For almost 200 years there had been a doctor resident in Bow. I was the twenty-ninth
This is our story
THE MEDICAL GENTLEMEN
OF BOW
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Jan 2020 Bow Village Census 1781. Names of all 734 inhabitants
Sep 2019 The Phat Boys - twin sons of Fanny Westcott of Bow who emigrated to USA
May 2018 John Frost (?1576 – 1642): Royal Singer from Colebrooke
Dec 2017 The Lee Tucker boys from Colebrooke: 3 brothers emigrate to Victoria Australia
Haunted House in New South Wales: Northam and Snell Hill familes from Zeal Monachorum
Nov 2017 Clergyman turned crook: James Sevencroft Blomfield - related to the Rector of Bow
Sep 2017 Ann Pidsley of Colebrooke. Married in 1807 - her wedding dress now in Australia
Aug 2017 Thomas Bartow - 17th Century Doctor in Colebrooke and Crediton
Jun 2017 Freemasonry in Crediton 1804-1806
John Hooper - Crediton Tax Collector reprieved from a death sentence in 1831. His son became a millionaire in USA.
May 2017 Grave Robbing in Crediton 1826
Feb 2017 Thomas Lampin, born in Crediton, hanged in Nottingham in 1809 for forgery.
Dec 2016 James Landick - Hanged for the murder of Widow Holman of Tedburn St Mary in 1848
Jane Roberts - Born in Crediton, transported to NSW in 1791 for being a vagrant.
Nov 2016 Richard Tozer - Probably Bow's most famous American, and the Tozer Blacksmiths of Bow for 500 years.
George Tapp alias Godbear, the Morchard Murderer hanged in 1808
Jun 2016 Anna Partridge, 16, of Kennerleigh commits suicide after being assaulted by James Lee of Sandford. In 1849 he is transported to
Australia for theft.
Jan 2016 Samuel Forward.
Born in Newton St Cyres. Transported for larceny in 1820. Returned
to Crediton in 1856.
Nov 2015 Hugh Thomas
Shopland (1825-1927): Taxidermist born in Bow
William Taylor,
quadruple murderer, and his Crediton connections
Oct 2015 Elizabeth Furze from Down St Mary.
Transported to Tasmania for stealing a duck etc.
Poor old mifter Perriman.
Illiteracy cost him his life
Breach of Promise to Marry:
four local ladies jilted by their fiancés
Sep 2015 Caroline
Arundell and James Elston married in Crediton 1848, reunited in
Tasmania
Mary Ann Scott of Newton St Cyres:
Transported to Tasmania for robbery in an Exeter pub
Updated: WW I Grave of Lieutenant Fenton
Phillips MC (son of the Rector of Bow) probably located in
Northern France
Aug 2015 John Phelp of Sandford:
convicted of manslaughter in 1829 - saved from transportation by
Sir Humphrie Davie
8 Listed Headstones in Bow churchyard: dating from 1695
Jul 2015 Double Suicide: Lovers die in each other's arms - Crediton 1834
Joseph Hepper: Transported to New South Wales for stealing 2 joints of pork in 1838
May 2015 Pierre
Serph: French prisoner of war surgeon billeted in Crediton
1806
Sacrilege: Theft of the
Coldridge Communion Plate 1867
Apr 2015 The Parsons of
Newton St Cyres. Father and daughter both transported: he returned
to his family after 25 years in exile
George Vicary of Shobrooke - stole cheese, bacon and gin: transported to Tasmania in 1841
The Cudmores of Shobrooke and
Crediton. Father and son hanged in 1749 and 1752
Mar 2015 Revd Bartholomew Davey
and Robert Stedman, "Peruke Maker of Bow" 1760's
William Henry Ellis: The
Sandford Swindler. Transported to Tasmania in 1827 where he made a
fortune
Feb 2015 The Mashfords of Coldridge: A whole
family emigrates to Australia in 1846
Jan 2015 Pioneering Abdominal
Surgery in Crediton in 1731
Dec 2014 Mid-Devon convicts sent to Barbados
17th and 18th centuries
Nov 2014 William Flexman - a "new" Bow Doctor
of 1831
Bow
Queries - where my research has become stuck
Oct 2014 Bigamy in Bow Church 1848
The Wreck of the "John" off
the Manacles in Cornwall in 1855 with the loss of 194 passengers,
including local families
Sep 2014 Lieut Fenton
Phillips, and Charley and Thomas Holmes, Bow servicemen
during WW 1
James Grant alias Parker:
Transported for stealing horse hair
Aug 2014 Christian Budd,
North Tawton doctor for 50 years
Revd John
Ridd, impoverished Curate of Coldridge. Two of his sons became
surgeons.
Jul 2014 William Couch Snell, born in
Colebrooke, transported to Tasmania for stealing potatoes
George Gregory of
Crediton - Rags to Ritches in Tasmania
James Screech (Screaigh) born in
Colebrooke; convicted of stealing aged 14 and sent to Western
Australia
Jun 2014 John Moore of
Bow. Transported to Australia for house breaking 1838
Giles Yarde of Crediton, Grave
Robber and petty thief- transported to Tasmania 1837
Horatio Reeves, Exeter
Druggist, elopes to London with a juvenile Ward of Court
(1822)
Rev John Radford of
Lapford and his medical relations
Thomas Westlake of Crediton beats up and robs Mr Samuel Barnes, surgeon of Exeter
May 2014 Samuel Budd, North
Tawton Surgeon - Updated
Rupert Gettliffe, Surgeon
Apothecary, owned Horwell Estate in Colebrooke
Apr 2014 Dr William Tronson, surgeon of Morchard Bishop, assaulted by Rev John Blackmore in 1892
John Jackman: very nearly
transported to Tasmania in 1842 for receiving stolen
goods
Mar 2014 Dr Alexander Wynter Blyth - Public
Health Doctor and County Analyst in Devon 1873-79
Feb 2014 Samuel Hurved -
transported for stealing a sheep in Sandford - returns to England
30 years later
John East - transported
for horse stealing in Newton St Cyres in 1840
The Stone Brothers - Colebrooke
Wrestlers
Rev Dr Whittington
Landon - Dean of Exeter Cathedral and Rector of Bow