Rumbold Family in Amport
Bernard Rumbold has kindly contributed some family pictures for the website. If anybody is related or has more details, Bernard would like to hear from them (click to email)
"Although I was not born in Amport (Anna Valley 1943), I lived in East Lodge for a few years when I was on the staff of the RAF Chaplains' School, as it was then, and both my children, Lucy and Jack, went to Amport School. I believe Rumbold's have been connected with Amport since the 16th century, particularly when Appleshaw was part of the parish."
 Fleur de Lys Cottage - possibly about 1925-30. My grandparents lived here until 1935 |
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 My father, Amos John 'Jack' Rumbold, (b. 1913) and my aunt Margaret Rumbold (b. 1908). |
 My father Jack, my uncle, George Albert Rumbold, (b.1920), and my aunt, Margaret - she married another Amport man, Denzil Scull. |
 My grandparents, Frank and Lilian Rumbold who lived in Fleur de Lys before moving to AnnaValley in 1935. |
 This is my great grandfather, George Rumbold, a well known sheep farmer and consumer of alcoholic beverages! who family lore has it, was the model for Hardy's Michael Henchard as the drunken shepherd who sold his wife and babe at Weyhill Fair. |
 The little girl on the right is my grandmother, Lilian Rumbold (nee Miller) with her mother Fanny Miller (nee Marsh - from Monxton?) and the old lady in the centre is ....Granny Bone! |
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 Somebody known in our family as 'Granny Bone' - perhaps somebody knows more? I believe she may be my great great grandmother. |
 - or maybe this is 'Granny Bone' ? |