Category: Persons – Surname beginning with C

Information about persons whose surnames begin with the letter C.

“We Have To Work Like Convicts” At Warminster

Thursday 10th September 1915

A multi-view picture postcard with illustrations of the Market Place, Warminster; the Golf Club House on Arn Hill, Warminster; view from the Downs at Warminster; Longleat House; Westbury White Horse; the downs at Codford; and Stonehenge.

In the centre of the pictures is the following rhyme:

I am here
Somewhere in Wiltshire.
It’s very queer,
I cannot tell you where.
Warminster’s our mark,
The river Wylye is over there.
You send that letter,
You cannot do better.
It’s sure to land
“Somewhere”, I am There. 

The card is postmarked Warminster 8PM 10 September 1915.

The card is addressed to: Mrs. A. Greenwood, 4 Hollins Street, Walsden, Nr. Todmorden, Yorkshire.

The message is also dated “Sept 10 1915” and reads:

“Dear Sister, The weather so very hot indeed but you know I cannot get fat because we have to work like convicts. Start 8 to 8 at night. My right address is Pte E. Crossley 09516, Army Ordnance Depot, Warminster, Wiltshire. (Will write a letter when I have time).

Cecil Chubb

From Contemporary Biographies, Wilts And Dorset, At The Opening Of The Twentieth Century, edited by W.T. Pike, published 1906:

Nobility And Gentry.

Chubb. Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb, Bemerton Lodge, Salisbury; born April 4th, 1876, educated at St. Mark’s College, London, and Christ College, Cambridge; B.A., 1904, 1st Class in Honours in Natural Science; LL.B., 1905, 3rd Honours in Law; late Bachelor Scholar of Christ’s College. Formerly Assistant Master in the Bishop’s School; Intermediate B.Sc., London University; member of the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple.

Mr. J. Carpenter Has Moved To Fordingbridge

From The Parish Magazine, November 1903:

Corsley. Mr. J. Carpenter
We have lately missed a familiar face in the choir of the Parish Church. Mr. J. Carpenter has left the mill, to take up his residence near Fordingbridge. We are sure the good wishes of all his friends go with him. Who will fill his place? We want a bass.

Santo Crimp Consulted About Sewage Pumping In Warminster

Danny Howell writes:

Santo Crimp, C.E., was an eminent drainage engineer. He achieved certain fame, not to say notoriety, in Warminster, during the late 1880s, in connection with the suggestion proposed by Mr. W.F. Morgan (Chairman of the Warminster Urban District Council) that Warminster’s sewage be pumped to Beggar’s Bush (a field north of Woodcock and the railway), at Imber Road. Santo Crimp was also consulted by the Sanitary Committee of Bristol, in 1897, with regards a sewage disposal scheme for the city. He died in April 1901.

Extraordinary Cure For A Cough At Warminster Workhouse

Tuesday 19th July 1892

From the Warminster Herald, Saturday 23rd July 1892:

Extraordinary Cure For A Cough

On Tuesday morning [19th July 1892] an old man named George Creamer was found in one of wards of the Union Workhouse [at Warminster], by the Master, Mr. Barling, with his throat cut. The excuse Creamer gave the Master was that during the night he had been very restless with a bad cough, and that he had only tried to bore a hole through his neck to get at it. The “hole” was “bored” with a piece of tin. Creamer was attended by Mr. F.I. Flower.

Second Conviction For Felony

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 18th January 1873:

Police – Town Hall. Saturday. – Before the Jon. W.L. Holmes a’Court, and Nathaniel Barton, Esq.

Emma Carr, an elderly woman of Warminster Common, wearing a green shade over one eye, was charged with stealing 2 pig’s eye-pieces, a piece of cheese, and a piece of lard, value 4/6, from Mr. Ransome’s shop, Warminster Common, on 7th January.

Lucy Ransome, daughter of the prosecutor, stated that on the day in question, she was in her father’s shop when the prisoner came in during the evening. She bought several things and then went out, and returned and bought some more things, and after she was served she kept lingering about the shop while other customers were being served. Witness saw the prisoner pick up a pig’s eye-piece and put it under her cloak. She told her father, who sent for P.C. Wheeler, and on the prisoner being searched in the shop the articles mentioned in the charge were found upon her. Mr. Ransome, the prosecutor, corroborated his daughter.

The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to one calendar month with hard labour. This appeared to be the prisoner’s second conviction for felony.

Miss Sarah Callaway Left £50 In Her Will To The Missions Of The Church Of England

From The Warminster Parish Magazine And Church Register, No.10, Vol.4., October 1867:

Miss Sarah Callaway, who lived for many years as servant to the family of the Vicar, has left by her will, £50 to the Missions of the Church of England.

Documents, And A Conveyance To James Curtis Of A Cottage In Fore Street, Warminster Common (Later No.22), 1835-1837

The Wiltshire And Swindon History Centre, at Cocklebury Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3QN, holds the following document(s):

Nine copy legal papers, etc., a sale particular, and a conveyance to James Curtis of a cottage in Fore Street, Warminster Common (later no. 22), one of a number of cottages at Warminster Common sold by the Board of Guardians. 1835-1837. Reference 860/3.

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