Tag: Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser

Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser: Saturday 4th April 1885

Reminiscences of Wiltshire Boroughs: … William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, was first returned to Parliament in 1735 for the vacant mounds which went by the name of Old Sarum. Governor Pitt purchased the manor in 1690 for £1,500 and it afterwards passed into the hands of Lords Granville, Caledon and Camelford. The latter, during his proprietorship, sent John Horne Tooke to the House of Commons in 1801. The whole of the West Country was full of the fame of the elder Pitt. Sir William Pynsent, the last of his name, bequeathed Burton Pynsent to the great Minister “in his veneration of a great character of exemplary virtue and unrivalled ability” …

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Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser: Saturday 15th September 1917

Wedding at Steeple Ashton: Vicar’s daughter Married: [photograph]: A pretty wedding and one in which a great deal of interest was centred from over a wide area was solemnized on Wednesday at the beautiful old church of St. Mary’s Steeple Ashton. The contracting parties being Miss Lorina Knubley, youngest daughter of Canon Knubley (Vicar) and Mrs. Knubley and Lieut. and Q. M. Mawer Dougall Cowtan, R.A.M.C., elder son of the late Mr. Frank Cowtan and Mrs. Cowtan, Aubry Road, Campden Hill W. … (description of wedding and bridegroom’s wartime experience – he joined up in Australia and served in Gallipoli). … The following were the invited guests … (includes) … Mrs. Cowtan, Mr. and Mrs. Pinsent, Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. F. C. Cowtan, … … (presents … To the Bridegroom … include) … Mrs. Cowtan, table silver, Mrs. and Mrs. Arthur Cowtan, full set cut table glass, Mr. and the Misses M. C. Cowtan, china tea services, Misses Cowtan, cheque, Mr. and Ms. Frank Pinsent, cheque, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, travelling clock … …  Mrs. Pinsent, three water colours, old French china inkstand …

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GRO0322 Hennock: Francis Wingfield Homfray Pinsent: 1875 – 1948
GRO0473 Hennock: Janet Frances Cowtan: 1878 – 1938