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From: "brian w. zelley" <>
Subject: [DEV] Coachmakers of Chudleigh
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:10:22 -0800

As a follow-up to the story about the coachmakers of Chudleigh and the
Phillips family, an interesting slice of information is one John
BUTTRESS was also a Chudleigh coachmaker in the early days of the
1900's.

As we step back a couple of decades, both Walter PHILLIPS, John
BUTTRESS and his brother William BUTTRESS were all wheelwrights in
Chudleigh.

Walter was a lodger at the residence of one Samuel LODGE, the neighbor
was one Elizabeth BOND and her grandaughter Bessie PHILLIPS.
William and John were residing with their mother, the widow Mrs. Ann
BUTTRESS.

Ann toiled away as a boot binder in the company of the shoe and
bootmakers such as John (the Shoemaker) GODBEER from Starcross,
Charles and Edmund BABBAGE, John LATHAM and members of the SPARKES
family.

Of interest, George PHILLIPS was also a wheelwright while his son
Ernest PHILLIPS was a school master with the likes of the two school
mistresses Susannah DAVIS and Susan TOZER. Neighbors were George (The
dairyman) SNELL, Herbert ELLIS (The surgeon) and the father and son
house decorator team of William and George SHARES.

Brian Zelley

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