Deacons Farm
Sale Map 1918
1918 Sale Information
DEACONS
1781/2 Survey Lot 377 Robert Drake – the mill yard orchard (also 363, 407)
1811 Survey Called Trulls Mill (later called Drakes Mill, then Deacons Mill)
1839 Tithe Map Lot 412 - Water grist mill, dwelling house, barn, yard, garden, orchard
1841 Census Elias Deacon (1796-1877), yeoman, with wife, Jane (nee Northover), Ann, Birthia, Jane and Sarah
1848 Elias Deacon had to leave mill (per Irene Jones)
1851 Census Elias is a lime burner living at Stourton Caundle
1861 Census Charles Stokes Ag Lab (b 1820 Stourton Caundle) and wife Rhoda (nee Brown) with 6 children
1879 Charles Stokes, of Deacon's Mill, Stalbridge, died suddenly on Thursday. He had been speaking to his wife outside the house, when he suddenly fell, and expired immediately. Verdict “Died by the visitation of God” Aged 62
1881 Census Mill – Samuel Blake (26) Agricultural Worker with wife, Eliza (25) and son, John (2)
1891 Census Courts Mill – Samuel now listed as a farmer with Eliza and 3 more children
1898 Samuel dies aged 44
1901-11 Census Eliza continues to farm from Deacons Mill
1918 Sale Tenant Mrs E Blake 3acres Lot 44a – bought by G E Prideaux for £170
1923 Dispute over the sale of cows
1939 Register Ernest Henry Frizzle and wife Nellie Winifred Alice
On November 16th. 1947, at Poolestown, Stalbridge. Ann Blake, ' widow of the late Samuel Blake, of Deacon's Mill Farm, Stalbridge passed peacefully away aged 91 years.
1781/2 Survey Lot 377 Robert Drake – the mill yard orchard (also 363, 407)
1811 Survey Called Trulls Mill (later called Drakes Mill, then Deacons Mill)
1839 Tithe Map Lot 412 - Water grist mill, dwelling house, barn, yard, garden, orchard
1841 Census Elias Deacon (1796-1877), yeoman, with wife, Jane (nee Northover), Ann, Birthia, Jane and Sarah
1848 Elias Deacon had to leave mill (per Irene Jones)
1851 Census Elias is a lime burner living at Stourton Caundle
1861 Census Charles Stokes Ag Lab (b 1820 Stourton Caundle) and wife Rhoda (nee Brown) with 6 children
1879 Charles Stokes, of Deacon's Mill, Stalbridge, died suddenly on Thursday. He had been speaking to his wife outside the house, when he suddenly fell, and expired immediately. Verdict “Died by the visitation of God” Aged 62
1881 Census Mill – Samuel Blake (26) Agricultural Worker with wife, Eliza (25) and son, John (2)
1891 Census Courts Mill – Samuel now listed as a farmer with Eliza and 3 more children
1898 Samuel dies aged 44
1901-11 Census Eliza continues to farm from Deacons Mill
1918 Sale Tenant Mrs E Blake 3acres Lot 44a – bought by G E Prideaux for £170
1923 Dispute over the sale of cows
1939 Register Ernest Henry Frizzle and wife Nellie Winifred Alice
On November 16th. 1947, at Poolestown, Stalbridge. Ann Blake, ' widow of the late Samuel Blake, of Deacon's Mill Farm, Stalbridge passed peacefully away aged 91 years.
1781-2 Perks Survey Map Lot 377
1781-2 Perks Survey Map Lot 377
1839 Tithe Map Lot 412
1839 Tithe Map Lot 412
