Things to come
Planned events.
1881 census
Howse details
Alfred
Thesis, including memories of
grand-daughter.
Article
Newspaper
1950 report
Pictures
New Album
23rd August
T&S Bridge
Weymoor Bridge
exposed--pictures
T&S
Bridge
Weymoor Bridge
update from "The
Trow"
Latton Village
Kelly's directory
1895
Before Alfred
there was
Joseph Aldworth
Howse
Family
A glimpse into the distant past
North Wilts
1810-1820
History
1851 Census
Who lived in the
area in 1851
Staunch
Last working
boat through Latton.
Butterfield
Victorian 'photo album.
Habgood
Strange goings on by an old Latton
family.
In his book “The Stripling Thames, 1909” Fred. S. Thacker states that
“The gentle punning epitaph of the Howse family is worth repeating…..”
Within this Little Howse Three howses Lye
John Howse, James Howse, the short lived twins & I
Anne of John Howse once ye endeared a wife
Who lost mine owne to give those babes their life.
We three though dead yet speak and put in mind
the Husband Father whome we left behind
that we were howses only made of clay
and Called for could no Longer with Him stay
but were Layd Here to take our Rest and Ease
By death who taketh whome and where he please
1691
(Reproduced above exactly as it appears in the book.)
Assuming that this was from a gravestone in the Latton churchyard, it would be interesting to see if, a hundred years on, it still exists.