Robert Dempster Pretty Birth 7 Sep 1930 - Chelsea, Greater London Death 14 Jun 1988 - Boldre Lymington Hants Mother Edith May Dempster Father Frank Pretty Quick access Family tree New search Robert Dempster Pretty family tree Family tree Explore more family trees Parents Frank Pretty 1878 - 1934 Edith May Dempster 1883 - 1942 And of course it all happened in a world about to fall into the Second World War. *, Supervisor of the Year, Nationwide Children's Hospital Department of Pediatric Psychology and Neuropsychology, 2017. But Edith had an open-top car she preferred to drive herself. As news of a discovery of national importance leaked out, a team of professionals led by Cambridge University archaeologist Charles Phillips muscled in and took over. After their marriage, the Prettys looked for a home near Ipswich. She married Colonel Frank Pretty on 8 April 1926, in Whitegate, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. Poly-resin moulds were made of some of the figures and one is on display at Sutton Hoo. A national treasure. Some promising finds were made, and Brown returned in the summer of 1939 to make further excavations. Great Expectations viewers slam BBC for CHANGING ending of the Dickens classic with furious literature fans branding the show 'an abomination', From being born a man to Queen of the Mountains: Trans cyclist romps to victory in elite in women's race - winning $35,000 in the process - sparking new anger at the sport's transgender rules, Don Lemon's ousting from CNN has caused 'ARGUMENTS' with his fianc Tim Malone - who warned the disgraced anchor to 'cool it down' on-air before he was unceremoniously sacked after 17 years at the network, What a pizza work! Usually, these details are not so easily shown in a birth chart, hence my unstated question: Before he died in 1988, did Robert have his birth chart done? Edith was sent to Wimbledon House School in Brighton, soon to be renamed Roedean now one of the most prestigious girls schools in the country where she became known as Dempy. The contrast in accents between the broad Suffolk brogue and clipped received pronunciation, is striking. The role of stigma in parental help-seeking for child behavior problems Authors Robert Dempster 1 , Beth Wildman , Adam Keating Affiliation 1 Department of Pediatric Psychology and Neuropsychology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH43215, USA. Daughter of Robert Dempster and Elizabeth Hannah Dempster This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can only be viewed by Ancestry members to whom they have granted permission to see their tree. There was a rumor that either Edith or a friend of hers had dreams/visions of soldiers walking around with swords and spears atop the mounds on her property. But this is, simply, the burial, or commemoration, of a powerful rich man who valued beautiful things, and whose followers did too. For the same reasons, it may be hard for you to put your feelings into words, because your emotions are so different from your intellect. We meet her quite close to the end of her life, Moira Buffini, who wrote the screenplay, tells the Mail. They had one son, Robert Dempster Pretty, who she had given birth to in 1930 at the age of 47. 28 July 1841, d. 11 October 1923, F, #356340, b. Later, in 1884, the Dempster family relocated to Manchester, where Ediths father established the engineering firm of R. & J. Dempster with his brother, John. I guess hoo actually means something? Loved this post ever since I heard of Sutton Hoo I have been fascinated by it, and you tell its story so well, much more interesting than dry academic tracts. But Edith didnt need her family around her to pursue adventure. I hope you get there it is fascinating and, I think, atmospheric. This story was submitted to the Peoples War site by Nancy Waterfall, Learning Officer at the National Trust at Sutton Hoo on behalf of Mrs Frost and Mrs Rumsby and has been added to the site with their permission. Search for yourself and well build your family tree together, Do not sell or share my personal information. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Fascinating! However upsetting these changes are at first, they will give you the freedom you need to grow as an individual. Funny that you visited in September, too. Edith funded the construction of a chapel for Parish and she backed the Woodbridge Spiritualist Church. In September 2016, evidence of a 75 x 30 (23 x 9 metre) structure was discovered; some believe this could have been the royal hall, or palace. War was breaking out in Europe, excavations at Sutton Hoo had to end and the army took over Edith Prettys estate. Edith, his mother, discovered the Sutton Hoo ship burial after hiring Basil Brown, a local excavator, and amateur archeologist, to investigate the mounds on her property. A few years after the Sutton Hoo excavation, Edith suffered a stroke and died on December 17, 1942. I have heard of Sutton Hoo an am a National Trust member but to my shame I have not looked into what this site was. In his personal life he had two daughters and worked . One of our brothers went to HMS Ganges at the age of fifteen. There seems no doubt that Basil Browns digging technique could lack care on occasion. Once activated, you will receive notification of each new post. It appears as if the diggers gave up, had lunch, and then threw the remains of their food into the mound. They all knew life. Youll find a bit about Constable Country here too and I loved Southwold. In conducting The Dig fact check, we discovered that Johnny Flynn's character, photographer Rory Lomax, who is the cousin of Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan), is entirely fictional. moment. As shown in the film, Robert was extremely taken up with the excavation and often played in and around the site. Loved hearing the story of Mrs Pretty and the self-educated Basil Brown. But when you are emotionally involved in a situation, you are likely to make up your mind very differently, which could cause you to seem inconsistent to others and make it difficult for them to understand you. Two years earlier, Winston Churchill had offered her a CBE in recognition of her extraordinary generosity. Elizabeth and Robert Dempster, Roberts grandparents, were wealthy industrialists who made their fortune manufacturing gas industry equipment. Strikingly vibrant Anglo Saxon shoulder clasp covered in enamel with inlaid garnets and glass. Firstly, there was the ship, long and elegant, an impression only but all of the rivets in place. Being interested in archaeology and history herself, she had a hunch that the low mounds on her property may have some historical significance. Yes. In 1934, Pretty died, leaving a widow, Edith Pretty, and young son, Robert Dempster Pretty. The Dig, is a historical drama film that revolves around the discovery of the Anglo-Saxon ship burial site at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England. But those attempts at excavations didnt yield much. In a way, The Dig is not just about duty or even archaeology, but also about love, writes Brian Viner. How wonderful and such a coincidence as Ive just finished reading a wonderful novel called The Dig about the discovery of the boat at Sutton Hoo. Therefore, she initiated the dig at Sutton Hoo by getting in touch with some local historians and the Ipswich Museum. In June 1943 the Land Army took over the house. Their home on the estate, Tranmer House, is pictured below. Duty calls: Edith Pretty, the owner of Sutton Hoo estate and who arranged a dig of the burial mounds, pictured standing on the veranda of Tranmer House, formerly Sutton Hoo House. Lovely photos, especially love the close up of the helmet. Hoo is a spur of land so Sutton Hoo is something like south farmstead or village on the spur of land. After all, she was that kind of woman. You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information. Robert.M.Dempster@gmail.com PMID: 22788955 DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2012.700504 Abstract This Drama film name is Carey Mulligan portrayed Edith Pretty, while Archie Barnes portrayed Robert Pretty. The American Bill Bryson in The Road to Little Dribbling is typically forthright about this episode, saying that Brown was roughly cast aside. And so we come to our second tale for today. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can be viewed by all Ancestry subscribers.These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. Some scenes were filmed in nearby villages, including Snape, Thorpeness and Butley. Basil Brown sounds a little like Flinders Petrie some differences granted. Good; then Ill begin. Im in the dark about this, but youre right about the scariness of these masks and helmets! Fascinating to read and thanks for explaining what Hoo means too. In 1930, aged 47, Edith gave birth to a son, Robert Dempster Pretty; on 28 th December 1934, his 56 th birthday, Frank died. Or at least, the movie explains as much as can be squeezed into a little under two hours. 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Discover the meaning and history behind your last name and get a sense of identity and discover who you are and where you come from. So what was found at Sutton Hoo in 1939? No. In The Dig movie and book, the entire excavation is condensed into one season in 1939, ending at the outbreak of WWII. Then we took in Tranmer House, a little reluctantly on my part because I was impatient to reach the burial ground. Robert Dempster Pretty passed awayon 14 Jun 1988in Boldre Lymington Hants. For any other comments, please Contact Us. Loved the zoomed-in shot at the beginning, as well as all the photos and the whole thing was like National Geographic but way better and more interesting, really! Airplanes even flew over to get photographs of the excavation. It was enough to convince Pretty to have him excavate two more mounds in hopes of discovering more Sutton Hoo treasure.He next excavated Mound 2 and Mound 4. It was the first exciting glimpse of bejewelled treasure. Some of the things found inside the burial chamber included weapons, gold and garnet jewelry, silver, containers, shoes, buckles, gold coins and ignots, baptismal spoons, drinking horns and vessels, etc. When you are calm and collected and able to reflect carefully, you make decisions in one way. Of course, there is nothing really strange about your feelings, but that part of your mind is quite different from he reasoning part. Weve got you covered! *, The location is currently closed. Downtown Close To Home Center at 495 E. Main St. Comprehensive Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Program, Pediatric Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship, Partners For Kids: Pediatric Accountable Care, The location is currently closed. To provide some reference, Brown borrowed a report of the 1904 excavation of the Viking ship at Oseberg in Norway from Ipswich Museum. Sometimes the energy of this aspect comes out in other ways as well. Were Basil Brown and Peggy Preston Real Archaeologists. However, brilliant Brown was certainly eclipsed and, sadly, what should have been a good news story seems to have all the squalid hallmarks of prejudice as Suffolk accents gave way to the clipped tones of patronising academics. The whole area was most likely the heartland of the East Anglian royal dynasty, and probably relied heavily on overseas trade. Robert Dempster Prettyfamily tree Parents Frank Pretty 1878- 1934 Edith May Dempster 1883- 1942 Wrong Robert Dempster Pretty? During her travels, she witnessed several excavations. Edith May Pretty (1883-1942) was an English landowner on whose land the Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered. xxxxx xxx xxxxxxxx (1883-xxxx ) 13164 People 6 Records 7 Sources. This was obviously a spectacular archeological site! Married less than a decade, how Edith Pretty must have missed Frank. Need to make Walberswick and Dunwich on the next visit! You tend to put your own emotional needs and wants second to whatever you feel has to be done. Alas, Edith was no longer around to object. The ship had been uncovered the summer before, but excavations restarted in May 1939. This was once part of the kingdom of the East Angles, one of the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in Britain, established sometime in the late 6th century by the warlord Wuffa, whose ancestors probably came from present-day Sweden and whose descendents became known as wuffingas. This aspect also ties together in you a Moon sign and a rising sign that are very different. Robert Dempster Pretty passed away on 14 Jun 1988 in Boldre Lymington Hants. Alone on a large estate with just a young boy for company, perhaps it's understandable that she became interested in spiritualism. Basil was almost 90 when he died in 1977. He had a highly successful district career as an all-rounder for the North Melbourne cricket club, captaining them into the late 1940s. They discovered more than 260 additional items of the Sutton Hoo treasure. Thanks for your interesting post:). Basil Brown was born in 1888 in Bucklesham, Suffolk, and left school at the age of 12. I have never heard of this place. Great post Mike, very interesting. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. The BBC is not responsible for the content of any external sites I wish we could have illustrated more, for instance her complete and utter fascination with spiritualism. If you would like to view one of these trees in its entirety, you can contact the owner of the tree to request permission to see the tree. Thank you for a thoroughly absorbing read. Gradually, Brown and his helpers, watched by Ediths small son, (who left his roller skates buried in the soil that was being dug out) uncovered an entire ship, 90 feet (27 metres) long. She was asking really big questions. Yes. The Sutton Hoo excavation took place in the fields of her private estate. At the time of the excavation, all the children in the family were excited when the ship was opened, and we were given rivets from the Anglo-Saxon boat. What were their hopes and dreams? Then, on July 21, came the real eureka! The Importance of Having a Relationship With Your Child's Pediatrician, Questions to Ask When Choosing a Pediatrician, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Ear, Nose & Throat (Otolaryngology) Services, Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Hematology, Oncology & Blood and Marrow Transplant, Preparing for a Primary Care or Clinic Visit, Main Campus of Nationwide Children's Hospital. Farm Heroes Saga, the #4 Game on iTunes. Youll get hints when we find information about your relatives . He occasionally visited the British Museum to look at the amazing hoard he had discovered and died quietly, without a fuss, in 1977. How fascinating and what a pity Mrs Pretty and her Frank didnt marry earlier. I was able to visit Sutton Hoo with my cousin on a sunny day a couple of years ago. Fairly quickly, Brown uncovered a piece of metal, which he correctly identified as a ships rivet; he therefore deduced that he had a ship burial on his hands. A second burial ground was found in the year 2000 on another hill-spur roughly 1,600 ft upstream from the original burial mounds at Sutton Hoo. After she had married Frank Pretty and settled at their Sutton Hoo estate in Suffolk, Edith had always been interested in excavating the 18 mounds on their property. She died at the Richmond Hospital and was buried in All Saints churchyard at Sutton. Edith Pretty died in 1942. Edith Pretty died in 1942 at age 59 following a stroke. All digs revealed evidence of earlier gave diggers and robbers. A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe, F, #356336, b. The worshippers of Woden and Thor were manifestly not the thugs they are often portrayed as being. There have been notable Anglo-Saxon finds since but nothing like this, a fully furnished, undisturbed ship burial. Yes, Edith Pretty was a real person. Edith and Frank bought the estate for 15,250, which didnt make much of a dent in the fortune she had inherited from her father. After professional archaeologist Charles Phillips visited the excavation on June 6, 1939, he reasoned from the size of the ship that it could be a royal burial. After his mother died, Robert Dempster Pretty moved to Hampshire with his aunt Elizabeth, and they never returned to Tranmer House at Sutton Hoo. The couple soon moved to the 526-acre Sutton Hoo estate, with its 15-bedroom Edwardian house and mysterious earth mounds. Copyright 2023 HistoryvsHollywood.com, CTF Media. What did they hide? 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The real Edith Pretty (left) sits and watches the excavators work in 1939. It stars Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn and Ben Chaplin. Sutton Hoo House and the burial site are now in the care of The National Trust. Its not hard to understand where her fascination with archaeological excavation came from, and to appreciate the serendipity that took her to Sutton Hoo. I loved Sutton Hoo when I visited it, especially as the British Museum had lent a load of beautiful artifacts to the visitor centre for an exhibition. Our Global Patient Services team is here to help international and out-of-area families every step of the way. Anyway, the UK doesnt have a monopoly on patronizing academics. The area itself is roped off and you walk round, like doing a circuit of an old-fashioned grass running track with no lane markings. Treasure trove:The famous Sutton Hoo Anglo Saxon helmet highly decorated with warrior motifs (pictured left) and a gold buckle with an intricate snake design (right). Certainly, England in that summer of 1939 was in the grip of a terrible foreboding, with war looking more inevitable, and that intensified the need to press on with the dig. Martin Carver and his team discovered a toy spade and a pair of Roberts roller skates while digging around the Tranmer House at Sutton Hoo. Both cemeteries are in close proximity to the River Deben. With one single test, you can discover your genetic origins and find family you never know you had. Your photos are exceptional youre obviously a talented photographer. Record information. He inherited his familys property after both of his parents died. 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Robert Eugene Demster was born on month day 1929, at birth place, to Lewis Everett Demster and Elsie Helen Demster (born Stoltz). So, are you sitting comfortably? If you read the descriptions of your Ascendant sign and your Moon sign, you will see the differences between these two aspects of yourself. After his father died in Cape Town during a visit to South Africa in 1925, his mother, Edith, and her sister Elizabeth inherited more than 500,000 approximately 16 million in 2006. The story goes that Frank proposed to Edith every year on her birthday. The excavation of Mound 2 and the discovery of this smaller boat is not included in the movie or book. In 1988, Robert died of cancer at the age of 57, leaving behind three children Penny, David, and John. In 1907 the Dempsters moved to a huge house in Cheshire, Vale Royal, seat of the aristocratic Cholmondeley family, from whom it was leased. Edith was born on August 1, 1883, to Elizabeth and Robert Dempster in Elland, Yorkshire. The finds come from as far away as Byzantium and Egypt, evidence of widespread Anglo-Saxon connections, and the workmanship on the helmet and other items of more local origin is exquisite. She contacted the local museum at Ipswich and they put her in touch with a certain Basil Brown. She was particularly fascinated by 18 or so grassy mounds on a patch of heathland some 500 yards from her house. There would have been a wooden chamber in the centre of the ship. But re-examination in 1979 of the original excavators notes revealed that a complete set of coffin fittings had been discovered. From what we can tell, their relationship was never more than platonic. Peter played with Robert Pretty as they were the same age. If you learn to assert your individuality more directly, the changes will not seem so upsetting. In Tudor times, gravediggers had attempted to dig up Mound 1 (the mound in which the Sutton Hoo burial ship was found). Easy. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Edith Dempster was born in 1883 in Elland, Yorkshire. He played eight first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1935 and 1941. So much for the so-called Dark Ages. Those masks/helmuts really do have a fierce-some look about them. In truth, theres at least a score of other stories behind Sutton Hoo but we will merely touch upon those later. A story worth telling via a fabulous Hollywood/British movie or documentary. That comes across powerfully in the film, yet it only scratches the surface of Ediths beguiling story. Our father was at Sutton Hoo for about 20 years, and during that time he found Mrs Pretty's son Robert in the garden pool. Over time, the timber here decayed leaving an imprint behind, and the rivets or bolts. Borrowing jugs, bowls, sieves, pastry brushes and bellows from the house, Basil & Co set to work during the summer of 1938, finding fragments, including what looked like ship rivets from what became known as Mound 2.
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