Of This Parish

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Of This Parish

• Using manorial and parochial records to trace Ag
  Lab ancestors

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The Manorial System
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Manorial Records

• Manorial Court Rolls
• Court Leet
• Court Baron
• Tenants and Rents
• Accounts
• Maps and Surveys

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Court Leet, Conisbrough, Yorkshire, 1605

• Cuthbert Reyney 6d because he kept illicit sheep.
• Person Leadbetter 12d because he did not
  constrain six pigs.
• Widow Lewes 4d because she carried away a faggot
  of wood from the hedges.
• Roger Belgh 2s 6d because he held illegal games
  in his house at night.
• Thomas Whitehead de le Elme 12d because he held
  illegal games, namely globands.
• Matthew Sampson 6s 8d because he made an affray
  and drew blood from John Barley.
• John Hurst 3s 4d because he gave a box on the ear
  to Godfrey Roebuck, constable, in the execution
  of his office to keep the lord king's peace.

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Manorial Records, Brinkworth, Wiltshire

• 1573. John Hedgs Isabell his wife late the wife
  of Walter Reade deceased doe hold by indenture
  dated the firste daye of June in the 15th yeare
  of the raigne of the late Queene Elizabeth ...
  one parcell of vacant or voyd grounde in
  Brinckworth afforesayde containing by estimation
  halfe an acre ... duringe theire naturall lyves
  the life of either of them longest lyvinge ...
  covenante on the lessees parte to erecte a
  dwellinge housse ... before the feaste of St
  Michaell next.
• 1616. Thomas Henley, Margery his wife, William
  his son dat 20th day of May Anno James 14. 99
  yeares. All that cottage or tenement in
  Brinkworth late in the occupacon of John Hedges.
• 1625. Thomas Henly aged 40 yeres holdeth a
  cottage or tenement for the tearme of 99 yeres if
  hee Margery his wief aged 42 or William his
  sonne aged 8 yeres shall soe longe live Rent 2s.

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Parish Administration
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Parochial records Vestry Minutes

• Church repairs
• Poor relief
• Charities
• Schools

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Lampeter Vestry Minutes, 19 July 1779

• At a Vestry held at the Parish Church of Lampeter
  and Adjourn'd to the House of William Davies this
  19th Day of July 1779.
• We the Parishioners then Present have agreed to
  levy Taxes for the Making and repairing of the
  Road that leads by Cwmjago at 3½d per Pound.
• allow'd to the Widow of John Evan an Augmentation
  of 6d. per week commencing the 4th of July,
  1779.
• allow'd Two flannel Shirts for Evan the Ideot
• Likewise allowd. to the Widow of James Rees
  Philip one Flannel Smock and one Pair of Shoes.
• Likewise allow'd to Thomas David William two
  Shillings in order to go to the sea side for the
  sake of his bad state of Health.
• Present W. Williams, Clr, Oakley Leigh, James
  Morgan, David Davies, Chelton Leigh

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Parochial records Churchwardens

• Church rate
• Church upkeep
• Church ceremony
• Charities
• Vermin

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Churchwardens' Accounts, Wirksworth, Derbyshire,
1658-1727

• 1662. Recd of Hellen Higgett for ye Buriall of
  her daughter Boame Robbinson in ye Church 3s
  4d.
• 1662. Pd Wm Dudson for himselfe his sonne for
  poyntinge ye leads church for 8 days.
• 1664. Given to Will Huchinsons wife when she lay
  in childbed was in great want 1s.
• 1667. Paid John Higgott for 38 hedghoggs 6s 4d.
• 1715. Paid wid. Yeomans for sweeping the Church
  Sundry times 4s.
• 1715. Paid John Wilde for carrying the great
  beams into the Church 1s 6d.
• 1725. Martha Timperley for cleansing the Leads
  church yard from stones Rubbish 2s
• 1725. Robert Blount for shoveling Snow from the
  Church Leads 1s.
• 1721. For Crying abt Town for people to keep up
  their swine to Wm Taylor 6d.
• 1721. Mr Yates for giveing People abt the Church
  Yard Notice to Remove their middens stop their
  sinks 2s 6d.

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The rise fall of Henry Udall - 1

• 1694 Henry Udall paid 1d church rate
• 1695 Hen Udall paid 1½d church rate
• 1696 Ditto
• 1697 Henry Udall paid 2d church rate
• 1699 Henry Udall paid ½d church rate
• 1709 Ditto
• 1710 Paid for a Coate for Henry Udall 19s
• 1714 Henry Udall paid ¼d church rate
• 1715 Henry Udall a Coat 1 5s
• 1715 Paid Henry Udall for going to Buxton to Mr
  Haynes 2s

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The rise fall of Henry Udall - 2

• 1721 Henry Udalle Cloath for a Coat Capp with
  the makeing 1 11s 6d.
• 1722 Henry Udall a new pair of shoes a pair
  soleing 4s 2d.
• 1722 Mr Stones Bill, makeing Henry Udall's
  coat 1 11s.
• 1722 Pd Henry Udall 5s
• 1723 Pd for makeing Henry Udall's Coate 4s.
• 1723 Pd for Henry Udall's Shues 3s 6d.
• 1724 Henry Udall's Coat 1 4s 1½d
• 1724 Pd for Henry Udalls shoows 3s 6d
• 1724 Pd makeing H.Udalls Coat 4s
• 1725 Henry Udal's Coat makeing 4s

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Parochial records Poor relief

• Poor rate
• Overseers accounts
• Bastardy
• Parish apprenticeships

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Overseers of the Poor, Little Wittenham, Berkshire

• 1719. Paid Elizabeth Webb for taking care of the
  woman found in the wood. 1s.
• 1719. Paid Goody Strange to see whether Elizabeth
  Webb was with child. 2s 6d.
• 1724. A bill to Mrs Moore Chrysurgeon nursing
  Goody Hills breast. 3 4s 6d
• 1727. Paid the widow Norket. 11 weeks for the use
  of her bed. 11s.
• 1732. Paid Ambrose Boler for making a boat for
  Eldridge's boy. 1s 6d
• 1745. Paid for wine for Willis. 1s.
• 1777. Pd Betty Wallis for nursing Dame Turrell
  for the smallpox. 1.
• 1782. Pd Swain extra in Winter. 6s.
• 1783. Pd Sarah Webb to have her child
  innoculated. 4s.
• 1787. Shoes and breeches for Swain's children. 2s
  6d

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Records of Bastardy

• 1770. Cam, Gloucs. Bond of James Longdon of
  Wotton-under-Edge for payment of maintenance of a
  bastard child by Mary Cuff of Cam.
• 1776. Kingston St Mary, Somerset. Order to
  constables to apprehend Malachi Male of South
  Petherton, father of bastard child of Mary Bishop
  of Kingston.
• 1788. Marshfield, Gloucs. Detailed letter from
  Edward Scott in Marlborough (Wilts), telling of
  how he was arrested in London as the putative
  father of a bastard child, by the overseers of
  Overton (Wilts) and detailing the various failed
  attempts to be released on bond.
• 1812. Olveston, Gloucs. Apprenticeship of William
  Bishop, bastard son of May, aged 11, to John
  Withers, cordwainer.
• 1835. Salisbury, Wilts. St Thomas parish.
  Examination of Elizabeth Coombs, widow. 4 bastard
  children born 1828, 1830, 1832 1834. 3 born in
  St. Edmund parish, 4th at 4 Fishers Buildings,
  Palmers Village, parish of St Margaret,
  Westminster, London. Father Elijah Parsons, City,
  labourer.

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Parochial records Settlement

• Settlement examinations
• Settlement certificates
• Removal orders

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Settlement Examinations, Devon

• 1779. North Molton. Jacob Langton, weaver, now
  resident in N Molton - born in Uffculme - age 20,
  he married on leaving home - later rented a house
  in Uffculme - has since purchased a house in N
  Molton on a lease for 3 lives (one life
  remaining) - is married to Grace and they have 3
  children, James (13), Philip (5) and Elizabeth (9
  months).
• 1779. Winkleigh. Richard Taylor senior,
  woolcomber - served as apprentice with John
  Dunnam, sergemaker, of Holcombe Rogus for 9 years
  - at 19 years old, enlisted in the Marines -
  discharged in Plymouth in 1748 - married while in
  the Marines has 6 sons, the youngest of whom is
  c.10 years old.
• 1782. Winkleigh. John Saddler, a Private Man in
  the Oxfordshire Militia, now quartered in Exeter
  - his father was a Private in the Welch Fusiliers
  and on discharge was removed to Berks, where John
  was born father was a shoemaker in Farringdon -
  served various people in Farringdon married
  Susanna Gould at Exeter St Thomas on 6 April.