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Somerset |
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Portbury |
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Tithing |
St George |
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Union Workhouse |
Bedminster (Long Ashton) |
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Current Registrar's District |
North Somerset |
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| The Domesday Book (1086) names the village Estone and it appears as Eston in Gordon in 1293. Easton is a common place name meaning 'east farmstead or village' The affix is an old district name (Gordeyne 1270) meaning 'muddy valley'. |
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Population 1841 The total population for the village was 251 persons. The Parish of St George including Pill was divided into three disctricts in the 1841 Census The third district was Easton in Gordano
District 5 - "The whole of the Village of St George, commencing at Sheep House Farm on the Borders of the Bristol Channel,
through the Village, round the adjacent buildings to Rudgley Farm, Over Hill Farm, Happerton Farm and to Yeates's at the top of
Coomb Lane, through the bottom, down to the Inn called The King's Arms."
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| Parish Registers Christenings from 1559 Marriages from 1559 Burials from 1559 |
The Parish Church of Saint George
| The church is dedicated to St George, the Patron Saint of England whose feast day is the 23rd April. |
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Most of the present-day church structure was rebuilt, using red rubble sandstone, by Ewan Christian in 1872 in the typical Victorian layout of chancel, sanctuary, choir, organ chamber,vestries, high nave with clerestory windows, north and south aisles and porch. The lower part of the Western tower is early 14C; has quadruple chamfered arch on semi-octagonal responds (which appears low as nave floor was raised in the 19C); and original stone spiral stairs. The tower carries a peal of 6 bells and is surmounted by spiret with a mediaeval gilded dragon wind vane. The clock (1861) is by Fairer of London. The organ (1882) by Sweetland of Bath. The Font in the nave is partly Norman. There are fine stained glass windows and many wall memorials, one for Captain Sturmy who kept his “Artises Magazen” in the church for benefit of other navigators. The church has a long association with the Channel Pilots of Pill, whose "boys" used the tower as a lookout. Many seafarers are buried in the 2 1/2 acre churchyard. |
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The Gordano Valley
| The Gordano valley situated in North Somerset, runs between a ridge of hills extending along the coastline between Clevedon and Portishead, and another ridge extending between Clevedon and Easton in Gordano. The area includes the villages of Clapton in Gordano; Weston in Gordano; Easton in Gordano; Walton in Gordano; Portbury and Sheepway. There is no river Gordano and much of the valley is reclaimed land just above sea level. The land is drained by ditches or rhynes. |
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The Village
| The village of Easton in Gordano is situated at the north-eastern end of the Gordano valley, on the south bank of the River Avon, opposite Avonmouth and adjacent to the village of Pill. There are no shops and few facilities in Easton-in-Gordano apart from the Village Pub, a Social Club, the Church, and the Church hall with its scout hut behind. The main facilities are in the nearby village of Pill. Easton in Gordano is the birthplace of the explorer Bertram Thomas (1892-1950. |
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Church Lane
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My PRESCOTT family, who were Carpenters, lived here at the turn of the century. The 1901 Census records only four dwellings on Church Lane. The road to the church is now called Church Road, and some old cottages still remain near the pub, but it is impossible to identify houses from the Censuses since they generally did not generally record house names or numbers. My Benjamin PRESCOTT was the Census enumerator in 1851, 1861 and 1871 but even he failed to record any name or identification for his own house. Was it perhaps one of these cottages? |
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St Georges Hill
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St Georges Hill is the name of the main road running into the village from the Portbury direction
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The Kings Arms is on the corner of St Georges Hill and Church Road. There has always been an inn on this site although the building has changed over the years. |
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The Kings Arms around the end of the 19thC. In 1891 the Innkeeper was George Bryant, whose name can just be made out on the pub's nameboard. Anyone know what is that contraption he is holding?
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More views of the Church
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St George's Church.
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The font, at which my PRESCOTT ancestors were baptised.
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The Chancel
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The Reredos
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The pulpit |
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Monumental Inscriptions in the Churchyard
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The grave of Sidney and Mary PRESCOTT |
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| In Loving Memory of Mary the beloved wife of Sidney George PRESCOTT who died March 17th 1918 aged 72 years. Peace perfect Peace. Also of Sidney George PRESCOTT husband of the above died February 20th 1934 aged 85 years |
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More views of Easton in Gordano
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Cottages on St Georges Hill |
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The road towards Pill |
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Priory Road - Looking back towards the Kings Arms |
Easton in Gordano in song
| Light-hearted nostalgia by Adge Cutler and the Worzels |
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I must go back againo |
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I must go back againo |
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I must go back againo |
PRESCOTT family
| The PRESCOTTs of Easton in Gordano were Carpenters. Thomas PRESCOTT was born at Norton St. Philip in 1787. He married Elizabeth BRAKE of Nailsea in 1811 at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, and came to live in Easton in Gordano. where they baptised four children. The first was George who married Eliza ROWLES at St Georges in 1836. Their children were Elizabeth, Alice Eliza, and Sidney George. In 1878, Alice Eliza became the second wife of James Limbury SPEAR, my maternal Great Grandfather. Sidney George PRESCOTT married Mary EVANS of Cardigan, and they lived at Church Lane in Easton in Gordano. Their only child, Arthur George, became a schoolmaster in London. The youngest child of Thomas and Elizabeth PRESCOTT was Benjamin, born 1824. Benjamin married Mary SIMMONS of Portbury, and baptised four children at St Georges: Olivia, Thomas George, Annie Simmons, and William Henry. Benjamin PRESCOTT, already a widower in 1881, was Parish Clerk and Assistant Overseer of Bedminster Union Workhouse at Long Ashton. He was regularly the Census enumerator for his own parish of St Georges. His eldest daughter, Olivia, married Hamilton Clarke, a Professor of Music. |
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Genealogy
Transcriptions of Easton in Gordano Marriages
Click here to listen to the song (MP3)