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m. 22 Dec 1831
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2nd April 1809, Thomas son of John Norman, born 31st Jan (CULLOMPTON BIRTH REGISTER) From Ray Norman:
Sometime before his death, James Norman sued his father Thomas for some unknown reason. James's brother Thomas was mad over the matter. Thomas was the oldest son and would ordinarily have been heir to the land which usually went to the oldest son. Their mother, Elizabeth, died prior to their father, Thomas. Oral history has it that old Thomas married again and willed his property to the new wife. [confirmed by marriage at Loders in 1883]. Some doubt that old Thomas could will the property to the new wife. This oral history also says that the new wife converted the holdings into cash and turned it all over to the wife at which time she left and never returned. There went the Normans millions legacy to some opportunistic trollop if true J. It is reported that some of the family went to Australia to become sheepherders but we have no information on those people. Since the writer has some expertise in golf we suggest that when the family emigrated in the 1800's the good golfers went to Canada and Mo Norman was one of the descendants. Greg Norman came from the Aussie branch and the hackers came from the following branch . The following lineage came from Mary Norman Myers notes based on her biblical records and family oral history. She wrote this about 1980: Thomas (2) Norman - (Thomas (1) who came to the US
These two brothers lived in Ohio for a while and then moved to South Pittsburgh, TN. John eventually moved to Birmingham, AL and Thomas as far as we know stayed in TN. The other Norman children were Sarah, Lucy and Priscilla who married and remained in England we believe since there is no data to the contrary. James Norman also remained in England and there was a William Norman who was blind and presumably remained in England also. Thomas and John Henry had to work in the flax field for their father. One oral story is that the work was so strenuous and the household environment so bad that when the boys got to the end of a workday they laid down in the flax fields to sleep. There was no indication on how they were fed in the fields. The heavy work was one reason that they left home. In 1853 they ran away from home and stowed away on a ship. (Port of departure?) The departure was to be a secret but when leaving they heard their mother crying (sadness or joy to escape?). On the voyage to the US they would have starved except some of the crew slipped scraps of food to them. We do not know where the ship arrived in the US but records may not have been kept for stow away. On Dec. 2, 1861 John enlisted in the Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Battery G, First Regiment. He transferred to Battery M, on March 11, 1864. During the Civil War he participated in the battle of Pittsburgh Landing, Stones River, Chickamauga and the Battle of Atlanta. 1861 Census 5 Records found 1861 Census
Flax Scutcher: Separated the husk from the flax fibres by holding it against rotating paddles.
After the flax was pulled (cutting would result in shorter fibres) and retted (softened and partially rotted by immersion in still water) and dried, it was passed through the cogged rollers to break up the outer layer and the woody core. The first scutcher then guided the bundle of flax stems into the path of the spinning scutching blades to remove the unwanted material. The next scutcher repeated the process with the blades at a finer setting until all the unwanted material was removed and a bundle of flax fibres was left. Working in a scutch mill was a highly dangerous occupation. The workers were at risk from machinery that could not be stopped quickly in an emergency; the air was thick with dust that was unhealthy and there was an ever-present danger of fire. On at least two occasions this mill was seriously damaged by fire. Scutching was an autumnal activity. Flax was pulled in July/August, retted for six to eight weeks and then dried. Mills would collect the flax from the locality and scutch the lot, fitting the work conveniently around other farm work. Since it was an indoor job it could be done once the year's outside work was completed, giving the mill owner the advantage of a cash-earning activity during the autumn and winter. This is the 1851 census at Tiverton Devon
CULLOMPTON "COLLUMPTON or CULLOMPTON, is an ancient market town, consisting chiefly of one long street, pleasantly situated on the west side of the river Culm, and the Bristol and Exeter Railway; 11 miles N.E. by N. of Exeter; . . . Its parish contains 3909 inhabitants, and 8103 acres of fertile land, rising boldly from the Culm valley, and including the scattered houses and the hamlets of Langford, Mutterton, Ponsford, Weaver, Colebrooke, and East Butterleigh, extending more than two miles on all sides of the town. . . . The town suffered severely in 1839, from a dreadful fire, which destroyed about 100 houses and cottages, most of which were covered in that dangerous material, straw thatch. Since this calamity the town has been much improved, and the sites of the old houses thus destroyed have been occupied by neat buildings, with slated roofs. . . . The CHURCH, (St. Andrew,) is a large and handsome Gothic structure, mostly erected in the 15th century, and consisting of a nave, three aisles and a chancel, with a lofty tower, containing eight musical bells, and crowned at each corner by tall and elaborately carved pinnacles. . . . The vicarage, valued in K.B. at £47. 4s. 2d., has a good residence, . . . the Rev. Wm. Sykes, M.A. is patron and incumbent. The Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, and Unitarians, have chapels here; and the town has a Mental Improvement Society, established in 1849, and a Farmers' Club, supported by a numerous list of subscribers. . . ." [From White's Devonshire Directory (1850)] A parish in Hayridge Hundred, the Archdeaconry and the Diocese of Exeter Kelly's Directory of Dorsetshire, 1889 Agricultural Machine Owners Norman Thomas (implement), Lower Loders, Bridport
Page 823 Melplash Norman Thos. farmer, Mangerton mill [Melplash is in the Beaminster Hundred] Mangerton Mill has been restored & is used for a museum & teahouse.
1891 Loders, Bridport, Burton Bradstock Name: Thomas Norman Age: 82 Estimated birth year: abt 1809 Relation: Visitor Gender: Male Where born: Devon, England Civil parish: Loders Ecclesiastical parish: Loders Town: Loders County/Island: Dorset Country: England Household Members: Name Age Florence Adala Brown 6 Jesse Brown 1 Julia Brown 35 Walter Stanley Brown 3 William Brown 27 Thomas Norman 82
Thomas and Elizabeth were in Loders Dorset in 1871 Class RG10 Piece 2027 Folio 61 page 24 Civil parish Loders Dorset Reg District Bridport Address looks like Loders Street Thomas Norman 62 head Flax merchant born Collumpton Elizabeth 65 wife born Bradminch? Louisa A M 21 dau unm Born Leverton? Next door William Norman head 27 Engine driver born Kentisbur? Ann wife 26 born Stowey William John enumerator has him down as dau! 3 scholar born Loders Francis H B Norman son 1 born Loders I wonder if Francis should be the daughter?
"Devonshire was pre-eminently a county of country gentlemen ...... between, say, 1485 and 1914. There were few noblemen in the county, few great landowners of any kind. The gentry, large and small, were by far the most numerous and conspicuous of all classes of landowners, and the most influential politically and socially". W. G. Hoskins and Finsberg, "Devonshire Studies" (1952, p.334) "The yeoman .... for his rent which he payeth being small, and his fine once satisfied, he liveth as merrily as doth his landlord, but according to his calling". Tristram Risdon, "Survey of Devon" (1630)
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