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Hiram Bartlett HAMBLING
1822 - 1897 (75 years)
Has 73 ancestors and 77 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name Hiram Bartlett HAMBLING Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Born 1822 Blackawton, Devon, England 
Baptised 16 Jan 1822 St. Michael’s Church, Blackawton, Devon, England Gender Male Residence 1851 Cornish Arms, West Street, Tavistock, Devon, England - Lodging in the inn at the time of the 1851 census,
Occupation 1851 Tavistock, Devon, England Gun maker - Lodging in Tavistock at the time of the 1851 census so presumably working there.
Occupation From 1858 to 1891 The Foundry, Duke Street, Kingsbridge, Devon, England Gunsmith - Hiram is consistently shown as a gunsmith, in the PR at time of his daughter's bapt (1860), in all of the censuses from 1851 - 1891, and in an 1890 directory.
The latter also shows he was a "dealer in ammunition".
In 1851 he was lodging in Tavistock; the first evidence I am aware of of his being in Kingsbridge is an advert in the Kingsbridge Gazette of 4 September 1858.
It appears that the foundry was destoyed by an air-raid in 1943 (noted here.
Hiram Advertises his work making guns Residence 1861 Church Street, Dodbrooke, Devon, England Residence From 1871 to 1881 Court Farm, Churchstow, Devon, England - Though shown as a farmer in 1871 census, residence shown as "Churchstow Village" - I don't know if this could have been Court Farm House.
In 1881 he clearly was shown as a farmer living at Court Farm House.
Occupation From 1871 to 1881 Court Farm, Churchstow, Devon, England Farmer - With general servant and ag lab in 1871 (as well as family and wife's father).
Listed as a farmer at Court, Churchstow in Morris and Co.'s Commercial Directory and Gazetteer. 1870
Occupation From 1876 to 1890 The Foundry, Duke Street, Kingsbridge, Devon, England Bell founder / hanger - Hiram never included "bell founder" in his occupation in the censuses, suggesting this was a minor part of his work.
A card showing the work he claimed to have been involved with includes church bells "cast by my late Father and self", but some of these were when he was quite young, the first before he was even born, so the work was clearly "severally" as well probably as "jointly". John Scott suggests he never cast any church bells independantly of his father. Hiram's card shows him also as a founder of house bells, and it is probable that his father and maybe Hiram too made some school and chapel bells.
Hiram clearly was involved in rehanging etc. - the work that he lists in this regard was all after his father's death. All the work was close to where he was living in Dodbrook or Churchstow, the furthest being Stoke Fleming - perhaps because he had a brother living there. (The work is mentioned in the book produced about Stoke Fleming in celebration of the 1953 Coronation.)
Hiram was the only bell founder listed in White's 1890 directory, he was also there with a number of others under the heading 'bell hangers' but was the only one with '(church)' after. In White's Directory (1890) under Kingsbridge he had an entry: 'Hambling Hiram B, bell founder and hanger, gunsmith and dealer in ammunition, Church street, D (also listed under 'Bell Founders (Church)' - D = Dodbrooke
I am guessing the dates here; I imagine he may well have assisted his father as a boy of 12, and he was advertising himself as a bell founder in 1890. Although I show a location of Kingsbridge, in his early years he would have worked in Blackawton, or accompanied his father to the towers.and of course bell hanging has to take place in the given tower.
Although his father died in 1864, he seems not to have cast any church bells after 1852, and there is then quite a lull before Hiram's first known independant bell-work, in 1876. The fact his advert in the Kingsbridge Gazette in 1858 made no mention of bells does suggest to me that there was a real break. The work in 1876 was in Dodbrooke, where he had lived and was working; I guess that he was well known enough in the area to be approached or to put himself forward and so be involved.
Residence 1891 41, Church Street, Dodbrooke, Devon, England - Seems to have given up farming now and moved back next to the foundry.
Died 18 Aug 1897 Kingsbridge Reg Dist, Devon, England - GRO ref: q3 1897 Kingsbridge Reg Dist 5b 123
Date from gravestone
Buried St. Thomas à Becket Church, Dodbrooke, Devon, England - Gravestone (upright, marble, mason: T. Yalland):
"Hiram Bartlett Hambling
D: August 18th 1897
aged 76 years
Elizabeth Jane
wife of the above
D: March 14th 1909, aged 77."
Siblings6 brothers and 5 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
John HAMBLING, b. Est 1654, d. Nov 1732, Berry Pomeroy, Devon, England (Age ~ 78 years) (3 x Great Grandfather) 
Johane BASTARD, b. Est 1628, d. Yes, date unknown (4 x Great Grandmother)Person ID I229 All Last Modified 23 Oct 2020
Father Clerk William Bartlett HAMBLING, b. 1787, Blackawton, Devon, England , d. 24 Feb 1864, Blackawton, Devon, England (Age 77 years) Mother Elizabeth BAKER, b. Abt 1794, Blackawton, Devon, England , d. 1 Nov 1880, Blackawton, Devon, England (Age ~ 86 years) Married 14 Jan 1812 St. Michael’s Church, Blackawton, Devon, England - both signed, James Hambling witnessed
Family ID F22 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth Jane CAME, b. Abt 1831, Blackawton, Devon, England , d. 14 Mar 1909, Kingsbridge Reg Dist, Devon, England (Age ~ 78 years) Married 16 Feb 1860 St. Andrew’s Church, East Allington, Devon, England - GRO ref: Came, Elizabeth Jane; Hambling, Hiram Bartlett; q1 1860 Kingsbridge RD 5b 329
Date and place from DFHS index to PR entries (has Carne instead of Came)
(there is a small possibility this is the first reading of the banns and not the marriage)
Children2 children Last Modified 15 Jul 2014 Family ID F154 Family Group Page | Family Chart