Hello, Yesterday I found out that one of my aunts was at Brocks Mount, Stope-under-Ham, Somerset in the 1920s, she would have been about 4years of age, was this place an orphanage, home, school, and where was it? please. The nearest I can find is Stoke sub Hamdon. Best wishes, Myrtle

Hi Myrtle I would suggest that you were heading down the right avenue - see : http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66503 Stoke-under-Hamdon is often known as Stoke-under-Ham, which, IIRC from when I lived up that way some 40 years ago, sounds about right and suggests that Stope is probably a type or transcription error. If you Google : Brocks Mount stoke under ham Somerset you should come up with lots of interesting tid-bits. Paul On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 10:03:26 +0100 (BST), you wrote: >Hello, > >Yesterday I found out that one of my aunts was at Brocks Mount, Stope-under-Ham, Somerset in the 1920s, she would have been about 4years of age, was this place an orphanage, home, school, and where was it? please. > >The nearest I can find is Stoke sub Hamdon. > >Best wishes, >Myrtle > >------------------------------- >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 50° 33' N, 2° 26' W http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html

On 01/10/2013 10:03, Myrtle wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday I found out that one of my aunts was at Brocks Mount, > Stope-under-Ham, Somerset in the 1920s, she would have been about 4years of > age, was this place an orphanage, home, school, and where was it? please. > > The nearest I can find is Stoke sub Hamdon. If you put "Brocks Mount, Stoke sub Hamdon" into a search engine the results show it's a road of fairly new houses (courtesy of Google Maps). On a map of 1900, there's a large house on the site which appears to have been built between 1887 and 1900 because it's not on the earlier online map on the Heritage Centre site, but the chapel and Parsonage Farm are. (http://www1.somerset.gov.uk/archives/Maps/OS62htm/8210.htm) An old directory, such as Kelly's, should help identify whether it was a private house or an establishment of some kind. Somerset Heritage Centre would probably have more inforamation. Stoke (not Stope) under Ham was the old name for Stoke sub Hamdon. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk