Sometimes a search for something can be in vain… and it can be something quite ordinary, a particular foodstuff you’ve read about, a book in a bookshop or an album in a music store – or even a bookshop and a music store in some places! You can be looking for a particular song you half remember, a half-forgotten poem, or a place you haven’t quite got the right directions to. Sometimes those searches can be in vain for what you’re looking for but sometimes you find something else instead, something completely different from what you expected!
We had that happen yesterday when we went off to a nearby village, Bleadon, to try and find the grave of Edin Clegg, a character I have become fascinated by; he was a man from Looe in Cornwall, possibly a Quaker, but just an ordinary man a grocer in the family business. During World war 1 he was a conscientious objector who got himself into difficulties by circulating an unwise text comparing the ordinary soldiers of Germany, the hated enemy to the ordinary young British men sent out to their deaths. Whether it was for this reason, or some other he left Looe and ended up in Bleadon, where died nearly forty years later, saving a young man from drowning.
We didn’t find Edwin but we did find a delightful little church, with some very interesting features in a beautiful simplicity. it seems there has been a church here since Saxon times, although there are few actually remains from that early period; apparently the dedication to two saints, Peter and Paul is an indication that there might have been a Saxon church here. In our own little village of Uphill, less than a mile away the old church of St Nicholas, built on Uphill hill, is supposed to be on the site of an earlier Saxon building – although, as yet, no trace has been found.
We didn’t find Edwin, but we will go back and look for him again, but we had a very pleasant tour and did find some interesting things!
A Saxon angel
Read about the church here:
http://www.bleadonchurch.co.uk/guide-book
out of interest what makes you think he was quaker?
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I think he may have been because there are lots and lots of Clogg Quakers… but as yet i don’t know for certain… as yet!
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ah just catching up with this
ok – when I have a chance I may look into
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Edwin Hoskin Clogg born Liskeard reg. district 5c /57 sept 1886 quarter
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Oh thank you!
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… in Looe and the area I mean!
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Yeah , why – i am interested
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He was Edwin H Clogg yeah? He put a fair amount of material around in WW1
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You never quite know what you will find if you are looking for something!
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Exactly – and you never know quite what you will write until you start writing!
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and if everything else up until here is ok…. that middle name …. look at this marriage
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Marriages Dec 1878 (>99%)
CLOGG Stephen Liskeard 5c 86 Scan available – click to view
HOSKIN Mary Liskeard 5c 86 Scan available – click to view
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What is your email – I have 3 small presents for you from 1891 1901 and 1911
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lois sparshott at hotmail dot com … how exciting!! I’m intrigued!
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will be tomorrow now because i have left the office
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Oooh, thank you!
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wasn’t found at hotmail, or the mailbox is unavailable. ?
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should be… maybe I made a spelling mistake… my finger slipped maybe!
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ok and you might want to delete that email on here
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Thanks will do
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