Woodbine Cottage
The 1841 census shows George Ledger, aged 70, his wife Elizabeth, also 70, their son James, aged 30, and, possibly his grandson George, aged 14, living in “Village”. This is presumably at the Homestead mentioned in the Tithe Map of 1840.
Ten years later, in 1851, George (the elder) is still residing at “Village”. His son James and wife Sara are there too, with three daughters, Mary, Elizabeth and Sara Ann. Other members of the family appear to be living next door.
By 1861 the family’s home is recorded as the “Weslyan Chapel, West Town Street” which is across the road from Woodbine Cottage. George (the elder) had died in 1852 at the age of 81 years.
In 1897, Charles Vickery had been living at “Woodbine-cottage Bishopsteignton”, as confirmed by his Probate record on his death. At that time his occupation was given as the Devonshire Agent of the Prudential Assurance Company. He was a previously the occupier of the nearby shop on Fore Street where he was a draper and grocer.
The 1901 Census shows that his widow Laura Vickery, aged 61, was now at Woodbine Cottage and her occupation was Manageress of the Dairy. This is most likely to be Delamore Dairy as mentioned in the 1911 Census below. Living with her is daughter Agnes, aged 29, who is working independently from home as a Milliner.
Photo of 1840 tithe map showing Woodbine Cottage
This interesting advertisement is featured in two local newspapers and details of four properties are given, to be sold first as ‘one lot’ and ‘if not sold, will then be offered in four lots, as set out’.
Lot 1 is ‘Delamore’ on Forder Lane.
Lot 2 is ‘The Gnoll’ on Smith Hill.
Lot 3 is ‘Woodbine Dairy’.
Lot 4 is ‘Two valuable cob-built and tiled FREEHOLD COTTAGES’.
Newspaper Clip East South Devon Advertiser 16 July 1904 Delamore Gnoll Woodbine
Maps of this era show the gardens of Delamore and The Gnoll as being adjacent. Members of the Mackworth and Guerin families, who were related, lived variously at Delamore, Woodbine Cottage and a house called Sea View in Smith Hill, which the 1887 and 1904 maps confirm is The Gnoll.
1887 map central village
1904 map central village
1911 Census
Christopher John Hill, aged 41, is a Dairyman working at Delamore Dairy which is where he and his family are also living.
His wife Jessie Anne is aged 40 and they have four children.
Winifred Caroline is the eldest at 18 years old and she is assisting her father in the Dairy. There are three younger siblings who are all at school, Christopher Frank aged 13, Edith Elizabeth aged 11 and Edward George aged 8.
1921 Census
Woodbine Cottage appears by name only in this Census and not by Street name.
Living here are Fanny Augusta Matilda Mackworth, aged 87, the Head of the household, and one servant called M J Collier, aged 67.
Fanny had previously lived at Delamore, Sea View/The Gnoll and Radway Villa. You can find more information about her in the Delamore article on our website.
1935 Conveyance of Land in Bishopsteignton
Sydney Albert Davey, a builder, is named as the Vendor in the sale of “a parcel of land being a portion of a field called Furlong and numbered 792 on the tithe map for the Parish of Bishopsteignton and Number 600 on the Ordnance Survey map for the said Parish.”
Sydney’s address is given as Woodbine Cottage, and he is registered there in the Electoral Rolls of 1930 and 1931.
He was born in Kingsteignton in 1880, where his father John was a clay-cutter. He married Emma Walters, and they had a son, Sydney George Victor, born in 1914.
Sydney Albert Davey served in the Territorial Force for four years starting in 1915, working in the Wessex Casualty Clearing with his Regiment, the Royal Army Medical Corp.
In September 1939, when Sydney Albert Davey died, his address was Marland, Teign View Road, Bishopsteignton.
1939 Register
Albert Andrew Sparkes Osborne, a retired Police Constable, was born in the hamlet of Luton, near Bishopsteignton, in 1884. He married Elsie Artlett in 1916 in Lewisham, London. She was born at Hampton Wick, Middlesex in 1893. They were living and working in Greenwich, London prior to their retirement.
Living in Woodbine Cottage just before the start of World War II, they have family staying with them. Stanley W. Osborne, born in 1920, is a General Labourer. He subsequently became the Licensee at the Manor Inn. Frank H. Osborne, born in 1922, is a Grocer’s Assistant. Betty Osborne (Down), born in 1924, is an Apprentice in Gowns and Joyce Grant (Ramsey), born in 1927, is ‘at school’.