Author Topic: Edith Mary Howell  (Read 879 times)

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Re: Edith Mary Howell
« Reply #9 on: Monday 03 August 20 13:04 BST (UK) »
I found it by browsing the register, it says Hall
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Re: Edith Mary Howell
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 04 August 20 02:00 BST (UK) »
Thanks Rosie99. Great find. Strange error to make, it was a big family for about three generations there. Perhaps a new Vicar, or a new Parish Clerk, though would have expected a Parish Clerk to know the family, it was not a big place.

Edith was the last of William and Betsey's family to be baptised there before the family moved to Kings Somborne where the rest of the family were born. Netheravon was changing, the Army moved in to make it part of the Salisbury Plain Army properties. Perhaps that was the reason, it was a time of confusion there with people having to move out because the Army took where they were living or the Army coming meant their jobs were gone. The Army did not completely take it over until about 1904 but the place was finally sold to them in 1898 by Sir Michael Hicks Beach who was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time. There was a lot of changes in the village before that finally happened as well.