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Relatives Buried at Rousdon Church
My great grandmother's sister Frances Ostler/nee Start (died 1889) is buried at Rousdon Church yard with her husband Luke Ostler (died 1916). They have a very strange looking memorial it is a long oak slab with an upright at either end, I have never seen a memorial like it before. It is now very weathered and starting to rot. There is an inscription on the oak slab "I have loved thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth" and their names and date of death. They both worked for the Peek family.
All Hallows School
All Hallows school was started in Honiton - now Honiton Museum - by my father's uncle John Murch and later moved to Lyme Regis. John Murch died in Bournemouth in 1959.
Gamekeeper's House, Rousdon Manor
I did get to see my great-grandparents' house at Rousdon Manor (the gamekeeper's cottage), I stayed there for a few days. I came from Australia with my father. I had a great time there. Everyone was so friendly and helpful. It is an experience I will never forget. I loved the history of Lyme Regis and all of Cornwall. My father was watching the 'Antique Roadshow' one night, it was on Rousdon Manor. I rang to see if I could get a copy of the show, but it is not possible because of the people in it, due to copyrights. But if anyone knows how I could get a copy I would really appreciate it. We love the show here in Australia. I did get to see part of the Manor which was someone's home, but not the stairway, as the people were away that look after it.
Thank you.
Louise Brown.
Evacuation to Combpyne
My sister Margaret and I (nee Rayner) were evacuated to the home and caring of a friend Olive Tuck who had a cottage next to a farm just out of Combpyne. Across the fields where we were allowed to play, was the path to Landslip Cottage. When mum and dad came to visit a special treat was to have afternoon tea at the cottage. To this day I remember a pathway of bright orange nasturtiums, the wooden tables and seats and the path (forbidden) to the beach which was festooned at that time with barbed wire. I am sure we had afternoon tea but think the adventure made the visits more memorable.
Margaret attended school in the village so may figure on the roll for 1942/43. We visited the farm to watch the cows being milked. Unfortunately I contracted bovine TB and spent the next year in a convalescent establishment!! We met snakes for the first time.
I remember going to the station to meet our parents and... Read more
Cream Teas at Landslip Cottage
My Greatgrandmother & Greatgrandfather lived at the Landslip Cottage for many years providing cream teas to visiting locals and tourists alike. My own mother married a Gapper born at the bungalow higher up the cliff. The visitors books, in our possession, for the cottage teas read like a script from PG Woodhouse with very reserved English expletives referencing the wasp population. The cottage was aready a ruin and overgrown when I was a boy although Auntie Lizzie and Annie, born at the cottage, still lived on the estate. Auntie Lizzie gave me a large photograph of greatgrandfather Gapper in front of the cottage doorway that I treasure.
The Gamekeeper at Rousdon Manor Peek Estate
Hi, I am Louise Brown of Australia. My grandmother Ellen Maud Edwards (married name Jefferis) lived with her parents Samuel and Alice Maud Edwards (Searle), at the cliff Cottage on the Peek Estates around the early 1900's, he was the gamekeeper there. I have a early picture of the house, Lady Peek was very interested in my grandmother, as she was partly deaf. She contributed to her learning of sign language. I also have a telegram she sent to my grandmother on her marriage day. I am looking for information about the death of Samuel, I think he died in 1923, but am not sure. I have several letters written to my grandmother from her mother in Cliff Cottage but no dates were given. My grandmother migrated to Australia in 1912. I was told about a house that fell into the sea, it was the engineers cottage, it was about 150 yards from Cliff Cottage. I would love to visit, but I am a bit far away. I have been... Read more
Sunday Walks
I was born in Axmouth and most Sundays we would have to walk out to Landslip Cottage. We all knew it as Anne's Cottage because the lady who lived there was called Annie Gapper. She would give my late Mum and Dad a cup of tea. I was one of nine in the family.
Formerly Whitlands Cottages
The cottage used to be called Whitlands Cottages. In 1881 my great grandparents Mr & Mrs French lived at no 3, next door to Mrs Gapper.
