Whitear

This is my Great Grandad Alfred who was born in 1903. Everybody called him ‘Jack’. He didn’t start school until he was 8 and had to walk there and back (about 6 miles) from his house in Coombe. He left school at 12 and went straight to work as a shepherd boy. He worked for Sam Hardy at Lower Farm (you can see him in the photo working with the horses), then for the Berrys at Oxenbourne and the Jones at Hillhampton Farm.
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This is my Great Grandad Alfred who was born in 1903. Everybody called him ‘Jack’. He didn’t start school until he was 8 and had to walk there and back (about 6 miles) from his house in Coombe. He left school at 12 and went straight to work as a shepherd boy. He worked for Sam Hardy at Lower Farm (you can see him in the photo working with the horses), then for the Berrys at Oxenbourne and the Jones at Hillhampton Farm.
Archie Whitear prepared a family history as a school project in 2012. In addition, Jeanette Whitear brought some photographs to the History Open Day in 2013, not all of which she was able to identify.
Date of creation
2012
Date of coverage
1860 - 2010
Place
East Meon
Contributor
Archie whitear
License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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