>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