ELECTORAL DISTEMPER.

' Birthdays' listed in the Times or Telegraph tend to confuse. How can it be that some days, none listed are older than one is oneself, whilst on others several may so be. What though of all the aged and seemingly haggard strewn about one, are some older than one hears tell, or do some just seem older than one knows oneself to be ?

Prior to 1980 one lived in The New Forest area of Hampshire County, and being minded to do ones bit, thought to attempt to become an Independent District Councillor in two successive elections. One was not elected on either occasion, despite being but pipped at the post for the second election, but probably that was because no Liberal stood againgst me and two Conservatives. However never did one loose ones interest in local affairs.

One noted that on the 2^nd May 2013, the only candidate of the 79 returned to the Wiltshire Council who received more votes than I did in the New Forest District Council Election in 1979, was County Councillor George Jeans of Mere. Such trivia makes one wonder how the Conservative Party retains Wiltshire with so few votes. No wonder its Chair was rewarded with a seat in the House of Lords.

One notes that there is to be a County Council By election in Amesbury East on the 5^th May next. After the 2013 election that seat was held by a Conservative who had an overall majorityof 24 votes . What one may wonder is it that makes WILTSHIRE ELECTORALY Moribund ? One vote is sufficient to win an election, however, surely it is time that Wiltshire became a contentious area.

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One also notes that Tisbury Village is yet again one presumes, to co-opt a replacement Parish Councillor. However many does that make, that sitting councillors rather than the public will have voted into office. One realises that problems do arise, however every sudden departure from the Council does make one wonder if our electoral process is all it might be. I personally believe that an elector should either vote for a full house, or forego his or her right to vote at all. I do not think it is right for any of us to be too selective in our choices, or vote as some did at the last public election for but one or two favoured parish candidates, thus skewing the worth of others. Is one to wonder why so many do not offer their services to the community?

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Some years after leaving Hampshire, and well passed the age of 70, I was asked whether I wished to become a Magistrate there ? Maybe there is a younger generation available for all councils and offices etc, so how about encouraging some of the younger generation here, rather than recruit more of the same?

Album of Brownfield Pope: The name BROWNFIELD combined with POPEwas give...

Album of Brownfield Pope:     The name BROWNFIELD combined with POPEwas give...:         The name BROWNFIELD combined with POPE was given to the sons of Thomas Pope and his wife Elizabeth Brownfield from1809 on...

Album of Brownfield Pope: The name BROWNFIELD combined with POPEwas give...

Album of Brownfield Pope:     The name BROWNFIELD combined with POPEwas give...:         The name BROWNFIELD combined with POPE was given to the sons of Thomas Pope and his wife Elizabeth Brownfield from1809 on...

 

 

 

 

The name BROWNFIELD combined with POPE was given to the sons of Thomas Pope and his wife Elizabeth Brownfield from1809 on. Both parents though born in Cornwall, had moved to Charterhouse Sq. in London by 1799 and by 1809 had moved the Business of Pope and Sons, to Hammersmith, where it persisted father to son for close on two hundred years. One understands that Elizabeth's father Walter was a Methodist Preacher. Thomas was the son of Richard Pope and Lucy Cavell*. Richard Pope was the son of John Pope of St.Kew and his wife Jane Treffry. It is through her ancestry that her progeny, lay claim to the very finest matrilineal ancestry. The combination of Brownfield and Popes tended to be passed down to males of 'our' branch of the tree. Never have we thought to hyphenate the names, though others seem to have done so.

 

(John Pope of St.Kew had three younger brothers and a sister. One of those brothers was called Richard Pope and it was he who married Jane Elliot. Several of their descendants were also called Richard Pope. One mentions that branch of the Pope Family, because through a confusion of Richards some have miss-attributed the Brownfield connection to one of them, rather than to the descendants of Richard and Lucy ).

One is indebted not only to my father Ernest Brownfield Pope for all the research he did on the Pope family but too to the research of both Shayne and Edward Brownfield Pope, and not least that of Michael Pope our Canadian Cousin. Being minded to hit The Media with some of the certification in my possession , I attach the first hereto, in the hope that other Pope family members may find such 'Sleepers' preferable to Red Herrings available elsewhere on the internet.

Regarding the latter, the writer has reason to suspect that our Lucy Cavell may have been a cousin of Nurse Edith Cavell. If anyone can tell of Edith's Father's ancestry prior to Norfolk many would be interested to hear of it. The Cavell family was well known in Cornwall).

My first attachment, is Thomas Pope's discharge paper from Colonel William's Company of The Royal Cornish Militia, in which he'd the good luck to serve as a 'Ballotted' man for five years.

 

 

 

The next is a copy of the marriage entry for Thomas Pope and Elizabeth Brownfield who at the time was of Liverpool, where her father was Preaching.

(Very recently one read a book concerning the clerical forbears of J. Rose Pope. Esq. Whose ancestry includes a not dissimilar marriage at St. Sepulcre's, that same time.)