From Church, Warminster & District, January 1981:
St. John The Baptist, Horningsham
Funeral, 9th December 1980, Florence Barnes.
The death of Mrs. Barnes has taken from our earthly friendship one who had been central to the life of the parish for a very long time. Her service to the village in the Post Office, her friendship to all and her love for her family will not easily be forgotten and we send Mr. Barnes our affectionate sympathy.
Teachers and pupils at Horningsham School in 1972:
Starting in the back row and going left to right:
Enver Mehmet, Susan Trollope, Teresa Ashley,
Joanne Summerell, Alexander Mackintosh,
David Yates, Linda Allard, Sarah Green,
Catherine Bignall, Mark Young, Charlie Yates,
Andrew Trollope, Paul Saxbee, Hassan Mehmet,
Trudi Hardiman, Kenton Baker, Debbie Bond,
Helen Taylor, Richard Ashley, Martin Weeks,
Philip Ashley, Mark Horder, Lester Carpenter,
Mark Haskell, Kim Bond, David Green,
Stephen Baker, Robert Mackintosh,
Dominic Charles, Martin Ashley, Sharon Dalton,
Jacqueline Crossman, Wendy Mathews,
Suzanne Young, Julie McHardy, Mrs. Bignall,
Mr. and Mrs. Booker, Sarah Chard,
Susan Eggleton, Caroline Stansbie,
Tina Hoddinott, Della Weeks, Lucy Green,
Stephen Davies, Ben Haskell,
Tracey Pollard and Dale Pollard.
Horningsham Directory 1938:
Maurice Stanley Adams, bus proprietor and carrier.
Joseph Adlam, Pottle Street.
Miss Alice Adlam, draper, Chapel Street.
Charles Allard, farmer, The Butchery Farm.
– Allen, Bath Arms Hotel.
Miss A.T. Anderson, headmistress of Council School.
George Ayres.
Charles Barnes, coachman at Longleat.
George Barter, secretary of Horningsham branch of West Wilts C.B. Society.
Most Hon. The Marquis of Bath, K.G., C.B., J.P., Longleat, and 29 Grosvenor Square, London, W.1.
Charles Trevelyan Beauchamp, farmer, carpenter and undertaker, Mill Farm.
George Beauchamp, thatcher and farmer, secretary of Horningsham branch of the National Friendly Society.
Captain J. Bothwell.
Ernest Carey, veterinary surgeon, Hitcombe Bottom.
Albert Carpenter, dairyman to Mr. Hoddinott, Parsonage Farm.
Arthur Carpenter, blacksmith Cock Road.
E. Chapman, farmer and shopkeeper, Chapel Street.
Frederick Chapman, assistant gardener at Longleat.
Mrs. Martha Chapman, lodge-keeper, Longleat Park.
Albert Collins, house steward at Longleat.
Alick Crees, The Curatage.
Albert Edgar Curtis, plumber at Longleat.
Joseph Curtis, farmer, Newbury.
Mrs. A.E. Curtis, W.I. secretary, 125 Cock Road.
Charles Davis, assistant chauffeur at Longleat, 161 Chapel Street.
Elizabeth Davis, retired.
Frederick Davis, 102 The Common.
Henry Dicks, foreman, Longleat Nurseries.
Mrs. J. Dicks, farmer, Newbury.
Tom Dicks, grocer and provision dealer, The Stores.
Reverend J.W. Dickson, Congregational Minister.
Frank Doel, keeper, Highwood.
James Dredge.
Albert Henry Farrar, D.C.M., night watchman at Longleat, Highwood.
William Fitz, Baycliffe Dairy Farm.
Ernest Found, insurance agent (Prudential), 38 Newbury.
S. Ford, 146 West Common.
Albert Frampton, County Cottage.
Archibald Garrett, Little Horningsham.
Samuel Garrett, foreman woodman, Longleat.
Charles F. Gent, farmer, Lower Barn Farm.
Alonzo Gooding, head gardener at Longleat.
Police Sergeant Gray, Police Station.
John Hale, hairdresser, etc.
Harry Hillier, head chauffeur at Longleat.
Fred Hoddinott, farmer, Manor Farm.
Alfred Vincent Hutchings, sub postmaster.
Frederick George Jarvis, assistant gardener, Highwood.
F. Kemp, head forester.
Long Bros., farmers, Royal Oak Farm.
Cyril George Long, secretary to Lord Bath, Broadslade.
William Oscar Long, farmer, Park Farm.
Lewis Marsh, bricklayer, Longleat.
John McClurg, 50 Rowe Hill, Newbury.
William Penny, plumber at Longleat.
W. Pullin, carpenter and wheelwright, sexton and parish clerk, Church Street.
Reginald Robins, employed at Nurseries.
Mrs. L. Robbins, Broadslade.
Reverend H.T. Savage, A.T.S.
Harry Scott, keeper, Little Horningsham.
Edwin Shepherd, farmer, Scotland Farm.
William Snelgrove, farmer, Woodhouse Farm.
Ernest Trollope, farmer, Church Street.
T.W. Tweddle, farm bailiff.
Albert James Watts, keeper, Gunville.
Stephen Watts, electrician at Longleat House.
Richard Whatley, farmer.
Thomas Whatley, farmer, Hitcombe Bottom Dairy.
Victor Strode Manley in Volume 11 of his Regional Survey of the Warminster District, compiled during the 1920s and 1930s, included the following undated cutting from an unnamed newspaper:
THREE GENERATIONS IN AN ENTERTAINMENT
PROGRAMME BY MARQUESS OF BATH’S FAMILY
(From Our Own Correspondent)
BATH, Saturday.
Three generations of the Thynne family completed a successful three nights’ run of a variety entertainment this evening, in aid of local “good causes,” at the village hall at Horningsham, near Longleat, the Marquess of Bath’s house.
Comedy was a feature of the programme, and Lord Bath’s grand-children appeared in several charming tableaux. The Hon. Caroline Thynne, as Jack the Giant-killer, stood in a threatening attitude before Lord Bath, who made a fearsome giant with a shaggy beard, top-boots, and a huge cudgel.
After a quick change, Lord Bath’s other appearance was as the miner in a mime of the old song “Clementine,” in which his second daughter, Lady Nunburnholme, played the name-part; his son, Viscount Weymouth, M.P., the lover; and Miss Josepha Smith, the “little sister,” whom the song records as having been such a consolation after Clementine’s unpleasant experience in the “foaming brine.”
Viscountess Weymouth, the producer, appeared several times, but her “star turn” was the exceedingly clever characterisation she gave as a girl in the slums telling a fairy story in broad Cockney and with typical gesticulations to a crowd of children, composed of her own little daughter and her nephews and niece, Masters Thomas, John, and Martin Stanley, the Hon. Ben, and the Hon. Charmian Wilson.
Writing in 1922, in his Notes On Some Surnames, Victor Strode Manley stated:
“HORSELL – [Surname of a] Horningsham postman when I was a boy.” [Victor Strode Manley was born in 1889].
Horningsham Directory 1911:
J. Adlam. Farmer. Pottle Street Dairy.
T.E. Alexander. Private secretary to Marquis of Bath.
Most Hon. The Marquis of Bath, J.P. Longleat and 29 Grosvenor Square, London, S.W.
F. Barnes. Farmer. Broadslade.
Mrs A. Beauchamp. Beer retailer and shopkeeper.
J. Bothwell, L.R.C.S.I., surgeon and medical officer.
G. Brazier. House steward at Longleat.
F.G. Breach. Police Constable, Highwood.
A. Cameron. Head forester on Longleat Estate. The Nursery.
H. Carter. Foreman at The Stalls.
G. Chapman. Shopkeeper.
Mrs G.J. Chinn. The Cottage.
C.A. Cracknell. Bath Arms Hotel.
Rev. F.R. Dixon. Curate.
J. Doel. Farmer. Scotland Farm.
W. Fitz. Farmer. Hitcombe Bottom Farm.
J. French. Head coachman at Longleat.
Mrs M. Frowde. Parish nurse.
H. Gandy. Head gardener at Longleat.
J. Hale. Parish clerk.
C. Haskell. Blacksmith and farrier.
W. Hogarth. Foreman woodman on Longleat Estate.
J.H. Hulbert. Provision dealer.
J. Jones. Police Sergeant.
W. Jones. Farmer and carrier. Newbury.
Miss Lodder. Post Office.
A.W. Long. Royal Oak Farm.
W.O. Long. Dairyman. Horningsham Dairy House.
Rev. A.S. Murray, M.A. Vicarage.
B.J. Pope. Farmer. Manor Farm.
J. Pope. Farmer. Manor Farm.
W.T. Thorne. Assistant overseer.
T. Tims. Farm bailiff to Marquis of Bath. The Stalls.
T. Welborn. National Schoolmaster.
C. Whitmarsh. Tailor. Laburnum Cottage.
Warminster Directory And Local And Village Guide 1900:
Horningsham
Edward Adlam, wheelwright.
Mrs.Emily Adlam, shopkeeper.
Samuel Adlam, carrier.
George Ayres, baker.
Richard Barker, shopkeeper.
Frank Barnes, farmer, Broadslade.
Most Hon. the Marquis of Bath, J.P., Longleat.
Charles William Beauchamp, beer retailer and shopkeeper.
James Bothwell, surgeon and registrar of births and deaths.
Henry Carter, foreman at The Stalls.
George Chapman, shopkeeper.
Chinn and Thorn, butchers, Bath Arms Hotel.
George Croom, farmer, Mill Farm.
James Doel, farmer, Scotland Farm.
George French, head coachman at Longleat.
Mrs. Martha Froude, parish nurse.
Henry Fry, farm bailiff to the Marquis of Bath, The Stalls.
Hugh Garrett, foreman forester, County Cottage.
Edgar Gough, farmer, Woodhouse Farm.
Charles Haskell, blacksmith.
Joseph Hinton, farmer.
Rev. Walter Page Hogben, Congregational Minister, The Manse.
Frederick Holmes, house steward at Longleat House.
James Charles Horsey, dairyman, Baycliffe Dairy.
John Hulbert, grocer and provision dealer.
Rev. Canon James John Jacob, M.A., Vicarage.
Mrs. Fanny Jones, farmer, Newbury.
William Oscar Long, dairyman, Horningsham Dairy.
Henry Matthews, nurseryman.
Miss Elizabeth Maxfield, Post Office.
Mrs. Louisa Miller, Pottle Street Dairy.
Matthew Murch, shopkeeper.
Robert Philip, head forester on the Longleat Estate.
John Pope, farmer, Manor Farm.
John Singer, foreman at Longleat Gardens.
Sidney Smith, shoemaker.
George Tancock, house carpenter at Longleat.
Mrs. Thorne.
Walter Thorne, chair and cabinet maker.
Henry Trollope, tailor.
Josiah Trollope, head gardener at Longleat.
Robert Trollope, parish clerk.
Thomas Welborn, National Schoolmaster.
Charles Whitmarsh, tailor.
Edward Wilkins, market gardener.
A list of “Miscellaneous documents from Wiltshire Estates in Longleat Records” http://www.gomezsmart.myzen.co.uk/land/longleat/misc02w.htm includes:
Horningsham.
20 October 1871 – 7 November 1872.
Horningsham Common Plantation.
Papers relating to the prosecution of George Chinn of Horningsham for stealing pit timber worth £1 15s from Horningsham Common plantation.
(i) Copy depositions taken on 7 November 1872 from George Berry, woodward to the 4th Marquess; Joseph Barber, labourer to John Garrett; Mary Ann Fussell, keeper of the 4th Marquess’s weighbridge at Frome Woodlands; Henry Stubbs, clerk at Middle Pit at Radstock; Isaac Look, clerk at Ludlow’s Pit at Radstock; and Henry Parr Jones, steward to the 4th Marquess. With documents produced in evidence:
(ii) W. Thorne’s account book of loads of timber taken from the plantation and weighed, 27 October – 20 December 1871 (Marked A);
(iii) Receipt book of loads weighed at the weighbridge at Woodlands, 1 November 1871 – 9 March 1872 (Marked B);
(iv) Lord Bath’s account book of loads weighed at the weighbridge at Woodlands, 10 November – 18 December 1871.
(v-viii) draft notes of loads weighed.
