Emanuel’s birth

Emanuel Slade was born at North Perrott on 5 June 1769. His father was named William.

Marriage

On 24 July 1803, Emanuel married Ann Hodges at North Perrott. Born at Sutton Bingham in about 1774, she was the daughter of James and Ann Hodges.

Emanuel’s occupations

Emanuel was a dairyman at North Perrott by August 1814.

By 1828, he was a farmer at Hardington.[1] The Hardington voting lists from 1832 to 1848 record him as a renter above £50 per annum of Kingswood Farm.

The 1843 tithe survey of Hardington shows Emanuel occupying 228 acres, 3 roods and 8 perches owned by Thomas Hoskins and 53 acres, 3 roods and 8 perches owned by Thomas Hoskins and Lord Ilchester.

The 1841 tithe survey of Haselbury shows him owning seven acres.

Parish offices

Emanuel was an overseer at Hardington in 1833 and 1838.[2]

Son’s suicide

In May 1831, Emanuel and Ann’s nineteen-year-old son, John, committed suicide.[3]

Marriages of children

Elizabeth married William Strode, a farmer, at St Thomas’ Church, Bristol, on 28 July 1828.

Ann married Andrew Adams, a blacksmith, at St John’s, Yeovil, on 20 February 1844.

Joan married Robert Joy Spearing, a butcher, at Hardington on 2 November 1829.

Henry married Emma Rendell at Haselbury on 23 October 1851.

Emanuel’s death

Emanuel died in December 1848, aged 78. He left most of his estate to Ann for her lifetime.

Ann’s later life

Ann continued at the farm. The 1851 census recorded her as a farmer of 280 acres, employing five labourers. She also had three grandchildren in her household working as house servants: Elizabeth Strode, 22, Emily Spearing, 21, and Henry Spearing, 15. Ten years later, she farmed 275 acres and employed three men and one boy. Her son, Henry, was her farm bailiff, and her granddaughter, Elizabeth Strode, her dairymaid.

In 1857, Ann served as Hardington’s overseer.[4]

Ann died in February or March 1863, aged 89.

The will of Emanuel Slade [5]

The will of Emanuel Slade, dated 3 July 1848, proved in London on 30 March 1849.

Executors and trustees: Thomas Hoskins of Haselbury Plucknett, Esquire, and Henry William Hoskins of North Perrott, Esquire.

To my granddaughter, Elizabeth Strode: £8.

To my granddaughter, Emily Spearing: £8.

To my wife, Ann Slade: all the live and deadstock in and about the farm or farms I occupy as a tenant farmer at the time of my decease and after her death (or mine, if she dies in my lifetime) equally between all my children.

Remainder to the use of my wife during her life and then on her death (or mine, if she dies in my lifetime) as follows:

To my daughter, Joan Spearing: the interest of £100 for her life for her sole and separate use, and then the principal sum equally to her two children, Emily Spearing and Henry Spearing. If the two children die during Emily’s lifetime, then the £100 to her absolutely for her sole and separate use.

To my daughter, Elizabeth, the wife of William Strode of Minterne Magna: £100 for her sole and separate use.

To my daughter, Ann, the wife of Andrew Adams of West Chinnock: £100 for her sole and separate use.

To my son, Henry Slade: three yards of land in ..ureland in the parish of Misterton held by me for the residue of a term of 2000 years, and £200.

The remainder to my children equally.

My trustees can advance up to £200 to my wife to cover extraordinary losses.

Wit: Adam Rendell, Whitevine Farm, Hardington.

George Hann, Haselbury.

References

[1] Hardington jury lists.

[2] Hardington jury lists.

[3] North Perrott burial register: entry for 6 May 1831.

[4] Hardington jury lists.

[5] The will of Emanuel Slade, dated 3 July 1848, proved in London on 30 March 1849.