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Langley Vale Sue
14-05-10, 15:32
Name - "official" name and what they were known as - William Seldon (Willie)

Date and place of birth - 29 October 1861, Crediton, Devon

Names of parents - John and Emma Seldon, nee Spear

Date and place of baptism - unknown

Details of each of his marriages -
1. Emma Spiller on 2 October 1884 at St John the Baptist church, Broadclyst, Devon (widowed 29 November 1887)
2. Eliza Ann Chambers on 16 December 1891 at St John the Baptist church, Broadclyst, Devon

Occupation(s) - Ag Lab (1881), Farm Labourer (1891), Railway Labourer (1901), Labourer at London & South Western Railway Creosote Works (1911)

Military service - none known

Addresses where they lived - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him on
1861 birth - Tapps Cottage, Knowle, Crediton, Devon.
1871 census - Tapps Cottage, Knowle, Crediton, Devon.
1881 census - Tapps Cottage, Knowle, Crediton, Devon.
1884 - 1887 approx - Little Loxbrook Cottage, Broadclyst, Devon.
1891 census - 4 Burrow, Broadclyst, Devon.
1901 census - Queens Square, Broadclyst, Devon.
1911 census - Broadclyst Station, Broadclyst, Devon.
Sometime between 1911 census & 1914 until his death - Hackworthy Cottage (otherwise known as Green Tree), Broadclyst, Devon.

Date, place and cause of death - 4 January 1951, Broadclyst, Devon. Cause unknown.

Date and place of burial / cremation - date unknown. Buried in the graveyard of St John the Baptist Church, Broadclyst, Devon with his 2nd wife Eliza. The 'Dead Man's Pennies' of both his sons are embedded in the gravestone.

Details of will / administration of their estate - unknown

Memorial inscription - unknown until I find my photo of his grave!

ElizabethHerts
14-05-10, 18:17
Sue, your great-grandfather lived in one of my very favourite places.

I took my 11+ at the school in Broadclyst!

We went to Killerton countless times with my Mum and my two daughters. The views and the gardens in spring are just incredible. My garden was planted with many plants bought from the plant sales part of Killerton.

OH and I have sometimes said we would like our ashes to be sprinkled there!

Langley Vale Sue
14-05-10, 18:32
It actually was my husband's G grandfather, but I know what you mean about Broadclyst :) It is a beautiful place with all the thatched cottages and the beautiful old church. One of OH's GG Aunts lived in the gatehouse at Killerton before WW2 and I have some photos of the family picnicking on the lawns. We were last there about 6 or 7 years ago and the people that lived in Hackworthy Cottage (where OH's G grandfather lived) were kind enough to show us around. It was over 60 years since my mother-in-law had been in the cottage and she was able to tell the occupants what had changed in that time. They were genealogists too and were thrilled to meet someone from the house's past.