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Azzabuv
This message was updated on 9/10/2005 6:45:11 PM by Azzabuv |
Shipley History
replied on: 12/23/2004 6:11:27 PM 1000 - ULF FENISC. Held under the Danelaw. 1086 - BRUN, held one Manor. 1086 - ODINCAR held the second Manor. 1086 + GISLEBERT de GAND (GILBERT of GHENT). 1086 + MALGER held it for Gislebert. 1086 + ROBERT de MUSKHAM as an under Tenant. Gislebert's steward. 1100 - HUGH de MUSKHAM, Robert's son. 1100 + ROBERT de MUSKHAM, Hugh's son. 1200 + Sir ROBERT le VAVASOUR. Owned one of the Manors. Given to him by Robert de Muskham, who died 1215, as a Knights fee, or part of. 1200 + NICHOLAS, son of John of Heanor. Held the second Manor of Oulegreve/Algrave. 1200 + Sir ROBERT le VAVASOUR, son of Sir Robert le Vavasour. Sheriff of Nottingham - 1246 to 1255. 1200 + WILLIAM le VAVASOUR. Married Matilda, widow of Hugh Strelley, of Mapperley. Died 1263. 1263 + ELIZABETH VAVASOUR. Inherited the Hall. c.1280, she married Sir ROBERT STRELLEY, of Strelley, died 1302. Robert's father had married Hebicabell, heiress of Oulegreve, so all of Shipley Estate now passed in to the hands of the Strelleys. 1302 - Sir ROBERT STRELLEY, Robert's son. Died 1350. 1350 - ROBERT STRELLEY, Robert's son. In 1352, Shipley Estate was recorded as being the single wealthiest estate in Derbyshire. 1354 - Sir SAMPSON STRELLEY, MP for Nottinghamshire and builder of Strelley Parish Church. Died 1390. 1400 - Sir NICHOLAS STRELLEY. Sampson's son. Died 1430, his will providing for two candles to be lit in the Hall's Chapel. 1430 - Sir ROBERT STRELLEY, son of Nicholas. He was Knighted after the battle of Agincourt - 1415. Died 1438. 1438 - Sir ROBERT STRELLEY, son of Robert, was a Lancastrian and MP for Nottinghamshire 1460-61. Died 17/01/1487. His tomb, with his wife Isobel, is in Strelley Parish Church. 1500 - JOHN STRELLEY, son of Robert. Died January, 1501, leaving four daughters as co-heiresses, - Anne, Margret, Elizabeth and Isobel. 1501 - Sir NICHOLAS STRELLEY, nephew of John, his lands becoming the subject of a massive legal suit. 1501 + Sir ANTHONY STRELLEY. Died 1596, leaving his family deep in debt. 1600 - Sir PHILIP STRELLEY. His only son died in infancy. Died 1607. 1607 - GEORGE STRELLEY, who, with his son Nicholas, was forced to sell Shipley Estate, to pay the Family debts off on 04/06/1608. Thus ended a 400 year single-line of inheritance 1608 - Sir GEORGE PECKHAM/PARKHAM, of Stanley Grange. His wife was Dorothy Poutrell. He cut and sold the majority of the trees surrounding the Hall, selling the Hall on 23/03/1626. 1626 - Sir EDWARD LECHE, of Wrotham, Maidstone, Kent, started the new ruling Family of the Hall. Died 1649. 1649 - Sir WILLIAM LECHE, of Westerham, Kent, son of Edward, inherited the Hall. 1682- JOHN LECHE, son of William, made John Fowle tenant of Shipley and Newmanleys. He married Elizabeth Duke in 1689. He died in May 1704. 1704 - HESTER LECHE. She married a Miller, of Wrotham c.1712. She was widowed 1716. 1719 - HESTER MILLER, an infant, born 1714, helped to govern by her Grandmother Elizabeth, who died 1739. Hester married Edward Mundy, who was born in 1706 and the third son of Robert Mundy, of Allestree. Hester and Robert both died 1767. 1767 - EDWARD MILLER MUNDY (the 1st). Born 1750, married thrice. Died 18/10/1822. 1822 - EDWARD MILLER (the 2nd) was born 1774. Died 1834. 1834 - EDWARD MILLER MUNDY (the 3rd). Born 10/11/1800, was sickly, never married and died in Barbados, 29/01/1849. 1849 - ALFRED MILLER MUNDY, Colonial Secretary of South Australia, returned to the Hall on his brother's death in Barbados. He held the Estate for 28 years. Died 09/03/1877. 1887 - ALFRED EDWARD MILLER MUNDY (The Squire). Died aged 71, - 15/04/1920. 1920 - GODFREY MILLER MUNDY. Sold the Estate to the Shipley Colliery Company in 1922. Azzabuv. |
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