Robert Ffarmerie (1787-1846) was the second of nine curates at Badsey and Wickhamford to serve during the 43-year tenure of the absentee Vicar, the Reverend Charles Phillott.
Robert Ffarmerie, or Farmerie as the name was sometimes spelt, was born at Collingham, Nottinghamshire, in 1787, the son of William and Elizabeth Ffarmerie. He was baptized at Collingham on 8th February 1787.
Robert was admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge, in March 1805, being awarded BA in 1809. He was ordained a deacon on 6th May 1810 at the Chapel Royal, St James, London. His first appointment, on 7th May 1810, was as Curate of Badsey and Wickhamford, where he remained for about a year. The baptism and burial registers for this period do not give the name of the officiant, but the marriage registers for Badsey reveal that he conducted the first of six weddings at Badsey on 14th June 1810 and the last on 22nd April 1811.
On 15th March 1813 he was licensed as Assistant Curate at Sibthorpe and at Cottam Chapel, South Leverton, both in Nottinghamshire. It was also in 1813 that he was awarded MA from Cambridge. Reverend Ffarmerie’s name appears in various Poll Books of the 1820s under Pembroke Hall for the election of a representative in parliament for the University of Cambridge. His name also appears in the Poll Book for Huntingdonshire as he owned land at Hemingford Grey.
On 14th April 1821, Reverend Ffarmerie was instituted as Vicar of Car Colston, Nottinghamshire, an appointment which he held until 1838.
By 1840 he was living at Appletongate, Newark. Robert Ffarmerie died at Appletongate, Newark, on 14th September 1846, aged 59. He never married or had children and, following his death, notices appeared in the local papers about the sale by auction of all his furniture, library of books, prints, china, glass and earthenware. This took place over three days at the end of October.