Mary "Esther" Huddleston (1805-1891), owner of The Lodge, later called Murley Grange, from 1849 to 1891. Early Life: Esther was born in 1805 (the year of the Battle of Trafalgar), the third of 8 children of Artemidorus and Elizabeth Russell (nee Cromwell). The family...
People
People living in, who have lived in or are connected to Bishopsteignton
Norman P. Barnett
A SHILLING, A BADGE & A MESSERSCHMITT by Norman P. Barnett, evacuee. A child sitting alone in the middle of a small school hall. It is getting dark. All the other children have gone and most of the adults. This was me, as an evacuee in 1940 . I should not have...
The Heathman Family
Stay in Devon! A letter written by Rachael Heathman, mother of Rowena Bradnam, who was with her grandmother, Lavinia Back, in Bishopsteignton when WWII was declared. "On Saturday 2nd 1939, my sisters and I were due to return home from our holiday with my grandmother...
Twinning – La Roche Maurice
The sign is evident as you approach and leave the village. There is even a special walkway named after them as you head towards Teignmouth. So where is La Roche Maurice and how and why did the twinning connection start with Bishopsteignton? How did it start?...
The Blogg Family
Many years later Phyllis Blogg, nee Hudson, wrote to Dick Searle, then the curator of Bishopsteignton Museum, about her wartime experience in the village. The letter, and the language within it, is of its time. It is reproduced here in its original form, save for some...
The Ward Family
Jack and Kit Ward In 1939 Jack Ward and his wife Kit (nee Dennis), ran the Butcher's shop at what is now 23Fore St. Kit’s family owned the Manor Inn. Flo Vallance who owned the Manor Inn was Vallance by her second marriage. Her first husband Frederick George Dennis...
The Hope Family
Phyllis Blogg's husband, Harold Eric Blogg was the brother of John's mother Kathleen Winifred Hope (nee Blogg). Percy Alfred Hamilton Hope was her husband, John's father. John was evacuated to Bishopsteignton along with his mother, his brother Geoffrey and his...
The Cross Family
LETTER FROM DAVID CROSS EVACUEE Dear Mr Searle, David, Pat and Ted Cross, Bishopsteignton London Evacuees. June 1940 – January 1942. In relating the following memories of the 18/19 months I spent in Bishopsteignton, I would ask you to bear with me, regarding some of...
The McGregor Family
John Harvey McGregor served on H.M.S. Neptune in the Royal Navy as Paymaster Commander (Acting). HMS Neptune sailed from Chatham in May 1941 on its last voyage. He died at sea in Libyan waters on 19th December, 1941 and appears on the Bishopsteignton War Memorial....
Nursing in WWII
Nursing in Bishopsteignton in WWII In the National Register that was taken in 1939 there are several nurses mentioned as living in the village and we can only presume that there continued to be some living and serving the people of the village during the war years –...