For almost 200 years there had been a doctor resident in Bow. I was the twenty-eighth
This is our story
THE MEDICAL GENTLEMEN
OF BOW
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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