Genista Type the Bournemouth Echo (it's a newspaper) into google.co.uk, and find someone on the editorial staff who may be willling to help by searching their archives. Or, they may know who to contact. Their archives go back to 1900 I believe, but not online. regards Viv vivpritchard@ntlworld.com Rugby, Warks., England Dystonia Society M00226 SDFHS 9551 U Looking for LANE, Holnest 1729+/-, Hermitage 1765+/-, Leigh 1808+, Longfleet 1881+/-, Kinson 1884+, all in Dorset. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.495 / Virus Database: 294 - Release Date: 30/06/2003

Am searching for any record of a house fire in Parkstone, Dorset. This was believed to have been a case of arson by the occupant. The address was - 'Parkbury' , Balcombe Road, Parkstone, Dorset and would have occurred about 1912 -1914. It seems possible that it may have been recorded in the local newspaper. Any suggestions as to where I might start my search ?. Any help appreciated and thanks for your interest, Genista...MONTREAL

I think/hope I am back now! Had the most appalling computer problems for about a week and have now solved the problem....we hope - a corrupt memory card which has been removed and now, although running on half-memory, the computer does at least work again! I am just so relieved that Steve always backs up the files every week otherwise I would have lost 13 years worth of family history research - about 600 A4 pages because I write things up in a narrative form, complete with 100s of scanned images rather than use commercial fam hist software. It would have taken me years to rewrite it and the whole lot was corrupted and irretrievable ....and that was just the start of it. We now need to buy a new memory card and also have also bought Windows NT as we originally blamed all our problems on Windows ME! An expensive week but not as expensive as buying a new computer. Steve is still working on the computer so I won't have much time to spend on it over the weekend so bear with me if you have emailed me. Having bored you with my computer problems I will leave you in peace to get back to Family History! Have a good weekend Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list

Hello Dorset List, Just joined and seeking any information on a Bournemouth photographer, William J Ferguson who in 1904 had a studio in Old Christchurch Road. Was he resident in the town etc., does he appear in street /trade directories/electoral rolls etc.,? Many thanks Alan Booth, Glos

Hi list, hope the computer problems are resolved. This will was on the second page of a will I downloaded from the PRO site, and I thought it might be of interest. In the name of God Amen, I Joane RAYSON of Sherborne in the county of Dorset widdowe dothe make my last will and testament in manner and forme as followeth, in the year of our Lord God 1649, December the fourth, .Imprimis I bequeath my soule to Almighty God, my Saviour and Redeemer, and my body to the earth to be buried in the churchyard of Sherborne. Item I give to my son Thomas £20 which was his father`s will, and I give him my chest and my best bedsteed, and the tackles and shelfes in the shopp and buttery. Item I give to my daughter Mary £45 and half my apparell. Item I give my daughter Elizabeth all my goods yet unbequeathed whome I make my whole executrix and this is my will that if either of my children dye before they attaine to be of lawfull age that his or theire portion of my will shall remaine to the rest or to which of them shall fortune to live. I do desire and appoint John Stucke, Michaell Elmes, Thomas Norman, and Walter Withers to be the Overseers of this my will and what charge they shall be at as concerning this my will they shall be allowed by my executrix,. Joan Rayson, my marke, witnesses Walter Withers, the marke of Thomas Norman, John Stucke, the marke of Mary Norman. Proved 1st Feb 1650 to the overseers , Eo quod executris in eodem testamentis nominate in eius minori ( which I take to mean that Elizabeth Rayson the daughter and executrix of Joan , was still a minor at her mother`s death ). Hope this was of some interest to the list.

Hi John, Paul `s two recommended sites are very good ones. The following are notes made on the overseers records from Fincham in Norfolk , which I made some years ago and which might simplify things . Money was collected from those in the village who could pay the poor law rate, or tax. Sometimes there were churchwardens and local constables or stewards who administered this money. They were usually elected or chosen from the tenant farmer / tradesmen in the village. If you were in need, your husband had died, you had 8 children and your husband had no work, if you were old , ill , whatever, you could apply for parish relief. You were then assessed, and a rate paid to you. Sometimes if you could earn your parish relief. Children were paid for killing vermin , jackdaws, whatever, and the wife might be paid to sit with an old person, to help lay out a corpse, to help with a pregnancy, the husband might be set to clearing ditches or some other community service. If the poor law rate was insufficient, then you and your family went to the workhouse, and you could be hired out from there by local farmers seasonally, and people did spend time in the workhouses, but the aim was to get you out and back on your feet again. The overseers would sometimes pay for a child to be apprenticed. If a family wished to move to a different village, they would be assessed and if found work-able, then a settlement certificate would be issued which stated that the new village would be responsible for their keep if they fell on hard times, and a copy of this certificate was sent to their village of origin. If this assessment found against the family, then a removal order was issued and the family had to go back to their village of origin which was responsible for all those born within its boundaries . The overseers would also pay for a funeral in full. All in all, it was far from ideal, but the workhouse was at least a roof over your head and food, however appalling and basic. The alternative was to die of starvation in a ditch. Hope this helps . Yrs Elizabeth

In case you do need to get in touch with me about List (not family history) related problems, my e-mail address is mail@ajbrown.eu.com; I'll do my best to try and sort out any difficulties you're having with the List. Alan A J Brown Deputy List Administrator -----Original Message----- From: Helen Jones [mailto:hsj@melcombe.freeserve.co.uk] Sent: 01 July 2003 21:51 To: ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [DOR-LIFE] List admin - computer problems I am having major computer problems at the moment and am only temporarily on line for about 5 mins tonight before Steve takes the whole thing apart for 4th time this week to try and fix the problem. If you have contacted me over the last few days or have problems with your list subscription, please bear with me - it may be next week before I am able to get back to you. Alan (Eng Dorset Life) and Deborah (Eng Brit Genealogy) are available ( to the best of my knowledge!) so please get in touch with them if you are stuck. You can always send a message to the list asking them to contact you if you can't remember their address (and I can't because I can't get to my address book!) Of course if it is a new computer job, you may never hear from me again :-( Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list ==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== Look at the website for the Office of National Statistics for information about the census and ordering certificates http://www.statistics.gov.uk ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Hi John You can read it from the horses mouth so to speak - The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act is on-line at: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/poorlaws/1834frames.html The 1601 Act for the Relief of the Poor, which , as amended, applied up to 1834 can be seen at: http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ So - as you see, your question has to be phrased accordingly ;-) Regards Paul On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:23:07 +1000, J Weeks <jwweeks@ozemail.com.au> wrote: >Hello Life Listers, > >Is there anyone out there who, without too much time and trouble, can (even >briefly) explain how the "POOR LAW" worked in and around the 1800's ? >I know the parishes elected a couple of wardens to control it but what was >"IT" and where did "IT" come from? > > >John >In beautiful Canberra. >Capitol of OZ > > > >==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== >The Dorset Genweb pages can be found at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~engdor/ > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 50.33.50N 02.26.70W http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html

I am having major computer problems at the moment and am only temporarily on line for about 5 mins tonight before Steve takes the whole thing apart for 4th time this week to try and fix the problem. If you have contacted me over the last few days or have problems with your list subscription, please bear with me - it may be next week before I am able to get back to you. Alan (Eng Dorset Life) and Deborah (Eng Brit Genealogy) are available ( to the best of my knowledge!) so please get in touch with them if you are stuck. You can always send a message to the list asking them to contact you if you can't remember their address (and I can't because I can't get to my address book!) Of course if it is a new computer job, you may never hear from me again :-( Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list

Hello Life Listers, Is there anyone out there who, without too much time and trouble, can (even briefly) explain how the "POOR LAW" worked in and around the 1800's ? I know the parishes elected a couple of wardens to control it but what was "IT" and where did "IT" come from? John In beautiful Canberra. Capitol of OZ

> From: Paul Benyon <pbenyon@BTInternet.com> > Subject: Re: [DOR-LIFE] 2nd Command Depot, Westham, WW1 > > As an aside on the subject of Knotts : not Cy, but Lionel Knott could be > seen travelling the streets of Weymouth at one time, as the Borough's > lamp lighter - still very much alive and enjoying his retirement. > Paul Hi Paul, Reading your mention of Lionel Knott Borough Lamp Lighter brought back some memories! As a child in St Albans Terrace (our houses came down to make way for the new telephone exchange) I can remember a lamp lighter coming round to check the lamps were lit on the barriers around the road works at the bottom of our street by Web Majors Office's and deciding that it was either his (most probably Lionel's) or my uncle Jim Goodwin's job was to be the one for me! I must have had a thing about lighting lamps as my uncle Jim was a lamp lighter in Weymouth for the SEB (Southern Electricity Board) along with Alfie Dunn. Uncle Jim used to tell me how when he took the job on the street lighting had just been converted from gas to electric and he rode round on a bike and had a long pole which he used to switch on the lights. It was the use of the pole and a bicycle that took my imagination as you could get up to some mischief with that - I was most disappointed when I found out that pole had gone a few years previous! Jim and Alfie's job title remained as lamp lighters to the time of their retirement which if I recall was about the late eighties (I think). After his retirement uncle Jim continued his "other" job as ferry man across the harbour, a job his father, Bill Goodwin, did before him. Sadly, Jim is no longer with us but his son, Stephen, continues the family tradition of ferry man to this day. Goodness Paul, your posting has brought back a rush of memories and family/local stories that I could go on for ever - one involved the local undertaker, an older resident, and the testing of a smoke bomb in the Hope Square area of Weymouth during WWII - but I'll save that for another day! Before I go, does anyone remember Alfie Dunn's wife Pat? She was one of the first (or it could have even been the first) FA qualified, if that's the correct term, female football referee's and started the Weymaids Football Team. Heather I transcribe for FreeCen. Interested? Check Out the Website - http://freecen.rootsweb.com __________________________________________________________________________ Join Freeserve http://www.freeserve.com/time/ Winner of the 2003 Internet Service Providers' Association awards for Best Unmetered ISP and Best Consumer Application.

As an aside on the subject of Knotts : not Cy, but Lionel Knott could be seen travelling the streets of Weymouth at one time, as the Borough's lamp lighter - still very much alive and enjoying his retirement. Paul On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:43:08 +0100, "Ray Collins" <Ray.Collins@btinternet.com> wrote: >One possible unthought of source might be the local court records and court >reports in the Southern Times. With such a large number involved it is not >surprising that the Australians "conflicted" with the law fairly frequently! >I know I have seen a number of ST reports of cases when I have been >researching ST of 1917, 18, 19 etc including one absolutely hilarious one of >a court case concerning an altercation between group of Aussies and a well >known Weymouth character called Cy Knott who was still going strong as a >"tramp about town" over 40 years later. 50.33.50N 02.26.70W http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html

One of the interesting things about studying family history is that completely unkown people, probably dead for centuries, relive albeit only for a few instants, while we put them down in our family tree. Thanks Ray for giving a litlle bit of eternity to good old Cy Knott - the spelling is insignificant - but wherever he is I'm sure he's grateful and happy! Don't suppose you were playing for the Westham Wanderers against the Pye Hill Rovers on the Marsh of a Saturday evening? About 20 a side and a pile of odds and ...whatnots for goalposts? Geoff

Hello Helen I cannot say with any measure of certainty but I thought most of the Australians were based further over at Charlestown. The area on the opposite side of the road to the two schools was used as an airfield but I think that was established between the wars. As an old Westham lad I cannot recall ever hearing of an Australian base where the schools are - it was the Grammar School playing fields immediately before the Junior School was built in about 1954. Like I said though, I am not basing this on any fact so may very well be wrong. One possible unthought of source might be the local court records and court reports in the Southern Times. With such a large number involved it is not surprising that the Australians "conflicted" with the law fairly frequently! I know I have seen a number of ST reports of cases when I have been researching ST of 1917, 18, 19 etc including one absolutely hilarious one of a court case concerning an altercation between group of Aussies and a well known Weymouth character called Cy Knott who was still going strong as a "tramp about town" over 40 years later. Hope this helps. Ray Collins Weymouth, Dorset ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Jones" <hsj@melcombe.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 7:42 PM Subject: [DOR-LIFE] 2nd Command Depot, Westham, WW1 > I am forwarding this message from a local aquaintence who has the following > question: > **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** * > I am carrying out research into the Westham area of Weymouth and am trying > to find out if the Westhaven Infant/Junior School site was part of the 2nd > command depot for Australian soldiers during WW1. Do you know if a map of > the depot exists? > **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** * > Can anyone help him? I think he has tried all the obvious places locally - > museums, Record Office. libraries, Land Registry, so is looking for > specific information rather than a suggestion of places to try (he is a > local author and researcher so knows all the normal respositories!) > If you can help please reply to the list or direct to me > Thanks > > Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset > http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk > List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and > British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list > > > ==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== > The Dorset Museum homepage can be found at: > http://home.clara.net/dorset.museum > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

I am forwarding this message from a local aquaintence who has the following question: ********************************************************************************************************************************************************* I am carrying out research into the Westham area of Weymouth and am trying to find out if the Westhaven Infant/Junior School site was part of the 2nd command depot for Australian soldiers during WW1. Do you know if a map of the depot exists? ********************************************************************************************************************************************************* Can anyone help him? I think he has tried all the obvious places locally - museums, Record Office. libraries, Land Registry, so is looking for specific information rather than a suggestion of places to try (he is a local author and researcher so knows all the normal respositories!) If you can help please reply to the list or direct to me Thanks Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list

Commercial posting - this is just to keep you up to date with some of the commercial developments on the census front. I have no connection with any of the companies mentioned - this message is purely for information purposes. The census CDs below are NOT indexes, they are scans of the original books taken from the Public Record Office films. There will be some pages and some entries which are hard to read due to the quality of the film, and the quality of the original books, so don't expect perfection! You wouldn't get perfection if you hired the film from your local family history centre either. Of course it is always tough if the very page you want is the one which is faint or scored too heavily with the enumerators pencil, but that it beyond the control of anyone today. All three companies below use Acrobat reader and have a place index/place search facility to make it easy to find the page or the place that you want. Some have street indexes for larger towns and cities. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************* First from Archive CD books - a supplement to the 1861 Dorset census produced earlier in the year: See http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/books/census/index.htm for online ordering details. 1861 Dorset Supplement 1 (Places in Devon Registration Districts) Pieces RG9/1370-1372 These pieces do not appear on the Dorset 1861 CD set (C1861DOR). All of these pieces do appear on the Devon 1861 set (C1861DEV). Whole census peices are included, and therefore the places included are those on both side of the county boundary, and include Dorset places such as Axminster, Chardstock, Charmouth, Combpyne, Dalwood, Hawkchurch, Kilmington, Lyme Cobb, Lyme Regis, Membury, Stockland, Thorncombe and Uplyme, plus adjacent parts of Devon. I am not aware of an index of any sort for the 1861 Dorset census. Have no idea at all about Devon! ************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Second from the British Data Archive (S&N)...the 1891 Dorset Census film scanned onto CD rom is starting to be shipped this week. I don't know if it is too late to place an advance order at UK pounds 34.95 +p&p. The price will go up to 49.95 Uk pounds when the advance orders have been shipped. See http://www.BritishDataArchive.com for online ordering details. The site has been completley revamped this weekend and is now easier to use. Remember too that the Somerset and Dorset FHS and the Dorset FHS have jointly produced an index for the 1891 census, available separately in 19 booklets or fiche or in a CD rom for the whole county. *********************************************************************************************************************************************************** Thirdly Stepping Stones are advertising the Dorset 1841 census scanned on CD rom at a pre release price of £19.95 plus postage - but they do not give a date for release. See http://www.stepping-stones.co.uk There are probably other companies also scanning and selling census onto CD rom but these are the three that I have used mys *********************************************************************************************************************************************************** I also see that twr computing is selling CD roms of the material found on the Ancestry.com site, usually only available if you pay a subscription to use the site. There is a CD that covers Dorset, DEvon, Cornwall and Somerset. I do not have the CD myself and I have not used the material on the ancestry.com site so can't comment any further on this, except to say there is a list on the website saying exactly what each CD contains. http://www.twrcomputing.freeserve.co.uk I repeat that I have no connection with any of these companies and am posting this for information only as part of my policy of trying to keep you all informed about new Dorset products and publications which may be of interest! Happy Hunting Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list

OK Helen, in view of your past record and the vast number of brownie* points so far accumulated, we'll let you off this time! Promise me though that one day when you have nothing better to do (???), please try Under the Greenwood Tree. This is his first novel and the tribulations of the Mellstock Quire (choir) are a real laugh. Unfortunately he started taking himself seriously after that and tried to put some 'intellectual depth' into later books, which do make them hard going. He wasn't very good at 'intellectual depth' actually.... Your mum must be a very nice person! *For our foreign visitors, brownies are little girl-guides/scouts who earn points for good deeds! Nothing to do with chocolate cakes!! Geoff I hate to admit this, Geoff....but I don't like Hardy! I have never been able to get into his books at all. I have tried but they leave me cold. I know I should read them but.................................................... I will probably be hung drawn and quartered for confessing this on a Dorset list. I am otherwise pretty well-read but Hardy.....sorry...no! My Mother loves everything he wrote, so does that excuse me at all? Sorry Helen, hanging her head in shame!

At 22:08 16/06/2003 +0200, you wrote: >If only you lot would try and read some Hardy (Thomas). In chapter I of the >Trumpet Major we have an exact description of their uniforms, and we learn >that they are called 'The York Hussars', (foreigners to a man). > >Sometimes hard going to read, but Dorset-wise there ain't no better social >historian than old Tom (I am allowed this familiarity because I have read >all his novels!!). > > Geoff > > >I hate to admit this, Geoff....but I don't like Hardy! I have never been >able to get into his books at all. I have tried but they leave me cold. I >know I should read them but.................................................... I will probably be hung drawn and quartered for confessing this on a Dorset list. I am otherwise pretty well-read but Hardy.....sorry...no! My Mother loves everything he wrote, so does that excuse me at all? Sorry Helen, hanging her head in shame! Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list

Hello Helen Found it! It was in the Dorset Year Book for 1971/72 (one of only 3 editions I have on my bookshelf). It is an eight page article but the most relevant paragraph is "The Kings's German Legion was raised in Hanover by George III himself in 1803 and served very much as any King's Regiment, as part of his own personal troops. There were two Regiments of Hanoverians in South Dorset in 1804, a Regiment under the command of General Garth in Dorchester and a Brigade of German Light Dragoons stationed at Weymouth in Radipole Horse Barracks - clearly marked on the 1811 Ordnance Survey map." The author is Geoffrey Hudson MC who I think must have been the Major Hudson MC who was Headmaster of St Nicholas School in the 50's and 60's. This being so I would expect the article to have been very well researched and accurate, although his actual sources are not quoted. I was correct about the two Germans shot for desertion. In this case the Mr Hudson uses a direct extract from the Dorchester and Sherborne Journal of 3 July 1801. Hope this helps. Ray Collins ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Jones" <hsj@melcombe.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:51 AM Subject: [DOR-LIFE] Radipole Barracks, Weymouth > My daughter's new boyfriend lives in one of the old cottages called > Radipole Terrrace, off Dorchester Road in Lodmoor Hill, Weymouth, which > are all that remain of Radipole Cavalry Barracks and Parade Ground which > was in existence (I think) 1798-1828, according to Eric Ricketts "The > Buildings of Old Weymouth, vol 2". Ricketts says that these cottages were > probably the Officers living quarters and were also known as the 'German > Officers' bungalows. > > My daughter is really keen to find out more about the history of these > cottages, and, as I am always delighted whenever she shows any interest > whatsoever in any aspect of local history, I am trying to help. But.....I > am stuck. I have a large collection of books on Dorset in general and > Weymouth in particular but can only find passing references to the > barracks. Ricketts is the only book which actually mentions the cottages. > > I must confess that so far I have only researched from home and haven't > tried the Record Office or Library through complete lack of time. Someone > told me that there was an article in an old Dorset Year Book, possible by > George Lanning and possibly published in the 1980s but I have not been able > to track this down either. > > Can anyone tell me more about Radipole Barracks and/or the cottages or > point me in the direction of local source material? Also why were the > cottages sometimes called 'The German Officers Bungalows' other than > presumably they were allocated to German Officers! > > Thanks for any help > Helen > > Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset > http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk > List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and > British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list > > > ==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Visitng the Society of Genealogists? Check their online catalogue to see which Dorset registers they hold: > http://www.sog.org.uk/prc/dor.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Hello Helen I think the Barracks (and cottages) date from the Napoleonic Wars. At the time there were some German troops based in the area and I have seen marriage records referring to the groom as being "of the German Legion". Most likely registers would be those of Bincombe, Preston or Broadwey as the whole area around Bincombe (including what is now Littlemoor) was used as a camp and training area. I am sure I have read something about the German Legion but I can't remember where. The article I am trying to think of contained references to two of them being shot (for desertion?) and buried at (possibly) Bincombe. Sorry I can't remember more but I will keep thinking - I know I have got the article somewhere!! One possible source to look at is Somerset & Dorset Notes & Quotes - the indexes at Weymouth Library are pretty good. Another possibilty would be to see how the cottages were described in the 1841 Census whilst the Library also has a reasonable collection of maps. Hope this helps. Ray Collins Now, just where was that article ............ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Jones" <hsj@melcombe.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:51 AM Subject: [DOR-LIFE] Radipole Barracks, Weymouth > My daughter's new boyfriend lives in one of the old cottages called > Radipole Terrrace, off Dorchester Road in Lodmoor Hill, Weymouth, which > are all that remain of Radipole Cavalry Barracks and Parade Ground which > was in existence (I think) 1798-1828, according to Eric Ricketts "The > Buildings of Old Weymouth, vol 2". Ricketts says that these cottages were > probably the Officers living quarters and were also known as the 'German > Officers' bungalows. > > My daughter is really keen to find out more about the history of these > cottages, and, as I am always delighted whenever she shows any interest > whatsoever in any aspect of local history, I am trying to help. But.....I > am stuck. I have a large collection of books on Dorset in general and > Weymouth in particular but can only find passing references to the > barracks. Ricketts is the only book which actually mentions the cottages. > > I must confess that so far I have only researched from home and haven't > tried the Record Office or Library through complete lack of time. Someone > told me that there was an article in an old Dorset Year Book, possible by > George Lanning and possibly published in the 1980s but I have not been able > to track this down either. > > Can anyone tell me more about Radipole Barracks and/or the cottages or > point me in the direction of local source material? Also why were the > cottages sometimes called 'The German Officers Bungalows' other than > presumably they were allocated to German Officers! > > Thanks for any help > Helen > > Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset > http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk > List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and > British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list > > > ==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Visitng the Society of Genealogists? Check their online catalogue to see which Dorset registers they hold: > http://www.sog.org.uk/prc/dor.html > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >