Thanks to one of our members who has researched this almost unknown story from newspaper articles and the court documents and letters held in the Dorset History Centre. A presentation was given to the Milton Abbas History Group on 3 April and will be available on the Member’s Section of this website soon.
Dorset History Centre Catalogue D-WCH/L/5
At the Dorset History Centre there is the 2nd Edition which has been added to by A. M. Broadley of the Knapp, Bradpole. In 1904 he took a copy of Hutchin’s book and added to it drawings, notes, maps and even original letters and documents. This is known as the Hutchins’ Extra Illustrated Edition and consists of 12 volumes.
See the DHC blog post here.
Many transcribers have helped us with this mammoth task. We have now completed 18374 records, and put these into one searchable spreadsheet.
Here is just one of the 275 pages we have transcribed.
If you think you have ancestors in Milton Abbas from 1771 to 1798 we can search the spreadsheet for you.
Thanks to the Milton Abbey Heritage Trust, Bryan Phillips is now a published author, Amazon page here
and you can buy the Kindle book or the paperback on Athelstan’s Dream here
All proceeds to Milton Abbey Heritage Trust.
Many thanks to June McAvoy for this beautiful tree as the entry of the Milton Abbas Local History Group in the 2018 Christmas Tree Festival in St James Church, Milton Abbas.
This is a series of programmes from the BBC. One of the six episodes features Milton Abbas history.
It is presented by Ben Robinson.
The programme has been broadcast nationally five times since its first showing in January, 2019.
It will be showing continuously at our exhibition at the Milton Abbas Street Fair Sat 27 July 2019. We have much more information than was shown on this programme, so if you want to know what went on the cutting room floor come and talk to us there.
We were delighted to have lunch today at the newly opened and refurbished Tea Clipper. Alastair and Kathy Beaven with their daughters supplied us with a warm welcome, good coffee and a savoury cream tea.
This is a great facility for Milton Abbas and we wish them every success.
For opening times and details of their holiday cottage lets go to their website.
We have just found some exciting news –
John Welstead, aged 38, from Milton Abbas was on-board the Victory at Trafalgar on 21 Oct 1805. He was bosun’s mate.
We now need to carry out more research on this man to find out about his background, his life in Milton Abbas and his family.
In the Dorset History Centre there are some bills from 1787 for Milton Abbas estate. These scraps of paper give an insight into the work that was going on, as well as the names of the labourers, and the amount earned.
This is from May 1787
it gives the dates of the work, the number of days worked and the amounts paid per day.
We now know how much a hedge layer, ploughboy, cowboy.
There are about 40 such documents. It would enhance our understanding if one of our readers would transcribe them.
Please contact us here, if you would like to help.
This is the dial of an eight day clock showing that Richard Ham was a clock maker of Milton Abbas. This image was kindly given to us by Tim Marshall author, and he has dated the clock to around 1720.
We are researching the Ham family. They were here from our earliest records 1634 through to the 19th century, and were important to the history of Milton Abbas.
Milton Abbas Local History Group, Dorset, UK 