Welcome to the eighth part of our series exploring the history of Icen Cottage, Fordington. In previous blogs, we have introduced you to the cottage, shown you some of the earliest documents relating to the cottage, discussed some of the problems when trying to identify the people who lived in the cottage, introduced George Cull as one of… Read more Icen Cottage – Fordington and the Rev Henry Moule
It’s 1763 and if you’ll allow me some artistic license, and it’s going to be a sunny morning. Sarah Cribb, a girl who would be around fourteen years old, probably has not slept. She’s been indentured into a husbandry apprenticeship in Tyneham, from her home in Stoborough approximately six miles away. Whilst this was a… Read more Cribb Sheet – Sarah Cribb’s apprenticeship in Tyneham
As a placement student here at the Dorset History Centre, I was given wider rein with this blog to write about an apprentice of my choice. I headed to the archives of my favourite spot in Dorset, Lyme Regis. In this collection I found the apprenticeship indenture of a seven-year-old boy Henry Lock, whose family… Read more Henry Lock: The ten-year-old apprentice
You may remember that, a few months ago, we posted a blog about two ‘unknown men’ who were admitted to Herrison in 1904. One was later found out to be Horace Edward Scanlan, an engineer from Poole, and the other claimed to be Henry Octavius Keegan, an Irish-American who had gone out with two women… Read more A Man Unknown (part 2)
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