Greetings List on a cool but sunny Thursday.
Was raining heavily yesterday.
Come across Augusta Chant who ran a school in
Midsomer Norton, SOM
Her family : parents George Chant spouse: Harriet
Children
John Chant bap: 28 Dec 1840, Holwell By Sherborne, Dorset, England
Ann Chant bap: 25 Dec 1843, Holwell By Sherborne, Dorset, England
Mary Chant b: 1846, Holwell By Sherborne, Dorset, England
John Chant b: 1849, Holwell By Sherborne, Dorset, England
Helena Chant b: 1854, (Holwell By Sherborne, Dorset, England)
Augusta Chant b: 1854, (Holwell By Sherborne, Dorset, England)
Mary, John, Helena and Augusta were all baptised on 28 Jun 1857
In the Lent Assizes at Taunton Castle,Somerset, on 30-3-1844
There was a Joseph Chant brought for trial.
Joseph CHAUNT married Sarah MEATYARD 25th June 1769 at St.Nicholas's Church
in Hengstridge.(maybe related to Henry Chant)?
1891 census for Stour Provost/East Stour/West Stour area which were next
door to Hengstridge and the Chants are as follows:
Stour Provost - Amanda 23 d glovemaker born Marnhull
Jane 26 d glovemaker b.Shaftesbury
John 17 s Basketmaker b. Marnhull
Marina 54 W b.Wootton Bassett
Phillis 21 d Dressmaker b.Marnhull
William 56 H Basket maker b. Marnhull
East Stour - Emily 26 W born Marnhull
Howard 1 born West Stour
Walter 28 Ag.Lab. born Marnhull
Winifred 3 born Marnhull
None in West Stour/Gillingham/Silton/Bourton/Melbury Abbas/Ashmore/Compton
Abbas/Fontmell Magna/West Orchard/Sutton Waldron/Iwerne Minster/East
Orchard/Margaret Marsh/Todber/Shaftesbury Holy Trinity &
St.Peter/Shaftesbury St.James/Motcombe/Cann but some in the following;
Kington Magna - George Chant 78 H Pauper born Kington Magna
Buckhorn Weston - Ada L. 8 d Scholar born Kington Magna
Jane 38 W born
Fifehead Magdalen
Robert C. 38 H Ag.Lab. born Marnhull
Robert G. 5 s Scholar born Horsington
in Somerset
Stanley S. 1 s born
Buckhorn Weston
Walter J. 10 s Scholar born Marnhull
Also in Buckhorn Weston - Charles W. 26 H Ag.Lab. born Castle Cary
in Somerset
Mary 29 W
born Newport in Wiltshire
regards
Michael Cheeseman