LE CROISSETTE, DANIEL, CLARKE, ANDREWS, DE CROISETTES, WOHLMANN & RELATED FAMILIES
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Agnes was born 10th April 1845. Her birth certificate says this was in the village of Semley,
in Wiltshire, about 4 miles north-east of Salisbury and 2 as the crow flies from Donhead St
Mary. Her father was a farmer, Thomas, and her mother Elizabeth Fisher. As Agnes gave Donhead
St Mary as her birth place at her marriage, it seems likely the family farm lay between the
two villages. Her baptism record will need to be retrieved from the Wiltshire records as it
has not been recorded on the IGI. Semley is 5 miles S of Hindon. Grid Ref ST893269. Postcode SP7 9AS. Population 700 in 1831, 500 in 1951. A parish church has stood in Semley since Norman times, however the present church is Victorian. The old remnants from the older buildings are the Norman font and a thirteenth century effigy of a priest, which are both situated close to the north door. The rebuilding of the church was begun by Henry Hall, Rector of Semley from 1856. In 1866 he took down the old chancel and built a new one entirely at his own expense. The rebuilding of the rest of the building started in 1874 and was completed the following year. The money for the work (£4,200) was given by the Marchioness of Westminster. The tower has six bells, of which the Treble (cast in 1733 by William Cockey of Frome) and 2nd (pre-Reformation, cast by Robert Burford of London c.1410) came from the earlier church. The remaining bells were given in 1878 by the Reverend Henry Hall. Semley railway station became in 1871 the first wholesale depot in Wiltshire to supply milk for the London market. Many farmers in this part of Wiltshire switched from butter and cheese manufacture to milk as a result. Arable and meat farming was in decline at this time due to the influx of cheap imports - wheat from the American and Canadian prairies, Danish bacon etc, and so some of these farmers also switched to milk production. Semley was part of Tisbury union workhouse, from 1868 the poor of Semley would have been sent here. Semley is famous as the home village of Yvonne Fletcher, a Police Constable in the Metropolitan Police who was tragically shot while on duty at the Libyan Embassy in St James Square, London and died on the 17th April 1984. The actor Robert Morley was born here in 1908. Adjacent Parishes: Donhead St Andrew, Donhead St Mary, Wardour, East Knoyle, Sedgehill, Motcombe Nearest town: Shaftesbury (3 miles) Tisbury (3.5miles) When Agnes married, aged 27 years, she was described as a spinster born in 'Donhead St Mary', father Thomas Street, a farmer, Agnes was a 'Spinster'. Births Jun 1845, STREET Agnes Tisbury 8, 416. As often happened, Agnes has been given the same name as the baby that died a year earlier. In the 1881 census, Agnes was working as a widowed prison officer in London while her children are with their grandmother in Donhead, Wiltshire: Agnes FRAMPTON Officer W [ie Widow] Female 36 Donhead, Wiltshire, England Assistant Matron Fulham Prison Source Information: Institution "H M Female Convict Prison" Burlington Lane, Census Place London, Middlesex, England. By 1901, Agnes had retired. The census found her back home in the Tisbury area: Agnes Frampton 55, born Wilts Donhead, in Wiltshire East Tisbury Entire. Ret Super Annuated Assist Matron H M H Prison. There were no other Framptons with her there. For detail of All Saints, Tisbury, Wardour Chapel registrations see: Indexes and registers of All Saints, Tisbury, the Roman Catholic Chapel of Wardour Castle. Registers from 1744 are with the Incumbent. WSRO registers: (microfilm) Chr 1744-1875, Mar 1749-66 1820-1875, Bur 1820-1875. Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office has Christening, Marriage and Burial Parish Registers and microfilm copies for most parishes. Note that they also hold much other material from parish chests, churchwardens' accounts, relief of the poor, etc. Access to Archives has an on-line catalogue of most parish registers in WSRO. Microfilm copies of many parish registers are in the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; they are listed on-line in the FamilySearch Family History Library Catalog which is also available from their Distribution Centres for purchase as a CDROM. Microfilms can be ordered for viewing at any Family History Centre of the LDS Church world-wide. County Sources at the Society of Genealogists: Wiltshire is an on-line listing and is also a book published by the Society of Genealogists, edited by Neville Taylor (2000), 30 pages, ISBN 1-903462-27-4. It lists microfilms of original registers, transcripts and indexes, covering parish registers, non-conformist registers and marriage licences. |