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Using manorial and parochial records to trace Ag Lab ancestors
The Manorial System
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Manorial Records
Manorial Court Rolls
Court Leet
Court Baron Tenants and Rents Accounts Maps and Surveys
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
globands.
12d because he held illegal games, namely
Matthew Sampson Barley
.
6s 8d because he made an affray and drew blood from
John
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.
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
occupacon of
John Hedges
. dat 20 th day of May Anno James 14. 99 yeares. All that cottage or tenement in Brinkworth late in the 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.
Parish Administration
Justices of the Peace
PARISH
Vestry (including Minister) Churchwardens Overseers of the Poor Surveyor of the Highways Parish Constable
Parochial records: Vestry Minutes
Church repairs
Poor relief
Charities
Schools
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
the 4th of July, 1779.
an Augmentation of
6d. per week
commencing 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
Parochial records: Churchwardens
Church rate
Church upkeep
Church ceremony
Charities
Vermin
Churchwardens' Accounts, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, 1658-1727
1662. Recd of
Hellen Higgett
3s 4d.
for ye Buriall of
her daughter Boame Robbinson
in ye Church … 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.
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 1721 Henry Udall a pair of shoes 3s 4d
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 1725 Henry Udale a pair of shoes 3s 6d
Parochial records: Poor relief
Poor rate Overseers’ accounts Bastardy Parish apprenticeships
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
Meanwhile in Thornbury
... 1710. Pd. for a wooden legg for
Wm. Gibbons
, Oldbury. 2s.
Records of Bastardy
1770. Cam, Gloucs. Bond of
James Longdon
maintenance of a bastard child by
Mary Cuff
of Wotton-under-Edge for payment of 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 to be released on bond.
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 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 Father
Elijah Parsons
, City, labourer.
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.
Parochial records: Settlement
Settlement examinations Settlement certificates Removal orders
Settlement Examinations, Devon
1779. North Molton. is married to
Grace 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) 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].