Family of John HEARD and Elizabeth PERKINS

Husband:	John HEARD (c. 1806-1881)
Wife:	Elizabeth PERKINS (c. 1801- )

Husband: John HEARD

Name:	John HEARD¹
Sex:	Male
Father:	Joseph HEARD (c. 1780- )
Mother:	Elizabeth UNKNOWN (1776- )
Birth	c. 1806	Colebrooke, Devon, England
Occupation		blacksmith
Death	2 Feb 1881 (age 74-75)	Crediton , Devon, England
To Do		Web: Add criminal offence. On 2 Sep 1875 at Crediton petty sessions John Heard was fined £5 for giving two women a ride in his cart without a licence. Later reduced to £2 because it had been his boy who gave the women a ride.
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Wife: Elizabeth PERKINS

Name:	Elizabeth PERKINS¹
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	c. 1801	Colebrooke/Spreyton, Devon, England
Occupation		Serge Weaver

Note on Husband: John HEARD (1)

In 1814 a John Heard, 10 was apprenticed to John Hooke, Blacksmith, in Colebrooke Parish.

In 1841 he was married and living on the East Side of Exeter Road, Crediton, working as a smith

In 1851 he was a Blacksmith, at Hookway Road Crediton. In 1861 Census then Richard living with him was described as a son - a nephew in the 1851 census.

In 1871 he was a master blacksmith employing 2 men and one boy. He was living next door to brother Richard and son Daniel

In Kellys 1866 and Harrods 1878 Directories John Heard was listed as a blacksmith, at Hookway. This was a separate John Heard from that listed as machine maker in Mill Street in Kellys 1866 and Billings 1857 directories.

Wednesday 9 February 1881, Issue 6052

Crediton

The remains of MR HEARD, blacksmith, were interred on Wednesday. The deceased used to relate several anecdotes of the great snow of 1814, when he was an apprentice of Mr Hooke, smith, of the adjoining parish of Colebrooke. One was of a young man, a farm apprentice, named WILLIAM LUXTON, coming to his master’s smithy one morning, and asking for aid, as his mistresses favourite mare – which he was riding – had sunk in a deep drift of snow, and was fast disappearing from view. The mare was soon extricated by means of shovels and pickaxes. It is strange that the chief actor in the scene – LUXTON, is still alive, and as hardy as the strongest and youngest of farm labourers, though he was born as long ago as 1795,. He too, is now residing in Crediton, and corroborates in every particular what MR HEARD used to relate. He furthermore states that a few days after the mare was extricated from her perilous position he was walking through a field near the same spot, and heard a man who had fallen down a steep precipice and was getting fast embedded in the snow shouting for assistance. LUXTON immediately ran to a farmhouse near, and called out the inmates with ropes, which were thrown to the sinking man, who, seizing fast hold of one, was quickly drawn up aloft and rescued. MR HEARD’S younger brother, who witnessed the rescue of the mare, is also living as well as LUXTON.²

Note on Husband: John HEARD (2)

Wednesday 2 October 1861, Issue4980

Crediton Petty Sessions

ROBERT SCANES, an apprentice to MR JOHN HEARD, blacksmith, of Hookway, Crediton, was summoned for disobeying his master's instructions. The evidence clearly established the charge; but as the master desired to rid himself of such an unruly apprentice, and the unruly apprentice wanted to be freed from his master, the magistrates suggested that they should endeavour to come to some reciprocal agreement. The suggestion was acted upon; and with the understanding that the father of the defendant paid MR HEARD 30s. for annulling the indenture, and 9s. the expenses incurred, the case was withdrawn.

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