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Category Archives: Damer
“Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” – song, Good Charlotte
© Anne Litchfield Dec 2024 A peek into the life and lifestyle of Jacob Bancks 1704-1738 through his goods and assets as outlined in the inventory attached to probate documents in The National Archives. When he died in 1738 aged … Continue reading
Posted in Damer, local history, Milton Abbas, Milton Abbey, Old Town of Milton Abbas, records
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Will of Edward Damer, 1703
©Bryan Phillips Jul 2024 Wills and inventories are a marvellous source of information for local and family historians. Our super transcriber Shirley Chick has just completed the will of Edward Damer 1703. This gives a wealth of information on the … Continue reading
The Sale of Hilton manor to Lord Milton 1784
© Bryan Phillips Apr 2024 We have obtained some high resolution images of the deed of sale of the village of Hilton to Lord Milton. This was dated 15 May 1784, and there are twenty large pages of it. One … Continue reading
Country Life
© Bryan Phillips Mar 2024 The Country Life archive is now available on British Newspaper Archives and Find my Past. A search for Milton Abbas reveals over 400 records and Milton Abbey 350. The individual pages of the articles are … Continue reading
Posted in Capability Brown, Damer, Hambro, local history, Tregonwell
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Lord Milton attends Blandford races 1786
The Blandford races had been held since 1603 at Race Down and attended by the worthies of Dorset. It is remarkable that there exists a list of those arriving in 1786 and Lord Milton with his ‘Coach and six Bays’ … Continue reading
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Moved villages – Holkham, Norfolk
Although the Right Honourable Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester, decided to move the village of Holkham to allow the building of his new stately home in the 1730s, it might have been an example of an earlier moved village, but … Continue reading
Posted in Damer, Dorset, local history, Milton Abbas, Old Town of Milton Abbas
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William Woodward – surveyor and map maker
The Milton Abbas Local History Group have used the survey and maps which William Woodward drew up for Lord Milton around 1779. The originals are in the Dorset History Centre D-919/5 and they have an interesting history in themselves, besides … Continue reading
Posted in Damer, local history, Milton Abbas, Old Town of Milton Abbas
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The Hilton Controversy 1848
Thanks to Samantha Fiander for finding some thirteen letters and editorials published in The Times between 26 October and 29 November 1848 concerning the typhus epidemic in Hilton during that year. This search was prompted by the article in the … Continue reading
Posted in Damer, document, local history, Parish Registers, social history, transcription
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Milton Abbas Local History Group, Dorset, UK 