Tag: April 1898

Ampthill & District News: Saturday 30th April 1898

Obituaries: Funeral at Hulcote:  Our readers will learn with much regret of the death of the Rev. Boteler Chernocke Smith, R.D., vicar of Salford and rector of Hulcote, whose demise occurred somewhat suddenly on Thursday evening. His age was 78 years …  (continues) … The Rev. B. Chernocke-Smith is survived by ten of his twelve children. The sons are Edward, Harry, Villiers, John Charles, and Boteler Chernocke-Smith … … The eldest daughter, Edith, died in 1894, and the third son, Pynsent C. Smith, in 1893 … (continues) … These recurring names form interesting links with the past. The inscription on the monument in the chancel states that it is to the memory of Robert Chernocke, who descended of an ancient house, called Chernocke Hall in Lancashire … … (continues describing descent) …Sir Robert Chernocke of Hulcote, whose son John was created the first baronet. The last baronet was Sir Villiers who died without issue in 1779, when his Bedfordshire estate passed to his nephew, the Rev. Edward Hervey, Rector. This gentleman’s daughter, Charlotte, married the Rev. Edward Orlebar Smith … … The name “Boteler” or “Butler” is derived by marriage with the Biddenham family of that ilk. Helen, daughter of William Boteler, of Biddenham, married Sir Pynsent Chernocke, 3rd baronet of Hulcote, who was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire, 1703, and M.P. for the county in the reign of Queen Anne. … …(continues) … Mr. Pynsent Smith is well remembered in Bedford as a highly respected house-surgeon at the General Infirmary … … (continues with service and list of attendees). 

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East and South Devon Advertiser: Saturday 30th April 1898

On Thursday Mr. A. S. Rendell of the firm of Messrs. Rendell and Symons, auctioneers, Newton Abbot, and Totnes, offered for sale by public auction the Newfoundland Inn, Newton, on the premises. The property is situated in East Street, Newton … … There was a large attendance and the price realized was considered Satisfactory. Mr. W. White started the bidding at £500 … … it rose to £1750, for which sum it was knocked down to Mr. Brock Ferris of Dawlish. … … The next principal bidders to Mr. B. Ferris, were Messrs. Pinsent and Son, Plymouth Brewing Company and Mr. W. J. Giles, Globe Hotel … 

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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901
GRO0911 Devonport: William Swain Pinsent: 1843 – 1920

Gentlewoman: Saturday 16th April 1898

“Job Hildreth” by Mrs. E. F. Pinsent (Arnold), is a pathetic and interesting study of a man, a carpenter by profession, with an intense love of beauty and a certain taste for art. This appreciation he unluckily confounds with genius, and is encouraged in the idea by Lady Elizabeth Hinton, the chief personage in his village. Lady Elizabeth sends him up to London, introduces him and his pictures to her friends, and helps him on to a certain fictitious success, holding him up as a great example of self-taught genius. When, however, besides patronising him as an artist, she tries to arrange a marriage between him and another of her protegees, he kicks over the traces, returns to his country home, and marries the little village girl who has loved him since the days when they were children together. The rest of the story is simply and pathetically told. How Job no longer gets a sale for his pictures, how his wife Sally works day and night to keep the little home together, until at last by poverty and despair he becomes temporarily insane, is all described forcibly, such allegories, and is well illustrated by Bauerle.

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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949

Totnes Weekly Times: Saturday: Saturday 9th April 1898

Fire at Teignmouth: At the Ship Inn, Queen-street, on Tuesday morning, a fire broke out and destroyed the interior of the building. Mr. J. Evans, the landlord, retired to rest just after 11 o’clock and two hours later his wife was aroused by the smell of smoke. Mr. Evans went downstairs and found the woodwork of the bar on fire. He seized a bucket and ran to the river to get water, but when he returned the flames were entirely beyond control. His wife and daughter had in the meantime been rescued from their bedroom by a neighbour named Hook. A man named Arthurs came into the town and raised an alarm, while Henry Jones, a lamplighter, on his rounds informed Captain Drake of the Fire Brigade, and the new steam fire engine was drawn on to the Quay. Owing to the tide being low a few minutes’ delay was occasioned while one of the firemen fetched another length of hose. With four jets playing on the flames, the fire was got under control in about 20 minutes, but everything inside the building was burnt. Mr Stooke, of Newton, is the owner of the property, which is leased to Messrs Pinsent, brewers, of Newton. The house and furniture are insured.

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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901