tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post9040074909244964646..comments2024-03-28T06:00:49.647+00:00Comments on Landed families of Britain and Ireland: (123) Heathcoat-Amory of Knightshayes Court, baronetsNick Kingsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-28192055930858583262023-05-30T17:21:31.998+01:002023-05-30T17:21:31.998+01:00Joyce's ashes were scattered in the garden at ...Joyce's ashes were scattered in the garden at KnightshayesUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08372243414739979907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-65389041060809323422018-03-23T12:23:24.174+00:002018-03-23T12:23:24.174+00:00Ok , thanks for your response, I'll try the ar...Ok , thanks for your response, I'll try the archive!GeoffreyDaybigfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09202806529251970295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-23327500383822177642018-03-18T15:22:45.390+00:002018-03-18T15:22:45.390+00:00I don't know, but I would have expected them t...I don't know, but I would have expected them to be buried either at Chevithorne or at Tiverton, where there used to be a Heathcoat family vault. The registers will be either still in the custody of the incumbent of the parish or else may be in the Devon Archives (https://www.swheritage.org.uk/devon-archives), where you might enquire.Nick Kingsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-12885143646664356242018-03-18T13:52:54.952+00:002018-03-18T13:52:54.952+00:00I am fascinated by the life of Joyce Heathcoat Amo...I am fascinated by the life of Joyce Heathcoat Amory, nee Wethered, and her golfing history, I recently visited Knightshayes and viewed her golfing memorabilia, but when I asked the staff where she was buried, no one seemed to know. Eventually I was directed to Chevithorne church where I was able to see the memorial plaques inside, and indeed there she was with her esteemed family, but in the graveyard outside no sign of her or Sir John for that matter, even in the family plot, can you tell me where she is so that I might pay my respects to this remarkable lady?GeoffreyDaybigfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09202806529251970295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-49136032570822808992018-01-14T15:02:58.521+00:002018-01-14T15:02:58.521+00:00Thank you: I should certainly be interested to see...Thank you: I should certainly be interested to see them. If you use the contact form in the right-hand side bar to send me a private message, I'll let you have my email address.Nick Kingsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-51588251013903861712018-01-14T12:01:06.811+00:002018-01-14T12:01:06.811+00:00If you would like a couple of photographs of prope...If you would like a couple of photographs of properties inhabited by John Heathcoat (1783-1861) let me know and I'll send you some. The property on Leicester Road Loughborough, where he was living in 1816, is an interesting one, and bears a blue plaque commemorating his occupation of the house. His business partner, John Boden, lived in the house next door. The site of the lace-making business on what was Mill Street, but is now Market Street, is now occupied by Iceland. Lynnestjeromehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02358079860710812787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-40418277143244673532016-12-15T14:14:21.297+00:002016-12-15T14:14:21.297+00:00Thank you for this correction. As so often, the tr...Thank you for this correction. As so often, the truth is a little more complex than the stories which families (and curators!) evolve for popular consumption.<br />Nick Kingsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-36987720067711614392016-12-15T13:11:16.773+00:002016-12-15T13:11:16.773+00:00Your representation of John Heathcoat's manufa...Your representation of John Heathcoat's manufactury being 'attacked by a mob of luddites' is a familiar and inaccurate one. It was attacked by a small group of former Luddites who were being paid by someone - they did not reveal who at their trial. However John Heathcoat's letter to the Mayor of Tiverton after the attack reveals who he thought to be behind it: "I have great apprehension of an immediate attack at this place also. In fact I believe the real cause of this mischief being done is principally, if not wholly, owing to the offence of removing here, and I have been informed upon undoubted authority that the Nottingham Lace Makers have sworn my entire destruction" Heathcoat was already in Tiverton at the time of the attack, and had already purchased the old wool mill in Westexe. He was moving here because the success of his frames and the money he was making from them was very unpopular with the lacemakers in Nottingham, as was his having his own manufacturies. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13120391146023975406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-18784409835910028622015-12-24T15:09:51.116+00:002015-12-24T15:09:51.116+00:00Burges' designs for the summer smoking room be...Burges' designs for the summer smoking room bear some resemblance to but are not a realisation of his proposal for Knightshayes as far as I can see. The final version of the summer smoking room can be seen here: http://needleprint.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/le-smoking.html.Nick Kingsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03588322361791532910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-704095971276575721.post-24444454832046172792015-12-24T08:17:32.732+00:002015-12-24T08:17:32.732+00:00Please note that the image shown as an unexecuted ...Please note that the image shown as an unexecuted interior is actually of the Summer Smoking Room at Cardiff Castle - where it was very much executed!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com