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W H Story, Gardener/horticulturalist, Newton Abbot
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Gillian | Report | 17 Jan 2004 23:32 |
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This is one of those strange by-ways genealogy leads you down. . . while trawling the internet for instances of one of the more unusual surnames in my tree (Shurvill/Shurville/Shurvell/Shervill etc etc) I discovered that there is a fuchsia hybrid called "James Shurvell". The one GB nursery that still has it - they specialise in old varieties of fuchsia - was able to tell me that it was hybridised in 1862 by W H Story of Newton Abbot who apparently produced 29 new hybrids of fuchsia in the mid-1800s. I can't find anything out about him on the internet, and am curious to know why he gave one of his fuchsias this name. Newton Abbot is the wrong part of the world for Shurvills/Shurvells etc - they're mostly on the Oxfordshire/Berks/Bucks/Hants borders. I'd be really grateful if anyone who has access to records for Newton Abbot in the 1860s could see if they can find any trace of W H Story and anything that might link him to Shurvells or the part of the world they come from. . . Thanks, Gill |
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