Joan Elizabeth Hann

Childhood Joan was born near Wincanton on 20 January 1936. Her father, Albert Edward Snaydon, worked on a local farm, and her mother, Dorothy, was the daughter of a farm worker. Joan had two older siblings, Dennis and Eileen, and a younger brother, Keith, who followed in 1940. When Joan was eighteen months old, she […]

Isaac Harding, farm labourer

From about 1900 to 1918, Isaac Harding lived at Hardington, where he worked for William Taylor at Marsh Farm.
Isaac was born at Seavington St Mary in 1851 and lived in or close to that parish for the first fifty years of his life.
On 24 December 1873, at Kingstone parish church, he married Hephzibah Seward, with whom he had seven children.