The DUTCH historyThe LEVY historyThe MURPHY historyThe TURTON history
 
The  DUTCH's




There are a number of families named "DUTCH" in the Salisbury and Trowbridge areas
dating back to the early 1700’s,
 but we have not yet confirmed a link to our ancestry.


 

"WAINWRIGHT"

There is a family story that our family surname is actually "WAINWRIGHT"...
So say, one of our predecessors, only a couple or so generations back,
married a French girl and the accepted tradition was
for the husband to adopt the wife’s surname
rather than the other way round…
However, so far we haven’t found any evidence to prove this as correct.

 I believe this was a ‘flight of fancy’ on the part of a family member in the past…


The  DUTCH's

 

So far, we have traced the family line back to over two hundred years ago . . . 

 

In 1780, during the reign of King George III, James Dutch was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury.  As a young man he moved to a parish north of the city, Stratford-sub-Castle,  where he met Elizabeth Adlem, a girl the same age as James and the eldest of a family of ten children.  They married in the spring of 1802 and were blessed with a girl Eliza born in June of the year, but she was a sickly child and did not survive more than a year.  A few years later James and Elizabeth had another girl, Maria, but she too died in infancy.

 

In 1810 their first son William was born, named probably after James’s father, and later that year James and the family moved back to Salisbury where he took up work as a Labourer.  Four years later James and Elizabeth had another son James before they moved again within Salisbury.  Lucy came along in 1817 followed by their last child Henry after another four years, before James senior passed away in 1839.

 

William, the eldest son, moved to Devizes and found work as a Labourer.

 

Here he met and later married Eliza Gardner in 1829.  They had two children, Elizebeth born in January 1830, and George born in 1835.  William died not long after George was born, and we are not certain of what became of his wife and daughter, but George went back to Salisbury to live with his uncle James.

 

The next son, James, set himself up as a Carrier 15 miles away in the village of Sixpenny Handley in Dorset, near the Wiltshire and Hampshire borders where the family continued running different businesses – carriers, butchers and publicans.

 

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.

 

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 !!!
Later in childhood Everard developed diphtheria and grew up to be less than five foot tall.
 

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

 The Roebuck Inn in Sixpenny Handley

 

By 1911 Everard had fallen for Amy Louisa Levy, the daughter of a law court official from Andover, and together they eloped to Corsham in north Wiltshire due to the objections of her parents. There they got married and had their reception at the 'Royal Oak Hotel'.


The Royal Oak Hotel where Everard Dutch and Amy Louisa Levy were married in September 1911

 

Everard & Amy 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. As the cheaper brushes 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 - psychology in action!!!
Everard and Amy Dutch's hardware shop in the Corsham High Street

 

Later Everard moved to Southville in Bristol to work 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 Edward and Amy Louisa, 1916
 

 

 

 

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.
 


 


I have much more information than is shown on these pages,
and these will be updated as new information is discovered.
If you can help me in my family research
 please contact me

 indyditch@yahoo.co.uk

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