Up on Cleeve Hill on one of those dangerous single track lanes that run down from the Watchet - Blue Anchor road. Philip ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janet Cridland" <janetcridland@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <eng-somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] Hallo List - Billbrook > OK Peter - I'll print all this off and stick it in my "holiday" file. > > Philip - I didn't know about the Woodland Burial Ground. Where is it? > > Jan > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Killow" <peterL@Killow305.fsnet.co.uk> > To: <eng-somerset@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:15 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] Hallo List - Billbrook > > >> Many thanks Jan, and again, yes please. >> I have been working on finding links between my Punnett ancestors in >> various >> areas, and as you say this is an interesting one to know about. >> Regards >> Peter >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: eng-somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:eng-somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Philip Maddocks >> Sent: 13 April 2008 21:06 >> To: eng-somerset@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] Hallo List - Billbrook >> >> Janet >> It is times like this that I find the lack of access to West Somerset >> Free >> Press so frustrating (although it should be said that it was our local >> environmental health officer declared their Archive building unsafe). >> >> Do you know that there is also a Woodland Burial Ground in the parish >> now? >> I don't how who keeps records though and it would not have been there in >> 1967. >> >> Philip >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Janet Cridland" <janetcridland@blueyonder.co.uk> >> To: <eng-somerset@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 8:51 PM >> Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] Hallo List >> >> >>> What an interesting man! >>> >>> I googled Bilbrook Lodge and it looks as if its still there - a Dr >>> Currie >>> applied for planning permission for a new stable block in 2000. I'm >>> going >>> to be staying in Bilbrook in June, so I'll try and take you a photo of >>> it >>> if >>> you'd like? >>> >>> It occurs to me Peter that if he lived in Bilbrook he was on the main >>> road >>> and not far from Carhampton, so he could have been buried at St John the >>> Baptist in Carhampton. I'll look there if I can't find him at Old >>> Cleeve. >>> >>> Jan >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Peter Killow" <peterL@Killow305.fsnet.co.uk> >>> To: <eng-somerset@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 8:37 PM >>> Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] Hallo List >>> >>> >>>> Sorry, no - I can say that: >>>> >>>> " In 1913 Punnett married a widow, Eveline Maude Froude Nutcombe-Quicke >>>> (d. >>>> 1965), daughter of John Froude Bellew of Stockleigh English, Devon; >>>> they >>>> had >>>> no children. After his marriage Punnett diverted his formidable >>>> athletic >>>> activities from cricket to tennis. In 1943 he retired to Somerset, >>>> where >>>> he >>>> maintained his wide interests, which included Japanese prints, Chinese >>>> porcelain, biologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and >>>> wine: >>>> he retained a personal cellar at Caius, which he visited annually. At >>>> seventy-four he published humorous verse in Latin. He died on 3 January >>>> 1967 >>>> while playing bridge at his home, Bilbrook Lodge, Bilbrook, Washford, >>>> near >>>> Minehead in Somerset." >>>> >>>> If that's any help. (He was a geneticist). >>>> >>>> Thanks again >>>> Peter >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: eng-somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com >>>> [mailto:eng-somerset-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Janet Cridland >>>> Sent: 13 April 2008 20:25 >>>> To: eng-somerset@rootsweb.com >>>> Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] Hallo List >>>> >>>> Well that's certainly not a local name! >>>> >>>> I don't suppose you happen to know if Reginald was buried or cremated? >>>> There are rows of cremation plaques lining the church path and it would >>>> help >>>> >>>> if I knew whether to look there or at the newish headstones (don't >>>> worry >>>> if >>>> you don't know). >>>> >>>> Incidentally, the only Old Cleeve MIs online are the WWI/II Rolls of >>>> Honour >>>> which I put on http://wsom-opc.org.uk/Data/index.html. There is no >>>> record >>>> of the headstones online. I need to either plead with the vicar (who I >>>> know >>>> >>>> has a list of sorts), or crawl round the churchyard and do it myself >>>> some >>>> time! >>>> >>>> Jan >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>> ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>>> the >>>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>> the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG. >> Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.13/1375 - Release Date: >> 12/04/2008 >> 11:32 >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message