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A Parish at War
The Civil War (1642-49)
Book & Supplement
Frontispiece and Preface
Deddington's military past
Graves and Memorials
The names in this chapter of those who served
The War Memorial
Extracts from Deddington Deanery magazine (1919-22) - the War Memorial
Names on the War Memorial and in the Church
Graves in the churchyard
War Memorial and Grave in the churchyard of All Saints, Croughton
The Menin Gate, Thiepval and Tyne Cot Memorials
Where they rest or are commemorated
The First World War (1914 – 1918)
The names in this chapter of those who served
The men named on the War Memorial
The men whose names are not on the War Memorial
The men who served and returned
Photographs and illustrations
The Second World War (1939 – 1945)
The names in this chapter of those who served
The men named on the War Memorial
A Plaque in the Church and a Grave in the Churchyard
The men and women who served and returned
The Home Guard
The Royal Observer Corps
The Women's Land Army & Timber Corps
Inland Waterways
The Emergency Services
The Women's Voluntary Services & Evacuees
Airfields near Deddington
Photographs & illustrations
The Post War Years
The names in this chapter of those who served
The name on the War Memorial
The men and Women who served and returned
Royal Observer Corps' Nuclear Monitoring Bunker
Photographs
Personal Stories
Sid Berry
The 'Bowler Boys'
Ron and Daphne Canning
Bill Cowley
Norman Drake
Rob Forsyth
Peter and Pauline Franklyn
The Garrett Family
Ted Harper
Denys Heywood
Stephanie Higham
John Hodges
Kindertransport evacuees - Frank Steiner & Marianne Elsley
Les Legerton
The Battle for Leros - Ted Johnson & Bill Minnear
The Malcher Family
Peggy Pacey
Len Plumbe
Derrick Robbins
Edna Sewell
George Spenceley
José Stevens
Diana Underwood
Tim Wilson
Post script, About the authors & Acknowledgements
The Supplement
Preface and corrections to the book.
The 18th and 19th Centuries
The Boer War
The First World War (1914-18)
The Second World War (1939-45)
The Post War Years (1945-2012)
Personal Stories
Bill Brown
Pat Ellmore (Née Petre)
Iain Gillespie
Humphrey Lloyd
Mike O'Neill
George and Agnes Smith and Family
Peter Terry
Tom Van Oss
The Forgotten Army
Wartime Memories - Don Walker
Growing up in Wartime Deddington - John Fortescue
An email from 'Down Under' - George Harris
End Note to back cover
Further research post publication
Boer War
British military and peacekeeping activities since WWII
Deddington's unexploded bombs
FE POW order not to talk about their experiences
Oxfordshire at war
Personal stories of those who served
Abernethy, James & Tom - WWI
Beesley, John & Richard - WWI
Berry,William (Bill) - WWI & WWII
Bliss, David - WWI
Churchill Brothers - Pre-war & WWII
Course, Bill - WWI
Fletcher, Charles - WWI
Fowler, Richard & William - WWI
Fortescue, John - WWII
Gibbs men 1810-76
Higham, Stephanie - WWII
Hobart, Percy - WWII
Hutt brothers - WWI
Jarrett, Frank - WWI
Information supplied by Catherine McFarlane (G Niece)
Long, Leonard - WWI
Lloyd, Humphrey - WWI & WWII
Parks-Smith, Robert (Bobbie) - WWII
Pinfold, Percy & Jack - WWI
Pyman, Lawrence - WWII
Satchell cousins - Boer War
Narrative of the action from Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Great Boer War'
Sykes, Norman - WWI
Tustain, William - WWI
Van Oss brothers - WWII
Tom Van Oss
WWII Nissen Hut used by the Home Guard
WWII POW lists in Deddington Beeches Bowls Club Ledger
Naval Officers listed as POWs in Deddington Beeches Bowls Club Ledger
The War Memorial and WWI War Grave Crosses
WWI War Grave Crosses
Rolls of Honour
Parish Church Roll of Honour
Local Newspapers 1883-1950
Letter from the Soudan 27 March 1885
Memories of VE Day
WWII Veterans' memories of VE Day 1945
Dedication of the War Memorial Plaque - 16 June 2013
Media Interviews
WWII Radio Oxford interviews 11 November 2011
Battle of Passchendaele - BBC broadcast from Deddington (2017)
Daphne Canning ex WAAF talks about hers,her husbands and father's WWII experiences at Chicksands
75th Anniversaries of VE & VJ Days in lockdown
Photographs
Parish Archive
Parish Archive Register
(( Categories & Subjects ))
Between the Wars
Sid Berry - Oral History
Fred Deely - Oral History
Barbara Hodges - Hostages to Fortune
George Harris - 'As I Remember'
As I Remember
Don Walker - Memories
Jim Yerbury - Recollections
Buildings
CHURCHES & CHAPELS
Mission Hall (Former Chapel in Church Street)
Reports in Jackson's Oxford Journal
Joseph Malings sells the Mission Hall
Church of St Peter & St Paul
Clifton Chapels
Congregational Church (now a private house)
Other Churches and Chapels of Deddington
Hempton Churches and Chapels
ESTATES & STREET NAMES
Deddington Estate Sale by Christ Church College 1954
INNS, PUBS AND LODGING HOUSES
The Crown and Tuns. GII
Plough
Red Lion Market Square
Three Horseshoes or Exhibition Inn
Volunteer
Plough Inn, Hempton
PRIVATE HOUSES
Boulderdyke House, Clifton
The Goldsmith famiy story
Castle End & Applewood (formerly Monks Court) Grade II*
Castle House (GII*)
Castle View, Goose Green (GII)
Deddington House (Manor) GII
Laurel House.GII
Legion Cottages - North & South
The Leaden Porch House.GI
Leaden Porch House - House and History
The Leaden Porch House - Occupants
The Leaden Porch House - The Great Rebuilding
Mount Pleasant, Hempton
Plough House.GII*
Rothbury House formerly Three Horse Shoes/Exhibition Inn
The Bake House - by the The Stile footpath,
The Hermitage & Corner House.GII*
The Knowle & The Folly.GII
The Old Post House
The Poplars
The Orchards & The French family
The Stile House.GII
Winmour Cottage.GII
1726 - The Will of Ann Langston
The History of Winmour Cottage - A Summary
The Deeds of Winmour Cottage
Hannah Turner to John Hopcraft - 1823
Lease and Release
1818 - Churchill to Turner for £100
1750 - The Will of Elizabeth Langston
1755 - The Will of Catherine Waite
1756 - The Will of John Wyatt
1839 - The Will of George Roberts
1790 - A Mortgage for £21
1774 - Wyatt to Bennett for £25
1840 - Henry Dean's purchase for £102
1926 - Clara Mullis to Frank Hirons for £67
1649 - Jakeman to Sturch for £15 5 Shillings
1806 - Bennett to Churchill for £80
1877 - Dean to Mullis, Mortgage for £500?
1905 - Mullis to Mullis for £100
1808 front page
1808 Hempton
1961- Hirons to Hayward for £400
1837 - John Hopcraft to Michael Rose
1926 to 1952 - Bills and Correspondence
1963 - Mr Hayward sells to Mr Moreby
1699 - Sturch to Langston for £13 10/-
1698 - William Sturch to his mother for 20/-
1792 - Bennett to Killby
A detailed history of Winmour Cottage
1793 - Richard Killby to John Bennett for £40
1830 - John Hopcraft takes a mortgage
Axle Tree Factory/YMCA Club/Legion Club
Almshouses.GII
The Barracks
Deddington Paper Mill
Robert Stilgoe's observations
Charles Faulkner Museum of Curiosities
Holly Tree Club
Ilbury Iron Age Fort
Jones Memorial Windows
Library
Library campaign
May 2011
March 2011
Mortuary
Pest House
Philcote Street
The Post Office
Town Hall.Grade II
Press cuttings
The listing particulars of the Town Hall
Windmill Centre
(( Workhouse ))
Clifton
Census and Population Records
1728 - Christchurch Tenants
1636 - Christ Church Tenants
1787 - Christ Church Tenants
1807 Homesteads from the Deddington Quality Book
1808 Dutchy Freeholders
Inhabitants of Deddington in 1623
Tenants of the Stilgoe brothers - c.1808
Bladon Workhouse Inhabitants - 1881
Deddington Farmers 1851-1881
Census Spreadsheets
Deddington Population 1841-1901
Cause of Death
1798 Land Tax lists
Cassey's Directory - 1868
Extract Gardener's Directory of 1852
1754 Objections to Voters list
Polling List - 1826
1591 - The Jury, Christ Church Court of Survey
1640 - The Jury, Deddington Manor Court of Survey
Domesday Book
Clubs, Societies and Organisations
Brass Band
Cricket Club
Deddington Development Watch reports 2012-17
Deddington & District History Society 224 Newsletters
Deddington Society
Places to Eat and Drink in Deddington and Clifton
Fire Service
Fire Station Commanders
1896 Parish Council take over the Fire Brigade
Newspaper Reports pre 1883
Newspaper Reports from 1883
Newspaper reports from 1900 onwards
(( Where were the Fire Engines kept? ))
Football Club
Police
Royal British Legion & Club
Tennis Club
Women's Institute
Covid-19 Pandemic 2020
Deddington News
(( DN is on holiday in August ))
Delivery Services
Gallery - Deddington under lockdown
How life changed
Media
Notes from a Small Garden
Newsletters
Stories of the lockdown
Crazy Golf
Vicar Annie says...and Australia hears!
Dr Williams' Pink Pills
anti vaxxers in the 19th century
VE75 in lockdown
Featherton House residents celebrate VE75 in style
VJ75 in lockdown
Clockmakers
Deddington Clockmakers
Longcase Clocks in Pine
Fardon family tree
Frederick Treeby Reid
John Fardon (II)
Quaker clockmakers of North Oxfordshire
Adderbury Quaker Meeting House
The Deddington Coat of Arms
Daeda's Wood
Deddington Building Society
Deddington Castle and Grounds
Castle Grounds - 'Over the Years'
Castle Grounds
Deddington Families
Beesley
Berry
Bliss
Blount
Bull
Bowler
Turner
Churchill
Cartwright
Course
Dancer
French
Franklin
Hancox
Hayward
Hopcraft
Garrett
Gardine/Gardner
Gibbs
Goundrey
Hollier
Knibbs
Matthews
Malins/Malings
Shirley
Sanders
Smith - George & Agnes
Stilgoe
Risley
Wallin
Welford
Harper Family Tree
Deddington Steamship Co. & Sir Henry Samman
World Shipping Depression
A Candid Critic
Bonnie Kate
The Times, Obituary
Fights and Arguments
Turkeys
Trinity House
Elf salvage dispute
Deserter from the Steamship Elf
A Lady's honour
Extraodinary assault
Was it Blackmail ?
Shipwrecks and other mishaps
Loss of the Knight Templar
Loss of the Oxon
Malaria on-board Deddington
Deddington aground
The Fleet
National Archives 99/3136/4
National Archive 99/3136/6
National Archives 99/3186/7
National Archives 99/3136/8
Deddington in Tasmania
Deddington, Tasmania Today
Why is it called Deddington?
Tasmania Government Information
Nile Chapel
Tasmania Maps
Deddington Turnpike & Toll House
Deddington Map Group (DMG)
Millennium Maps and Posters
Clifton Millennnium Map
Deddington Millennium Map
Hempton Millennium Map
Fields and Farms Millennium Map
Age of Buildings Poster
Story of Deddington Poster
Deddington Street Map
Deddington News - Back Issues
Deddington News from 1976 to 2001
How To Use
Introduction
Images
Text
Issues from February 2002 to July 2019
Issues from September 2019 onwards
Deddington on Wikipedia
Emigration and Transportation
Transportation to the colonies
Robert & Joseph Gardner - Transportees
The Fletcher Sisters
Emigration
The ship Brutus, 1832
June 15, From an Englishman
June 15, Awful Mortality
June 15, From the Surgeon
June 22, Thanks from the Passengers
June 22, To Correspondents
June 15, Demand for an Enquiry
June 22, Accommodation on board
June 29. More Money !
July 6. Editor's Response
July 6. Was it Cholera ?
July 6. A Cure
July 6. Murder On Board
Deddington emigrants on The Brutus
H.M. Commisioners for Emigration Report
The ship Saint Anne, 1845
James Knibbs (1828-1914)
The Matthews brothers
Joseph Matthews 1808 - 1895
Richard Matthews 1811 - 1893
Farms and Fields of the Parish of Deddington
Domesday
Farming 1500-1800
Farming 1950s to the Present Day
Field Names Today
Fairs, Festivals, Carnivals, Concerts ...& a Funeral
1838 Queen Victoria's Coronation Celebrations
1887 Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee
1897 Diamond Jubilee
1901 Queen Victoria's Funeral
1909 on - Flower Shows
1938 Country Fair
1953 Queen Elizabeth II Coronation
1973 Deddington Festival
1974 Deddington Festival
1975 Deddington Festival
1977 Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee
1981 Deddington Carnival
2000 The Millennium
Millennium Events
2002 Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee
2010 Community Concert "Keep the home fires burning"
Jose Stevens
2011 Community Concert - In Praise of Musicals
2013 Dedication of War Memorial Plaque
2014 Community Concert - Remembering WWI
2015 Deddington Festival
2020 -VE75 Day
2024 D-Day 80
Pudden Pie Fairs
Franklins of Deddington
Genealogy - useful research links
Ghosts
Moira Byast talks to Radio Oxford
Hempton
Schoolroom History
Historical Characters of the Parish of Deddington
Maps of the Parish
Map of Deddington village
Natural History of Deddington by W Meagher
Newspaper references in previous centuries
Jackson's Oxford Journal 1753-1799
Jackson's Oxford Journal 1800-1819
Jackson's Oxford Journal & Banbury Guardian 1850-1859
Prisoners in Oxford Gaol 1873-76
North Oxfordshire Monthly Times
Oral History
Deely, Fred (Oral History)
Sid Berry
Sid Berry
key to naval recording
Radio Oxford Interviews (2011)- A Parish at War
Passchendaele - BBC remembers Deddington men 31 July 2017
Moira Byast tells of Deddington Ghost Stories
Daphne Canning ex WAAF talks about hers,her husband's and father's WWII Bletchley Park time podcast
Parish Church, St Peter & St Paul
Architecture
Choir
Church Bells
Church bells - newspaper references
Church Clock
Church Restoration Appeal
Deddington Deanery Magazines (1879-1930)
Gifts and Enhancements
Graves and other Memorials
History - Deddington Map Group article
History & church tour - video with audio commentary
List of Clergy from 1247
Parish Registers and other records
Restoration & 'repewing' of the church
Stained Glass Windows
Jones Memorial Windows
Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee (East) Window, 1888
Churchill Memorial (North) Window, 1900
The Parish Church by Mary Vane Turner
The Parish Church by Marianne Elsley
WWI Crosses - grave markers
Parish Council
Parish Registers
Parish Show
Chelsea Flower Show winner 2005
People and Profiles
(( Index A ))
Fred Abel (the Donkey Man)
(( Index B ))
Berry Family
Berry, Sid
Deddington Shops & Businesses
Beesley Family
Bishop, Matthew
Bliss Family
(( Bliss familiies 1851 - 1901 Census ))
Blount Family
Bowerman,Bernard
Bowler & Turner Family
Captain Leslie Bowler MC*
Air Vice Marshal Geoffrey Bowler RAF CB CBE
Squadron Leader Frank Bowler RAF
Lieutenant John Bowler MC
John Bowler - Memories of Clifton 1940-45
Brogden, Rev James
Reverend James Brogden shoots a policeman
Bull
(( Index C ))
Callow, Bartholomew
Cartwright Family
Small Rents Books 1750 to 1809
Churchills of Deddington
Mr Terry Brown's Churchill Archives
Thomas, John & Alec Churchill
The Henry Churchills of Deddington
Course family
(( Index D ))
Dancer Family
Deely, Fred (Oral History)
Dean, Henry (c.f.1840)
Deeley, George
Dipper, Florence nee Hanby
(( Index E ))
(( Index F ))
Fardon clockmakers
Faulkner
Fletcher Sisters 19th C
Forsyth,Rob (Mil)
Franklins of Deddington
(( French & Cox Genealogy Report ))
French & Hopcraft famiies
Frost, Reverend Maurice
(( Index G ))
Gardiner/Gardner Family
Gardner, Robert & Joseph Transportees
Garrett Family
Gibbs family
William Gibbs (b1808)
Thomas (b.1832) & Descendants
Charles (b.1834) & Descendants
Joshua Gibbs (b.1835) *& Descendants
Elizabeth Gibbs (b.1839) & descendants
Ann Gibbs (b.1844) & Descendants
Ellen Jane (2) (b.1847) & Descendants
Samuel (2) (b.1850)
Caleb (b.1852) & Descendants
Frederick W Gibbs (b.1855) & Descendants
Children of Frederick William (b.1855)
Family Tree
Gibbs Family - Wills
Henry & Sophia Gibbs & family emigration
Gibbs in military service
1633 - 1770
William (b.1787) and Jane (b.1763) Gibbs and & Descendants
John (b.1868) & Emily (b.1869) Gibbs & descendants
Goundrey family
(( Index H ))
Hall, Patricia - m.Colegrave
Harper Family Tree
Hancox Family
David Hancox's Notebook
Harris, George
Hayward family
Hobart - General Royal Tank Corps
Unveiling of a Memorial Plaque to General Hobart (Hobo)
Hodges, Barbara (Author) & Dr George
Hollier Family
(( Index I/J ))
(( Index K/L ))
Knibbs Family
Knibbs, John
(( Index M ))
Malins/Malings Family
The early years (1674-1814)
William Malings (1794-1865)
The sad story of the death of Rose Creek (1847)
Jackson's Oxford Journal
William Malings (1825-1875)
Mr Upton's appeal
Facsimile - Report of Mr Upton's appeal
Joseph Edward Malings (1836 – 1886)
Family Wills
Malings in wartime
Manning, Percy (1870-1917) - Collection
Matthews brothers - Missionaries to NZ
Millington, Bryan Worsley
(( Index N/O ))
Cardinal J H Newman
(( Index P/Q ))
Peggy (Margaret) Pacey,1918 – 2013
Tribute by Angus Irving
Peggy & her DUKWs (Ducks)
(( Index R ))
Reid, Frederick Treeby, Clockmaker
Risley, Reverend William Cotton
Risley
(( Index S ))
Sanders family
Walter and Nancy Sanders
Satchell cousins (Mil)
Smith Family
Stewart, Doreen - Evacuee
Stilgoe
Stilgoe Family
Deddington Stilgoes
(Gwendolen) Betty Stilgoe and Henryk (Henry) Elwertowski
London & Seagoing Stilgoes
Zachary Stilgoe - A Seafaring Man (c1650-1702)
Contents
Hollliers & Australian descendants
John Hollier goes to Australia
Artifacts
Family Trees
Descendants of Zachariah Stilgoe b.?? - 1669
Descendants of Hugh Stilgoe 1666 - 1737 - Extension 1
Descendents of Nathathaniel Stilgoe 1688-1753
Descendants of John Stilgoe 1772 - 1839
Descendants of Nathaniel Stilgoe 1793 - 1867
Descendants of Zachariah Walden Stilgoe 1829 - 1878
Possible connection between the London & Deddington Stilgoes
Hollier family tree
Australian descendants of John Stilgoe 1833 - 1900
Manuscripts
1540 - Book in Lincoln Cathedral
Houses & Property
Chaundeler V Stilgo
1551 - Release of a Cottage in Nave Street
Wills
(( Index T ))
Turner, Mary Vane - author
Turner Family
(( Index U/V ))
Van Oss, Thomas
(( Index W ))
Wallin Family
Wilkins, Joseph (1820-1891)
(( Wilkins Family Tree ))
(( Wilkins, Joseph (C Day) ))
Wilkins, Thomas b.1810
(( Index X/Y/Z ))
Yerbury, Jim
Jim Yerbury - Reminiscences 1930s
Clergy from 1247 A.D.
As I Remember - Book
Deddington Families
Ruth Johnson's Profiles
Abel, Fred (the Donkey Man)
Boniface, Revd Thomas
Collin, Cora
Dodwell, Charles
Frost, Revd Dr Maurice
Hodges, Dr George
Palmer, Nora
Weaver, Lilian
Wing, George
Davis, Frederick William
Franklin, William
Manchip, Thomas
Welford Family
Risley, Cotton, Family
Bill Marshall's Profiles
Callow, Herbie
Evans, Albert
Foreman, Amy
Mundy, Bert & Morby, Albert
Rainbow, Ivy & Richardson, Suzanne
Ray, Emma
Fuller, Charlie
Spencer, Eric
Wells, Ticky
Bernard Bowerman's memories
Don Walker's memories
Jim Yerbury's memories
Tomb Effigy c.1330 - Ralph de Bereford.
Photo Albums, Films & Collections
Blott on the Landscape (TV series)
Brian Carter Collection
Deddington Library Calendars
The Frith Photo Collection
Ironstone Enquiry
The Packer Collection
Plagues & Pestilence
Anti-vaxxers in the 19th Century
Published Articles & Books
Deddington in 1955
Printers and Publishers
The Story of Deddington - Mary Vane Turner
Preamble and Foreword
1. Old Deddington
2. The Parish Church
3. Streets and Houses
4. Trades and Callings
5. Deddington Folk
6. Deddington Fairs
Illustrations
7. Inns and Coaching Days
8. Sports and Pastimes
9. Milestones
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix III
Appendix IV
Appendix V
Appendix VI
Appendix VII
Appendix VIII
Appendix IX
As I Remember - An Autobiography. George Harris
Parish Magazines 1882-84 & 1888-92
Coggins, George (1846-1920) - Scrapbooks
George's dog 'Jack'
Incumbents of the Parish
Ruth Johnson's Writings
The Parish Church
Parish Boxes
War and Military
Ruth Johnson's Profiles
Deddington Society and Deddington News
Derrick Robbins
WI Scrapbook
Schools
Clifton School
Deddington School Records
Shops, Businesses & Trades
Tales from the Pump (Author)
Ducking, Mumming and Tilting at the Quintain (Mary Vane Turner)
Deddington man released from Newgate
Deddington turned upside down - well just a little bit
Low dealings in high places
The Great Deddington Skirmish
A Legacy of Slave-ownership in Deddington
The Great Fire at Johnson's Timber Yard -1941 (Rob Forsyth)
The Last Cattle Drover in Deddington
The Curious Case of the Deddington Jugs
Deddington Ghost Stories
The Poor in Deddington
Operation of the Poor Laws - 1834
Charity Commissioners' Report - 1826
The State of the Poor - 1797
Woodstock Poor Law Union
Deddington Benefit Societies
Deddington Charity Estates
Other Charities
The Windmill Centre
Walks round the Parish
A Walk round Deddington
Ralph's Walks
Ralph's Walks - On The Western Circuit
Ralph's Walks - The Grand Tour
Ralph's Walks - North And South
Ralph's Walks - Pastures New
Ralph's Walks - The Quiet Waters By
Ralph's Walks - Last But Not Least
Ralph's Walks - Conclusion
A walk round George's Loop
A walk round the Castle Grounds
Daeda's Wood
Wills, Indentures & Conveyances
Indentures & Conveyances
Midhill, Philcote Street
Original Wills in The National Archives
Transcribed Wills by D&DHS, OFHS & others
Deddington & District History Society (D&DHS)
Ofordshire Family History Society (OFHS)
Gibbs Family Wills
Stilgoe Family Wills
Courts of the Bishop & Archdeacon of Oxford - Deddington Wills 1516-1732
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