Documents Held In Archive

 

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A History of 12 Years on Exmoor  1845 to 1857  by William Hannem 

Handwritten manuscript in the vernacular of William Hannem’s experience of being the tenant of Cornham Farm during the period of the Knight’s Landlord and Tenant ‘experiment’ on Exmoor.   

A total of 420 pages approximately A5 in size. 

This original manuscript is held in the Bodleian Library – donated by one of William Hannem’s daughters family.  

Ref:  MS. Top. Devon e. 11   Manuscripts collected by the Institute of Agricultural Economics (CMD ID 12713)  Miscellaneous material, c. 1804-1929

An edited transcription, with introduction, can be found in C.S. Orwin and R.J. Sellick, The Reclamation of Exmoor Forest (Newton Abbot, 1970), pp. 237-291.

 

The Friends paid for a digital copy of the original manuscript to be made by the Bodleian Library Copy Service and now hold that copy in their archive.  It can be used for research and private interest/reading only.   A transcription of the entire document is currently underway which will enable it to be searched and read digitally.

Published and unpublished documents, transcriptions, family trees, archive sources etc. which reference or are specifically to do with Hoar Oak Cottage. Please contact info@hoaroakcottage.org for more information about how to access these documents. This is a work in progress and more documents will be added.


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1819 Dovell Birth Registration


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Provided by descendant.


Dovell Family Tree prepared for Friends of HOC.


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Researched and written by N.Rowberry.


Rawle and Richard Family Tree prepared for Friends of HOC


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Researched and written by N.Rowberry.


 

A History of 12 Years on Exmoor  1845 to 1857  by William Hannem 

Handwritten manuscript in the vernacular of William Hannem’s experience of being the tenant of Cornham Farm during the period of the Knight’s Landlord and Tenant ‘experiment’ on Exmoor.   

A total of 420 pages approximately A5 in size. 

This original manuscript is held in the Bodleian Library – donated by one of William Hannem’s daughters family.  

Ref:  MS. Top. Devon e. 11   Manuscripts collected by the Institute of Agricultural Economics (CMD ID 12713)  Miscellaneous material, c. 1804-1929

An edited transcription, with introduction, can be found in C.S. Orwin and R.J. Sellick, The Reclamation of Exmoor Forest (Newton Abbot, 1970), pp. 237-291.

 

The Friends paid for a digital copy of the original manuscript to be made by the Bodleian Library Copy Service and now hold that copy in their archive.  It can be used for research and private interest/reading only.   A transcription of the entire document is currently underway which will enable it to be searched and read digitally.