H Tredwin & Son was founded in 1860 and has continued to help the bereaved and provide a caring, dignified and professional service for over 150 years. Originally builders and funeral directors - the company still offers handmade coffins reflecting the practical skills passed down through the generations.
Our family and predecessors ...
Funeral directing runs through the Tredwin blood.
While Nick and Louise have over 50 years in the industry between them, you can imagine how caring for the bereaved and tending to the deceased is second nature to every generation of the Tredwins.
Francis and Anna Tredwin
Harold and Emily Tredwin
Francis and Margaret Tredwin
The company is now in its fifth generation run by Nick Tredwin and his wife Louise who provide a personal service with the emphasis on family values.
Their children Kitty and Timmy now work alongside them in the business. Timmy working with Nick behind the scenes and Kitty assisting Louise in the office. Not forgetting their eldest son Harry who helps out from time to time but formally works as a carpenter.
They, like Nick, have grown up knowing the importance of the work the family do. Nick’s father, Francis, taught him the trade and they worked together for many years before he passed away in 2006.
Since Francis passed away, Nick and Louise have been working hard to continue but also grow the well respected business Francis worked hard to uphold, taking it from the small village of Sampford Arundel and bringing it to the town of Wellington (just a few miles up the road) where the business has continued to flourish and Nick completed his formal training with the NAFD (National Association of Funeral Directors).
Sampford Arundel is the village where H Tredwin & Son first came to be. As with many rural villages, there was often one or two families that populated the one small village. With each family being designated a job to do, one branch of the Tredwins ran the post office, another worked on the farm and our particular line of Tredwins happened to be given the task of looking after and caring for village members when they died.
You can just about see from this photo, the enterance to our H Tredwin & Son Chapel of Rest and workshops. (on left hand side after row of houses)
Today the village is still a big part of our personal and professional life with family members and friends still living there.
We still have our Chapel of Rest at the original premises in Sampford as well as our workshops where we build the solid oak coffins.
Sampford Arundel runs through the business and will always be a part of H Tredwin & Son Ltd.
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