Treboul Farmhouse St. Germans, England

  • Comment by William Paige (wnigelpaige@aol.com) on September 20, 2013

    My great great grandfather, William Paige, was the first occupier of Treboul farm in 1861, he had previously owned and farmed at Sherford Down, near Kingsbridge but that farm was too remote for his preferred aspect of farming which was Cattle breeding and he sold Sherford Down in 1858. One of the attractions of Treboul was its proximity to the railway network which allowed him to send cattle to important distant markets such as Totnes.
    He farmed there until about 1880 when he retired back to Devon and managed another family farm, Gitcombe, Cornworthy, near Totnes. He had handed Treboul over to his son Richard Edwin Paige who farmed Treboul with the nearby farms, Criffle and Berry, carrying on his father's cattle breeding. RE Paige was a founder member of the South Devon Herdbook and also a JP and County Councillor.
    He retired to Totnes in about 1905 and handed Treboul to his son, William who again carried on the cattle breeding tradition, serving as President of the South Devon Herdbook Society in 1917. He retired in 1925 and I have a copy of the dispersal sale catalogue.
    So ended Treboul's first 65 years in the hands of 3 generations of Paiges.
    I have an excellent photo of the family on the tennis lawn in front of the farmhouse taken about 1895 and can provide a copy if anyone is interested.

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