Category Archives: People

Captain Lionel Reginald Everard West. Unit: 1st/8th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles). Death: 23 April 1915 Killed in Action by a shell-burst in a dug-out at Givenchy Western Front Photograph held by IWM see https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205390587 Lionel … Continue reading →

Col James KNELL is buried in churchyard at Wanborough, Surrey with the inscription “IN MEMORY OF MY/ BELOVED HUSBAND/ COLONEL JAMES KNELL/ ROYAL NETHERLAND HUSSARS/ BORN APRIL 26TH 1887/ DIED JULY 14TH 1945/ WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ENGLAND AND … Continue reading →

Thomas LARGE (-1640) of Camberwell Thomas LARGE married Elizabeth WHORWOOD. Also lived at Kingsley, Staffordshire but dwelling and assessed for tax in Camberwell. Brother Nathaniel LARGE with son Thomas LARGE (excluded as a beneficiary of Thomas’s Will). Brother in Law … Continue reading →

1608 Possible baptism 18th 1608 son of John BRADFOLD (siblings Robert 1601, William 1603, Katherine 1604, Elizabeth 1606, Joan 1621) (Note: Haslemere baptism register has gap 1611-20) 1639 Possible marriage 16th june 1639 Haslemere to Elizabeth CHITTY 1640 Elizabeth BRADFOLD wife … Continue reading →

Henry STRANTON baptised 9 Sep 1627 – Wanborough, St Bartholomew, Surrey, England, Father Oswald STRANTON.   Marriage to Ann CHEWTER 1 May 1655 at Ash/Holy Trinity Guildford. Buried at Ash, Surrey 11th  March 1661. Children Oswell STRANTON (baptised 1661) .

  I have been puzzled by to whom Eleanor GATTON married.  It should be an easy questions as there is a book “Memoirs of the Protectoral-house of Cromwell: Deduced from an Early Period, and Continued Down to the Present Time, Volume … Continue reading →

  Sources : National Archives file : C6/417/66 1705 Plaintiffs: Thomas Gibbson and John Jacob gent. Defendants: Sir John Germaine baronet and Mary Mordaunt (alias Mary Germaine) Lady Mordaunt of Turvey. Subject: The plaintiffs’ purchase of an estate formerly part of Henry … Continue reading →

In 1705 Thomas GIBSON with with John JACOB purchased Wanborough Manor as mortgagor. Born 16 March 1667 – 21 September 1744. Gibson was the fifth son of John Gibson of Welburn in Yorkshire,[1] whose ancestor Sir John Gibson had bought the manor of Welburn … Continue reading →

  Richard Sutton of Lothbury London, Scrivener and Banker,  is mentioned in the lease and release for Wanborough Manor in 1743. According the London Gazette (No15569)  1803 he was former partner of Thomas Gibson (deceased) and declared Bankrupt. London Gazette (No 15977) … Continue reading →

George Robert Comyn CHILTON Born 26 Dec 1825 Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England, married Frances Sophia STRONG. Frances S  was born 1833 Limpsfield, Surrey, died 3 February 1914. Probate London 25 April 1914 to Noel MIDDLETON barrister-at-law. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford … Continue reading →

Richard Lawson GALES Born 1863 Littlehampton, Sussex, England, son of Richard Smith GALES (House and Ship Owner) and Letitia M A GALES. On 1881 census Richard Lawson is listed living with his parents, 2 brothers, 3 sisters, and grandmother  at … Continue reading →

John Pearce Born 1865 Wiltshire. Vicar of Wanborough 1909 – 1946. Adm. pens. at Cambridge University ( CORPUS CHRISTI, Oct. 1, 1884.  Matric. Michs. 1884; B.A. 1888; M.A. 1894) Ord. deacon (Wakefield) 1890; C. of St Paul’s, Huddersfield, 1890-3. C. … Continue reading →

Born Quarter Jun 1874 – Holborn, London, Middlesex. Marriage Jun 1905 – Westminster, London, Middlesex J 77/1122/4047  Divorce Court File: 4047. Appellant: Genevieve Alix Marie Pyke. Respondent: Montagu Alexander Pyke. Type: Wife’s petition for divorce wd. 1913 Daily Express 9th … Continue reading →

PORTER, Herbert Cecil (Born 22 June 1865 Star Cross Devon – Died 22 April 1944) A memorial to him is located inside Wanborough church. Herbert Cecil PORTER lived at Wacom Edge, Wanborough from circa 1915 onwards. 1871 Census cite web|title=”1871 … Continue reading →

Pharamus de Bologne Faramus (Pharamus) De Boulogne died ABOUT 1183/1184. He was the son of William De Boulogne. Faramus (Pharamus) De Boulogne was baptized ADULT BY 1130. He AKA ‘de Tingry’, the Honor of Peverel of Dover, in 1157-1158. Held … Continue reading →

Born 1550 Died 1614 (sic?)  Name Murray, John 1E Tullibardine Notes Of James I Privy Chamber. Keeper of Privy purse in 1611. M.(1) Catherine (1564~) d/o David 2B Drummond Issue: William 2E Tullibardine(1574~1628) Patrick 3E Tullibardine (granted denization and annuity … Continue reading →

Source: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/haydon-michael-1550-1618 Perhaps it was Buckhurst who introduced Haydon to his son-in-law, Lord Montagu. At any rate Montagu was lord of the manor and borough of Midhurst, for which Haydon was returned to the last Parliament of the reign. By … Continue reading →

Born 1876 Seale Surrey. Listed 1891 census at White Lane Farm with parents Edward H HEWETT and Ruth HEWETT (nee BELGROVE) cite eb|title=RG12; Piece: 565; Folio 120; Page 38;   Listed 1901 census at White Lane Farm with parents Edward H … Continue reading →