by Chelsea Vincent | 1st January, 1890 | Tiverton Timeline
From the late 19th century, Blundells School educated young men from all over the globe, including a number of countries in the then British Empire. Blundell’s School has records of pupils from a great many places. Some of the earliest are boys from the Channel...
by Chelsea Vincent | 1st January, 1815 | Tiverton Timeline
During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of 1797 – 1815, French Prisoner of War officers were sent to live with households in provincial parole towns such as Tiverton. Officers had to swear not to attempt escape. The government made a payment of 10/6 a week...
by Chelsea Vincent | 1st January, 1782 | Tiverton Timeline
Johnny Stedman arrived in Tiverton in 1782. He was a mixed race young man whose mother was from Suriname, and whose father was from the Netherlands. During his early years, Johnny lived with his mother. She was born in Surinam (now the Republic of Suriname) and is...
by Chelsea Vincent | 1st January, 1743 | Tiverton Timeline
By the 18th and 19th centuries, Tiverton’s diversity manifested in more ways, including the presence of Black men in the town – potentially enslaved, or ex-enslaved persons. Although Tiverton was not a port town, there are records of Black men living, being...
by Chelsea Vincent | 1st January, 1700 | Tiverton Timeline
Little is known about a Huguenot presence in Tiverton – but there is evidence of people with Flemish descent in the town at this time. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Protestant Huguenots in France, Belgium and the Netherlands were persecuted by the...
by Chelsea Vincent | 1st January, 1524 | Tiverton Timeline
During the sixteenth century, Tiverton was part of a Europe-wide network of trade in goods and services, with people from France and Germany coming to live in the town. For centuries, people have come to Tiverton to work. In Tudor times people journeyed from France,...
by Chelsea Vincent | 1st January, 1066 | Tiverton Timeline
Tiverton was a Saxon town, but by 1106 it was an important strategic town for Norman kings. In Saxon times Tiverton formed part of the inheritance of Aethelweard, youngest son of King Alfred. Countess Gytha of Wessex controlled the town in 1066 and the Domesday Book...
by Chelsea Vincent | 1st January, 0100 | Tiverton Timeline
Archaeological evidence reveals an ancient site with a nearby Roman fort north of Tiverton. The town’s name is conjectured to derive from “Twy-ford-ton” or “Twyverton”, meaning “the town on two fords”, and was historically...
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