Laycock, Wilts and Petersfield, Hants
 

Anyone know of connections between these two places?

My Poling family is Petersfield based from the C17th to the C19th. Lots of children baptised there, but virtually no marriages.

Now I find a William Pulling, labourer, and Mary with a settlement certificate from Laycock Wilts, dated 1730.

So, is this coincidence? Family Search shows this William returning to Laycock.

A Thomas Pullen, butcher, marries in Petersfield in 1764. He appears to be the son of William and Mary, bp in 1730 in Petersfield.

William seems to be bp 1692, but neither marries nor is buried in Petersfield.

I am not helped by the fact that the surname transmutes from Poling into Pullen in the 1800s for everyone.

I don't know, but the modern spelling seems to be Lacock.

Teach me to look at Family Search. CALM has Lacock.

I always mistrust the idea of people darting around out of county without a damn good reason. As Petersfield is right on the boundary with Sussex (and Poling is a village in Sussex) I expect that boundary to be porous, but Wiltshire is a fair distance for a labourer to travel.

My Hampshire labourers seem to move between manors with the same Lord of the Manor.

William and Mary had the following children baptised in Lacock:

James Pulling, 13 April 1724
William Pulling, 17 Jan 1725/6
Jeffary Pollin, 20 April 1728
Rob Puling, 12 April 1733
John Pulling, 27 April 1736

From FMP.

Lacock is a lovely old village and home to the abbey and the Fox Talbot museum of photography - well worth a visit, especillay if you have National Trust membership. The estate was in the hands of John Ivory Talbot at the time your Pullings were there. He was the son of Sir John Ivory and Anne Talbot and the family is well-docuemented, so it would probably be worthwhile checking if they had any connection with Petersfield.

That's them. The first three little boys are named with their parents.

I know there were some Jeffery Polings floating around pre 1700 in Petersfield.

Lacock was used for the filming of the Cranford chronicles and parts of Harry Potter so looks very familiar.

I have lovely memories of my visit to Lacock, by the time I visited the Fox Talbot museum and the abbey I didn't have time to visit the village, but I believe it is very lovely. You need a day there.

I also stayed at Langrish House and visited Petersfield from there. It is a busy market town where I found the wonderful Petersfield bookshop - www.petersfieldbookshop.com which has an amazing collection of books, prints and maps and reprints old books as well.

I have a copy of a book on the History of Harting by Rev Gordon, it was originally printed in 1877 and reprinted in 1975 by Frank Westwood of the bookshop. Not sure if he still around but they source books for libraries and people from all over the world. Harting is just over the border in Sussex and is a family village of my husband's family. I would love to go back but not sure that the plastic would hold up although I know the Post Office would be happy:eek:

My gosh, I visited the bookshop in the 70s on my only visit to Petersfield. I thought that bookshop must have been swept away long ago.

Harting is a fun village. Strangely enough, I went there with the same guy. We embarrassed him hugely by taking Eyeore and a few teddies. We played Poohsticks and BM found the North Pole. (I have the photos :D)

Whoops. I meant HartFIELD :o