Heytesbury Football Club during the 1920s.
The players are:
Bert Sheppard, Sam Dredge, Frank Pearce, Uriah White, ‘Scout’ Hancock, Jack Maslen, Arthur Pike, Chris Kitley, Mr Foot, Mr Ladd, Walt Cull and Fred Routley.
From The Parish Magazine, May 1901:
Heytesbury,
The School – The following is a list of the scholars who made every possible attendance during the last month:-
Boys: Harry Foyle, Tom Cooper, Ben Batchelor, Leslie Ashworth, Bertie George, Willie Batchelor, Edwin Ashworth, Percy Bailey, Willie Foyle, Bertie Turner, Arthur Franklin, Edward Kitley, Fred Lawrence, Willie Fox.
Girls: Mabel Rendell, Edna Cooper, Dorothy Lawrence, Beatrice Batchelor, Minnie Carpenter, Mabel Chant, Alice Bond, Doris Pike, Gladys Dicks, Alice Davis, Gwenny Cruse, Emily Carpenter.
For the quarter:- Boys: Willie Batchelor, Bertie George, Ben Batchelor, Harry Foyle, Ted Kitley, Bertie Turner, Willie Foyle.
For the quarter:- Girls: Mabel Rendell, Dorothy Lawrence, Minnie Carpenter, Doris Pike.
Infants: Arthur Johnson, Reginald Kitley, Bertie Hurdle, Arthur Kitley, Walter Ashworth, Eli Johnson, Dorothy Cruse, Minnie Turner, Annie Hallett, Dorothy Lines, Rose Sparey, Florence Sparey.
For the quarter: Reginald Kitley, Bertie Hurdle.
The Parish Magazine, March 1901, noted:
HEYTESBURY NATIONAL SCHOOL
The following scholars have made every
possible attendance during the school year
ending January 31st:
Boys:
Frederick Batchelor,
Benjamin Batchelor,
Frederick Lawrence.
Girls:
Mabel Rendall,
Edna Cooper,
Dorothy Lawrence.
The following have made full attendances
during the quarter ending January 31st:
Mixed School – Boys:
Harry Foyle,
Walter Rendall,
Albert Rendall,
Edward Kitley,
Frederick Lawrence,
William Hamlett,
Frederick Batchelor,
Benjamin Batchelor.
Girls:
Mabel Rendall,
Louisa Bartlett,
Edna Cooper,
Dorothy Lawrence,
Beatrice Batchelor,
Marguerite Blackmore.
Infants School:
Arthur Elling,
William Foyle,
Victor Rendall,
Reginald Elling.
The Warminster And West Wilts Herald, Saturday 11 June 1887, reported:
HEYTESBURY. PRESENTATION TO A TEACHER. – Miss Emma Furnell, who has just completed her pupil teachership at the Heytesbury National Schools and has obtained an appointment as assistant teacher at Ringmer National School, Sussex, has been presented by the scholars and teachers of the Heytesbury Schools with a beautiful photographic album, in appreciation of her services; and Mr. and Mrs. Wright (master and mistress of the schools), have presented her with a Jubilee photographic frame.
The Warminster And West Wilts Herald, Saturday 11 June 1887, reported:
HEYTESBURY. TRAP ACCIDENT. – Mrs. Gatteral, with whom was Mr. John Pierson, was driving her horse and trap up the High Street, on Tuesday evening, when the animal fell down, throwing the occupants on to the road. Both, however, escaped with only a few bruises, but one of the shafts of the trap was broken off.
From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 4th March 1882:
The current number of Cornhill contains an article on “Suggestive Surnames”, and after relating an anecdote of a Mr. Salmon who, on being presented with three children at a birth, named them Pickled, Potted, and Fresh, mentions a number of instances in which the names of great men have been applied to lesser individuals. Amongst these is mentioned George Henry Handel, who, it is said, “reappeared at Heytesbury, Wilts, in 1857.”
AN OBITUARY
Died, on the 31st May 1860, at Heytesbury House, in his 81st year, The Right-Honorable William, Lord Heytesbury.
His Lordship, the first Baron Heytesbury, was the second son of Sir W.P. Ashe A’Court, bart., by his second wife, the daughter of Henry Wyndham, Esq., of Salisbury.
He was born at Salisbury in 1779, and married in 1808 to the second daughter of the Hon. William H. Bouverie, and grand-daughter of the first Earl of Radnor, (she died in 1844).
He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1817.
The late peer was early engaged in diplomatic pursuits, having filled the office of Secretary of Legation at Naples, in July, 1801; he was secretary to the special embassy at Vienna, April 1807; Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary to the Barbary States, Jan. 1813; was present in the same capacity at Naples, July 1814, and at Madrid, April 1822; he was ambassador at Lisbon from Sept. 1824 to April 1828, and at St. Petersburgh from April 1828 to August 1832; he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from July 1844 to July 1846, and was Governor and Captain of the Isle of Wight, and Governor of Carisbrooke Castle for many years; these appointments he resigned in 1857.
In 1835, under Sir R. Peel’s Administration, he was appointed Governor-General of India, but in consequence of the succession of Lord Melbourne to power before he left England, Lord Ackland superseded him.
He is succeeded in the title by his son, the Hon. William Henry Ashe A’Court Holmes, born in London in 1809, and married in 1833 to the eldest daughter of the late Sir Leonard W. Holmes, bart., whose name he assumed.
The present peer was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. in 1831. He was M.P. for the Isle of Wight from 1837 to 1847, and is a Deputy-Lieutenant of Hants and of Wiltshire.
1838
James Fletcher Horner, son of cabinet maker James Horner, of Heytesbury. was apprenticed to John Snelgrove, cabinet maker, of Heytesbury (in the trade of cabinet maker) during 1838.
1838
Richard Farley, aged 16, son of labourer Richard Farley, of Heytesbury. was apprenticed to John Snelgrove, cabinet maker, of Heytesbury (in the trade of cabinet maker) during 1838.
A gravestone inscription at the churchyard of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, in Heytesbury, recorded by Danny Howell in the early 1990s:
In Memory of Henry Edward Prangley
Son of John and Anna Mary Prangley
who died Sept 2nd 1828
Aged 6 years.
Also of Edwin their son
Who died in his infancy.
Ere Sun could blight or sorrow fade
Death came with friendly care
The opening Buds to Heaven convey
And bade them blossom there.
Why should we lament that our
Little Ones are crowned with Victory.
