People

We recently came across an 1806 lease of possession (conveyance).  It’s from Grantham, so slightly outside the Loveden area, but it contains a rather unusual name. Posthumous Bullivant was born to Elizabeth in Oakham in August 1778.  His father, Daniel Bullivant, a surgeon and apothecary, had died three months before the birth.  Daniel and Elizabeth (nee Freer) had married in Oakham in 1769. In 1797, when Posthumous was 18 or 19 (so not of age) his guardians – John Freer of Oakham and James Bullivant of Wymondham – signed articles of clerkship, making him an articled clerk (effectively an apprentice) to Edmund Smith Godfrey of Newark, to train as an attorney, solicitor and conveyancer for 5 years. Posthumous qualified around 1802 and moved to Grantham.  It was common for solicitors to take on official part-time roles and he was appointed clerk and treasurer of the Grantham to Nottingham Turnpike Trust. In April 1806 he bought the property he’d been renting in Grantham (see below) and in October that year he married Ann Hussey Coles at St Wulframs Church.  The first part of the conveyance reads: This indenture made the fourth day of April in the forty sixth year of the […]

In April 1938 the Hough on the Hill Annual Parish Meeting discussed air raid precautions and elected the following officials: Air Raid Warden:             William Price First Aid Party:                  Harry Porter, Charles Bembridge, J Johnson and T Gilliatt First Aid Post Staff:        Cecil Bellamy and William Hoyes Ambulance Driver:         Rev C H D Moore After war broke out in 1939 more local people became involved.  The 1939 national register was later annotated with war service details.  Not all have beenreleased, but the following are available for Hough on the Hill parish: Harry Porter, a tractor driver, was living in Hough in 1939. He served with one of the National Defence Companies (NDC), who were ex-soldiers who had volunteered for home service as part of the Territorial Army. The NDC were called up in 1939 and joined Home Service Battalions, guarding key points and prisoner of war camps.   Thomas Henry Gillat (1890-1972) a farmer who’d been born in Australia was an ARP warden in Gelston. George Henry Gibson (1900-) was brought up in Marston but later lived in Gelston where he was an ironstone worker and served in the ARP. Charles Henry Dodwell Moore (1872-1942) had been the vicar […]