William Mills GARRETT

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 21 Jul 1844, Fovant, Wiltshire

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Birth:
Jun Q 1844 V111 471 Wilton
Name recorded as William Mills GARRETT

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1854; Coal Carrier

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All their children recorded FHL Film 1279401 - Transcript of Fovant Parish Registers

William married Eliza READ on 19 Nov 1843 in Fovant, Wiltshire. Eliza (daughter of Sophia READ) was born in 1821 in Fovant, Wiltshire; was christened on 14 Jan 1821 in Fovant; died in 1853 in Fovant, Wiltshire; was buried on 18 Sep 1853 in Fovant Parish Church, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Illegitimate

Birth:
Illegitimate

Christened:
IGI

Died:
FreeFormatDate:Sep Q 1853 5a 129

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Married:
Description: George Garrett & Caroline Garrett

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: 1813, Fovant, Wiltshire; Lime Burner
• Occupation: 1838, Fovant, Wiltshire; Farmer, Innkeeper, Lime Burner

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It is presumed that the marriage of Charles Mills and Ann Phillips was never annulled, so the children of his association with Elisabeth Garrett kept their mother's surname.
There is no record of a marriage in the Fovant Parish Registers.

Occupation:
Found in
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/ZOtherPapers/S&WJNov11813.html

Monday Nov 1st 1813 - Salisbury & Winchester Journal

Fresh Lime.

Two Hundred Quarters of the best Chalk Lime, burnt with coal and furze kept separate, is ready for sale, at C.G.Mills's Kilns, Fovant, the whole burnt within the last month. Will be sold in place, or delivered in the neighbourhood by paying for carriage. To Farmers wanting 40 or 50 quarters for manure an allowance will be made from the regular price. Any quantity burnt.

Died:
Mar Q 1852 5a 163 Wilton

Buried:
Headstone: Sacred to the memory of Charles George Mills who died December 29th, 1851 Aged 75 Years. Also to the Memory of George Son of Charles George Mills who died December 27th, 1857 Aged 41 Years.
From Wiltshire Memorial Transcription Index - RefNum 78000 & 78137

Charles + Elizabeth GARRETT. Elizabeth (daughter of Job GARRET and Anne MOGER) was born in 1781 in West Lavington; was christened on 29 Apr 1781 in Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire; died on 23 Dec 1846 in Fovant, Wiltshire; was buried on 23 Dec 1846 in Fovant Parish Church, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Christened:
IGI

Birth:
There's a tree on ancestry that states that our Elizabeth Garrett is actually a lady called Elizabeth Davis from West Lavington. She married a William Garrett in Maddington. They had a number of children including a Jane Garrett born 1808. This could be our Jane and could explain why she is not listed in the births for Fovant. I have provisionally put this new data on to my Ancestry tree in the hope that ancestors can see it and comment. Best regards Adney

Died:
Dec Q Vol 8 Page 341 Wilton

Not proven

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Census:
Recorded as a Publican

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Possible marriage to Solomon Goodfellow in Fovant 23 Sep 1827
IGI

Birth:
IGI - Inferred from Marriage register.
Other dates - 1799,1802

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Mar 1733, Swindon, Wiltshire; Christ Church, Swindon
• Occupation: Before 1765, The Star & Garter Inn, Andover, Hampshire; Publican
• Occupation: 1765, Fovant Hut, Fovant, Wiltshire; Publican - kept the White Hart (Fovant Hut) on Salisbury Plain for 60 years

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1. In ' An Actual Survey of the Great Post Roads between London and Falmouth' , by Cary in 1784, Fovant Hut or The White Hart is shown. (White Hart, a name familiar all over England for inns, is possibly a scribe's error for 'White's Hut'. White was probably a former occupier of the Hut; for the hedge running south from the turnpike almost opposite the Hut is called 'White's Hedge'. It is the boundary between Fifield Bavant and Ebbesbourne Wake.)
Fovant Hut did a brisk trade in the old days, and was the recognised meeting place where champions from rival villages engaged at fisticuffs. It was also to Fovant Hut that Parson Chaffin was wont to saunter, fiddle in hand. There he met other pretended fiddlers, whose object in coming there was not to scrape their instruments but to watch for deer which, pestered by flies, might stray from the woods of Cranborne Chase and seek sanctuary in the valley.

Occupation:
Fovant Hut has also been known as the White Hart Inn or the Hut on Salisbury Plain. It was one of a series of posting houses along the turnpike road, which ran along the ridge of the downs above the village. Although we do not know when the inn was established, the Salisbury and Winchester Journal referred to it as ‘new built’ in 1757. William Kennell, the first landlord, advertised that he had:

‘a stock of neat Wines, rich Cordials, and all sorts of Spirituous Liquors to be sold Wholesale and Retail.’

According to the National Burial Index William Kennell was buried in Horningsham in Nov 1762 age not given (just 15 miles away from Fovant as the crow flies).
We don't know who kept the Hut after his death until Richard & Elizabeth took it on in 1765.


The inn did a thriving trade until 1787 when the Lower Road (now the A30) was turnpiked. It is not known when the inn ceased to trade, but it has long since been a private house.

In 1785 Parliament sent it's surveyors to establish the Enclosure details. The first meeting took place at Fovant Hut on 19th Sept 1785.

Died:

Source Notes

Richard Mills' will is recorded in The Clay Papers 'Some Notes on the History of Fovant' amassed by the late Doctor Richard Clay. In 1967 he used some of this material to produce a small booklet that gave a short history of the village, but in general the papers remained just a collection of loose pieces of paper.
Although the original papers are held by Mr Robert Snow, Doctor Clay's grandson, copies of the documents were deposited with Salisbury Museum. Over the years interested parties made further copies, until there were several such 'collections'. In 2002, Mike Harden of Fovant History Interest Group collated, edited and indexed these different versions and had, what might be called, the definitive version of Doctor Clay's original papers bound into a single volume. Copies of this volume are now held in museums, libraries and record offices in Salisbury, Devizes and Trowbridge.

Richard married Elizabeth MORRELL on 30th Dec 1764 in St. Edmund, Salisbury. Elizabeth (daughter of Charles MORRELL and Elizabeth ?) was born in 1734; was christened on 19 Jan 1734 in South Wraxall, Wiltshire; died after 1786. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Place of birth on IGI: Salisbury, but no date given.

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Married:
Date from the IGI.

Marriage Licence:
St.Edmund Salisbury 1741-1837, Stratford-sub-Castle Salisbury 1654-1837.

Sarum Marriage Licence Bonds

Adminstration WIL Source MLB Date 1764 Dec 29 Groom Richard MILLS aged 31 occupation lab residing at
Salisbury St Edmund, WIL status bac notes – Bride Elizabeth MORRELL aged 28 residing at Salisbury St
Edmund, WIL status sp notes – Bondsmen CURTIS Robert,innholder,Salisbury St Edmund – to be married
at –


The issuing of a licence does not necessarily mean that a marriage took place; some people may have
had second thoughts and, it is believed, some thought the licence was sufficient and it was not
necessary to get married. If a marriage did take place, it may not have been in a parish named in
the bond of allegation. Note also that the marriage register or bishops transcript may not have
survived, thus making the licence the only evidence of the intended marriage.

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Name:
or Gerrett

Birth:
Possible birth - Job Garrett - IGI
Where is Corcherton ?

Job married Anne MOGER on 26 May 1776 in Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire. Anne was christened on 27 Sep 1752 in Mere, Wiltshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Christened:
Possible Birth - IGI

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Married:
IGI