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The Manor of Alderton 3 rd edition
In the same year the Great Western railway-line between Swindon and the
South Wales, the line that runs through Bristol Parkway, was being constructed
just south of the village (it isn’t noticeable when travelling to the village, as the
railway is in a tunnel where the Grittleton road passes over its course). The
navvies building the railway were housed in huts close to the work and had their
families with them – the school records for this year include the following
entries:
April 21 st Edith Shepherd’s and Francis Fletcher’s parents have left the
village, their fathers are gone to work on another part of the new
line which is being constructed through the neighbourhood
May 22 nd Being Whit Monday, which the men keep as a holiday, not a child
has come from the railway huts
Oct 26 th
Admitted Frank Cox, another boy from the line huts.
Four days later Frank ran away from home but was "forced to return"
AW Neeld died in 1900 . He had been ill since the previous Christmas, when he
contracted a cold, but seemed to recover. Some months later he suffered an
“internal malady” which confined him to bed and, by August 9 th , the local paper
reported that he was “in a critical condition” 504 ; he died two days later. His
three brothers, his cousin the rector of Grittleton and his “Faithful attendant,
Nurse Pacey” 505 were with him.
The funeral took place on August 15 1900, AW Neeld was buried in his family
valt under Leigh Delamere church, “his body was in an elm shell in a lead coffin,
and these were enclosed in a polished oak coffin with raised panels and massive
brass ornamentation” 506 ,*
Algernon William’’s brother, Audley Dallas Neeld, inherited the estate and the
baronetcy, becoming the third Baronet.
504 Devizes and Wilts Gazette Aug 9 1900 p5
505 Devizes and Wilts Gazette Aug 16 1900 p8 Death of Sir A W Neeld
506 Devizes and Wilts Gazette Aug 23 1900 p5
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