WILLIAM DUTCH (b.1845 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset ~ d.1920 )
  married 1873 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset
MARY JOHNS (b.1844 Newport, Shropshire ~ d.1930)

WILLIAM (b.1874 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset)

AUBREY (b.1876 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset)

EGBERT (b.1877 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset)

EDWY (b.1880 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset)

MARGARET BLANCHE (b.1881 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset)

EVERARD EDWARD (b.1885 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset)

Edward married Jane Alexander in June 1880 and stayed in Sixpenny Handley to run the village Inn, the Roebuck Hotel. 

EDWARD DUTCH (b.1848 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset)
  married 1880
JANE ALEXANDER (b.1849)

no children

Business was doing well in the Roe Buck Inn by 1891. He and Jane had adopted three children Edith (aged 10), Edward (9) and William Philips (5) all from Brompton, near Bournemouth. They helped in running the pub with a domestic servant (a teenaged girl of 15).

Edith and Edward Philips had left by ten years later and William was described as a 'cousin' in the census that year. Their elderly Aunt Eliza Baugh (72) was also living with them.

Edward died in 1902 aged 54. Jane could not run the Inn alone so she married William Williams in 1904.

In May 1892 almost the whole of the village of Sixpenny Handley was razed to the ground by a fire that started in a wheelwright’s shop.

As landlord of the Roebuck Hotel it is rumoured that Edward tried to save his hostelry by offering free beer to all who would stand by and help him. The building standing there now had to be re-built, as was most of the village after the fire.

The following day the children of the village were allowed 'a half of one day' off school because of the fire, and now, harshly, Sixpenny Handley is sometimes referred to as
'the ugliest village in Dorset' having lost it's picture postcard thatched roofing.

One of our ancestors was blind and because of his disability he was given training to play the organ at the local church set in the farmyard. As a child he was sent on holiday to London by the authorities. When he returned he discovered his home had been burnt down. It must have been a devastating event !

Whilst the fire was spreading through the village James's grandson Everard Edward Dutch, then aged 7, had to run out of the farm where he lived to escape – with a broken leg !!!

In the 1891 Census, the previous year, Everard was described as 'Cripple From Childhood', possibly from diphtheria. As an adult, he was less than five foot tall.

At the turn of the 20th century, with the decline of farming and more work in the towns and cities, and following the fire of 1892, William(-4) and family moved to Corsham.
Originally a boot maker, then a farmer, by 1911 William was running a pub, 'the Great Western Inn' in Pound Pill, Corsham in North Wiltshire.
William "Jnr"(-3) was with them as was Everard who was shown as an Insurance Salesman

By 1911 Everard had fallen for Amy Louisa Levy, the daughter of a law court official from Andover, and despite objections from Amy's parents they married and had their reception at the 'Royal Oak Hotel'.

EVERARD EDWARD DUTCH
(b.1885 Sixpenny Handley, Dorset ~ d.1973 Chippenham, Wiltshire)
  married 28 Sept 1911 Corsham, Wiltshire
AMY LOUISA LEVY
(b.1889 Hungerford, Berkshire ~ d.1971 Chippenham, Wiltshire)

WILLIAM EVERARD JAMES (b.1913 Corsham, Wiltshire)

THOMAS AUBREY (b.1915 Corsham, Wiltshire)

MAURICE STANLEY (b.1917 Chippenham, Wiltshire)

DOREEN AMY BEATRICE (b.1923 Southville, Bristol)

ROYSTON FRANK (b.1927 Southville, Bristol)

Alongside being an insurance agent, Everard & Amy set up and ran a hardware shop in Corsham for a number of years.
On one occasion Everard set out two baskets of identical brushes for sale next to each other. One basket with the items labelled as 'reduced in price' but actually the normal price, the other at an 'inflated' price. Customers would buy the cheaper brushes, and as they were sold Everard would fill it up again with brushes from the more expensive basket - because these were being offered at a so called 'better price', far more were sold than otherwise would have been - 'sales psychology' in action!!!

Later Everard moved to Southville in Bristol and continued working as an Insurance Agent for the Prudential. During that time they moved house a number of times within the same area of the city. Everard sometimes returned home after the days work with unusual items he taken in lieu of payment, such as a 'crate of oranges'.

In 1940 Everard and his family were 'bombed out of their home' in Southville, so the had to move. Initially they went to Shrewton to live his brother Egbert, then after a few months to Chippenham where Everard's other brothers William and Aubrey lived.  Everard was forced to commute to Bristol every day on the train.  Only three years later, in 1943, he retired after a number of minor heart attacks.
 

Everard and his family returned to Bristol in 1944, just before Christmas and they were there in time for VE day (the 8th of May) in 1945.

In 1950 when Everard reached the age of 65, he and Amy and their son Thomas Aubrey moved back to Chippenham.

26 years later, Everard and Amy celebrated their 'diamond wedding anniversary' with a large family party in at the Pheasant Inn, Chippenham, but sadly on the following day, the 26th September 1971, whilst sitting at home with her family on the couch Amy announced "Oh! I do feel funny!" and collapsed. One of her sons rushed across the road to telephone for an ambulance to take Amy to the Royal United Hospital in Bath, where unfortunately she passed away two day later.

Everard survived another two years with his bachelor son Aubrey, before he too passed away in April 1973.
 

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