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As your FEAR family were living in Southend Road there are a several possible schools.  Southend Road would have been in the parish of Uphill and so Uphill C of E Primary School might have been used or the Primary School in Carlton Road - part of the Walliscote Rd School.  Later, for secondary education they might have attended Walliscote Boys' School or Locking Road Girls' School.  There was also the County School in Broadoak Road which later became the Weston Grammar School.   

Perhaps someone who went to school in Weston can correct me on this one!

The picture is of Walliscote Primary School.           

This arrived just too late for the Update but look out for these records being available.

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Any relatives are likely to be descendants of his parents siblings.

They were

DYMOND

Thomas Edward. b 1886  Brixton Devon

Prudence M. b1887. Brixton Devon

Fredrick Stephen  b1893 Cornwall

Gertrude Emma b1895  Kentisbeare Devon

BOWEN

Augusta Mary. b1884. London

John WH. b1885 London

That's excellent again, Pat. I don't have access to that newspaper clipping. Simon HILL was a brother of my 3 x GGF John HILL. Martha must, I think, be the former Martha OFFER and she was the wife of my 3 x GGF John HILL! None of this proves that George was a brother to John and Simon, but the evidence is stacking up.

William BAKER's name appears immediately above George's on the list of those sentenced to transportation. I need to find out more about him to see if that sheds any more light on things.

Yes, I saw that additional information about Matthew TAVERNER. By the time of his burial he was described as "Yeoman" so he obviously went up in the world.

The Taunton Courier of August 10th Aug 1831 states that a Martha HILL and Simon HILL were involved in this robbery as well as a William BAKER and G. HILL.  There is a christening of a Simon HILL in Churchill in 1815, s/o John & Mary which seems to suggest that you have the correct George HILL.  Who was Martha HILL?

When Matthew TAVERNER died in 1868 his probate gives his estate as under £450 and by 1861 he was a farmer of 30 acres - So given that he lived in the same area as "your George HILL" it seems very likely that you have the correct man here as well.  Sovereigns kept under the bed to pay tradesmen?