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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

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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
Work to date

Report to Parish Council 2012/13

The History group remains well attended and enthusiastic. Several new members have joined our ranks over the year. Sadly we lost Andrew Haig who had been a  keen contributor. The 2012 annual talk was “The Titanic”; where the group assisted Malcolm Crawford in presenting his extensive knowledge of the subject and, in an exhibition the next day, his collection of…
alyson
April 6, 2014
Parish CouncilWork to date

Report to Parish Council 2013/14

The History group remains well attended and enthusiastic. We decided not to present a talk this year and have been concentrating on building up research for future years. The translations or transcriptions of old wills and documents going back to the 14C looks to be particularly interesting. One of our number has undertaken the role of “Village Recorder” in conjunction…
alyson
April 3, 2014
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