 The New Inn, Pilton Street
This is now a private house, but in the 1850s it was the home of Benjamin Manning and his family |
THE STORY OF BENJAMIN MANNING’S LIFE IN NORTH DEVON AS REVEALED IN OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
Benjamin Manning was born in Tiverton in 1812, and following his early years, was employed as a lace worker in a factory there owned by John Boden and Thomas Heathcoat, who opened another lace-making business in 1822 in Pilton, which came under the ownership of R. W. Grace & Co. by 1830 according to Pigot’s Directory of that year. At some time in the 1820s Benjamin came to work in this new factory, and in 1832 married a local girl, Elizabeth Gribble. By the 1841 Census Returns his entry described him as a lace machinist, born in Tiverton and living in Pilton with four children aged between seven years and eleven months. |
| The North Devon Journal
Records http://www.northdevonathenaeum.org.uk/ndjindex.html From the North Devon Journal Archives in the Atheneum On the 5th Feb 1852 A house was sold in Silver street and the auctioneer was Mr Benjamin Manning.. We will be researching further.... |
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link goes to page 139 on a document on
www.mocavo.co.uk from which the details copied below came: "Manning
& Son, victuallers, Barnstaple Bodega, wine,
spirit, ale, and porter merchants and auctioneers, Joy
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