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THE PLANT COAT OF ARMS HEREBY ILLUSTRATBD IS OFFICIALLY DOCUMENTBD IN BURKE’S 

GENERAL ARMORY. THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ARMS (SHIELD) IS AS FOLLOWS: 

“Ali. ALABELlNBENDAZ INCHIEFAROSEGU” 

WHEN TRANSLATED THE BLAZON ALSO DESCRIBES THE~RIGINAL COLORS OF THE PLANT 

ARMS AS: 

“SJLVER; A BLUE LABEL PLACED DIAWNALLY IN UPPER THlRD A RED ROSE ” 

ABOVE TEE SHIELD AND HELMET IS THE CREST WHICH IS DESCRIBED AS 

“A RED STAG WALKING,” 

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CONTENTS - Journal No 20 

Members of the Group Page 1 

Members interests Page 5 

Introduction Page 8 

Members letters , Page 10 

Elsie Plant (100 years of age) Page 14 

The Museum of Hatt$g Page 15 

Format of Proposed Web Site Page 17 

Plantagenet Vita and Plants Yard Life Page 18 

Extracts fkom &jmera Index&J the Times _ . . 

George Planm&d 32 tharged with tht& ” 

Page 39 - . 

Staffordshire Bunal Index 

w towillmm(addldoImllo Jd 12pagos 14+19 Page 41 

John Plant of Lincoln 1394-5 

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SUPPLEMENT 

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Page 43 

Plants included in 1881 British Census for county of Suffolk

MEMBERS 

OF THE GROUP 

Ho 

1 

4 

MISS Lmda Lowrey 

Mr J&n Plant 

Mr Colin W Plant 

222 Concession St Apt 406 Ham&on, Ontano L9A 1Bl 

Canada 

E-mad linda lowrev(id.hwcnorg 

101 Clova Road, Forest Gate, London E7 9AG 

E-ma11 jplant@citv wmuulink co.uk 

14 West &oad, Bishops Stottford, H&s CM23 3QP 

E-mail 101621 165lhikompuserve corn 

6 

10 

12 

13 

16 

Mr Michael Plant 

Mrs Pamela Plant 

London 

Mrs Lois Webb 28 St Pauls Terrace, Hoddlesdq Darwea, Iancs BB3 3NP 

Ms Helen Hdl 

ie 

ME.EC!Reed 

The Coach House, Monyash Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire, 

DB45 1FG 

Comer Cottage, Ivetsay Bank Road, Bishops Wood, 

StaE.s ST199AE 

31 Walton Gardens, C&all, Wolverhampton WV8 IAH 

a 

18 

Mr Peter Johnson 

. 

47 Thorn Road, Halton Lodge, Runcorn, Cheshiie 

WA7 SHJ 

20 Mr Anthony David Plant 53 Green Curve, Baostead, Surrey, SM7 INS 

E-mail plant ad@ cwcom net 

29 Mrs Shirley Hughes 14 Crises Grove, Chalfont St Peter, Bucks SL9 9HG 

Email. Shirlevhuahe~hotmail.com 

32 Mrs Catherine Sproston Dunge Farm, Over Alderley, Cheshire 

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Q’,; a 

33 M&3 AileenPlant 147 MoorIand Road, Woodsmoor, Stockport Cheshiip 

SK2 7DP 

31 Mr Patrick Pearson 

Vahublen, Bowl Comer, Battisfixd, Stowmarket, 

Suffolk lP14 2LH 

E-mail. 106110.3033@comuus.coq 

38 

45 

41 

51 

Mrs Sian Plant 

Mr David Johnson 

. 

Mm Stella Robson 

Mr Gerald Plant 

I2 Daheny Road, New Bamct, Huts, EN.5 IDE 

l%na~l: .&&plants scrcamin~ net 

PO Box 433, Buddii 

Queensland, 4575, Australia 

Mill View, Great Whimngttn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 

NE19 2HP 

6 Bells Hollow, Red Street, Newcastle under Lyme, Stat% 

ST5 7A.J 

52 Dr John S Plant 

59 Mr Nigel Burroughs 

Computer Centre, Umvcrsity of Kecle, St& ST5 5BG 1 

E-mail. j s gbtnt~keele ac ok 

38 Orimshaw Road, Peterborough. PEI 4ET 

E-mall burroughs w@$&xzn

65 

69 

71 

74 

Mr D J Plant 

Mr Andrew Plant 

Mr G Bnan Plant 

Mrs Alice Doreen Mercer 

45 Pingate Lane, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle, Cheshtre 

SK8 7LT 

36 Second Street, Watlmg Bungalows, Leadgate, 

Co Durham 

54 BeanLeach Drive, Offerton, Stockport, Cheshire 

SK2 5I3z 

11 River Street, Mimmmurra, New South Wales, 2532, 

Australia 

m 

75 Mr Mchael John Plaat 

85 Mr John E Ram&y 

89 Mrs Denise Weston 

Crown Hill House, Worcester Road, Nevmham Bridge, 

Tenbury Wells, Worcs. WR15 SJA 

E-mail wove plant@vahoo wa 

18 Rgsary Crescent, HighgateHill, Queensland, 4101 

Australia 

E-mail: john.ransIey@dva POV au 

73 Downside Close, Bladford Forum, Dorset DTI 17%’ 

90 

95 

98 

104 

108 

110 

111 

113 

l 

114 

115 

119 

121 

MmMRL&e 

Mrs Linda S Wheel& 

Deanna Richards 

Mrs Lii Plant 

Mrs Stella Komfein 

Myrtle L Reid 

Mr Malt Jo&Plant 

Mrs Heather Plant 

Mrs Pat Herring 

Mrs Florence Plant 

Kathy Compagno 

16 Western Avenue, Felixtowe, Stiolk IPll 9SB 

E-mail m@ake@aol wm 

2210 Larkspur Drive, Alpine, CA 91901, U S A 

Emml momkat@,flash.net 

RMB 604A Donnybrook, 6239, Western Australia 

12 Meadow Lane, Ii&abridge, Kent TN8 6HT 

65 Lawrence Avenue, New Maldeo, Surrey, KT3 SLZ 

RR2 Hillsborgb, Ontario, NOB 120, Canada 

38 Faithful Street, Bbnalla, Vmtoria 3672, Australia, 

6 Peatmoss Street, SmmybankHills, Queensland, 4109, 

Australia. 

E-mail: ~lant@telstra.eqmail wmao 

Room 41, Resthaven, 336 Kensington Road, Leabrook, 

Adelaide, 5068, South Australia 

8 Stanier Close, Crewe, Cheshire CWI 1GP 

PO 192, Nagambie, Victoria 3608, Australia 

855 Bates Avenue, El Cesr%to, CA 94530, U S h 

E-m& ~o@du~tmail wm 

122 

Mrs Elizabeth AMesser 

Bearsden, 9 Pinehurst Ave , tideford 

Dorset, BH23 3NS 

Christchurch, 

Dr Andrew Thomas Plant 

The Spinney, Hill Top, Beauheu, Brockenhurst, 

Had, SO42 7YR 

124 Mr Alan Plant 1 Templar Terrace, Porthill, Newcastle, Staffs, ST5 SPN

125 MI Ronald George Plant 

127 Mr Wdham T Plant 

131 Mrs Jean Walpole 

132 Miss Linda Wilks 

138 Mrs Jean D Ray 

139 Ms Judith Kirkby 

140 Mm J Bateman 

141 Mr Malcolm Revel1 

143 Miss Freda Lawrence 

145 Mr Graham Wingfield 

147 Mr John Ronald Plant 

151 MISS Tessa P&bury 

153 MrsFranccsPlant 

154 Mix Susan E Woods 

158 Mrs Kerry-Ann Cooke 

161 Mr Antony C HFamath 

162 Ah Dereta 

164 &velyn M Pitts 

165 Mrs Gillian Jenkins 

55 Averill Road, Highfields, Stafford ST17 9XX 

298 Newhampton Road West, Wolverhampton 

West Midlands WV6 ORS 

40 FrederickRd , Cheam, Surrey, SM12HR 

Ems.11 hockev@cableinet wok 

41 Arnold St., Derby, DE22 3EW 

124 Lyth $1 Road, BaystonHiU, Shropshire, SY3 OAT 

E-mail j_ean drav@iIfemail net 

53 Mersea Avenue, West Maea, Colchester, Essex 

co5 8JL 

52 Ge,orge Frederick Road, Sutton C&field, West Midlands 

B73 6TP 

E.-mail: ianbatemao@breathemail net 

22 Melton Road, North F’ermby, East Yorkshire HU14 3ET 

‘Brades’ Lower Penkridge Road, Acton Trusseli, Stafford 

ST17 ORJ 

E-mail. &da lawrenw@al!dl wm 

34 Hereford Road, Buston, Derbyshire 

49 Bourke Avenue, Yattahmga, NSW 2251, Austmlia 

17 Hdl House, 75 High Street, S&on Wa1de.c 

Essex CBI0 1AA 

80 Buxton Cres., Sutton, Surrey, SM3 9TT 

Email f&Q@biefoot.wm 

50 Betbanga St, Mt Eliza 3930, Victoria, Australia ‘$ 

E-mail- suewoodsOozemai1 corn au 

‘2 Vernal Close, Abbeymead, Glos GL4 5FW 

5 Laurence Grove, Tettenball, Wolverhampton, 

West Midlands, WV6 9QN 

1130 S Orchard Dr&, Bmmtifid, Utah 84010-5026 USA 

B-mail: dereta@aros.ne.t 

525 Ciion Point, kot&s, Albm-ta&anada TOL lT5 

E-m& cvahs@cedvm mm 

.I 

42 Edgemont Roul, Weston Favell, Northampton, NN3 3PQ 

Email it;nkins5@moanet wm 

166 Mrs Margaret Insley 

167 Mrs M J Plant 

168 Mr Philip Plant 

86 High Street, Broadford, 3658 Wctoria, Australia 

204 Dunkay Road, London SE9 4HP 

33 The Dawneys, Cnrdwell, W&s SN16 9HE 

E-mail. p&mt@msil mm 

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169 Mrs Hazel M Morgan The Woodlands, 7 Rose Avenue, Alvechurcb, 

Nr Birmingham. B48 7PG 

171 Mr Brad Scott 38 Stanford Avenue, Hassocks., West Sussex. BN6 SJJ 

E-mail brad scottf&outledae co uk 

173 Mr John R&y 10 Wynbreck Drive, Keyworth, Nottingham NC12 SFY 

E-mail john.r&liamond co uk 

174 Mrs Fay Bielewiez 12 Florence St, Kippa-Ring 4021, Queensland, Australia 

E-mail ~@.~~@wwerua.com.a~ 

175 Mr Alan Richard Fartbing 141 Bnan Road, Chadwell Heath, Essex RM6 SB7 

E-mail j&nafartbb&comoscrve corn 

I 

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MF%KBERS INTERFSTS 

2 

4 

MISS Lmda Lowmy 

Mr John Plant 

Mr Cohn w Plant 

e19c Macclesfield, Cheshire/ml90 

Hollingwood - Darwen La14 

GCllWd 

19~ North Staf&dsbire/ 

6 

Mr Michael Plant 

Any p&d 

South Staffs/North Worcs/ 

10 

12 

Mrs Pamela Plant 

Mrs LOIS Webb 

e19c Stockport Chesliie/ 

. e19c Macclesfield Chesbire/mlYc 

Holliogwood f Darwen Lanes/ 

13 

Ms Helen Hill 

e19c Ayrshiiml9c 

L19c Cradley St&f 

Rowley Regis Staffs4 

16 

18 

20 

29 

32 

33 

31 

38 

MUCReed 

Mr Peter Johnson . 

Mr David Plant 

Mrs Shirley Hughes 

Mrs Catherine Sproston 

Miss Aileen Plant 

Mr Pa&k Pearson 

MZ3 Sian Plant” 

Mr David Johnson 

Mr< s Robson 

L18c e19c Nmth Sta&rdshire/ 

L19c Manchester I.ancs/l9c. Mid Cheshire/ 

Pre 19~ Clowae Derby/lYc Doncaster Yorksl 

19oNottsJ 190 Cheltenham Glos/ 

L17c f 18~ Rowley Regis Woros/lYc Dudley 

Worcs/L19c Sydney Australia/ 

Any Period Cheshire/ 

17c 18~ 19~ Stockport Cheshire/ 

Any period Stockport Cheshire/ 

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elYcDentonLaocs/l9cLeicester/ 

20~ Rounds Northants’ 

GeneraLI _ 

Mr Gerald Plant 

m19c Goostrey Cheshir&l9c 

Land 

e2Oo Salford 

59 

65 

69 

*Dr John S Plant 

Mr Nigel Burroughs 

Mr D I Plant 

Mr Andrew Plant 

MI G Brian Plant 

19c She&Id YorkaIel9c C&me 

Derbyshire/ c. 

L180 19cBurslem+LongtonStaffs/ 

Any period Cheadle Staffsf 

MISC + MlYc L&e Bowden and Market 

Harborougb/l9c London 

Any period Chesbii4 

5

74 Mrs Alice D Mercer 

75 Mr M J Plant 

19~ Leicester/LlYc No~tiagbam/ 

e19c Shropshiiefel9o Cheadle Holme 

Cheshire/ 

85 

Mr Jolm E Raosley 

18~ + 19~ Stafford&& 

89 

Mrs Denise F-Weston 

Any.penod Fenton + Cheadle + Longton St&I 

90 

MrsMRJAe 

m18c Suffolk/ 

95 

Linda Shields Wheeler 

17~ Stafford/any period Connecticut USA/ 

98 

Demme Richards 

19~ Ekkington Derbyshire/ 

104. 

108 

e 

110 

Mrs Lib. Plant 

Mrs SteUa Komfein 

Mrs Myxtle Reid 

r 

17~ + 18~ + el9o Wolverhampton/ 

LlYc Wisbech Cambs/L& 

LlYc f e2Oc Dar&on 

Bromwich, Staffs/ 

Battersea London/ 

+ Walsall f West 

111 

Mr Malt John Plant 

Any penod Sibsey LincsI 

113 

Mrs Heather Plant 

L19c Hackney Middlesex/ 

114 

Mr John Rowe1 Ingamellis 

18cLimcs/ 

115 

Mrs Pat Herring 

e19c Ashley StaEVL.lYc Wheelock Cheshire/ 

119 

Mrs Florence Plant 

LlYc Staffordshire/ 

121 

Kathy Compagno 

19~ West Bromwich-t Walsall, Staffs/ 

Ll8c-1 e19c Brierley Hill! e 18~ Old Swinford 

122 

JIiiethMesser : . 

L19c Cheadle Staffs/ 

@ - - 123 

Dr Andrew Thomas Plant 

18~ + 19c Northaats09c RutlamUl9c Hants + 

CambSnlYc f e2Oc Bedfordshire 

124 

Mr Alan Plant 

General Staffordshire/ 

125 

Mr Ronald George Plant 

e2oc Rugeley StafTordsbue/ 

127 

Mr William T Plant 

18c+ elYcNorth Staffordshire/ 

131 

Mrs Jean Walpole 

. . 

m19c Wolverhampton Staffordshire/ 

LlYc Camberwell, Surrey/’ 

132 

Miss Linda Wilks 

Any period Po&ies, 

Staffordshire/ 

138 

Mrs Jean Ray 

19~ Sheffield 

139 

Mrs Judith Kirkby 

Pre 1850 Macclesfield ChesI 

140 

Mrs J Batemao 

Pre 1900 Staffor&re@re 

1900 Worcestershire/ 

141. 

Mr Malcolm Revel1 

18 + 19c Burlsem + Longton + Stoke on Trent 

stafM

143 

145 

Miss Freda Lawrence 

Mr Graham Wmgfield 

18~ + 19c Stafford&& 

190 Lower + Higher Wlutley f Little Lelgb, 

Cheshire/ 

147 Mr John Ronald Plant 

151 Miss Tessa Pilsbury 

153 Mrs Frances Plant 

154 Mrs Susan E Woods 

Pre 1900 Stoke on Trent, StafEzI 

18~ + 1% Congleton&heshire/ 

19~ Leek Staffs/ 

19c staffsl 

158 Mrs Kerry-Ann Ccok 

161 Mr Antony C H Farnath 

162 Aloa Dereta 

19~ 20~ Black Country, West Midlands/ @“j 

Any Period pre 1860 Leek Staffs/ 

m 19~ Sheffield, Yorksl 

164 Evelyn M Pitts L 19~ Barrow-in-Form%, Lams/ 

.; m 19c Cradley Heath, Staffs/ 

165 Mrs Gillian Jenkms 

m 19c Wolverhampton+ 

West Bromwich, Staffs! 

166 &&IFS Margaret Ii&y 

167 MrsMJPlant 

, 

m 19c Hulme, Manchester, Lam& 

L 19~ + 20~ Australia (Victoria)/ 

Any period Market Harborougb, Little Bowden, 

Great Bowden, Foxton, tics/Sutton St Edmund, 

Halbeaoh, Link/ Brighton SussexIHaverhill, 

SuffoWBattersea, LmdonJ 

168 Mr Philip Plant 

169 Mrs Hazel Morgan 

171 Mr Brad Scott / 

173 Mr John Riley 

174 Mrs Fay Bielewiez 

Mr AlanFarthing 

As for member 167 plus North Wiltshire/ 

&-- 

19~ Meerbroo~ Grindon, StaffsIAshbotif&%by/ 

pre m 19~ Pembroke Dock/ 

L18c I- 19~ Clowne Derbyshire&I&ill + 

Anston Yorkd 

e19c Lydd Kent/Little Bowden, Not& 

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INTRODUCTION 

Fiistly let me apologme for the late issue of this journal, caused by a number of things but, mainly the 

time that Maws and I have spent over the last six months organising are-union of evacuees who moved 

to Chelford during the Second World War This project started a couple of years ago when we found, 

when researching for our book on Chelford (published last November with sales to date of over 850), 

lists of children in the vdlage school log book At that time we had enough informatron for the first 

book so the information was stored for later use 

Following publication of the tirst book, so much additional information came to light that we have 

decided to write a second book relating to our village of Chelford plus some adjoining villages It was 

thought that rt would be good idea to include in the next book memories of Chelford submitted by the 

evacuees ,The problem was how to contactthe evacuees We knew that they came 6omSrorton, north 

of Manchester, and from East London and we knew their names Subsequently, we advertised in the 

Manchester Evening News and one of the East London local papers The result was extremely good 

with a total of smteenevacuees contacting us and agre=$mg to write down their memories of their stay 

in Chelford It was’at abdnt that thne that we thought of the reunion All the evacuees were keen on 

theidea and a tldl day reunion took place’in Chefford Village school on Saturday 15 July attended by 

the evacuees, their hiends and relatives and many of the present vdlages who had connections with the 

evacuees during their period in Chelford. The Mayor and Mayoress of Macclesfield together with 

Martin Bell, MP, (who himself was an evacuee but to Westmoreland not Chelford) attended and we 

had considerable coverage in the media. I took part in the Janet Kennedy show on BBC Greater 

Manchester radio programme to explain how-the event had come about and what-was included in the 

reunion It was wonderful to see the evacuees meeting up again after, in some cases, sixty years, 

exchanging memories, em We also involved the present school children ln the event and they gave a 

presentation of war time songs (Underneath the Arches, Run Rabbit Run Run Run eto ) and the whole 

thing was held in a war time-setting with air mid siren, gas masks and a large number of war time 

posters obtained through the Imperial War Museum,.past~ on the walls ofthe school 

You will appreciate that the planning ofthls event fookup a considerable amount oftime but was in the 

end a vety enjoyable event Hence the delay in issuing the journal 

As all Family History researchers know, you 000asionalIy come across unexpected information I had 

an example of this recently One of my long term, on going projects is to try and locate all my 

ancestors on all fines back to 1800. In my case, this equates to a total of 64 forebears and to date I have 

‘found’ 51. Just aver six months agoJ.re-joined.the.Family History Society of Cheshire and resubmitted 

my list ofnamesrbeing~researched includiig thaname Fairhurst (a name on my mother and 

father’s side of the family) -The list-of names was printed in the next issue of their magtine and 

within a few days I had an &mail &am a lady who said that she was also researching the Fairhurst 

name. We exchanged information and found that she was descended 6om the same source as I was 

and, to my surprise, that this particular Falrhurst family were in fact my 5 X Grandparents on my Plant 

side of the family and my 4 X Grandparent on my mothers side of the family It just shows the power 

of informationcantainedin Members Interests 

I think it is about time we had our own Web Site in order to attract more members, and a proposed 

draft of the first page with a list of contents is shown on page 17 of this ~oumal. No address of 

members will be given though it is the mtention to include a list of areas being researched If any 

member hasany comments relative to this proposal.or.ideas of what information weshwld include, 

please c&tact either Dr John Plant (member No 52) who is going to be the Web Site Maintainer or me 

as Society President 

L 

As you will see from this journal, we have now finished the listing of the StatTordshire Burial Index 

have now purchased a copy ofthe StatFxdshire Marriage Index and will start liitmg thrs inhxmation 

the next~Journa1 

I 

in 

I mentioned in the last journal that I had purchased the CD Ram of the 1881 Census covering-the whole 

of the country and in each journal will hst the plants in each county starting with lower population of 

Plants This ~oumal cows the county of Suliblk, which, bemuse of Its size (over 200 entries) has been 

added at the end ofthe journal as asupplement -Ifany member wank me to include, at-an early date, 

a

other counties (not including Stat% and Cheshire wluch has so many Plants that I mtend to deal with as 

a separate project) please let me know 

Using the 1881 Census I intend to carry out a distribution of the name survey which, when complete, 

will be mcluded in the web site and the next issue of the journal The survey ~111 show the number of 

Plants in each County Dependent-on how dIfficuIt it is; I may also carry out an occupation analysis 

One of the earlier journals (No 12) mcluded detads of the Hatting Museum in Stockport and the Plants 

connection with the manufacture of hat blocks Well, the nuseum has expanded and moved to a new 

purpose built exhibition centre The openmg took place and Ailcen Plant (member No 33) being a 

descendent-of the original found’ets-of thexnnpany m 1828;was invited to thebfficial opening She 

has forwarded information of this historic day in her family and details are included m thts journal - 

seepage 15 

Coming now to new members We have two new members since the issue of the last journal, member 

No 174, Miss Fay Bielewia iom Australia who contacted me when she noticed a reference to our 

group in the Gettealti@&Society~of Queensland’s-newsletter. Her paternal grahdmotbix was’lillie 

Plant, born 1885, who was the daughter, of Frederick Plant, a Potters Printer m Kidsgrove and who 

manred Ellen Downing in 1882 at Borslem Frederick’s fhther was Henry Plant who was a Forge 

Manager bom, according to the 1881 Census, in 1820 at Audley He married Ellen who was the same 

age as Henry and also born at Audley. According to the 1881 Census for Smallthorn near Borslem, 

Henry andEllen were livinginNorth West Tar and the return showrFo%lerickPlant U 24 k 

Potters hinter, Samuel Plant a visitor born Audley age 56 and an unemployed Machine Man They 

also had a domestic servant, Emma Pugh If any member has any connections with this family please 

contact Fay direct 

The second newmember &Alan Farthilrg who ismember No -175. One of his-forebears-wasJobn 

Bamaby Plant born 1809 in Lydd, Kent, but with connections in Little Bowden, Northants I replied to 

his letter fonvanlrng on information on tbu particular family previously provided by Andrew Plant 

(Member No. 69) who is also descended &om this source Subsequently, Alan joined the Group and 

believes that he may be Andrew’s 4* cousin once removed He has pointed out that he has a. WtHiam 

Plant manymg an Abigail Peabody in 1747 and. would lie ~nfirtnaticn that they are l$Tby Plant’s 

parents Perhaps Andrew can now contact Alan so that they can exchange information I notice tom 

my records that Member No 167, M&M J Plant, also has connections m Little Bowden, so perhaps she 

also can contact Alan. Its nice to put long lost relatives or relatives that we &dn’t know we bad in 

touch with each other 

Cohn Plant (member No 4) sent me an email relative to ‘Plants’ who were killed in a&& during the 

First World War. He informs me that if you visit ‘http //yard cctagovuk’ you can get the 

Cp~~nwealth ,wm, Raves, C,onqissionse+roh engme pad you they type ‘Plant’ in the search box 

ahd wait for’rasults. i did intend to include exhxts in this journal but time and space have prevented 

me doing this, this time So the next journal wdl contain details In the meantime, if you have access 

to the net, have a go. 

One &ml thi&.apd yet to-be contirrned is, my wlfe.+nd my y&sit to Australia -in.Qctober/November 

next year. We intend to spend‘4 &eks travelling’&om Melbourne to Sydney to Bnsbane and then by 

train up to cairns before flying home Dependent on what itiierary 02 Travel come up with we may 

call on some Australian ‘cousins’ 

I’m be&n& to in out of articles, partimlarlyshort,$ory type,and would weloome additional articles 

for fidure journals 

Best wishes aad thanks for your assistance 

9

MEMBER’S 

LETTER.22 

Mary Plant born Cl750 

Who married Jonathan Hunter, 21 March 1775 at Mucklestone. Staffs 

Who following her marriage &xi in Tamworth, Staffs 

In her will Mary bequeathed land in Ammington and the will was witnessed by a Mary Plant, 

possibly the wife of a William Plant who was living in Ammington early 19% century. 

- 

Ifany member has information relative to Mary Plant please contact - 

Andrea Hagkney; +hxkne~mmt.wm.au> 

Or ifyou are not on the internet, to me (WKP) and Iwill 

~ j 

forward the information on 

WKP note 

Andrea Hackney is a cousin of Kathy Compagao (member No 121) who suggested 

that she should contact our group Andrea intends to let me know ‘of some 

wonderfhl developments for me’ and if she does, I will include details in one of the 

fotthcomingJournals 

Prom Judith Kirkby (member No 139) 

Whilst going through a fiche I borrowed I found a number ofPlants working in Shropshire, namely, 

Bakera etc 

STEPBEN PLANT, st Mary street, 

Boot and Shoe makers 

STBPHBNPLANT, St Mary street, 

Milliners/glressmakers _ .- ; 

_ 

CAROLS 

PLANT, St Mary Street, 

Saddlers etc 

THOMAS PLANT, chetwynd End 

Beer retailers 

_ THOMAS PLANT, Chetwynd End 

In Whitchurch 

Boot/shoe makers 

THOMAS PLANT, Claypit Street 

There are some very odd combinations of trades in this directory generally1 1 suppose tbat retailers 

would sell whatever they could and craSsmen would turitthetr hands to most thtngs 

PS 

Ifany members come across PASSANT while looking for PLANT tn a general index, I would 

be interested to hear-mainly Shropshtro, Welsh borders, Cheshire. Thanks 

. 

WKP yote I am not sure which year the above exfracls&r to but, fym feel you my have mt 

mtercet, please amtact Judith dwect. 

c

From Calm W Plant (member No 41 

One recewes ~un!f mad every day, but Just rarely It may contain somethmg of mterw In this case I do 

not, of course, refer to the advertmd article, but to the rnterestmg smppet that there are, apparently, 

some 9, I75 Plants m “the country” 

Perhaps you already knew thlr, but are they all membersl III1 11 

From Margal et Inslev (member No 1661 

1 wxxvd your applw.tlon form)ust pnor to Chnstmas, and was unable to deal with it at that tmxe I 

have updated my computer, so I have to learn the skdls needed to use tt, all over agam, to my sorrow 

Much has happened ~mce the last time I was in contact wth you If you have read the enclosed 

newspaper cuttmgs first, you 1~11 have met my latest “Plant” famrly-members B&eve It or not, they 

are George Wdltams descendants Leshe Arthur marrwl ELSE Hatnet Tyack m 1918 HIS brother. 

Percy, was kdled at Gall~poh 

II

1 have made coot& with the granddaughter, Debbie Gomez, and she was very surprised to hear from 

me, as that family branch knew nothing of ours, so we made arrangements for her to visit me I am 

very pleased to say that her mother and father came as well My daughter, Heather, was wrth us, and 

we aU got along famously and bad a wonderfid afternoon Time was just too short, as Traralgon is at 

least B three-hour journey by road ioom here We will be planning a retum wsit to their town, to meet 

Elsie very soon 

At first I could not really see any family resemblance, as we were comparing the older faces with 

younger faces in photographs but, tier they had left, and we had had a chance to collect our thoughts, I 

sat looking at a photo of my grandmother at Bbout the same age as Leslie Arthur, and reabsed that the 

similarity was in their noses, [grandma would not be flattered] So for cousins they are very much 

aIike Aa I have the same unfortunate nosc[fbr a woman], the family likeness-has been passed on two 

more generations, with more tbao just mannerisms, speech patterns and teachings. 

George apparently&ad>no timeifo~the.family back home’axd would not talk about them He bad 

received a letter coitceming money, and&is ill feeling had developed from that time We think that 

about the same time, Thmdocia, his s&t& may have received one as well. I know that her son-in-law, 

William Stones, went back-to Bagland to see about a will that was in dispute, my family had always 

thought that it concerned his family, but now we. wonder ifhe went to mediate on behalf ofMary AM, 

George and The&&a. He would have been the most suitable one to go My grandmother was very 

annoyed and offended over it on the occasion that she spoke of it 

JTKP note See Jomwal No I7 + 18. 

for more inform&m reIdwe to Margaret’s ancestors refereed to above 

Elsie referred to above celebrated her 1Udh birth&v on I@ November I& yem and 

her sfmy wav inch&d in a ntanber of local papers in Auetralia one of whrch ts 

-reproduced-onpuge 14 of ihteJoutnaL 

From Brad Scott (member No 171) 

Thanks for the copy of the newsletter recently, which I have found interesting readmg. I haven’t been 

findmg too much time for research recently 85 work is increasingly busy. However, I can follow up 

same-more st&%om fbe Times;wha you need-it, perhaps a&x the next issue oemes out In the 

course of my work%oi%iisior&Uy~get4o go$&ePRO& I may have an hour to look something up, 

though even this In&t been too easy oflate ’ 

- _ 

However, I have now fouud out a bit more about my Wdliam Plant, the boatswain, as I have got a copy 

of his marriage cert&xte 

He mar13 Mary AM Dyer (whom I also have a picture of) on 15 October 1859, at St. Luke’s church, 

Chadton, Kent (i e, what is now sootheast London and home to a minor football team) Given 

Chadtan’s proximiiy to the naval bases in Greenwich and Woolwich, this is-not a surprising place to 

find him Both he and Mary Ann are recorded as of ‘full age’ and previously munanied William’s 

profession is ‘Mariner’, v&ich could either be a generic term or perhaps indicate that he had not yet 

advanced in his career to be a boatswain His residence at marriage was Saint Aubyn @evonport), 

w&i&~ possiblywhere his cunentshipwas b&--and Mary Ann was Iom.Charlton. William’s 

father was John Plant, licensed victualler, and Mmy A&s father was a sboemakec awed> J.ow Dyer. 

;. 

So, though I still don’t know where William was &cm, I wonder if this now gives us any more 

information that may help us cmmect him with anyone you know oe do you have any Fecord of a 

licensed victualler called John Plant born in the early years of the nineteenth century 

mm note Brad ze the member who has contributed extractts$wm Palmers InaZi to,the ITmes 

included tttpre!&~&~ Jomds. Ajather exfract covei-mg the case of George Pkmt 

~. chged wth the murder of #Ydltam W&m oj Skfleki on 26 Jantuqv 1859 te 

mchzdedm this ISSUC.

Information rewired on - 

James Plant 

Father of 

coalmcner in Stoke on Trent 

John Thomas Plant, born cl884 (baker) 

Married Ellen Poole in Stoke 10 December 1907 

Cbildrq Be&a, N.&lie, Mona, Mdbcent, Evelyn, M&e, Kenneth, 

Muriel, Ronald, Cynthia, Gerald. 

WKP mte If any member rs connected to ths fmzly 07 has rnformat~oon on the family pIeare 

contact Rm Plant (member Wo 147). 

, 

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REPRODUCTION OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLE 

Elsie looks back on 100 ye 

with a twi&~ in,her eve 

t

THE MUSEUM 

OF HATTING 

As mentmned m my Introduction, Bntam’s fust museum dedzated to the hatting Industry opened on 

Easter Monday earher this year The followmg mfomwon has been forwarded by Adeen Plant who, 

as a descendant of William Plant who set up a Hat Block manufacturing company m Stockport in 1828, 

was mvlted to the official opening 

iHat museum brimi 

with 700 opeding 

spscral report 

By Eileen Payne 

Crowds were queuing outsrde 

Stockpotis unrque new tourist 

etbictlon well before dopened on 

Easter Monday. 

More than 700 people enjoyed 

their visit to Hat Works, Bntahr’s 

first hatbng museum at Wellmgton 

Md on the A6, on ds first day - 

After two years herd work, the 

threestorey museum opened on 

he, with hat designer Dawd 

Shlling and N steeplejack, Fred 

Drbnah Rankmg the Mayor of 

StoekDon Councillor Inarid Shaw. 

as she unvekd me plaque to 

launch the fl 8m project. 

Thrs included E1.3m from the 

NaGonal Lottery wrfh the rest from 

Stockport Councrl and other grants 

Invited guests at the opening 

ceremony wwe headgear of all 

shapes, sizes, stytes and colours 

from Aecot-style hats to 

Irfebpabnen’ sowesters and an 

mnazmg mpresenfalion of a saflmg 

shop, work by Stockport Art Gallery 

Msnagat, John Scuily. 

The new museum was described 

as ‘absolutely fantastfc by David 

Shrllmg, who became famous for 

ibe outrageous and &ravagant 

Ascot hats he used to desrgn 

before tumrng his attenbon to the 

worldoffinearts

Tony Lees. member of one of 

the last hatbng famllles left m 

Stockport, who worked I” the 

industry for 32 years, was 

equally delIghted by the 

museum 

He recalled that his greatgrandfather 

had been the first 

Mayor of Stockport from a 

hatbng famlty, In the late 

1880-S 

We declare the hat 

museum officially 

open Fred Dlbnah, 

left, and David Shllbng 

doff theu headgear tn 

Stockport’s latest 

Ltounst attracbon 

Mr Lees said Hat Works was 

not just a museum, but also a 

lasbng tnbute to Ule tens of 

thousands of people who 

worked m the hatbng Industry 

here over the past two to three 

hundred years 

Coun Shaw said Hat Works 

was the latest I” the “sbtng of 

pearls” of town centre 

atbacbons, mcludmg the air 

rard shelters and hlstonc 

Market Place 

Hat Works manager, Steve 

Miller, was debghted with the 

turnout for the openmg of the 

museum 

“Members of the pubbc were 

queumg up even before we 

opened,” he sad 

It was smashmg that so many 

people turned up on a bank 

hobday when so much was 

9omg on elsewhere and that 

they decided to come to us 

rather than to the Museum of 

Science and lndusby ui 

Manchaster or Wigan Pier, for 

example ’ 

He addee “I thmk people were 

dellghted that there IS so much 

to see in the museum 

‘Many thought It just covered 

edher hlstory or fashion and 

were very pleased to see that it 

does both ” 

Hat Works traces the nse and 

fall of the fur felt hat-making 10 

Stockport from its days as a 

cottage mdusby 250 years ago 

to the closure of the town’s last 

hatting firm, Chnsbe’s in 1997 

Exhlblts range from machmery 

to glamorous headgear and 

one IS parbculsfty polgvant 

It IS a re-creabon of a bny 

hatter‘s cottage of bygone era, 

with the message that the 

occupants were only bkely to 

lbve to the age of 45 because 

of harsh condtbons they had to 

workm 

Hat Works IS open from 10 am 

to 5 pm Monday to Saturday 

~u~d~$ am to 5 pm On 

Admission IS f3 95 for adults 

and f250 for children and 

adult concessions and fll 

family bcket 

for a 

HAT’S extravagant (L t@ r) Melissa 

Donald, tounsm manager. John ScunV, 

art gallely manager, and Flona Bullock, 

commu,,,ty services markebng 

ganr)ger, lend thea support 

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Chapter 20 

By Dr John Plant (member No 52) 

Plantagenet vita and Plant’s Yard life 

LIW’S MEANING IN PLANTAGENET TIMES ANI) A PLANT’S YARD PLANT&• EMAKER 

he Plant name evidently formed, around 1200, in proxlmlty to the Plantagenet surname which 

T. 

was bemg used by the Warren earls of Surrey In the ‘Plantagenet” environment of Oxford by 

the early 13th century, new learning was in evidence m the writmgs of Grosyeteste, who added hght 

to Islamic traditions for the ‘plant soul’. Such a context of evidence provides clanfication for the 

meaning that was “_ being set for the emerging Pl(a/e)nte name in England. 

By aroundJ350, the Plant name evidently settled with the illegltlmate Warren descent m east 

Cheshire. It remains doubtful that the name Plant should be associated too narrowly with a partzular 

occupation. It may not have been until the mid 16th century that this name spread significantly 

to mrd north Derbyshire and this was followed by the arrival in mid 18th century Sheffield of the 

Plant’s YardPlants - life for the Sheffield shoemaker Wdliam Plant (1803-48) was no doubt influenced 

more by an environment of ‘mechanical hfe’ than by erstwhile beliefs relating to Plantagenet 

vita 

20.1 A context of meaning for Plantagenet and Plant 

rounb the turn of the 1st millennium, one Arab poet describe”d&Jordova, in 

southern Spain, as ‘a garden of the fruits of ideas’. This image ‘*vdraws in a 

picture of ancient beliefs in mother earth with her plenty. In French, ‘mother 

earth’ has become noire m&e co~muae with belief in the virgin birth’ and la Tnnir@. 

This differs from the monotheist beliefs of the Mohammedans. Moorish philosophy 

combined learning from many cultures3. 

In particular, the Divine words ‘We created man from an extract of clay’, with the 

Implicit intermediaries of plants and animalsrleft their mark on orthodox Christian 

faith as the Pl(a/e)nte name was forming England. 

‘Mohammed M. Pi&hall (1945) ‘T/u Meaning of the Gionous Kon~n’~ pps 405-6 remarks ‘For Chnstlanrty, 

celibacy is the ideal; even monogamy 1s a concession to human nature. For Mussulmans the ideal is 

monogamy, the concession to human nature is poIygamy’. c - 

‘The Trinity is a complex maaifestatlon of the Christians’ one God; most particularly as the father, sea, 

and holy spirit 

‘The were partu~lar influences from the Greeks, Indm, and Chma The mrroductmn to Sir R EBurton’s 

traaslatmn of the 16th century Arabic treause ‘The Perfumed Garden’, cdaed by A H.Walton (1982). pps 

30-l. 40 notes that an Arab poet has Ideally expressed the fundamental reverence underlying their atmade to 

Onental erotology &ith -Love eaters m through the eyes which are the doors of the spait, aad then diffuses 

hlmself throughout the whole soul.’ More generally, a pnmq character&c of SpanishArabIc poetry in 

Moorish times was a deep feehng for nature (Reynold ANlcholson (1930) A Literary History of the Arabs, 

pps 417.425)

CHAPTER 20 PLANTAGENET VITA AND PLANT’S YARD LIFE 

20.1.1 A Moorish influence concerning ‘the plants’ 

he civilismg influence4 of the Moor, had, even by the 8th ceptury, extended mto 

T 

western France, with Cordova (southern Spain) becoming a centre of learning for 

Chris$ans as well as Muslims Moorish philosophy m Spain ended with Averroes 

(1126-98) who was born at Cordova. In his book ‘Incohereme of the Incoherence’, 

Averroes’ disputes with Ghazali’s (i e. Algazel’s) book ‘Incoherence of the Philosophers’ 

and this includes, in one section, the following remarks:- 

‘Ghazah says:- 

... matter can receive any foim, and therefore earth and other elements7 

can be changed into a plant, and a plant, when an animal 

eats it, can be changed into blood, then blood can be changed into 

sperm,-and then sperm can be throTun+to the womb, and take the 

charac&r 6f an anin&1 ... , 

‘. 

I (i.e. Averroes) say:- 

... For instance, the plant comes into existence through composition 

out of the elements; it becomes blood and sperm through being eaten 

by an animal and from sperm and blood comes the animal, as is said 

in the Divine Words: ‘We created man from an extract of clay ... ‘. 

In general terms, Airerroes’ was defending much of Avicenna’s approach, which 

included the philosophical compromise9 that:- 

* genera (or universals, such as life) are at once before things, m things, and after 

things. 

41n the view of the htstorian of phdosophy, Bertram Russel (1946), History ofWestem Philosophy, pps 

395,420:- ‘Our use of the phrase the Dark Ages fo cover rhe period fim 600 to 1000 (AD) marks our 

undue concentrafiorz on Westem Eumpe. . i%m Indm to Spain, the brilhant civihzation oj’Islam~ur~shed 

. Mohammedan civiliuttion in its great days was admirable in the arts and in many technical ways. but it 

showed no (noted) c&&i~fo~ iiidepecrdertr sp&ti~iot& th&werccal nmf~ers. Speakmg generally, the views 

of the more scient@philosophers comefmm Aristotle and the Neoplotpnisrs m logic and meraphysrcs, from 

Galen in medicme, from Greek andIndian sources m mothemancs arrda&momy. ... The Mohammedans ... 

preserved the apparatus of civilisation -education, booksand learned leisure .... (They) stimulnled the WeJf 

when ir emergedfrom barb&w _. mamly irr the thrrtemth cenmry . - the srimulus pmduced NOW thought 

... scholasticsm.’ 

‘Followmg the closure of the Neoplatomc Institute m Athens in 529 AD, learning spread most notably 

through Baghdad to North Africa. After having been ask@ by the ruler of southern Spain to help wltb a 

rebelhon agslnst King Rodenck of Spain, the Moorish Arabs from NW Africa pushed onwards mto France 

and captured Bordeaux m 732 AD though they were later driven back into Spain The Moors introduced 

irrigation, g&n, fruit crops, leaming, and science into a backwards Europe. Under the Moors, Spain gamed a 

repuiation a.s theniostcivilised country of westemE”rope, introducing for example the study ofsuch subjects 

as astronoiny, geography, cbenustry, and natural history at their capital Cord&a. 

6Avermes’s Tahafut Al-Tahafut {The Incoherence of Ihe Inco&rence), Translated from the Arabic wrtb 

Introductory Notes by Stmon Van Den Bergh (1954). reprinted 19G9, Vol I, pps 327.332. 

‘That is fire, air, and water as’well as earth. 

‘The final part of Averroes’ book Tahofut Al-Tahajiu is ‘About the natural Sciences’ and cbmptises four 

discussions on (1) The denial of a log& necessity between caose and effecect; (2) The impotence of the 

philosophers to show by demonstmuve. proof that the soul is a spintual substance, (3) Ref@tion of the 

philosophers’ proof for the immortality of the soul; and (4) Concernmg the philosophers’ demal of bodily 

resurrech”“. 

% terms of ancient reasonings, these accounts for the generation of man can be see” as bemg a mix “f(I) 

methodistic arguments (cf: Aristotle) bufl&ng fro earth. and. (2) teleologul arg”m,e:ts (cf Plato) centrtag 

from the purpose of creatmn, man 

19


More particularly, as a part of his diatribe, Averroes 1s referrmg to something 

akin to a traditional ‘condmt for creation’ from mother earth to man, which can be 

thought of as involving, at le,ast in part, some ‘genera’ such as ‘hfe 

20.1.2 Apparent relevance to the Plantagenet and Plant names 

t seems relevant for our present purposes to note that this influence of Averroes 

I 

at Cordova in Moorish Spain can be expected to have impacted on plulosophy 

at Anjou in western France, from where the “Plantagenet” kings and their noble 

relatives came to England. The histo&cal record in England indicates that the place 

name Plontone, the bye-name Plantan’, and the surname Plant(a/e)genet attended 

the formation of the Plant surname. 

Postulate 1. Averroes’s influence provides a 

consistent context of meaning fob the names 

Plantagenet and Plontone. 

A plant-horse mterpretation of the 

Plant(a/e)genet name can be taken to 

denote a ‘divine right stemming from mother 

earth’, in as much as $ forms a major part 

of Ghazali’s and Averroes’s ‘conduit for 

creation’. Moreover, much of the remaining 

part of Ghazali’s and Averroes’s scheme, 

to wit the blood and the sperm that is 

thrown into the womb, can be compared 

with the fact that the two Middle Enghsh 

names Plontone and Plantegenet can be 

taken to form a ‘Reudian’ paradigm”, with 

Pl(a/e)nt*Tun meaning ‘fertile enclosure’ 

and the noble Pl(a/e)nte-Genet remaining, 

apposite as a ‘horse borne establisher’. 

oAssociatism theory can bc apphed to various beliefs 

and inllcuon by gender permeates many tongues. Latin 

and other languages denote inflexux~ by word suliices. 

Postulate 2. Thi.%ame context may 

apply to the formation of the Plant 

name”. 

From 1219 onwards, the formatwe Pl(a/e)nre 

name is found in England wth vartous pvximlties 

to the ‘Warren Plantagenet’ descendants 

of Henry II’s illegitimate half brother, 

Ham&i Plantagenet (Chapter 19). In 1225, 

Ham&n’s son, Wdham Plmtagmet (Warren) 

(1X6-1240) married Maud Marshall (1192- 

124&X), who is known to have had direct hnks 

to *or/z ofi- 

I. the Strlguyl estate in Monmouthslme 

(SE Wales borderlands) which IS subsequently 

known to have included a 

manor called [a Plarcteland; and, 

2. the ~1254-8 li “e-name Planlyrr m Norfolk, 

nelghb&ring Warren Plantagenet 

lands and early evidence for the 

Pl(O&t(e) name. 

a 

“Detennimsm. which was assoaated with 

Arlstotchanlsm and Averroism, was condemned 

m 1277 by the Church as heresy 

a 

Inference. It seems likely that the meaning of the Pl(a/e)nte name 

should be considered initially in a context of influeqce stemming from 

A

CHAPTER 20. PLANTAGENET VITA AND PLANT’S YARD LIFE 

Like other ancient religrons, the religions of Egypt and Babyloma were origmally fertdity cults: 

the earth was female and the sun male Throughout western Asia, the Great Mother was worshiped 

under various names, and when Greek colomsts in Asia Mmor found temples to her, they 

named her Artenus and took over the existing culta. Olphtc doctrmes contain much that seems 

to have come from Egypt to Greece via Crete. The Orphlc proclaimed htmself the child of the 

earth and the starry heavens, with the body coming from the earth and the soul from the heavens. 

Socrates held that death was the separation of the soul from thebody. Pythagoras believed m the 

tmnsmigrat~on of souls from one life form to another. 

In Plato’s dualism, the soul is superior to th’e body. For Plato - 

‘The soul is like an eye: when resting on that which tmth and being shine, the 

soul perceives and understands, and is radiant with intelhgence, but when turned 

towards the t,~d&htr.rthen she-hasopimon only:...‘. 

For Aristotle, the purpose of an eye is


The name Plente is found in 1219 at Oxford and m Kent, and at York m 1230. These locatIons 

correspond with ones of hkely religious amehoratlon in England One might perhaps consider that 

the ancient desideratum of hot and climes was for an ‘oasis’ of plants and plenty, to be supphed 

through the auspice of ‘mother earth’. In the colder, darker chmes of England, It might well have 

been felt that an amended emphasis was needed such that attention was given to a more topical 

desideratum, to wit 1igW. Grosseteste, who mtroduced light mto the ‘plant soul’, had evidently 

come mto the king’s favour by 1235 when, from Oxford, he was appointed bishop of Lmcoln 

though this did not prevent him from holdmg definite Ideas about the relationship of the Church 

to the realm6 -he was no courtief. 

‘In essence bght (or perhaps the element Rre) can be related back to the ancient male God, the sun 

‘James McEvoy (1982) The Phrlosophy of Robert Grosseteste, p 435. Qp~cally, Grosseteste has less to 

say concerning the dignity of the king’s positlon and more about the responslbdlty It imp$&s. 

‘Grosseteste remmds Henry III:- Prresthood was imtrtuted to govern for eternal peace, krngship for 

temporal; neither should Interfere wcth th8 other’s domain, both should co-operate. However; tke Church 

recewes its power immediately from God. the prince, on the other hmd, from God through the church 

.... Christian pnnces have the Gospel for lrght ... At his rnvestiture the kmg recewes a non-sacrmental 

anornting conferring the gift of the HoIy Spuit, for hrs chief need IS wisdom to guide his sub]ects 

* 

--Table 20.3: Formation of the Pl(a/e)nte name and Grosseteste 

The 12th century renaissance of Latin West Europe owed much to Moonsh learning which, for 

example, had preserved much of the ancient philosophy of the Greeks From the beginnings of the 

12th century, there was an influx of new ideas into Latin west Europe from the Mushm world and 

the Christian world was challenged by both of:- 

Moorish learning mvolving renewed knowledge of Anstocl@ and some Greek science, together with the 

discovery of Islamic thought. This led to pantheism, assaclated with Amanns and Averroism, m which 

everything in the world is part of God. This could be largely assimilated into a Ca@$c framework 

Contact with heresies the most potent of which v&s Catharism These had to be reJecte&%ugh mysticism, 

deriving from the 13th century~tanslauons of Proclus, Plotinus and the pseudo-Dlonysius, came to 

constitute the mainstream of unorthodoxy’. The only scholastic to concern hmself greatly wub such 

matters as the kissing of toads on the mouth, a charge made agamst the CatharMs of southern France, 

was Mlliam of Auverge (1180-1249). Pope Gregory N, who was obsessed by heresy, clanncd in his 

bull VOX m Rama of 1233 that the Devd appeared to heretxs m the form of a toad, goose, duck, black 

cat, or &le man4 

e 

In the 1277 condemnation of determinism, associated with Anstotelianism and Averroism, 219 

were condemned at Paris and 30 by the archbishop of Canterbury at Oxfordd. Roger Bacon was 

imp&o& in 1278 (Table 20.5). 

“‘Tlq Greek view, found in Anstocle and Plato, is that creauoaoutsf notbmg is nnpossrble and that God IS 

an architect of pnnutive matter. This contradicts the view of St Augustme who maintains, as every orthodox 

Chnstian must, that God created substance, not only order and arrangeinent. Bertrand Russell (1946) ibId, p 

352. 

‘Jeffrey Burton Russell (1971) Religious dissent I% the MuiRe Ages, p 111. 

‘Jeffrey Burton Russell (197’2) Wirchcrcrfr in the M&&Ages, pps 126,147,160-l 

dGeoffrey L&f (1967) Heresy m the Later Middle Ages, pps 5,32 

Table 20 4: Moorish learning and Religious orthodoxy


With the amval in the 12th century of the ‘Plantagenets” from we=.tem France, there was a 

renaissance in leammg as England’s first University was founded at Oxford, near the royal palace 

of Woodstocka In the 1 lth century all ChrIstIan religious houses had been Benechctme but, by 

the early 13th century, there were men&cant friars who were not responsible to rhocese or &hop 

and who could walk through boundarIes of parish, chocese, and country. The first mendicants to 

arrive were the Dommlcans in 1221 followed by the Franciscans in 1224. 

The three most important Franciscan scholastics were Roger Bacon (c1220-92)b, Duns Scotus 

(ca. 1270-1308)c, and Wdliam of Occam (c1290-1349)d. Around 1247 Roger Bacon had claimed 

that all English theologians, all philosophers, and indeed the universality of thmkers taught the 

duect creation of the intellectwe soul only however, by cl237 as bishop of Lincoln, Grosseteste 

had evidently changed from such a ‘phdosophical’ view to holding that all three souls were 

directly created New Dominican teachings were to attain a major significance, with St Thomas 

Aquinas (122561~~4) ,+vrtting&s mostzimportant ,work Summa Contra Gentiles m 1259-64. 

Aquinas was at the University of Paris,where he; unlike others there, did not adhere so closely 

to the writings of Averroes. The intent of Summa Contra Get&es was to establish the truth 

of the Christian religion and it is seemingly written for an imaginary reader well versed in the 

philosophy of the Arabs. Where St Thomas discusses ‘the plants’, he develops the view of 

Aristotle that ‘Selfnutrition is the only psychic power possessed by planrs’ and he embeds this 

into his ‘first pnnclpal of life’, which builds into the ‘more or less” standard scheme for three 

ingredientsf for the human souls:- 

plants -nutritive (also &gmentative and generative) 

animals -nutritive + sensory 

humans -nutritive + sensory -I- rational 

‘At this time, an increasing number of books relatmg to Greek philosophy were becoming avadable 

to western students, with translations coming from Constatmople, Palenno, and Toledo Toledo in central 

Spam WBS the most important source though these translations were often from Arabic rather than directly 

from the Greek. Most of the philosophers at that time.were French and these early ‘scholastics’ were 

primarily orthodox~~~ri&an and,$wherd &ay&clpded origmal tlunkmg m their work, they generally 

disguised It Initlallyuthey appeal&d&ther: to thescriptures or to Plato untd, mcreasmgly by the 13th 

century, they began to appeal to Aristotle instead. 

bRoger Bacon (c1220-92) has been praised in modem times because he valued experiment, more 

than argument, as a source of knowledge and he IS credIted wnh pmneenng science teaching at Oxford, 

though his unorthcdoxy was not accepted into the curriculum - m 1278, his books were condemned by 

the General of the Order and he was put in prison for 14 years, dyrng soon after his release. 

‘Duns Scotus (ca 1270.1308) continued Bacon’s pattern of FrancIscan nvalry wnh Aqumas and defended 

the Immaculate Conception - in this the University of Paris, and ultunately the whole Catholic 

Church, agreed with him 

%‘illiam of O&ham (c1290-1349) is remembered for O&ham’s moor which IS fradmonally represented 

by the phrase ‘entitles are not to be multiplied wrthout necessity’. Though lus wntings do not 

contain &is phrase, it captures the spirit of his philosophy; that IS ‘if everything in some science can be 

interpreted without assuming this or that hypothetical entity, there 1s no ground for assuming It’. 

‘Then: were ongoing disputes about the detail however. F~ex%mple. the Franciscan Roger Bacon 

(Oxford) followed the earlier view of Averroes in holdmg that,the active intellect 1s a substance separated 

from the soul m essence. He quotes various enunent divines, among them Grosseteste, as also supportmg 

this opinion, which 1s contrary to that of St Thomas who regarded mtellect as the cognitive faculty of the 

rabonal soul. 

‘Aquinas, however, did not think of the human soul as three nested, co-operating substantial forms but 

as a single form that gives a human being its specifically human mode of existence. 

gNorman Kretzmann and Eleanor Stump (1993) Ihe Carnbndge Companton to Aqurnas. 

Table 20.5: Early “Plantagenet” leaming and the subsequent growth in Scholasttcism 

23

CIfAPTER 20. PLANTAGENET VITA AND PLANT’S YARD LIFE 

fhe stmcture of the vegetattve soul is mdicated m tha book to be.- 

Isewhece in the Suntma Pkilosopkae there is a discusston of the generative power, whtch forms 

t functton of the vegetative soul, though it also ~~ttrs elsewhere m the general scheme of this 

hiIosophy. Thu.s~- 

The generattve power, properly, is the power operative in the transmutatton of 

elements from one to another or the generattve power of hving thmgs .... The motive 

power of generation as understood loosely however is fourfold: . . productive 

of composition (any compositton), ... of the composttion of sensttive life, . . of the 

composition of rattonal life, ... of inanimate things. 

’ .h& 

or each of these sorts of generative power, the structure is outhned as:- 

:enecatlve 

mwer 

c 

I 

celestial 

- -E 

elementary 

spiritual 

(flows from mtelligence) 

corporeal 

(consequent upon the 

tadration, motto”, and i 

position of stars) 

mixed 

(consequent purely on the 

substance of light) 

bough, for the power productive of Inanimate things, the celestial cotporerd component Of the 

sower is called the emptrical or mmeral power (virtue empirics) and this is divided according to its 

production of stones, metals, or mmerals, with each case being descrtbed in further detail. 

. 

Table 20.6: The late 13th century Englishplant soul as outlined in the Summa PMosophae

CHAPTER 20. PLANXAGENET VITA AND PLANT’S YARD LIFE 

20.2 The ‘plant SOUP and the 13th century Pl(a/e)nte name 

‘onceptr of ‘mother earth’ and her progeny seem relevant to the emerging 

‘Pl(a/e)nte name. As will be indicated further below, the words and name 

Pl(a/e)nte can be regarded as being redolent, under the “Plantagenets”, not 

only of a strategyI for the ‘colonisation of lands’, but also of allusions to the ‘plantation’ 

of ‘Plantagenet-Christian’ behefs in England such as behefs in a ‘plant soul’ 

with its powers of nutrition, growth, and (reproduction or) generation (Table 20.2) 

0 

20.2.1 Origins of’ the ‘plant SOW 

once@ stemmmg from ‘mother earth’ seem discernible in the Arabic writings of 

c Avicenna (b 980), Ghazali (d llll)“, and Averroes (1126-98)12. These writings 

also contain ongoin&vtews from GreekTphilosophy; concerning the soul (Table 20.1)13 

In the view of Avicenna, the humah soul had three parts, one shared with the plants, 

one with animals, arid one more exclusively human:- 

‘God began w&h the noblest of substances, Intelligence, and He concluded 

’ with the noblest of bemgs, the Intelligent. ... God divided Man’s substantiality 

into body and soul, the former contaming his grosser and the latter his subtler 

elements. ... The physical element He implanted in lus liver, to regulate his 

dIgestion and evaciation. ... The animal element 1% associated with his heart... 

Lastly he fashioned the human, rational soul in the brain. . By virtue of the 

ammal soul, he shares with the animal; his physIca soul links him with the 

plants; his human soul is a link between him and the angels. ... The function 

of the physical soul is to eat and drink, to maintain the parts of the body, and 

to cleanse the body of its superfluities .., The reward of the physical soul’s 

function is not to be expected in the spiritual world, and does not wait upon 

the resurrection, for this soul will not be raised up after death; it resembles a 

plant, m that &vhdmit dies&z isdispersed an&obliterated, never to be recalled 

to life.’ 

‘OThere are associahle definitions of thiM,ddIe English verb plaunten, or to plaunt, along the hnes of ‘to 

establish such things as a rebgious establishment, a city, or a colony’. 

“It was Ghazali (d 1111) who won the battle for Islamic orthodoxy. His book ‘Znco~w..nce of the philoso- 

phers’ was directed at such as those as the Teheran Philosopher Avicenna (b 980) who, even m hlr own 

lifetime, had been suspected of rehgious infidelity. Arthur J Arbcrry (1951)Avicennu on Theobgy, pps 1, G, 

50. 

‘2Averroes (Ibn Rushd) was born at Cordova in Moomh Spain in 1126. He stwhed first theology and 

jurisprudence; then medicine, mathematics, and philosophy. He was recommended to the Cahph who took 

him into favour and, tn 1184, made him his physician. Averroes continued in the serwc of the Cahph’s 

successor ~nti1.he~wa.s e&d in.1 197 for uno~hodox.teachmg,~6~st to a plac$ just outsrde Cordova and then, 

to Morocco. He was accused of cultivatmg the philosophy of the anctents at the expense of the trao faab 

Shortly after, Moorish territory in Spain was gready d~mimshed-by-Christian conquests though Granada 

remamed The last Moorish stronghold in Spain until tt surrendered in 1492 

‘3Dlsputes about the eternity of the soul. and its pa&, were continurng, as IS indicated by the following 

extract from Averroes book Tahnfut Af-Tahafuf (Simon van der Bergh (1969) ibid, Vol.1, p343)- But the 

drscusskxz of the wd is wry obscure, and therefore God, answering the question of the masses about this 

problem. says that thts krnd of question is not.their concern. saying tThey will ask,thee of theSpitit. SaY 

“The spirir comes ht the bi&ing of my Lord, mdye are grven but a bttle knowledge fhereoj ’ And the 

comparison of death with sleep UI thu question 13 an evidentpmf that the soul survives, since the activiry of 

the soul ceases in sleep through the cnactivity of its organ. but the existence of the soul does not cease. and 

therefore it is necessary that its conditzon in death should be Me its condrtron m sleep, for ffie partsfol@’ 

the 

I 

same 

1 

rule.


20.2.2 Arrival of ‘the plant soul’ and scholasticism in England 

he Pknfe name 1s first known to exist at Oxford m 1219. Radulphus Plente had 

T . 

duties to the king which included reparations to the royal household Reparuttoons 

might mean building repays, or spiritual smehorations (cj Table 20 3) agreeable to 

both crown and church14. Soon after, here at Oxford, the English scholatics Robert 

Grosseteste (c1170-1265)15, Robert BaconI and later Roger Bacon (1220-90) were 

active in developing English philosophy and in teaching theology to the Franciscan 

and Dommican orders, whose influence was rapidly growing at the royal court at that 

time 

By the early 13th century, the ‘plant soul’ was ascribed a seemingly more elevated 

position in England than elsewhere with a notable new feature in the writings of 

Grosseteste being the introduction of a concept to it of a ‘heart of light’ (Table 20.2) 

With Grosseteste’s ‘heart of light’ in the plant soul, the ‘vegetable life’ ‘& ‘life force’ 

of the plant soul was thought to d&ve from the ‘celestial’ 

It appears that concepts relating to the ‘plant soul’ were largely orth6dox, albeit 

with detailed amendments, for both the Islamic and Chrtstian fatths (Table 20.4) 

Islamic influence. For Ghazali, ‘matter can receive anyform, and therefore earth 

and other elements can be churzged into a plant’ and, for Averroes, ‘the 

plant comes IN, existence out of the elements’, such that the ‘plant soul’ 

might ha& been thought by many to combine elements from ‘mother 

earth’, in as much as the element(s) Earth (and lue) was (or were) 

brought by the element Water to the plant and, thereon, through the 

genera (cf: Avicenna) to the human soul 

Christian faith. It might be considered that such a view differed only ta/ine 

deturl from the subsequent doctrine of St Thomas Aquums (1225/G-74) 

who, albeit apart from the Averroist majority at Paris, held that the 

‘plant soul’ was afirst principal of hfe (Table 20.5). 

As a ‘first principal of life’, the plant .soul evidently’ related to ‘vi&~8 - in the 

Latin text of the Summa Phkosophae, the generative function was loosely associated 

with the term Wto autem compositu inanimutorum (i.e. eternal life however composed 

“1%ts latter mterpretation IS consistent with the contemporary reconcthations. in the tnnes of Henry III, 

between the ‘Plantagenet” Crown and the “Holy Roman” Church. 

“Grosseteste ‘was intimately and contmuously connected with Oxford from at least 1225 (probably earher) 

untd he was elected bishop of Lmcaln m 1235. 

‘% 1234 for example, there IS a royal mandate directing Gmssetcste. together with Master Robert Bacon 

OR and the chancellor of the universay to supervise the arrest of all prostitutes in Oxford who had dtsobeyed 

a royal order to leave the town. Robert Bacon was probably the uncle of the Franc~an Roger Bacon (Francis 

Seymour Sfevenson, MP (1899) Robert Gmsseteste, Bishop of L.wcoln. pps 65-G.) 

l’me generative function was one of three, along with the nutritive and the augmcntative, to be found in 

the ‘plant soul’ accordmg to the Summa Philosophue This bo&&s long thought to have been written by 

Grossetestc (cl 170-1265) but, more recently, it has been dated to ~1265-75 in England Charles McKcon 

(1948) A Study of the Sumnla Phdosophae of the Pseudo-Gnxseteste, pps 5.9,151,180 

“It has been suggested m modem times that the word vita here IS an unpmpcr rcndenng of virtus since, III 

med~cval Latin, vita means ‘eternal hfe’ whereas the ‘power’ tmplication of virtus derives from its meaning 

‘vinlity’. (In R E.Latham (1965) Revised Medieval Latin Word List from British and Irrsh souces, Vita = 

‘eternal life’ ~730, &oO, ~1362, ~1430.) Though modem scholars have questioned the detaded sense of such 

meanmgs, it scans relevant to note that this book seems to leave open. under a “Plantagenet*’ influence in 

England, questions conccxnmg tbe generative (cf pmcreat~ve) powers of the plant soul as they relate to the 

Lyman soul’s celestial cpmponents thereby leaving opcl posstble imphcatmns, retforccd by the vord VW 

for ‘eternal hfc’


l 

of mammate things) - as a part of the ‘genera of cleation’,‘pf(&)nte represented 

both the progeny of ‘mother earth’ and an estabhshmg component of ‘eternal life’. 

I/ 

202.3 Further comments on the likely meaning of Pl(a/e)nte 

lthm the context of both the developing philosophy and other literary evidence, it 

W’ 

appears to matter relatively little to the meamng of PI(&)nte whether we adopt 

the spelhng &&e or pZadg even though, with our modern beliefs, we consider the 

more modern spellings plenty and plant to represent quite separate meanings. Holding 

in mind a meanmg ‘mother earth’s prggeny’, it seems a natural consequence that the 

surnames PIant and Plenty could have evolved from the same name Plentezo, which is 

in evidence just as English scholasticism was beginning to flower. 

First, the,ry js: iv record for ,a Radulphus Uente whose duties to the king 

involved funds for the upkeep,of Oxford 2’ aid for reparations of the royal 

household at Oxford in 1219. Secondly, the MED~ lists the word pfente as, 

amongst other things, a variant spelling of p[a(u)nf(e). Thirdly, the two ‘variant 

surname spellings’ Plente and Pla(u)nte(s) are known to have coexisted in Norfolk 

by around 1275 -both these, and other dialect spelhngs of the Plant surname, 

remain in evidence in later centuries. 

A 20th century preoccupation with ‘vegetable matter’ or ‘gardening’, in connection 

with ‘Plant related’ names, can seemingly be traced back to Weekly’s 1916 book on 

surnamesz3. This suggests various meanings such as ‘offspring’ or ‘cudgel’ for Plant 

but then states separately for Planterose:- 

Plantrose [John Plaunterose, Hurrd. R.] and Pluckrose [Alan Pluckrose, r6] 

still exist and have plenty of medleval support; cj Simon Schakerose (M. R.), 

Peter Porterose (ib), Andrew Plantefene (Lerc. Bar. Rec.), Elyas Plantefolye 

(Fme R ). For the cited name Phtefene, Weekly adds the footnote:- 

From&zn,rhay,-,L& faewmJ~ ! *I : -. 

lgA rigid interpretation of the spelling plerrle gives meanings abundance, fertile, or plenarty, whicl; can 

he related to the plant soul’s growth and generative powers To this, it may be added that medieval Enghsh 

literature seemmgly contains examples of reinforcements of mcanmg between plence and phtnle and such 

remain compatible with nohons of a soul-hke eternal ‘hfe cycle’ of (re-)generatton, growth, 

remforcements 

and abundance (c$ subtheorem 3(b)) 

“Inbis Dictmary ofBritish Sunuunes,F’.HReaney (1976)hsts 

citing evidence for their early existence as follows:- 

Plant and Plenty as two separatesurnames, 

Plant(e) - William Plante 1262, Select Pleas of the Forest (Seldon Society 13. 1901) Essex; Wilham 

Pla&tes 1275, Rotali Hundredomm (London, 1812-18). Norfolk; and, ’ 1 

Plenty -i Simon Plente 1230, Pipe Rolls, Yorks; William Plentee-1243, Assize Rolls, Somerset. 

“Moorish learning and the Plant(a!e)genet surname appear in England in early “Plantage~t times” and 

they attend the foundation of Oxford Unwersity, near the royal palace of Woodstock, around the 1160% 

The first ‘Plantagenet king” of England was Henry II who was from Anjou in western France on% after 

hx crowning in 1154, it is estimated that the early “Plantagenet kings” spent about a thtrd of Iheir time. m 

England. It seems df more direct relevance to the Plant name, however, to note that the descendenti of Henry 

II’s illegitimate half brother, Ham&n, are known to have become firmly based m England by cl 154 and to 

have used Pkmagenet as 8 surname. 

**Kurath and Kahn, Middle English Dictummy. 

=Emest Weekly (1916) Surnames, p 268.


However, the MED does not hst any such meanmg forforn and it hstsfene as a known 

variant spelling offair yieldmg a likely interpretation of Plantefene as an ‘eager(or 

happy) establisher child’ (or perhaps, less likely, a ‘spear lunger”‘) 

Reaney 26 has contended that the Plant name means ‘a gardener’27 ignoring, for 

example, prominent ‘Plant related’ names such as Plantefohe and Plant(e/a)gcnet. 

Though a claimed connection wn% gardenmg sits easdy with our modern understandings 

of the words plant and rose, it should be noted that a gardening interpretation 

for the Plant name relies heavily on supposing a particular connectIon between the 

names Plant and Planterose together with the assumption of one particular mterpretation 

from several possible for Planthose. A different interpretation for Planterose, 

‘courtly establisher child’, is more widely compatible with the historical record and 

with late medieval and early modern literature. 

it: 

1.1 

20.3 The Chester contkxt for a 1301 Plant record 

bouglj a general interpretation ‘establisher child’ for the Plant name does not 

preclude possible all&ions to occupational activities, it should be stressed 

that,$he medieval context leaves this name widely non-committal pf any 

specific answer to the question ‘Which occupation. 7’, leaving various possible ‘occupational 

allusions’ to be considered for the context of Chester and east Cheshire. 

There is a 1301 record for a Robert Plant at Ewelowe, to the west of Chester, near 

the Welsh borderlands territory of the earl of Surrey, John Plantagenet (de Walenne) 

There were outcrops of coal just over the Welsh border from Chester, where coal was 

mined at Eulowe and at Buckley (Figure 20.1). Such a local historical background 

can be associated with the 1301 hcense that was granted to Richard Plant of Ewelowe 

for gathering coal and deadwood at Ewelowe. From 1326 at least, it is known that 

coal was brought in regularly to Chester, by water - this may have been for lead 

founding or for iron forging purposes. 

It would seemthat it is only in-‘old French’ that there is a suggestio&&a meaning 

lead to plotzr28 and-it can be added that the 1396 French phrase monnaie de plant may 

have derived from a (lead) ‘paten’ or its ‘imprint’ as was used in the minting of coins 

“The MED lists the followmg meanmgs forfain: adJ: (la) Joyful, happy, (Ib)forfain = for joy, (1~) 

pleased, satisfied, or content, (Za) happy, willing, eager (to do something); (2b) glad, content under adverse 

condrtions (to be able to pursue a certam course of action); (3) desirous of. or eager for something (with for, 

of, to phrase), (4& favourably disposed (to a person); (5a) pleasing, enJoyable, attractive; (5b) slutable, good 

(for a purpose). Also,fain: adv: Gladly, joyfully, eagerly. 

=The MBO Iiits for@%: nl: (a) A thrust or lunge with a pomted weapon; (b) a type of spear Forfoin x12: 

(a) The beech marten; (b) the fur of the bee& marien. 

26RH Rcaney (197G) A Dfctionmy of British Surnames. 

l~ere were, for example, format gardens at Bclgrave, just outslde Chester, where after 1290 Richard 

Lenglnow, one of the supervisors of Edward I’s castle buddm~&gamme, budt a country residence and 

laid out a formal garden within a double moat, its plan based on that of Flint castle. Alan Crosby (1996) A 

H~toty of Cheshrre, p 46 

“There seems little reason to suppose a connecuon between such place names as Plumpton and lead, 

except perhaps in Cumbna, though the name Willelmus Plumbanus appears in 12th century Pope Rolls [Pipe 

Roll Society, 19 Henry II, p 1121. Furthermore, there seems hule dtrecr reason for supposmg that fhe name 

Plonr could have arisen locally m the north west of England as a stratght-forward ‘occupational surname*. 

of a similar type. to such surnames as Sdver (metonynuc for a ‘sliver smith’), Ledbetter (old English for a 

‘lead worker’), or Ledder (possibly a ‘plumber’). lH Reaney (1976) A D~honary ofBritish Sunlames The. 

apparently smrlar sur+-z~e G;old IS, on the other ha:di sa~$ to be a nickname meanmg ‘gplden hamd 

l


Near Chester, a “Plantagenet” mfluence, as well as trade wth Span and western France, may have played 

a role m the revitalisatmn around 1300 of north western technology. More wtdely, tt may be noted that, as 

a part of England’s renawance, Henry II’s son, king John, bad tned to mtroduce mechanised fulbng mto 

England though It was not until almost 200 years later. m the late 14th century, that England’s prmc~pal export 

turned from raw wool to woollen cloth0 In the 13th century, skdled trades people had been tncreasing 

in evidence as the wool trade grew along wtth other mdustnes based on lea

CHAPTER 20 PLANTAGENET VITA AND PLANT’S 

YARD LIFE 

Irrespective of the hmrted basis for adopting a meaning lead to plant, IL seems possible 

that the Plants around Cheshire may have had some early connecttort with lead 

From 1284 to 1320, Fhntshire dominated the lead markets lof Cheshire, as well 

as of north and west Wales with their massive castle building programmes. For the 

production of lead in Fhntshire at Holywell, there is evrdence of the ‘simple bole 

smelting process’ which involved blocks of wood and brushwood. This evidently 

suffered from a chronic shortage of fuel around 1301-629 though, in 1303-4, quantities 

of lead were conveyed to Chester castle from Northop and Flint, wrth a monk of I 

Combermere Abbey spendmg more than twenty weeks in the founding and then in the 

application of the lead to the roofs of,the towers of nearby Beeston Castle30. Details 

of the local manufacture, from lead, of salt pans for example are not certain though 

there was a ‘leadsmithy’ in Middlewich before 1316 and probably much earlie. 

“I- 

20.4 The east Cheshire Plant homeland and G&i%^ 

p the times of the 13th and 14th century royal earls of Chester, trade and 

transport across the High Peak may have held some strategic importance32 

(Tables 20.8 and 20.9) (cJ: Figures 20.2 and 20.3) Following the 1359 marriageqof 

Blanche of Lancaster to Edward III’s son, John of Gaunt, animosity 

between the Warren affinity and the Lancastrians may have begun to subside in deference 

to Gaunt of Lancaster. Local drvision and mistrust of Lancaster’s local authority, 

however, surrounded the so-called ‘Cheshire rebelhon’ of 1393 (Table 20.10) 

The Warren aflinity. The 1347 drsinleritance of the Warren Plantagenets coincided with a 

displacement of the Plant name (~1350) from ex-Warren Norfolk lands Seemingly 

this was part of a wider disinheritance of a Warren Plantagenet &i&y and it led 

on to the appearance of more settled Plant clusters in south Lincolnshire and, more 

especially, east Cheshire33. The bulk of the ex-Warren lands went to the 1st duke 

of Lancaster (d 1361), and also to some of his associates who have been regarded as 

having constituted an emerging powerful Lancastrian afllmity, with Gaunt becoming 

2nd duke oglancaster~in 1362 prior-to his wife, Blanche Plantagenet&~868 death. 

Warren allegiance. It 1s known that Sir John de Warren, of the illegitrmate ‘Warren Plantagenet’ 

descent in east C&&ire, married (~13’71) Margaret de Stafford and that, 50 

years later, her memorial effigy (~1420) in Over Peover church shows her wearing the 

Lancastrian SS livery collar (Chapter 19). 

Phmtallegl&e. At Lincoln it is known that a:John Plainr (perhaps with lurks to east 

Cheshire) testified as the principal witness of the proof of age m 1396 of Gaunt’s 

retainer (1382-99), the Lincolnshire knight Sir Thomas Swynford who was a son of 

the late husband of Gaunt’s mistress Catherme Swynford 

h.. 

(Chapter 17) 

*9LS.W‘.Blaachard (1961) Leadmining and smelting in medreval Engk& and Wales, p 83, in Medieval 

Industry edited by D.WCrossley, Council for British Archaeolog~Reseasch Report No. 40. 

““Beeston is about 10 miles SW of Chester, about midway betwea Chester and Combermere. 

“H.J.Hewm(1967) Cheshire under the thee Ehuards, pps 46-7,52,66. 

‘*Even as early as the early 13th century, it is known that the earl of Chester granted to his monk. immunity 

from tolls and it ltas been suggested that his motive was* to encourage trade. All but one of ad 

Ranulph de Blundeville’s grants in England for qutttance from tolls was to a Ctstercian hous% with greets 

gong to Basmgwerk, Bordesley, Combermere, Diet&cress, Stanlow, and to the Benedtctme house of St Werburgh 

Another such grant was to his Cistercian house of St Mary (Aulney; Calvados in Normandy). James 

W Alexander (1983) Ramdpfrof Chester; a Relicof the Conquest, p 45. 

33The dlegMnate Warren descent of the Warren Plantagenets evtdently became settled predwninandy in 

east Cheshird, where they had earl& be&& linked by m&age (cl 340) to de Stockpoti lands

CHAPTER 20. PLANTAGENET 

VITA AND PLANT’S YARD LIFE 

A possible interpretatton of the Plant(&)genet name ts a ‘horse (borne) estabhsher’ or an ‘msttgator 

of small Spamsh horses’Q. Thts mtght be thought to have evoked ptctures of pack horses 

wendmg across broom-clad moors6 and such allustons may have helped to keep the nammg tmdltmns 

used by the Warren Plantagenet affinity compatible wrth local tradttions, around the ttmcs 

uf their evrdent mid 14th century amval in east Cheshue. The local tradttions included horsebmeding 

and, seemingly also, the pack home transport of salt and other commodtties across the 

Peak Dtstrict of east Cheshire and north west Derbyshtre (Ftgure 20.3). 

Lead mining in the High Peak. In medteval times, there was for example an evident royal interest 

in developing mdustrtal activittes in the north Derbyshire Peak District, adjoming east 

Cheshire, with a 1280/l lead mining dispute there referring to the men of the field of king 

Edward I aswell as those of hts queen, Elleanor of Castille (northern Spain). There 1s however 

no direlrevtdehccJtha.t the name Elant onginated with lead trading activtties, mvolvmg 

a westbound transport of ore frbm the royal forest of the Hugh Peak (Table 20.9). It may 

merely be noted that, towards the end of the medieval phase of lead mining there, the name 

Plant is found well established just to the south west around Macclesfield. 

Royal stud at Macclesfield. Around 

1310-14, the last Warren earl of Surrey held the High Peak 

and, around those times, there is evidence for the royal earl of Chester’s horse-breeding 

stud nearby at Macclesfield m east Cheshtre. As early as those ttmes, tt is known that a 

stallion was kept in the manor bmldmgs in Macclesfield, whtch included a queen’s hall, 

a king’s chamber, and a great stable. This was the centre of the “Plantagenet” car1 of 

Chester’s livestock interestsC. Hay gathered in the park was said to be ‘for the lord’s stud 

and deer’. Stallions were valued patticularly htghly and a bay stallion was bought m 1301 

for E5.6s.8d. The 63 horses, colts and foals at the Macclesfield stud of the earl of Chester 

(Edward III) in 1329 included 2 stallions and 23 mares. In 1358 for example, 8 foals 

‘stamped with the lord’s sign’ were transfetred to the ‘Prince’s keeper of great horses’. 

The Black Prince (eldest son of Edward IE) also had stud farms elsewhere, at Woking, 

Beckley, Prince’s Rishorongh and, for a ttme at least, at Denbigh. 

Local uses of ho&&.~ In Cheshirestt is known thathomes were used for haulage and as carriers. 

As well as mention of ‘cattloads’ and ‘horseloads’ in connectton wtth tolls at the gates of 

Chester, every vistt by the king, the prince, or nobles involved baggage which was normally 

horse-borne. In 1351 the Cheshire area abbeys of Chester, Vale Royal, Combermere 

and Dienlacress protested jointly to the Black Prince, concerning the excessive burden of 

providing for visrtors with their grooms, horses and greyhounds, and even for the gross 

discourtesy of their guests. The Jusuce of Cheshire was instructed to take steps to prevent 

such abuse. 

‘Various PIant(agenet) related names can be considered to be of a verb-noun type and verb-noun suraamesar~ 

cpmmonplacein,nea~ncashire for example Also, the Old French word genet means ‘small 

Spanlshltorse’ and there was a significant Spanrsb influence on western France from where the Plantagenets 

originated. ; 

‘It has been suggested in this and earlier Chapters that an interpr&ion ‘horse borne establisher’ may be 

most apposite for the Plant(a/e)genet surname of the Warren affintty prior to its settlement ineast Chcsblte 

~1350. It should be noted, however, that the Plantagenet name IS more often associated (albeit perhaps 

:ontenuously) with the Latm words Planta genista whtch are mterpreted t6 mean ‘sprig of broom’. It 

seems that It was some time after the 1330 executton of Thomas Plantagenet (of Woodstock), earl of Kent, 

For something a!& to ‘witchcraft’ that there is evidence of an association of ‘bmom sucks with witches 

‘H J.Hew&t (1967) Cheshire under the three Edwar& pps 31,34-6,44,66,89,92. 

Table 20.8: Transport and horse breedmg in east Cheshire, cl30060 

31


There may perhaps have been transport of lead ore to the west of The Peak before lead wotkmgs 

wtthm the royal forest of the Htgh Peak were eclipseda (these worktpgs are thought to have 

been around Castleton, which is shown m Ftgure 20.2) By 1260-1360 lead production became 

concentrated m the regton between the modem A6 road (see Ftgnre 20.2) and Lathktll Dale, in 

the manors of Bakewell and Ashford The mam carnage of lead ore from The Peak is generally 

thought to have been to the east, such as from Hucklowe (Figure 20.2) to smelting boles at Baslow 

(on the modem A619 road junctions just to the SE of Calver m Ftgare 20.2) m 1360-1420 and 

then, with actwtty movmg fmther south, to boles around Stanton (east of Alport) in 1420.5ob. 

“The obhteratton of early workmgs by later lead workrngs in the Hugh Peak has left a gencrdl ignorance 

about the detail of the early workmgs 

“I.S.W.Blanchard (1981) ibid, pps 74.76.80 

Table 20.9. Lead mining to Cheshire’s east, ~1200-1450 b,: 

, 

THE MINERAL VEUfS 

Figure 20.2: Lead veins in the White Peak, i.e. in the limestone area of NW Derbyshire 

(from Trevor D.Ford and J H.Rieuwerts (1970) Lead Mining in the Peak District)


to Nanhwich 

h eld 

to Northwch 

and Mlddlewich 

o Alfreton 

and Nottingham 

- 

Figure 20.3: Ancient saltways across the Peak, from Stockport, Macclesfield, and Congleton 

in east Cheshire (ftom David Hey (1980) Puckmen, Carriers and Puckhorse Roads) 

The feud between$Jromas Motyneux of~Cueuial~and Henry Chaderton, the 2nd duke of Lancaster’s 

delinquen@bailifi~e\ridently~begau.inLancaste~m 1369. By around 1380, Robert de Vere 

was the current broker-of royal patronage in Cheshire and service with htm offered the chance of 

breaking the hold of the Lancastrian affinity around the royal Palltinate of Chester. So when de 

Veto called on Molyneux to raise an army in 1387 the lutes of division in the NW became sharp’. 

The ringleaders of the 1393 rebellion were the dissident Lancashire knights, Sir Thomas Talbot 

and Sir Nicholas Clifton, along with Sn John Massey of Tatton who held land in NE Cheshire 

and who had been appointed sheriff of Chester by the king in 1389. Richard H’s reluctance to 

condemn his Cheshire remmets involved in this rebelhan, against his uncle John of Gaunt of 

Lancaster, uhimately led on to a decisive schism between the crown and the Lancastrtans. 

With the’help of $ocial pressures from his wiser retainers, Gaunt largely quelled the 1393 SOc&ad 

‘~h&hii rebellion’. A sense of u&t continued, however, &d this became acute when 

Richard &began a rapid expansion of hi household and.‘%%hiie guard’b. The perceived threat 

to the Lancastrians became still more critrcal after Gaunt’s death in 1399, That same year at 

Chester, Gaunt’s son, Henry Bollmgbroke, captured Rtchard II who was seemmgly inadequately 

protected by his watches of Cheshire retainers; and Ballingbroke themby became the first king of 

the ‘Plantagenet cadet House of Lancaster”. *- 

*Simon Walker (1990) The L.ancartrian a&%&y 1361-99, pps 165-181. 

% 1397, the royal presence in Lancashire proceeded to become perceived as a threato Gaunt, since 

Lancashire was his primary seat of authority 

Table 20.10: The 1393 Cheshtre rebellion


20.5 Shoemaker William’s origins and kin 

oft Cheshire evrdently remained the princrpal homeland of the Plants from 

cl370 until cl670 By the mid 17th century it seems that the bulk of the Plant 

family had mrgrated mostly southwards into north Staffordshire and, by that 

time, a few Plants had migrated eastwards across the Peak into mid-north Derbyshire, 

to the parish of Great Longstone near Ashford in Figure 20.2 In the ‘Great Longstone 

ancestral contention’ (Chapters 15 and 17), it is evidently those Plants of Great 

Longstone who were the ancestors of the Plant’s Yard Plants of Sheffield34. 

Midway to Sheffield across north Derbyshire, around the lead mines of Ashford 

and Great Longstone, there were references to the planting of forces, engines and 

pumps, indicating early signs for the emergence of, eventually, a widely recognised 

industrial connotation to the word plant It would seem that rt wasq$om such a 

background that the Plant’s Yard Plants arrived in Sheffield, around the mrd 18th 

century. 

I 

20.5.1 Wm(shoe)‘s evident father, marriage, and associates 

I 

t seems that the Sheffield shoemaker William’s evident father WE(l) 

traveled fairly extensively for his times. 

may have 

It seems possible that WE(l) mszrred at Wirksworth (Figures 204(a)) 

which is some 20 miles SW of his family home at Clowne (Clowne is about 10 

miles SE of Sheflield). It then seems possible that he had a child at Matlock, 

which is near Wirksworth (c$ the maps of Figures 17.3 and 20.2), before returning 

to Clowne for the baptism of his (further) children by 1799. He may 

already by then have traveled to Ecclesall Bierlow near Broom Hall, Sheffield, 

perhaps working there as an agricultural Iabomer es well as on his father’s 

farm in Clowne - at that time in this region, farm work was often supplemented 

by metaLcraft activities and Wm(l) may have taken adv$age of 

his Plant’s Yard uncles’ prominent industrialconnections in She5eld t%rprove 

his income. Such an early connection with Sheffield would help to explain the 

mention of WE(l) in the 1805 will of hii uncle the bellows maker ‘Benjamin * 

Plant of Sheffield Moor’ - this will mentions only three of Ben(bellows)‘s 

many Plant nephews and WE(I) was one of those favoured few3’. 

The shoemaker Wrlliam Plant ( WE(shoe) 

j married Elizabeth Hartley in Sheffield 

341t seems clear that the subsequent local progemtor of the Plant’s Yard Plants was the brickmaker Wdham 

Plant (i e. WE(O) ) of Duckmanton in NE Derbyshue (Figures 17.6 and 20 4). The farmer Thomas Plant 

was his youngest son and he settled just 5 miles NE from Duckmanton at Clowne (NB Derbyshire), where 

his eldest son WE(l) was baptised in 1772. As described in f@)-tn Chapter 9. the shoemaker William 

Plant (&. W~(shoe) ) was almost certainly a brother of another Sheffield shoemaker, Benjamin 

Plant 

(i.e B&shoe) ) from Clowne and, hence, it seems quite certain that both of these shoemakers were SOIIS 

of W-(l) . Amongst various evidence to support this, it can be noted that the stated age on’ W”(shoe)‘s 

death certificate coincrdes exactly with the age of Ben(shoe)‘s brother Wq2a) whereas the only known 

alternative contention would produce a 2 year dmxepancy of age. The less likely contention 1s that the 

sfioemaker William,might instead have been Ben(shce)‘s cousin ‘Wz[2b) - cj FIgore 20 4(a) 

35WE(l) was awarded only .fXO in Ben(beltous)‘s ~111, though he apparently also retained some 

connection with some of Ben(bellows)‘s 

former lands 2 miles to the west of the Little Sheftield site of 

that WE(l)‘s widow was hvmg at the site of those lands and 

Plant’s Yard. Later records of 1851 indicate 

they indicate that she pas from Pont+ac$ pvch ts 20 mdes NNE of, Sheflicld


l 

* 

in 1828. They were married by banns at the parish church, later to become the 

Sheffield Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul. 

They were married by Edwin Goodwin, both were of that parish, bachelor 

and spmster, and both signed in the presence of John Plant and Benjamin Hudson. 

It IS not clear whether the witness John Plant could have been Wm(2a)‘s 

brother, cousin, or uncle for example, all of whom are included in Figure 20.4(a). 

Later, in the 1841 household of this shoemaker Wilham Plant of Sylvester 

Street, there is included SamuelHartley, aged 22, file smith, who was no doubt a 

younger relative of W~(shoe)‘s wife Elizabeth Hartley, whose stated rounded 

age by that time was 30. 

It seems likely that a Button Lane shop of a William Plant in Sheffield Directories36 

was that of the shoemaker William: In view of the substantial evidence, which was 

detailed in Chap& 9, for a close aqsociation between the shoemakers Benjamm and 

William (regardless of whether thiy were brothers or cousms, though probably they 

were brothers), it seems that this shop could have been an outlet for:- 

. the hats and dresses made by Ben(shoe)‘s wife (Chapter 9); as well as, 

. Ben(slaoe)‘s shoes and other leather goods; and perhaps also, 

l 

shoes made by ~%(shoe) who was the more senior, in as much as he was older than 

Ben(shoe) by 14 years 

20.52 Wm(shoe)‘s children and death 

part from Wm(shoe)‘s eldest son James, who will be described in some detail m 

A a later Chapter, the (known) sons of the Sheffield shoemaker Wrlliam died young. 

Wm(shoe)‘s son William ( Wm(3a) in Figure 20.4(b)) died in infancy in 1838 and 

this was followed go!on after by: the birth :and death of Thomas. 

$ 

Death of Wm(3a). The informant of the death of_ W~(shoe)‘s 3 month old son Wilham is 

given on the death certificate as ‘William Plant shoemaker of Porter Street, Sheffield’. 

This 1838 death certificate shows that this baby died of convulsions. Included in the 

box ‘when and where died’ there is 3PM and PorterStreet whereas, above this box, is 

written Huymurket which suggests that a visit there may have been involved in the 

final days of this baby’s life and a hay-borne disease may have been suspected. 

Birth and death of Thomas. Eighteen months later there is a birth certificate for a Thomas, 

who is stated to be a son of the shoemaker William and his wife Elizabeth (who is 

he:9 clearly stated to. be -‘formerly~Hartley’): This birth qertificate.shows that- the 

family had moved by 1840 from Porter Street to the nearby Sylvester Street. In the 

1841 Census returns, for a household in Sylvestti Street, there is listed shoemaker 

Wdliam {stated rounded age 35), Elizabeth (30), James (12): Sarah (lo), Elizabeth 

(8), Emma (5) and Thomas (1); all are indicated to have been born irrYork&ire. 

The death of William and Elizabeth’s son Thomas, at 8 years 11 months in 1849, was 

registered by Elizabeth Plant of Sylvester Street; Thomas is recorded on 

_- 

his death 

36There is a Directory entry Wlltam Plant. shopkeeper; 49 Button Lane (UWhite’s 1841). No Plants are 

recorded in the 1841 Census returns for Button Lane suggesting that the said ‘shopkeeper’ did not live at the 

shop and the only likely contender seems to be the ‘shoemaker’ William, who hved in 1838 in the nearby 

Porter Street and, by 1840, in the adjoining Sylvester Street-all these addresses were at the foot of @Itti6) 

Sheffield Moor.

CHAPTER 20. PLANTAGENET VITA AND PLANT’S YARD LIF6 

(a) Probable descent from the Duckmanton Plants of Wm(shoe) 

7 older slbhngs 

of Thomas 

r 

hap 3 4,791 hfadock 

WWll t John (1799-Y 

) LGid 

Thomas(1801-7) 

72-1848 

f the ‘Wilbam Plants’ WE@) 1603.11848 

ded EhZ vmon ‘%hoemaker ---cl W=(shoe) of(b) below 

790 Wrlrwnnh Clowne lo Shcf 

: 

Ecclesall B 

.- Shcf 

L Ben,mm (1817~7)~ Ben(shm) of Rg 9 4 

2% 

last SO” Of 

Ann (Coldwell) 

lsaac 

.1814’79 

Clowne 10 Shcf. 

Chaplcr 8 

(b) The Sheffield shoemaker William’s wife and family 

Wfiam - Wqshm) 

shoemaker 

pmhahly W=@z) 

rather Ulan W=(Zb) 

d 8 10 1848 (;lged 45) 

m 137.1828 SHEmELD 

Elizabeth Hartley 

b71805-11 

James 

hap 16 1 1829 SHEF”ELD 

d 104 1904 (aged 75) 

mZ51218U)Ba.w~ -Fig.um 22 1 

St Gearger SHEmEua 

Mmy RowbnsonSfrcet 

b 71831tZ d 7 8 1908 (aped 76) 

b1832/3 - 

L Thomas ' 

b252 1840 

d 3pm 7.9 1838 (aged3 months) 

d 7 I 1849 (aged 8yrs I Imttc;) 

i 

Fjgure 20 4: Shoemaker William’s descent and family


certificate to have died of ‘Small Pox after vaccmation’ and to be a son of ‘Wdliam 

Plant shoemaker deceased’. 

W”(shoe) and his apparent father W”(1) (Chapter 9) both died in 1848, m 

adjoining Sheffield streets near Plant’s Yard in Little Sheffield (Chapter 10). 

Death of Wm(shoe). The above reference to shoemaker William as deceased, on Thorn&s 

death certificate, helps to provide confirmation that the correct death certificate for 

W~(shoe) IS the one for a William Plant at Sylvester Street, who had died just 3 

months earlier on the 8th October 1848 This William had died of phthisis (i.e. s, 

lung condition), as registered curio‘usly by ‘the mark of Rachel Plant present at death 

Sylvester Street Sheffield’; no other trace of a ‘Rachel’ Plant has (yet) been found in 

this region throughout this era though the certificate states that it was she who gave 

shoemaker William$ occupation simply, at dqth, as ‘labourer’. 

- 

20.53 Wm(shoe) at Sylvester Street and his son James 

hus, the household of the shoemaker Wilham, at least by 1838, was at Pelter 

T 

Street which is about 0.4 miles NE from the Little Sheffield site of Plant’s Yard 

WB(shoe) is known to have been living nearby at Sylvester Street by 1840 and, after 

the I.848 death of WB(shoe) at Sylvester Street, his only (known) surviving son, 

James, is known to have been living in Sylvester Street in 1851 together with his new 

bride whom he had married the previous year (Figme 20.4(b)). 

Sylvester Street. In 1700, Mr. Field Sylvester had laid a found&on stone, near the head of 

(Little) SheEeld Moor, for the Presbyterian Meeting House37. He also gave his name 

to the Sylvester Whee13’ on the Porter Brook near the foot of (Little) Sheffield Moor. 

It was on the adjoining Sylvester Street that the shoemaker William Plant was to 

be found approaching the time of his 1848 death (aged 45) and he died there, fairly 

young, from a lung condition which was an endemic disease of smoky Sheffield. It 

seems that i$ye around&his timethak,water$power ceased to be used at the adjacent 

Sylvester WheeI -the power of the Sylvester Water Wheel was assessed as 1Ohp m 

1835 and, though 1850-l rate books St111 note the head and fall of w&f, an 1851 map 

labels the dams as ‘reservoirs’ which suggests that they were by then being used as 

storage for steam engine boilers. 

20.6 RQumb 

n the first regnal year (1199) of king John39, shortly before the death of John’s 

uncle Hamelin Planf{a/eJgene~ (1130-1202), the name Phntebene appears near 

;he inherited Norfolk lands of Hamelm’s wife, Gab;1 de Warenne (113’7-99). 

The names Plantefolie and Pluntun’ appear in 1209%iid 1220, in the times of Hamelin’s 

and Isabel’s son, William Plantagenet (1166-1240), who was intermittently loyal to 

37A 1771 plan of Sh&eld by William Fanbank names the Chapel that he founded as the,Upper Chapel 

for Dissenters whom, it was noted by Hunter in 1819, ‘followed the manner of French preachers’. 

3sThc water wheel called th~Gylvcster Wheel was just downstream from the foot of.Little Sheffield Moor, 

to Sheffield’s sontli, on the Porter Brook wluch Rowed noah eastwards to join the River Sheaf at the Pond 

IIilt (Chapter 13) which was near Pond Lane at the western edge of Sheffield town 

39Following the disputes of the first “Plantagenet” king with the Archbishop of Canterbury, his son. the 

crusadmg, homosexual, Lion Heart. Richard I(1 157-99) died withoutchlldren and lus youngest brother, John 

(1167-1216), became kmg until the crown passed to John’s son~Henry III (1207-72).


king John and then loyal to John’s son Henry III - so also was Wrlham’s son, 

John Plantagenet (1231-1304) (de W arenne) who was made Henry III’s ward after 

his father’s 1240 death. The Pl(a/e)nte name evidently formed m proxrmrty to the 

actrvities of the Warren earls of Surrey, who are the first known family in England to 

have used Plantagenet as an ongoing surname 

Reaney 4o does not relate the name Clay to the Divine Words ‘We created man 

from an extract of clay’ - the name de Claz is found in Suffolk in 1177, de Za Claie 

in Essex in 1200, and CZey in Cambridgeshire in 1221. Even so, in a context of the 

‘genera of creation’, it is to be noted that the emerging Pl(a/e)nte name was seemmgly 

set to the simultaneous meanings:- * 

‘abundant produce’ or ‘child’ - 

the progeny of ‘mother earth’, and, at once, 

‘establiiher’ - an establishing component of the human soul. -&- . 

. A, 

In the same scheme, Plant(a/e)geiet can be taken4’ to mean ‘(from) the plant-horse 

genera of creation’ or, in other words, ‘a horse borne establisher’“. 

The spelling Plente occurs first at Oxford and in Kent, near evident activity to 

amend the ‘plant soul’, and then in 1230 near the further religrous centre of York. Evidence 

for a,

EXTRACTS FROM PALMERS INDEX TO TEE TIMES 

The following information has been forwarded by Brad Scott, member no 171 

14March 1859 

Splng Ass~zes, Northern Circud 

York, March 11 

Cmwn Court- (Before Mr Justice Syles) 

George Plant, aged 32, was charged with the wlful murder of William Wilson, Sheffield, on the 28 of January last 

Mr SIanshard and the Hon F S Wortley prosecuted, and Mr Campbell Foster defended the pnsoner. 

The pnsonor I” lh!s Wso. d appeared. I,$ brew& lravcller I” the employ of Mossrs Hredloy and So”. 01 

lhe Soho Brewer/ Sheffield. and kvmg m Towncross-lane I” tba, town The deceased was a brass-f,,ter. end on Ihc 

night of the 26th January he went to th@ Red LIM pubkchousc, I” “,e Hartshead. Sbcfticld at abo”, 12 o-dock 

There he asked the landlord If there was a”ythl”Q to do at tic pumps He was ldd that two required dcanmg Ho d,d 

hrs work and got sOm$ $rk”h. and altcnvards IoIl at about 1 oWock When he IcN 11 was evident that ho had had 

some Ikquor. but thls $e”awllyY”zide bm good-natured and &woes of shakmg hands wul persons wdh whom he 

came I” ConkCl NolMng Was S&z” Of him frO!I the time he left the pubkchouse unlll e btllo al&r 1 O’CClock. when n 

ma” named George Norton, who was m company wth anolhcr named Hawkswath. were passing down the markotplace. 

and hoard some quorrekng between two me” at Ihe bottom of the Ha&head They cross@d the road lo lho 

two men. when Nortoi asked Ihe pnsoncr. who was one of the me”. If he had bee” stowed The pnsoncr ropkcd 

thal he had. and the deceased who Was Iho olher person. then ran off the footpath #“to the road. and said hc had 

take” tha pnsoner for a blond of fns -a cabma”. The daceased then said he cwld have fake” Ihe skck from Plants 

nght hand, upc” which the pnsoner rephad lhal in return he would have gwen hum the kmfe. The deceased then took 

hold of the stick es d lo show fvnv he could hawtaken II from him, upon vdah fhe prisoner po! his hand back. which 

ulntalned a dagger. and gave the deceased what appeared to be a slight slab On being slabbed, the doceased 

,ecekd a Mle and fell down He affewards go1 up. walked to the kerbstone and sat dmm Norton UIe” advised tho 

pnsoner not lo leave Ihe dec+sed. and he and hts friend then lelt They had not. however. got m&e lhan 15 paces 

from the spot v&are these drcumstences had fake” place. befote the pnsoner passed them.. when. es hc was damg 

so. Norton noticed Plant p”t a dagger into ha pockef. Norton and Hatis’uorlh prOceeded up Watson’swalk. whllo 

the pnsoncr went down Angel-sfrec( The dewed remalncd 5dh”g on the causeway CdQe unhl he atlraclod the 

attenkw~ of (wo man vii10 were passing. and who, a” Andlng hw undibon, cawed him out of the rain. wtach was 

pou”“g down at the tune. under Vie cover of the post-office passage. which IS gust opposite The deceased was 

eVa”fUal(y taken to (he Towvhaff. and aftended to by Mr. Booth. surgeon. who. on ex3m1”ako”. rOUnd “plxl hii f!Cdy 

a small wound, whrzh appeared as lhough II mght have bean made by a knife or a dagger The deceased’s bowls 

were protmdrdmg from the wwnd to the sue of a man’s hat The bowels were replamd, but fnllammabon shorlly set 

in. and lhe ma” died Tho loafned Counsel. in ope”l”g the case lo the ,“ry for the proseC”t,o” stated lhat every 

homicide was a murder. and that il tay wth the patty accused to reduce the offence by owdo”Ce to the less c”mc Of 

manslaoffhter To conshtute a murder. makce. express or&nphed. must be show As a~amst the deceased the 

p”so”er probably had, par(i$+~“$c$ b”! ce should shaw-mat he had recklessly wndwtad hlmsalf wall the 

daQQer. and had sh&~Ctopcopte;iand brandishcd&‘abcut I” such a manner as to mdraito general mahce lo alI 

$,+,a came I” hjs ,va* and4 was wnlendcd-thel d death’resalted from his act wh\la so conducting hmwetf ,t was 

murder The pnsoner had drawn out his dagger (0 a p&coma” shorily before he was wdh the deceased. and asked 

him If he warded NS number. The pohceman repked “Oh. no. Se.” and walked on Very shortly after this he accosted 

a woman m tho street. and said he was not afraid ol any om msulting hrm. drawng WI and exh!bitmg his daggerk”,k 

at lhe same kme These facts showed a re&css”ess 1” dealing wth such a woapMl wdh whrch his 

subsequent conduct to the deceased was !” kaepmg. and d the wounds on the deceased ware so lnlkcted it was 

murder. 

These facts having been proved. it was ekuted on crossexam!“atlsl) thal lhe deceased. wizen drunk. 

would run up and shake hands wth ewy stranger. and force~lmsalf on those tie did not want mS cpmpany. that 

when taken mlo custody lhe pnaoner had mncealed nothing. but had at once admdted that he had a dagger-knife at 

home, where 11 was found. and fhe” stared Ulat he had got mto a w”tIct v&h a ma” who had s(opped hmr as he was 

Qomg home past midmght on lhe night in question. fhal he had purdrased the knife for his protectton. havma 

frequently to go home late wth large sums of money upo” him. which he had mllected m Ihc outskrrts of Shefield 

as bavelkr for Massrs 5radky and So”;who had a greet.b”smess as brewers.,a”d lhal hc had bought the kmfc 

because-he had boon alarmed at the ““mwo”s garolte robbenes whti had take” place m the ncighboutiood of 

Sheffield II was ekclted that thus was not a fwhsh fancy, o( fear. as @a had been many such robbaees 

The p”sO”eS sfatemont before the mag,sf‘ates was the” read.%“d was as follwvS - *My “amo IS Geo 

Plant. formerly of Doncaster. Late last Wednesday mght. t was going home, and when I had got down High-svcot. 

aQC,“St Rtchard’s. the draper. f met a ma” named Wilson. com,ng “‘ShlnQ wl of a passago He Iook hold of me. and 

wdhout saymg a word. knocked me down I kept him off ulule I was down wdh a small skck I had 4” my hand Who” l 

go1 up again. I said. ‘Wl~al have you done that for If you don’t be quiet I will give you somethzngl’ He repked. ‘Y’O let 

yw see what I ha”e done d for’ Dunng lhat conversako” the two ge”tleme”. Norton and Hawkworth. who have 

gwn ewdence. came up I said 1o’them. ‘You see lhls man has attacked me: While I was sarng so. hdm” round ot 

me agal”, and tned to get hold of me I” do!“g so he made a Nsh at me. and fell upon lhe k”lfe which I held before 

me He sc,eamed out ‘Pokce: and I replied ‘I wll stay unbl ,he p&xma” comes I slood up m my own defence; ” 

was your own fault’ I then said 10 Ihe two wtnasses. ‘I have only stood ,n my own defence. os yo” see. I will Stop 

unsl the pokce c&me. and QO wth him’ They walked away. and I. lhlnklng d was no “so slaying by myself. wont

dwect home , commumcated to my wfe what had happened. t had “BY, morwng ,o go ,o Manchester on b”smess. 

and d,d not hear anythmg of the occurrence until I saw an account of It MI Friday mamng 6” the Manchcsler 

Guardan I returned from the purney at halfpast 8 o’ctclock on Saturday evening MY mfe told m8 tba, tbc ma” was 

dead I had bee” ,n Mr BradIe@ sew,ce a fortnlghl I bought me dagger the day before I entered his SBNICB. and 

caned it mth me for protecbon. hawng been once stopped on the Samsley-road On Monday momwg I went to my 

wak as usual I bought the knife for proteotton, as t have to travel ,n country p&es tw mcmey - 

Mr Foster then addressed the ,ufy for the defence He adopted U!e defimbon of the teamed cf~wsel for the 

prosearbon of the rnme of murder, and untended that there was not a pa&k of evidence of expressed m&Ice on 

he part of the pnsccer against tbe deceased. wr was any suggesl& He did not appear to have ever known or 

seen him before As to the evidence in Svpfzart of ImpHed and ~enemf ma!& (he exhiblbng of the dagger lo the 

,x4ceman and to tbe woman before he met the deceased rattler contradicted Ihe prapos~bon. lor had he bfandlshed 

abmt his dagger and threatened the poitceman It wootd have been the pol~ceman’s duty to take him m to wstody 

but the pchman’s condud showed plamly that nq such ccnstrucUon could be @aced on the pnsone& acts. and ,he 

wanan awsted bytllm never pretended that ttie pnsoner had threatened her Wflh the dagger. or that she was 

alarmed at what be had done. The endewe in suppwto4 tbe charge of murder therefore falled The teamed cwnsel 

the” conlended that ,he fads proved showed that Lhe deceased m h,s ha,f-d”,nken state had stoppod Ihe pr,$oner 

who. bong a stranger to him. was probably alarmod. other hvo men. Ntion and Hawksworth, havmg come up at the 

same bmc. coupled with the fact of lhe nandy of a nombcr 01 narrow streets and passages dose 10 Ihe place wbero 

me pnsoner had met the deceased. where wp’e m,Qht be co,xea,eU. and the bme be,nU pas, m,dn,ght. gave 

reasonable ground for such alarm Thcae errcumstances and-h6 fear of garoltc mbbenes might have led trrm lo 

suppose that he was about to bc altacked. and have Caused hrm to draw h!s dagger-knife for pro,ec,,o”. and If. I” 

the con”,ct wivch aitelwards occurred. the deceased received a stab !4,,cb “nhappaly had resulted 11, deal,,. the 

hom~cidefell rather under the la’,” which e*cosed and jusbfied-homntde when co”,rmned under the Jpprehone,on of 

a felony bemg committed. and u1 necessary self-defcnoo. than under the legal decwons wllich made homxide 

manslaughter He submltted that the c(rcumstances warranted tfw view. and If the jury were of that opnon they 

o”Qh, to acqul, t@ pnsoner ol,ogether. but If they were of U,c opmlon that tbc knafo had bee” used wb~lc I” the hot 

blood of a mntest under cwumstances such as had been proved, then he submitted tbat at most the offence was 

manslaughter. and not murder 

The. Ieartxd Judgcrthon summed “p He m(oom,ed the,ury that.the Me of thb pr,so,w was in tile,r lwds, 

and If lhey relumed a verdict of gulity. he would have lo be left fw exewbon HIS Lordshtp then read over the 

evidence. From the ewdenco of the first wdness It appeared the deceased was a qwet mdustnous man. but fond of 

shakmglmn‘ds When d ktlle-elevated by tfrmk wtb persons with whom he came m,o contact, a bablt wtwh mlgh, be 

cbnowus to persons who dld not know h!m AU twmidde ls murder, for precious IS the kfe of a man m the sight of 

the law If kfe is lost I” a quarrel tben the offence IS manslaughter If the pnsoner had kdled the deceased by n kick 

whk swfflm~. he would be QUi,tj of manslaughter. and what d,sbngUlSbed th,. case IfOm one of (hat deswpbon 

was. that he used a deadly weapon If the ,x,soner drew out the knife before the scuffle, mtendtng lo “se I, in the 

scuMe. then ,be crme would awn, to murder He thought it would only be ,a,r for the jury to oss”“,e that the kmfe 

was shut up ,n the pocket Of ffie pnswer when be came into conlact with me deceased. and the only quesbon left 

for them to dedde was the urcamstanccs under wtwb he drew U WI. whether wth malvze aforelhought. or whether 

m the heat of blood If under ule former arwmsbxxes. It would be tbetr duty to find him guilty Of murder. and II 

under the latter c,~c”mstances. of manslaughter I- 

The jury then rewed. and. after an absence of about 15 mmutes. relumed a verC@of Guilty 01 

manstaughter 

Several previous conv,ctt~s for felony have been proved agamst ,he pnsoner 

The teamed Judge ,wxeoded to pass sentence He sad tbe pnsonel’s offences sank lnlo nothtngness 

when compared wtb bs present hemous offcnco He had had a very narrow escape with his Ikfc. for If the jury had 

brought ,,I a verdv3 of Qudty. he would most %rta,nly have bee” teft for exewbon The prwXW was QUltty ot 

manslaughter of the most aQQraVated character. If “a, of murder, and It was absolutely necessary that the carryl”g 

and “s,“g of daggers and bawc kntves, WE+, he had hoped were almost unknown I” th,s part of the country, should 

be pumshed WB tbe beverest penatbes of U,e law He should lherekxe sentence the pnso,n,et 10 penal servitude ior 

the natural term of hs lkfe 

40

STAFFORDSHIRE BURIAL INDEX 

W to Wdliam 

The references below are additional to those in JournalNo 12 pages 14 and 15 

Dim Forename pl,Q&s Parish Church 

1.11 1634 

21.6 1639 

10.11.1696 

161712 

14.4 1713 

262 1114 

3 4.1717 

23.1.1736 

3.12 1747 

30.121752 

244.1752 

1741806 

2121810 

15121810 

1.4.1812 

11.11.1840 

20312.1577 

3.12.1584 

5 101615 

0 5.1628 

18 8.1629 

05 1682 

0 4 1697 

2212.1712 

1891715 

31.7.1722 

0 9.1723 

2.1.1723 

26.5.1737 

10.6.1737 Wm 

18.2 1740 W&am 

30.11 1741 William 

22.5.1746 Wdliam 

24.12.1750 William 

6 11 1757 Wm 

21 1.1758 Wiiliam 

751762 Wm 

26.10.1766 Wm 

24.6.1768 Wm 

31.7.1769 William 

10 10 l-769 wliim 

19.10.1771 Wm 

20.3.1772 William 

2041772 Willm 

2010.1776 William 

235 1778 William 

18.5 1779 William 

108 1781 Wm 

27.10.1785 Wdliam 

11.3 1789 Wm 

3 21793 -Willm 

18 2 1794 William 

W senr. Of Low Leek 

W OfLoW Leek 

W of Knay Leek 

infant ofLeek c Leek 

F 

of Stonycliffe 

W 

infant. 

W 

Leek 

W. do W &-EstherofMdl St, Leek 

W” inf Of Leek Leek 

W of Red Ear&b Leek 

Walter 

Uttoxeter 

William 

Uttoxeter 

William of Crossgate age 28 stone 

Willm mf. Leek 

William Penkhol~ paup. Stoke on Trent 

William Bentley M.1 aged 21 months, see Alfred 186OHzmley, Welsh Ch, United R 

William 

M&w 

Wdham . Lichfield, St Mary 

William 

Mud&stone 

William 

stone 

W&m old William, batchelor Maer 

William 

Hotion 

Gulielmus fs Johmmis & mae, UX. Swynneft on 

Wm of Bearson Mucklestone 

William 

Milwioh 

w&n Stranger Rugeley 

William of Darlaston stone 

William do Thomas de,Nonton , _ Pattingham 

WilIi&i: - i z -s/d Thomas oEthe J$ow-;: r 1’“‘ SWSllUvnnert0n 

of Bearson 

s/o Mmy of FawIield Head 

ofHeathy Close 

do Thos of Ettingshall 

s/o Thosof Ettingshatl 

inf. 

ofMadwood 

sfo William & Peggy of Daclaston 

s/o James 

ofNay Church 

S/0GXWge 

inf 

inf. 

pau 43 age1 

of Stone Heath 

1 

M&k&one 

S~OII 

Longnor 

Kingsley 

stone 

Sedgley 

Kingsley 

Stoke otl Trent 

Mu&l&one 

Seighford 

Stone 

S&don 

Leek 

Wolverhampton 

Leek 

Wolverhampton 

Uttoxeter 

Leek 

Stoke on Trent 

Kingswinford 


Leek 

Stone

23 10 1794 Wdham 

17.5 1795 W&am 

691796 Willm 

1471799 Wdliam 

29 1 1800 William 

13 9 1801 William 

17 9 1802 Wdliam 

14 5 1804 Wdliam 

22 8.1805 William 

28 10 1805 Wdliam 

s/o William&t Chapel 

do John & Hatutah of Pershalt 

mf 

s/o William & Amey, age 10 mths 

slo John & Elizabeth of Newport 

of Shelton 

Wolverhampton 

Eccleshrfll 

Leek 


LichBeld, St Michael 

Wolstanton 

Gnosall 

W&rsIow 


Pattingham 

This list will complete the Staffordshire B&al Index There are however, a number of references 

relative to Alstotield which have been found since the previous listings These are’ - 

&J&s 

Parish Church 

16.3 1661 7 

9.10.1747 Barbara 

13.8.1609 IidW 

8 6 1612 Edw 

183 1549 Eli& 

912 1608 Eli2 

311.1549 z.-Emmot 

4 12.1608 Joan 

133 1837 Sidney 

stillbocn 40 Thos of W&r&lowe rnc 

of Wamlouf 

husbandman of Duncote Greave Jnr 

0fDoncotes Greave 

d/o Agnes 

w/o Eklw (see also Joan Dec. 9”) 

Alstonfeld 

Alstonfield 

Alstonfield 

Alstonfield 

Alstonfeld 

Alstotield 

Alstontield 

d/o Edw & Ehz. (see also Dee 9* Edw.) Alstont-ield 

wl 

Wolverhampton 

Listings of Staffordshire marriages wdvlll commence in the next journal

JOJXN PLANT OF LINCOLN 1394-5 

Source Public Record Office 

Tttle Proof of Age of Thorna 

Inq p m C Ric It 85/18 [damaged] 

son of Hugh de Skyford 

John Plaint, aged 60 years or more, says the said Thomas, was born at Lincoln on the feast of St 

Matthias 47 Edward BI [24 February 13731 and baptised the next day in the church of St Margaret in 

the Close, on which date the said John was servant to master Thomas de Sutton clerk, godfather of the 

said Thomas de Swyaford, and brought fire to light the candle. 

Richard Fynden of Lincoln, aged 70 years and more, agrees, and says that on that day he was 

chamberlain to John de Worsop, clerk, the o&r godfather 

John Liminooc of Lincoln, aged 50 years and more, agrees, and says that on that day he brought two 

books, one of which was a missal, to the said church, and sold them to the satd John, one of the 

godfathers 

John de Sereby of Lincolq aged 63 ye&s and more, agrees, and says that on the day of the baptism 

Wilham Hamond, his servant, taking twoJars ofwme to the church, fell and spilled the wine out of one 

jar, for which the said John beat hhn. 

John Baldon, aged 56 years and more, agrees, aad says that on that day of the baptism he was servant 

to the satd Thomas de Sutton and was riding to Louth on bis master’s business when his horse fell and 

the said John broke his leg 

Gilbert de Bcseby of Lintiln, aged 54 years and more, agrees, and says he was then chamberlain to 

lady Catherine de Swynford, mother of the said Thomas, and went with divers clothes of sdk and gold 

to the said church when the said Thomas was baptised 

Nicholas Bolton, aged 60 years and more, agrees, and says that he held a basin and offered water to the 

godfathers and godmother to wash after the baptism 

William de Middletoo, aged 60 years and more, agrees, aad says be held a towel by the font for the 

godfathers and godmother to wipe their hands 

Richard Colvill of~inMllrSEaged52,yearsand,more, agreqs, and says that on that day he was charged 

by the said lady Cathtine’sstewardto bring home 24&ows, which the said steward bought and gave to 

diuers servants 

Henry Taverner, aged 60 years and more, agrees, and says that on the day of the baptism Agnes his 

wife gave biih to John his fo%bom son. 

Thomas Boterwyk, aged 68 years aad more, agrees, and says he was clerk in the church and took the 

chrism from the altar to the font 

John Waltbam of Lincoln, aged 49 years and more, agrees, aad says that in that year Wdham de 

Waltbam his father set out for Jemsalem and died beyond the seas and in that year the said John 

entered into his inheritance. 

:

1881 British Census 

f%&q Bearfield Hall 

c-mace. Wickhambrook, Suffolk, England 

Sourn FHL Fdm 1341441 PRO Ref RGI 1 Prece 1823 Folro 67 Page 12 

Mm Age Sex f3ktf@xe 

Nathaniel W. BROMLY M 58 M London, London, Middlesex, England 

Rel: Head 

ti Magfstrate Barrister Not In Actual Practfce 

Hennetta BROMLY M 52 F Romsey, Hampshire, England 

Rd. Wife 

Emma BROMLY ’ 14 F Wickhambrook 

Ret. Daur 

ooo. Scholar 

Alice BROMLY 18 F Wickhambrook 

Ret Daur 

occ Scholar 

Warren BROMLY 

11 M Wickhambrook 

Rot Son 

00~. Scholar 

Evelyn BROMLY 8 F Wickhambrook -_ 

Ret Daur 

ox. Scholar 

Emma WHITMORE U 26 F Olney, Bedford, England 

Ret. VISitOr 

0~0: Governess (Teach) 

Amy COOPER U 43 F Ipswich, Suffolk, England 

Rel’ Servant 

00~’ Servant Domestic 

Martha PLANT U 22 F Wooditton, Cambridge, England 

Rel Servant 

0% Servant Domestic 

Elisa BEELL U 20 F Wiokhambrook, Suffolk, England 

Rel. SefVafIt 

ood; Servant,Domestici -r j 3 

Mary BEELL U 19 F Wickhambrook, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Servant 

occ: Servant Domestic 

crwi%w 1 BridgeTerrace 

oews place: Sudbury St Gregory, Suffolk, England 

Source. FHL Fifm 1341443 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 828 Folio 61 Page 35 

Marr Age sex Birtflplace 

Horace PLANT M 35 M Laxfield, Suffolk, England 

R& Head 

ow Warehouseman 

Naomi PLANT M 34 F Eye,Suffolk, England 

Rel wife 

occ: Dressmaker 

Samuel PLANT 

Horace PLANT 

Rel. Son 

ooc: Scholar 

Ret son 

occ Scholar 

13 M Laxfield, Suffolk, England 


i 

Pas.7 1


Henry PLANT 

9 M Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 

Rd- Son 

occ: Scholar 

Rose PLANT 6 F Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 

nel: Daur 

occ Scholar 

John PLANT 

4 M Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 

Rel- 

Son 

occ: Scholar 

Elza PLANT 2 F Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 

Mel Daur 

James PLANT 

1 M Sudbury, Suffolk, England 

Rd. Son 

Arthur DOWNS 

16 M Gestingthorpe, Essex, Eng\a& 

Mel: Boarder 

occ: Errand Boy ’ 

oweri%w: 101 Short Bra&land 

C$~place: Bury St Edmunds St-James, Suffolk, England 

t3o~ce: FHLFiim 1%1’@6 PtiO Ref RGII Piece 1844 Folio 96 Page 18 

Mm 

Geo. PLANT @ -” 

M 

Rd. Head 

OCC: Platelayer G E Raily 

Loursa PLANT 

M 

Rel. Wife 

Mary Ann PLANT 

U 

~e.1 Daur 

oco: Servant 

Emma PLANT 

R& Daur 

0~‘ Scholar 

William PLANT 

Rd. Son 

00.x Scholar 

George PLANT 

Rel: Son 

Charfes PLANT 

:c: 

Rd 

Son 

Jw sex 

40 M Kfrton, Suffolk, England 

39F 

19 F 

Chappell, Essex, England 

Mrlden, Suffolk, England 

11 F Ipswich, Suffolk, England 

9M 

Ipswich, Sutfolk, England x$, 

6 M Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk England 

3M 

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 

ch~ef~ng- Mtll Street 

censusplace: Gislingham. Suffolk, England 

Swce: FHL Film 1341448 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 1853 FoGo 30 Page 4 

Man Age Sex Bbtlqhee 

Mary HIGHAM U 54 F Bramffeld, Suffolk, England 

Rel- Head 

oco Governess 

Mary PLANT W 92 F Bayleham, Suffolk, England 

Ed: Aunt 

0~0. Annuitant 

Edith M. NUNN 15 F Lexden, Essex, England -’ 

Rel’ Scholar 

0~0 Scholar 

l

Kate E. STURGEON 

Rd: Scholar 

0~ Scholar. 

Mary JOLLY 

Rel Serv 

occ. General Serv Domestrc 


IO 

F Wyverstone, Suffolk, England 

15 F Wattwfield, Suffolk, England 

b&hQ. Church Farm 

census F!aa~e: Frassingfield. Suffolk, England 

Source’ FHLFilm 13d1449 PRO Rel RG1.1 Piece 1856 Fob 35 Page 22 

Man Age sex arlltlplace 

Thomas RUSH M 57 M Stradbroke, Suffolk, England 

Mel: Head 

ti ;Farmec 167 Adres:Emp 3 Men 2 Boys 

Eliza A RUSH .M 50 F Hoxne, Suffolk, England 

Ret wife 

00~: Farmer Wrfe 

Albert PLANT 

Ret: StepsrXI 

occ: FarmerSon 

Alice E RUSH . 

Mel: Daur 

occ: Farmer Daur 

Sarah CALVER 

Rel: Sara 

00~: Serv Domestic 

U 

27 M Wrlby, Suffolk, England 

-_ 

U .20 Fr Fressingfleld, Suffolk, England 

U 22 F Fressmgfteld, Suffolk, England 

tkehg: DenninQtOn Street Queens Head Inn 

censusplace: Dennington, Suffolk, England 

Swxe. FHLFilm 1341449 PRORefRGll piece 1858 Fob070 Page11 

Thomas H. PLANT .~ 

M 

Rel. Head 

ow Licensed Vtctuallr 

Jane PLANT 

M 

Ret Wife 

Robert H. PLANT 

Rel: son 

Elizabeth BLOSS 

W 

Rel: Mother In Law 

~CC. Annuitant 

Mary Jane SMITH 

U 

rev Ntece 

John WATSON 

U 

Rel: Serv 

00~: Ostler (Inn Serv) 

Harriett SILSBY 

U 

Rd SerV 

oec: Domestrc Servant 

59 M Benhall, Suffolk, England 

27 F Dennington, Suffolk, England 

3 m M Dennington, Suffolk, England 

69 .F Badingham, Sutfolk, England 

15 F London Poplar, London, Middlesex, England 

29 M Dennington, Suffolk, England 

20 F Dennington. Suffolk, England 

-WI 

censusplace: Hortam, Suffolk, England


scww FHLFilm 1341449 PRORef RGII Piece 1858 Faio90 Page3 

Man Age sex aulhp~ce 

Henry PLANT M 66 M Suffolk, Suffolk, England 

Ed Head 

occ: Yeoman 

Ekzabeth Laura PLANT M 47 F Charsfield, Suffolk, England 

Rel Wtie 

Laura REDGRAVE U 16 F Wickham Mkt. Suffolk, England 

ReL Neice 

Walter C. LANl#M *. 12 M Ipswich, Suffolk, England Se 

R& Nephew 

0~0. Scholar 

Emma COX U 28 F Wortham, Suffolk, England 

Rel. Servant 

OCC: Domestic Servant 

cwmg: Cottage 

cemus piaee: Laxfield, Suffolk, England 

Sew=: FHLFilm 1341449 PRORef RGII Piece 1859 FoOo21 Page8 

p.. 

James PLANT !. 

Hannah PLANT 

David PLANT 

Hannah PLANT 

Ellen PLANT 

Ernest E. PLANT 

Kate PL4NT 

Rd: Head 

000. Mofecatcher 

Rel Wife 

Rd. SOI7 

occ: Farmers Boy 

Rel: Daur 

occ: Scholar 

Rd: Daur 

oec: Scholar 

R& Son 

oco: Scholar 

MarI A& sex r+huigace 

M 44 M Laxfield, Suffolk, England 

M 40 F Wtlby, Suffolk, England 


11 F Laxfield, SurTolk, England 

8 F Laxfleld, Suffolk, EnQland~,rm 

-..& 


12 m F Laxfield, Suffolk, England 

Dwetting: Shop Road 

Cemus mace: Workngworth, Suffolk, England 

Source: FHLF2ml~%kl9 PRORefRGll Plece1859 FoGo86 Page12 

Malr Age sex f3whplace 

Mary PLANT W 71 F Kenton, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Lodger (Head) 

occ’ Annuitant 

bndi~ap: Bknd 

Ihvenng: Frncle Street 

Census Prace: Worlingworth, Suffolk, England 

Source. FHLFh 13&I49 PRORef RGII Piece 1859 Folio96 Page7 

Man Age sex B*face 

29m7hM


Robert Jno. PLANT U 31 M Worlingworth, Suffolk, England 

Ret Head 

CJCC Farmer 91 Acres Emply 4 Labourers 

Sarah PLANT U 40 F Wortingworth, Suffolk, England 

eel: Sister 

occ Housekeeper 

Harnet E. SMITH U 18 F Brundish, Suffolk, England 

Rel Sefv - 

OCC: Dairy Maid (Ag) 

n&riqr 10 Falcon Street 

census place: Ipswich St Nmholas, Suffolk, England 

sounz: FHLFilml~1452 PRORef RGII hece 1871 Fob30 Page 12 

Fredk. PLANT 

Ann PLANT 

Rd. 

OCC 

RC+ 

Ellen G. PLANT 

Rel: 

ccc. 

Arthur Fredk. PLANT 

Rd. 

CCC: 

Burwood PLANT 

Rel: 

Oec: 

Annie Maria OLLIFFE 

R& 

CCC: 

MaIT Age sex Eethpklce 

*M 45 M Kenton, Suffolk, England 

Head 

Boot & Shoe Maker 

M 42 F Blakeney, Norfolk, England 

Wife 

--_ 

12 . F .Ipswich, Suffolk, England 

Daur 

Scholar 

Son 

Scholar 

Son 

Scholar 

Boarder ((Wife)) 

Annuitant lndependant Means 

9 M Ipswich, Suffolk, England 

7 M Ipswich, Suffolk, England 

M 40 F Norwich, Norfolk, England 

lw&%g: Ranelagh Road 1 -: 

census place Ipswich St Mary Stoke, Suffolk, England 

Sowce FHLF#m1341452 PRORefRGll Piece1871 Fob111 Page24 

Isaac WALKER 

Mary Ann WALKER 

Elizabeth PLANT 

Rd 

occ: 

Rel 

Rd. 

occ: 

Mm Age sex EJithpbce 

M 65 M Lyme, Dorset, England 

Head 

H M Customs (Collector) 

M 63 F Breboume, Hertford, England 

Wrfe 

U 22 F Keton, Suffolk, England 

Senr 

General Domestic Servt 

SWAMP Kirby Street 

C&w place: Ipswich St Margaret, Suffolk, England 

Source. FHL Fdm 1341453 PRO Ref RGll Piece 1875 FoPo 74 Page 18 

Mm Age Sex Bktix~lace 

William PLANT M 81 M Trimley St Mary, Suffolk, Engrand 

jet Head 

occ Retired Farm Bariii


Hannah PLANT M 72 F Hadlergh, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Wlfa 

ow Farm Barkffs Wrfe 

Frederick SLOGROVE U 18 M Woolverstone, Suffolk, England 

Rel. Boarder 

00~: Coach Trimmer 

IIW&II~ Milton Street 

census place: Ipswich St Margaret. Suffolk, England 

Source: FHL Fib 1341453 PRO Ref RGI 1 piece 1075 Fob 77 Page 23 

Man As sex Bkil@ace 

James PLANT M 73 M Trimley, Suffolk, England 

Rel Head 

& 

occ: Agricultural Labourer 

Elizabeth PLANT *M 72 F Levmgton, Suffolk, England 

Rel: wife 

occ: Ag Labourers Wife 

o&&g: 13 Fitzroy St 

cefisus phce: Ipswich St Margaret, Suffolk, England 

Satme: FHLFilm 1341453 PRO Ref RGII Piece 1876 Folio 83 Page 24 

Marr Age sex Brrthplace 

Richard EL PLANT M 23 M Walton, Suffolk, England 

Rcl: Head 

00~: Coachman (6/2) 

Susannah PLANT M 31 F Stanfield, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Wie 

Ernest PLANT 

2 M Felixtow, Suffolk, England 

Ret Son 

Laura PLANT 1 F Haverhill, Suffolk England 

Ref. Dau 

l’*i 

thvefiing Bardells House 

census place: Bromeswell, Suffolk, England 

I Scwce. FHLFilm 1341454 PRO Rcf RGI 1 piece 1880 Fob 30 Page 2 

George KING 

Rel Head 

cm. Ag Labarer 

Mary Ann KtNG 

R& Wife 

Charles KING 

R& Son 

occ. Scholar 

Eivma KING 

Rel: Daur 

ccc Scholar 

George H PLANT 

Ret StepSOn 

occ: AG Laborer 

Susan A PLANT 

Rcl Stepdaur 

Man 

M 

M 

U 

U 

U 

Age sex aathp$ce 

50 M Eyke, Suffolk, England 

45 FT Campsey Ashe, Suffolk, England 

9 M Bromeswell, Suffolk, England 

6 F Bromeswall, Suffolk, England 

23 M Tunstall, Suffolk, England 

16 F Blaxhall, Suffolk, England


occ: Domestic Serv Unemployed 

Dweuing: The Maltings 

cc- PITCH. Melton, Suffolk, England 

source: F,,LF!h, 1341454 PRORef RGII Piece 1880 Folio 62 Page 15 

Jno. PLANT 

Rel. Head 

0~0: Drover 

Mm 

U 

. 

Age sex mutpkcc 

62 M Woodbridge, Suffolk, England 

cemu~ PRICK. Pettistree, Suffolk, England 

Source’ FHLFifm1341464 PRORef RGII. Piece 1880 Folio 134 Page 9 

.mn Age sex silkce 

William Jackson PLANT U 48 M Worfingworth, Suffolk, England 

Mel. Head 

occ: Farmer Of 162 Acres Employing 5 Men & 3 Boys 

Mary Anne HAMMOND _ _ U 25 F Little Glemham, Suffolk, England 

-2% Rel: Housekeeper 

000: Housekeeper 

Anna Elfza BENDALL U 18 F Kettlebaston, Suffolk, England 

Relz Help’ 

OCC: Help 

Willram VALE 

15 M Little Glemham, Suffolk, England 

Ref. Servant 

OCO: Ag Lab Servant 

f%&i%fff: Highrow Farm 

come place: Felixstow, SuffolK England 

Scurce: FHLHlm 1341464 PRORef RGII Piece 1881 Foho 12 Page 18 

Man A!$3 sex Blrthplac.3 

WilliamPLANT ‘s/1$-’ 

Ref: Head 

. _ -M 35 ,,M -Walton, Suffolk, England 

occ: Laborer Agrtoultural 

Emma PLANT M 38 F Felixstow, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Wife 

Annie PLANT 12 F Walton, Suffolk, England 

-: Rcl: Daur 

0~0: Scholar 

Louisa PLANT 8 F Walton, Suffolk, England 

Ref Daur 

occ. Scholar 

Alice PLANT 7 F Felixstow, Suffolk, England 

Mel: Daur 

occ‘ Scholar 

Ethel PLANT 2 F Fekxstow, Suffolk, England 

Ret Daur 

. 

Ow&ms 2 Wadgate Buildmgs -- 

census~lace: Felixstow, Suffolk, England 

Swree: FHL Pilm 1341464 PRO Ref RGI 1 PC& 1881 F&14 Page 22 

page7


Henry PLANT M 27 M Walton, Suffolk, EqgIand 

R& Head 

occ: General Laborer 

Juka PLANT M 24 F Walton, Suffolk, England 

fw. Wtfe 

Harry PLANT 

3 M Walton, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Son 

Violet PLANT 

4 m F Fekxstow, Suffolk England 

Rel. Dam 

rwmg: Lome Villas 

censll~ place: Fekxstow, Suffolk, England 

Swrce FHLmml341454 PRORefRGll Piece1881 F&a16 Page25 

Mar Pm sex kimfaee 

Samuel PLANT *M 63 M Tritiley, Suffolk, England 

Ret Head 

0cc Gardener(D) 

Jane PLANT M 63F Felrxstow, Suffolk, England 

Ret Wfie 

Harriett PLANT U 20 F Walton, Suffolk, England 

R& Dam 

Esther SOANES 9 F Fekxstow, Suffolk, England 

Ret. Grand Daur 

0~: Scholar 

2 

twang: Lome Villas 

cem~~~ Piace: Fellltow, Suffolk, England 

Swrce. FHLFdm 1341454 PRORefRGll Piece1081 F&16 Page25 

Man Age sex t%hphce 

Charles PLANT M 28 M Walton, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Head 

occ: Gardener(D) 

r”=’ 

Louisa PLANT M 32 F Martlesham, Suffolk, Engl&l 

Rel Wife 

occ: Lodging Housekeeper 

Ada Louisa PLANT 5 F Felixstow, Suffolk, England 

R&: Daur 

oec. Scholar 

Mabel PLANT ‘if 2 F F&stow, Suffolk, England 

’ Rel. Daur 

Nora PLANT 

8 m F Felixstow, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Daur 

Ekzabeth SPRULING U 19 F Kesgrave, Suffolk, England 

Rel: WiaS Sister 

occ. Visitor 

.; 

nwering Queen St 

Census Place: Walton, Suffolk, England 

Source: FHLFilm 1341454 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 1881 Form 39 Pago 3 

Mar Age sex Bufhplace 

Robert PLANT 

M 24 M Walton, Suffolk, England 

R& Head 

Page 8

Ameka PLANT 

OCC. Bricklayer 

Rel. 

Catherine A &ANT 

Rel 

Wife 

Daur 


M 23 F Trimley, Suffolk, En@and 

11 m F Walton, Suffolk, England 

cwmgt. Queen St 

cem place. Walton, Suffolk, England 

Saxon: FHL Film 13414!% PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 1881 Folio 39 Page 3 


Rd: Head 

om Ag Lab 

Mary PLANT 

Rd. Wife 


Rel Son 

C-X Bakers Boy 

_ _ Rosa E. PLANT 

-G Rel: Daur 

cm Scholar 

Florence PLANT 

Rel: Daw 

oec: Scholar 

Maria PLANT 

Rel: Daur 

occ: Scholar 

Frederick PLANT 

Rd. Son 

Julia H. PLANT 

Rel: (Daur) 

Mm - Age sex Eethplace 

M 32 M Walton, Suffolk, England 

M 35 F Ashfield, Suffolk, England 


IO 

F Walton, Suffolk, England 

8 F Walton, Suffolk, England 




Dwew Lower St ’ 

cews wace: Walton,hffolk, England 

Source: FHLFilm 1341454 PRO Ref RGII Piece 1881 Fob 43 Page 11 

Man Age Sex &fl@ace 

Samuel PLANT M 37 M Walton, Suffolk, England 

Rel Head 

oco Ag Lab 

Elizabeth PLANT M 32 F ;ffirton, Suffolk, England 

Rel- wif3 

Julia E. PLANT 14 F Kirton. Suffolk, England 

Ref. Daur 

Ada E. PLANT 10 F halton, Suffolk, England 

Rek Daur 

occ: Scholar 

Jane L. PLANT 8 F Walton, Suffolk, England 

Rd. Daur 

~CC Scholar 

Maria PLANT 6 F Walton, Suffolk, England 

Mel’ Daur 

occ: Scholar 

Samuel C. PLANT 

29hnm 


copyngla 0 1999 by IntellRcti Rcsy, In0 Au n&s rEsewed Page 9 

, 7 

.w


John R. PLANT 

Rev 

Rel 

Son 

Son 


ow!mg High St 

census place: Walton, Suffolk. England 

source. FHLFilm 1341454 PRO Ref RGII pii 1881 FoGo 62 Page 30 

Mm Age sex skthpkce 

Samuel PLANT W‘ 85 M Bucklesham, Suffolk, England _ 

Rek Head 

o-x. AgLab 

Hanah PLANT u 59 F Walton, Suffolk, England 

Rev Daur 

cenurspla~e: Walton, Suffolk, England 

Scwce: FHLFim 1341454 PRO Ref RGII PFece 1881 Folio 52 Page 30 

MaIT Age sex Birthplaoe 

William PLANT WI 61 M Walton, Suff&, England 

+. ReL Head 

@cc Ag Lab 

Jemima PLANT M 59 F Feliistow, Suffolk, England 

Rd. wie 

James PLANT u 30 M Walton, Suffolk, England 

Rel: 

Son 

oa;: Bricklayers Lab Scaffold Builder 

Emma PLANT u 18 F Walton, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Daur 

chv%g: Walton Road 

census fie Tnmley St Mary, Suffolk, England 

Swce: FHLFdm 1341454 PRO Ref RGil Piece 1881 Fob 66 Page 10 ‘$,y 1 

Man Agesextlhu@ace 9 

Elizabeth DURRANT W 75 F Somereham, Suffolk, England 

Mel Head 

occ: Annuitant 

Mary PLANT W 87 F Burgh, Suffolk, England 

-4 Rel: Lodger 

occ Annuitant 

* 

e 

owelhng: Street 

censusplace: &ton, Suffolk, England 

SOIKE FHLFilm 1341454 PRORef RGII F4ece 1881 Fob 111 Page 26 

Man Age sex r34s@ce 

William PLANT M 55 M Kkton, Suffolk, England 

ReI. Head 

OCC. Ag Lab 

Mary Ann PIANT M 55 F K&n, Suffolk, England 

Ref. wife 

oco Laundress 

William PLANT 

3 M Kirton. Suffolk, England 

‘_ 2hioo 

Rev Grd Son 

CqjTi~t 0 ,993 by IntelId Rmrvq lnc All n&Is -cd


~wewkg. Almns Houses 

cemus place: Boyton, Suffolk, England 

Source: FHLFtlm 1341464 PRORef RGII Piece 1882 Folio 33 Page2 

Mm Age sex Bhthplace 

Sarah Ann PLANT U 68 F Saxmundham, Suffolk, England 

R& Head 

oec Atmswoman ((Pensioner)) 

Dwere~: Private 

census thee: Brandeston, Suffolk, England 

Souroe: FHLF!Im 1341455 PRORefRGll Piece 1884 F&o26 Page13 

Mm Age Sew Birthplace 

Edward PLANT W 73 M Horham, Suffolk, England 

R~I: Head 

OCCZ 105 Acres 13 Labourers 8 1 Boy (Farm) 

James MAYHEW M 51 M I Battesford, Suffolk, England 

Ret SeFl 

OM: Ag Lab 

Hanner MAYHEW ti -.49. F Great Finborough I 

Ref: wife 

00~ Housekeeper 

Isaac DRIVER U 15 M Barham, Suffolk, England 

R& Serv 

oa;: Ag Lab 

James MAYES U 22 M Ashgeld (Cum Thofp). Suffolk, England 

Ret! VISitOr 

OW&QJ: Kenton Corner 

CR~UIS Puce: Kenton, Suffolk, England 

Swrcs: FHLFJm 1341455 PRORef RGII Piece 1884 Folio62 Page8 

Robert PLANT 

Laura PLANT 

Robert PLANT 

Harry PLANT 

R& Head 

oec’ Labourer 

Ret Sister In Law 

R& Son 

Ret. Son 

0~0. Labourer 

Man Age Sex Bimpkx= 

U 31 M Kenton, Suffolk, England 

W 40 F Earl Soham, Suffolk, England 

11 M Kenton, Suffolk, England 

18 M:Kenton, Suffolk, England 

Cemus Puce: Lethenngham, Suffolk, England 

S0cac.z: FHLFL!m ‘%%I455 PRO Ref RGII Piece 1885 FoDo 86 Page 5 

Mm Age Sex Birthplace 

James PLANT M 59 M Letheringham. Suffolk, England 

Rel Head 

occ Farm Labourer 

Hannah PLANT M 57 F Easton, Suffolk, England 

Ret Wife


census p$~e: Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

source: FtiLFilm 1341455 PRORef RGI 1 Pxece 1886 Fob 5 Page 3 

Mm Age sex Enthpiaca 

George PLANT M 48 M Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

Ref Head - 

&. Ag Lab 

Susan PLANT Ms 48 F Pettistraa, Suffolk, England “- 

Rel’ wife 

Blanche Mry PLANT U 19 F Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

Rd. Daur 

Mary WIX 7 F Easton, Suffolk, England I, 

w 

Rd 

Visitor 

Dweltins Church Road 

%~a: Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

Source: FHLFilm 1341455 PRO Rcf RGI I- -P&e 1886 Fob 8 Page 9 

Marc Age sex Eafhplace 

Mary PLANT W 80 F Blaxhall. Suffolk, England 

R& Head 

John CUTTON u 18 M Blaxhall, Sutfolk. England 

Rel: Grandson 

occ: Ag Lab 

w&r Station Rd 

census place Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

Sotuce: F~LFilrn 1341455 PRO Ref RGII PESC 1888 Folio 8 Page 10 

Mm Age sex Brrthphce 

Elizabeth PLANT W 60 F Iken, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Head ..>p 

Thomas PLANT U 20 M Rendlesham. Suffolk England 

Ret Son 

Ow: Ag Lab 

owewg: Mrll Common 

cerw place: Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

sotsce: F~~Filrn 1341466 PRO Ref RGII piece 1886 Fob 9 page 11 

k 

Mm &e sex Bblflplace 

James PLANT M 39 M Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Head 

00~. Ag Lab 

Maria PLANT 

M 40 F Chrllesford, Suffolk, England 

Ret Wlfa 

Arthur PLANT 

16 M Chillesford, Suffolk, England 

Ral Son 

OCC: Ag Lab 

Alice PLANT 13 F B&hall, Suffolk, England 

Rel Daur 

occ Scholar 

_- * 

Sidney PLANT 

8 M Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

Rd. Son 

_. 

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occ’ Scholar 

Leah Eliza PLANT 

ReI. Daur 

OCC’ Scholar 

Ethel PLANT 

Rel Daur 


4 F Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

7m F 

I%&@: Mill Common 

census place: Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

Source: FHLFUm 1341455 PRORefRGil Pkece 1886 Folio9 Page11 

Eliza PLANT 

Rel Head 

OCG Char.Woman 

Ellen PLANT 

Rel Daur 

e 0% Scholar 

Robt PLANT 

Rel Son 

G ow Scholar 

M;;” 

Age Sex Bvthplace 

44 F Trlmley St Martin, Suffolk, England 

13 F Tunstall, Suffolk, England 


0 

Dwewng: Stone Common 

census p(a~e: B&hall, Suffolk, England 

Source: FHLFilm1341466 PRORefRGll Ptece1886 FoGnio5 Page23 

Mm Age sex Bknlphu, 

Mahla PLANT W 35 F GtGlenham 

Mel: Head 

Willlam PLANT 


Rel’ Son 

occ: Scholar 

Robert PLANT 9 M Blaxhall, Suffolk, England _ 

Rel son 

0~2 Scholar- 

Thomas PLANT 


Rep Bon 

OED: Scholar 

I&&I&Z S&&on Road 

census place: Blaxhall, Suffolk England 

Source: FHL Film 1341455 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece i886 Fob 16 Page 25 

Malr Age sex sathp!ace 

Thos. PLANT M 39 M ,Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

Ref. Head 

OCC: Ag Lab 

Jane PLANT M 41 F Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

Rel Wife 

Mary Ann PLANT 15 F Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

Rd. Daur 

Emma PLANT 13 F Blaxhall, Suffolk, England _ 

Ret Daur 

John PLANT 


Rel. son 

Page 13


00~ Scholar 

Henry PLANT 


Ret Son 

OCC. Scholar 

Elizabeth PLANT 6 F Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

Ret Daur 

0~ Scholar 

Albert PLANT 

4 M Blaxhall. Suffolk England 

Rek 

&l 

Ellen PLANT . . 7 m F Blaxhall, Suffolk, England - 

Ref. Daur 

c-place Butley, Suffolk, England . 

Some: FHLFXm 1341455 PRO Ret fK311 Piece 1886 Folio 26 Page 11 -” 

Msrr Age son 

Samuel PLANT M 33 M 

Rek Head 

occ: -Ag Lab 

Mary Ann PLANT, M 32 F 

Ret Wifa 

Mary Annie PLANT 5 F 

Rd. Dam’ 

a-~ Scholar 

Lourle ELEY U 19 F 

Rd Nurse 

oex Nurse (S M S) 

skfhp!ace 

Buttey, Suffolk, England 

-- _ 

Butley, Suffolk, England 

Butley, Suffolk, England 

Cape1 St Andrew, Suffolk, England 

census place Butley, Suffolk, England 

Socrcc FHLFifm 1341466 PRO Ref RGII Piece 1886 Fdio 26 Page I2 

Marr Agesexf3ath@ce 

Samuel PLANT M 72 M Blaxhatl, Suffolk I En,,,- ‘6 

Rd. Head 

0~0: AgLab 

Eltza PLANT M 70 F Hollesley, Suffolk, England 

Rei: Wife 

Dwehg N&i Side 

C- Pfaca: Tunstall, Suffolk, England 

socrce: FHLFilm 13&% PRO Ref RGII Pfm 1667 Fch 51 Page 4 

Mm Age sex enmplace 

Robert PlpNT M 75 hl .Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

R~I. Head 

occ Farm Laborer 

Sally PLANT M 75 F Wan&den, Suffolk, England 

Rd. Wte 

I- “Plomesgate Union Workhouse” 

Wickham Market, Suffolk, England 

Sowce FHL Film 1341455 PRO Ref RGI 1 Prece 1667 Folio 116 Page 30 

census ~!ace- 

Man Age sex mplace 

*_ 

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.’

Wtilram PEARSE 

Sophra GIRLING 

Charles WARD 

Eliza LARTER 

Emma PIANT 

Francrs PLANT 

Henry PLANT 

Herbert PLANT 

Anthony PLANT 

Sarah COATES 

Mana COOK 

R‘ZI 

ck.7 

Rel 

OW. 

Rd. 

OCO: 

Rel 

ace 

RdE 

OCC: 

R& 

0% 

Rel: 

ow: 

Rd 

ow 

P.& 

ow 

Ret 

occ: 

Rd. 

John COOK O” 

Re4: 

James COOK 

Charles COOK 

OW: 

Rd. 

om 

Rel: 

Inmate 

No Occupation 

Inmate 

Laundress 

Inmate 

No Occupation 

Inmate 

Charwoman 

inmate 

Domesbc Servant 

Inmate 

Domestic Servant 

Inmate 


Inmate 


Inmate 


Inmate 



U 

4 M AIdeburgh, Suffolk, England 

U 53 F Benhall. Suffolk, England 

U 

W ,. 61 

U 

‘U 

U 

U 

U 

U 

W 

Inmate 

DomesticServant,, . = _ 

U 

Inmate 


Inmate 

Domesbc Servant 

U 

U 

3 M Wickham Mkt. Suffolk, England 

F Benhall, SutTolk, England 

40 F Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

15 M Famham, Suffolk, England 

14 M Vii&ham MM, Suffolk, England _ 

4 M Wk%ham MM, Suffolk, England 

2M 

30 F 

33F 

9M 

7M 

6M 

Wtckham MM, Suffolk, England 

Blaxhall. Suffolk, England 

Handip: Imbecile 

Knoddishall, Suffolk England 

Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 



ow : Domestic Servant 

Laura A WOODBRIDGE U 23 F Ipswich, Sutfolk, England 

Rel. Inmate 

ow Dome&c Servant 

Laura WOODBRIDGE U 3 F Blaxhall, Suffolk, England 

Ret Inmate 

oco: No Occupation 

James JACOBS U 57 M Brursyard, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Inmate 

OCC: Farm Labourer 

Rebecca BUCKLES U 17 F Campsey Ash, Suffolk, England’ 

Ret: Inmate 

OCC. No Occupation 

P,e 15

-_ 


Richard UNDERWOOD 

u 26 M CempseyAsh, Suffolk, England 

t7el. Inmate 

: OCC: Frsherman 

Isaac MAYS W 68 M Sudboume, Suffolk, England 

rzec Inmate 

oco- Farm Labourer 

Robert FITCH M 68 M Eyke, Suffolk, England 

nek Inmate ._ 

occ: Farm Labourer 

Mary A FITCH U, 13 F Sydenham, Kent, England -- 

ael: Inmate 

oa;: No Occupation 

William FITCH U 9 M Sydenham, Kent, England 

Ret: Inmate 2: , 

0~0. No Occupation 

Alice FITCH ‘U 4 F St Pancras, Middlesex, England 

Rel- Inmate 

OCC. No Occupation 

~we~ing: Silyerlace Green The Cottage Farm 

-place- Benhall, Suffolk, England 

source: FHLFilm 1341456 PRO Rof RGII Piece 1888 Faho 55 Pase 24 

Mm Age Sex Bkmplaco 

Robert PLANT M 51 M Glenham, Suffolk, England 

R~I Head 

OCC: Farmer Employ 2 Men and 1 Boy 

Ann PLANT M 54 F Hrghgate, Middlesex, England 

Ret. Wife 

occ: Farmers Wife 

Ellen GIBBONS U 21 F Framlingham, Suffolk, England 

Rd: Help 

Wrlliam GOODCHILD u 18 M Badingham, Suffolk, England 

Rek Servant 

OCO: Farm Servant Indoor 

I’,’ 

William GODDARD U 13 M Benhall, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Servant 

occ. Farm Servant Indoor 

Flory GIBBONS 3 F Framlingham, Suffolk, England 

Ret Visitor 

t&&g. Hall Farm 

cemus place Stratford St Andrews, Suffolk, England 

Soune: FHLFitm 1341456 PRORefRGIl Piece1888 F&76 Pase 1 

h4arr Age sex aullQlace 

Samuel PLANT M 57 M Glemham, Suffolk, England 

.- 

RI% Head 

occ- Fanner Of 140 Acres Employing 4 Men 

Eliza PLANT M 53 F Theberton, Suffolk, England 

Rel Wife 

Louisa COLE U 24 F Aldbro, Suffolk, England 

R~I. Niece 

Pamela SALTER I U 18 F Par-ham, Suffolk, England 

aer Servant

ow 

General Servant (Dom) 


wet&s ‘Albion Street 

cemu~ place: Saxmundham, Suffolk, England 

Source: FHL Fifm I%1456 PRO Ref RGI 1 Pwe 1889 Foho 85 Page 15 

Man Age sex Biithptace 

Hannah PLANT .U 56 F Raydon, Suffolk, England 

aa. Head 

0~: Annuitant 

tw&!ing. MIII Lane 

C~IWSP&+: Saxmundham, Suffolk, England 

Source: FHLFilm.l%1456 PRORef RGII piece 1889 Fob88 Page21 r 

,tJarr Age sex Bkthplace 

William PLANT U 67 M Saxmundham, Suffolk, England 

R& Head 

occ. Retired Hay Dealer 

Susan PLANT U- _ 71 F Saxmundham, Suffolk, England 

Rd: 

Xkr 

occ: Housekeeper 

hvemg. Albion Street ’ 

c~~iace: Saxmundham, Suffolk, England 

Source: FHL Film 1~1466 $RO Ref RGII PC% 1889 Fob 90 Page 26 

Robt. Henry PLANT 

Rel Head 

0~;: Inn Keeper 

Ann E. PLANT 

Rei Wife 

Samuel H. PLANT 

Ref: Son 

oco Scholar 

John R. PLANT 

Rel: 

Son 

occ. Scholar 

Alice E PLANT 

rw. Daur 

Anne M. BURROWS 

Rep Barmaid 

occ: Barmaid 

Mm Age Sex BtrthDlace 

M 

31 M Benhall. Suffolk, England 

M 30 F Depteord, Kent, England 

U 6 M Wrckham Mkt Tunstall, Suffb;ik, England 

U 4 M Benhall, Suffolk, England 

U 1 F Saxmundham, Suffolk, England 

U 16 F. Melton, Suffolk, England 

I- “Blything Union Workhouse” Bulcamp 

Blythburgh, Suffolk, England 

Source: FHL Film 1341456 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 1891 Folio 137 Page 6 

Census ~laee: 

Marr Age Sex fBth&x 

Jane PLANT U 47 F Walpole, Suffolk, England 

tw Inmate 

OCC. Domestic Servant -. 

Elza WEAVER M 44 F Bulcamp, Suffolk, England 

Mel’ Inmate 

oer;. Charwoman


0~~~. Halesworth Road 

ce- pra~e Wenhaston, Suffolk England 

Sowe FHLFilm 1341457 PRORef RGII piece 1894 Folio 25 Page 17 

Man Age sex Brrthplace 

John PLANT u 59 M Walpole, Suffolk, England 

R& Head 

occ: Blacksmith 

MaryA HARDING W: 55 F Sotherly, Suffolk, England 

Mel: Housekeeper 

occ: Housekeeper 

^ 

~weffis 23 St Georges Rd East Side 

cemcrs P~CC Kid&y, Suffolk, England ’ 

Source: FHL Film 1341488 PRO Ref RGI 1 Pwe 1901 Folio 59 Page 39 

Mm Ago Sex Bkffqke 

Edward PLANT 

M 25 M Lowestoft, Suffolk, Englan_d- 

Rd: Head 

.-%OCC. Blacksmith (At Works) 

Harriett PLANT M 24 F Kirkley, Suffolk, England 

R& wife 

occ. Blacksmiths Wife 

Edward A PLANT U 3 M Kirkley. Suffolk, England 

Ret. Son 

Edrth H. PLANT U 1 F Kid&y. Suffolk. England 

Rei Daur 

Dwetms. 4 St Leonards Ter St Leonards Rd 

Cemus PIW: Kkkley, Suffolk, England 

.%xce: FHLFilml341458 PRORefRGll piece1901 Fob78 Page19 


Marl Age sex l%tlplace 

M 47 M Heigham, Norfolk, Englahd” 

Mel Head 

0~2 Cork Cutter 

Rhoda PLANT M 46 F Kessingland, Suffolk, England 

Rel’ wie 

002: Cork Cutter Wife 

Charlotte DURRANT U 11 F- Oulton, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Dam 

0-x Scholar 

Augustus DURRANl u 8 M Oulton. Suffolk, England 

Ret Son 

0% Scholar 

tZ%vz~ns 39 Tonning Street 

Censors Place Lowestott, Suffolk, England 

Source: FHL Film 13-41459 PRO Ref RGI 1 Pwe 1902 FoEo 38 Page 27 

Mam Age Sex Blmvplace 

William COOPER M 52 M Elsing, Norfolk, England 

Ret: Head 

OCC: Blacksmrth 

Louisa COOPER M 42 F Beccles, Suffolk, England 

29hmM 

c@py&ht 0 1099 by lnlen~ 

Pasmve, In= All n&Ids rcscwed.


Rel Wife I 

James COOPER u 24 M Elsmg. Norfolk, England 

Rel Son 

ok Tailor 

Lucy PLANT M 21 F Old Catton, Norfolk, England 

R& Daur 

James PLANT M 27 M Liverpool, Lancashire, England 

Rd Son In Law 

ou;: Commercial Travellar (Canned Meats) 

James MANZON M’ 31 M London, Middlesex, England 

~4. Boarder 

occ Frsh Agent 

Kate J MANZON U 10 F Yarmouth, Norfolk, England 

R~I Boarder 

- 

Dwethq 19 Stevens St 

Lowestoft, Suffolk, England 

Source FHLFilm I%1459 PRRef RGII Pkce 1902 Folio 113 Page 39 

censr~ blare: 

-- 

Mm Age sex BHfhplace 

John NEWSON ..q M ,.60 1 M’ Gorieston, Suffolk, England 

Rd. Head 

occ: Shipwright 

Eliza NEWSON M 55 F Lowestoft, Suffolk, England 

R& Wrfe 

Emma E NEWSON 12 F Oulton, Suffolk, England 

Mel’ Grand Dam 

0~0. Scholar 

John PLANT U 24 M Wickham Market, Suffolk, England 

Rel f%XdSr 

0~ Smackman 

tw4i1~4 46 Steven St 

Census place: Lowestoft, Suffolk, England ‘I 

Souse. FHLFUm 1341459 PRORef RGII Preczl902 FoGo 

Man Age sex Buttplace 

116 Page45 

Charlotte PLANT W 48 F Lowestoft, Suffolk, England 

RCI Head 

William PLANT U 23 M Lowestoft. Suffolk, England 

Rel’ Son 

0~0: Saw Sharpener 

Samuel PLANT U 18 M Lowestoft, Suffolk, England 

Rel: Son 

OCC: Packing Case Maker 

Frederick PLANT 

12 M Lowestoft, Suffolk, England 

Ret Son 

OCC: Scholar 

Herbert PLANT 


Rd 

Son 

occ- Scholar 

Robt. PLANT 6M _. 

Rel Son 

Herbert HERRING 

1 M Paddington, Middlesex, England 

nel. Vrsitor 

. .


Dwe!sm -38 High St Sea View Hotel (Temperance) 

ce- place. Lowestoft, Suffolk, England 

swrce: FWLFG~ 1341459 PRO Ref RGII Piece 1903 F&o 56 page 9 

f&m Age sex t+lthplace 

Mary PLANT U 21 F Birmingham, Warwick, England 

R&Z Head 

occ. Hotel Keeper 

Henry PLANT M . . 60 M Bradford, York, England = 

Rel Father 

0~0: Commercial Traveller 

Elizabeth H PLANT M 50 F Devonport, Devon, England 

Mel’ Mother : .:j... 

o-x Manageress Inn Ser 

Henry L. PLANT U 32 M Liverpool, Derby, England 

Mel Brother 

OCC: Commercial Traveller 

Elizabeth A PLANT u 19 F Birmingham,Warwick, England 

Rel Sister 

Wmrfred E PLANT U 17 F :Bimringham;Wanvick, England 

Rd Sister 

Birmingham, Warwick, England 

Joseph W. PLANT . U 16 M 

R& Brother 

Emma L.I. PLANT U 13 F 

Rd: Sister 

AnnieL HANDS U 16 F 

Rev Cousin 

Max PAATZ U 23 M 

Rel: Boarder 

occ. Commercial Traveller 

Arthur F. NEWBY U 17 M 

~ Ret SeN 

occ: Porter (I S) 

Georgrana GRIMBLE U 16 F 

Rel: 

Serv 

00~: General Serv 

Derby, Derby, England 

Kiddemxnster, Worcester, England 

Berlin 

Cressingham, Norfolk, England 

*, 

,\.f 


l 

ce- 

~ure(lmg 13 Mariners Street 

place: Lowestoft, Suffolk, England 

Source: ML FlJm 1341459 PRO Ref RGI 1 Piece 903 FoGo 85 Page 2.0 

Lewis B. COOPER 

Emma CODPER 

Rd. 

0.x: 

RCV 

Wrllram 8. COOPER 

Mary A PLANT 

Emma BROCK 

29m7mo 

Ret 

ox 

Rd: 

002 

M 

Head 

Provision Merchant 

M 

Wife 

U 

Brother 

Provision Merchant 

U 

Serv 

Assrstant 

U 

Man Am sex BklhDlaoe 

iAM .Lo&stoft, 

Suffolk, England 

29 F Hal&worth, Suffolk, England 


25 F Swaffham, Norfolk, England ’ 

22 F Oulton, Suffolk, England 

Page 20


Ret SerV 

occ: General Servant 

Fredk W. BUTCHER U 15 M Lowestoft, Suffolk, England 

Rel Sent 

0~;: Assistant 

mvebs. 9 Crown Street 

cem PIECE: Lowestoft, Suffolk, England 

Scurcc: FHL FZm 134%X% PRO Ref RGl.1 Prece 1994 Folio 4 Page 1 

Man Age sex Bhthplace 

Edward PLANT M 39 M Walpole, Suffolk, England 

Mel. Head 

on;: Baker And Confectioner (Employing _ _ 3 Men And 1 Boy) 

Harriet PLANT 

.M 

41 ‘F Oulton, Suffolk, Engiend 

Rel wife 

George E PLANT 

AImeM PLANT 

Ethel M. PLANT 

Ann PLANT 

Ekza HEWITT 

Willtam GREY 

George COLEBY 

Ref Son 

occ Scholar 

Rel &X 

OCO: Scholar 

Rel Daur 

oco. Scholar 

R& Mother 

Rel Serv 

occz General Servant 

Rek SerV 

occ’ Servant (Baker) 

Ret SeN 

OCC: Servant (Baker) 

U 

W 

U 

U 

U 

13 M 

8 F 

3 F 

70 F 

22F 

19 M 

19 M 



Lowestofl, Suffolk, England 

Swaffnam, Norfolk, England 



Kskby, Suffolk, England 

n,v&g. Arnold St 1 Capps Co&s 

census place. Lowestoft, Suffolk, England 

Source FHLFilm 1341459 PROR&RGll Prece 1994 Folio71 Page32 

Malt Age sex tlkihpkce 

Frederick CLARKE M 30 M Beccles. Suffolk, England 

Rel: Head 

Ann J. CLA&E 

OCC. Block & Mast Maker 

M 34 F Lowestoft, Suffolk, England 

Rel 

W&I 

FredkW. CLARKE 

Rel Son 

Samuel E P. CLARKE 

Rel 

Son 


2 M Lowestoft. Suffolk, England 

Harnat PLANT U 39 F Walpole. Suffolk, England - 

Rel. Nurse 

occ: Nurse (SMS) 

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