Category: Persons – Surname beginning with E

Albert Elloway’s Family Lived At 37a Chapel Street (Trowbridge Lane), Warminster Common

Wednesday 4th May 1988

The book Remember Warminster, Volume Two, edited by Danny Howell, published by Bedeguar Books, October 1994, includes the edited transcript of a tape-recorded interview Danny Howell made with Albert Elloway (born 19th May 1907 – died 4th January 1994).

In that interview, Albert Elloway said:

“When I was about 18 months old, a babe in arms, my family left Lower Bread Street and moved to 37a Chapel Street. Actually, it was a lane off Chapel Street, called Trowese Lane or Shovese Lane. Some people called it Trowbridge Lane. It wasn’t signposted and don’t ask me where the name Trowbridge Lane comes from. Us locals knew it as Trowese Lane.”

“Trowese Lane connected Chapel Street with the allotments [the Tynings Allotments] at the top. We lived in one of two houses at the top of the lane. The lane petered out at the allotments, about 20 yards past the houses. Those two houses are still there. I’ll tell you who used to have them – Ted Gooch. He lives up Portway now.”

“I lived at Trowese Lane with my family until I was 14 or 15. The owner of the cottages when we lived there was Oliver Cundick, the baker. When we moved out, Bert Turner, I think his name was Bert, moved into there. He was a relation of Cundick’s. We moved from Trowbridge Lane to Lyme Avenue in the early 1920s, about 1923.”

Notice Of Claims ~ The Estate Of Wing Commander, Royal Air Force (Retired) James Everidge Of Bishopstrow

From The London Gazette, 22nd January 1980:

Name of Deceased (Surname first): EVERIDGE, James.

Address, description and date of death of Deceased: Shirley House, Bishopstrow, Warminster, Wiltshire, Wing Commander, Royal Air Force (Retired). 3rd March 1979.

Names, addresses and descriptions of Persons to whom notices of claims are to be given and names, in parentheses, of Personal Representatives: Myer Collett & Co., 5 Beaconsfield Road, Weston-super-Mare, Solicitors. (Cordelia Mary Everidge, Charles John James Everidge and Charles Marshall Stephen Cuthbert Atchley.)

Date before which notices of claims to be given: 31st March 1980.

Residents In Warminster, Surnames Beginning With E, 1922

1922
Private residents in Warminster,
Surnames beginning with E.

Charles Ede, Sambourne Road.

Major C.T. Edmunds, D.S.O., R.A.M.C., 47 East Street.

Charles John Edwards, 25 Portway.

Henry Boyce Edwards, 32 North Row.

Walter Linghorn Edwards, 63 Boreham Road.

Richard Elling, West House, West Street.

Arthur Marley Elloway, 10 North Row.

Henry Edwin Elloway, 22 Deverill Road.

Walter Elloway, Hillsborough House, Sambourne.

Mrs. Everett, 5 George Street.

Rice James Everett, 33 Silver Street.

The History Of Warminster – William Emm

The Rev. John J. Daniell, in his book The History Of Warminster, published in 1879, noted:

The Hon. Shute Barrington, Bishop of Salisbury, in 1782, afterwards translated to the see of Durham, on a journey through Warminster, as he sat at the Lord’s Arms, noticed a boy busily at work making baskets, and whistling and singing cheerily. His honest industry and happy face won the favour of the Prince Palatine Bishop, and he took the boy with him to Durham. His name was William Emm. He served as page in the palace, and sung, as a chorister, in the Cathedral. He rose from post to post in the Bishop’s household, until he became his private secretary, and had in his hands the official management of the large and important diocese of Durham. He left much valuable property to his family.

The Crockerton Centenarian Who Wasn’t

In its issue dated Saturday 18th June 1870, the Warminster Herald newspaper reported that a pamphlet about the age of a woman living in Crockerton was erroneous. The Warminster Herald noted:

A short time ago a little book was published, professing to give an account of a “Wiltshire Centenarian,” living in the neighbouring district of Crockerton, and a portrait of the venerable dame was prefixed to the work. Without entering upon a critical examination of the book, which contains many ingenious flights of fancy, we think it right to state that its title, at least, is a complete misnomer.

Ann Elling, the old woman whose history the book professes to give, is, only now, at most about 93. She was the eldest child of Joseph and Mary Fisher, of Bampton, in the county of Devon, and was first married in 1803 in the city of Exeter, no age being assigned to her in the marriage register, but her parentage being given as above.

From enquires that have been made, it appears that she was not christened as a child, and there is therefore no Baptismal register to testify as to the probable date of her birth; but her parents, it is ascertained, were married in Bampton church in November 1776.

It is evident then, that this old woman, instead of being a centenarian, is not more than 93 years of age, having been born some time in the year 1777. This date tallies exactly with the belief of many who knew her in days gone by, and who concisely describe the year of her birth as the year of “three sevens.”

We cannot but express our regret that those persons who made so much stir about the old lady’s 100th birthday, and put forth the ingenious and imaginative pamphlet entitled “The Wiltshire Centenarian,” did not first take more pains to ascertain the real truth as to the age of their venerable friend.

Sir Thomas Elyot

From The Modern Encyclopedia, published in the early 1930s:

Sir Thomas Elyot. English diplomatist and scholar. Born c.1490, in Wiltshire, he was knighted by Henry VIII and sent on several embassies. His most famous work is The Book named The Governor, 1531, the first on the subject of education written and printed in the English language. He also compiled a Latin-English dictionary, 1538. He died at Carleton, Cambridgeshire, March 20, 1546.