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 > >