Category: Persons – Surname beginning with M

Information about persons whose surnames begin with the letter M.

Mr Joseph Montague ~ A Resident At Boreham Road, Warminster, For 53 Years

Mr Joseph Montague died at a Torquay nursery home on Wednesday 5th January 1944. He was aged 87.

Joseph Montague, the son of Francis Montague and Hannah Montague, was born at Mells, Somerset, in 1857. Francis Montague, born at Mells, was an edge tool maker. Hannah Montague, born at Mells, was a general shop keeper.

For many years Joseph Montague was a “coach wheeler,” held in esteem by his employer Mr James Wise, coach builder, at East Street, Warminster – “a trade which entailed the highest craftmanship.”

Joseph Montague married Ellen Cooper at the Parish Church of St. Denys, The Minster, Warminster, on 18th September 1882. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. Sir James Erasmus Philipps. The witnesses were Albert Cooper and Mary Wildeman.

Ellen was born at Boscombe, Wiltshire, in 1861. She was the daughter of labourer William Cooper.

Joseph and Ellen had one daughter, Ellen May Montague (born at Warminster). At the time of the 1911 census, Ellen May Montague, then aged 26, was working as a dressmaker, at home (on her own account) – something she had done for a living for at least 10 years.

The 1911 Census also records Joseph’s mother-in-law, Sarah Cooper, living with Joseph, Ellen, and Ellen May, at 28 Boreham Road, Warminster. Sarah Cooper, then aged 77 and a widow, was born at Deverill, near Warminster.

Ellen May Montague married William G.S. Brooking at the Parish Church of St. Denys, The Minster, Warminster, during the latter part of 1920.

Joseph and Ellen Montague resided at 28 Boreham Road, Warminster, for 53 years, before moving to Torquay, to live with their daughter Ellen May and son-in-law, at 72 Sherwell Hill, Chelston.

Joseph Montague’s obituary noted that he was “Universally liked by a large circle of friends in Warminster. Mr Montague was the type of a real old English gentleman. He had suffered a long and painful illness which he accepted most patiently.”

The Warminster Postmaster George Strode Manley

Danny Howell writes:

The Warminster Postmaster George Strode Manley

Edmund and Charlotte Manley’s son, George Strode Manley, was nominated Postmaster at Warminster by Treasury letter on 19 April 1875 and took up his duties on 31 May. He had previously been postal clerk for nine years.

George Strode Manley was responsible for 17 sub-offices and he periodically visited, inspected and tested postman’s walks, and even measured the whole distance to Imber using a measuring chain (six and a half miles), the villages of the Wylye Valley as far as Steeple Langford, and Horningsham and Kingston Deverill.

George Strode Manley retired in 1915 after 40 years service as Postmaster. No pension was granted on the grounds that a private business had been operated from the Post Office premises at the same time. Thus ended the Manley family connection with Warminster Post Office.

Following a well-earned retirement in good health, George Strode Manley passed away after a sudden heart attack on Tuesday 7 January 1936. His death occurred at his home at 42 Boreham Road (later re-numbered No.35), Warminster. He left a family of three sons and a daughter – William Manley who resided at Capetown; Frank Manley who worked for the post office in Bristol; schoolteacher Victor Manley; and Miss Manley who resided with her father.

George Manley’s wife, Charlotte Emma, who was the eldest daughter of Mr. Toomer, the postmaster at Salisbury, predeceased him on 10 December 1923. She was of a retiring disposition, rarely taking part in public life. She enjoyed remarkable health, retained by long country rambles, which were her chief delight. A repetition of a short but serious illness she suffered during the winter of 1922 occurred in October 1923 during which she battled bravely. She died of heart trouble, aged 68. Her funeral at St. John’s Church, Boreham Road, Warminster, was conducted by the Rev. Canon Jacob. Mrs. Manley’s obituary referred to her as “A quiet, unobtrusive character, whose meekness and singular purity of heart, combined with much virility displayed in the management of home life, made her indeed saintly in the eyes of her intimate friends and acquaintances.”

Residents In Warminster, Surnames Beginning With M, 1922

1922
Private residents in Warminster,
Surnames beginning with M

George Macey, 1 Halliday’s Yard, East Street.

William Macey, 28 Boreham.

Rev. L.S. Mackesy (St. Boniface College), Vicarage Street.

Mrs. Amelia Ann Mackrell, Church Street.

George Strode Manley, Derwent House, Boreham Road.

Rev. George Manning (Congregational), 21 Boreham Road.

Mrs. Markham, 43 Boreham Road.

Neville Marriage, Heronslade, Boreham.

Ernest George Marsh, 1 Talbot Villas, Pound Street.

Joseph Marsh, 46 Brook Street.

Robert Marsh, 48 Market Place.

W. Ralph Marshall, M.A., Cranford, Boreham Road.

Mrs. Ellen Marshman, Ivy Lodge, East Street.

Mrs. Annie Matthews, Cranley, Vicarage Street.

Stephen Matthews, Boreham Manor.

Mrs. Maxfield, 16 North Row.

William George Maxfield, 5 Smallbrook Lane.

Miss Mayell, 28 Silver Street.

Arthur Henry Mees, 17 East Street.

Miss Merrick, The Limes, Silver Street.

Edward Mills, 29 East Street.

Elford Charles Mills, 45 Vicarage Street.

Mrs. Elizabeth Mills, 39 Boreham Road.

Leonard Mitchell, 13 Vicarage Street (apartment).

Reginald William Mole, 92 Portway.

Joseph Montague, 28 Boreham Road.

Frank Moody, 7 Fore Street.

Herbert Moody, 34 George Street.

William Moody, Fern Cottage, Sambourne.

Albert Edward Moore, 31 Vicarage Street.

Henry Arthur Kerley Moore, Oak Cottage, Emwell Street.

Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, 7 Jubilee Terrace, West Street.

Walter Moore, Inglethorpe, Pound Street.

William Thomas Moore, 11 and 12 Brook Street.

Christopher Mooring, 29 North Row.

Frank Morgan, 49 Market Place.

Miss Morgan, 4 Boreham Villas.

Geoffrey W. Morrice, Church Street.

Arthur John Morse, 41 Market Place.

Miss J.V. Morse, 18 Market Place.

Major Mansel Witherby Mortimer, Manor House.

John Munday, 4 Ash Walk.

Frederick George Musselwhite, Bradley Road.

Insurance Policy For Frank Moody’s Properties At Fore Street, Brook Street, Chapel Street, Bread Street, and Marsh Street, at Newtown, Warminster, 1908

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

Insurance policy with the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company on Frank Moody’s property in Fore Street, Brook Street, Chapel Street, Bread Street, and Marsh Street, at Newtown, Warminster. Includes a description of each building. Date 1908. Reference 860/5.

Qualifying Property: A Freehold Farm At Furnax Lane, Warminster

Electoral Roll : The list of Ownership Voters, Parliamentary Voters and Parochial Electors, for Warminster (Parliamentary) Polling District (Bb), Parish of Warminster, Wiltshire, 1894 – 1895, includes:

No. 104
Name of each voter at full length: Thomas Charles Millard.
Place of Abode: 35 Boreham Road, Warminster.
Nature of Qualification: Freehold farm.
Description of Qualifying Property: Furnax Lane, Warminster.

Pistol Accident Near The Reservoir At Botany, Warminster

Thursday 1st August 1889

From the Warminster And West Wilts Herald, Saturday 3rd August 1889:

Pistol Accident Near The Reservoir At Botany

Serious Accident. On Thursday afternoon [1st August 1889] a serious accident occurred to a boy named Arthur Holloway, eleven years of age, living at the Common. It appears another lad named Marsh was engaged in scaring birds from a wheat field near the reservoir at Botany, Holloway being in his company. To assist him in his work, Marsh had an old pistol in his possession and had just loaded it with the usual powder and shot, when, by accident, the pistol was discharged, the shot entering Holloway’s side just below the heart, causing him to immediately fall to the ground. Some men who were at work in an adjoining field were immediately called, and obtained Mr. Payne’s cart and at once conveyed Holloway to the Hospital, where he lies in a very dangerous condition.

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