The information contained here, shows a CASWELL Moated building, near CARSWELL MARSH, and also near where one of the Caswell coat of Arms was found - Binfield. If you remember, my Hugh de Carswell (1284ad) probably came from this Carswell Marsh. We're getting closer!!!!!!!! :-) -----Original Message----- From: Wendy Archer <wharcher@btinternet.com> To: Mike Caswell <mike@caswellplating.com> Date: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 4:08 PM Subject: Fwd: Re: Oxfordshire; Ricards/Fermor >Hi Mike > >Is this of interest? I don't know how far east you're interested in CASWELLs >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Date: Wed, 14 Oct 98 15:07:24 + >From: Christopher Day >To: OXFORDSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: Oxfordshire; Ricards/Fermor > >The chapel of St Mary Magdalen was a chantry chapel (one of several) >situated within the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Witney. It >was in the church's south transept. Chantry chapels, as I'm sure you >know, where set up by individuals, families, or guilds as private >chapels for the offering up of masses and prayers for the souls of >the benefactors and their families. The Magdalen chapel in Witney >church seems to have had an association with Caswell House, a nearby >estate - a medieval moated house survives there. > >ed. JRH Weaver & A Birdwood, 'Some Oxfordshire Wills' (Oxfordshire >Record Society, vol. 39, 1958):- >p.37. Thomas Richards, alias Fermour, asks to be buried 'in the >chapel of St Mary Magdalen within the church of Witney...to the >building of the aisle of St MM in that church, called Caswell Aisle, >on the south side, #20'. (1485) >p.71. Dame Emote Farmer asks to be buried 'within the church of Our >Lady of Witney before the altar of Mary Magdalen beisde my husband >Thomas Farmer'. (1501) > >So far as I know, no records specific to the chapel survive or ever >existed. > >Chris Day > > >==== OXFORDSHIRE Mailing List ==== > >Cheers > >Wendy Archer >wharcher@btinternet.com Marlow, Bucks, UK > > >