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Category Archives: Milton Abbas
More Mysteries – can you help?
©Bryan Phillips Sep 2024 There are still plenty of mysteries to solve in the history of Milton Abbas, click on the drop-down list on our web page. One of our new members, Derek Robinson, has sent us an intriguing picture … Continue reading
Posted in Dorset, family history, local history, Milton Abbas
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The Hawkins family of Milton Abbas
©Bryan Phillips Aug 2024 Want to know more about the lives of people who once lived in Milton Abbas? Do you have BARNES, HARVEY, HAWKINS, HAM, MITCHELL, or STANDFIELD ancestors? Our member Clive Barnes gave a presentation to the Milton … Continue reading
Terry-Thomas
©Bryan Phillips Jul 2024 At last! We can be fairly sure that Terry-Thomas did have a house in Milton Abbas. See our blog. So that is one mystery solved, at least partly, because we do not yet know which property … Continue reading
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The Lives of Ordinary People
©Bryan Phillips Jun 2024 A recent article by Ruth Goodman in Who Do You Think You are? July 2024 p20 asks why the educational curriculum for history is full of Hitler, Napoleon, and Britain’s kings and queens. Where are the … Continue reading
D-Day and the 1939 Register
©Bryan Phillips May 2024 With the 80th anniversary of D-Day the Milton Abbas Local History Group have the resources to track the people involved from Milton Abbas. We have Why not share your findings with us? Contact us.
Posted in document, local history, Milton Abbas, records, transcription, WW2
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One Place Studies
©Bryan Phillips May 2024 If you have an ancestor who came from Milton Abbas at any time in the past going as far back as 1317 then you are in luck! We have already done the research that you need … Continue reading
Overseers of the Poor Accounts
Published OoP Accounts books are as rare as hen’s teeth. I remain astonished by this fact since not only are they a name rich source for family historians but they are also a prime example of showing the living and … Continue reading
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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Milton Abbas Local History Group, Dorset, UK 