'... balancing the seesaw between the place
where we always were before that one moment,
the one here before us, where
standing by the tree
looking back at you
as I select the frame and flash of time,
in front of you
I must still be.
(Old Black & White Photo flashing back)
Julie Sampson
Independent Writer and Poet
Thanks so much for visiting my website. If you've stumbled upon the site I hope you may find something to interest you. If not, perhaps there may be a link that will lead you on a path somewhere else that will appeal.
I am an independent writer/researcher and poet and this is my main website; a place to collect and collate all my internet linked paraphernalia. You will find various links to other sites that I've developed and details of texts and poems I have published.
See also
Writing Women on the Devon Land
an occasional blog,
which focuses on my research and writing about women writers who had Devon connections.
There is also an older related blog,
at Scrapblog From the South-West.
mark Willcocks (Sunday, 13 July 2025 02:55)
Hi I tried to comment on the blog page you posted for M P Willcocks but couldn't upload so i hope you don't mind me posting my comment here :-)
Hi, sorry for the very belated comment but my interest has been sparked by my recent reading of 'Widdicombe' and of course knowing Mary’s roots which are linked with my own.
what a very informative blog i have now learned even more about Mary, thank you.
To add some info for those trying to link people and places in her writings.
It is very true that Mary came from a long line of farmers, very long infact.
Her great grandfather John Willcocks moved to Yealmpton from Buckland Monachorum in 1803 after his marriage to Elizabeth Reed in Buckland Monachorum a place Mary's aunty Elizabeth went back to often.
His/my/ family moved to Buckland Monachorum from Sheepstor in the late 1700s and were recorded in Sheepstor back in the 1640s.
The farm he leased down there in Ermington was through the Kitley Estate owned by the John Polloxfen family with whom the Willcocks's leased farms from including Winsor farm (from 1835) Mary’s granparents leased and lived at and her father returned to after seperating from Mary's mother Sarah Hensleigh.
My 3x great grandfather Richard Willcocks married in Brixton and farmed in Bickleigh around 1820-30, his brother William also moved from Buckland Monachorum to Worsley farm near Noss Mayo, William and his wife Anne Dawe had seven children most of whom lived and worked on the farm there before ending up at the family farm in Buckland Monachorum but two went the other way to Yealmpton.
Both William and Richard were Mary’s great grandfathers brothers so even though Mary was an only child her extended family had strong roots throughout that part of S/W Devon.
Mary"s father had four brothers and sisters and between them they had nine children (Mary"s cousins)
Mary talks about cousins marrying in Widdicombe which is ironic because Mary's great grandfather died in 1808 and her great grandmother Elizabeth remarried to Phillip Moysey Toms with whom she had several more children surnamed Toms, two generations on and Mary's aunty Emily married one of those Toms boys (John i think) and theyhad a child William who is recorded in the 1881 census staying with Mary's grandfather and her father at Winsor farm listed as Grandson.
I should also mention Mary and her mum Sarah in the 1871 census are staying with Mary's great aunt Caroline Toms (a product of Mary's great grandmothers second Marriage) still in Ermington.
Thank you again for a lovely Blog about Mary and best wishes.
Mark Willcocks
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David Lloyd (Tuesday, 23 April 2024 08:07)
Hi Julie
Would love you to come to one of our future open mics in Budleigh Salterton
Best wishes
David Lloyd