LINCOLN PEPPERDINE FACTS

INDEX
Joseph 1797 to 1851(The will of a timber merchant)
Lemuel 1799 to 1872 (The will of a timber merchant)
Susannah nee Wheatley 1804 to 1883 (Treated for mental illness)
David 1835 to 1919 (Lincoln to Glasgow to Edinburgh)
Benjamin 1843 to 1881(Lincoln to Cambridge)
Joseph 1848 to 1920 (Lincoln to Leicester to March, Cambs)
 The Lincoln Blue Coat School
Emma Simpson 1861- (Early member of Co-operative movement)
Alice 1867 to 1946 (Life of an unmarried woman)
Henry Robert 1877 to 1953 (Lincoln to Alberta)
The PEPPERDINEs of Western Canada
Charles Osmund 1901 - (RAF)
The ancestry of Albert Lemuel 1905 to 1968 (Lincoln to Nottinghamshire)
Robert Southwell 1906 to 1967 (WW2 in India then bank manager)
Frank Quipp 1912 to 1974 (WW2 in RAF in Canada then bank manager)
John Robert 1941 (A sister's view)
Vicki “PEPPERDINE” (Actor using her mother's maiden name)

Joseph PEPPERDINE Timber merchant 1797 to 1851

Elsewhere is recorded a copy of the will of Lemuel PEPPERDINE (C.1.3), Lincoln timber merchant. Following is the will of his brother Joseph. Their father Joseph (B.1) had been a sawyer and their grandfather, the first Lemuel (A), born in Metheringham had died a pauper after being displaced from the land he would have had little choice but to move to Lincoln City. The success of his grandsons is due to their grasp of the fact that the great increase in city building which occurred at that time would provide them with a means of earning a good income. Their father and his brothers would have been a great help with their knowledge of timber.

"This is the last will and testament of me, JOSEPH PEPPERDINE of the city of Lincoln timber merchant.
I do hereby revoke all wills codicils and testamentary dispositions made by me, at anytime or times heretofore, and declare this to be my last will and testament.
I direct my debts funeral and testamentary expenses to be paid out of my personal estate.
I give and bequeath all my household goods .furniture plate linen and china unto my dear wife, Sarah PEPPERDINE, absolutely and give her a disposing power over the same
Whereas I am legally possessed of a freehold dwelling house, timber and saw yards and deal sheds and of nine freehold dwelling houses situate in the parish of St Mark and of six freehold dwelling houses situate in the parish of St Peter at Gowts, both in the city of Lincoln and of three freehold dwelling houses and two and a half acres of land in the parish of Bracebridge, in the county of Lincoln and of three copyhold dwelling houses, wheelwrights shops and sheds in the parish of Waddington, in the county of Lincoln, I give and bequeath to the said Sarah PEPPERDINE and to my son Henry PEPPERDINE, whom I hereby appoint trustee of this my will, their executors administrators and assigns all my personal estate, whatsoever and wheresoever, except as aforesaid, upon trust that they, my said trustees in trust for the time being of this my will, do and shall, with all convenient speed after my decease, sell dispose of and convert into money, so much thereof as shall be in its nature saleable and collect, gather n and receive all debts due and owing to me at the time of my decease.
And whereas I have for some time past carried on the business of a timber merchant in the parish of St Mark aforesaid, and I am desirous that the same business shall be carried on after my decease for the benefit of my wife and children, now therefore I give and bequeath my said business of timber merchant and all my interest therein and all my stock and effects employed therein and all monies and debts which shall be due and owing to me at the time of my decease .for or on account of the said business .unto the said Sarah PEPPERDINE and Henry PEPPERDINE their executors administrators and assigns upon trust that the said trustees or trustee for the time being of my will do and shall permit my said son Henry to carry on manage and conduct the said business until the decease of my said wife Sarah PEPPERDINE .he paying the annual sum of forty pounds, as rent for the said messuages .workshops and warehouses and for carrying on the said trade, to be payable half yearly to my said wife Sarah PEPPERDINE.
And I direct and empower the said Henry PEPPERDINE after the decease of my said wife, to appoint by writing under his hand, one of his said brothers to act as co trustee with himself in the place of his mother, the choice being left to my said son Henry. Which new trustee shall have all the powers and trusts vested in him as if he had been originally appointed a trustee under this my will.

And I further direct that after the decease of my said wife my said son Henry shall be at liberty to purchase my said messuages, workshops and warehouses, for carrying on the said trade of a timber merchant, and all the tools and implements. but not stock therein, which purchase money I have affixed at the sum of twelve hundred pounds, and that the said Henry PEPPERDINE shall also be at liberty to take too, the stock of timber that may be in, upon or about the said workshops and warehouses at the time of my wife's decease, at a valuation to be assessed at ten per cent below the market prices for the timber at the time payable at the port of Kingston upon Hull, provided nevertheless that my said son Henry shall not in either of the cases aforesaid be required to pay any consideration for the goodwill or custom of the said business. And that if it shall be inconvenient for my said son Henry to pay the purchase money and the money in the valuation as aforesaid, he shall be allowed two years from the time of such purchase and valuation to pay the same to his co trustee on giving good personal security for the same.
And in case of the refusal of my said son Henry to purchase this same premises and take too the stock at a fair valuation, then I direct the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustee forthwith absolutely to sell and dispose of .either by public auction or private contract .the said business stock and effects, messuages, workshops, warehouses and premises and all the tools and implements employed therein, to any person or persons willing to purchase the same for such prices or price as the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustee shall think reasonable.
And I declare that if the person or persons purchasing the said business stock and effects, workshops, warehouses and premises shall not pay down the price or consideration in money for the same, it shall be lawful for the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustees to accept as a security for the payment of the said price or consideration or of such thereof as shall not be paid down with interest for the same after the rate of five pounds percentum per annum, a mortgage of the hereditament and premises so purchased. Such mortgage to consist of good and real security except the said business and effects for the time being employed in carrying on the said business and also on such other real or personal security as the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustees shall think proper to accept. And I further declare that the securities to be given by any person or persons so purchasing as aforesaid shall be rendered for such time and upon such time and conditions and given up or varied for such other securities of he like or a similar or a sufficient nature as the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustee shall think proper.
And I further declare that the purchase money to be paid by the said Henry PEPPERDINE, or by any other person or persons who shall become the purchaser thereof for the said messuage, workshops, warehouses and premises and the stock therein and the implements and materials employed in carrying on the said business of a timber merchant .shall form part of my residuary personal estate.
And I further declare that the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustees shall stand and be possessed of and interested in the monies to arise from the sale of the said business and premises, herein before directed to be sold, and also of the rents and profits of my said other real estates and of the rents and profits of any other real estates which I may be possessed of at the time of my decease, upon and for the trusts intents and purposes and with, under and subject to the powers provisos and declarations hereinafter expressed and declared of and concerning the same, that is to say upon trust to pay to my said wife Sarah the rent payable by my said son as aforesaid and the rents and profits of my said other real estate, for and during the term of her natural life, for the support of herself and the children that may be residing with her at my decease and also in the education and bringing up of such children, I give and bequeath to the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustees all my real estate whatsoever and wheresoever, to hold the same unto and to the use of the said son Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustees their heirs and assigns upon trust that they, the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustee, do and shall, immediately after the decease of my said wife, with all convenient speed, call in and convert into money my said personal estate and do, and shall absolutely, sell or dispose of my said freehold and copyhold and all my real estate by public auction to any person or persons willing to become the purchaser or purchasers thereof respectively for such price or prices sum or sums of money as to the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustee or the survivor of them or the heirs executors or administrators of such survivors shall seem reasonable, and for promoting and facilitating such sale or sales the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustee do and shall enter into, make and execute all such contracts, covenants, agreements, conveyances, surrenders, assignances ,acts, deeds, matters and things which the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustee or the survivor of them or the heirs executors or administrators of such survivor shall seem reasonable.
And I do hereby declare that the receipt or receipts of the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustee and the survivor of them and the heirs .executors .administrators and assigns of such survivor for any money payable to them or him under this my will shall effectively discharge the person or persons paying the same from being answerable or accountable for the misapplication or nonapplication thereof .or of any part thereof or from being obliged to see to the application thereof .or of any part thereof or to enquire into the necessity or propriety of any sale or mortgage that may be made or accepted by virtue of this my will and that no people purchasing or advancing money on mortgage of my real estate or any part thereof shall be bound or obliged to ascertain or enquire into the necessity propriety or expediency of any such sale or mortgage.
And I do hereby declare my will and mind to be that the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustee and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall stand and be possessed of and interested in all the money to arise from the sale or sales, hereinbefore by me directed, of my real estate or to arise and be produced from that part of my personal estate which I have directed to be converted into money and of and in all other monies government securities stocks or funds and mortgages on real estates of or to which I shall be possessed or entitled at the time of my decease and of and in the rents and profits interest dividends and annual produce thereof .until the same shall be respectively disposed of and converted into money or otherwise howsoever upon trust that they the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustee and the survivor of them and the executors. administrators or assigns of such survivor do and shall, if my nine children are living at my wife's decease, divide the same into nine equal parts and pay the same equally to my nine children
Martha the wife of William CHESTER, engineer, Ann the wife of Henry BINGLEY, baker, Henry PEPPERDINE, timber merchant, Benjamin PEPPERDINE, joiner, Robert PEPPERDINE, joiner, Eliza PEPPERDINE, spinster, Sarah Brown PEPPERDINE, spinster, Faith PEPPERDINE, spinster and Emily PEPPERDINE, spinster, and all at present residing in the city of Lincoln whose receipts alone, notwithstanding there minorities, shall be a sufficient discharge to the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustee or the survivor of them or his executors, administrators or assigns for the same.
And if any of my said children shall die before his or her share shall become payable under or by virtue of this my will, then as well the original share or shares of him, her or they so dying, as also the share or shares eventually limited and accruing under any executory trust to any and every child so dying, shall go .remaining and be in trust for the other and others of my said children, if more than one, in equal shares provided always that if either of my said sons or daughters shall happen to die before his or her share shall become payable and shall leave a child or children then that the share of him or her so dying shall go to such of his or her children that may be living at their parents death I appoint the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustee to be guardian and guardians of the persons and estate of such of my said children as shall be minors at the time of my decease.
And I do hereby nominate and appoint my said wife Sarah and my said son Henry executors and executor of this my last will and testament provided always, and I do hereby declare that the said Henry PEPPERDINE and his co trustee to be appointed as aforesaid and each of them shall be charged and chargeable only for such monies as they shall actually receive, notwithstanding his or their giving or signing any receipt or receipts for the sake of conformity and neither of them shall be answerable or accountable for the other of them, but each of them only for his own act, receipt, neglect and default and that they or one of them shall not be answerable or accountable for any person with whom or in whose hands any part of the said trust monies shall or may be deposited or lodged for safe custody or otherwise in the execution of the trust hereinbefore mentioned or for the sufficiency or deficiency of any security or securities .stocks or funds in or upon which the said trust monies or any part thereof shall be laid out and invested nor for any other misfortune loss or damage which may happen in the execution of the aforesaid funds or in relation thereinto except the same shall happen by or through their wilful default and also that it shall or may be lawful to and for my said trustees for the time being of this my will and the survivor of them their or his heirs executors administrators or assigns by and out of the monies which shall come to their respective hands under and by virtue of the trusts aforesaid to retain and reimburse themselves all costs, damages and expenses which he shall or may suffer, sustain, expend or be put unto .in or about the execution of the aforesaid trusts or in relation thereunto

**And to prevent any quibbling and to clear away any doubts about this my will I have thought proper to compose the same in these few words:- "My wish is that my said wife shall during her life enjoy the rents and profit of my said real estate, or any other I may die possessed of, without being subject to the control, debts or liabilities of any future husband, although I have no fear of her marrying again, that at her death the whole of my real and personal estate shall be sold and the produce given equally to all my children, as may be living at the time of my wife's death and each child's share to his other children at the time of his or her parent's death if any.
In witness whereof I have hereunder set my hand and seal and I have also set my hand to each of the six preceding sheets of this my will this eleventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty one. Joseph PEPPERDINE
By the said testator as his last testament in the presence of us present at the same time, who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses
James Anthony HARDING ,accountant .Lincoln
Joseph MARTIN ,sawyer .Lincoln
The testator died on the 17 May 1851
On the twenty-fourth day of June 1851 Sarah PEPPERDINE of the city of Lincoln, widow and Henry PEPPERDINE of the same city, timber merchant ,the executrix and executor within named were duly sworn and also made oath that the whole of the personal estate and effects of which the within named Joseph PEPPERDINE. the testator died possessed are under the value of three thousand pounds
before me W A JEPSON surrogate

Presented at a general court held in and for the manor of Waddington. parcel of the castle of Somerton. on the 7th of January 1858,

Lemuel PEPPERDINE, timber merchant 1799 to 1873

This is the last will and testament of me LEMUEL PEPPERDINE of the City of Lincoln, gentleman.
I give unto my wife or reputed wife, Sarah PEPPERDINE the daughter of William SIMPSON of the city of Lincoln, bricklayer the sum of one hundred pounds to be paid to her within six calendar months after my decease.
I give to my trustees, hereinafter named, the sum of eight pounds each.
I give, devise and bequeath all my messuages, land, tenements, hereditaments and real estate wheresoever situate and of what nature or tenure soever of or to which I now or shall at my death be seized or entitled either at law or in equity or of which I now have powers to dispose by this my will, except what I otherwise devise or dispose of by this my will or any codicil thereto unto and to the use of John FOSTER of the City of Lincoln, builder and Benjamin ASMAN of the same city, joiner, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns according to the nature and tenure thereof upon and for the trusts, intents and purposes and with, under and subject to the powers ,provisos and declarations hereinafter expressed, declared and contained of and concerning the same.
I give and bequeath all the money, securities for
money and all other my goods, chattels, rights, credits and other personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever of or to which I am now or shall at the time of my death be possessed or entitled either at law or in equity for any estate or interest which can be bequeathed by will or of which I now have power to dispose by this my will, or any codicil thereto, unto the said John Foster and Benjamin ASMAN their executors, administrators and assigns upon and for the trusts ,intents and purposes and withunder and subject to the powers, provisos and declarations hereinafter expressed, declared and contained of and concerning the same.
I hereby declare my will to be that the said John FOSTER and Benjamin ASMAN, their heirs, executors and administrators respectively do and shall stand seized and possessed of and interested in my said real and personal estate.
As to my said messuages, land, tenements and hereditaments and real estate upon trust that they, the said John FOSTER and Benjamin ASMAN or the survivor of them or the heirs, executors or administrators of such survivor do and shall as soon as conveniently may be. sell and dispose of the same either entirely and altogether or in parcels and either by public auction or private contract with power to buy in and rescind any contract for sale of the said premises or any part thereof and to resell the same without being answerable for any loss which may happen thereby and also with power to insert any special or other stipulations in any contract for or conditions of sale either as to title or otherwise howsoever and with power make, do and execute, add such conveyances, surrenders, assurances and things for effectuating any such sale or sales as aforesaid as may be necessary or expedient and do and shall stand possessed of the purchase moneys to arise from any of the sale and sales aforesaid upon and for the rust, intents and purposes and with, under and subject to the powers, provisos, declarations and agreements hereinafter expressed, declared and contained of and concerning the same.
And as to my said personal estate upon trust that they, the said John FOSTER and Benjamin ASMAN and the survivor of them and the executors or administrators of such survivor do and shall as soon as conveniently may be, call in, sell, dispose of and convert into money all such parts of the said personal estate as shall not consist of money and do and shall stand possessed of and interested in the money to arise from such sale, disposition and conversion into money and of and in the ready money of which I shall be possessed at the time of my death upon and for the trusts, intents and purposes and with, under and subject to the powers and declarations hereinafter expressed, declared and contained of and concerning the same.
And I hereby declare my will to be that the said John FOSTER and Benjamin ASMAN and the survivor of them and the heirs and executors or administrators respectively of such survivor do and shall stand possessed of and interested in the moneys to arise from the sale of my said real estate hereinbefore devised and from the sale, disposition and conversion into money of my said personal estate hereinbefore bequeathed and of and in the ready money of which I shall be possessed at the time of my death upon trust that they, the said John FOSTER and Benjamin ASMAN and the survivor of them and the heirs, executors and administrators respectively of such survivor do and shall, out of the same, pay and discharge my funeral and testamentary expenses and mortgage and other debts and legacy hereinbefore bequeathed to my said wife or reputed wife Sarah PEPPERDINE and the costs and expenses incurred in and about the sales, disposition and conversion into money aforesaid or otherwise in or about the execution of these present or in relation thereto and do and shall in the next place invest the residue or surplus of the said moneys to arise by such sale, disposition and conversion into money as aforesaid in or upon any of the parliamentary stocks or public funds of Great Britain or at interest in government or real security in England or Wales with full power from time to time at their or his absolute discretion to alter vary or transpose such stocks, funds or securities into or for others of a like nature .
And I hereby declare that my said trustees or trustee shall stand possessed of the stock, funds and securities whereupon the money to arise from such sale, disposition and conversion into money as aforesaid shall be invested upon trust to pay the rent, profits, interest, dividends and annual produces thereof onto my said wife or reputed wife Sarah PEPPERDINE during her life ,if she shall so long continue my widow and unmarried.
And from and immediately after her decease or marriage then as to the whole of such stocks, funds and securities, trust, estate and premises upon the trusts following, that is to say:-
As to four equal ninth parts thereof in trust for my four children,
William PEPPERDINE,
David PEPPERDINE,
Elizabeth the wife of John Slight of the City of Lincoln, chemist and
Joseph PEPPERDINE
in equal shares and proportions absolutely.
And as to one other ninth part thereof in trust for such of my five grandchildren,
Lemuel PEPPERDINE,
Joseph PEPPERDINE,
Mary PEPPERDINE,
Sarah Ann PEPPERDINE and David PEPPERDINE,
Sons and daughters of my late son Lemuel PEPPERDINE ,as shall attain the age of twenty one years or being a girl or girls shall marry and in the meantime I authorise and empower my said trustees or trustee to apply the annual produce and income arising therefrom for the maintenance and education of my said grandchildren or in their or his discretion to pay the same to my said grandchildren's mother or stepmother for the purpose of being so applied without any responsibility on the part of my said trustees or trustee to see to the application thereof.
And as to one other ninth part of the said residuary trust monies in trust for such of my grandchildren, sons and daughters of my deceased daughter Sarah Ann, the late wife of Thomas LOVERSIDGE of the parish of Saint Martin in the said City of Lincoln, gunsmith as shall attain the age of twenty one years or being a girl or girls shall marry and in the meantime I authorise and empower my said trustees or trustee to apply the annual produce and income arising therefrom for the maintenance and education of my said grandchildren or in their or his discretion to pay the same to my said grandchildren's father for the purpose of being so applied without any responsibility on the part of the said trustees or trustee to see to the application thereof.
And as to the three other and remaining ninth parts or shares of my said residuary trust moneys in trust for my two daughters and son,
Emma Simpson PEPPERDINE and
Martha Simpson PEPPERDINE and
Lemuel Simpson PEPPERDINE
by my said wife or reputed wife Sarah PEPPERDINE in equal shares absolutely and to be paid to them respectively as and when they shall respectively attain the age of twenty one years or marry and I declare that my said trustees or trustee may in the meantime apply the annual produce and income arising from the said three ninth parts or shares of my said residuary trust monies for the maintenance and education of my said daughters or reputed daughters and son or reputed son Emma Simpson PEPPERDINE and Martha Simpson PEPPERDINE and Lemuel Simpson PEPPERDINE or may pay the same to their guardian or guardians without any responsibilities on the part of my said trustees or trustee to see to the application thereof.
Provided always and I hereby will and declare that my son William PEPPERDINE shall not take any share or shares of the residuary moneys or other the trust monies, funds or securities hereinbefore mentioned or derive any benefit or participate or share in the division of any monies or properties whatsoever or in my residuary estate directed to be made by and under this my will unless upon and before such division of my residuary estate he brings into account the sum of two hundred pounds I charge him with, being payments I have made to him or for his benefit at various times and in various amounts and for arrears of rent due and owing by him to me .
And I particularly request the said John FOSTER and Benjamin ASMAN or other the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will to employ and take the professional advice and assistance of my friend Thurston George DALE, the usual professional charges for advice given and business transacted and done by him for and on behalf of my trust estate provided always.
And I hereby further declare my will to be that notwithstanding the trusts for sale contained in this my will no sale shall be made of my freehold and leasehold houses in the City of Lincoln in the lifetime of my wife Sarah PEPPERDINE so long as she shall continue my widow without her consent in writing.
And I declare that the rents and profits arising from the said houses from the time of my decease until the sale thereof shall from time to time after payment thereout of the costs of fire insurance, repairs, management, fines, fees and costs of renewal of leases out rent and other periodical outgoings be paid and applied in the same manner in all respects as the annual income arising from the monies to be produced by the sale of my land and other property real and personal, directed to be sold,
I give and devise and bequeath all the estates which at the time of my death shall be vested in me upon any trusts or by way of mortgage and of which I shall at the time of my death have power to dispose by will unto the said John FOSTER and Benjamin ASMAN their heirs, executors and administrators respectively according to the nature thereof respectively upon the trusts and subject to the equity of redemption which at my death shall be subsisting or capable of taking effect therein respectively but so that the money received on such mortgages be taken as part of my personal estate and I appoint the said John FOSTER and Benjamin ASMAN their heirs, executors and administrators respectively according to the nature thereof respectively upon the trusts and subject to the equity of redemption which at my death shall be subsisting or capable of taking effect therein respectively, but so that the money received on such mortgages be taken as part of my personal estate and I appoint the said John FOSTER and Benjamin ASMAN and the survivor of them and the executors or administrators of such survivors to compromise or compound any action ???? proceeding, difference, dispute, claim or demand relating to the said trust premises or any part thereof upon any terms which they or he shall think proper and to refer any such difference, dispute, claim or demand to arbitration and to do all acts and to execute all instruments expedient for such purposes or any of them and in all cases in which any question of law or equity shall arise in relation to all or any of the said trust premises to settle and arrange the same in such manner as shall be advised by their or his attorney or counsel and to abandon or relinquish any claim in relation to all or any part of the said trust premises which their or his attorney or counsel shall advise them or him to abandon or relinquish and to adjust, settle and approve all accounts in relation to all or any of the said trust premises and generally to compromise, settle and adjust all claims, accounts, demands and questions in anywise relating to or affecting or arising as to all or any of the said trust premises and to execute, releases and assurances and do all things in relation to all or any of the said trust premises as fully and absolutely to all intents and purposes as the said trustees or trustee for the time being could do if they or he were or was the absolute owners or owner of the said trust premises
And I hereby declare that the receipt or receipts in writing of the said John FOSTER and Benjamin ASMAN or the survivor of them or the heirs executors or administrators of such survivor of the trustees or trustee for the time being acting on the execution of the trusts of this my will for the purchase money of any property hereby directed or authorised to be sold and for any other moneys, stocks, funds or securities paid or transferred to them or him under or by virtue of this my will or in the execution of any of the trusts hereof shall effectively discharge the person or persons paying or transferring such stocks, funds or securities from the same and from being bound to see to the application or being answerable for the misapplication or nonapplication thereof provided always.
And I hereby declare my will to be that if the said trustees hereby constituted or either of them or any trustees or trustee appointed as hereinafter provided shall die or be abroad or desire to be discharged or refuse or become incapable to act then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the survivor or continuing trustees or trustee for the time being and for this purpose refusing or retiring trustees shall if willing to act in the execution of this power be considered continuing trustees or for the acting executors or administrators of the last surviving or continuing trustee to appoint a new trustee or new trustee in the place of the trustee or trustees so dying or being abroad or desiring to be discharged or refusing or becoming incapable to act as aforesaid and that upon every such appointment all the estates, moneys, stocks, funds and securities if any then existing in the trustees or trustee for the time being or in the heirs executors or administrators of the last surviving or continuing trustee shall be so conveyed, assigned and transferred that the same may be vested in the surviving or continuing trustee jointly with such new trustee or in such new trustees solely as the case may require and that every trustee so appointed as aforesaid may either before or after the said trust premises if any shall have been so vested as aforesaid act or assist in the execution of the trusts and powers of this my will as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if I had hereby constituted him a trustee provided always
And I hereby declare my will to be that the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my will shall be respectively chargeable only for such moneys as they shall respectively actually receive notwithstanding their signing any receipt for the sake of conformity and shall be answerable and accountable only for their own acts, receipts, neglects and defaults respectively and not for those of each other nor for any banker, broker or other person with whom any trust monies or securities may be deposited nor for the insufficiency or deficiency of any stocks, funds or securities nor for any other loss unless the same shall happen through their own wilful default respectively and also that it shall be lawful for the said trustees or trustee for the time being to reimburse themselves or himself or pay and discharge out of the trust premises all the expenses incurred in or about the execution of the trusts or powers of this my will in witness whereof I have to this my will contained in this and the six preceding sheets of paper set my hand at the bottom of each of the said six preceding sheets and of this seventh and last sheet this twenty first day of October one thousand eight hundred and sixty five LEMUEL PEPPERDINE

signed published and declared by the said Lemuel PEPPERDINE the testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
Jos SPENCER
William T PAGE junior
clerks to Mr Dale, solicitor of Lincoln

This is a codicil to the last will and testament of me LEMUEL PEPPERDINE of the city of Lincoln, gentleman which bears date the twenty first day of October one thousand eight hundred and sixty five
I give and bequeath to my dear wife or reputed wife Sarah PEPPERDINE all my household furniture, plates, linen, books, pictures, wines, china, glass and all other my household goods whatsoever for her own absolute use and benefit
I also devise and bequeath all that my messuage or dwelling house in which I now reside being number 49 Monson street, Lincoln and which I recently purchased of William SMITH together with the yard garden hereditament and premises thereunto belonging unto and to the use of my said wife or reputed wife Sarah PEPPERDINE her heirs and assigns forever
I give to my son Lemuel Simpson PEPPERDINE my gold watch and chain
And whereas by my said will I have given devised and bequeathed all my real and residuary personal estate whatsoever to John Foster and Benjamin ASMAN upon certain trusts in my said will particularly mentioned and appointed the said John FOSTER and Benjamin ASMAN executors thereof
Now I revoke the said devise bequest and appointment so far as the said John FOSTER is concerned and appoint Joseph SPENCER of the City of Lincoln, attorney's clerk to be a trustee and executor of my said will in the place of the said John FOSTER and I declare that my said will shall be accordingly read and construed as if the name of the said Joseph SPENCER had been therein inserted throughout instead of the name of the said John FOSTER
And in all other respects I confirm my said will in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand set my hand this eleventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and sixty nine LEMUEL PEPPERDINE
signed by the said Lemuel PEPPERDINE as a codicil to his last will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time and at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
W T PAGE junior, clerk to Mr DALE, solicitor Lincoln

Emma Simpson.
I LEMUEL PEPPERDINE of the city of Lincoln, gentleman do hereby declare that my will dated the twenty first day of October one thousand eight hundred and sixty five and a codicil thereto dated the eleventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and sixty nine shall be read and shall take effect as if the name of Edward SIMPSON of the city of Lincoln, corn merchant were written in every part of the said will and codicil respectively wherein the name of Benjamin ASMAN occurs in lieu of such last mentioned name and as if such last mentioned name had been struck out from every part of the said will and codicil respectively in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy one . LEMUEL PEPPERDINE
signed by the said Lemuel PEPPERDINE as a codicil to his last will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
Thurston G DALE, solicitor Lincoln
Robert ASHTON his clerk.

Lemuel PEPPERDINE died 1872 Sept 19th
will proved and registered 1874 July 4th
Somerset House copy written 1874 July 9th
presented at a general court held 1881 Jun 9th at the manor of Waddington parcel of the Castle of Somerton
William ELRIDGE, Thomas BALL.

Susannah PEPPERDINE nee Wheatley 1804 to 1883

First published in PEPPERDINE News Dec 1998
Admission to Lawns Hospital Lincoln
It was shortly after these events that we find a sequence of three PEPPERDINEs admitted to the Lawns. They are not closely related and almost certainly would not have known each other.
The first case was the wife of Samuel one of the Lincoln City PEPPERDINEs
Entry in admissions register reads:
Date of last previous admission. none
Number in order of admission. 1195
Date of admission. 1846dec11
Christian and surname at length. Susannah PEPPERDINE
Sex and class. Pauper female
Age.
Condition as to marriage. Married
Condition of life and previous occupation. Sawyer's wife
Previous place of abode. Lincoln
County union or parish to which chargeable. Lincoln Union
By whose authority sent. Delivery officer
Dates of medical certificates and by whom signed. BROADBENT and SYMPSON 1846dec11
Bodily condition. Good
Duration of existing attack. Four months
Number of previous attacks. none
Age on first attack. 42years
Date of discharge or death. 1847jan25
Discharged Recovered.
Mentions of Susannah PEPPERDINE in extracts from surgeons notes and the House Surgeon's Journals (ref LAWN2/1/9) are as follows:
1846dec11 Friday. Provisionally admitted at a weekly payment of ten shillings, Susannah PEPPERDINE, a married female aged 42 years the wife of a sawyer of the parish of St Botolph, Lincoln, a member of the Church of England, she has been insane for about 4 months, the present being her first attack she is not subject to epilepsy, is both suicidal and dangerous to others. Her general health appears good, one of her breasts is rather irritable from rearing a child, she says she feels very well today, converses rationally on any subject, no symptoms of insanity being visible unless it be the contented manner in which she submits to remaining here.
1846dec16. I have visited all the lunatic patients today. Susannah PEPPERDINE, whom I saw on the 13th, was admitted on the 11th for this her first attack of insanity which commenced about 4 months since but having been well in health since her (condition not readable) about 4 months before that period. No other cause has been assigned for her present disorder. She is uncivil and dangerous towards others. Bodily health appears to be good excepting some slight irritability of her left (breast?).
1846dec22, Tuesday. Medication subscribed.
1846dec31. Not any change.
1847jan13, Wednesday. She has greatly improved since admission. The melancholy has left her. She is cheerful and rational and continually employed.
1847jan14. Is gradually improving.
1847jan17, Sunday. Is still not amongst those allowed to go to church but "remains improved".
1847jan18, Monday. She was visited by her husband who found her as well in mind as he ever knew her to be and is anxious to have her removed but would prefer her being discharged as cured on the recommendation of the physician of the month.
1847jan19. Remains convalescent.
(Note of a general nature):
1847jan20, Wednesday. A violin and flute are continually being played in the upper and lower south gallery giving much amusement.
1847jan23. I recommend to be discharged cured.
1847jan25, Monday. Susannah was discharged recovered and removed forthwith by her sister

David PEPPERDINE 1835 to 1919
First published in PEPPERDINE News Dec 1998

David was born in Lincoln August 1835.
He was ‘apprenticed’ to a grocer, married Mary CLARKSON in May 1860 and in 1861 was operating a grocer’s shop close to Lincoln High Street. In October 1862 Mary died at the early age of 22.
David’s father Lemuel was a Lincoln timber and raff merchant who took an active interest in the affairs of his parish as well as the beginnings of Lincoln’s Local government in the form of Lighting and Paving Commission etc. Lemuel’s sons Lemuel, Joseph, William and David are mentioned in the church warden’s accounts of the parish detailing various services rendered to the parish. From these records I know that David was still living in Lincoln in 1864. However whilst the 1871 census is indexed for the whole of Lincolnshire he is not listed in that county. David’s father died in September 1872 described as timber merchant and gentleman. I have a copy of his will and whilst William showed some interest in the business I believe that it was sold and proceeds divided as most of the wealth would have been in the business.
At present it is not known where David was at the time of the 1871 census. He had inherited some money, no longer had a wife and could possibly have travelled abroad.

Dumbreck’s Model of Jerusalem
“There is no index to the 1871 Census in Scotland. The educational section of the Glasgow directories for the time make no mention of him indeed he is not even named in the street section at Sussex Street when he is known to have been there in 1880. So there is no hint as to when he arrived in Glasgow, but we find him living in a house of above average size in a street off Paisley Road. Paisley Road runs in an east-west direction parallel to the south bank of the Clyde in an area which was being built up at the time. On his marriage certificate he describes his occupation in an unusually specific fashion.
On 21st January 1879 at 39 Sussex Street, Kinning Park after banns, according to the United Presbyterian Church. David PEPPERDINE, lecturer on Dumbreck’s Model of Jerusalem, widower, aged 43. 39 Sussex Street, Kinning Park. parents : Lemuel PEPPERDINE, timber merchant, deceased and Sarah PEPPERDINE, maiden surname Glover, deceased
Janet Wilson, spinster. aged 48 39 Sussex Street, Kinning Park parents: James WILSON, farm manager, deceased and Elizabeth WILSON, maiden surname CLUNIE, deceased.
William THOMSON, minister
witnesses : Andrew WILSON, Agness WILSON reference 1879-644/14-20.
1881 Census 35 Sussex Street, Paisley Road, Kinning Park (3 rooms). David PEPPERDINE, head, married, 45, lecturer, born England
Janet PEPPERDINE, wife, 50, lecturer’s wife, born Fife, Burntisland
John Cranagan, nephew, 12, scholar, born Edinburgh. Reference 1881-644/14-68-59.
He was living in a house of above average size in an area south of the Clyde which only started to be built up in the late 1860s.
(John Cranagan’s birth certificate indicates that his mother was Janet’s sister)
The 1891 Census is indexed and can be accessed on an all Scotland basis. The PEPPERDINEs have moved to Edinburgh. David’s varied career can now be traced in the Edinburgh directories.
He appears in the street section at 8 Maxwell Street in 1890-91.
However in 1894-95 he appears in the alphabetical list as David PEPPERDINE, dry salter and general merchant, 8 Lauriston Street house 8 Maxwell Street.
1896-97, 1897-98, 1898-99 D PEPPERDINE, ironmonger and dry-salter, 153a Rose Street.
1899-1900, 1900-01 D PEPPERDINE, ironmonger and dry-salter, 178 Rose Street (still appearing in the street section at 8 Maxwell Street).
In 1901-02 he is not shown, even at Maxwell Street. He is now aged about 66 and possibly in poor health (see below) and may have retired from business and moved house.
The couple’s death certificates:-
Janet PEPPERDINE, married to David PEPPERDINE, secretary and lecturer, retired, died 24th December 1918, 9am at Cottage Homes, Redford Road, Colinton, Edinburgh aged 88.
parents: James WILSON, farm grieve, deceased and Elizabeth WILSON, maiden surname Clunie,
deceased cause of death : granular kidney; senile decay; coma
informant ; David PEPPERDINE, widower
reference 1918-677-506
David PEPPERDINE, dry-salter, retired, widower of Janet Wilson died 12th May 1919, 4.30pm at 1 Marchmont Road, Edinburgh aged 83.parents ; Samuel* PEPPERDINE, contractor, deceased and Sarah PEPPERDINE, maiden surname Glover,
deceased cause of death : chronic mitral disease of heart, many years ; influenza, 20 days
informant : Geo M Horne, occupier
reference 1919-685/6-805.
[*His father’s name was Lemuel, but entered here as Samuel in error.]
In view of David’s chronic heart disease and advanced age it is not surprising that he succumbed to the great influenza epidemic of 1918-19.
We know that David PEPPERDINE was lecturing in Glasgow at least between 1879 and 1881 but this is the only information we have as to his whereabouts between 1865 and 1890. Another almost insoluble problem!

What was this model of Jerusalem ?
A library catalogue in Glasgow refers to “Description of the model (Brunetti’s?) of ancient Jerusalem” (1848). Presumably David had been lecturing on the same or a similar model showing the buildings of Jerusalem in biblical times. Is this an Italian name? There was a Florentine architect 1377 to 1446 named Brunelleschi.
The library in Glasgow replied to my question by saying that models of Jerusalem were quite popular in Victorian times and most large Cities would have had one. So far it has not been possible to trace the whereabouts of any of them or to find any other reference to them.

Benjamin PEPPERDINE 1843 to 1881
First published in PEPPERDINE News Dec 1999

Two PEPPERDINE boys are known to have attended Lincoln Blue Coat School. The story of Benjamin’s D.1.7.5 life is incomplete It is known that when he left the Blue Coat School he took a position with a railway company as a clerk at a Lincoln Station where he was employed in 1861. Where he was at the time of the 1871 and 1881 census is not known. We do know that he died in Addenbrooks Hospital in Cambridge of kidney failure in December 1881. More can be discovered if he can be identified on the recently compiled index to the 1881 census. Possibly his name is spelt with an incorrect initial letter.
Due to the early death of his father Benjamin was seen as a suitable case for charitable assistance and sent to the Blue Coat School in Lincoln. Here we find him at the time of the 1851 census. By the time of the 1861 census he was employed as a clerk at the local railway station.
Benjamin has not yet been found on the 1871 census but we can be virtually certain that he was not in Lincolnshire at that time as the whole census for the county has been indexed Possibly he was employed on the railways and escaped the census altogether. It is difficult to imagine this happening again ten years later but despite the fact that the census of 3 April 1881 has been indexed for the whole of England, Wales and Scotland he does not appear to be present. However when all of the county indexes have been combined into a single index it will be possible to explore the possibility that his name has been misspelled e.g. Epperdine or Hepperdine etc. So far 210 PEPPERDINEs have been found in 1881 but these results may change later. Lincolnshire 124, Yorkshire 26, Surrey (inc part of London)12, Huntingdonshire 7, Nottinghamshire 7, Durham 6, Lancashire 6, Middlesex 6, Northamptonshire 4, Derbyshire 3, Kent 2, Leicestershire 2, Sussex 2, Lanarkshire (Scotland) 2, Bedfordshire 1, Norfolk 1. The 1 occurrence in Norfolk is also a railwayman whose father moved the family from Fiskerton to London. He is staying overnight in a hostel near the railway station in Norwich on census night whilst his wife and family are in London which is clearly his home.

Benjamin’s fate
It is rarely worth while to purchase copies of death certificates but in this case it ought to have revealed Benjamin’s occupation.
The death is recorded in 1881 in the St Mary the Great sub district of Cambridge Registration District. This tells us that a 38 year old male Benjamin PEPPERDINE died in Addenbrookes Hospital on 9th December. He died of acute Nephritus and Uraemia. His death was registered the day after he died by his sister Sarah Tatton of 5 Broad Gate Lincoln who must surely already have been visiting him when he died.
Under ‘occupation’ the certificate says only that he was ‘of no occupation in lodgings at Cambridge’

Medical note
Uraemia or Uraemia is an accumulation of toxins in the body following kidney failure. Often patients are not aware that anything is wrong until they have the equivalent of only half of one kidney functioning Nephritis can be (P) Pyelonephritis a bacterial infection of the kidneys or (G) Glomerulonephritis which is non infective and usually affects both kidneys. (P) is more common in female patients, in childhood, in the elderly or during pregnancy
(G) is more common in males it can arise following an enlarged prostate but it is doubtful whether Benjamin was old enough, Diabetes Mellitus, high blood pressure or kidney stones are other possible causes. Some diabetes may be hereditary.
In the absence of dialysis or kidney transplants Benjamin would not have been curable in those days

Joseph PEPPERDINE 1848 to 1920
Look in the Local Studies Library in Lincoln and you may discover reference to a PEPPERDINE who had attended the Blue Coat School and was listed amongst examples of the Old boys who had left the school between 1855 and 1870 quoted as evidence that the education provided was effective. The full list is
Henry BROWN--Itinerant Wesleyan Minister
Thomas BOULTON-- London solicitor
George COULSON--Travelling a/c inspector Great Northern Railway Company
Benjamin COLBECK--Assistant auditor to the Gloucester Banking Co
David DOWNS--Manager of men's department for many years Mawer and Collingham Lincoln
John KENT--Managing clerk at Messrs Ruston Co's foundry, Lincoln
Arthur LESTER--Author of a standard work on County Court Practice
Henry LONGDEN--Commercial traveller for a large Manchester house

Joseph PEPPERDINE--Owner and occupier of a very good draper's shop in Leicester
Herbert SPALDING--Outfitter, owner and occupier of one of the largest shops in Stockton on Tees
W B SAMUELS--Editor and Proprietor of a newspaper in Barrow in Furness
William TAYLOR--Master draper Grimsby, own shop
Joshua WHEATLEY--Town clerk of Cardiff
John WILLIAMSON--Traveller and correspondent for Messrs Roby and Company
George WARMALL (or WARNELL)--Architect in good practice in Stafford
(Christ's hospital Foundation in Lincoln by Catherine L Cunningham). A bound set of photocopies of a typed book. Another book covering the same ground by another author is also deposited at the Local Studies Library.

Joseph was born in the parish of St Peter at Gowts, Lincoln in 1848jan16. By the time of the 1851 census Joseph was 2 years old and living at Pelham Street Lincoln with his father Lemuel (the eldest son of the timber merchant) and his mother Mary together with his brother Lemuel aged 4 and his sister Mary aged 1.
His mother died in 1953 whereupon his father remarried almost immediately. This was not to last for his father died shortly afterwards in mid December 1854. Joseph was therefore a suitable candidate for the charity to finance his education. At the date of the 1861 census living at the Blue Coat School in Christ’s Hospital Terrace as a 13 year old scholar. Joseph’s stepmother Frances married George Curtis in 1864.
After a short period in Nottingham, Joseph moved to Leicester where he married Sarah Ann ROBERTS then aged 32 at St Mary’s church 1872 September 28. He is described as a draper and must have learned this trade somewhere. At the date of his marriage he is living at 6 Cheapside whilst Sarah Ann probably lives with her father at 27 South Gate Street .
Before the Electoral Reform Act of 1832 only a small proportion of men were able to vote in national elections. Before 1872 there was no secret ballot, each voter had to announce his vote publicly. By the time we find Joseph in Leicester he was entitled to vote in a secret ballot and we find him in electoral registers (and for the purpose of local elections separate Burgess Rolls)
In 1875 there is no mention of him and the premises at 6 Cheapside, which had been occupied by Oliver Stanley BROWN in 1874, are unoccupied.
In 1881 we find Joseph listed (Polling District) St Martins Ward, (Abode) 6 Cheapside, (Nature of qualification) House, (Name and situation of qualifying property) 6 Cheapside.
Between these dates he is regularly listed as a voter living at 6 Cheapside and continues to do so until 1886.
Some years ago it was noticed in the London Gazette of March 1886 that Joseph had been declared bankrupt. There are three entries in the records. All show debtor’s name as Joseph PEPPERDINE, address 6 Cheapside, Description Draper’s assistant, Court Leicester, reference number 12 of 1886.
The first says “Date of petition 25 Feb 1886 Date of public examination 10 March 1886 at 10 am”
The second says “Date of meeting 11 March 1886 at 12.30pm at the offices of the official receiver, 28 Friar Lane, Leicester”
The third says “Date of order 27 Feb 1886 . Date of petition 25 Feb 1886 . Name of trustee if appointed, none. Address of trustee if appointed, none”.
He is described in all these records as a draper’s assistant and there is nothing to suggest that he ever owned a drapery business. Possibly he did own the shop between 1876 and 1885 and was an assistant there before and after these dates.
After this experience he and Sarah Ann whose father had been a grocer in Leicester , moved to March in Cambridgeshire where they ran a grocery business for the rest of their working lives. Joseph lived to the age of 73 dying in 1920 Feb 3rd and Sarah Ann survived him by 11 years to die at the age of 91. They had no children but Sarah was entitled to vote with effect from 1918 when votes were given to women of at least 30 years of age (later extended in 1928 to women of at least 21 years)

The Blue Coat School Lincoln
Blue was of course the colour grown by the ancient Britons to dye their skin, in later centuries to create the Lincoln Green dye and towards the end of its production mixed with indigo to fix the colour in woollen cloth.
Blue was an inexpensive and readily available dye. There is a very good and full account of its production in "General View of the Agriculture of the county of Lincolnshire" by Arthur Young, who reports that woad was still grown extensively at Brothertoft in 1800 .(A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire by W H Wheeler) first published in 1868 indicates that it was still being grown in the Fens.
Arthur YOUNG calls the plant Genista Tinctoria but Wheeler, I believe correctly, calls it Isatis Tinctoria.
Isatis Tinctoria. yellow flowered perennial or biennial herb belonging to Cruciferae”. (The Woad Plant and its dye Dr J B Harry OUP1930) It has recently been suggested that the growing of woad (which lasted into the first quarter of the twentieth century in the Lincolnshire Fens) should be taken up again.
Many years earlier in late Tudor times "Licences to beg from door to door in a given area were issued by the Kirk Session in Scotland to privileged 'gaberlunzies', or 'blue gowns'. Many of them, acted as welcome carriers of news to lonely farms, repositories of regional lore and legend-popular, respectable figures with a place of their own in rural society”
English Social History G M TREVELYN) There is probably no connection with the later English charities

The school building
“Lincoln The church of St Michael-on-the Mount (in Christ's Hospital Terrace) was erected in 1854, in place of a small church in 1744 of materials from one destroyed in the Civil War. Its oldest possession is a bell dated 1486. In the vestry is a memorial dated 1837, which has figures of two Bluecoat School boys, one weeping, and one pointing to an inscription to the Master and Matron of Christ's Hospital, their old school on the other side of the Terrace, built in the 18th century and used until the school was closed in 1883” (A house in St Michael's churchyard was the first home of the Lincoln Bluecoat School which was founded in 1602.
( Arthur MEE The King's England-Lincolnshire)

“On the north side of Christ's Hospital Terrace, nicely placed, is the old Bluecoat School (now an annex to the Lincolnshire College of Art), designed in 1784 by William LUMBY. Five bays, three stories, brick with stone details. The ground floor windows are odd; square set in a blank arcade with a round-arched stone head-the same motif as on the CARR-LUMBY prison. Also stone is the doorway, with a Doric pediment. The plinth is again stone, probably re- used from an earlier building. To the right a slightly later extension, with similar arcading. Venetian window lighting a 'Great Room'. Nice details inside, particularly the staircase”.
(N Pevsner The Buildings of England-Lincolnshire )

Dr Richard SMITH
“The Lincoln Christ's Hospital-to give it its proper name-had been founded by Richard SMITH, a native of Welton by Lincoln who had practiced as a doctor in London, for twelve poor boys from city, Bail and Close and the two nearby parishes of Welton and Potterhanworth. Of this latter place he had been lord of the manor, and he gave the manor as the endowment of his hospital. SMITH died in 1602, and the hospital was incorporated in 1611”. (Georgian Lincoln Sir Francis Hill).

Potterhanworth. “By the chancel arch is a modern brass set up in honour of a 16th century lord of the manor-Richard SMITH founder of Christ's Hospital at Lincoln. Dr Smith was laid to rest in Welton 12 miles away, in 1602”. “Welton the church has a window with a portrait of Richard SMITH in a fur-lined purple gown, a panel showing some of his bluecoat boys going under the Stonebow arch at Lincoln in procession to St Mark's Church, and another panel showing him making his will, his wife, nephew, and faithful servant by his side. The church also has a brass inscription set up in 1902 on the tercentenary of his death and in the churchyard is a cross with carvings of the Madonna and the Crucifixion raised to his memory by old Bluecoat boys”. ( Arthur MEE The King's England-Lincolnshire)

“Christ's Hospital, commonly called ‘the Blue Coat School’ near the west gate of the palace, was originally endowed by Richard Smith M D, who in 1602 bequeathed the manor and lands at Potter Hanworth, for maintaining and educating 12 poor boys, to which bequest various munificent additions were subsequently made and the benefits of the charity from 1815 till 1883 had been gradually extended to upwards of 120 boys, who were lodged, boarded, clothed and educated till the age of 15 and then apprenticed”. ( Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1930)

The Lincoln Bluecoat school
"The Bluecoat School was the most popular charitable institution in Lincoln. (There were others in Lincolnshire for example Folkingham and Barton on Humber). It had attracted further endowments from a number of notable residents. Dr Peter RICHIER of the Bail (by codicil dated 1732) had provided for two more boys, one from an uphill parish (St Mary Magdalene) and one from a downhill parish (St Martin). Alderman John LOBSEY, by will dated 1748, left £200 to provide for another boy from St Martin. Edward HOLLAND (1749) did the like, Alderman John HOOTON (1767) provided for another city boy. Richard BARKER (1766) left £100, directing that at the end of seven years the interest should be paid to so many honest and industrious old scholars as the master and governors should think fit, the minimum payment being £5.
By 1786 there were 17 poor boys in the school. Other gifts came in; in 1804 Samuel LYON, sometime town clerk, left £500 to increase the number of boys. The greatest increase of income however came from the enclosure of the lordship of Potterhanworth, as a result of which the annual rental rose from £194 to £393: and when leases fell in and holdings were rearranged it reached £807. The Witham drainage works added 600 acres to the area of profitable cultivation.
As the hospital prospered the governors felt justified in building a new hospital house. William LUMBY was commissioned to build it, and it was completed by 1785. By the end of the century the cost was paid off, and an annual surplus was being invested in Consolidated Stock.
The boys remained in the school to the age of 16, when they were put out as apprentices. They were well looked after. They must be in by 5 o'clock in winter and 8 in summer. They must not go to fairs, markets or races unaccompanied. They might visit relatives living in the town once a month, or in the country twice a year. They might bathe in the river twice a week at the proper seasons, and they might be employed in milking cows or upon the other business of the family as the rules prescribed. It was not until later that questions began to arise about the success of the hospital."
Like the grammar school, the Bluecoat School had difficulty in changing with changing times. Joseph FOWLER wrote of it in 1812 that the Bluecoat School, which is an excellent establishment where upwards of 30 boys are boarded and educated until able to take care of themselves if fit for service, and the most industrious and attentive are put to respectable trades. There is now one apprentice to the first surgeon in Lincoln, and another to a respectable ironmonger that I know of.
In 1837 the Charity Commissioners reported on the hospital. The school itself they found good. A boy rarely left it without a thorough knowledge of reading, writing and arithmetic. The diet was excellent (though a little earlier the visiting governors often complained of the poor quality of the boys' beer) and the clothing good; and on leaving each boy was given a complete suit of clothes, a Bible and Prayer Book. The management of the charity was found satisfactory
But when the commissioners turned to consider how the boys fared after leaving, they found that not a few conducted themselves ill. A special meeting was held for inquiries; taking Lincoln boys only, apprenticed from 1830, half behaved themselves ill, a quarter well, and of the remaining quarter there was no information. Those only were put in the first class who had either run away from their masters, or who had been imprisoned for one or other petty offences. The record of the Potterhanworth boys was worse; the rector said that with scarcely one exception the boys in after life turned out the most idle and dissolute in the parish. The commissioners had their explanation. They said that the boys were taken at the age of 7 from amongst the poorest and most indigent. They soon forgot their hardship, and were well fed, clothed, lodged, treated and educated. At 14 their condition changed for the worse. They were apprenticed to some mechanical trade, and met with hard work and harder fare; and they were subject to a master perhaps ignorant of even the rudiments of that education in which the apprentice was skilled. It was not surprising, held the commissioners, that a boy should become dissatisfied and run away. This generally happened in the first year, and there was then little chance of the boy continuing steady and industrious. Some boys got posts as clerks or bookkeepers, and in these cases the boys behaved well. The commissioners made it plain that in their opinion the fault did not lie in the boys themselves, but in the circumstances to which they were subjected". (Georgian Lincoln Sir Francis HILL)

“The school was finally closed on the 21st December 1883 and the building sold and its endowments, in accordance with the new scheme, are diverted so as to provide 34 exhibitions of £20 each for boys from elementary schools, and tenable at the grammar school, of which 24 are assigned to Lincoln Elementary schools, 5 to the school at Potter Hanworth and 5 to the school at Welton; two several yearly sums of £50 (to be increased to £100) are also awarded by the scheme for the advancement of education in these parishes; entrance scholarships and a leaving exhibition for girls from elementary schools and tenable at the Girl's High School were provided out of the same fund”. (Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1930)

Emma Simpson PEPPERDINE 1861 -
By Gladys Simpson of Lincoln, England

Emma Simpson PEPPERDINE was born in 1860 to Lemuel PEPPERDINE 61, timber merchant and Sarah Simpson 34. Sarah was his second wife. Lemuel PEPPERDINE was born in 1799. Emma was only 10 when he died
Emma lived all her life in the beautiful city of Lincoln, England, probably attending her Aunt and Uncle’s school. Joseph and Sarah PEPPERDINE’s. Later in life she became treasurer of Lincoln Ladies Co-operative Guild, a meeting of members to exchange views and attend lectures. Lincoln Co-operative Society was set up in 1861 to work for the common good when prices were sky high. They sold good food and started benefit and burial clubs. Dividend is still paid on goods bought in their shops.
Emma married George Doughty in 1881. They had 7 children only 3 survived. A baby would be born and another would die.
Her husband was a bell ringer at Lincoln Cathedral high on the hill above the city which can be seen for miles.
Emma died in 1915. She must have been well loved as George committed suicide 3 years later.
Emma’s mirror brush and candlestick are still used

Alice 1867 to 1946

AUNTY SIS by Olive PEPPERDINE of Hertfordshire England

This is the story of Miss Alice PEPPERDINE (known to us as Sis or Aunty Sis). She was the youngest daughter in the family of Lemuel PEPPERDINE and his wife Mary Ann (SOUTHWELL). She was born before my father George and John Robert PEPPERDINE’s grandfather William. There were two older sisters (a third had died as an infant) and two older brothers Robert and Charles.
She was, when young a rather awkward shy sensitive girl and her brothers offered to pay for her to go to a very good private school in Lincoln ‘Miss METCALF’s Academy’, which had a very good name. They felt that it was what she needed. However Grandmother PEPPERDINE put paid to the idea. She said that girls did not need an education like that and she was needed at home to help with her brothers and sister, her older sisters having married. Aunty Sis would have liked it very much and was very bitter about it.
I think a young man showed some interest in her but was rather put off by her shyness.

The first shop

All her brothers and sisters eventually married (between 1882 and 1905) and left home. Her father Lemuel died in 1912 and the family put up money to set her up in a little shop where she sold newspapers and sweets etc. It was towards the end of the High Street and might possibly have been in her home. They lived above it and after her mother died in 1921, she let a bedroom and her sitting room to a lodger, a widow called Mrs Walk. They got on very well together and members of the family were welcome there. In fact we spent as much time in Mrs Walk’s room as in Aunty’s part. She was much happier and I remember her then as a real jolly person where we always had a romp and a good laugh. Her whole life was in the family.

Domestic service
However times change and bigger shops grew in Lincoln. Aunty’s shop began to lose trade and she had to give it up and also leave the premises. Unfortunately as she had no educational qualifications the only job she was able to take was domestic service. She went to quite a big house up the hill and was not very happy there. She was a proud person, it was a big come down and they were not very nice to her. One day a valuable broach was missing and she was accused of taking it. She was upset and sent for Uncle William who made it clear we were a good family and the PEPPERDINEs did not do such things. The broach was eventually found on someone else but Aunty Sis did not remain there

Changing fortunes
Fortune at last began to shine on her. Her eldest sister had been married to a man called William Lawson (a farmer and a problem). Sarah had a difficult life and died in her forties leaving two children Alice and Bert. Bert was taken in by the main PEPPERDINE family and brought up like a younger brother. Alice went to a good family as a help and companion to their daughter. Whilst there the first World War came to an end and a returning soldier Bert FARMER, came and visited at the farm. He met Alice Lawson and asked her to marry him. It was at tea time and she was so surprised, thinking he was interested in the daughter, that she said she put fish paste on her cake. he was the nicest person and they were neither of them young, but they had five happy years. They went first to Maltby in Yorkshire where he worked in a grocers shop. Then they bought their own grocery and drapery business in New Leake near Boston Lincolnshire. Unfortunately Bert FARMER had been gassed in the war and although he was considered to have been cured, it was not to be so, and he died quite suddenly.

The second shop
It was sad for Alice after only five years marriage but she was no stranger to loss and difficulty and was practical. The shop was doing well and she decided to keep it on. She asked Aunty Sis to go and keep house for her.
Bert LAWSON who had been brought up by PEPPERDINEs and married, now had a son and daughter (also called Alice). She was a really beautiful girl and also pleasant and delightful and they sent her to help the older Alice in the shop where she was a great asset as you may imagine. The three Alices were now living together, so for many years Aunty Sis was settled and happy. The smaller picture was taken during this time. She still saw members of the family and she came sometimes to stay with my mother, Eva and me for her holidays, my father George having died in 1924. We liked having her. She was still proud and sensitive but had quite a sense of humour and although not well off, she always gave me half a crown (an eighth of a pound and quite a sum in those days) when she left.

On the move again
However nothing lasts for ever, there were more changes. Little Alice LAWSON, married and left and Alice Farmer, decided she had had enough of the shop and sold it. Aunty Sis had reached retirement age and got her old age pension. She has always kept in touch with Mrs WALK who was not too happy where she was. They decided to combine forces again. Mrs WALK rented a flat in Lincoln City and Aunty Sis went to live there. However this time there was a difference. Mrs WALK was now the land lady and main financier and she was older and failing in health. She expected Aunty Sis to do all the housework and shopping and look after her quite a bit. It was not the kind of retirement Aunty Sis had planned and she was resentful. Eventually they parted company.
Aunty Sis tried two other places with people she knew but she could be difficult and needed understanding and it did not work out. She began to feel that no one wanted her and went a bit funny in the head. She was found wandering in Lincoln. Uncle William was contacted and took her in their home for a while but it could not continue. Mother and I came down from London where we were then living to see her but we could not have her in London. Once again Alice FARMER stepped in. She had not been settled since she gave up the shop near Boston and decided to rent a house at Sutton on Sea on the Lincolnshire coast. She took Aunty Sis so that she could look after her. Members of the family went to visit there which was nice it being a seaside place.
However Aunty Sis was never quite the same again and eventually she began to fail altogether. At last, my mother was called down from London to help and see to the home leaving Alice FARMER to do the nursing. Then Aunty Sis died. I was glad to say that to the very last she was amongst the family who had meant so much to her.

Conclusion
Two things came out of the experience. My father had been very angry that Grandmother PEPPERDINE had not allowed her to go to the academy and he saved money and made it his greatest wish that I should have a good education which I did and have been grateful for it. My uncle William and his wife were determined that their third child Betty should also keep her career even when it became difficult and her mother was ill and needed help at home. They made sure Betty should never be placed as Aunty Sis was after their death.
This is the simple story of not an outstanding person but one who played her part in all our lives

Robert Henry PEPPERDINE 1877 to 1953
by Evelyn Scott of Calgary Canada first published in PEPPERDINE News Dec 1997

This has been one of Calgary’s longest, coldest, snowiest winters on record. The icy fingers of the north wind are pushing the drifting snow around my back yard as I gaze to the northwest toward the hill and prairies. My thoughts travel ahead past the hill and over the prairie to a place of trees, rolling hills and isolation, located west of Carstairs and north of Cochrane. This is where my grandparents, Robert Henry and Edith PEPPERDINE, first homesteaded, and here is their story.

Life in England 1877-1904
My grandfather, Robert Henry (known as Harry or “Pep”) was born in Lincoln on December 30, 1877. His father, Joseph PEPPERDINE died of tuberculosis when Harry was just a baby. His mother, Elizabeth was to remarry, but Harry did not get along with his step father, rebelling, not going to school, and finally leaving home to live elsewhere. We understand that he had music and dancing lessons and also some training in drafting, but none of these would prepare him for homesteading in Canada. He met and married my grandmother, Edith CODD, in Sleaford in 1897. Soon the family started to grow, and by 1901 there were three children: Annie CODD, Joseph Henry and Ethel Mary. The family, which had been living in Lincoln, moved to Sheffield where Alice was born, but returned to Lincoln sometime before the birth of my father, Frederick William, April 14, 1903. Perhaps it was a legacy that brought them back to Lincoln since the will of Sarah PEPPERDINE, April 1901, left one sixth of her estate to Robert Henry. The estate included two houses on Great Northern Terrace, my father was born when they resided at 73 Great Northern Terrace. This legacy likely also gave them enough funds to emigrate to Canada in 1904.
The question arises as to why this young family should leave their home in Lincoln and travel to a new land, which was virtually undeveloped and so different from England. To compile this story, I have used a cassette in which my Aunt Ethel, their third child, leaves us her memories of travelling to Canada and their early life at both the homestead and Calgary.

Calgary 1873-1904
To give a little history of Calgary, we will go back to the year 1873. At this time Calgary was just a spacious valley through which two good sized rivers flowed, the Bow from the west and the Swift (Elbow) from the southwest. It was a land covered with long grass and numerous small lakes swarming with wild fowl. To the west towered the Rocky Mountains, some peaks reaching over 10,000 feet. To the east was a vast expanse of prairie. Where the Bow and Elbow met was a gathering place for Indians.
As young men in the United States were being told to go west, some were also straying north into Canada. The great buffalo herds in the United States were being depleted, and so began the whisky trade American whisky for Canadian buffalo. In 1873 the North West Mounted Police were formed to bring law and order to western Canada . The newly-formed force, consisting of a motley collection of soldiers, farmers, clerks, tradesmen, professors, bartenders, students and some who were simply fun seekers left Fort Dufferin (about 60 miles south of Winnipeg) on July 8, 1874 . After much wandering, they finally reached what was to become Fort Calgary in 1875. Calgary became a town in 1884 and a city in 1894. The first train service between Winnipeg and Calgary began in 1883, and by 1901 there were 4,091 souls living in Calgary.
The Canadian Pacific Railway, which owned land, launched its colonization and immigration through the Canada Northwest Land Company. Land was offered at $2.50 per acre, one sixth in cash, followed by five annual instalments, and finally a rebate was given for working the land. Europe, particularly Britain, was targeted for settlers. Glowing reports about a Garden of Eden, with an abundance of fish and game, were circulated in the British Isles, Germany, France, Holland, Finland and Norway. At the same time the target countries didn’t want to lose their people, and reports of the many hardships, including temperatures from 20 to 50 degrees below zero F. and frozen cattle and sheep, were also circulated.
Perhaps Harry and Edith heard only the good, or maybe it was a sense of adventure - - everyone was doing it - - that brought them to Canada.

From England to Canada, May 1904
Harry and Edith gathered their family together, and with five other parties, sailed for Canada from the port of Liverpool. My Aunt Ethel, who was four years old at the time, remembers little of the sea voyage trip, except “there was a whole sea of people on the ship.” One of the parties to accompany Harry and Edith was Harry’s older sister, Gertrude Emily, who was accompanied by her four-year old daughter, Hilda. Her husband, Oswald Augustus Irvine WITTARD, had remained in England and did not emigrate. The trip across the ocean possibly took more then a week.
The ship on which they arrived was the Tunisian, docking at Halifax, on the Canadian east coast. The trip from Halifax to Calgary took about a week, and my aunt described it as “awful”. The Calgary Herald’s book, “Calgary”, gives us some idea of conditions on the train.“Passengers sat on hard, slatted seats and likely never knew the reason for the slats was that they made it easier to fumigate the cars between loads.They slept or tried to sleep, in cumbersome pull-down bunks or on the seats themselves, which also pulled down to form makeshift beds. In the summer, windows were a problem. Leave them closed and the car became hopelessly stuffy. Open them and cinders blew in until everyone was coated with black dust.A pot-bellied stove was provided for heat, and another stove with an oven so that passengers could warm up soup or milk, make tea or coffee. Fuel was supplied, but it sometimes ran out and passengers had to forage for wood during stops.Each newcomer was expected to bring his own luggage and enough food for a five-day journey.”
On arriving in Calgary, all the parties stayed at hotel(s). The men plus Gertrude Emily, went to the Land Titles Office and stood in line for 2 or 3 days to register for property, likely a section of land each, in the foothills north of Cochrane. The land was all adjoining and covered with fir trees.
Soon the parties left Calgary in horse-drawn wagons, taking with them their household effects, which did not include furniture, only packed cases with pans, utensils, linens, clothing. The journey took them north from Calgary to Carstairs and then about 25 miles west to the land that was to be their homestead. As there were no houses or structures of any kind on the land, a good portion of their first year was spent living in a tent while Harry built a log cabin. Even though the cabin was small, it did provide a roof of sorts over their heads. With winter arriving, the cabin was more or less finished except for the roof, which consisted of boards with sod placed on top.
In southern Alberta we have a phenomenon called the Chinook. This is a warm, dry wind that arrives from the west, having dropped all its precipitation over the mountains. In a matter of minutes or hours the temperature will climb some 20 to 60 degrees F, thawing everything in its wake. Of course, the north wind can win out, and the whole procedure can be reversed in short order.
Well, winter arrived and they almost froze in the log cabin, which would have no form of insulation (and probably not much to heat it). During this time they witnessed their first Chinook, and the snow on the sod roof melted, sending cascades of muddy water down onto the occupants of the cabin. Some of the children had to be sent to neighbours (not just next door as in a city) until the roof could be finished.
Now sometime while the cabin was under construction, Harry was using an axe, which slipped, going through his shoe and almost severing his big toe. He was strapped to a wagon, and taken to Carstairs, where he spent about six weeks in hospital. During this time Edith who was pregnant, heard nothing of his progress, but had to remain on the homestead with their children, listening to the wolves and coyotes howling outside.
On May 14, 1906 , their sixth child, Edith May was born on the homestead. In the winter following her birth there was still very little heat in the cabin. Aunt Ethel reports that baby May’s gown froze around her legs, they slept with their mattresses on top of them, and often found their hair coated with frost in the morning.
While living on the homestead the children were sent to a one-room school, which accommodated about 30 pupils, some of whom rode to school on horseback. Aunt Ethel remembers that they had to walk, so they did not attend school too often in the winter. On the homestead Harry tried to clear the land, but was not successful. Finally the family moved to Didsbury, a town just north of Carstairs, and Harry travelled to Brickburn, a small settlement to the west of Calgary, where bricks were manufactured. Here, in 1908, he found a job at the Crandell Brick Company. Edith travelled from Didsbury by train with the six children to join him.
Unfortunately, disaster struck again while he was working at the brick company. The trolley came down the track, the cable broke and dumped clay on the men, burying them. For Harry this meant a smashed up leg, and he was taken to the hospital in Calgary where he remained for about six weeks while the leg injury healed. Harry was reduced to crutches for sometime after the accident. Very little compensation was received, and this likely precipitated his looking for a different line of work in Calgary. On September 25, 1908 during their stay in Brickburn, their seventh child, a daughter, Gertrude Ada, was born.
In 1910 Harry started work at the City Hall in Calgary with the treasurer’s department. The family moved to Calgary, living in the Hillhurst and then the Sunnyside districts, which are both fairly close to the downtown area where the City Hall is located.
In 1913 the family received another legacy from England, quite possibly that of Emily of 14 Canwick Road, Lincoln, who left an estate of £1.043. This enabled them to buy a house on the northern outskirts of the city. They had a garden, more room, a furnace, and eventually electricity and inside plumbing when each became available. Aunt Ethel reports that the Indians often camped on the land between their home and the downtown area, but cannot remember any incidents with them.
In 1914, Edith returned to England for a visit, taking her younger daughters, May and Gertrude, with her. They were planning to stay for six months, but the war broke out, and she was most anxious to return home as she was pregnant with their eighth child. George was born in Calgary on January 14 1915.
In 1916 Harry joined the army, but was discharged after six months training at Sarcee Camp (located in south Calgary, due to the earlier leg injury. Following discharge he re-joined the city treasurer’s department and was transferred to the land department upon its organization in 1922.
On September 28, 1920 their daughter Hilda was born, and on December 6, 1921 their last son, Jack .
By this time, some of their elder children were also starting to marry and have families of their own. The PEPPERDINE descendents of Robert Henry were listed at the beginning of this article
Harry and Edith’s golden years;
In 1945 Harry retired and moved to Selma Park, B.C. This is a beautiful spot on the Sunshine Coast, just north of Vancouver, and reached by ferry. There they had a little cottage, close to the ocean where he could watch the ships with his binoculars. I often feel that people as they grow older like to return to their roots, and perhaps this little cottage reminded them of their little log cabin and the warmer climate close to the sea would be reminiscent of their earlier days in England.
On November 19, 1953 Harry passed away, and his funeral was held in Vancouver. His wife, Edith, continued to live with her daughters until her death in Calgary on November 22, 1962.
Calgary has grown to a city of over 768,000 people, and the PEPPERDINE clan of Western Canada has grown too, with Harry and Edith’s grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren scattered mostly between Calgary and Vancouver Island. The bungalow on the north end of Calgary is gone, but memories of old times linger on

The PEPPERDINEs of Western Canada
ANNIE CODD (b Feb 14, 1896; d Oct 8, 1967) married Hector Raynor JACKSON, who was in the Canadian Forces and afterwards was employed in the oil industry. They had a daughter and two sons.
JOSEPH HENRY (b Mar 31, 1898 , Lincoln; d Mar 21, 1965 ) married Phyllis TAPLIN. Joseph served overseas in the first world war (1916-18). He was in the painting and decorating business, but in 1955 they moved to Penticton, B.C. where they had an orchard. They had one son;
Henry Lorne Charles (legally changed to Lance).
Lance is an engineer and computer scientist. He married Anne Mary SMIGIELSKI and they have two children;
Pamela Anne (b April 12, 1960) married Reginald MOORE and they have a son and daughter
Chris Phyllis (b Feb, 13, 1962), whose husband is Dino CREMONESE, and they have two daughters.
ETHEL MARY (b Sept, 3 1899, Lincoln; d June, 1985) married James BATEMAN, who had an orchard in Creston, B.C. They had five sons. They retired to Vancouver, B.C.
ALICE (b 1901, Sheffield) died at age 16.
Frederick William (b April 14, 1903, Lincoln; d Jan, 16 1995)
married Matilda Annie JONES. He worked for Alberta Government Telephones for over 40 years as cable man, cable foreman and in the Engineering Department. He had three daughters;
Margaret May (b Feb 16, 1930; d Feb 18 , 1930)
Evelyn Doris (b Nov, 12, 1931). Married Raymond Edward SCOTT and has two sons. Resides in Calgary.
Shirley Anne (b May 31, 1937). Married Lawrence WIESHLOW and has two daughters (adopted). Resides in Las Vegas , Nevada, U.S.A.
Edith May (b May 14, 1906, homestead in the Dogpound-Cremona area, Alberta; d Jan 29, 1993 ) married Benjamin Charles COOL, who was a long-time employee of the Canadian Pacific Railway, They had a son and a daughter. They retired to Victoria B.C.
Gertrude Ada (name later changed to Gertrude Helen) (b Sept 25, 1908, Brickburn, Alberta; d Mar 13, 1997 ) married Eric JONES, a designer and builder of homes. They had two daughters and a son. Eric died in 1980 and Gertrude in High River , Alberta, where she resided with her older daughter.
GEORGE (b Jan 14, 1915; d May 31, 1993) married Sybil EDWARDS. George worked in the painting and home decorating business and later opened a camera and hobby store, which is now operated by his eldest son. He was also very musical, playing a bass fiddle in a band along with his son, Jim, who played the drums. Maybe this talent was inherited from father, Harry who played the organ. George retired with Sybil to Windermere, B.C. George and Sybil had three sons;
James Robert (b Dec 23, 1940 ) married Ruth PETERSON and continued the hobby store. they had two children
Shelley Leanne (b Nov 25, 1968 , d.Feb, 12, 1997 age 28).
She received her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Calgary , and worked as a Medical Assistant.
Douglas (b Feb. 11, 1973) married Debbie CONTE and is employed in the family hobby store They have two children;
Cameron Robert (b May 18, 1992 )
Celine Catherine (b June 28, 1994)
Edward George (b May 4, 1945 ) married Linda AMUNDSON. Ted is the manager of a ski hill.
They have four children;
Michael (b Oct 11, 1981)
Jeffery (b Sept 5, 1983)
Scott (b May 26, 1988)
Christine (b 1990)
Kenneth Ray (b May 11, 1951) married Wendy LAKE. His occupation is a chiropractor.
Hilda(b Sept 28, 1920) married Edward THOMAS, who was employed in the Engineering Department , Alberta Government Telephones. They had three daughters and are presently retired in Calgary.
Jack (b Dec 6, 1921; d 1946) married Lorna DONALDSON

Charles Osmund 1901 -
Charles Osmund, accountant, Born Cheltenham 6 April 1901
Married Florence Annie MALTBY 1925 in Brigg Lincolnshire
London Gazette Supplement 16 November 1943 page 5033 Accountant branch of the RAF. Appointment to commission as pilot officer on probation (emergencies) 26 7 1943 1485015 Charles Osmund PEPPERDINE 146855
London Gazette Supplement 28 Jan 1944 page 539 Accountant branch of the RAF. Pilot officer (probation) confirmed in the appointment and to be flying officer (war subs) 26 1 1944 Charles Osmund PEPPERDINE 146855
London Gazette Supplement 10 Aug 1954 page 4629 Air Ministry emergency list. The undergoing relinquish their commissions under the provisions of the Navy, Army and Air Force Reserve Act 1954 and have been granted permission to retain rank as stated with effect from 10 Feb 1954 RAF Volunteer Reserve Flying Officer Charles Osmund PEPPERDINE 146855

The ancestry of Albert Lemuel PEPPERDINE 1905 to 1968
The Lemuel Link By Malcolm Clarkson first published in PEPPERDINE Exchange edition V 1993

My grandfather had the very unusual name of Lemuel. No one else I knew had that name and as a child I wasn’t aware that it was Hebrew in origin and meaning ‘devoted to God’ Lemuel was a King referred to in the Bible and it developed as a Christian name during the 17^th century. It grew in popularity with the association of Lemuel Gulliver in the novel “Gulliver’s travels”
Since Lemuel PEPPERDINE (1748 – 1788) the Christian name has appeared on no fewer than ten occasions in the descendants of the Lincoln branch of the PEPPERDINE family. Its frequent use helped me considerably during my family history research which started in the early 1970s.
The first of the Lemuels forming the Lincoln branch of the PEPPERDINE family was born in Metheringham (Lincs) in 1748 and subsequently married Eleanor MERRIL at Bracebridge (Linc) in 1773. Eight children were born to Lemuel and Eleanor and as child mortality rates were high in those days it was not unusual to record that at least three of the eight children died in their infancy. Lemuel Rowland PEPPERDINE (1784 – 1785) was one of the three and only lived for eleven months.
Susanna, the eighth child was born in 1789 a short time after her father’s death in 1788. Lemuel PEPPERDINE died a pauper as did his father at forty years of age. His wife Eleanor outlived him by fifty four years and died in 1842 at the age of 92 years. She lived long enough to see two of their grandsons become successful businessmen in Lincoln.
It was Lemuel and Eleanor’s first born Joseph PEPPERDINE (1774 – 1833) who formed the link that perpetuated the Christian name Lemuel over the next five generations. In his early years he was employed as a sawyer and moved to Lincoln from Metheringham where he married Elizabeth LAWRANCE at St Botolph’s church in 1793. Large families were commonplace in those times and Joseph and Elizabeth were to have nine children. The two eldest sons Joseph (1797 – 1851) and Lemuel (1799 – 1872) were to start work as sawyers and eventually become timber merchants. The four other sons, James, William, Benjamin and Henry continued working as sawyers in the timber trade. The PEPPERDINE association with the timber trades extended through many generations
Lemuel PEPPERDINE married Sarah Glover in January 1820 and eight children were born of this marriage before Sarah’s death in 1859. In 1851 they were living at 108 High Street, Lincoln and Lemuel was described in the census of that year as a timber merchant employing five men and one boy. Also resident at the house was a housekeeper, Elizabeth Lee who originated from Keelby (Lincs). Although Sarah PEPPERDINE was only 59 years of age when she died in 1859 she had outlived at least three of their children. Her husband Lemuel was to remarry some months later in Leeds at sixty years of age to Sarah SIMPSON, some twenty seven years younger. Three more children were born of this marriage before his death in 1872 at the age of seventy three years. The three children born to Lemuel and Sarah Simpson carried the name of SIMPSON as a second Christian name. Of the eleven children from the two marriages the first and the last were christened Lemuel. The first Lemuel PEPPERDINE had died in 1854 at the age of thirty four and eleven years before the last Lemuel Simpson PEPPERDINE was born in 1865. Only one of the sons William followed in father’s footsteps in the timber trade.
At the time of his death in 1872 Lemuel PEPPERDINE was living at 49 Monson Street, Lincoln and he was referred to in his will as ‘Lemuel PEPPERDINE, of the City of Lincoln, Gentleman’, a term frequently used in those days to describe a retired person. His lengthy will favoured his ‘said or reputed wife Sarah’ his remaining sons and daughters and the children of his deceased son and daughter Lemuel and Sarah Ann . In a codicil to the will he left his gold watch and chain to his son Lemuel Simpson PEPPERDINE who was only seven years of age at the time and died some years later at the age of nineteen. His ‘said or reputed wife Sarah’ died at Knaresborough (Yorkshire) in 1898 at the age of seventy two years.
Their first born Lemuel PEPPERDINE initially worked as a sawyer as many of his uncles had done but at the time of his marriage in 1845 he was listed as a musician. Whilst unconfirmed reports quoted him as ‘playing the organ at Lincoln cathedral there has been no further information gathered to identify his occupation as a musician. He married Mary KIRK at Lincoln in 1845 and four children were born during the first five years. Their last daughter Sarah was only to live a few months and her death was followed by the death of her mother Mary. Lemuel remarried within a short time to Francis Kitchen who lived as Lemuel did, in Salthouse Lane in Lincoln. Within two years they were to have two children but the last one, David was born shortly after his father Lemuel died. It was following a twelve month illness that Lemuel died of consumption in 1854 at thirty four years of age. The death certificate recorded his occupation as that of a sawyer. This would have been tragic for Frances who married as a spinster at the age of thirty seven and found herself a widow at the age of thirty nine with a family of five children under the age of eight years. Frances married again within a short time and three of the children were then being cared for by two step parents. The eldest child was Lemuel who was born in 1846.
Lemuel PEPPERDINE (1846 – 1926) and his brother Joseph PEPPERDINE (1847 – 1920 were two of the three children from the marriage of Lemuel and Mary and whilst they were very young experienced the deaths of both their parents. It is quite probable that their uncles David and Joseph PEPPERDINE had quite a lot of influence over them during the years following the deaths of their natural parents. Lemuel became apprentice to his uncle David as a grocer and victualler and his brother Joseph was to become a draper/ grocer. This was a move away from the family tradition in the timber trades and it was most likely created by the influence of the two uncles. Lemuel’s uncle Joseph was formerly a butcher before having the school at 116 High Street, Lincoln with his school teacher wife Sarah Ann. Joseph and Sarah Ann’s eldest son and cousin to Lemuel was born in 1859 and was christened Joseph Glover PEPPERDINE. He became a grocer who married in Nottingham in 1880 and continued in business there. Lemuel had already settled in Nottingham but the time and the reasons for travelling south remain unclear. Lemuel was resident in Nottingham at the time of his marriage to Harriet SMITH, daughter of a butcher, at Rampton, Notts in 1873. The marriage was witnessed by Lemuel’s brother Joseph and his wife to be, Sarah Annie ROBERTS. They too were to be married one month later and in later years lived and died in Cambridgeshire. Sarah Annie ROBERTS was the daughter of a Leicester grocer and whilst the reasons for moving to Nottingham are not clear there are many links with the grocery and provision trade which may have accounted for it. The developing railway network was beginning to offer greater mobility for travelling and with the loss of their parents may have contributed to Lemuel and Joseph’s move from the fine city of Lincoln
Albert Lemuel PEPPERDINE (1877 – 1948) was the only child of Lemuel and Harriet PEPPERDINE and born on September 21 1877. The Post Office Directory and Kelly’s Trade Directory list the family as living in the Union Street district close to Nottingham City centre. In the census return of 1891 the family are listed as visitors staying at 88 New Lane, Hilcote, Blackwell in nearby Derbyshire. This area was to feature very prominently in the future. Albert Lemuel was a scholar of thirteen years at the time and he continued living in Nottingham where he was married on Christmas Day 1900 to Elizabeth Ann Farmer the daughter of a Nottingham Undertaker. At this point the occupation of his father, Lemuel PEPPERDINE, was that of a colliery clerk and he was to continue his working life in Blackwell, the village he was visiting in 1891. The exact date of his employment cannot be accurately recorded as there are no colliery company records available. Links were already in existence with the Derbyshire village and work was readily available
The ancient parish of Blackwell in Derbyshire, which includes Hilcote, began to develop in the late 1800s with the sinking of deep shafts into the hard coal and low main seams and the development of the major ‘A Winning’ Colliery at Blackwell and the ‘B Winning’ Colliery at Hilcote. The impact of mining on the parish brought an influx of population from all over England. Blackwell Colliery Company had built rows of Colliery houses and a school in both Blackwell and Hilcote before Lemuel and Harriet PEPPERDINE moved there from Nottingham. A Co-operative stote, hotel, infant school and a post office followed quickly and the incentive for workers to move into the area were created by job opportunities, housing and better rail links. For centuries Blackwell parish had been a rural area. When the pits were sunk it was all change. Blackwell became a community whose life was centred around the pits
During this time Albert Lemuel and Elizabeth Ann were still living in the Nottingham area and it was there that Hilda, the first of their three children was born in 1901. Before the second child Doris was born in 1903 the family had moved to Hilcote and Albert Lemuel joined his father Lemuel at the Blackwell Colliery Company, employed as a Journeyman joiner, a return to the timber associated trade. Albert Lemuel was to spend the next thirty one years as head joiner at the colliery. Their third child Albert Lemuel was born there (1905 – 1968). All three children were to finish their education at the school in Blackwell and in the meantime Harriet PEPPERDINE had died in 1909. The whole family had been involved in the Wesleyan Methodist church and within the local community and this continued after the family moved a few miles away over the Nottinghamshire border to the village of Huthwaite
Some six hundred feet above sea level put Huthwaite the highest point in Nottinghamshire and overlooking the county of Derbyshire. The move to Huthwaite came in 1915 and Albert Lemuel continued to travel to Blackwell Colliery each day until his retirement. The whole family formed a close connection with the Sutton Road Wesleyan Methodist church and this was to continue until the last link was severed with the death of Hilda, some sixty years later. Lemuel PEPPERDINE died in 1926 at the age of eighty years and he was described in his obituary as ‘a man of genial disposition and well known in his locality. In spite of his years, he could sing a good song and usually entertained the old people at their annual social gathering. Earlier in life he was a commercial traveller in the provision trade’ He had continued to be an active member of the Mansfield and Sutton Co-operative Choir and resigned a few months before his death. He was buried alongside Harriet at Blackwell
Albert Lemuel (1905 – 1968) married a local girl in 1934 and took up work in Lancashire immediately. The remainder of his working life was spent as a maintenance joiner with responsibility for a privately owned housing estate. His church connections continued throughout his life in Bury Lancs broken only by his wartime service in the forces until his untimely death in 1968 at the age of sixty two when his son Derek was left to carry the PEPPERDINE name forward a further generation
Meanwhile the remainder of the family continued to live in Huthwaite. Albert Lemuel died in 1948 at the age of seventy one. Following his retirement from Blackwell Colliery he continued to work as a joiner at a local factory until eighteen months before his death. His wife Elizabeth Ann died at the age of seventy seven in 1952 and is buried alongside Albert Lemuel at Huthwaite
My interest in family history and the urge to know more about the places where my ancestors lived has taken me to the areas familiar to the PEPPERDINEs over many generations. The cathedral at Lincoln still dominates the skyline and overlooks the High Street where many of the PEPPERDINEs lived and worked since Lemuel and Eleanor moved there in 1773
Most of the Union Street area of Nottingham where Lemuel PEPPERDINE had his grocery business disappeared with the inner city redevelopment programme during the past twenty years
Sutton Road Wesleyan Methodist church in Huthwaite has closed, the building stands neglected and in a state of disrepair. For one hundred years since 1889 it served the local community provided a refuge for many serving soldiers during the second world war and fulfilled the social and spiritual needs of three generations of PEPPERDINEs.
The beauties of an English countryside and the scars of an industrial past stand side by side in Blackwell and Hilcote. The collieries which prospered for a hundred years have left their mark on the area as they have on many parts of Mid-Derbyshire. Although the collieries closed in the 1960s their memory lingers on in the minds of many whose lives were closely linked with colliery life. Long since gone are the purpose built rows of colliery houses snaking along the roadside and forcing their importance upon the scene. Gone are the rows of front door steps acting as if they were individual wedges preventing the houses from tumbling out over the narrow pavement and on to the road beyond. There is however a more romantic side to the area. High on a hilltop is an oasis of green and a link with days, centuries before the pits were sunk. Part of a Saxon Cross preserved at St Wergurgh’s church sets a date to the area’s origins. It is a tangible reminder that people lived and worshipped in Blackwell a thousand years ago. Today the pits are gone and Blackwell and Hilcote are once more predominantly residential. This is true of most of the area as the cycle of exploitation of the coal reserves followed by construction and ultimately closure and restoration of the sites has been completed
The burial grounds of Blackwell and Huthwaite face each other across the valley separated by what used to be the heartland of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire coalfields and dominated now by the M1 motorway threading the thundering traffic through the heart of central England. It is here in the tranquil setting of the two churches that the gravestones of the two Lemuels serve as reminders of the PEPPERDINEs who lived, worked and worshipped there for three quarters of a century

Robert Southwell 1906 to 1967

Robert Southwell born Lincoln City 1906 Midland Bank manager at Petersfield in Hampshire for much of his career moving to Budleigh Salterton in Devon a few years before retirement
Robert served in the Pay Corps in India during the Second World War

Frank Quipp 1912 to 1974

Frank born 1912 Lincoln City, Lloyd’s Bank manager Holbeach and later Horncastle. Frank’s entire career in the bank was served in various branches in Lincolnshire the longest unbroken period being in the branch in Lincoln High Street.
My father spent much of the Second World War in the RAF at Saskatchewan in Canada, training ground maintenance crews. He was well prepared for this having obtained a good training in basic sciences whilst living at Guildford in Surrey where his father was deputy head post master. I know his service number 968613 because it was written on my birth certificate in November 1941, but have not been able to confirm that this was normal procedure at the time.

John Robert 1941 -
By Julia M Hennessy of Los Angeles USA

I have known John Robert PEPPERDINE all of my life, but not all of his. My older brother was born November 3^rd 1941. As the people in England will appreciate, this was very good for my other brother and myself, as it was only 2 days before the Guy Fawkes celebrations and one of his friends or relatives always gave him some fireworks for his birthday
His whole school life was spent in Lincoln and strangely, as his current interest is in family trees, one of his worst subjects was history. He specialised in the biological sciences, leaving with very good examination results. All through his teens there seemed to be a beehive at the bottom of our garden. He started with one hive but expanded. Again we all benefited from this especially one warm summer when we got more than 50lbs of honey to eat, delicious
As with most people it is a difficult decision to know what job to do for the rest of your life. John started out in horticulture, then worked for a time with BSA motorcycles until they ceased production in 1972. At this time Value Added Tax (VAT) was introduced to Britain and he ended up working for the government collecting taxes. After a couple of years he moved to the Customs department at Birmingham Airport, checking out freight rather than passengers, I believe. Feeling like a change of scenery from the industrial midlands he transferred to Norwich, where he is today involved with excise duties, the third aspect of HM C&E (Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise), had settled into the suburbs of Norwich from a village south of the city and began looking for outside interests. Sailing is a great hobby, especially when he can get into warmer climes but not on a cold winter evening. He advertised for information about the name PEPPERDINE and it began
He started collecting data from 1841-1881 census returns, from parish registers at Lincoln Archive Office, from the national birth, marriage and death registers in London and gradually built up the pieces into a family tree. About this time I used to manage to get back to England once or twice a year and stay with the family in Lincoln. John would visit for a weekend, I thought to see me, but before I was up in the morning he was already at the castle looking up another lead he had just received.
Along with the name PEPPERDINE, he has made indexes of surnames from several sources, among them census returns in South Lincolnshire, and made a listing of Lincolnshire cross referenced to Lincolnshire parishes. Also he has had a continuing interest in the name “Aquila”, and received to a recent advertisement over 120 replies from all over England
His enthusiasm is very contagious and it is easy to see how interesting family history can be and those history books he would never read are now well thumbed

Vicki “PEPPERDINE”
By Mary Williams first published in The PEPPERDINE Exchange May 1994

Victoria, younger daughter of John and Mary WILLIAMS (nee PEPPERDINE) and granddaughter of Robert Lemuel PEPPERDINE, was destined for the stage from an early age. At the age of 10 she played “The Little Princess”. Alternating with Lizzie. On her night the table collapsed, but on Lizzie’s it was the bed, which was worse. As a 14 year old caterpillar tied into a green sleeping bag she was brilliantly unrecognisable, save for a slight resemblance to cousin Angus, yet one of her A levels was chemistry and she read History of Art at the University of East Anglia
It was as a children’s Party Entertainer during a performing Arts course in Manchester that Vic got her Equity card and in 1988, after a year at London’s East 15 acting school she was officially “an actress”. There already was a Victoria Williams so she became Vicki PEPPERDINE, but might just as easily have been Robetta Lemuela.
Her first performance with Hull's Remould Theatre in “The Care Takers” earned a “Vicki PEPPERDINE was superb” review in the Gainsborough Target and the Guardian was complimentary too. Her most recent stage appearance as the Duchess of Malfi at the Chelsea Centre was rated as “particularly good” in the Times “Play of the week”. I thought she was electrifying
In between she has travelled to Hong Kong and Sydney (Australia) with The Theatre de Complicite and a pair of crutches in “A Winter Tale” Her ankle is now mended. She has played her violin for “The Mayor of Casterbridge” in Cheltenham and has toured with Birmingham Rep on three occasions memorably as Rosie in “Cider with Rosie” and Laurie Lee the author sent champagne
Two performances at London’s Gate Theatre were in Spanish tragedies but it was in comedy, Ayckbourne’s “Bedroom Farce” that Vic was nominated as best support actress in The Martini Theatre Awards
She was spellbinding for the seven year olds who saw her in “the best children’s show of 1993” at The National Theatre in “The Day after Tomorrow”

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