Tolpuddle Martyrs

[Lydart]

Having been to Dorset last week, and finding the places my ancestors came from, it just occurred to me ... does any RootChatterer have a Tolpuddle Martyr ancestor ?  I went to the museum, and it was a real eye-opener to find out just how little the ag.lab's we all have had to live on.

Anyone who hasnt been there yet, visit the museum at Tolpuddle ... its FREE !

Or look at their web-site 
http://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk

Lydart

[Indaloman]

I am not a descendant but but my best friend is a direct descendant of James Brine

[Rhodie]

I am descended from a Tolpuddle Hammett cousin of James Hammett.  Museum there is very good, so is the rally there each July.

[astral14]

Mmn - I've got (connected by distant marriages, she adds hastily), one of the 'nasty' ones - James Frampton, Lt Col of the Dorset Yeomanry....

[Rhodie]

would that be Magistrate James Frampton?

[astral14]

Yep.

[Rhodie]

ok, just there's a few James Framptons about in that area. 

[astral14]

No - definitely THAT one. His grandfather, William built Moreton Hall and the obelisk. James Frampton's sister, Mary, was apparently, much more compassionate and wrote a book, which was reputed to offer interesting social commentary. She died aged 76 in 1846.
The family, perhaps unsurprisingly, had links to the West Indies and the plantations.

[Rhodie]

Yes, I have heard of Mary's diary.  You don't know what became of George Loveless's friendly society membership book which he took after arresting them all?  No one seems to know what became of it, not at Kew, TUC or Dorchester RO?

Have been passed Moreton Hall, by a strange co-incidence a descendant of James Hammett TPM's future husband lived in a tied cottage there as a child, his parents working for the estate!  Believe Richard Frampton-Hobbs (former MP UKIP) lives there now, and has an equestrain centre there.