Tag: Somerset Standard

Somerset Standard: Friday 16th December 1932

Downside: Funeral of Owen John Gahan: The funeral of Owen John Gahan (Roberts), 20, a late undergraduate of Downside College, who died after a motor accident at Letchmore, took place at the Abbey, Downside, on Friday morning last. Solemn sung requiem preceded the committal, when the celebrant was the Rev. R. S. Trafford. … The bearers were, W. G. M. Morall (Head of Roberts House), T. G. Hazel, A. J. Holberton, J. E. Barrie, P. F. Given-Wilson and P. D. Pinsent (House Prefects). Others who attended were … (list) …

Transcribed in whole or part from scanned originals: Presented with or without modified text and punctuation. For absolute accuracy refer to the original newspapers. Source: The British Newspaper Archive. 

Referenced

GRO0712 Devonport: Paul Desmond Pinsent: 1915 – 1997

Somerset Standard: Friday 2nd November 1928

Some 18th Century Frome Apprentices: Is there a Pack Saddle maker in all England today? On March 23rd, 1711, Samuel son of John Little, late of Froomsellwood, Packsaddle Maker, deceased, was apprenticed to John Lacey, junior, of the Parish of Froomsellwood, Blacksmith … continues … In the year 1797 Samuel Bowden of “Fromesellwood,” Attorney, took John Powell as his apprentice, and John Sellars, Broadweaver, Samuel Barnes, Thomas Taylor, carpenter, Henry King; Thomas Adams, blacksmith, Walter Long, George Ward, tiler took Benjamin Pincent, Roger Thomas plumber, Wm. Davis; Henry Hinton, tinplate worker, (continues) …

Transcribed in whole or part from scanned originals: Presented with or without modified text and punctuation. For absolute accuracy refer to the original newspapers. Source: The British Newspaper Archive.

Referenced

GROxxxx xxxxx

Somerset Standard: Friday 22nd June 1928

By Direction of the Misses Rogers, The Woolston Manor House Estate, Near Wincanton, Somerset: Important Sale of the Valuable Freehold Residential Farm … continues … Messrs. Charles Cooper & Tanner have been instructed to Offer by Public Auction at Wincanton at an Early Date: Plans and Particulars are in the course of preparation, and will be obtainable of the Solicitors, Messrs. Dyne, Hughes, Archer & Francis of Wincanton and Bruton, Somt.; Messrs. Pinsent & Co., 6 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham, or of Messrs. Bennett & Co., Land Agers and Surveyors, … (continues) …

[see also Somerset Standard: Friday 8th June 1928]

Transcribed in whole or part from scanned originals: Presented with or without modified text and punctuation. For absolute accuracy refer to the original newspapers. Source: The British Newspaper Archive.

Somerset Standard: Friday 20th January 1939

New Abbot of Downside Enthroned: Historic Scene in Famous Abbey: Bishop of Clifton Officiates; Catholics from far and near attended the enthronement of Dom. Sieglhert Trafford (Prior of Worth) as Abbot of Downside Abbey at Stratton on the Fosse on Saturday Morning. The ceremony, which was from the Roman Pontifical, was that which has been in use since the 12th Century and was conducted in Latin. The service, rich in symbolic ritual, was carried through with a traditional ceremony … (discussion of the event and list of attendees) … (Long list includes) … B. H. Pinsent.

Transcribed in whole or part from scanned originals: Presented with or without modified text and punctuation. For absolute accuracy refer to the original newspapers. Source: The British Newspaper Archive.

Referenced

GRO0085 Devonport: Basil Hume Pinsent: 1911 – 2000