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Devon / Re: Where are/where these places in Exeter?
« on: Tuesday 01 March 11 19:58 GMT (UK)  »
Trinity Street was in Southernhay, opposite Dean Clarke House (Old RD&E Hospital) hard up against and parallel with the City Wall. Now it is the path that follows the wall for maybe 150 yards, from South Street behind the Southgate Hotel. There is little on either street on Exeter Memories, and I should know as I run it. Thomas Shapter in the 1848 History of the Cholera in Exeter has an illustration showing the burial of the dead in Trinity Yard which was at the end of Trinity Street in what is now the hotel car park. Deb USA is correct about the placement of Salutary Place – there was a brickyard in the area until about 1849. See this page http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/EM/_commercial/brickworks.php and read the section on the Blackboy Road brickworks.
David

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Occupation Interests / Re: police service
« on: Sunday 23 January 11 21:36 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Steve
Up until 1972 Exeter was the County and City of Exeter, which is why it had its own police force. The Devon Police Force was also based in Exeter and would have employed policemen who lived across Devon and in Exeter. They would have covered all the areas around the city such as Exminster, Broadclyst, Tiverton etc. It is therefore likely he served in the Devon Force. My website only covers Exeter.

There is a Devon and Cornwall police museum at Okehampton which should have records of serving police officers from the 19th Century to the present. This is the website http://www.policeheritagecentre.co.uk/index.html

David

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Occupation Interests / Re: police service
« on: Sunday 23 January 11 09:12 GMT (UK)  »
I run the Exeter Memories site - there is a list of police officers who served at Exeter from 1919 to the amalgamation in 1966 on this page - http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/EM/policelist.php

As the preamble on the page states, it was compiled by four Exeter police officers and is as complete as they could make it.

David

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The Common Room / Re: Findings of a psychic medium
« on: Monday 13 September 10 18:09 BST (UK)  »
I compiled the Exeter Memories list of executions. It is not confined to certain cemeteries, but rather to all the known execution places around Exeter. Exeter was the place of execution for all of Devon's executed. The list is compiled from a mix of known executions researched by others and of all those listed in contemporary newspapers and broadsheets. I too am a complete sceptic. Incidentally, someone emailed me a broadsheet of a murder in Exminster in the 1830s - I checked to corroborate the murder and execution and could find no reference, other than the broadsheet. It would appear that it was a rip-off from another broadsheet about a murder elsewhere, and was printed merely for sales.

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Devon / Re: Where was an executed person buried in Exeter?
« on: Sunday 25 July 10 14:23 BST (UK)  »
I may be a bit late for this topic, but I have been compiling a page of those executed in Exeter for the past two years. I have recently updated the page with some new names and also noted those buried in St Sidwell's parish. The page starts by listing the various places of execution and places of burial, both for Exeter executions and Devon executions. See

http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/EM/executed.php

Added 26th July - note that the list is still a work in progress and I have to add some more extracts from the early Flying Post.

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Devon Lookup Requests / Re: John DEWDNEY Jnr
« on: Sunday 11 July 10 09:13 BST (UK)  »
Thank you everyone for your efforts regarding John Dewdney Jnr. I know he ran the paper mill at Exwick between 1852/3 and 1858, when an advert appeared for an auction selling his household effects and the comment "leaving the neighbourhood" - it would seem he ended up in Camberwell. I have various cuttings from the Flying Post about him during his time at Exwick including the marriage announcement which crucially states he is from the Exwick paper mill, but does not mention his parentage. However, the Times announcement does, so I think I can say conclusively that he was the son of John Dewdney of Hele. His father invented a new type of writing paper and was awarded a gold medal at the Great Exhibition, while John Jnr manufactured brown wrapping paper at Exwick.

The Devon/Exwick PDF file is incorrect regarding the mill in 1673, as that was on another site, and I also think they are referring to John Dewdney in the 1850s, not the 17th Century.

John Sweetland Dewdney is a red herring in this case, but someone I shall have to investigate regarding his links with the Exeter newspapers!

Thank you Mo for the link to Camberwell and Ambly for all the other links.

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Devon Lookup Requests / Re: John Dewdney Jnr
« on: Saturday 10 July 10 18:59 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Ambly for replying so quickly. However, I am trying to find out if John Dewdney Jnr is the son of John II who died in the railway accident (he was run over). John Jnr may have lived with his father (if he was his father) at Hele in 1851 but I can't prove it.

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Devon Lookup Requests / John DEWDNEY Jnr
« on: Saturday 10 July 10 12:40 BST (UK)  »
John Dewdney Jnr was a paper mill owner at Exwick between 1852/3 and 1858. I want to know where he was in 1851 and 1861. He may be the son of John Dewdney of Hele paper mill, but there is more than one John Dewdney in Devon during the middle of the 19th Century.

Thank you in advance.

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Devon / Re: Enfield Hotel , Exeter
« on: Tuesday 13 March 07 12:31 GMT (UK)  »
Nice to see that the entry on my site, Exeter Memories was of use. The history grew from very little to quite a lot with some intensive research, especially with the census and trade directories.

PS it's strange but I took a photo of the grave of Edwin Banfield, the first owner of the Elmfield just this morning.

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