Home is the Sailor, home from the sea Houses which were home to Edward Pellew
I have been collecting for some time pictures of the homes of Edward Pellew over the almost 80 years of his life becaue they illustrate the trajectory of his rising career very well and am now hoping to make two or three posts, mainly pictures with some description to tell this story.
In a sense, given Ned Pellew's years at sea I am sure many of the ships that were his commands or flag ships were as much home as any of the bricks and mortar houses he inhabited- though the only one I am aware of that he openly expressed affection for was - of course - the Indefatigable
Author:Nodbear
Summary: images of places and houses that were home to Edward Pellew/Lord Exmouth during his lifetime
and illustrating his rising fortune.
Part 1 : Birth and childhood
Dover,1757
This is Dover packet boat harbour as it now is - a marina for private leisure boats now sandwiched between the bust eastern and western docks but in its day proportionately as busy as those ports are today.
The packet boat captains were among the leading figures of the local community and their boats, which were controlled and run by the post office carried not only government documents but private mail and cargo and passengrs.
On the right you will see a row of houses - some of them modern 1970s style and some more historical like the Georgian ones at the far end - there are also gaps in the line.There once was another road in front of this one, nearer to the harbour and in these two streets all the packet service officers had their homes.
Inevitably Dover was, of course, a target in WW2 for German bombers and so we now have to imagine those two streets as they were in the 1750s when a small boy could watch out of the window when his father's packet was due in.
This photo shows the houses in the background and the leisure yachts and other boats in the harbour but has some reminders of older times with the collection of old anchors on the quayside.
Below the Post office order books with details of Samuel Pellew's appointment to his packet commission in 1759 when Edward would have been 2. He worked the route from Dover to Falmouth, which was really their family home in past generations, and he also had the route including Calais and Boulogne.
All this ended abruptly when Samuel died when Edward was 8 and left his mother with six young children, and the family moved to Cornwall to live with her parents in a farm cottage on the Alverton Road in Penzance.
Constantia Pellew remarried fairly soon and to a man who did not wish to have any of the children from her first marriage with them, so they were brought up at Alverton farm by their grandparents.That cottage is still there and local campaigners have now succeeded in having a plaque attached to it commemorating it as Pellew's childhood home. This is it in a mid Victorian period when it had been enlarged.
In part 2 The Pellew's home when their family were born and the C in C's residene in India among others
In a sense, given Ned Pellew's years at sea I am sure many of the ships that were his commands or flag ships were as much home as any of the bricks and mortar houses he inhabited- though the only one I am aware of that he openly expressed affection for was - of course - the Indefatigable
Author:Nodbear
Summary: images of places and houses that were home to Edward Pellew/Lord Exmouth during his lifetime
and illustrating his rising fortune.
Part 1 : Birth and childhood
Dover,1757
This is Dover packet boat harbour as it now is - a marina for private leisure boats now sandwiched between the bust eastern and western docks but in its day proportionately as busy as those ports are today.
The packet boat captains were among the leading figures of the local community and their boats, which were controlled and run by the post office carried not only government documents but private mail and cargo and passengrs.
On the right you will see a row of houses - some of them modern 1970s style and some more historical like the Georgian ones at the far end - there are also gaps in the line.There once was another road in front of this one, nearer to the harbour and in these two streets all the packet service officers had their homes.
Inevitably Dover was, of course, a target in WW2 for German bombers and so we now have to imagine those two streets as they were in the 1750s when a small boy could watch out of the window when his father's packet was due in.
This photo shows the houses in the background and the leisure yachts and other boats in the harbour but has some reminders of older times with the collection of old anchors on the quayside.
Below the Post office order books with details of Samuel Pellew's appointment to his packet commission in 1759 when Edward would have been 2. He worked the route from Dover to Falmouth, which was really their family home in past generations, and he also had the route including Calais and Boulogne.
All this ended abruptly when Samuel died when Edward was 8 and left his mother with six young children, and the family moved to Cornwall to live with her parents in a farm cottage on the Alverton Road in Penzance.
Constantia Pellew remarried fairly soon and to a man who did not wish to have any of the children from her first marriage with them, so they were brought up at Alverton farm by their grandparents.That cottage is still there and local campaigners have now succeeded in having a plaque attached to it commemorating it as Pellew's childhood home. This is it in a mid Victorian period when it had been enlarged.
In part 2 The Pellew's home when their family were born and the C in C's residene in India among others