Cirl Bunting

Cirl Bunting

by Matt Neale | Nov 5, 2018 | Environment, Wildlife

The cirl bunting Emberiza cirlus (pronounced sirl) is a small sparrow sized farmland bird, which almost became extinct in the UK in the late 1980s and is now confined to south-west England. This was probably due to changes in farming practices, particularly the switch...

Holm Oaks

by Matt Neale | Nov 5, 2018 | Environment, Plant Life

Next time you are out and about, look for evergreen holm oaks Quercus ilex; a common site in Bishopsteignton and in local coastal areas. Saplings often pop–up in local gardens. It was first brought to the UK over 400 years ago, it was widely planted during the 18th...

H.G.(Fred) Burgess. WW1

by Jess Gibby | Nov 5, 2018 | People, World War One

Early Life Trayton Charles Douglas Burgess was Fred’s proper name but he seems to have been known as Fred and he even enlisted in the army with this name. It is not clear where the initials H. G. arise. Fred was born in Kensington, London in the first quarter of...

Frederick George Cole WW1

by Jess Gibby | Nov 5, 2018 | People, World War One

Early Life Frederick George Cole was born in 1891 and was living with his parents Alfred, a farmer, and his mother Emma (née Roberts) at 17, West Street, Abbotskerswell. The 1891 census indicates Alfred was born in South Brent and Emma in Christow, where Frederick was...

George Pickersgill Cable WW1

by Jess Gibby | Nov 5, 2018 | People, World War One

Early Life George was born on the 5th Dec 1891, the son of Baron Ernest Cable (1st Baron Ideford) and Lilian Sarah Sparkes whose family home was Lindridge, Bishopsteignton from 1913.  The birth was registered in Newton Abbot, George was educated at Harrow College...

Arthur Apps WW1

by Jess Gibby | Nov 5, 2018 | People, World War One

Early Life Arthur Apps was born in 1898 in Bishopsteignton and lived in Radway Hill, Bishopsteignton with his father John and his mother Emma Apps (née Parish). From the information supplied by the 1911 census Arthur Apps was 13 years old at the time of the census. At...

John William Cawcutt WW1

by Jess Gibby | Nov 1, 2018 | People, World War One

Early Life Private John William Cawcutt M2/181850 of the Royal Army Service Corps served in BE Africa and was the son of John William and Jane Cawcutt (née Hallaway). He was born in Reading in 1885. In the 1891 census his parents were “poor law schoolmasters and...

Richard Ernest Gill WW1

by Jess Gibby | Oct 30, 2018 | People, World War One

Early Life Richard Gill was born in Bishopsteignton in June, 1883 to his father James and mother Sarah Jane and there is a record of his baptism on the 20th June that year in St John’s church. He married Elizabeth Anne Townsend (born in Bishopsteignton in 1887) at St...

Frederick John Manning WW1

by Jess Gibby | Oct 16, 2018 | People, World War One

Early Life Frederick John Manning was born in Bishopsteignton on the 18th Jan 1875 to William Manning and Elizabeth P Manning. His father William was born in the village and was noted in the 1851 census as a shoemaker at aged 15 years . His grandfather John Manning...