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
John Barlindale--Master draper Leeds
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 Trevelyan) 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 C0-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.