John Reginald Stuart Coggan, better known as Jack, met his bride to be, Phyllis Maud Osmond while a patient at
Old Sarum Isolation Hospital [5] where Phyllis was a nurse. They were married on 29 June 1929. Phyllis’s father Gerard Bartram Osmond was an army Company Sergeant Major, and based at Dover Castle when Phyllis was born, and later baptised in the castle chapel. One of Phyllis’s ancestors was a stonemason at Salisbury Cathedral.
 
Reginald and daughter Doris were still living in the front section of the house (facing Old Sarum). Jack and Phyllis moved into a back section, where they raised two sons Patrick (1930) and John (1932).
 
Unfortunately, the marriage did not last long and, in 1936 Jack married Pamela Van Cuylenburg.

In 1943 Jack bought Orchard House [2], but it was requisitioned by the Government for a children’s home. So, Jack bought Dairy Cottage [2] (next to the path leading to Old Sarum) from his father Reg. Here the family, now including two daughters Jacqueline (1937) and Manya (1939), lived.

A few weeks later their third daughter Sara was born. Jack bought Home Stud, Norman Court at West Tytherley, which had been founded by Washington Singer, from the Singer disposal sale. Jack, with his son John had great success with horse breeding. From 1947 until his death in 1986 he sent yearlings to the Newmarket sales each year without a break.

In 1954 Jack re-entered the meat trade, based at Fontley Abattoir near Fareham. He built the business steadily and it became a large operation, supplying major supermarket chains, and exporting to the continent.
 
Jack was a member of the Worshipful Company of Butchers, and a freeman of the City of London.
 
After Jack and family moved to Home Stud, Reginald ran the farm with his grandson Patrick (Pat) as a partnership in the name, R&P Coggan. When Reg died in 1959, the only will found, dated 1930, left the farm and house entirely to Reg’s daughter Doris.
(Taken from stratfordsubcastle.org.uk December 2021)