My Family at Cropredy
and The Bourtons in Middle Ages Oxfordshire, England, by William Hartley
My Family at Cropredy
and The Bourtons in Middle Ages Oxfordshire, England,
by William Hartley
The Water Mill known as Slat Mill or Slate Mill [demolished in 1966]
had been situated at the end of Mill Lane, Little Bourton, beyond Prewet Farm,
on a meadow between the Oxford Canal and the River Cherwell. The land slopes
gently towards the river and the Mill
had been prone to flooding. Slate Mill Ford enabled a river crossing.
The Bridlepath that runs from School Lane at Cropredy to the bottom of Williamscote
Hill, also passed by the Mill.
A separate Mill Race branched
off the main river about 400 metres to the north, roaring through the Sluice
after heavy rain, making the ground tremble. A Mill Pond stored water for dry
periods. The Mill Wheel would have been about 26 feet in diameter and 8 feet
wide. Before shearing, farmers would wash sheep in the waters. The Mill was
primarily a Corn Mill but
also used for Fulling woollen
cloth [scouring to cleanse out oil and dirt, and thickening].
11thC
1086 the Domesday Book recorded Cropredy Manor belonging to Remigius de Fécamp, Bishop of Lincoln [a relative of William the Conqueror, who had Lincoln Cathedral built].
In 1086 there were five Mills in Cropredy parish, two in the Bishop of Lincoln's demesne and three in the hands of his tenants. There were five Mills in Cropredy in the Domesday account dated 1086. One of the five mills mentioned in the Domesday account of Cropredy may perhaps be assigned to Wardington and to a tenant of the Bishop of Lincoln there.
Thoky's [Water] Mill - Wardington Mill - Hales Mill. Tenant of Bishop of Lincoln. Situated west of Hay's Bridge [Ayles Bridge], Chipping Warden
Wardington Tower Windmill. Situated west end of Long Spelham, on Great Hill. A 1715 Tower Mill, consisting of a brick or stone tower, on top of which sat a roof or cap which could be turned to bring the sails into the wind.
Williamscot Windmill. Situated Flax furlong on the Williamscot Estate near the top of Williamscot Hill, to the east of the main road, in Windmill Field on the Chacombe Lane.
Slate [Water] Mill. Situated at the end of Mill Lane, Little Bourton, next to the River Cherwell. Slate Mill was tenanted together with Williamscot Windmill.
Mose [Water] Mill. Situated at Bourton. Tenanted together with Slate Mill.
Cropredy Post Windmill. Tenant of Bishop of Lincoln. Mentioned 1719, a Post Mill moved to Avon Dassett, Warwickshire in 1725, demolished 1924. The whole body of the Mill that housed the machinery was mounted on a single vertical post, around which it could be turned to bring the sails into the wind.
Chacombe Windmill.
12thC
13thC
1225
The first certain indication of a Mill in Bourton is a reference to John
the Miller in 1225. Walter the Miller held a yardland of the Bishop of Lincoln
in Cropredy c.1225. A Mill Pond in Wardington was mentioned c.1225, probably
Thoky's Mill towards Bourton, which existed before 1325.
1279 The two Demesne Mills may be assigned to Cropredy township, where the Bishop
of Lincoln had two Mills in 1279 [and 1441].
14thC
1315 William [the Miller?] at the Mill of Cropredy was hanged in 1315.
1325
The Mill towards Bourton called Thoky's Mill occurs in a deed of 1370;
it existed before 1325; and probably took its name from William THOKY of Williamscot
[killed 1349] or one of his family. It was possibly identical with Slate
Mill, but may alternatively have lain in Wardington; no recollection of
its existence or name survives. Thoky's Mill existed before 1325, was in fact
in Wardington; William THOKY of Williamscot, killed in 1349, or one of his family,
presumably gave his name to this Mill, which, however, cannot have been identical
with the only former Watermill now traceable in the township.
One of the five Mills mentioned in the Domesday account of Cropredy may perhaps
be assigned to Wardington and to a tenant of the Bishop of Lincoln there. A
Mill Pond in Wardington was mentioned c.1225. It is probable that the Thoky's
Mill towards Bourton, which existed before 1325, was in fact in Wardington;
William THOKY of Williamscot, killed in 1349, or one of his family, presumably
gave his name to this Mill, which, however, cannot have been identical with
the only former Watermill now traceable in the township. This is Wardington
Mill, west of Hays bridge; the Mill cut here is the only one in Wardington.
The Mill itself, now part of a dwelling, is a comparatively modern building
and appears on a map of 1823. Another name for this Mill, probably derived from
an occupier, was Hales Mill—hence, perhaps, the names Ayles Bridge instead
of Hays Bridge on maps of 1767 and 1823.
A Windmill mentioned at Wardington in 1602 in the Manor conveyed by CHAMBRES
to CHAMBERLAYNE seems to have been conveyed by CHAMBERLAYNE to MORRICE and by
him to the COLEMANs, who in 1654 leased it to Timothy PARSONS, Miller of Prescote
Mill. The Windmill stood at the west end of Long Spelham, on Great Hill.
Another Windmill, described in 1628 as 'lately built', stood on Flax furlong
on the Williamscot Estate. In the 17th and early 18th century it was apparently
leased to the Miller of Slate Mill in Bourton. The inclosure award called
it Williamscot Windmill; it lay near the top of Williamscot Hill, to
the east of the main road, in Windmill Field, and was still standing in 1829.
15thC
1482
Slate Mill first mentioned as 'le Sclattemylle' in 1482,
was probably one of the five original mills in Cropredy [1086].
In 1482 John MITCHELL of Cropredy granted his rights to it, as tenant of the
Bishop of Lincoln, to John KELBY of Rycote, whose stepson and successor, John
PARNELL, citizen and Draper of London, sold his rights in it to Thomas BEYSAND
of Wardington in 1521.
16thC
Creampot
Lane, Cropredy.
HOWSE family lived at [28] included Alice DENZE m.Richard HOWSE 11
SEP 1581
and Fremund DENZE her nephew. In the 17thC Nehemiah MANSELL and
then Moses MANSELL lived at Hentlowes Farm [35]
1500
Katherine
DENZE
b.c.1500 Pos Fam, Suffolk baptised Great Bourton, Oxfordshire; m.Richard
DENZE c.1520/1530
1500 Richard DENZE b.c.1500 Little Bourton, Oxfordshire; m.Katherine
DENZE c.1520/1530; d.29 JUN 1559 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1500 William GILL b.c.1500 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1510
John SHERMAN b.c.1510
Cropredy, Oxfordshire m.Alice DENZE 1535 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; John
SHERMAN d.1559
1510 William DENZE b.c.1510 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; m.Alice c.1537; d.23
MAY 1545 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1515 Alice DENZE born c.1515 Cropredy, Oxfordshire m.John SHERMAN 1535 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1519 onwards Brasenose College, Oxford owned extensive land in Cropredy. Brasenose was jointly established by the Bishop of Lincoln.
1520 Richard DENZE m.Katherine DENZE c.1520/1530 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; Richard DENZE d.29 JUN 1559 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1521 John PARNELL, citizen and Draper of London, sold his rights in Slate Mill to Thomas BEYSAND of Wardington in 1521.
1532
the latter leased Slate Mill to John HALTON, a Banbury Draper, for £3
10s. yearly. In 1549 the Malmesbury Clothier, William STUMPE, ceded his rights
in it to William BARNSLEY of Banbury, who was the Bishop of Lincoln's tenant
there in 1552, at an annual rent of £2 10s. 8d. for the Mill and two small adjacent
pastures.
Two Mills formerly belonging to the episcopal demesne in Cropredy are mentioned
in 1552, 1589, 1596 [and 1606].
1535 John SHERMAN m.Alice DENZE 1535 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; John d.1559
1536 Alice SABYN born c.1536 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1537 William DENZE m.Alice c.1537 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1538 Alice DENZE born to William DENZE and Alice 1538 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; Alice DENZE m.John SHERMAN 22 NOV 1556 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1539 Margaret DENZE born to William DENZE and Alice 27 MAR 1539 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; d.13 APR 1539 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1540
William DENZE born to William DENZE and Alice 06 JAN 1540 Cropredy,
Oxfordshire
1540
John SHERMAN born to John SHERMAN and Alice DENZE 10 FEB
1540 Cropredy, Oxfordshire. Died 24 JUL 1574 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1540 Simon DENZE born to William DENZE and Alice 28 OCT 1540 Cropredy,
Oxfordshire; d.14 NOV 1540 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1543 Anne DENZE born to William DENZE and Alice 18 NOV 1543 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1546 William SHERMAN born to John SHERMAN and Alice DENZE 1546 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1549
five Trustees from the Bourton and Cropredy Bell Land Trust were chosen to act
on their behalf namely Thomas SMITH, Will NEWMAN, John SHERMAN, Roger
TRUSTE and Thomas GUBBYN.
1549 Richard HOWSE born to Richard HOWSE [28] and Alice 6 OCT 1549; m.Alice
DENZE 11 SEP 1581; d.14 JUL 1592
1550
William GARDNER born to Robert GARDNER and Alice c.1550 Cropredy,
Oxfordshire
1550 Alice SABYN born c.1550 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1550 Richard HOWSE [28] Creampot Lane, Cropredy, Oxfordshire d.APR 1550; widow
Alice DENZE
1550 Elizabeth SHERMAN born to John SHERMAN and Alice DENZE
c.1550 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1552 Thomas GARDNER m.Grace NEWMAN 1552 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1554 John RUSSELL married Margery GUBBYN and one daughter Anne survived and married William Denzie of Great Bourton. They had four sons. It was the third son Thomas born in 1589, who was to be apprenticed as a Blacksmith.
1555 Alice GARDNER
born to Robert GARDNER and Alice 1555 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1555 William GILL m.Elizabeth GUBBYN c.1555 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1556 Alice DENZE
b.1538 m.John SHERMAN 22 NOV 1556 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; John SHERMAN
d.1574
1556 Alice SABYN m.John HUMPHREY 1556 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1557 Thomas GILL d.; left to Richard "tymber to make hym a plough with all," in 1557. [183:256R, 183: 257v].
1558 Henri SHERMAN d.; of Bourton, left to Willm LEYDBROKE ..."the tyre of my Iron bound carte and timber to make him a plowe and a bedstede,"
1559 John SHERMAN
d.; of Little Bourton's Will; made Alys DENZE his wife sole executrix
"I will my wyfe to have anything concerninge my Will and Testament without any
trouble of my son John SHERMAN or any other in his name or for him and
all covenants made before betwixt him and my wife and if he will not so do the
said John to have no parte of my goodes but by the oversight of my overseers"
[MS. Will Oxon 183: 250]
John SHERMAN had eight hives of bees to give to his children. One each
to John and Katherine, and two to William, Jullian and
Besse [183 250v 151r].
"William TRUSS wyffe owith me iijs iiijd of wch I forgette her v grotes [a silver
coin worth four pence] so that she do paye that willingly to my wife or ellys
to paye the sole iijs iiijd. Ric CLEREGE owithe me xxd or ells a shepe worthe
xxd. John MOLLE owithe me vjd. Olde GRENEWODDE of Cledon owithe me iiijd for
rents." Was GRENEWODDE in a cottage and this was his quarterly rent? Richard
CLEREGE was a Drover [183 251r].
1559 Richard DENZE d.29
JUN 1559 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1560 Thomas
DENZE m.Joan 06 OCT 1560 Banbury, Oxfordshire
1560 Elizabeth DENZE b.c.1560 Mollington, Oxfordshire; m.Richard ELKINGTON
12 NOV 1588 Mollington, Oxfordshire; d.1624
1560 William GILL b.c.1560 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; d.1605
1563 Alice DENZE [1563-1609] b.27 DEC 1563 m.Richard c.11 SEP 1581; d.1609
1564 William SHERMAN born to John SHERMAN and Alice 06 NOV 1564 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; m.Anne GARDNER 27 JUN 1587 Cropredy, Oxfordshire d.05 APR 1638 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1567 Roger GARDNER born 1567 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1570 Alice SABYN m.John KENDALL 1570 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1571 William GARDNER m.Julian 1571 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1572 Alice DENZE born to Thomas DENZE and Elizabeth c.1572 Mollington, Oxfordshire
1574 Johannis SHERMAN d.; of Little Bourton Died 24 JUL 1574 Cropredy, Oxfordshire. Left to William SHERMAN "my whole teeme, my cartes my ploughes my harrows and all furniture there unto belonging" [MS.Wills Pec.50/5/4]
In 1575 the then Squire of Williamscote, Walter CALCOTT, built and financed a Free Grammar School for Boys in what is now the School House, Williamscote, and seven places were alloted to boys from the Bourtons.
1576
Alice SHERMAN m.Thomas GARDNER 1576 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1576 Alice GARDNER born to William 1576 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1580 Alice DENZE born c.1580 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; m.Richard GARDNER 29 JAN 1600 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1581 Alice DENZE m.Richard Howse 11 SEP 1581; d.1609
1582 William GARDNER m.Gillian 1582 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1583
William GARDNER born to William GARDNER and Gillian 05 OCT 1583
Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1583 Marie DENZE m.Richard TERRY c.1583 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1584 Alice MANSELL m.Thomas SABYN c.1584 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1585 Alice SABYN m.Richard NORMAN c.1585 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1586 Elizabeth SHERMAN m.John STENTON c.1584 Hanwell, Oxfordshire
1587 William
GARDNER m.Elizabeth LADBROOK 1587 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1587 William SHERMAN b. 06 NOV 1564 Cropredy, Oxfordshire m.Ann GARDNER
27 JUN 1587 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; d.05 APR 1638 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1588 Elizabeth
DENZE m.Richard ELKINGTON 12 NOV 1588 Mollington, Oxfordshire; d.1624
1588 William DENZE m.Anne Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1589
John GARDNER m.Annie BECKINGHAM 1589 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1589 Roger GARDNER m.Katherine 1589 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1589 Thomas DENZE born to William DENZE and Anne 15 JUN 1589 Cropredy,
Oxfordshire
1590
William GARDNER born to Roger GARDNER and Katherine 27 MAY 1590
Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1590 Richard GILL born to William GILL and Elizabeth GUBBYN
c.1590
1591 George
GARDNER a husbandman of Great Bourton who died in 1591 never married and
had several living in staff, he mentions Alice DENZE the daughter of
John DENZE. He wrote "I will ... unto every of my servants now being
over and above their wages Fyve shillings." Alice DENZE was to have "one
heifer of 2 yeres olde and better...
1591 Gabriel GARDNER m.John GILL 1591 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1592 Fremund
DENZE born to William DENZE and Anne 26 APR 1592 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1592 Richard HOWSE d. 14 JUL 1592 Creampot Lane, Cropredy, Oxfordshire; widow
Alice DENZE
1593 Richard
GARDNER m.Anne HICKMAN 1593 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1593 Alice DENZE m.Richard TERRY 1593 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1593 George SHERMAN born to William SHERMAN and Anne GARDNER
14 OCT 1593 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; m.Audrey c.1629; 21 APR 1672 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1594 George
GARDNER m.Katherine PAYNE 1594 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1594 Nathaniel GARDNER born to George GARDNER and Katherine PAYNE
14 JAN 1670 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; m.Ursula HORNE 1620
Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1594 Alice GARDNER m.Michael DUDLEY 1594 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
17thC
Creampot
Lane, Cropredy.
HOWSE family lived at [28] included Alice DENZE m.Richard HOWSE 11
SEP 1581.
In the 17thC Nehemiah MANSELL and then Moses MANSELL lived at
Hentlowes Farm [35]
1600 Alice DENZE m.Richard GARDNER 29 JAN 1600 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
In
the early 1600s the Miller was Robert MANSELL and he had two sons Edward
and Nehemiah who were educated at Williamscote School and both entered
the Clergy. During the English Civil War, KING CHARLES 1 based his headquarters
at Oxford and while there, Edward became the King's chaplain. One night
Edward was walking on the outskirts of Oxford and was captured by Roundheads.
It is known that he was taken to Abingdon but was never heard of again.
The Williamscote Estate at one time also owned a Windmill and very often both
Slate Mill and the Windmill were leased together. The Windmill was in
the Windmill Field at the top of Williamscote Hill on the Chacombe Lane. There
was also a Windmill up Great Hill near Wardington and another near Chacombe.
The Miller at Bourton's Slate Mill was Robert MANSELL. They had
two sons Edward MANSELL [1605-] and Nehemiah [1609-]. Both were
sent to the school. Edward went to Brasenose College, then went on to
university. He was King Charles 1's chaplain during the siege of Oxford. He
was captured while taking a walk and taken into custody at Abingdon where he
died in captivity.
The younger boy Nehemiah returned to be a Miller and to farm Hentlowes
Farm [35][when it fell vacant] at the end of Creampot Lane in Cropredy, spoke
and wrote with a broad accent.
The MANSELLs soon began to add improvements to the property. Nehemiah
MANSELL's 1689 inventory now in the P.R.O. [Prob 4/10691] and Moses MANSELL's
1746 inventory at Oxfordshire Archives [MS Wills Pec. 46/4/21] reveal their
various additions to this house: Nehemiah MANSELL in 1689: Great Chamber
[Parlour], Two Little Chambers [Parlours], Two Garritts, Buttery, Hall House
Moses MANSELL in 1746: First room, Second room, Third room, ye new rooms,
ye dwelling house, Butry, Brewhouse, Barn
The house had originally faced east across the meadows. They approached the
site below the south gable end. The MANSELLs extended southwards for two extra
bays towards the pond. Hentlowes may have had only three bays with the usual
hall, chamber and perhaps a nether room, but because the barn was to the right
of the eastern entrance the design did not follow the general rule followed
in Cropredy. MANSELLs had added a Great Chamber. In the MANSELL terrier for
1674 there is a good description of the site: "The dwelling House five Bayes
Stone walls and thatched. The barne four bayes Stone Walles and thatched. The
carthouse Stable & Cowhouse & Piggsties seaven Bayes. The orchard garden & Backside
contayneinge about half an acre Bounded on the Eastward wth great Bullmore on
the west wth Richard Watts his homestall" [BNC:552 in 1674]. Hentlowe's Farm
site [35] in 1775.
Four MANSELLs [the Millers] are buried in Saint Mary's Church or Churchyard.
1602
A Windmill mentioned at Wardington in 1602 in the Manor conveyed by CHAMBRES
to CHAMBERLAYNE seems to have been conveyed by Chamberlayne to MORRICE and by
him to the COLEMANs, who in 1654 leased it to Timothy PARSONS, Miller of Prescote
Mill. The Windmill stood at the west end of Long Spelham, on Great Hill.
1602
The tenure of Slate Mill was converted to fee farm, and in 1602 the two
daughters of John BARNSLEY sold Slate Mill to Calcott CHAMBRES of Williamscot.
The Mill then descended with the Williamscot estate to the TAYLOR and LOVEDAY
families, who paid the fee-farm rent of £2 10s. 8d. to the Crown. In the 17th
and 18th centuries Slate Mill was normally leased with Williamscot Windmill;
the two together were leased in 1660 to John WARNING, who was 'not to bring
any wife to the Mill at any time' without William TAYLOR's consent. In 1663
Thomas PARSONS, brother of Timothy PARSONS who leased Prescote Mill at the time,
leased Slate Mill for 7 years.
1602 William GARDNER m.Joanne 1602 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1603
William GARDNER born to William GARDNER and Joanne 23 AUG 1603
Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1603 Alice DENZE m.Simon LAPWORTH 1603 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1605 William
GILL [1560-1605] d.1605; left two mares and a gelding and four pair of horse
gears valued at £5-10s, but no colts. These helped to farm about 1.25 yardlands
[They had 5 beasts]. Thomas GILL his son paid a colt penny in 1616, 18
and 19, but no inventory survives for his 1634 Will [MS.Wills Pec. 39/3/5] Thomas
GILL his son paid a colt penny in 1616, 18 and 19, but no inventory survives
for his 1634 will [MS.Wills Pec. 39/3/5]. William GILL of Bourton left
20 shillings a year to bring up his daughter Margaret GILL. Presumably
the girl also contributed to her upkeep [MS.Will Pec. 39/3/5]."
1605 Thomas GARDNER m.Ann GREGORY 1605 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1605 William GARDNER m.Alice ROBBINS 1605 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1605 Neremiah GARDNER born to George GARDNER and Katherine PAYNE
15 DEC 1605 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1609 Alice DENZE
[1563-1609] d.10 APR 1609 smallpox? epidemic
1609 Fremund DENZE [1592-1609] d.APR 1609 smallpox? epidemic
1610 Thomas DENZE m.Barbara BICK 1610 Great Tew, Oxfordshire
1606-1640 William DENZE was a Blacksmith [property 13a] Smithy and two cottages, later [1694] converted to the Brasenose Arms, situated east of Cropedy Wharf Bridge [153], Station Road, Cropredy. Thomas DENZE and his wife Barbara BICK had five sons and three daughters. Richard DENZE their eldest and his wife Anne had five sons and a daughter. The family continued to work at the Smithy for Richard DENZE and Thomas DENZE, two of their sons, became Blacksmiths. Eventually Thomas DENZE married and left for Mollington leaving Richard DENZE in Cropredy. He took his turn as churchwarden for he had enough land to pay the rates, and no doubt played an important roll as Blacksmith.
1607 the Vicar accompanied by some young scholars, usually the eldest son who
would inherit the lease, and several leaseholders of the town set off in the
festive manner fully expecting to have drink supplied by the millers as was
the custom. The way was long and rough and the singing made them thirsty and
all must have kept going in anticipation of the good things to come. Cropredy
had three mills. Arthur COLDWELL's at the bottom of Church Street run by CROSS
the Miller [51], Joseph PALMER's at the Lower Mill [1] and Bourton's Slate
Mill run by Robert MANSELL. The first two were well educated men.
The last two had a son each who became clergymen. One of MANSELLs sons was to
become chaplain to KING CHARLES 1 at Oxford where he lost his life. Most Millers
became prominent townsmen.
The Bourton Churchwardens also had to present those who left early from their
parish, one of which was the miller Robert MANSELL from Slate Mill
whose son moved to Cropredy [35]. Two of the Bourton families, Sherwell
[or SHARMAN?] and GARDNERs had twenty one children between them and
even if only some of them were at home, they must have caused quite a commotion
leaving the church. All the Bourton men who left early were substantial husbandmen.
1607 William GARDNER born to William GARDNER and Joanne 01 JAN
1607 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1611 Thomas GARDNER m.Jane YEARPE 1611 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1613 HOLLOWAY made a note on a separate folio now attached to the 1613 Easter oblations book [c25/7]: "The accompts for such tythes/ as I am to receive owte of/ the new close at willscott from/ mychaell 1616 untyll maij/ day 1617" [f25v]. This was followed by seventyfive sheep couples (ewe and lamb) who had grazed the enclosed field for an unspecified number of weeks. These belonged to Wam BAKER, Thomas GUBBEN, Wam PLANT, Thomas CHERRY, all husbandmen and Robert MANSELL, Miller, from Bourton. The note went on to name twentyone sheep couples who had been there for a month owned by Edward SHEPHERD, Thomas BLACKWELLl, Rychard TYMES and Jhon HALL and Nycholas PLANT's eight "barren shepe a fortnyght/ Jho qryry vx bar[ren] shepe a moneth/ John Lovell 6 bar. for a weeke/ Rych ATKINS 8 coples a fortnight." Would the beasts which followed from November to the 25th of March have been with the sheep? These were given as MANSELL's eight, BAKER's five beasts, a mare and a colt and GUBBEN's four beasts and sheep. HOLLOWAY finished the paragraph with "In conclusion I have/ vallwed my tythes unto/ them in love for that wynter/ tyth but xs" [c25/7 f25v].
1614 Thomas GARDNER m.Joan BEAMAN 1614 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1615
There were three Millers in HOLLOWAY's book. Joseph PALMER [1] at the Lower
Cropredy Mill who kept four beasts in 1615 and three in 1616 and Robert
LORD [1a] who kept a milch cow on PALMER's land. The last was MANSELL
at the next mill down river from PALMER's. Some years MANSELL had three
milch cows at Slate Mill and on other years four.
Joseph PALMER leased the new Windmill from Calcott CHAMBRES in Flax furlong
on the Coton side of the Banbury Lane. He also kept on the Lower Cropredy Mill
[p468]. In 1621 CALCOTT decided to buy some of the land KING JAMES was selling
in Ireland and he borrowed money. Already by 1602 CALCOTT had sold his father's
Wardington Manor and by 1616 the Claydon Manor. He had taken out a loan from
his father-in-law John GOBERT of Coventry in 1618. How did the Irish purchase
help him? He had over stretched his borrowings and after his wife's father died
in 1624 her family began to demand that the loan be paid back. By 1633 he had
had to sell Williamscote house to Edward TAYLOR. Meanwhile in 1619 Mr and Mrs
CHAMBRES were living for a time with Joseph PALMER in his House at the Lower
Cropredy Mill [1]. Both PALMER and CHAMBRES had gone on to university and it
would appear that they had formed a friendship.
Robert MANSELL of Slate Mill had paid for a colt in 1616 and left five horses in his will.
1617
Robert MANSELL sold "4 hyves" for 34s and the Vicar was paid a tithe
of 3s-4d [c25/3 fols.1 &7]. After taking on an occupied hive the new "owner"
would find a way of doing their former bee-keeper a service. Some sales must
have been for a new empty hive or more than one. The MANSELLs of Slate
Mill and the LORD family who were Fulling at Cropredy Lower Mill,
both had ideal places to keep bees amongst the old meadows. Did someone in their
families make and sell skeps, which led to the payment of a tithe?
1617 Thomas MANSELL Lincoln College, Oxford 16 MAY 1617
1618 Anne DENZE born to Thomas DENZE and Barbara 13 SEP 1618 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1620
Nathaniel GARDNER b.1594 m.Ursula HORNE 1620 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1620 Dorcas GILL born to Thomas GILL and Dorcas 11 FEB 1620 Cropredy,
Oxfordshire
1621
The Upper Mill at Cropredy was leased to Richard GOSTELOW of Prescote
in 1621. The two Mills of 1552–1606 are probably those mentioned in 1664. Upper
Mill, north of Cropredy Bridge, was sold by Sir William BOOTHBY in 1673,
but seems to have gone out of use fairly soon thereafter, for in 1719 and 1774
only one Mill is mentioned.
The Lower Mill in Cropredy, south of Cropredy Bridge, was held of the
BOOTHBY estate by the SHIRLEY family; in 1696 the SHIRLEY's tenancy passed [probably
by marriage] to John ALLEN of Cropredy, Miller [d. 1743], whose son was William
Shirley ALLEN
Robert GARDNER m.Anne BASFORD 1621 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1624 a Water Mill and Windmill in the Bourtons passed from William SHERMAN and Anne GARDNER to George GARDNER and John GARDNER in 1624. Perhaps this Water Mill was the Mose Mill mentioned in Bourton together with Slate Mill in 1636. William SHERMAN d.05 APR 1638 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1628 Another Windmill, described in 1628 as 'lately built', stood on Flax furlong on the Williamscot Estate. In the 17th and early 18th century it was apparently leased to the Miller of Slate Mill in Bourton. The inclosure award called it Williamscot Windmill; it lay near the top of Williamscot Hill, to the east of the main road, in Windmill Field, and was still standing in 1829.
1629
Alice GARDNER m.Richard SALMON 1629 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1629 William GILL born to Thomas GILL and Dorcas 02 AUG 1629 Cropredy,
Oxfordshire
1629 George SHERMAN m.Audrey c.1629 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; d.21 APR 1672
Cropredy, Oxfordshire
c.1630 widower John SHERMAN of Bourton left six children, so he suggests that whoever shall have "the kepynge of the children to occupye it [a quartern of land] tyll they dooe come to twelve yeres of age." At twelve they would go out to service one by one leaving the eldest son who was the executor, to the use of the land. This brother looking after his sisters would pay each a legacy when they were sixteen. Sixteen was not often considered a reasonable age to be left goods, although boys and girls were old enough then to receive communion and boy servants became men.
1631 Richard GILL born to Thomas GILL and Dorcas 29 JAN 1631 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1632
Edward MANSELL MA Vicar of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire 11 OCT 1632-1639
1632 Thomas GILL born to Thomas GILL and Elizabeth 30 JUN 1632
Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1633
John GILL born to Thomas GILL and Elizabeth 02 FEB 1633 Cropredy,
Oxfordshire
1633 Gabriel GARDNER born to Calcotte GARDNER 12 JAN 1633 Wardington,
Oxfordshire; d.1633
1634 Thomas
GILL also of Great Bourton and a Yeoman had a servant Ann DENZE and
he left her ten shillings and "the rest of the servants in the house 2s-6d a
peece."
1634 John GARDNER m.Constance TANNER 1634 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1634 Thomas GILL born to William GILL and Dorcas 17 AUG 1634 Cropredy,
Oxfordshire
1634 Elizabeth SHERMAN m.Richard WADIE c.1634 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1635 Elizabeth SHERMAN born to George SHERMAN and Audrey c.1635 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; m.Thomas GILL c.1663
1638 William SHERMAN d.05 APR 1638 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; widow ANNE GARDNER
1640 Jonathan
GARDNER m.Elizabeth HARWOOD 1640 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1642 John GARDNER
m.Elizabeth SMITH 1648 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1642 Edward MANSELL Vicar of Stoneleigh created BD
1644 Battle for Cropredy Bridge: On Saturday, 29 June, KING CHARLES 1 army began marching north along the east side of the River Cherwell. Waller's forces proceeded to shadow the king's movements on the other side of the river, the two armies little more than a mile apart and in sight of each other, but neither prepared to cross under the fire of enemy guns. As they approached Cropredy, Charles ordered a small detachment of dragoons to seize the bridge there. At this point, he received a warning that 300 additional horsemen were approaching from the north to join Waller's army, and he ordered his army to hasten its march to cut off this detachment. The Royalist army became strung out. The vanguard and main body had crossed a stream at Hay's Bridge [near the present-day village of Chipping Warden], leaving a rearguard of only two cavalry brigades under the Earl of Cleveland and twenty-year old Earl of Northampton, with some infantry, south of Hay's Bridge. Waller, seeing his opportunity, sent Lieutenant General John Middleton across Cropredy Bridge with two regiments of horse and nine companies of foot to isolate the Royalist rearguard, while he himself led 1,000 men across Slat Mill Ford, a mile to the south of the bridge, to catch the Royalist rear in a pincer movement. The Royalist dragoons holding Cropredy Bridge were soon overpowered. As Middleton's force streamed towards Hay's Bridge, they themselves became strung out and vulnerable. At Hay's Bridge, Middleton's cavalry was checked by Royalist musketeers who had overturned a cart to block the bridge, while the Earl of Cleveland charged the Parliamentarian foot and artillery behind them. Meanwhile, Northampton's brigade charged downhill against Waller's men, and forced them back across the Slat Mill Ford. The King was alerted that his rearguard was engaged, and ordered his army to turn about. He also sent his own Lifeguard of Horse under Lord Bernard Stewart back across Hay's Bridge to aid Cleveland. With their help, Cleveland made a second charge which forced Middleton back across Cropredy Bridge, abandoning eleven guns. [Waller's Major General of Ordnance, Sir James Wemyss, was also captured]. The bridge itself was held by two Parliamentarian regiments of foot, Colonel Ralph Weldon's Kentish Regiment and the Tower Hamlets regiment. The Royalists tried to recapture the bridge but were repulsed. Waller's artillery continued to fire from their vantage point on Bourton Hill, forcing the Cavaliers to fall back from the river.
1646 Richard HOWSE m.Lydia GILL Cropredy, Oxfordshire
c.1650 Edward MANSELL born.
1663
Hearth Tax on each chimney was two shillings - 1669 Tithe Accounts: Nehemiah
MANSELL had 1 hearth and 2 yardlands
William GARDNER born to Samuel and Alice 23 OCT 1663 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1663 Thomas GILL m.Elizabeth SHERMAN b.1635 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
c.1663
1664 Samuel GARDNER m.Alice 1664 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1665 Mary MANSELL m.Neremiah GARDNER 06 APR 1665 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1668 Thomas GILL born to John GILL and Susannah 06 SEP 1668 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1670 Nathaniel GARDNER born to Stephen GARDNER and Ann 14 JAN 1670 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1671 Dorcas GILL born to Thomas GILL and Elizabeth SHERMAN 13 FEB 1671 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; m.John NEWBERRY c.1705 Hanwell, Oxfordshire
1672 George SHERMAN d.21 APR 1672 Cropredy, Oxfordshire; widow Audrey
1675 William GARDNER born to George and Judith 25 FEB 1675 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1679 Edward MANSELL m.Elizabeth
1680 Moses MANSELL born to Edward MANSELL and Elizabeth.
c.1685 Elizabeth MANSELL born to Edward MANSELL and Elizabeth.
1690 Mary MANSELL
born to Edward and Elizabeth. Mary m.William BURBIDGE 18 MAR 1729 Hardwick,
Oxfordshire
William GARDNER m.Elizabeth c.1690
Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1694 DENZE Smithy taken over by ANKERS and turned into Brasenose Arms [Public House]
1696 Elizabeth MANSELL m.Thomas TREADWELL 1696 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
Little Bourton used to have nail-makers' cottages but it is said they were demolished by order of Parliament because the nail-makers were minting their own coinage, contrary to law.
18thC
1700
Moses MANSELL
m.Katherine WYATT at Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1700 Neremiah MANSELL born to Moses MANSELL and Katherine WYATT
1700 Samuel GARDNER m.Sarah TIMMS 1700 Broughton, Oxfordshire
1700
John GARDNER m.Joan GREEN 1700 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1702 William GARDNER born to William GARDNER and Elizabeth 23 JAN 1702 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1704 William GARDNER born to William GARDNER and Elizabeth 27 AUG 1704 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1705 Dorcas GILL b.13 FEB 1671 Cropredy, Oxfordshire m.John NEWBERRY c.1705 Hanwell, Oxfordshire
1706 Uriah FALKNER of Warmington, Warwickshire replaced Ralph SAVAGE as tenant of both mills in 1706. FALKNER was 'killed by his mill' in 1739.
1713 Edward MANSELL died 25 JUL 1713
1719 and 1774 only one Cropredy Mill is mentioned; In 1774 Lower Cropredy
Mill was worked by Michael PRATT.
A Windmill in Cropredy was mentioned in 1719, but not in a survey of 1742.
1720 Moses GARDNER m.Sarah LADKINS 1720 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1740 John GARDNER m.Mary CHAMBERS 1740 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1743 MANSELL [35] had three yerds in Asmore's "known ground. The Astmead/Ashmore's
twenty acres lay outside the parish to the east on the Northamptonshire boundary.
Town Meadows. In the terriers MANSELL [35] mention some of the meadow
land near the town. The advantages for their farms were enormous. The MANSELLs
were Millers at Slate Mill in Bourton, and one son came to live in Cropredy
when Hentlowes fell vacant. The Hentlowes gave up farming, but had remained
as sub-tenants to the Gorstelows of Prescote manor by continuing to live at
their old farmhouse. The Homestall lay at the bottom of Creampot Lane by Bullmoor,
part of the excellent meadows alongside High Furlong [Cranemore] Brook. MANSELLs
were leasing this in 1688 [BNC: 552]: Five College Farms. MANSELL [35]
had two yardlands totalling 71a 1r and another ley further up Hayway on a sideley
in Hillington, but at least it was on the way to his seven leys and three lotted
acres in the West Mead. MANSELL had to share four of his leys. It was
obviously not possible to divide up the land without sharing these remnants.
MANSELL [35] had in 1710 "one known acre" in the "doale" meadow. All
were still valued at 4 shillings an acre.
North Side Arable: One but in hither Oland Arnold North One Land in Binfurlong
Arnold West One Land in Ramsbaulk furland Arnold East One Land in Ramsbaulk
furland Job Watts West - 2a 1r arable One Land at Sarewell piece Thomas Wyatt
West - 2r leys One Ley in Eafurland MANSELL North -
South Side Arable: One yeard in Sowcroft MANSELL East Two Lands crossing
Hagthorne path MANSELL South One Land in nether Windmill Hill MANSELL
West - 2a 3r arable One Land in Church piece Tho: Wyatt South & North - 2r leys
One Ley in Little Belser Arnold South.
Hentlowe's Farm site [35] in 1775. Moses MANSELL's 1746 inventory at
Oxfordshire Archives [MS Wills Pec. 46/4/21] reveal their various additions
to this house:
Moses MANSELL in 1746: First room, Second room, Third room, ye new rooms,
ye dwelling house, Butry, Brewhouse, Barn
The house had originally faced east across the meadows. They approached the
site below the south gable end. The MANSELLs extended southwards for two extra
bays towards the pond. Hentlowes may have had only three bays with the usual
hall, chamber and perhaps a nether room, but because the barn was to the right
of the eastern entrance the design did not follow the general rule followed
in Cropredy. MANSELLs had added a Great Chamber. In the MANSELL terrier for
1674 there is a good description of the site: "The dwelling House five Bayes
Stone walls and thatched. The barne four bayes Stone Walles and thatched. The
carthouse Stable & Cowhouse & Piggsties seaven Bayes. The orchard garden & Backside
contayneinge about half an acre Bounded on the Eastward wth great Bullmore on
the west wth Richard Watts his homestall" [BNC:552 in 1674].
Four MANSELLs [the Millers] are buried in Saint Mary's Church or Churchyard.
1743 Roger GARDNER m.Elizabeth DAVIS 01 MAY 1743 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1747 William GARDNER m.Ann Cleaner 29 DEC 1747 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1748 Henry DENZE m.Sarah SMITH 23 FEB 1748 Ladbroke, Warwickshire
1754 John GARDNER m.Susanna CAP 1754 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1755 Samuel GARDNER m.Sarah GARDNER 11 AUG 1755 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1757 William GARDNER born to Roger and Hannah 23 APR 1757 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1758 Robert GARDNER m.Elizabeth FENTON 1758 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1771 William GARDNER born to John and Elizabeth 07 OCT 1771 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
From 1775 the ALLEN family from Cropredy Mill leased allotment land near the Mill until 1851,
1776 William GARDNER m.Hannah GOLDLY 25 NOV 1776 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1777 Construction of the Oxford Canal began at Hawkesbury Junction on the Coventry Canal in 1769 and reached Cropredy in October 1777. The canal passes between the River Cherwell and the village. There is a canal lock here, and at the south end of the village a wharf was built. This originally handled coal from the Coventry coalfield, and now serves the canal's popular leisure traffic. The wharf was briefly the canal's terminus, until the section from Cropredy to Banbury opened in March 1778. The canal finally reached Oxford and the River Thames at the end of 1789.
1778 At inclosure in 1778 John LOVEDAY's allotments were 'conveniently' laid out near the Mill.
1788 Thomas DENZE m.Ann SHAKESPEAR 29 JUN 1788 Mollington, Oxfordshire; Blacksmith at Mollington
1795 William GARDNER m.Elizabeth CLAYDON 1795 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
19thC
1803 Cropredy Mill passed to the Prescote estate. The Lower Cropredy Mill was acquired by William Hadland of Clattercote, who made 'great additions' to it in or before 1824. Hadland left the old site, however, and built a new Cropredy Mill, and also Bourton House nearby, in 1831. In 1851 a Pratt still worked the new Mill, which is said to have been built on the site to profit from the presence of the canal. The former Lower Mill had stood almost on the same site, in Mill Meadow. About 1892 Cropredy Mill was reduced by fire.
1817 William GARDNER m.Mary ADKINS 1817 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1821 Sarah DENZE born to Thomas DENZE and Elizabeth 07 MAR 1821 Tysoe, Warwickshire
1823
Wardington Mill, west of Hays bridge; the mill cut here is the only one
in Wardington. The mill itself, now part of a dwelling, is a comparatively modern
building and appears on a map of 1823. Another name for this mill, probably
derived from an occupier, was Hales mill—hence, perhaps, the names Ayles bridge
instead of Hays bridge on maps of 1767 and 1823.
1823 Mary DENZE born to Thomas DENZE and Catherine 07 FEB 1823
Tysoe, Warwickshire
1824 William GARDNER m.Mary BARRETT 18 NOV 1824 Cropredy, Oxfordshire
1825 Daniel DENZE born to Thomas DENZE and Caroline 17 APR 1825 Tysoe, Warwickshire
1828 Hannah DENZE born to Thomas DENZE and Caroline 06 APR 1828 Tysoe, Warwickshire
1829 Williamscot Windmill lay near the top of Williamscot Hill, to the east of the main road, in Windmill Field, and was still standing in 1829.
1832 Elizabeth DENZE born to Thomas DENZE and Catherine 21 OCT 1832 Tysoe, Warwickshire; d.21 JUN 1834
1836 George DENZE born to Thomas DENZE and Caroline 31 MAR 1836 Tysoe, Warwickshire
The last Miller at Slate Mill was Matthew TOWNSEND whose wife was from the CHERRY family. They had up to fifteen children so did not spend all of their time milling! Matthew died at Slate Mill aged 45 around 1897. There was a memorial plaque to Matthew in the former Methodist Chapel [now Bourtons Village Hall].
20thC
In 1905 Cropredy Mill was sold to the Oxford Canal Navigation Co., whose successors still owned the ruined Mill in 1963.
In 1968 there were still five Mill cuts along the River Cherwell within the
bounds of the ancient parish, though that which supplied Cropredy Upper Mill
had recently been filled in. They may represent the sites of the five Domesday
mills. Slate Mill was demolished shortly before 1966.
In the early 1970s Thames Conservancy netted the fish, drained the water, dredged
the silt back on to the bank for a few months to dry, then filled the mill stream
in.
Map of Cropredy and The Bourtons
Aerial Map of Cropredy and The Bourtons
Little Bourton Lock No:27 Access via footpath/farm track from Little
Bourton [turn off A 423 at the Plough, then keep going straight ahead]. Cross
the bridge then go south for 200m down towpath.
Little Bourton Bridge No:158 Access via footpath/farm track from Little
Bourton [turn off A 423 at the Plough, then keep going straight ahead].
Cave's Bridge No:157 Access via footpath/farm track from Little Bourton/Great
Bourton road to Peewit Farm, then walk 200m south on towpath.
Slate Mill Bridge No:156 
Slate Mill Lock No:26 Access for Bridge and Lock via footpath/farm track
from Little Bourton/Great Bourton road to Peewit Farm.
Keen's Bridge No:155. Access via farm track from Cropredy School, just
south of railway bridge on Cropredy/Bourton road, then along towpath for 300
metres.
Cropredy Mill Bridge [Donner's Bridge, concrete] No:154 Access via farm
track from Cropredy School, just south of railway bridge on Cropredy-Bourton
road.
Cropredy Wharf Bridge No:153 Bridge Street, Cropredy [near the Brasenose
Arms].
From Aston Le Walls/Lower Boddington direction A423, enter Cropredy over the bridge, follow the road until a large junction is reached. Here turn left and follow the road eastwards downhill to a bridge over the canal near a little Spar shop. Cross the bridge, and then drop down to the left and follow the canal towpath along the eastern side of the canal northwards for a couple of hundred yards until Bridge 152 and Lock 25 is reached.
Cropredy Lock Bridge No:152 Cropredy 
Cropredy Lock No:25 Access from Red Lion Street, Cropredy.
DENZE Blacksmith
and Cottages 17thC [now the Brasenose Arms, Cropredy]
Today, Medieval 'Ridge and Furrow' Ploughing can still be seen across
England. In the Middle Ages, the arable land in the Cropredy/Bourton area was
made up of two large open common fields, divided into halves [or quarters] then
divided into furlongs, then into strips; each strip was managed by one small
tenant family, though some larger families would manage several strips, not
side-by-side but dotted across the two large fields. In alternating years, some
fields, or furlongs, would be left for fallow, others would be ploughed [Crop
Rotation]. The ploughed strips were ploughed in the same direction; over time,
the movement of soil year after year gradually built up the centre of each strip
into a high ridge, enabling better drainage, leaving a deep furrow between each
ridge. The height difference between ridge and furrow was almost the height
of a man. Strips would traditionally be a furlong [a furrow-length, 200 yards,
the distance a team of oxen could plough before resting] and a chain wide [22
yards], long and narrow because of the difficulty in turning the plough, giving
an area of one acre or about one day's ploughing. In a ploughing season a team
of oxen could cover 30 acres [a Virgate, or Yardland].
Tenants were shown by at least
six other neighbours the identity of their strip/strips. After agreement, they
conveyed an application [a Terrier, a written record relating to a map] to the
Brasenose College as part of a tenancy agreement. Nerimiah MANSELL once
wrote: "The Tarriar witch was Presanted before was mistaken by a friend HOLM
was intrupted in my absense for that was but a coppy of this witch/ I had taken
as naybores had showed me the land: for I had lefter order so this to a senter
when/ .. the mistake. I was very sorry intending for to come over my [self]
with this but/ was prevented..Nehemiah MANSELL 1653" [BNC:552].The tenant then
gave a percentage of their crops to their landlord as rent.
http://bourtons.net/pages/our-villages/down-memory-lane/mill-lane-stroll.php
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63800&strquery="bourton+house"
http://www.cropredyvillage.info/Men%20and%20Women%20Families.htm
MANSELL [Slate Mill] & [35 Hentlowes Farm] 155 166 215 221 234 439 605 606 643 Edward 142 Moses 605 Nehemiah 142 197 288 605 700 Robert 29 30 142 255 272 274
DENSY, DENZE, DENZEY, DENZIE [13 Smithy and two cottages, later Brasenose Inn] 16 58 75 87 89 96 108 128 240 242 250 437* 438-441+ 460 472 511 595 633 670 678 691
Alese 577 Ales nee Cleredge 180 Alice [Bourton, Servant] 88
Anne 439 440 Ann 89 707
Barbara 440
Elizabeth 653
Fremund [28] 110 115 159 161 171 172 183 185 190 526 580 583 628 630 639 685 696
John 88 180 185 275
Richard 439 440 700 707
Thomas 108 132 182 185 186 231 232 280 438 440
William 169 185 440 526 707
GARDNER [Cropredy] 90,256,473 474
95. RICH GARDNER - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Marriage: 1593 Cropredy, Oxford, England
96. RICH GARDNER - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Marriage: 1600 Cropredy, Oxford, England
97. RICH GARDNER - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Marriage: 1614 Cropredy, Oxford, England
107. GEORGE GARDNER - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Marriage: 1594 Cropredy, Oxford, England
110. WM GARDYNER - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Marriage: 1571 Cropredy, Oxford, England
111. WM GARDNER - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Marriage: 1587 Cropredy, Oxford, England
112. WM GARDNER - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Marriage: 1605 Cropredy, Oxford, England
113. WM GARDENER - International Genealogical Index Gender: Male Marriage: 1747 Cropredy, Oxford, England
Avis [24] 90,646,653,689,695,703
Constance nee Tanner [39] 409
Elizabeth 617 John [19] 223
Nehemiah (B. & C.)155, [39] 223 255,404,409
Nicholas 131
Roger [19] 429
Samuel 404,409
Thomas 131
William (Servt) 93,98,262
GARDNER Mrs [Thorpe Mandeville] [21] 173,635,696 Page 732
GARDNER [Bourton] 30, Mr. 236 Elizabeth 165
George 88,165,183,186,255,555
John 256,622,678
Nathaniel 255
Rychard 236,406
Thomas 166,232,233,237,406,694
Widow 236
William 233
GARDNER Thomas [Wardington] 42
GILL [Bourton] 440
Alys 702
Edith 701
Elizabeth 255
Em 702
Joan 691
Johan 701
Jone 255
Margaret 131
Margerie 702
Richard 177
Thomas 89,165,177,236,255,256
William 131,256
GUBBEY [Bourton]
Thomas 311
GUBBIN [Bourton]
Jone 702
Margery 440
Thomas 42, 272
GUBBIN [Wardington] 32,33,142
HARRIS
Elizabeth nee Holbech 163
Revd Robert (Hanwell) 151,163
Mrs Robert nee Wheatley 163
Timothy 163
HOWSE [9] 11,15,52,74,86,95,119 128,131,160,240,241,243,246,275 277,285,329,350,489,491,493,498 511,523-8+,525*,557,623,625 628,633,647,654,672,677,678,684 685,688 Ayllys, 526,650 Caterin nee Pratt 524,526,527,660 Elizabeth 55,114,159,161,184,250, 524, nee Pery 526,650,695 Joyce 527 Marion 161 Mary 175 Margery 114,179,526,641,660 Richard 277,526 Soloman 55,108,155,175,243,269,274,285,524,526,641,648,654,660,661,664,697,700 Thomas 55,75,160,161,171 William 108,172,177-9,186,209 212,277,329,526,528,529,628,696 Howse [24] 11,63,90,116,126 128,241,243,277,493,553,556*557,628, 630,650,672,685,688-90, Alyce 117,703 Alice 689 Anne nee Howse 555 Christian 703 Elizabeth 117,556,703 Grace nee French 56,117,185 555,557,609 John 556 Richard 117,143,172,185,209,212, 287,556,609,689,696,703. Rychard 703 Thomas 689,703 William 86,118,557,577 Howse [28] 11,12,23,66,72-4,78 86,94,95,128,131,155,160,171,176, 189,238,241,243,245,341,348,351,355,400 488-91,493,517,557,573-81+,576*,582,583,628-34,639,643,644,650,653,657 660,674,677,685,686,690 Alese nee Densy 106,110,114,115 171,179,185,190,208,241,244,253 268,277,526,527,577-80,583,639 647,649,650,655,661,667,672,675 687,691,696 Alyce nee Hitchman 75,102,114 124,131,238,577,578 Ayllys 71,114,577 Goodwife 187 John 185,577,578 Margaret 121,238,577,580 Rechard 71,115,121,185,187 238,254,341,580,592,639,695 Richard 144,185,190,489,577 578,583,700 Rychard 71,106,108,185,209 212,238,556,575,577,583,695 Thomas 108,110,124,131,144 185,302,577,578 William 185,577 Page 734 Howse Elizabeth 403
SABYN SABIN SABEAN [48] 283,361,364,381
Anne 381
John 361,364,381,700,701
Mary nee Hudson 361,381, Widow 474
Michael [Servant] 93,97
Richard 361,362,381
SABYN SABIN SABEAN [Bourton] 53
Ellen 58
Margery 232
Richard 58,186
Thomas 58,255
SHERMAN [Little Bourton] Alys 106 Besse 281 Henri 177 Johannis 255 John Snr 42 106 175 181 281 John Jnr 106 281 Jullian 281 Katherin 281 William 255 281
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