BUCKERIDGE - Person Sheet
BUCKERIDGE - Person Sheet
Notes for William Lawrence Buckeridge Wallis
Dear Family,
I was trying to confirm the full name and spelling of the current resident of the St. MAry’s /Wallis Manor in Chittene. I was also trying to learn if my ancestor George Wallis ever really lived at the Manor. He lived somewhere in Chitterne at the time he married in 1841. Sue Robinson, the historian in Chitterne whom I think all of yoiu know, has just responded with the info in quotes about the name and where the family frist lived. She said to me previously that the Wallises in Thatcham sold gravel from the property in Thatcham. That evidently is what Laurence told her. Her comments are in black.
“Kay. I learned of the Thatcham Wallis's gravel dealings from Laurence when I interviewed him about local history about 4 years ago, before he became so ill.... The other thing Laurence told me that may answer one of your questions was that his earliest ancestor in Chitterne lived at Well Cottage, I think I've put that on my page on the Wallis family, if not, I certainly meant to. Well Cottage (it is on my map) is in St. Mary's parish, so explains why the early ones are buried in the St Mary graveyard. The parish boundary ran down the middle of Bidden Lane.” (See below for her article on the Wallis family, which I am sure you all have read .)
“Laurence's first name is definitely William, William Laurence Buckeridge Wallis is his full title. (I'm not sure how he spells the Laurence) Janet also has another name before the Janet, it starts with C, but I don't know what it stands for. Possibly Charlotte, like her mother?”
The following is a copy of Sue’s item re the Wallises. They were evidently there in the 17th century. But I question where our ancestors lived when they went to Chitterne in 1823. DO ANY OF YOU KNOW WHERE THEY LIVED WHEN THEY MOVED THERE in 1823 and until Mary Buckeridge Wallis died in 1844?? Ken recently provided me with a copy of Rupert Lionel Wallis’ pedigree. Rupert states that William IV lived first in Thatcham and then in Foxcott 1808-1823 and then went to St. Mary’s Chitterne. Rupert shows Mary b. 1809 and John Buckeridge Wallis b.1811 in Andover and the rest of the children born in Foxcott, as I shared with you from the Winchester records office. Our William IV died at an early age in 1825 so he did not live long in Chitterne if he just moved there in 1823. Does anyone know any family history of what William IV did other than farming? As his widow Mary Buckeridge W. had 9 children, to my count, to raise they must have lived in a large house and continued farming or something. Please tell me what you know about the family of William IV as that is the ancestor we all have in common.
The Wallis's have lived in Chitterne since the 17th century and in the Manor house of Chitterne St Mary for over 150 years.
The family tradition says that the first Wallis, a gentleman, arrived in the village around 1635 and then disappeared! Then, around 1670, a second Wallis, a wheelwright and carpenter, arrived and settled at Well Cottage in Bidden Lane. He was the ancestor of the Chitterne Wallis family.
From my own brief research I found a John Wallis, and a William Wallis both leasing land and property in Chitterne in the 1750's from Norton Powlett (Paulet), the owner. John, said to be from Amport near Andover in Hampshire in 1752 and William (origin unknown) in 1755. John had a son also called John, but William became the favoured family name given to the eldest son of each generation.
During the 19th century, two such eldest sons called William each had a wife called Mary, leading to plenty of confusion for researchers, but nowadays each eldest son is known by his second name, a definite improvement! Eldest sons of the family are also christened with a third name, Buckeridge. This is given to seal the gift of a place reserved at St John's College, Oxford (should the son be sufficiently academic), bestowed by Bishop Buckeridge of Ely, an ancestor and one of the founders of that college.
Later the family became brewers and maltsters, landlords of the local public house, the King's Head, and grew their own barley. A 1910 tax made malting uneconomic and from that time the family concentrated on farming.
In 1851 William Wallis rented the Manor and 460 acres of land from Lord Long, who then owned most of Chitterne. This William, and his wife Mary (nee White), had 17 children and it was said at the time that there were enough Wallis's and Bazells (a family with 13 children from Clump Farm nearby), to make a football team. Inevitably, in an isolated village like Chitterne, the Wallis family became connected to other local farming families through marriage. The three I know of are, Eliza Wallis and John Titt (of Elm Farm - see John Wallis Titt); Emily Lavington (of Clump Farm) and George Wallis; and Louisa Compton (whose brother farmed Glebe Farm) and Mark Wallis.
At the end of the first World War Frederick Wallis took up a mortgage to buy the Manor and land from Lord Long. The mortgage was not paid off until Frederick's son Victor's time.
Today the Manor stands on high ground overlooking the old parish of Chitterne St Mary. It is a beautiful 17th century red brick house with stone-mullioned windows, stone tiled roof and a heavy, riveted oak front door. The house used to be in the plan of an H, but the right side wing was demolished in the 19th century. There is purported to be a tunnel running from the Manor's cellars to the site of another old house, now demolished, that once stood on the present day village Sportsfield.
I was trying to confirm the full name and spelling of the current resident of the St. MAry’s /Wallis Manor in Chittene. I was also trying to learn if my ancestor George Wallis ever really lived at the Manor. He lived somewhere in Chitterne at the time he married in 1841. Sue Robinson, the historian in Chitterne whom I think all of yoiu know, has just responded with the info in quotes about the name and where the family frist lived. She said to me previously that the Wallises in Thatcham sold gravel from the property in Thatcham. That evidently is what Laurence told her. Her comments are in black.
“Kay. I learned of the Thatcham Wallis's gravel dealings from Laurence when I interviewed him about local history about 4 years ago, before he became so ill.... The other thing Laurence told me that may answer one of your questions was that his earliest ancestor in Chitterne lived at Well Cottage, I think I've put that on my page on the Wallis family, if not, I certainly meant to. Well Cottage (it is on my map) is in St. Mary's parish, so explains why the early ones are buried in the St Mary graveyard. The parish boundary ran down the middle of Bidden Lane.” (See below for her article on the Wallis family, which I am sure you all have read .)
“Laurence's first name is definitely William, William Laurence Buckeridge Wallis is his full title. (I'm not sure how he spells the Laurence) Janet also has another name before the Janet, it starts with C, but I don't know what it stands for. Possibly Charlotte, like her mother?”
The following is a copy of Sue’s item re the Wallises. They were evidently there in the 17th century. But I question where our ancestors lived when they went to Chitterne in 1823. DO ANY OF YOU KNOW WHERE THEY LIVED WHEN THEY MOVED THERE in 1823 and until Mary Buckeridge Wallis died in 1844?? Ken recently provided me with a copy of Rupert Lionel Wallis’ pedigree. Rupert states that William IV lived first in Thatcham and then in Foxcott 1808-1823 and then went to St. Mary’s Chitterne. Rupert shows Mary b. 1809 and John Buckeridge Wallis b.1811 in Andover and the rest of the children born in Foxcott, as I shared with you from the Winchester records office. Our William IV died at an early age in 1825 so he did not live long in Chitterne if he just moved there in 1823. Does anyone know any family history of what William IV did other than farming? As his widow Mary Buckeridge W. had 9 children, to my count, to raise they must have lived in a large house and continued farming or something. Please tell me what you know about the family of William IV as that is the ancestor we all have in common.
The Wallis's have lived in Chitterne since the 17th century and in the Manor house of Chitterne St Mary for over 150 years.
The family tradition says that the first Wallis, a gentleman, arrived in the village around 1635 and then disappeared! Then, around 1670, a second Wallis, a wheelwright and carpenter, arrived and settled at Well Cottage in Bidden Lane. He was the ancestor of the Chitterne Wallis family.
From my own brief research I found a John Wallis, and a William Wallis both leasing land and property in Chitterne in the 1750's from Norton Powlett (Paulet), the owner. John, said to be from Amport near Andover in Hampshire in 1752 and William (origin unknown) in 1755. John had a son also called John, but William became the favoured family name given to the eldest son of each generation.
During the 19th century, two such eldest sons called William each had a wife called Mary, leading to plenty of confusion for researchers, but nowadays each eldest son is known by his second name, a definite improvement! Eldest sons of the family are also christened with a third name, Buckeridge. This is given to seal the gift of a place reserved at St John's College, Oxford (should the son be sufficiently academic), bestowed by Bishop Buckeridge of Ely, an ancestor and one of the founders of that college.
Later the family became brewers and maltsters, landlords of the local public house, the King's Head, and grew their own barley. A 1910 tax made malting uneconomic and from that time the family concentrated on farming.
In 1851 William Wallis rented the Manor and 460 acres of land from Lord Long, who then owned most of Chitterne. This William, and his wife Mary (nee White), had 17 children and it was said at the time that there were enough Wallis's and Bazells (a family with 13 children from Clump Farm nearby), to make a football team. Inevitably, in an isolated village like Chitterne, the Wallis family became connected to other local farming families through marriage. The three I know of are, Eliza Wallis and John Titt (of Elm Farm - see John Wallis Titt); Emily Lavington (of Clump Farm) and George Wallis; and Louisa Compton (whose brother farmed Glebe Farm) and Mark Wallis.
At the end of the first World War Frederick Wallis took up a mortgage to buy the Manor and land from Lord Long. The mortgage was not paid off until Frederick's son Victor's time.
Today the Manor stands on high ground overlooking the old parish of Chitterne St Mary. It is a beautiful 17th century red brick house with stone-mullioned windows, stone tiled roof and a heavy, riveted oak front door. The house used to be in the plan of an H, but the right side wing was demolished in the 19th century. There is purported to be a tunnel running from the Manor's cellars to the site of another old house, now demolished, that once stood on the present day village Sportsfield.