Individuals from an Italian background can also be found in Bideford in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They became prominent in local ice cream manufacture as well as music. Italians living in Bideford in the twentieth century included the Dimeo family: a...
As Bideford’s population expanded in the nineteenth century, migrants from several European countries, including Germany, arrived and settled in Bideford. Between 1801 and 1901, Bideford’s population nearly doubled, from just over 12,000 to approaching 21,000. The...
Wealthy merchants operating from Bideford Quay profited from the slave trade. Wealthy Bideford residents made investments in the notorious triangular slave trade. This included the Parminter family, who originally came from Bideford in North Devon, where they were...
In the 17th century, Protestant settlers fleeing from persecution arrived in Bideford from France and Holland. A French Huguenot congregation was set up in 1695 in Chapel Lane, off from Allhalland Street. The community survived throughout much of the 18th century. ...
Sir Richard Grenville, naval commander, coloniser and treasure seeker, brought a Native American to Bideford in 1588. Sir Richard Grenville, naval commander and coloniser, brought the man to Bideford after a raid in America in 1586. He was perhaps the first ‘Native...
The Grenville family, future Lords of the Manor of Bideford, arrived from Normandy in France in 1066. The Grenville family, who played a prominent part in the medieval history of Bideford, claimed their ancestry from the Norman Baron, Robert Fitzhamon. Fitzhamon...
A “foreign” presence in Bideford goes back to at least Roman times, when the Roman army set up camp near Bideford. Sometime in this period the Romans army had a military presence in the area setting up a temporary marching fort at Alverdiscott, 5 miles from...
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