TITLE

The History of the Hawtrey Family (2 Vols) 1903

contains references to: the places of: ALGARKIRK,  CHEQUERS, RUISLIP, FALMOUTH, CANTERBURY,  PORTSMOUTH, SHERBORNE, MAIDSTONE, CORFE CASTLE, SANDERSTEAD and PINNER. and the familes of SLEECH and WATSON .

Contains many family letters.

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AUTHOR

Florence Molesworth HAWTREY child of John & Ann; Weslyan Minister born 1827 JANUARY, 18th, Sherborne, Died 1905 Windsor

PUBLISHED

GEORGE ALLEN, 156, CHARING CROSS ROAD, London

DESCRIPTION (From part of the Books own introduction)

Being the youngest of a large family most of whom have passed away before me, I have become the recipient of a number of old papers and letters, with the help of which, and of my own recollections, journals, and notes from the recollections of my sister, Anna Hawtrey, I may be able to make a sketch of some of the members of my family interesting, at all events, to the children of my brothers and sisters, and possibly to others. Amongst the papers mentioned above, which have come into my hands, is one written, or rather begun years ago, probably in 1875, by my sister. I give it, with but little alteration, as I find it.

FRAGMENT LEFT BY ANNA HAWTREY " My dear nephews and nieces" (she writes), " one of you asked me a question about your grandfather a short time ago, which led me to think how rapidly the past is forgotten. I determined at once to begin what I have long thought about—a history of your ancestors, including this dear grandfather, who well deserved to be remembered. " I wish to make it as far as possible an interesting history —not a dull pedigree; I want you not to think of names, but of people. To this end I do not intend to begin at the beginning, or at this time to say much about your more remote ancestors, but to give you the history of the younger branch of the family from which you descend, from the time when they became distinct from the elder branch. "But first, in order that you may be able to believe what I say, I must tell you that it is quite possible to ascertain the history of private families. You know it can be done in the case of royal families, or there could be no authentic histories; it is not so easy in the case of private families, but a great deal may be done. There are records of undoubted authority kept at the Heralds' College, the Record Office, the British Museum, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and all these places have been visited by my eldest brother. There he has examined MSS. of perfect authority, ancient books in which are to be found copies of monumental inscriptions now effaced by time, old histories of the foundation of monasteries, and other things of this kind; but especially the MSS. of the Heralds' visitations. Of later—that is, for the last 250 years—the records of Eton College, and of King's College, Cambridge, supply valuable information; and when you add to this, parish registers, monumental brasses and inscriptions, and old family parchments, deeds, wills, letters, inventories, of which there is quite a large collection in the old chests at Ruislip, I think you will agree with me that there may well be sufficient evidence of what I am going to tell you. "Let me then begin by introducing you to Ralph Hawtrey, who was born in the year 1495. He was the fourth son of Thomas Hawtrey of Chequers in Buckinghamshire, a property which at this time had been for about 250 years in the family. It had been acquired by the marriage of Sir William de Alta Ripa, Dawtrey, or Hawtrey, of Algarkirk in Lincolnshire, with the heiress of Sir Ralph de Chequers, Lord of Ellesborough. " I went to see this beautiful old place last summer. The house, somewhat in the Elizabethan style, was rebuilt in 1566 by William Hawtrey, nephew to the Ralph above mentioned, our direct ancestor." Though many changes have come over the old house, many of the rooms continue unaltered in their material features. "The grounds are most picturesque and beautiful. The house is in a shady valley sheltered by the Chiltern Hills. The 'Velvet Lawn/ the 'Happy Valley,' the * Silver Springs,' are names given to different parts of the grounds; there are some very old trees — an elm called ' King Stephen's Tree,' and some very old yews. " The name of Hawtrey at Chequers ceased with the granddaughters of the above-mentioned William Hawtrey. They were three co-heiresses; the second daughter, Bridget, carried the estate of Chequers into the Croke family, from whence it passed by descent through the Thurbanes, Rivetts, Russels, Russel-Greenhills, into the possession of the present family of Sir Robert Frankland Russel. The traces of the Hawtreys still left at Chequers are a large picture of Sir William Hawtrey, son to the William who rebuilt the house, and his wife—this picture is in the drawing-room—also there is one of their daughter, Bridget (Lady Croke), and one of her son; the whole coat-of-arms of the Hawtreys in stained glass in...


Contain several trees, and portraits.

LANGUAGE: English

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