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Connections
If your family has lived in the village for a few generations, chances are you have a whole bunch of peoiple here that you didn’t know were relatives. During the 16th and 17th centuries village family names included Backaller, Blode, Coom, Davidge, Dight, Furse, Lekie, Shewbrooke and Titeford. These names gradually disappeared from the records, but as we have seen in previous posts, their genes have not, as daughters married into other local families.
The last resident but one of Stoke House was Harold Pipe, who many of you will remember. His father Albert had died in 1926, and his mother Julia in 1952, being 14 years younger. After that he had been looked after by a succession of housekeepers, including Pete Nicholas’ mother. Their combined gravestone is in the church yard.
Although that was an ending of one branch of the family, there are so many connections across the village. Here are a few.
Harold’s father, Albert George Pipe, was the son of George Pipe, of Turkey, Curload, who was in turn the son of John Pipe, shoemaker of West Hatch. John had married a Staple (Elizabeth), and George married Emma Dare. Harold’s father, Albert, had a brother John, and several sisters who all married into locxal families - Mary to John House, tailor; Martha to Elias Loveridge, farrier (the family who took out the first license for the Royal Oak); and Elizabeth Ann Sophia to George Charles Chedzoy, Father of Hugh Chedzoy, later of Slough Court, and Henry Charles Chedzoy who took over the Village Stores from the Williams family. Brother john married Mary Hannah Bobbett, Julia Pipe’s sister, who also had ‘Dare’ in her name!
On Harold’s mother’s side, Julia’s mother Henrietta had been a ‘Dare’ and her father’s mother a ‘Lockyer’, two of Stoke’s older family names. As with John Pipe the shoemaker this branch of the Bobbett family were also living in West Hatch.
Who are you related to?