{"id":196,"date":"2008-06-29T12:54:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T12:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/?p=196"},"modified":"2023-12-16T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T11:32:25","slug":"w-h-awdry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"The Awdry family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Dawlish-Awdry-cottage-2.jpg\"  rel=\"lightbox[roadtrip]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-231 aligncenter\" title=\"Dawlish - Awdry cottage 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Dawlish-Awdry-cottage-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Dawlish-Awdry-cottage-2.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Dawlish-Awdry-cottage-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Dawlish-Awdry-cottage-2-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Dawlish-Awdry-cottage-2-36x36.jpg 36w, http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Dawlish-Awdry-cottage-2-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Brookdale Cottage, a Grade II listed <em>cottage orn\u00e9 <\/em>previously known as Brook Cottage, on the corner of Brunswick Place and Barton Hill, Dawlish, Devon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>In 1802, according to a booklet published by the local history group, a child was born at Brook Cottage, Dawlish, to John Awdry from Laycock (sic), Wiltshire, whose descendant was the Reverend W. H. Awdry. The 1841 census shows an Ambrose Audrey\/Awdrey, born 1817, living at Brook Cottage with his wife Eliza. Neither Ambrose nor Eliza was born in Devon and the surname is an uncommon one, found mainly in the Chippenham\/Lacock\/Melksham area of Wiltshire. The Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry (1911-1997), author of the Thomas the Tank Engine books, was the son of Wilbert Vere Awdry, born in Lacock circa 1855. The family later lived at Ampfield, Romsey, Herts.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Dawlish Awdreys are described in the booklet as being from &#8216;Laycock&#8217; I haven&#8217;t been able to trace any more information about them. They were apparently still connected with the town in 1914, when a marriage was recorded between Francis Herbert Awdrey, (sic), son of Walter Herbert Awdry (sic), and Norah Hoare of Luscombe Castle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dawlish-Awdry-cottage-1.jpg\"  rel=\"lightbox[roadtrip]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-197 aligncenter\" title=\"Dawlish - W H Awdry cottage 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dawlish-Awdry-cottage-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dawlish-Awdry-cottage-1.jpg 525w, http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dawlish-Awdry-cottage-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Text and photos \u00a9 Angela Williams 2008, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas the Tank Engine connections?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,117,116],"tags":[121,55,4,118,120,119,54,53],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devon-2","category-hertfordshire","category-wiltshire","tag-ampfield","tag-dawlish","tag-devon","tag-hoare","tag-lacock","tag-luscombe","tag-thomas-the-tank-engine","tag-w-h-awdry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}