suffolk, and their primitive quality suggests a local origin. The one to the west apparently shows a bear, or possibly a lion. My first impulse was that it was some kind of heraldic device, but what is the shaved off object it holds in its mouth, and is the pattern emerging from beneath the head really fur? Back in 1999, my six year old took one look at it and decided that the creature isn't eating the bird, but the bird is flying out of its mouth. Could it be a dove? And could the three objects issuing from beneath the head actually be tongues of fire? In which case, could this be some strange composition representing Pentecost, and the descent of the Holy Spirit?
In the spandrel above the bear, or whatever it is, there is a lily, the symbol of the Annunciation. But it is also a symbol of the crucifixion. It calls to mind the rare lily crucifixes, of which just two are known to survive in Suffolk, at Long Melford and Great Glemham. Could this be an unrecorded third? The other bench end is probably easier to read. The crown is obvious enough. The star and crescent are familiar from representations of the crucifixion. The pike is a familiar instrument of the Passion. And, if you look in the spandrel above, you'll see a crown of thorns, so this may well be a composition representing the Passion.
A third bench end, to the east, shows just a simple spiked tool, that looks as if it might have been used in thatching. So, what's it all about? They are all a bit of a mystery, really.
And what of the font? This is curious too. It appears to be Norman, but a second glance finds it too elegant, too finely detailed. The pillars are almost Classical in design, and the whole piece has a touch of the 18th Century about it. Was it brought here from somewhere else in the 1880s? Or is it a Victorian recutting of a Norman predecessor? Whatever, the revealed brickwork of the late medieval tower arch looks most fitting behind it.
To see Cautley's work in its full glory, step up into the chancel for the reredos and its flanking niches, as grand as a side-chapel in a French cathedral. Cautley was usually a safe pair of hands in these churches he loved so well, but I wonder what he had been thinking to impose this triumphalism on this pretty little country church. Alfred Wilkinson's contemporary glass above it suits it well, but even so it is rather hard to imagine the same thing happening today. Postdating it by a few decades is a set of arms for Elizabeth II above the south doorway. East Anglia has no more than half a dozen sets, and these ones are rather good.
Standing in the nave and looking east to the splendour of the reredos, it is hard to imagine the real glory that once was here. But John Nunn contacted me, to tell me about a will he has a copy of. In 1525, his ancestor Robert Clifford declared: I bequeath I will have the rood there upon the candlebeam set up higher and Mary & John and two new angels and the breast under the rood korvyn and when that is done I will have all this painted and guilt whatsoever the cost. I will have bought two standards of brass stand in the choir and I will my executors bestow therein 40/-. I will my executors shall buy four candlesticks of brass for the candlebeam, I give six kine unto the church of Aldham to keep my obit with as long as the world stand.
What does all this mean? Firstly, you have to remember that England was a devoutly Catholic country in 1525, and the fittings of the church were for the actions of the Catholic liturgy. In the late 15th and early 16th Centuries, all Suffolk churches had a rood in place. This was a representation of the crucifixion, set above the chancel arch. On the left hand side of the cross always stood the Virgin Mary, and on the other side stood St John. Often, the wall behind was painted. The rood either hung on the wall, or was supported by a beam. However, there was always a beam that ran below it for candles to be lit on. This was called the candlebeam, or rood beam. The candles were placed on it by individuals or guilds as part of the process of prayer, particularly prayer for the souls of the dead. A rood loft ran beside it for access, and the space beneath was infilled with a rood screen. To make the rood even more glorious, the roof above was panelled, and the panels were painted blue, with gold stars, and perhaps Marian monograms. This was called the canopy of honour, or more simply, the coving (rendered delightfully in Suffolk dialect as Korvyn above.)
Robert Clifford was paying for a simple rood to be made more glorious. He was going to have it placed higher, with a new canopy of honour. He was paying for brass candlesticks to replace wooden candlestocks.
Why? Simply, the medieval economy of grace depended upon the living praying for the dead, and the dead praying for the living. In donating glorious things to his church, Clifford was ensuring that he would be remembered. The roodscreen would have a dedicatory inscription with his name on. He was saying - I won't forget you, don't you forget me. The Catholic liturgy formalised prayers for the dead in the form of obit masses.These were said on the anniversary of someone's death in perpetuity. The proceeds of the sale of the six cows (kine) would be invested, probably in land to be rented, to pay a priest to say these masses - as long as the world shall stand; that is, for ever.
Unfortunately, 'for ever' didn't last very long. Prayers for the dead were declared illegal by the protestant reformers in the late 1530s. By 1547, every single rood in the land had been toppled and burned. The rood lofts were hacked down, along with many of the candle beams (although about ten beams survive in Suffolk) and most of the rood screens were also destroyed (about 50 survive in Suffolk).
Nothing of Robert Clifford's gifts survive at Aldham. All the gilt would have been stripped, the brass candlesticks melted down, and the proceeds sequestered by the King's commissioners. The collected glory of all the churches of England was squandered by Henry VIII on high living, and on the expensive and pointless siege of Boulogne. A sad thought.
When I first came here in 1999, I remember the graveyard was full of wild thyme and especially sorrel, which we gathered in handfuls and ate later in the day with fresh trout and new potatoes. Twenty years have passed since then, and it was too early for the sorrel this year. Instead I just stood, and looked out across the gentle valley, the sheep cropping their way slowly westward. It was easy to recognise the opening of The Detectorists in the vale below. And I looked beyond to Wolves Wood, and the site of Roland Taylor's martyrdom. Hard to imagine such history happening to such a modest little parish.
Simon Knott, March 2019
Draft Will of Margaret Charles, Widow, 8th August 1885, revised 21st September 1887 and revoked by a Will of 3rd April 1889, of 12 Vale Road, Ramsgate, Kent.
Executors: William Nicol, Appledore, Devon, Charles Harris Tamplin, Surgeon, Ramsgate.
Beneficiaries: Charles Harris Tamplin, Louisa Emma Broad, wife of Augustus Octavious Hamilton Broad, 5 Montpelier Road, Leighton Road, London, Ann Lewis, wife of Joseph Lewis, Cousin, 71 Railway Street, Brompton, Kent(Crossed out in 1887 revision).
The Rev’d Robert Wood, Baptist Minister of the Cavendish Chapel, Ramsgate. Sarah Francis Whitehead, Servant, Alice Braithwaite, Rowden Villa, Grange Road, Ramsgate. Ann Coulsting Nicol (Crossed out in 1887 revision).
Maker: Charles-Louis Michelez (1817-1894)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: wet stamp
Size: 3 3/8 in x 5 in
Location:
Object No. 2023.027b
Shelf: N-25
Publication:
Other Collections:
Provenance: Paul Meurice, executor of Victor Hugo
Notes: An albumen print taken by Michelez of an ink wash drawing by Victor Hugo. The drawings were made to be included in “Les Travailleurs de la Mer" a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1866. They were not intended to illustrate the story but rather to represent Hugo's impressions during his exile. The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to transmute seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest calibre. Les Travailleurs de la Mer is set just after the Napoleonic Wars and deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island. The story concerns a Guernsey man named Gilliatt, a social outcast who falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner, Mess Lethierry. When Lethierry's ship is wrecked on the Roches Douvres, a perilous reef, Deruchette promises to marry whoever can salvage the ship's steam engine. Gilliatt eagerly volunteers, and the story follows his physical trials and tribulations (which include a battle with a Pieuvre, an octopus), as well as the undeserved opprobrium of his neighbours.
As Hugo wrote: "At night, when it thunders, if one sees men flying in the red of the clouds and in the trembling of the air, they are the sarregousets. A woman who lives in Grand-Mielles knows them. One evening when there were sarregousets at a crossroads, this woman shouted to a carter who did not know which road take: "Ask them for directions; they are good-natured people, they are very civil people to talk to the world about". He it's a good bet that this woman is a witch."
After Napoleon Bonaparte’s coup on 2 December 1851 and his failed attempt to organize the Republican resistance, Hugo escaped on 11 December by train from Paris to Brussels, dressed as a printing house worker with fake ID papers under the name of Lanvin. On 9 January 1852, his name is on the main list of “Procrits”. On 5 August 1852, Hugo arrived from Brussels to Jersey, after a
transit in London. Through Edmond Bacot, a photographer from Caen who came to Jersey to support the cause of the outlaws, Hugo set up the “Jersey Workshop” between 1852 and 1855, a photographic studio in the greenhouse of Marine Terrace... photography became a family affair.
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A Lost London Pub - present building built 1870 - includes entrance to Vine Court
FROM pubshistory.com/LondonPubs/Whitechapel/RoyalOak.shtml Accessed 22/03/2017
Kindly provided by Stephen Harris
The following entries are in this format:
Year/Publican or other Resident/Relationship to Head and or Occupation/Age/Where Born/Source.
1746/John Hillier/../../../Proceedings of the Old Bailey **
1835/Cragg/../../../Robson’s Directory **
1839/Richard R Cragg/../../../Pigots Directory ****
1841/Richard Riley Cragg/../../../Post Office Directory ****
1842/R R Cragg/../../../Robson’s Directory **
1844/R R Cragg/../../../Thompson’s Directory **
1846/Richard Riley Cragg/../../../Post Office Directory **
1851/Richard Riley Cragg/../../../Kellys Directory ****
1851/William Burgess/Head, Waiter/30/Whitechapel, Middlesex/Census ****
1851/E Burgess/Sister, Barmaid/20/Whitechapel, Middlesex/Census
1851/J E Burgess/Brother, Wood Carver/20/Whitechapel, Middlesex/Census
1851/Sarah Ann Syer/Barmaid/19/Poplar, Middlesex/Census
1851/J Hinking/Cook, Widow/36/Whitechapel, Middlesex/Census
1852/Richard R Cragg/../../../Watkin’s Directory **
November 1854/Richard Riley Cragg's executors/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era Newspaper ****
November 1854/John Fowles/Incoming Licensee/../../Era Newspaper ****
January 1855/John Fowles/ Outgoing Licensee /../../The Era ****
January 1855/James Bloomfield/ Incoming Licensee /../../The Era ****
1856/James Bloomfield/../../../Post Office Directory ****
May 1858/Alfred Jackson/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer ****
May 1858/Isaac Dannett/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer ****
1858/James Isaac Dannit / Public House Keeper /../../Proceedings of the Old Bailey **
1858/Louisa Dannit / Wife /../../Proceedings of the Old Bailey
1862/James Isaac Dannit/../../../Post Office Directory **
November 1863/William Windett, administrator of James Isaac Dannet/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era ****
November 1863/Thomas Elliott Webb/Incoming Licensee/../../Era ****
March 1864/Thomas Elliott Webb/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era Newspaper ****
March 1864/James Grubb/Incoming Licensee/../../Era Newspaper ****
January 1866/James Grubb/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era ****
January 1866/Frederick Grubb/Incoming Licensee/../../Era ****
1869/William Young/../../../Post Office Directory ****
November 1868/William Young/Outgoing Licensee/../../Era ****
November 1868/Zebedee Wilcox/Incoming Licensee/../../Era ****
January 1873/Zebedee Wilcox/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer ****
January 1873/George Robinson/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer ****
October 1874/George Robinson/Outgoing Licensee/../../East London Observer ****
October 1874/Clarence Theodore Smith/Incoming Licensee/../../East London Observer ****
1878/John W & Robert Greeves/../../../P.O. Directory **
1881/John W Greaves/Licensed Victualler/51/Norfolk/Census ****
1881/Robert T Greaves/Brither, Licensed Victualler/49/Norfolk/Census
1881/Julia Cooke/Housekeeper/44/Norfolk/Census
1881/Jane Humphreys/General Servant/22/Middlesex/Census
1881/William Dipper/Barman/22/Middlesex/Census
1881/Leonard Seal/Barman/18/Middlesex/Census
1881/John Shuttlebottom/Potman/23/Stafford/Census
1882/John & Robert Greeves/../../../Post Office Directory ****
1884/John & R Greeves/../../../Post Office Directory ****
1891/Samuel David Isaacs/Licensed Victualler/23/Westminster, London/Census ****
1891/Miriam Isaacs/Wife/20/City of London/Census
1891/Rebecca Murial Isaacs/Daughter/3 months/Whitechapel, London/Census
1891/John Travers Hurst/Manager/46/Winslow, Bucks/Census
1891/William John Taylor/Barman/19/Ramsgate, Kent/Census
1891/George Hogwood/Potman/27/Bethnal Green, London/Census
1891/Agnes Cooper/Domestic servant/30/South Hackney, London/Census
1891/Eliza Barthorp/Domestic servant/22/Royal Barracks, Dublin/Census
1891/Ernest James Chubb/Barman/21/Mile End, London/Census
1893/Samuel David Isaacs/../../../P.O. Directory **
1895/Ernest Wm Truss/../../../Post Office Directory ****
1899/Philip Keller/../../../Post Office Directory ****
1908/Chas Wm Gomm/../../../Post Office Directory **
1910/Chas Wm Gomm/../../../Post Office Directory **
1911/Charles William Gomm/Licensed Victualler/47/Brentford, Middlesex/Census ****
1911/Sarah Gomm/Daughter/25/Brentford, Middlesex/Census
1911/Elizabeth Gomm/Wife/44/London, Middlesex/Census
1911/Charles Gomm/Son/22/Brentford, Middlesex/Census
1911/John Gomm/Son/20/Brentford, Middlesex/Census
1912/Chas Wm Gomm/../../../Post Office Directory **
1914/Davis Levy/../../../P.O. Directory **
1917/Davis Levy/../../../Post Office Directory **
1921/Davis Levy/../../../Post Office Directory **
1923/Davis Levy/../../../P.O. Directory **
1934/Gei Isadore Isaacs/../../../Kellys Directory ****
1938/Lionel Barnett/../../../Post Office Directory ****
** Provided By Stephen Harris
**** Provided By Kevan
Built 1870s to store Henry Weman’s sails and ships stores, behind his Lipson St chandlers business (established 1864), transferred to David Deex after Weman’s death, purchased by Paul & Gray and name changed from Weman’s. Restored 1980 & used by Maritime Museum.
“H. Weman's, Sailmaker and Shipchandler, Port Adelaide.” [Express & Telegraph 13 Oct 1873 advert]
“Wanted, a few Sailmakers. Apply at H. Weman's, Port.” [Evening Journal 2 Feb 1874]
To Farmers, Boothkeepers and Others.— Any quantity Ship Sails For Sail or Hire. H. Weman, Sailmaker and Shipchandler, Port.” [Register 9 Oct 1874 advert]
“Messrs. M. Donaghy & Sons have just completed at their ropeworks at Queenstown, to the order of Mr. Henry Weman, for the Adelaide Steaming Company, the largest Manila, hawser ever made m the colony. It is constructed for towing purposes, and is 14 inches in circumference, with a length of 120 fathoms. Throughout pure Manila hemp has been used, and the experts who have seen it pronounce the hawser as creditable a production as could be obtained in any part of the world. The Queenstown Rope works have been very busy lately, and the proprietors are arranging for the erection of a quantity of new machinery.” [Register 23 Jun 1888]
“David Deex, Shipchandler, and Henry Pope Weman, Licenced Victualler (executors of the estate of Henry Weman, deceased).” [Register 6 Feb 1894]
“Tenders. . . for the Purchase of Buildings in Lipson and Jane Streets, Port Adelaide, known as H. Weman's, Ship Chandler and Sailmaker, and the Stock therein; and also other Properties in the Estate.” [Advertiser 9 Feb 1900 advert]
“the Business of Sailmakers and Ship Chandlers heretofore carried on by us at Lipson street. Port Adelaide, under the style or firm of 'Henry Weman', has been Transferred to David Deex, of Port Adelaide, solely on his private account. Dated the first day of January, 1901. David Deex, Alfred H Skinner (Trustees Henry Weman, Deceased).” [Register 18 May 1901 advert]
“The Russian ship Lochee, which arrived at the Semaphore anchorage on June 9 in a disabled condition, is to be repaired at Port Adelaide. Negotiations have been pending for some weeks, and it was feared that the competition of Melbourne firms would result in the work being transferred to the sister state. . . Mr. H. C. Fletcher has the contract for the ironwork, spars, and woodwork, and for slipping and painting the hull; while Messrs. H. Weman & Co., represented by Mr. Deex, will furnish new sails, supply the rigging, send the spars aloft, and fit the vessel ready for sea. The whole work is expected to occupy about two months. Employment will be found for a large number of men.” [Register 15 Jul 1902]
“Wanted, a Sailmaker. Apply H. Weman and Co., Port.” [Advertiser 6 Oct 1910 advert]
“Wanted, Sailmakers or Handy Men. With Needle. Apply H. Weman & Co., Port Adelaide.” [Register 15 Sep 1917 advert]
“Messrs. Paul & Gray, of Sydney, .Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle, and London. . . have purchased the well-known business of Messrs. Weman & Co., Port Adelaide. They announce that they have large stocks of steel wire ropes, chains, anchors, and every other requirement of well-equipped ships.” [Register 5 Jun 1920 advert]
“No firm has been more closely associated with the history and progress of Port Adelaide than Messrs. Weman & Co., ship's chandlers, of Lipson Street, Port Adelaide. . . The business was established in 1864 and Mr. D. Deex, who for so long has controlled the business of the firm, has been connected with it for 46 years. . . There is nothing connected with ships' stores he has not stocked and supplied, and from the store in Lipson Street anything from a needle to an anchor, a tin of jam to a tin of paint, a sail sheet to a bed sheet, can now as always be obtained. Messrs. Paul & Gray, Ltd., one of the widest known ship chandler firms in Australasia. . . have just purchased the business of Messrs. Weman & Co. (the name under which it continued to be known under Mr. Deex's). Henceforth trade will be carried on from the premises under the name of the new firm. . . Mr. Deex will for a time still take an interest in the business, as he hopes to complete his fiftieth year in its interests before finally retiring” [Port Adelaide News 11 Jun 1920].
HENRY WEMAN
“WEMAN.- On the 4th October, at his residence, Portland Ward, Port Adelaide, Henry Weman.” [Advertiser 6 Oct 1891]
“Mr. Henry Weman, another old Portonian, which took place at his residence, Portland-place, Port Adelaide, on Sunday evening. The deceased gentleman arrived in the colony thirty-seven years ago in the Challenger, and ever since he has been identified with the Port, where he has been engaged in business as a shipchandler and sailmaker, besides having transactions in the coasting trade. . . actively connected with St. Paul's Church. . . age of sixty-four. He leaves one son and three daughters, two of whom are married, one to Mr. W. H. Skinner, Wharfinger of the S.A. Company, and the other to Mr. A. Skinner, of the Customs.” [Evening Journal 6 Oct 1891]
DAVID DEEX
“DEEX.—On July 16, at his late residence, 4 Durham terrace, Alberton, David Deex (late H. Weman & Co.), beloved husband of the late Christina Deex. Aged 84 years.” [Advertiser 17 Jul 1942]
Theseus and the Minotaur by Antonio Canova
Theseus seated on the prostrate Minotaur, holds a club in his left hand and rests his right on the left leg of his victim.
Place of origin: Rome, Italy
Date: 1782
Artist/Maker:Canova, Antonio, born 1757 - died 1822
Materials and Techniques: Marble
Height: 145.4 cm, Length: 158.7 cm, Width: 91.4 cm, Weight: 940 kg marble group, Weight: 238 kg base
Bought with the assistance of the National Art-Collections Fund (£1000) for £3000 from the Executor of the 7th Marquess of Londonderry (Lord Nathan).
collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O96376/theseus-and-the-minotau...
From Wikipedia:
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A), is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects.
Named after Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, it was founded in 1852, and has since grown to cover 12.5 acres (51,000 m2) and 145 galleries. Its collection spans 5,000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, in virtually every medium, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
The holdings of ceramics, glass, textiles, costumes, silver, ironwork, jewellery, furniture, medieval objects, sculpture, prints and printmaking, drawings and photographs are among the largest, important and most comprehensive in the world. The museum possesses the world's largest collection of post-classical sculpture, the holdings of Italian Renaissance items are the largest outside Italy. The departments of Asia include art from South Asia, China, Japan, Korea and the Islamic world. The East Asian collections are among the best in Europe, with particular strengths in ceramics and metalwork, while the Islamic collection, alongside the British Museum, Musée du Louvre and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, is amongst the largest in the Western world.
Set in the Brompton district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, neighbouring institutions include the Natural History Museum and Science Museum.
The Montefiore Windmill is a landmark windmill in Jerusalem. Designed as a flour mill, it was built in 1857 on a slope opposite the western city walls of Jerusalem, where three years later the new Jewish neighbourhood of Mishkenot Sha'ananim was erected, both by the efforts of British Jewish banker and philanthropist Moses Montefiore. Jerusalem at the time was part of Ottoman-ruled Palestine. Today the windmill serves as a small museum dedicated to the achievements of Montefiore. It was restored in 2012 with a new cap and sails in the style of the originals. The mill can turn in the wind.
The windmill and the neighbourhood of Mishkenot Sha'ananim were both funded by the British Jewish banker and philanthropist Moses Montefiore, who devoted his life to promoting industry, education and health in the Land of Israel. Montefiore built the windmill with funding from the estate of an American Jew, Judah Touro, who appointed Montefiore executor of his will. Montefiore mentions the windmill in his diaries (1875), noting that he had built it 18 years earlier on the estate of Kerem-Moshe-ve-Yehoodit (lit. "the orchard of Moses and Judith"), and that it had since been joined by two other windmills nearby, owned by Greeks. The project, bearing the hallmarks of nineteenth-century artisan revival, aimed to promote productive enterprise in the yishuv.
The mill was designed by Messrs Holman Brothers, the Canterbury, Kent, millwrights. The stone for the tower was quarried locally. The tower walls were 3 feet (0.91 m) thick at the base and almost 50 feet (15.24 m) high. Parts were shipped to Jaffa, where there were no suitable facilities for landing the heavy machinery. Transport of the machinery to Jerusalem had to be carried out by camel. In its original form, the mill had a Kentish-style cap and four patent sails. It was turned to face into the wind by a fantail. The mill drove two pairs of millstones, flour dressers, wheat cleaners and other machinery.
The construction of the mill was part of a broader program to enable the Jews of Palestine to become self-supporting. Montefiore also built a printing press and a textile factory, and helped to finance several agricultural colonies. He attempted to acquire land for Jewish cultivation, but was hampered by Ottoman restrictions on land sale to non-Muslims.
On the night of 1 January 1873, Aaron Hershler was standing guard at the windmill, when a group of Arab Muslims from Silwan attempted to rob his family's home in Mishkenot Sha'ananim, the first Jewish neighborhood outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Hershler took chase and was shot 12 times. He died in the hospital on 5 January and was buried on the Mount of Olives. Seventy-five years after his death, Hershler was recognized by the Israel Defense Forces as the first "national martyr" in the Jewish-Arab conflict. He is one of approximately three dozen Jews killed during Ottoman-ruled Palestine, who are commemorated as part of Israeli's annual Yom Hazikaron memorial day.
The mill was not a success due to a lack of wind. Wind conditions in Jerusalem could not guarantee its continued operation. There were probably no more than 20 days a year with strong enough breezes. Another reason for the mill's failure was technological. The machinery was designed for soft European wheat, which required less wind power than the local wheat. Nevertheless, the mill operated for nearly two decades until the first steam-powered mill was completed in Jerusalem in 1878. In the late 19th century the mill became neglected and abandoned.
It was not until the 1930s that the mill was cosmetically restored by British Mandate authorities together with the Pro-Jerusalem Society. During this restoration decorative, non-functional fixed sails were placed at the top of the structure.
During the 1948 blockade of Jerusalem the Jewish Haganah fighters built an observation post at the top of the tower. In an attempt to impede their activities, the British authorities ordered the windmill be blown up in an operation mockingly dubbed by the population "Operation Don Quixote." By chance however, the unit tasked with destroying the windmill happened to be from Ramsgate, home to Montefiore's long-time residence. When the soldiers observed the name of their hometown next to Montefiore's on a plaque displayed on the building, they "re-interpreted" their orders and blew up only the observation post at the top of the tower, rather than the entire structure , there is also a story that one of the soldiers was of Romany Gypsy descent. His family had picked hops on one of Lord Montefiore's estates, and he remembered the kindness of the family and the Jewish people in England towards the Romany community. He reminded his fellow soldiers of the fact that Montefiore's alms-houses had housed and fed thousands of British men, women, and children. Hearing this, they decided to only blow up the outpost at the top and went to great lengths to keep the structure intact during the process.
Abstract Title 101 Hardres Street, late 19 Frederick Street, Ramsgate under the Trust of the late Mr. Samuel Beeching, deceased, purchased at Auction 1st June 1871 by Mr. Henry Maskell, 1871.
Indenture 22nd November 1862 between Jens Peter Jensen, Ramsgate and Marabella Jensen his wife to Samuel Beeching, Ramsgate, Ship Builder.
Indenture, Mortgage 23rd December 1858: Between Jens Peter Jensen, Tailor of Ramsgate, Marabella Jensen his wife, Mary Martha Pantin of Ramsgate.
Will of George Handel Sharp dated 21st August 1850 appointed Edward Beray Walford, Surgeon, Ramsgate and Thomas Hodges Snowden of Ramsgate as Executors. Beneficiary was Marabella Sharp, Wife.
Indenture 14th February 1849: Between William Edward Smith, Builder, Ramsgate, George Handel Sharpe and George Griggs.
Indenture 15th April 1847: Between William Edward Smith, William Hurst, James Barber Edward, John Rothschild Edwards, George Mercer, James Barber Edwards and Robert Edwards. A parcel of land in Frederick Street next to premises of Elizabeth Frances Harrison
Abstract Title 101 Hardres Street, late 19 Frederick Street, Ramsgate under the Trust of the late Mr. Samuel Beeching, deceased, purchased at Auction 1st June 1871 by Mr. Henry Maskell, 1871.
Indenture 22nd November 1862 between Jens Peter Jensen, Ramsgate and Marabella Jensen his wife to Samuel Beeching, Ramsgate, Ship Builder.
Indenture, Mortgage 23rd December 1858: Between Jens Peter Jensen, Tailor of Ramsgate, Marabella Jensen his wife, Mary Martha Pantin of Ramsgate.
Will of George Handel Sharp dated 21st August 1850 appointed Edward Beray Walford, Surgeon, Ramsgate and Thomas Hodges Snowden of Ramsgate as Executors. Beneficiary was Marabella Sharp, Wife.
Indenture 14th February 1849: Between William Edward Smith, Builder, Ramsgate, George Handel Sharpe and George Griggs.
Indenture 15th April 1847: Between William Edward Smith, William Hurst, James Barber Edward, John Rothschild Edwards, George Mercer, James Barber Edwards and Robert Edwards. A parcel of land in Frederick Street next to premises of Elizabeth Frances Harrison
The Hall was built for Clement Winstanley on a rise with views overlooking Charnwood Forest and set in one hundred acres of parkland in 1776 although the first records of Braunstone are in the Doomsday Book of 1086. It is referred to as Brantestone or Brant’s Tun. The Winstanleys’ came to Braunstone in the mid 17th century. James Winstanley purchased the estate from the executors of the Hastings family after the death of Henry Hastings’ in 1649, for the sum of £6,000.
In the politically charged years after the 1st World War while Richard Winstanley, his wife Kitty and six children were still in residence the Leicester Corporation compulsory purchased his land in Braunstone for housing "fit for heroes" in 1925. These days it seems an incredible that a council would do such a thing but, I suppose, at least there was no revolution in England & he did get £116,500 for it.
The buildings then became a school & except for the stationing of military, including the American 82nd Airborne Division, during WWII it remained so until 1996.
The Hall today is boarded up and looking more & more delapidated. Another example of the philistine approach of Leicester Council to the city's heritage.
Established by Henry Weman 1864, extended c1872, transferred to David Deex after Weman’s death, purchased by Paul & Gray and name changed from Weman’s. Restored 1980 & used by Maritime Museum.
“H. Weman's, Sailmaker and Shipchandler, Port Adelaide.” [Express & Telegraph 13 Oct 1873 advert]
“Wanted, a few Sailmakers. Apply at H. Weman's, Port.” [Evening Journal 2 Feb 1874]
To Farmers, Boothkeepers and Others.— Any quantity Ship Sails For Sail or Hire. H. Weman, Sailmaker and Shipchandler, Port.” [Register 9 Oct 1874 advert]
“Messrs. M. Donaghy & Sons have just completed at their ropeworks at Queenstown, to the order of Mr. Henry Weman, for the Adelaide Steaming Company, the largest Manila, hawser ever made m the colony. It is constructed for towing purposes, and is 14 inches in circumference, with a length of 120 fathoms. Throughout pure Manila hemp has been used, and the experts who have seen it pronounce the hawser as creditable a production as could be obtained in any part of the world. The Queenstown Rope works have been very busy lately, and the proprietors are arranging for the erection of a quantity of new machinery.” [Register 23 Jun 1888]
“David Deex, Shipchandler, and Henry Pope Weman, Licenced Victualler (executors of the estate of Henry Weman, deceased).” [Register 6 Feb 1894]
“Tenders. . . for the Purchase of Buildings in Lipson and Jane Streets, Port Adelaide, known as H. Weman's, Ship Chandler and Sailmaker, and the Stock therein; and also other Properties in the Estate.” [Advertiser 9 Feb 1900 advert]
“the Business of Sailmakers and Ship Chandlers heretofore carried on by us at Lipson street. Port Adelaide, under the style or firm of 'Henry Weman', has been Transferred to David Deex, of Port Adelaide, solely on his private account. Dated the first day of January, 1901. David Deex, Alfred H Skinner (Trustees Henry Weman, Deceased).” [Register 18 May 1901 advert]
“The Russian ship Lochee, which arrived at the Semaphore anchorage on June 9 in a disabled condition, is to be repaired at Port Adelaide. Negotiations have been pending for some weeks, and it was feared that the competition of Melbourne firms would result in the work being transferred to the sister state. . . Mr. H. C. Fletcher has the contract for the ironwork, spars, and woodwork, and for slipping and painting the hull; while Messrs. H. Weman & Co., represented by Mr. Deex, will furnish new sails, supply the rigging, send the spars aloft, and fit the vessel ready for sea. The whole work is expected to occupy about two months. Employment will be found for a large number of men.” [Register 15 Jul 1902]
“Wanted, a Sailmaker. Apply H. Weman and Co., Port.” [Advertiser 6 Oct 1910 advert]
“Wanted, Sailmakers or Handy Men. With Needle. Apply H. Weman & Co., Port Adelaide.” [Register 15 Sep 1917 advert]
“Messrs. Paul & Gray, of Sydney, .Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle, and London. . . have purchased the well-known business of Messrs. Weman & Co., Port Adelaide. They announce that they have large stocks of steel wire ropes, chains, anchors, and every other requirement of well-equipped ships.” [Register 5 Jun 1920 advert]
“No firm has been more closely associated with the history and progress of Port Adelaide than Messrs. Weman & Co., ship's chandlers, of Lipson Street, Port Adelaide. . . The business was established in 1864 and Mr. D. Deex, who for so long has controlled the business of the firm, has been connected with it for 46 years. . . There is nothing connected with ships' stores he has not stocked and supplied, and from the store in Lipson Street anything from a needle to an anchor, a tin of jam to a tin of paint, a sail sheet to a bed sheet, can now as always be obtained. Messrs. Paul & Gray, Ltd., one of the widest known ship chandler firms in Australasia. . . have just purchased the business of Messrs. Weman & Co. (the name under which it continued to be known under Mr. Deex's). Henceforth trade will be carried on from the premises under the name of the new firm. . . Mr. Deex will for a time still take an interest in the business, as he hopes to complete his fiftieth year in its interests before finally retiring” [Port Adelaide News 11 Jun 1920].
HENRY WEMAN
“WEMAN.- On the 4th October, at his residence, Portland Ward, Port Adelaide, Henry Weman.” [Advertiser 6 Oct 1891]
“Mr. Henry Weman, another old Portonian, which took place at his residence, Portland-place, Port Adelaide, on Sunday evening. The deceased gentleman arrived in the colony thirty-seven years ago in the Challenger, and ever since he has been identified with the Port, where he has been engaged in business as a shipchandler and sailmaker, besides having transactions in the coasting trade. . . actively connected with St. Paul's Church. . . age of sixty-four. He leaves one son and three daughters, two of whom are married, one to Mr. W. H. Skinner, Wharfinger of the S.A. Company, and the other to Mr. A. Skinner, of the Customs.” [Evening Journal 6 Oct 1891]
DAVID DEEX
“DEEX.—On July 16, at his late residence, 4 Durham terrace, Alberton, David Deex (late H. Weman & Co.), beloved husband of the late Christina Deex. Aged 84 years.” [Advertiser 17 Jul 1942]
The Civil War Solider was dedicated in Lincoln Park in Jersey City on May 28, 1926. Sculpted by Joseph P. Pollia, architected by Albert Randolph Rose, and installed by the executor of the estate of Edward J. Donnelly, Sergeant, Company C, 5th New Jersey Volunteers and a committee appointed by the city commissioners, the memorial is a tribute to the soldiers of Jersey City who fought in the Civil War.
The 9-foot tall brone statue rests upon a 41.5-inch base and depicts a marching Civil War soldier in dressed in a full uniform. He has a canteen and bag hanging down his back on his proper left side and a small pouch attached to his belt. A rolled blanket is slung over his proper left shoulder and attached under his proper right arm. The soldier once held a rifle in his proper right hand and had a bayonet hanging from his proper left hip, but these are now missing.
On the front of the sculpture in raised letters reads the inscription: "In Memory of the Soldiers of Jersey City who fought in the War of the Rebellion."
Lincoln Park was designed by landscape architects Daniel W. Langton and Charles N. Lowrie in 1907. The 273-acre park was known as West Side Park until the Lincoln Memorial was built at the Kennedy (then Hudson) Boulevard entrance.