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Year: 1970
Strange but True A memory of Huntworth, Somerset My father was a bank manager in Faringdon in the 1970s and managed the accounts of the Pusey estate and the Hornby family, owners of the estate. On one occasion, during an annual fete, Dad was asked to act treasurer of the fete. He asked me to help him. On that day, two Puseys were in Pusey village. My Pusey family was based in Oxford, where my paternal grandfather was employed in the University. His father was, I believe, a butcher in the St Clements area of the city. In my father's family were six children, three sisters and three brothers, of which my father, Frederick was the fourth child. There were five Pusey cousins: John (son of Guy and still lives in Oxford), me, (son of Hugh and now living in Somerset), Michael (sadly deceased), Peter and Anne (sons and daughter of Harold). Peter lives in Malvern and Anne lives in America. There were also two non-Pusey cousins: Mary and Jane (daughters of Vera Heath, the youngest sister - the oither sisters were spinsters). The second sister, Sybil finally lived and died at a home in Stanford in the Vale, the next village. She had a room next door to the nanny e,mployed by the Hornby family at Pusey House. Cousin John has researched to an extent but can find no direct connection with the Pusey estate, although the family did own a number of silver spoons marked with the cat rampant, as used by Edward Bouverie-Pusey and probably inherited from the original Pusey family. Sadly, I do not know whether any of these spoons still exist. Posted: 03/06/2008 22:34 by David Pusey |
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