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Gray's Farm 1918
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1918 Sale Map Gray's Farm Lot 65
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1918 Sale Information Gray's Farm
GRAY’S FARM
1781-2 Perk’s map        Lot 53 Susannah Paine approx. 30 acres
1839 Tithe Map             Lot 992 Simon Peach - 80a 2p 5r
1841 Census                  Simon Peach with wife Maria and 5 children
1847                                Estate Particulars John Boles lease - 5th April 1845 - 91a 3p 10r
1852 Sale                       Auction of Farming stock – Thomas Keevil leaving the farm and declining the Dairy Business …taken                                             a corn farm
1858                                17th April  Mary Amelia Keevil (8) and Albert Keevil(4) buried this day at Stalbridge
1861 Census                   Frederick Keevill - farmer of 135 acres employing 6 labourers
1865                                 Frederick Creed – horse breeder, owner of the Railway Hotel at Templecombe (1871) Living with                                                    wife, Kitty, at Abbas Combe and 2 children.  Married Kitty Hole at Templecombe in 1846
1871 Census                   Frederick Creed - Farmer of 60 acres
1875 Sale                        Auction of stock and agricultural implements – Mr F Creed who is retiring from business (retires to                                               High Street)
1861 Census                   Isaac Loader (29) Inn Keeper (Swan) with wife Margaret Bowden & son Edwin (1857-1864).  Transfers                                                 to the Red Lion in 1865 & in 1860 is at the Hind Inn
1881 Census                   Isaac Loader Farmer 144 Acres 2 Men 1 Boy – wife Elizabeth Harris
1891 Census                   Albertina Gatehouse is his housekeeper
1910                                 Isaac Loader dies leaves his estate of £1500 to Albertina
1911 Census                  Henry (Harry) John Charles Shute (25) wife Rosa Frances (Ricketts) married at Motcombe 1910.  Born                                           1886 at Church Farm, Marnhull - 5 rooms
1918 Sale                      Lot 65 -172a sold for £8150 to H J Shute
1928                              “Died aged 42 Mr Harry John Shute, of Grays Farm, Stalbridge, yeoman, who died on July 30th last, left                                           estate valued £9,727 18s 3d gross
1935 Sale                       Auction of stock for Mrs R F Shute “the farm being let”
1935                               Kelly’s Directory    Walter Arnold
1938                               To Let from 7th December 172 acres.
1939 Sale                       Auction of Farming Stock – Mr W Arnold “giving up the farm”
1939                               Kelly’s Directory    Hedley W Watts
1943                               Death Notice On March 28th at Gray’s Farm, Stalbridge. Hedley Winlock Watts, aged 76 years
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