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A History of the County of Sussex
… lawn in the early 20th century. 22 Members of the Sparks family, owners of an engineering works, lived at Church … c. 1910, 22 and by 1924 had passed to the Sparks family. 23 Yapton House 24 or Place, 25 the presumed manor … Yapton manor demesnes through other members of the Edmunds family. 48 In 1693 49 Yapton Coverts was settled, together …
A History of the County of Somerset
… A further 40 a. was under orchard. In 1838 the Rogers family had c. 940 a. and after the purchase of Woolston in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… charge of £7 a year on Windmill field for repairs to the family chapel, with the residue given to the poor on St. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 73 Hugh Evans, 1579-1618, married a member of the Minn family and, unusual among Yarnton's incumbents, was a working … undertaken in 1611 by Sir Thomas Spencer. 98 A spacious family chapel was built at the east end of the south aisle, … tablets and plaques to other members of the Spencer family and the memorial to Charlotte, duchess of Marlborough, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the earl of Cornwall's yardland tenants of 1279. Of 33 family names recorded in 1327, 19 had occurred in 1279. Few … for which such farms were well suited. After the Weston family sold its estate to Exeter College in 1739 75 there … on their holdings for several generations. The Miles family was tenant of Jackson's farm from the 1730s until c. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… recorded from the 1750s, and was for long held by the Pitt family. 32 It comprised a long thatched block, possibly … establishing a pre-eminence in the neighbourhood that his family never fully recovered after the Civil War. During the … divine, married Jane Stone, member of a prominent Yarnton family. Their son James, author of Antiquities of Rutland, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was tenanted for most of the 19th century by the Walker family. 92 It seems to have been bought in the late 19th … part of the quarter share of the manor. Leased to the Minn family from the later 17th century and probably earlier, it … of the Swetes' to George Walton (d. 1900), whose family had been tenants there for much of the 19th century. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Irish wife of Ellis Perrott, member of a prominent Yarnton family, refused to conform, but her correction was left to …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… into a free royalty. On the attainder of the Douglas family in 1455, the lands became forfeited to the crown, and … stones, pointing out the spot where seven brothers of that family were killed. A portion, also, of Elibank Castle still … the massive walls of Dryhope Castle, the seat of the Scott family, are entire. To the west of the church is a spot …