SOUTH PETHERTON INFORMATION
Hanna Nicholas and Liz James (formerly Hebditch) have been sharing research for many years, being cousins three times over through the HEBDITCH, VAUX & HARDING families. The families lived in South Petherton or the surrounding villages for at least 400 years, many of whom were non-conformists so do not always appear in the parish registers.
The surnames we are researching are:-
Axe, Clark, Gifford, Gundry, Harding, Hare, Hazelbrook,
Hebditch, Humphr(e)y, Laver, Light, Mantel, Masters, Ostler, Palmer, Terrell,
Vaux, Vile, Weare, Wheller, Wines.
These and other families from South Petherton can be found on Hanna's database on the Rootsweb Worldconnect website - just type in the name of the database: hnicholas1
Liz is also researching: Anstice, Beaton, Bishop, Chaffey, Goodland, Judge, Kingwill, Lentell, Lovibond, Robbins, Stark, Savidge, Trenchard, Winslade.
SOUTH PETHERTON INFORMATION
Recent additions to the web site -
South Petherton Burials 1574 - 1624,
Marriages 1574 - 1615 - 1668
Baptisms 1574 - 1670
South Petherton Wesleyan Chapel - updated
South Petherton Lists of People
For further sources of information on South Petherton (both online and books) - click here
FOR THE INDEX PAGE TO THE FOLLOWING RECORDS - click here
Transcripts of South Petherton parish records
Transcripts of South Petherton & surrounding area non-conformist records
South Petherton parish Positions held
Soldiers of South Petherton
Photographs of South Petherton
Jury List - 1768 - 1818
South Petherton Wills
South Petherton List of People
THE DIARY OF BENJAMIN HEBDITCH
We have been fortunate in that one of our ancestors, Benjamin Hebditch (1791-1861) compiled a diary and although we do not have the original we have photocopies. Benjamin lived in the parish of South Petherton in a small hamlet known as Over Stratton where he owned land. Benjamin was a farmer but his ancestors were blacksmiths. The diary contains a mixture of farm accounts, legal matters, parish and chapel business, family news, weather and some world events. Please note, we have not altered any spellings from the original diary. Click here for much more
For some family photographs click here
FIELD MARSHAL LORD HARDING OF PETHERTON
For notes on his early childhood click here
For notes prepared for his biography, including Army career, click here
For letters written during WWI click here
For an interesting snippet regarding WW1 click here
New - letters written by Geoffrey Pether (first cousin to Alan Harding) to his family. Geoffrey was in Heidelburg in 1914 and was interred at Rhuelben camp. His mother was Sarah Sophia Harding, daughter of William Harding & Priscilla Savidge of South Petherton.
Click here to read what it was like for a young lad of 17 to be interred during WW1
The Vaux Family of England, the United States, and Australia
Sarah Anson Vaux has been writing the history of the Vaux family of England, the United States, and Australia for many years. There is a wealth of information on other families - such as GODDEN, HARE, HEBDITCH, LAVER, OSTLER, PALMER, TERRELL and VILE. It is worth reading Sarah's book for an insight into the history of South Petherton and of non-conformity.
Click here to see the list of chapters - there are also photographs to look at.
Click here for other useful web-site links for the South Petherton area
Click here for Information from fellow researchers in the South Petherton & surrounding area
Click
here for help with EMIGRATION FROM SOUTH PETHERTON TO VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, 1839
- 1900
If you
have anything which will interest other researchers of South Petherton families
that you are willing to share, please click on this link to contact
Liz
Last updated: 19th August 2008