Sorry, that should be LEVERS of power not leers. Liane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Liane Fenimore" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 2:16 PM Subject: Re: [BKM] Claydon House/HAMP > >From John Broad's 'Transforming English Rural Society: The Verneys and > >the > Claydons 1600-1820' is the following information: > > By 1789 the Verneys were effectively sole proprietors [in East Claydon] as > they had long been in Middle Claydon. In Steeple Claydon where the > Verneys > came to own about one third of the land... > > In 1811, MC has 129 inhabitants, EC had 309 and SC had 704. Broad says > that > because the Verneys owned less of SC more people were able to move in and > thus the population grew and reflected a large number of laborers, > butchers, > bakers, etc., as well as craftsmen and people in service. > > In MC in 1798 the seven farmers were all dairymen. There was one > cordwainer. > > He includes a chart from c 1770 that lists the parishes where the Verneys > held some land and they include: the 3 Claydons, Hogshaw, Grandborough, > Gt > Horwood, Grendon Underwood, Westbury, Biddlesden, Buckingham. The Verneys > all held property outside Buckinghamshire. > > Claydon House and Middle Claydon are part way between SC and EC, so George > Hamp must have worked on Verney property in East Claydon. There were a > lot > of dairy farms around. > > Broad: As the Verneys consolidated power and land ownership in EC along > lines already established in MC, they began to consider the area as a > single > entity. In all three parishes they controlled two of the three major > leers > of power - the church and parson, and the lordship of the manor. In East > and Middle Claydon they were also sole proprietors, while in SC the one > third of the parish that they owned was concentrated close to MC. In 1820 > the gamekeeper was licensed for the estate as a whole, covering the manors > of E, M, and SC. (So your cowman could have lived in EC but worked in MC) > > Broad's book is very interesting, especially if you have ancestors in > these > villages. Some of mine were dairy farmers in Grendon Underwood, others > lived in EC. > > Liane Fenimore > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "M. Hamp" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 11:44 AM > Subject: [BKM] Claydon House/HAMP > > >> Hi: >> >> I have researched Claydon House and the Verney's as my ggrandfather >> George Hamp (b.1839) was a "cowman on the Verney estate". For those of >> you who are familiar with the area, would you kindly tell me where the >> House was in relation to the estate as the House is listed as being in >> Middle Claydon and the estate is in East Claydon? >> >> Any further information or direction/links would be appreciated. >> >> Mary Jane Hamp >> Toronto, Canada >> >> HAMP, DANIEL, BALDWIN, BUTTON, GROVES, SCOTT, CHAMBERS, >> ELMER, TOMLINS, POUNEY (POWNEY), HAMPE >> >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to >> Yahoo! >> Answers. >> *************************************** >> >> BGS Website: http://www.bucksgs.org.uk/ >> BFHS Website: http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/ >> Bucks Genuki Website: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > *************************************** > > BGS Website: http://www.bucksgs.org.uk/ > BFHS Website: http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/ > Bucks Genuki Website: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message