Copy of Newspaper Cutting reporting the passing of Jean Countess of Donoughmore. This is the mother of Lord Donoughmore, the 8th Earl of Donoughmore resident of Bampton, he lived in The Manor for several years and a prominent member of the SPAJERS and other Bampton organisations. The article also reports on the kidnapping of Lord and Lady Donoughmore by the IRA in 1974 from their home in Knocklofty, Clonmel, Co Tipperary.
Jean married John Michael Henry Hely Hutchinson in 1925. He was the elder son of the 6th Earl of Donoughmore. During the second World War she was in charge of the Red Cross in the East End of London and was made an MBE for her work in 1947.
Following the death of the 7th Earl of Donoughmore in 1981, he was succeeded as the 8th Earl by his son , who came to live at Bampton Manor, Broad Street and later at Frogwell, Bushey Row.

1853 Lascelles Gazetteer of Oxon, Bampton. Alphabetical list of trades and professions. Classification of
trades and professions. Millers, dairymen and farmers, Farmers, fellmongers, fishmonger, glove
manufacturers, grocers and tea dealers, Grocers and tea dealers, hair dressers, hatters, hotels,
insurance agents, joiners, carpenters, linen and wool drapers and hosiers, maltsters, milliners and
dressmakers, Plumbers, glaziers, saddlers & harness makers, schools, shop keepers, solicitors, stone
and marble masons, straw bonnet makers, surgeons and tailors, Tallow chandler, veterinary surgeons,
watch maker, wheelwrights, wine and spirit merchants.

Promotional postcards used by Abbey properties Estate Agents in Bampton, showing old photographs of Bampton. Namely The horse fair outside the Horseshoe pub, and the corner of Church Street and Bridge Street showing the Elephant and Castle when thatched and the Wheatsheaf Pub

Mr & Mrs Horace Morse and daughter Kit, later Mrs Kit Jackson
Horace Morse collected the contents of the lavatory buckets which were put outside the houses on Wednesday. He had a horse drawn cart with a tank on the back and would then spread this on farmers' fields. He also collected the ashes and rubbish in a high sided square cart and emptied this in Gog Lane. Sewerage didn't came to Bampton until 1950's.

Descendants of George Radband 1703, family tree

Names in the Thomas Radband and Robert Radband (1680) Family Tree

Names in the Ernest Billie Agg & the Wheeler family Family Tree

Names in the Richard Daniels family tree

Names in the John Dixey Family Tree

Names in the Jodeph Brooks Family Tree