People in
North Tawton, Devon, UK
The Budd Family of Physicians
WILLIAM BUDD, M.D., F.R.S.
Birth: 1811 North Tawton, Devon
Death: 9 January 1880 Clevedon, Somerset
Published "Typhoid
Fever, its Nature, Mode of Spreading, and Prevention" (London, Longmans,
Green & Co.) in 1873, based on his several previous publications
(1857-1860); the book was dedicated to William BUDD's earlier mentor, Sir
T. WATSON, Bart., M.D., F.R.S.
A vivid description of
living conditions for a country labourer's family, and the additional
misery caused by illness, is followed by a detailed account of daily
life in North Tawton, the outbreak of typhoid there in 1839, and its
spread.
William was the son of
Samuel BUDD, surgeon of North Tawton, and his wife Catherine [WREFORD]. Of
nine children, eight were boys; of those I have been able to trace so far
most were medical doctors - the ninth, Francis Nonus BUDD, was a barrister
- and William mentions the assistance of his brothers during the outbreak.
Other researchers cite a paper by Samuel BUDD concerning typhoid, but I
have not as yet found this publication, and do not know if it was by
Samuel BUDD snr. or jnr.
William's brother George
also rose to eminence in the field of medical research (outline of his
career in the family tree below).
(Caroline, July 2005)
Introduction
For the London area (20
Unions & Parishes), William BUDD quotes:
1838:
13,972 claims for relief from destitution due to fever attacks
1,281 of which were fatal
5,634 = total number of fever deaths for the metropolis.
Later statistics for fever
mortality (England, including typhus) were given as:
5-yr. period pre-1866:
>20,000 p.a.
1866: >21,000
1868: c.20,000
1865-1871: >18,000 p.a. on average
1872: 13,507
Deaths from (7 principal)
other infectious diseases, 4Q:
1870: 25,907
1871: 26,977
1872: 16,794
The Registrar General's
remarks of 1871:
"Although the remarkably
low death rate in town districts, last quarter, may be due to the
somewhat unusual meteorological conditions which prevailed, [very heavy,
cleansing, rain] it may be safe to assume that a portion of the
improvement in their health is permanent, and is the result of the
general awakening to the importance of sanitary measures which has been
so conspicuous in the last few years."
BUDD's portrayal of the
living conditions and human misery witnessed:
"There are few things
which concern the people of this country more deeply than to know the
exact truth touching the mode in which this fatal fever is disseminated
amongst them. Every year, on an average - take the United Kingdom
through - some fifteen thousand or more of their number perish
prematurely by it: a population equal to that of a considerable city
every year swept into the grave by a single, and, as I hope to show, a
perfectly preventable plague.
As nine or ten recover
for every one who dies, one hundred and forty thousand persons, or more,
must every year pass through its protracted miseries. The real amount of
suffering involved in this is, however, but feebly represented by these
bald figures.
No one can know what they
really imply who has not had experience of this fever in his own home.
The dreary and painful night-watches - the great length of the period
over which the anxiety is extended - the long suspense between hope and
fear, and the large number of the cases in which hope is disappointed
and the worst fear is at last realized, make up a sum of distress that
is scarcely to be found in the history of any other acute disorder. Even
in the highest class of society, the introduction of this fever into the
household is an event that generally long stands prominently out in the
record of family afflictions. But if this be true of the mansions of the
rich, who have every means of alleviation which wealth can command, how
much more true must it be of the cottages of the poor, who have scant
provision even for the necessaries of life, and none for its great
emergencies! Here, when Fever once enters, WANT soon follows, and
CONTAGION is not slow to add its peculiar bitterness to the trial.
As the disease is, by
far, most fatal to persons in middle life, the mother or father, or
both, are often the first to succumb, and the young survivors being left
without support, their home is broken up and their destitution becomes
complete.
How often have I seen in
past days, in the single narrow chamber of the day laborer's cottage,
the father in the coffin, the mother in the sick bed in muttering
delirium, and nothing to relieve the desolation of the children but the
devotion of some poor neighbor who in too many cases paid the penalty
of her kindness in becoming, herself, the victim of the same disorder!"
William BUDD's attitude as
an observer:
"In its ordinary course,
human life has few such consummations of misery as this.
It is impossible to
contemplate events such as these, merely as objects of science. It is,
indeed, a fundamental axiom in scientific investigation that our
emotions should be rigidly excluded from it. But, although, by the
nature of things they cannot help in the solution of a problem, they
may, at least, be suffered to give a spur to inquiry. Where the
interests concerned are the sacred interests of life and death, this is
their proper function, and that in a degree of which none of the common
alternatives that hang upon human duty can give any adequate measure. It
were well with us all if they were more often allowed to have their true
weight with the conscience.
Having been by accident
thrown much in the way of this fever, I have long felt that it is
impossible to bear a part in the calamities of which it is the source,
without becoming possessed with a burning desire to devote the best
powers of the mind to the discovery of means by which such calamities
may be prevented.
From the fact, already
referred to, of its being so much more deadly to grown-up persons, this
disease has a relation to pauperism which is almost peculiar to itself."
Other and earlier medical
practitioners' theories were in conflict with William BUDD's, and rejected
the idea of contagion (chiefly propagated by the typhoid excreta), e.g.:
‘an illusive hypothesis’
Manual on the Practice of Medicine; Dr. Tanner; 6th edition
‘Observed facts and the
few experiments which have been made tend, however, to disprove these
views.’ [of the contagion of typhoid]
‘Much doubt prevails whether enteric (typhoid) fever be infectious or
not, and the question really turns upon the existence of a distinct,
specific poison. Positive proof that it may be conveyed from one person
to another is wanting, and certainly the majority of people affected
with the disease derive it, upon the clearest evidence, from one and the
same source. Those in attendance upon persons suffering from enteric
fever do sometimes fall ill of the disease, but the source of the
disease may be present in any house.’
Physician's Vade Mecum; Hooper; editors: Drs. Guy & Harley
As part of his discussion
of the causes of such attitudes, William BUDD relates the following:
"It is obvious that the
formation of just opinions on the question how diseases spread may
depend less on personal ability than on the opportunities for its
determination which may fall to the lot of the observer. ... rural
districts, where the population is thin, and the lines of intercourse
are few and always easily traced, offer opportunities ... which are not
to be met with in the crowded haunts of large towns.
This is one of the cases,
in which medical men practising in the country have ... advantages which
are denied to their metropolitan brethren, ....
In the early part of my
professional life, while engaged in country practice in Devonshire,
outbreaks of typhoid fever continually fell under my eye, amid
conditions singularly favourable to the study of its origin ...."
North Tawton
"Of these outbreaks the
most memorable occurred in the village of North Tawton, where I then
lived.
Having been born and
brought up in the village, I was personally acquainted with every
inhabitant of it; and being, as a medical practitioner, in almost
exclusive possession of the field, nearly every one who fell ill, not
only in the village itself, but over a large area around it, came
immediately under my care.
... At the date of the
outbreak in question, the people of the place numbered some eleven or
twelve hundred souls.
Of these, a small
minority, consisting chiefly of women and children, worked in a serge
factory. The rest were employed in agricultural pursuits.
The spot on which this
community dwelt is richly endowed with all the natural conditions of
health. Built on a dry soil, in the midst of an open and well drained
country, and occupying the side of a hill sloping gently to the
north-west, this village had long been justly noted in that part of
Devon for the rare healthiness of its site.
... it had for many years
enjoyed an almost entire immunity from the fever to which it was so soon
to pay so large a tribute.
... there were in the
economy of the place, and in the habits of the people, many things
which, according to modem views, are hard to reconcile with such a fact.
In the first place, there was no general system of sewers. A few houses,
occupied by the more opulent, were provided with covered drains, but all
these might be counted on the fingers.
In the cottages of the
men who earned their bread with their hands, and who formed the great
bulk of the inhabitants, there was nothing to separate from the open air
the offensive matters which collect around human habitations. Each
cottage, or group of three or four cottages, had its common privy, to
which a simple excavation in the ground served as cesspool. Besides
this, it was a part of the economy of all who worked in the fields ...
to keep a pig, one of whose functions was to furnish manure for the
little plot of potatoes which fed man and pig alike. Thus, often, hard
by the cottage door there was not only an open privy, but a dungheap
also.
Nevertheless, these
conditions existed for many years without leading to any of the results
which it is the fashion to ascribe to them. Much there was ... offensive
to the nose, but fever there was none. It could not be said that the
atmospheric conditions necessary to fever were wanting, because while
this village remained exempt, many neighbouring villages suffered
severely from the pest. It could not be said that there were no
subjects, for these, as the sequel proved, but too much abounded.
Meanwhile privies,
pigstyes and dungheaps continued, year after year, to exhale ill odours,
without any specific effect on the public health.
Many generations of swine
innocently yielded up their lives, but no fever of this or any other
sort could be laid to their charge. I ascertained by an inquiry
conducted with the most scrupulous care that for fifteen years there had
been no severe outbreak of the disorder, and that for nearly ten there
had been but a single case.
For the development of
this fever a more specific element was needed than either the swine, the
dungheaps, or the privies were, in the common course of things, able to
furnish.
In the course of time ...
this element was added, and it was then found that the conditions which
had been without power to generate fever, had but too great power in
promoting its spread when once the germ of fever had been introduced."
1839
"On the 11th July 1839, a
first case of typhoid fever occurred in a poor and crowded dwelling.
Before the beginning of November, in the same year, more than eighty of
the inhabitants had suffered from it under my care.
I kept an accurate record
of all the principal events which marked this terrible outbreak; and it
is to certain of these events, in their bearing on the mode in which
this fatal disorder spreads, that I now wish to draw attention."
In Chapter II, BUDD
describes in detail the progress of the 1839 fever.
"... after the disorder
had become rife in North Tawton [it showed a] strong tendency, when ...
introduced into a family, to spread through the household.
... in the family of Ann
N__, a young woman who was taken ill in the second week in July, ... the
first case, the mother, a brother, and a sister .. were one after
another laid up with the same fever; the father, who had already had the
disease in former years, and the young infant, being the only inmates
spared.
In another house, four
out of six persons [died]; in another three, and so on. ... before the
disease finally died away, there were few houses in which, having once
appeared, it did not further extend itself to one or more members of the
family.
This ... was, in itself,
sufficient to lead to a strong presumption of the contagious nature of
the disorder.
But while these events
were occurring in the village itself, there were others happening at a
distance, which converted this presumption into a certainty.
During the prevalence of
the fever in North Tawton, ... three persons left the place after they
had become infected. ... all three communicated the disease to one or
more of the persons by whom they were surrounded in the new
neighbourhood in which they fell ill.
Two of these three
persons were sawyers by trade, who had hired themselves for a few weeks
to a timber merchant living in the village. While these men remained in
North Tawton, they lodged in a court with a single and a common privy,
and next door to a house in which the fever was. In the course of time
both these men sickened ... and on the ... first decided symptoms, both
returned to their own homes, in the parish of Morchard, about seven
miles off.
The first was a married
man, with two children. He left North Tawton on August 9, being already
too ill to work. Two days after reaching Morchard he took to his bed,
and at the end of five weeks he died.
Ten days after his death
his two children were laid up with the same fever, and had it severely;
the widow escaped.
The other sawyer was a
single man and an aged couple who lived with him were the only other
inmates of the house.
Like his comrade, he was
driven from North Tawton by indisposition, which rendered him unable to
follow his employment, and cut off his means of support. He began to
droop on July 26, but did not leave for Morchard until August 2. On the
3rd he finally took to his bed. His attack was severe, but, after a long
struggle, he recovered.
When this man was at his
worst, a friend ... was called upon to assist in raising him in bed.
While thus employed, the friend was quite overpowered by the smell from
the sick man's body. He felt very unwell from that time .... On the
tenth day from ... this event, he was seized with a violent shiver,
which was immediately followed by an attack of typhoid fever of long
duration.
Before he became
convalescent, two of his children got the same fever, as well as a
brother, who lived at some distance, but who had repeatedly visited him
during his illness.
The houses occupied by
these four men lay some way apart, and, [except under] their roofs,
there was no fever at the time in that part of the country.
Was this series of events
... the result of chance or the work of contagion?
If any rational person
should entertain doubts as to the true answer ..., the history of the
next case may ... resolve them.
The subject who was the
means of propagating the disorder ... was a widow named Lee, residing in
North Tawton. She began to droop on August 20. On the following day, not
knowing what was impending, she went to visit her brother, a farmer who
occupied a large farm in the hamlet of Chaffcombe, about seven miles
off.
On the 23rd she was laid
up. On the 24th I was sent for ... and found her in bed in the first
stage of fever. In ... her case, which ... was very prolonged, she
exhibited ... all the most characteristic marks of the disorder.
(... nose-bleeding,
spontaneous and obstinate diarrhoea, tympanitis, dry tongue, low
delirium, and other typhoid symptoms, together with - towards the end of
the second week - the now well-known eruption of rose-coloured spots.)
After ... several weeks
under my care at Chaffcombe, she slowly recovered.
... the fever had become
... so rife at North Tawton, that, while I was attending Mrs. Lee, I had
... seventeen persons under my care in the village ....
A few days after she had
become convalescent, her sister-in-law (Mrs. Snell), who had nursed her,
fell ill of the same fever. Her case was very severe, and, after a
protracted struggle, terminated fatally on November 4.
The husband (Mr. Snell),
who had spent the chief part of his time in his wife's sick room, and
had sat up many nights by her, in great anxiety and distress, was the
next sufferer. He begin to droop in the last week of October, but was
not finally laid up until the day of his wife's death. After having lain
for some time in a very precarious state, he recovered.
... three weeks ... from
the date of the seizure - one of the farm apprentices was attacked in
the same way.
Then followed a lad
employed as day labourer on the farm; and then Miss S__, who had come to
take charge of the house after the death of Mrs. Snell.
Next in order came
another apprentice; and again, as a last group, a servant man, a servant
girl, and another young person (a daughter of Mrs. Lee), who, until she
was laid up, had acted the part of nurse.
As far as external
conditions went, the sanitary state of the homestead which had become
the seat of this terrible scourge differed in nothing from what it had
been for many years before, during which the household had continued to
enjoy perfect health.
The only new incident in
its history was the arrival of Mrs. Lee from the infected village, seven
miles off, with the fever upon her.
... many other such
homesteads lay near to this one, ... far worse off in respect of these
same conditions, but in which no fever of this or any other kind
existed.
There was no single case
... within miles of the place, or nearer than North Tawton, whence the
taint had been imported.
The outbreak ... did not
... end here.
In order to lighten the
burden of so heavy a sick list, the servant girl ... was sent to her own
home (a small cottage in the hamlet of Loosebeare, about four miles
away) as soon as the first symptoms of illness appeared. Here she lay
ill for several weeks under my care.
Before she had recovered,
her father, a farm labourer of the name of Gibbings, was likewise
seized, and narrowly escaped with life.
A farmer, named Kelland,
who lived across the road, and who visited this man several times during
his illness, was the next to take the disorder.
His case was, in turn,
followed by others under the same roof; and the fever, spreading from
this to other houses, became the focus of a little epidemic, which
gradually extended to the whole hamlet.
Scattered over the
country side there were some twenty or thirty other hamlets ... which in
all things were the precise counterparts of this. Two or three farmyards
and a few labourers' cottages clustered round them, made up ... each ...
little community. In each .. were the usual manure-yard and the
inevitable pigsty; ... the same primitive accommodation for human needs.
The same sun shone upon all alike, through month after month of the same
fine, dry, autumnal weather. From the soil of all, human and other
exuviae exhaled into the air the same putrescent compounds, in about
equal abundance. In some ... these compounds ... were much more rife.
And yet, while at
Loosebeare a large proportion of the inhabitants were lying prostrate
with fever, in not one of the twenty or thirty exactly similar places
was there a single case.
To explain a contrast so
signal there was but one fact to appeal to - the arrival from Chaffcombe,
where the fever was already raging, of Mary Gibbings with the disease
actually upon her. Before that event, in spite of manure heaps, pig-styes,
and the like, Loosebeare, too, was free from the malady.
The diseased intestine of
the infected girl had continued to deposit its morbid excreta upon the
soil for a fortnight or more before the fever began to spread, and the
first cases that succeeded to hers sprang up immediately around her
person.
The Chaffcombe tragedy
... had yet another episode. One of the boys already mentioned ... was
the means of widely disseminating the fever in quite another direction.
This boy, who was employed as day labourer on the farm, lived, when at
home, in one of a pair of cottages standing by the roadside, about
midway between Bow and North Tawton. The cottage in question was
occupied by the boy's mother; the cottage next door by the husband and
family of one of her married daughters.
Of the ten persons who,
one after another, contracted fever at Chaffcombe, this boy, Oliver
Lang, was the fifth in order of attack. Like Gibbings, he was sent home
to his friends as soon as he fell ill; and he took to his bed in the
last week of December. I attended him for a long time at his mother's
house, and his case was very severe.
Before he had become
fully convalescent, his mother, who had nursed him, sickened; and while
she yet lay ill, his sister took the fever. In the last-named subject
the course of the disease was unusually rapid, terminating fatally as
early as the ninth day. On January 24 she had a severe shiver, on the
26th she was unable to leave her bed and on February 2 she died.
The next to be attacked
were two children of the family next door, every member of which ended
by being laid up with the disorder.
Another married daughter
(a sister of Oliver Lang), who had come from a distance to take care of
her sick relatives, being at length infected, became, on her return
home, the means of propagating the fever in yet another quarter.
[...]
It is only important to
add that, with one exception, all the cases included in the last
narrative were either under my own care, or under that of one of my
brothers, who was associated with me in their treatment, and that I
kept, as I have already stated, an accurate record of them at the time
of their occurrence, with the express view of illustrating the mode of
propagation of this particular species of fever."
William BUDD's publication
continues with other examples of the spread of the fever, and the
conclusions he drew.
The complete
text may be read here:
www.deltaomega.org/typhoid.pdf
Cholera
In Bristol, 1866, William
BUDD demonstrated that limiting the contamination of a town's water supply
could stop a cholera epidemic (from 'www.answers.com')
John SNOW was a
contemporary of William BUDD; read about his detective work and
determination of the causes of cholera (also water-borne); the Broad
Street pump outbreak; maps of London in 1827, 1859 & 1889; London water in
1856.
The site relates that
William BUDD had stated - in an 1849 pamphlet - his belief that cholera
was water-borne; this hypothesis, also arrived at by SNOW, was
demonstrated true by the latter's careful observation and experiment based
on his conviction. SNOW's work was acknowledged almost immediately after
his death. BUDD's biography was not published until 1936*.
Superb
university website offering items for all levels of interest:
John Snow
* William Budd by E. W. Goodall, M.D., published by Arrowsmith
(February 2006, a copy available at Bristol City Central Library, UK.)
Diphtheria - Devonshire
Lore, 1882-25
"William RICH, a farmer
at Town, in Broadwood, was very ill in the summer of 1882, with a
complication of disorders, the chief of which was diptheria. Dr. BUDD,
of North Tawton, was called in to consult with Dr. THOMPSON, of
Launceston. Both gave him up. Then his wife's relations sent for a
posthumous child to be brought and breathe into his mouth. This was done
several times in the week, and the man recovered completely."
From "Further
Reminiscences 1864 to 1894" by Sabine Baring-Gould, 2003, Kessinger
Publishing, ISBN 0766173100 (page 127)
'Devonshire Colic'
Lead was used in cider
presses but at the outset its connection with the colic it produced was
not understood, then rejected (partly for economic reasons); it became
known as Devonshire colic. As the use of lead was phased out in the 19th
century, so the colic disappeared. In 1885 Frederick WILLCOCKS, speaking
at a meeting of the Devonshire Association, recalled Dr. Christian BUDD
(of North Tawton):
"in the early part of his
career some forty years ago ... occasionally saw cases of lead colic
produced by drinking cider made in a lead press."
Such presses had since
entirely disappeared and Dr Budd had:
"... not for many years
seen any case of lead poisoning produced by cider. ... believes that
there is no more wholesome drink than pure cider ..."
The Budd Family Tree
(fourth draft - April 2007)
Mentions of the BUDD
family members in archive catalogues (A2A, South-west England):
1798
Samuel BUDD, gent. of North Tawton
grandson & devisee of:
- Revd. Richard BUDD, clerk of St. Columb Minor, deceased
1835/36
Sam. BUDD snr., surgeon of North Tawton
his wife Cath.
1867: August
Cath. BUDD, widow of North Tawton
Jn. Wreford BUDD
1869/71
Christian BUDD M.D., of North Tawton
A Catherine WREFORD
was Chr. 28 September 1779 Nymet Tracey, Devon
(Father: John WREFORD, Mother: Betty)
1850: W. WHite's History, Gazetteer & Directory of Devon
- John WREFORD esq., Nicholls Nymet
Samuel BUDD b. c.1775/6 North Tawton, Devon, surgeon; [d. September
1841]
m. C[K]atherine WREFORD 3 February 1801 Nymet Tracey, Devon
From GENUKI: 1802/3 Census
S. BUDD (Surgeon)
K. BUDD
C. BUDD (9 mths old)
1851: Catherine BUDD 'b. Bow, Devon; Landed' was living with son
Christian
- 2. Catherine Wreford
BUDD Chr. 10 August 1802 North Tawton, Devon [?d. pre-3Q 1837?]
- m. John PHEAR 22 June
1824 North Tawton, Devon
- 1817: John PHEAR
received curate's licence, North Tawton Parish, Devon
- 1836-___ Jn. PHEAR of
Earl Stoneham in Suffolk, clerk M.A. [Rector 1824-1881]; re. estate Zeal
Monachorum
- (Devon Record Office)
- 1833: Rev. John PHEAR,
clerk of Earl Stonham
- November 1844: John
PHEAR + 2 others, trustees of Lady Catherine Gardemau Charity, admitted
to Chalford Meadow, & Pond Meadow (near Vicarage Bridge), Coddenham; in
trust for teaching of poor children
- January 1868: John
PHEAR, Rector of Earl Stonham, Suffolk, licenced to absent himself from
benefice due to ill-health
- (Suffolk - Ipswich -
Record Office)
-
- 3. John Budd PHEAR Chr.
9 February 1825 Earl Stonham, Suffolk (1881: Knight, J.P.)
- m. Emily [--]; b.
c.1835 Stockwell, Surrey
- 1881: lvg. Marpool,
Withycombe Rawleigh, Devon
-
- 1860: John Budd
PHEAR candidate for Downing Professorship of Laws at Cambridge
University
- (Lambeth Palace
Library)
- 1888: letters from
Emily & John Budd PHEAR on C. of E. business
- (Devon Records
Office)
- Wording of memorial
from Sir J. B. PHEAR, 30 December 1905
- (British Library,
Oriental & India Office Collections)
-
- 4. (?)
- 4. Ethel Kamini
PHEAR b. c.1867 Calcutta, East Indies
- 4. Winifried Mary
PHEAR b. c.1871 Calcutta, East Indies
- 4. Gilbert Ashleigh
PHEAR b. c.1877 St. Leonards On Sea
-
- 3. Henry Carlyon PHEAR
Chr. 22 June 1826 Earl Stonham, Suffolk
- 1849: 2nd Wrangler,
1st Smith's prizeman
- Fellow of Caius
College, Cambridge; Chancery barrister "of some eminence"
- (Dictionary of
National Biography)
- d. 1Q 1880 age 53 (Croydon
2a/172)
-
- Opinion given by
Henry C. PHEAR, Lincolns Inn (19 February 1879)
- held at Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust Records Office
-
- m. Mary Branford
DANIEL 4Q 1856 (Stow 4a/1083)
- (b. c.1851 Caistow,
Norfolk) (1881: Income Derived From Dividends)
- 1881: lvg. Llyswen,
Tavistock Rd., Croydon, Surrey
- 4. Henry H. PHEAR b.
c.1858 Croydon, Surrey (1881: Solicitors Articled Clerk, B.A.)
- 4. Alice M. PHEAR b.
c.1859 Croydon, Surrey
- 4. Margaret PHEAR b.
c.1860 Croydon, Surrey
- 4. Helen A. PHEAR b.
c.1862 Croydon, Surrey
- 4. [?Arthur PHEAR b.
c.1866 Croydon, Surrey?]
- 4. Edith G. PHEAR b.
c.1869 Croydon, Surrey
-
- 1881: Boarder at
Hindhead Road, Godalming, Surrey
- Arthur PHEAR
(Boarder) age 14 b. Croydon, Surrey (Scholar)
- with Benjamin
BUISSON age 34 b. France
- (M.A. Paris,
Assistant School Master At Charterhouse)
- & family, other
scholars
-
- 1901:
- lvg. Witley, Surrey
- - Alice PHEAR age 41
b. Croydon, Surrey (Living On Own Mean)
- - Edith PHEAR age 31
b. Croydon, Surrey (Living On Own Mean)
- - Arthur [G.] PHEAR
age 34 b. Croydon, Surrey (Physician)
- - Ellen PHEAR age 33
b. ___, Essex ...
-
- lvg. Bacton Entire,
Norfolk
- - Alice PHEAR age 39
b. Croydon, Surrey (Living On Own Means)
- - Howard PHEAR age 8
b. South Africa
- - Mary PHEAR age 6
b. South Africa
- - Norman PHEAR age 2
b. South Africa
-
- studying Eastbourne,
East Sussex
- - Henry PHEAR age 11
b. Kimberley, South Africa (Pupil)
-
- 3. Samuel George PHEAR
b. c.1828/9 East Stonham, Suffolk
- 1852: 4th Wrangler
and Fellow
- Rev. Samuel George
PHEAR, master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
- December 1876 -
October 1881___ Trustee of Edward Storey's Charity, Cambridge
- became
Vice-chancellor of Emanuel College
- (1881: D.D., Master
Emmanuel Col. Cam., S/Master; unmarried, lvg. with brother John)
-
- 1901: lvg. Cambridge
- - Samuel PHEAR age 72
b. Earl Stonham, Suffolk (Clergyman C. Of E.) [d. 1918?]
- - Helen PHEAR age 38
b. Croydon, Surrey
-
- Pharmacopoeia of
Royal Hospital for Diseases of Chest inscribed:
- "A. G. Phear, 47
Weymouth St. W. May 1902"
- (London
Metropolitan Archives)
-
- According to the
count of sons, this was NOT a brother of physician William BUDD:
- ---------
- John Wreford BUDD Chr.
31 December 1804 Plymouth, Devon
- (1851: Physician, Late
Fellow Of Pembroke Cole., Cambridge)
- m. Jane [c.1833
Flushing, Cornwall?]; b. c.1812 Flushing, Cornwall
- 1851: lvg. Princess
Square, Plymouth St Andrew, Devonshire
- (ii) John BUDD b.
c.1838 Plymouth, Devon
- (ii) Robt BUDD b.
c.1840 Plymouth, Devon
- (ii) Saml. B. BUDD b.
c.1843 Plymouth, Devon
- (ii) Jane BUDD b.
c.1846 Plymouth, Devon
-
- 1844: Pigot & Co.'s
Directory ___, Devon, ___
- - John Wreford
BUDD, physician, 4 Princess square, Plymouth
- 1850: W. WHite's
History, Gazetteer & Directory of Devon
- - J. W. BUDD,
physician, 4 Princess square
- 1859: West of
England & Trewman's Pocket Journal
- - J. W. BUDD,
physician, 4 princess-square
-
- 1881:
- lvg. 8 Gloucester Cres.,
London, Middlesex (+ 5 servants)
- (ii) John BUDD age 42
b. Devon (Solicitor)
- + Lucy J. BUDD
(Wife) age 37 b. Camb., Cambridge
- Ethel BUDD age
9 b. Padd., Middlesex (Scholar)
- Mabel C. BUDD
age 8 b. Padd., Middlesex (Scholar)
- Constance D.
BUDD age 5 b. Padd., Middlesex (Scholar)
-
- lvg. 8 Gay Street,
Walcot, Somerset (+ 3 servants)
- (ii) Samuel P. BUDD
age 37 b. Plymouth (Surgeon)
- + Jane St. John
BUDD (Mother, Widow) age 68 b. Flushing, Cornwall (Fundholder)
-
- 1901:
- lvg. Kensington,
London
- (ii) John BUDD age 62
b. Plymouth, Devon (Solicitor)
-
- lvg. Sidmouth, Devon
- Lucy BUDD age 55
b. Cambridge
- Mabel BUDD age
28 b. London
- Constance BUDD
age 25 b. London
- Sanderson BUDD
age 40 b. Devon, Plymouth (Living On Own Means)
- Mira BUDD age
34 b. London
- ---------
-
- 2. Samuel BUDD Chr. 17
September 1805 Exeter, Devon (1851: M.D. In Practice)
- (1881: age 75, M.D.Eden.
M.R.C.P.S., Physician & Magistrate); [?d. 2Q 1885 age 78 (Exeter
5b/74)?]
- m. Cordelia G. [--]
c.1844; b. c.1824 India; d. 2Q 1886 age 62 (Fulham 1a/165)
- 1851: lvg. 21
Southernhay, Exeter St David, Devonshire (1881: No. 20)
- 3. Samuel BUDD b.
c.1844/5 Exeter, Devon
- 3. Catherine BUDD b.
c.1845/6 Exeter, Devon (1881: unmarried, lvg. with parents)
- 3. William BUDD b.
c.August 1849 Exeter, Devon
- 3. [?]
- 3. [George BUDD b.
c.1857 Exeter, Devon]
-
- 1844: Pigot & Co.'s
Directory ___, Devon, ___
- - Samuel BUDD,
physician, 21 Southernhay street
- 1850: Exeter
Journal & Almanac
- - Samuel BUDD M.D.,
physician, 21 Southernhay-place
- 1859: West of
England & Trewman's Pocket Journal
- - Dr. BUDD,
magistrate, Exeter
- - Dr. Samuel BUDD,
physician, 20 southernhay-place
-
- 1881: lvg. 3 Danes
Inn, London, Middlesex (+ 1 servant)
- - Samuel BUDD age 36
b. Exeter, Devon (Solicitor)
- - George BUDD
(Brother, U) age 23 b. Exeter, Devon (Medical Student)
-
- 1891: 20 Southernhay
W., Exeter, Devon
- C+E.Parish: St
David-EnD.1-Fo.4-Pg.1-Sch.3)
- 3. William Alex. BUDD
age 41 b. Exeter, Devon (Physician, Notem)
- m. Mary Catherine [--]
age 36 b. Barnstaple, Devon
- 4. William Geo. BUDD
age 13 b. Exeter, Devon (Scholar)
- 4. Arthur BUDD age
11 b. Exeter, Devon (Scholar)
- 4. Katherine Rose
BUDD age 9 b. Exeter, Devon (Scholar)
- 4. Margaret BUDD age
5 b. Exeter, Devon (Scholar)
- 3. Catherine Cordelia
BUDD (Sister) age 42 b. Exeter, Devon (Living On Own Means)
- Alice DUNN age 23
b. Broadclyst, Devon (Servant, Em'ee)
- Mary JONES age 23
b. Dowland, Devon (Servant, Em'ee)
- Anne Elizabeth
HOARE age 25 b. Bideford, Devon (Servant, Em'ee)
-
- 1901:
- lvg. Ealing, Middlesex
- - Samuel BUDD age 56
b. Exeter, Devon (Principal Clerk In Solicitors Dept. Of H.M.P.O.)
-
- lvg. Gidleigh, Devon
- - William BUDD age 51
b. Exeter, Devon (Physician)
- - Mary BUDD age 46 b.
Barnstaple, Devon
- - Katherine BUDD age
19 b. Exeter, Devon
- - Margaret BUDD age 15
b. Exeter, Devon
-
- 1881: lvg. with Richard,
Cordelia & Catherine:
- - W. M. FORBES (Nephew,
U) b. c.1858 Island Of Cuba (Solicitors Articled Clerk)
-
- 2. George BUDD b.
February 1808, North Tawton, Devon
- - 1831: graduated 3rd
Wrangler Caius College, Cambridge; became a fellow
- - travelled to Paris,
studied medicine & pathology
- - returned to London;
became student at Middlesex Hospital
- - appointed physician
of 'Dreadnaught' hospital ship
- - 1840: M.D.
Cambridge conferred
- - 1840: (teaching)
professor of medicine, King’s College, London, + Hospital
- - 1863: resigned;
devoted himself to private practice
- - 1867: developed
glycosuria, ceased practice; toured Europe, summered in Italy
- - became country
gentleman (hunting, gardening)
- - 1880: elected
honorary fellow, Caius College, Cambridge
- - 1881: Physician not
practising
- m. Louisa Matilda [--];
b. c.1820 France (British Subject)
- 1881: lvg. Ashleigh
House, Barnstaple, Devon
- - George BUDD F.R.C.P.
d. 14 March 1882 age 74 Ashleigh by Barnstaple, Devon (5b/331)
- - Louisa BUDD d. 2Q 1883
age 62 (Barnstaple 5b/315)
-
- 2. Richard BUDD Chr. 19
October 1809 Tawton, Devon
- (1851: M.D. Edinburgh
University, Practising as Physician)
- (1881: Widower;
Physician M.D.Edin, London T[F].R.C.P.)
- (1891: M.D., F.R.G[C].P.,
physician, & Barnstaple J.P.; + 4 servants)
- - d. 1Q 1896 age 86 (Barnstaple
5b/313)
- m. Margaret RIDER c.1833
Barnstaple, Devon (1851: not at home)
-
- 1844: Pigot & Co.'s
Directory ___, Devon, ___
- Barnstaple:
- - John BUDD esq.,
Willesley
- - Robert BUDD esq., 7
Ebberly place
- - Richard BUDD,
physician, 5 Litchdon street
- 1850: W. WHite's
History, Gazetteer & Directory of Devon
- Barnstaple:
- - Robert BUDD,
Borough Magistrate & Alderman [surgeon, see 1851 below]
- - Richd. BUDD
physician, Boutport street
- "Holy Trinity Church,
at the Barbican, was ... commenced in 1843, but the tower ... not
completed till 1847. ... The font was given by Dr. BUDD."
- "The North Devon
Infirmary, at the entrance to the town from Newport, is a neat building,
of which the centre was erected in 1824, when the first stone was laid
by the late Earl Fortescue, the projector and principal contributor. The
wings of the building were added afterwards, and the nterior is now
spacious and admirably adapted for the benevolent purposes to which it
is appropriated. It is supported by subscriptions and donations. Earl
Fortescue is patron; Drs. Britton and BUDD, physicians; Messrs. Curry
and Law, surgeons; Mr. Morgan, house surgeon; and Mrs. Harbour, matron."
- 1859: West of England
& Trewman's Pocket Journal
- - R. BUDD esq.,
Ebberley-place, Barnstaple (Magistrate of the County of Devon, for
Braunton)
- - Robert BUDD,
Justice (J.P.), Alderman (south ward) for Barnstaple
- - Dr. Richard BUDD,
physician, Boutport-street, Barnstaple
-
- 1851/1881: lvg. Boutport
Street, Barnstaple, Devonshire
- 3. Margaret Rider BUDD
b. c.1842 Barnstaple, Devon (1881: with father)
- m. [2Q 1862 (Barnstaple
5b/825)] [--] MANDERSON
- 3. Harriett Elizabeth
Rider BUDD b. 4Q 1844 Barnstaple, Devon
- 3. Catherine Rider
BUDD b. 3Q 1846 Barnstaple, Devon
- 3. Mary Rider BUDD (1Q
1848 female BUDD b.) Barnstaple, Devon (1881: invisible?)
- m. Joseph Hicks GIBBS
2Q 1867 Barnstaple (5b/803)
- 1881: lvg. with
Richard:
- - Joseph Hucks GIBB
(Son-in-law) b. c.1840 Wraxall, Somerset (Merchant)
- 4. Leonard Albert
GIBBS (Grand Son) b. c.1875 London, Middlesex
- 4. Reginald Stanley
Ridor HANCOCK (Grandson) b. c.1868 Hong Kong, China
- 4. Gertrude Turnwyre
Budd HANCOCK (Grand Daur) b. c.1871 Hong Kong, China
- 4. Beatrice Margaret
Ridor HANCOCK (Grand Daur) b. c.1872 Hong Kong, China
- 4. Richard Budd
HANCOCK (Grand Son) b. c.1877 Hong Kong, China
- 4. Harry Cyril
HANCOCK (Grand Son) b. c.1878 Hong Kong, China
-
- 1901: lvg. Barnstaple,
Devon
- - Thomas MANDERSON age
61 b. Ham Common, Devon (Retired Cornal[Corporal?] R. Engineers)
- - Margaret MANDERSON
age 58 b. Barnstaple, Devon
- - John MANDERSON age
30 b. ___, India
-
- 2. William BUDD b. 1811
North Tawton; d. 1880 [Bristol]
-
- 1844: Pigot & Co.'s
Directory ___, Devon, ___
- - William BUDD,
physician, 22 Park street, Bristol
-
- m. Caroline Mary HILTON
2Q 1847 (Bath 11/15)
- 3. [Mary Ann BUDD b.
3Q 1847 Bath (11/14)
- 3. Alice Maud BUDD b.
2Q 1848 (Bath 11/47)]
-
- "... the
epidemiologist William BUDD ... has been proposed as a model for Lydgate
in 'Middlemarch' and was an important figure in Victorian sanitary
reform, a pioneer who recognised that typhus and typhoid were distinct,
how cholera and typhoid were transmitted ..."
- "Alice Maud BUDD may
have been 'Mocking Bird' of the Gosling Society"
- See
Charlotte Yonge's essay society
-
- 1881: lvg. 32
Charlesville Rd., London, Middlesex
- C. M. BUDD Head (Widow)
age 53 b. Kent (No Profession) [Caroline Mary [HILTON]]
- - M. G. BUDD Daughter
(U) age 31 b. Bristol (No Profession) [Mary Ann?]
- - A. M. BUDD Daughter
(U) age 30 b. Bristol (No Profession) [Alice Maud?]
- - A. BUDD Son (U) age 27
b. Bristol (Solicitor)
- - A. W. HOUSE
Grandson age 7 b. Bristol
- C. M. DUNN Servant
(U) age 35 b. London, Middlesex (Servant)
- C. DAVIS Servant age
18 b. Monmouth (Servant)
-
- Caroline Mary BUDD d. 2Q
1887 age 59 (Fulham 1a/170)
-
- 1901: lvg. Worthing,
West Sussex
- - Alice BUDD age 48 b.
Bristol, Somerset (On Own Means)
-
- 2. Christian BUDD Chr. 1
January 1813 North Tawton, Devon
-
- 1850: W. WHite's
History, Gazetteer & Directory of Devon
- Christian BUDD M.D.,
surgeon, North Tawton
-
- 1851/81: lvg. The
Square, North Tawton (1881 with mother Catherine)
- 1881: Physician M.B.
Cambridge; d. 1891 (unmarried)
-
- 2. Thomas BUDD Chr. 16
April 1818 Tawton, Devon
-
- 2. Septimus BUDD b.
c.1820; d. 3 April 1847 age 27, Toronto, Upper Canada
- (source: The Gentleman's
Magazine, page 679)
-
- 2. (Charles) Octavus*
BUDD Chr. 22 June 1824 Tawton, Devon
- (source: Quarterly
Journal, Royal Meteorological Society, GB)
-
- 2. Francis Nonus** BUDD
b. c.1822 North Tawton, Devon
-
* Samuel & Catherine had 9
children; since the christening of 1824 was 'Octavus', and Francis' 2nd
given name was 'Nonus', he must have been younger than Charles Octavus. If
the age given for Francis in 1881 (58) was correct, then Octavus must have
been christened quite some time after birth, or the baptismal record was
mis-read. An undated medical publication mentions:
eighth son of Samuel Budd, a medical practitioner at North Tawton, in
Devonshire, and was born at North Tawton in the month of July 1822.
From registration of death, Charles Octavius' dob. was 1821:
Charles Octavius BUDD d. 4Q 1890 age 69 (Newton A. 5b/117).
1841: lvg. North Tawton,
Devon
William BUDD b. c.1811 (in Cty)
Christian BUDD b. c.1816 (in Cty)
Octavius BUDD b. c.1826 (in Cty)
Nonus BUDD b. c.1826 (in Cty)
1851: lvg. St George
Hanover Square, Middlesex
George BUDD b. c.1809 North Taunton, Devon (Head)
Francis [W] BUDD b. c.1823 North Taunton, Devon (Brother)
** From "Men-at-the-bar: a
Biographical Hand-list of the Members of the Various Inns of Court" by
Joseph Foster, 1885:
BUDD, Francis Nonus, B.A. (Fellow), Caius Coll., Camb., a student of
Lincoln's Inn 19 Dec., 1842, called to the bar 28 Jan. 1848 (9th son of
late Samuel BUDD, Esq., of North Tawton, Devon).
Kelly's Directory of
Devon & Cornwall, 1893 (Devon)
County Magistrate for South Molton (petty sessions)
- Francis Nonus BUDD esq., North Tawton
1881: 5 Harley Place,
Clifton Down, Clifton, Gloucester
Francis N. BUDD (unmarried) age 58 b. North Tawton, Devon (Barrister In
Actual Practice)
boarding at lodging-house of Susan H. STEVENS (Head, unmarried, age 50
b. Bristol)
+ 2 servants
1891: lvg. Batworthy,
Gidleigh, Devon (Okehampton)
(C+EP: Gidleigh-EnD.1-Fo.6-Pg.4-Sch.16)
Francis N. BUDD (unmarried) age 68 b. North Tawton, Devon (Retired
Barrister, Em'er)
- Susan H. STEVENS (unmarried) age 60 b. Bristol, Gloucestershire (House
Keeper Dom, Em'ee)
- Elizabeth GARDENER (unmarried) age 38 b. North Molton, Devon (Cook, Dom
Servant, Em'ee)
- Emma WONNACOTT (unmarried) age 21 b. South Tawton, Devon (House Parlour
Maid, Em'ee)
Francis Nonus BUDD d. 4Q
1899 age 76 (Okehampton 5b/305)
However, Kelly's
Directory of Devon (& Cornwall), 1902
lists, as a County Magistrate (South Molton petty sessions):
BUDD Francis Nonus esq., North Tawton
This was perhaps an error - or was there another BUDD of this name?
Some other Budd families
in Trade Directories (south-west England)
1844: Pigot & Co.'s
Directory ___, Devon, Gloucestershire, ___
DEVON
William BUDD ......... "Three Tuns", Quay, Bideford
William BUDD ......... baker, Exeter street, Cullompton
James BUDD ........... chymist & druggist, Bridge street, Newton-Abbots
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Mrs. [___] BUDD ...... Culver street, Bristol
Richard BUDD ......... woolstapler, Coxwell street, Cirencester
1850: W. WHite's History, Gazetteer & Directory of Devon
J. BUDD esq. ......... Landkey, County Magistrate for South Molton
William BUDD ......... baker, Cullompton
Ann BUDD ............. milliner, Cullompton
Chas. Budd MUSGROVE .. farmer, Littletown, Honiton
James BUDD ........... agent for Norwich Union ins., Newton Abbot & Bushel
Mary BUDD ............ shopkeeper, Barnstaple
James BUDD ........... beerhouse keeper, Croyde, Georgeham
Eliz. & Sarah BUDD ... juvenile dress, Union street, Plymouth
John BUDD ............ poulterer, 12 Cross street, Devonport, Stoke &
Morice-Town
Daniel BUDD .......... shopkeeper, Dolton
Robert BUDD .......... Borough Magistrate & Alderman, Barnstaple (see
below)
Robert BUDD .......... grocer & draper, Dolton
John BUDD ............ farmer, Dolton
Robert BUDD .......... farmer, Dolton
Wm. BUDD ............. farmer, Dolton
John BUDD ............ wheelwright, North Petherwin
Goodleigh:
"Miss BUDD and several other proprietors have estates in this parish,
which is celebrated for its cherry orchards."
Landkey:
"... is a village and parish, 2½ miles E.S.E. of Barnstaple, containing
774 souls, and 3510 acres of land. ... part of the parish belongs to Miss
BUDD and other proprietors."
1851: lvg. No. 7 Ebberly
Place, Barnstaple, Devonshire
Robert BUDD (Head) age 65 b. Landkey, Devon (Magistrate & Alderman;
Surgeon, Royal College)
Louiza [--]BUDD (Wife) age 73 b. Bloomsbury, Middlesex
- Mary DENNIS (U) age 38 b. Goodleigh, Devon (Servant)
- Mary LUXTON (U) age 26 b. North Molton, Devon (Servant, Cook)
1844: Pigot & Co.'s
Directory ___, Devon, Gloucestershire, ___
BUDD & Co., carriers:
Bristol
- to Oxford, Wootton-under-Edge, Tetbury, Cirencester, Burford, Witney,
and Northleach, from Bletchly's warehouse, Thomas street, ... daily
Cheltenham
- to London, from the "Crown", every Monday, Wednesday & Friday
Cirencester
- to Bristol, van from their warehouse, Leuse lane, ... daily
- to Cheltenham, from their warehouse every Tuesday, Thursday, & Saturday
- to Gloucester, by Railway & Vans, from their warehouse, daily
- to Stourbridge, Kidderminster, & Dudley, from their warehouse, daily
- to Stroudwater, Minchinhampton, Nailsworth, Easlington, Standley &
Cain's Cross, from their warehouse, daily
Gloucester
Joseph PAGE, agent to Budd & Co, 1 Quay street
- to London daily from 1 Quay street
Stroud
BUDD, ROBINS & Co., carriers
- to Cirencester from the "Swan", every Monday, Wednesday & Friday
Tetbury
- to London from their warehouse, by Railway, daily; and by Van,
through Cirencester, Burford, Witney, Oxford, Uxbridge, and High Wycombe,
daily
Wotton
- to Bristol from their warehouse, every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday |
