Early Life Rosaleen Graves, sister of the WW1 soldier poet and writer Robert Graves, was born in Wimbledon on 7th March 1894. Her father was Alfred Perceval Graves: he was the second son of The Rt. Rev. Charles Graves, Bishop of Limerick. (1846 – 1931). Alfred, who...
People
People living in, who have lived in or are connected to Bishopsteignton
The Diaries of Charlotte Avarilla Bush
Background Charlotte Avarilla Bush was the great aunt of Nigel Wollen, whose mother was of the Bush family. When researching the article on Mary Esther Huddleston, his great, great aunt, Nigel came across these diary pages written by Charlotte Avarilla (know to them...
Mary Esther Huddleston
Mary "Esther" Huddleston (1805-1891), owner of The Lodge, later called Murley Grange, from 1849 to 1891. Early Life: Esther was born in 1805 (the year of the Battle of Trafalgar), the third of 8 children of Artemidorus and Elizabeth Russell (nee Cromwell). The family...
Norman P. Barnett
A SHILLING, A BADGE & A MESSERSCHMITT by Norman P. Barnett, evacuee. A child sitting alone in the middle of a small school hall. It is getting dark. All the other children have gone and most of the adults. This was me, as an evacuee in 1940 . I should not have...
The Heathman Family
Stay in Devon! A letter written by Rachael Heathman, mother of Rowena Bradnam, who was with her grandmother, Lavinia Back, in Bishopsteignton when WWII was declared. "On Saturday 2nd 1939, my sisters and I were due to return home from our holiday with my grandmother...
Twinning – La Roche Maurice
The sign is evident as you approach and leave the village. There is even a special walkway named after them as you head towards Teignmouth. So where is La Roche Maurice and how and why did the twinning connection start with Bishopsteignton? How did it start?...
The Blogg Family
Many years later Phyllis Blogg, nee Hudson, wrote to Dick Searle, then the curator of Bishopsteignton Museum, about her wartime experience in the village. The letter, and the language within it, is of its time. It is reproduced here in its original form, save for some...
The Ward Family
Jack and Kit Ward In 1939 Jack Ward and his wife Kit (nee Dennis), ran the Butcher's shop at what is now 23Fore St. Kit’s family owned the Manor Inn. Flo Vallance who owned the Manor Inn was Vallance by her second marriage. Her first husband Frederick George Dennis...
The Hope Family
Phyllis Blogg's husband, Harold Eric Blogg was the brother of John's mother Kathleen Winifred Hope (nee Blogg). Percy Alfred Hamilton Hope was her husband, John's father. John was evacuated to Bishopsteignton along with his mother, his brother Geoffrey and his...
The Cross Family
LETTER FROM DAVID CROSS EVACUEE Dear Mr Searle, David, Pat and Ted Cross, Bishopsteignton London Evacuees. June 1940 – January 1942. In relating the following memories of the 18/19 months I spent in Bishopsteignton, I would ask you to bear with me, regarding some of...