Category: Maiden Bradley: People

Henry Goddard – A Most Indebted Clergyman – By Steve Hobbs

Some notes by Steve Hobbs, of the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, about a former Vicar of Longbridge Deverill and also a former Curate at Maiden Bradley.

A Most Indebted Clergyman – Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Three Military Graves At All Saints Churchyard, Maiden Bradley

Tuesday 14th November 2017

Three military graves at All Saints Churchyard, Maiden Bradley.

9744 Serjeant A.C. Adlam. MM.

Scots Guards

14th October 1919

TR8/17230 Private P.G. Adlam

37th Training Reserve Bn.

16th April 1917

W.J. Greening

Ordinary Seaman. RN J/86653

H.M.S. “Vivid”

8th May 1918 Age 18

Photographs taken by Danny Howell on Tuesday 14th November 2017.

Death And Funeral Of William George Potter

William George Potter. Passed away peacefully on 19th November 2011 at the RUH, Bath, aged 79. Private cremation at Semington. Service of Thanksgiving for William’s life at All Saints’s Church, Maiden Bradley, on Friday 2nd December at 4pm. No flowers. Donations if desired to Wiltshire Air Ambulance c/o F. Curtis and Son, 11 Portway, Warminster. BA12 8QG.

Researching The Young Family Of Maiden Bradley

Thursday 5th June 2003

Mrs. Wendy Briscoe writes ~

I wonder if any of your readers may be able to help me in my family tree research?

I am currently researching the Youngs from Maiden Bradley, especially a William Young who married a Dinah Brown on 7th May 1840.

Any information, large or small, would be much appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. Wendy Briscoe,
21 Eden Drive, James Reckitt Avenue, Hull, HU8 8JQ.

The Duke Of Somerset

Writing in 1932, Victor Strode Manley, as part of his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, wrote the following notes concerning the Duke Of Somerset at Maiden Bradley:

In 1925 the succession aroused world-wide interest owing to the late Duke leaving no heir, and several claimants coming forward. The case came before the House of Lords. The Seymours had held it for 378 years, their name seeming to have come from St. Maur, a village in France. The late Duke was the 15th and was buried on a hill on his estate, October 1923, his three brothers having predeceased him without male heirs.

The first Duke was created in 1547, tempo Edward VI., and it stands historically second in the Peerage. But through religious enmity the extent has been greatly diminished. In the 17th century Bradley House was Da Platt. During the last 173 years “Is heirs male and would-be heirs male have died without issue.”

The rival claimant in 1925 traced his connection through a sailor who either died or deserted at Calcutta, and he had also kept the “New Tavern’ on Woolwich Common, his death(?) being in 1786. This person was one John Hudson, seaman in the East India Company. Brig. Gen. Sir Edward Seymour Hamilton Seymour succeeded to the title as the sixteenth Duke.

Edmund Ludlow Of Newmead Farm

Writing in 1932, Victor Strode Manley, as part of his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, wrote the following notes concerning Maiden Bradley:

The farmhouse of –

“New Mead, is the birthplace of Edmund Ludlow, the famous Parliamentary general, and one of Charles I’s judges . . . . He distinguished himself by his defence of Wardour Castle . . . . He protested in the Convention Parliament against the Restoration, and then took refuge at Vesey in Switzerland, where he lived until 1692, and where he composed his “Memoirs’. He is buried there in St. Martin’s Church in the congenial company of Broughton, who read the sentence of death pronounced on the King . . . .”

The old-fashioned inn at Bradley (The Somerset Arms?) was his residence which the Royalists destroyed after their unsuccessful attack at Hill Deverill.