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Follow up references to Cwengifu and Wingfield

I did a search for the name cwengifu and came up with this and in the appendix starting with p105 it talks about Queen's estates in later anglo saxon England. From the table it seems to indicate that in 1086 Cwengifu held her estate as a tenant originally from Queen Æthelflæd of Damerham, wife of Edmund. This is only an…
alyson
March 20, 2015
Lord of Manor

Manor

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alyson
February 17, 2015
Lord of ManorPeople

Thomas Essington of Brightwell

  As text:- Between the earlier Jermys,  Hewetts and Wingfields, and the later Barnardistons, the manors of Brightwell,  Foxhall and Kesgrave were owned for just ten years  by the Essingtons, a family with Gloucestershire origins. If this was a surprising interruption to the local succession, it was an even stranger interlude in the prosperous career of Thomas Essington, who like…
alyson
February 4, 2015
Survey

1656 background setting

Have attached a background to the land survey done in 1656. 1656 and all that background This sets the background to the political situation at the time and why one may have been done. Namely Thomas Essington thomas Essington of Brightwell bought the estate from Richard Wingfield. Not sure why he sold it but may have something to do with the Civil…
alyson
February 4, 2015
DocumentsGroupRecord Office

Suffolk Record Office – items to check 1940s-1960s

From Suffolk Record OfficeReferenceFC48/N2/1AddressGatacre Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 2LQLevelTitleParticulars of sale of the Brightwell EstateDateDescriptionSituated in the parishes of Lt. Bealings, Martlesham, Waldringfield, Brightwell, Newbourn, Foxhall, Bucklesham, ?Levington, Stratton Hall and Trimley St. Martin 27 Oct. 1942 FromSuffolk Record OfficeReferenceA2/3/1/4/2/473/109AddressGatacre Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 2LQLevelDoc Order NoA473/109TitleWaldringfield footpath surveyDate1951-1953DescriptionCorrespondence file and survey - National Parks and Access to the Countryside…
alyson
February 18, 2013
Group

The National Archives – waldringfield Not for current project

SourceURL: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/s/res/2?_q=waldringfield&_col=online Place name: Lesser Waldringfield, Suffolk. Folio: 315r Little Domesday Book. Domesday Placename Form: Minima Waldringafelda. ... Exchequer: Treasury of the Receipt: Domesday Book etc. Place name: Lesser Waldringfield, Suffolk. Folio: 315r Little Domesday Book. Domesday place name: Minima Waldringafelda. People mentioned within entire folio: Sokemen. Collection: Records of the Exchequer, and its related bodies, with those of the…
alyson
February 18, 2013
Group

The National Archives – L.Bragg letters

The National Archives | Access to Archives SourceURL: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=116-wlbragg_6-5&cid=8-148#8-148   Bragg to Ronson Products Ltd  W.L. BRAGG/57C/234  11 Dec. 1964 These documents are held at Royal Institution of Great Britain Contents: ¼ page, typescript Thanks them for letter and for new flex lead. Is enclosing the old lead, which is so loose that it drops out of the razor almost at a…
alyson
February 18, 2013
Roads & Paths

The Quay

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alyson
July 12, 2012
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Calendar of Patent Rolls

Introduction Search Calendar Patent Rolls enables searching of medieval records. Trying Waldringfield returned only an index entry so not sure what we can get from it.
alyson
April 28, 2012
MapsNotes

1839 Tithe Map and Apportionment

The 1839 Tithe Map was bought by a villager at a sale. It is 6ft wide by 4ft deep and printed on linen. The Suffolk Record Office have their own copy. We have scanned it and made some full size copies. Associated with the Tithe Map is the "Apportionment" which says who owned and used each piece of land. Surveyor…
alyson
March 4, 2011
Work to date

Summary of known history – Joe

Earliest Information. There is evidence to suggest that the Romans visited ‘Waldringfield' but there is no real evidence of a settlement. Roman artefacts have been found in the north field, to the south of the church. (more…)
alyson
January 9, 2008