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Anglo-Saxons
Before the Norman Conquest of 1066 the manor of Ladbroke was held by Leofwine, Ealdorman of the Hwicce (d. circa 1023), who had been granted it by King Æthelred the Unready in 998, together with lands in nearby Southam and Radbourn.

Normans
By the time of the Domesday Book of 1086 the manor of Ladbroke had been split into three main holdings, held in-chief from the king by three powerful noblemen, the Normans Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Count of Meulan (c. 1040/1050-1118) and Hugh de Grandmesnil (1032-1098) (both great landholders) and the Anglo-Saxon Turchil.

Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester (died 1190) married Petronilla de Grandmesnil, the daughter and heiress of William de Grandmesnil, and thus the "Leicester fee" absorbed the "Grandmesnil fee" at Ladbroke. The heir of the Earls of Leicester was Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester (d. 1219), after which the Leicester-Grandmesnil fee became known as the "Winchester fee", later inherited by William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby (c.1193-1254), on his marriage to the heiress Margaret de Quincy. Turchil's holding at Ladbroke descended to the Earls of Warwick, becoming known as the "Warwick fee".

The tenant of the overlords of both fees was the de Lodbroke family, which as was usual had taken their surname from their seat. A listing of the knight's fees of Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick (1313-1369) made in about 1320, states that "John de Lodbroke holds 1 fee; but he holds his chief messuage and all his land of the fee of Winchester, and all his tenants hold of the fee of Warwick". It was suggested by the Warwickshire historian Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686) that the first of the de Lodbroke family was a certain "William", listed as the Domesday Book tenant of both the Leicester and Warwick fees. However it has since been discovered that the first of the family was Mauger (de Lodbroke), who was granted the tenancy of the Leicester fee by Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104-1168) (called "le Bossu" (hunchback). The source of the information relates to a court case in 1262 between the Earls of Winchester and Warwick concerning a dispute over the ownership of the wardship of John de Lodbroke (son and heir of Henry de Lodbroke), during which the jury stated that Robert le Bossu, Earl of Leicester, gave the half-fee to Henry's ancestor Mauger, "before he had any other land in England". The descent of the estate of Ladbroke in the de Lodbroke family was as follows: de Lodbroke who married John Catesby of Flecknoe in Warwickshire, senior representative of that family.
 * Mauger (de Lodbroke), granted the estate by Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104-1168);
 * William de Lodbroke, brother and heir, revealed by the 1166 Cartae Baronum to have held one knight's fee from of the Earl of Warwick.
 * John de Lodbroke (d. pre-1242), grandson, who in 1207 and 1235 held one knight's fee from of the Earl of Warwick.
 * Henry de Lodbroke (d.1254/7), son, who married a certain Isabell; His younger son Henry de Lodbroke left a daughter and heiress Isabell
 * John de Lodbroke (d. circa 1310), a minor at his father's death, whose wardship was the subject of a dispute in 1260-2 between his overlords the Earls of Winchester and Warwick.
 * Sir Henry de Lodbroke (fl.1316/29), son, who married Lettice Arden;
 * Sir John de Lodbroke, son, who married Hawise Daventry, a daughter of Sir Robert Daventry; in 1344 is recorded as having held the estate from Henry Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby (1303–1343). In 1349 he released his rights in the manor of Ladbroke to William Catesby.

Kitley house is the former home of the Pollexfen family, who also had a residence at Mothecombe in Holbeton.

Descent see Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain ... By John Burke BASTARD, EDMUND-RodNEy-Pollexfen, Esq. of Kitley, Devonshire, b. 7 Sept. 1825; s. his father 8 June, 1838. 3.inragr. The family of Bastard has been seated in Devonshire ever since the Conquest. Robert Bastard appears in Domesday Book to have had large grants in that county. His descendants have intermarried with the heiresses of Crispin and of Killiowe, in the co. of Cornwall, and into the families of Fitz-Stephen, Besilles, Damarell, Gilbert, Reynell, Hele, and Bampfylde, and have at different periods served as sheriffs of the county. Their seat, for many generations was at Garston, near Kingsbridge, until, about the end of the seventeenth century, WILLIAM BAStARD, Esq., by marriage with the heiress of Pollexfen of Kitley, acquired that estate, which has since beens the family residence. His son, Poll ExPEN BASTARd, Esq. of Kitley, m. Lady Bridget Poulett, dau. of John, first Earl Poulett, and was s. at his decease, in 1733, by his eldest son, WILLIAM BAStARD, Esq. of Kitley. In 1779, a powerful French fleet appearing in the Channel, great alarm was excited for the safety of the dockyard and arsenal at Plymouth, on account of a large number of French prisoners confined there, for the removal of whom no troops could be spared from the garrison, already insufficient for the defence of the place. Mr. Bastard, as a reward for his services in conducting these prisoners to Exeter, assisted only by the gentry and peasantry of the neighbourhood whom he had collected on the occasion, was created a Baronet by his late Majesty. The title was gazetted in 1779, but has never been assumed. He m. Ann, dau. of Thomas worsley, Esq. of Ovingham, in the co, of York, and was s. at his decease, in 1782, by his elder son, John-Pollexfen BAStARD, Esq., M.P. for Devon, who m. Sarah, widow of — Wymondesold, Esq., of Lockinge, in the co. of Berks, by whom he acquired the estato belonging to that family, but dying without issue 4 April, 1816, he was s. by his brother, EDMUND BAstAnd, Esq., sometime M.P. for Dark mouth, who m. Jane, dau, and heiress of Captain Powholl, R.N., of Sharpham, Devon, and had issue, EDMUND-Pollexfen, his heir. John, of sharpham, capt. R.N., and M.P. for Dartmouth. who inherited the Powmoji estates. He m. Frances, dau. and co-heiress of Benjamin Wade, of the Grange, ". York, Esq., and d. 11 Jan. 1835. Philomen-Pownoll, in holy orders, m. Mary, eldest dau- of Mr. Justice Park. Mr. Bastard d. in 1816, and was s. by his son, EdwuNd pollexfen Bosono, Esq. of Kitley, Mo'. for Devon, b. 12 July, 1784, who mo.32 Jan. 1824, the second Baron Rodney, of Rodney Stoke, (by Anne, dau. and co-heiress of the Right Hon. Thomas Harley, of Berrington, in the co, of Hereford,) and had by her (who d. in 1833) three sons, EDMUND-Rodney-Pollexfen, now of Kitley. Baldwin-John-Pollexfen, b. 11 March, 1830. William-Pollexfen, b. 12 Jan. 1832.Mr. Bastard d. 8 June, 1838.Arms—Or, a chevron, az.Crest—A dexter arm, embowed, in plate armour, ppr., garnished, or, the elbow towards the sinister, the hand in a gauntlet, grasping a sword, also ppr., pommel and hilt, gold, in bend sinister, the point downw Motto—Pax potior bello.Seats—Kitley, near Yealmpton, and Buckland, near Ashburton, both in the county of Devon ; and Lockinge, Berkshire.

From: Kitley House built sometime between 1457 and 1509 by Thomas Pollexfen (pronounced Poulston) during the reign of Henry VII, it continued to be their ancestral home until Edmond Pollexfen died in 1710. It was then that Anne, the heiress to the Kitley Estate, married William Bastard of Gerston Manor, an Estate near to the Kingsbridge estuary.The present house was remodelled by the Bastards in the 1820’s from the previous house of 1710, and that in itself had been rebuilt from a house that stood here during the 16th century and traces of the original house can still be seen here in the basement. Built from granite and Plymouth ashlar limestone, the house is Tudor/Jacobean in its style of architecture and has been listed as Grade I by English Heritage.In 1783 Lt. Colonel Edmund Bastard married Jane Pownoll who inherited a fortune from her father Philemon Pownoll. Her father, a captain in the Royal Navy, had captured the Spanish galleon ‘Hermione’ during the Anglo-Spanish War in 1762 and claimed its cargo. His share of the prize money amounted to the sum of about £65,000 which equates to almost nine million pounds in todays money. The overall amount captured totalled, in those days, to over half a million pounds and that would be more than £70 million today. It’s possibly the largest haul ever claimed.On the Estate roughly half a mile away to the East of the main house is a plantation, here you will find a small quarry where ‘Kitley Green Marble’ was once quarried. During the 18th century, blasting within the quarry uncovered some caves. Finds within the caves included artifacts from the Stone Age and the Bronze Age along with 6000 year old human bones. The caves became a tourist attraction but closed to the public in 1999.Examples of this rare marble have been used in the Brompton Oratory in London and also in London there is an ornamental arch constructed of Kitley Green in the ‘Earth Galleries’ of the Natural History Museum.Sarah Catherine Martin. She was aunt to the Pollexfen-Bastard children and penned the famous nursery rhyme ‘The Comic Adventures of Old mother Hubbard and Her Dog’ in 1804. It’s assumed that the character of Old Mother Hubbard was based on the housekeeper.

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See HOP BASTARD, Edmund (1758-1816), of Sharpham House, nr. Totnes, Devon BASTARD, John Pollexfen (1756-1816), of Kitley, nr. Plymouth, Devon

See engraving of portrait by Reynolds of Anne Bastard (née Worsley)by James Macardell, after Sir Joshua Reynolds mezzotint, (1755-1757)12 7/8 in. x 8 7/8 in. (328 mm x 226 mm) plate size; 15 1/8 in. x 9 7/8 in. (383 mm x 251 mm) paper size Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931Reference Collection NPG D658

From: Devonshire & Cornwall Illustrated By John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, 1832 Kitley House, the delightful residence of Edmund Pollexfen Bastard, Esq. (one of the parliamentary representatives for this county),” is situated on a peninsular tract of land, formed by the estuary of the river Yealm, about seven miles south-eastward from Plymouth. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, this estate was possessed by the Pollexfens, but in consequence of the marriage of their heiress into the Bastard family, it became the property of the latter about the year 1710. William Bastard, Esq. grandson of the heiress of Pollexfen, and grandfather of the present owner of Kitley, was created a baronet in August, 1779, (when the combined fleet appeared off Plymouth,) for his public spirit and promptitude in raising 500 men within four days, as a corps of fencibles, to resist invasion. This honour was both conferred and gazetted, without Mr. Bastard's knowledge; but on its being announced to him in a letter from Earl Paulet, he modestly declined the intended title. The Bastards derive their descent from a Norman ancestor, who obtained extensive grants of land in this county, in the time of William the Conqueror. Kitley House underwent a complete repair, or rather renovation, a few years ago,under the direction of G. S. Repton, Esq. from whose tasteful combination of designs, it now assumes the character of a picturesque Mansion of the Elizabethan age. Nearly the whole exterior was rebuilt with Devonshire marble, and many of the rooms are entirely new ; but the grand staircase, which has a double ascent, producing a fine effect, was preserved. The principal entrance, which is in the eastern front, opens into a spacious hall, wainscotted, and ornamented with tinted and emblazoned windows. Great elegance is displayed in the internal decorations, and the library, and withdrawing-room, which are en suite, are adorned with scagliola columns, in imitation of yellow marble. Among the pictures in this Mansion are some of the most valuable works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, as well as others by the old masters of foreign schools. The grounds and plantations are judiciously laid out; and from various points, views are obtained of a diversity of rich scenery, including the estuary of the Yealm, with the uplands of Wembury and Revelstoke, near the sea. A small stream flows through the grounds, and, in one part, there is a limestone cavern of considerable extent.* He was chosen to succeed his late uncle John Pollexfen Bastard, Esq. who had been a member for the county of Devon during a period of thirty-seven years, in seven successive parliaments.

From: : Edmund Rodney Pollexfen Bastard, 1825-1856, During his short life, he died at the age of 31, he had ruffled the feathers of the “establishment” by converting to the Church of Rome in November 1850. son of Edmund Pollexfen Bastard and his wife, Anne Jane Rodney, (granddaughter of Admiral Rodney). repairs needed at his local parish church, St Bartholomew’s, Yealmpton. The Rev. H. J. Warner, Vicar of Yealmpton in his ‘A History of Yealmpton’, published in 1907 records that: rest of the cost (over £1,000) was borne by Mr E. R. P. Bastard. Mr Bastard “went over” to Rome, and the re-building of the church, together with what is now the Infant School, abruptly ceased.Edmund married Florence Mary Scroope, of Danby in November 1853 and he enjoyed a short marriage. Warner completes the story on Mr Bastard:   Mr Bastard died in 1856, and in 1860 the east window was inserted in token of the esteem in which he was held by the parishioners. The contributions exceeding the cost of the window, the smaller (south) window in the chancel ( second memorial window, south chancel, Yealmpton, 1858 ) was added to the memorial, and bears the following inscription: “The Eastern Window of this Chancel was erected by his friends and neighbours, alike rich and poor, to the singularly beloved memory of Edmund Rodney Pollexfen Bastard, of Kitley, who restored and beautified this church in 1851. He departed this life June 12th, aged 31 years.”

framed advert in the hallway documents one of Kitley’s past guises: the manor house, once part of a vast estate, was frequently rented out to London gentry for seasonal shooting parties.

Josephine Bastard, who died 19 June, 2015, was the widow of John Bastard, head of that landed gentry family, seated at Kitley, Yealmpton, co Devon. She was the former Josephine Ernestina Dennistoun-Webster, youngest daughter of Capt Robert Peel Dennistoun-Webster, DSC, RN, of Winstone Cottage, Brixton, near Plymouth, co Devon, and married 10 Dec, 1946, John Rodney Pollexfen Bastard (1921-82), son of Col. Reginald Bastard, DSO (1880-1960), by his wife the former Lilias Summers. Mrs Bastard leaves issue, two sons, Michael (b.1949) & Rodney (b.1956 ), & a daughter, Joanna/ Her husband died 16 Jul, 1982.Funeral at St Bartholemew's Church, Yealmpton, Thursday 25 June, 2015.

Michael Rodney Pownall Bastard, Date of birth February 1949 director 2013-16 of THE YEALMPTON WOODLAND BURIAL ASSOCIATION (co no 08720211), Correspondence address:   Kitley Estate Office, Yealmpton, Plymouth, England, PL8 2LT Occupation Farmer In 1970 at Kensington, London, he married Adelaide F. Nevins

Kitley House and the 600 acre estate are today owned by James Bastard (b.February 1972 ) (known as "Spike"), a former music business entrepreneur who owns several companies in Ghana and who first visited the house as a child to visit his grandmother. In 2019 he stated "my plan is to put down my roots here in Devon. I feel I’ve come home". Spike also owns and manages the hotel and wedding venue business, which in 2018 he repurchased from Stan Cooney, the previouse lessee (an Ireland-based sole director of Yealmpton Hospitality Ltd, which trades as Kitley House Hotel and Restaurant), the last of three holders of the lease granted by the Bastard family in 1996. The hotel has 19 bedrooms.

Spike is the president of the annual Yealmpton Agricultural Show, held on the estate on the last Wednesday in July since the late 19th century. A major refurbishment programme commenced in June 2018, when the mile-long driveway was flattened and resurfaced, with planned work including repainting throughout, cleaning the exterior stonework and converting the Morning Room into a lounge.





William de Cantilupe (1344-1375) married Maud Neville, daughter and heiress of Sir Phillip Nevill (d.1353) of Brampton, Lincolnshire; and Enderby,co. Leic Scotton and Malmeton, co. Linc. Parkhall and Moreton, co. Derb and Limethyft, co. Devon. (See also: The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester v.4 pt.1. Nichols, John, 1745-1826, Neville info on pgs, 156-161, pedigree 167 ) ( Maud and her lover are said to have murdered Sir William Cantelupe in 1375 (Roskell, 1992, Vol.2, pp.449-450). ) Maud married secondly Sir Thomas Kydale and thirdly Sir John Bussy, MP for Lincs and Speaker of the Commons, beheaded 1399. Maud and her lover are said to have murdered Sir William Cantelupe in 1375 (Roskell, 1992, Vol.2, pp.449-450). There is a detailed account of the trial following the murder of Sir William Cantlpe in 1375 in Rosamund Sillem, ed., Some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire: 1360-1375, Lincoln Record Society, 30 (1937), Introduction, section VII, pp.LXV-LXXII

Maud de Neville, husband of Sir William de Cauntelou was one of the sixteen people accused of his murder, or complicity in it. Sillem presumes that she and Thomas de Kydale, sheriff of Lincoln in 1374-75 and 1377-78, were lovers and conspired to murder William. Kydale's position helped to ensure that Maud and most of the other accused were acquitted. Two of William's servants were found guilty and executed. pp.141 et seq details of trial[]

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re Nicholas de Cantilupe (d.1371): From Rod Collins[] Katherine's panic was that her new hero had no external genitals! Here we have it in her own evidence as related by her father to the court at York:

"Katarinam referre quod sepius temptavit manibus suis cum jacuit in lecto cum dicto Nicholao et ipse dormiebat locum genitalium dicti Nicholai et quod nulla palpare nee invenire potuit ibidem et quod locus in quo genitalia sua deberent esse est ita planus sicut manus hominis."

In plain English it states that as he was showing no signs of sexual interest in her she waited until he fell asleep; she then felt with her hand in order to arouse him. To her horror all was smooth where his genitalia should have been as obvious as a man's hand! :shock:

It seems that Sir Nicholas had a condition which today we term 'male pseudo-hermaphroditism ' This affects roughly one in six thousand male babies born. Apart from the height and voice characteristics, the adult cannot satisfactorily pro-generate and tends to die young. Sir Nicholas died at the age of 29.





Kirkham Chantry Screen

"Spectacular late C15 chantry chapel, the best in Devon outside Exeter Cathedral, identified by Prince as being the chantry of the Kirkham family of Blagdon" (https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101195097-parish-church-of-st-john-the-baptist-roundham-with-hyde-ward)

"The main entrance into the church is through a re-set Norman doorway, and just inside is a glass cabinet which holds the Treacle Bible. Its unusual name is taken from a reading in the Book of Jeremiah – “Is there not treacle at Gilhead”. In actual fact the word is spelt Triacle and is another word for balm. There is more than one Treacle Bible around and so it’s not unique in that sense, but it’s also a Bishop’s Bible, which makes this particular copy a rare example and has been around since 1572. The Bible was actually discovered in the Kirkham Chantry" (http://www.easymalc.co.uk/old-paignton/)

Sources:
 * Rushforth, G. McN., The Kirkham Monument in Paignton Church, Devon, A Study in Madiaeval Iconography and in Particular of the Mass of St Gregory, with 9 plates, reprinted from Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural and Archaeological Society, Vol 15, 1927, Exeter, 1927

Gilbert de Neville (d.1166/9) feudal baron of Ashby, Lincolnshire. He founded the Abbey of Tupholme, Lincolnshire, in honour of the Annunciation.

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Anthony Upton (1621-1669) was a Devonshire-born English wine merchant at Puerto Santa Maria, near Seville, in Spain, in which business he was a partner with Henry Rumbold (1617–1690), a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, Consul of Malaga, San Lucar, and Seville, who was succeeded as a partner by Sir Benjamin Bathurst. His mural monument survives in St Mary's Church, Brixham, Devon.

Origins
He was the third son of John Upton (1590-1641) of Lupton, four times a Member of Parliament for Dartmouth in Devon (2 1/2 miles south-west of Lupton) at various times between 1625 and 1641, by his wife Dorothy Rous (d.1644) (alias Rowse), a daughter of Sir Anthony Rous of Halton in Cornwall, and sister of Francis Rous (1579-1659), MP. Anthony's eldest brother was Arthur Upton (1614-1662) of Lupton, a Member of Parliament for Devon in 1654 and 1656 during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. Anthony's nephew was John Upton (d.1687) of Lupton, a Member of Parliament for Dartmouth from February 1679 to August 1679.

Career
Anthony Upton lived in Spain for about 30 years where he was a successful wine merchant. His partner Rumbold obtained intelligence from him concerning the movements of Blake's fleet (1656–1657) which he communicated to the Royal Court of Madrid, and used the interest which he thus made to facilitate the recognition of Henry Bennet (afterwards Lord Arlington) [q. v.] as the accredited representative of the king of England (1658). Through Bennet's influence Rumbold obtained on the Restoration the consulate of Cadiz and Puerto Sta Maria; and while holding this post Rumbold provisioned, at his own risk, Lord Sandwich's fleet and the town of Tangier during the interval between the cession of that place to the British crown and its occupation.

Will
His will was dated at Seville in 1669 mentions Christopher Boone (c.1615-1686) of Lee, West Kent, born in Taunton, Somerset, a Member of the Merchant Taylors Company, whose factor he was at Seville.

Death & burial
He had been persuaded by his brothers to return to England for a family reunion. Before that time he died and as he requested his body was shipped back to England in a vessel "clad in mourning-attire" (Howe). He was buried in Brixham Church, where survives his mural monument, the parish church of Lupton. His relative the Puritan priest Rev. John Howe (1630-1705) dedicated a theological tract dated 1671, entitled "The Vanity of Man as Mortal", prompted by the death of Anthony Upton ("whose death gave the occasion of the ensuing meditations" (Howe)), to his brother John Upton (d.1687) of Lupton. The dedication was addressed to: "The deservedly honoured John Lupton of Lupton, Esq., with the many surviving branches formerly sprung out of that religious family and the worthy consorts of any of them"

Howe had attended the funeral and burial of Anthony Upton, where he met another of their relatives who told him that he had received a premonition of Anthony's death, and that the words of Psalm 89, verses 47-8, had spontaneously come into his mind and had occupied his thoughts for some time before the sad news was received. This premonition became of much interest to other family members at the funeral, and a few months later they asked Howe to write a tract expanding on the significance of the Psalm in question. Howe later duly wrote the tract, entitled "The Vanity of Man as Mortal" and explained as follows in the dedication to John Upton (Anthony's brother) the circumstances of its composition:
 * ''"After this your near relation (whose death gave the occasion of the ensuing meditations) had from his youth lived between twenty and thirty years of his age in Spain, your joint-importunity had at length obtained from him a promise of returning; whereof, when you were in somewhat a near expectation, a sudden disease in so few days landed him in another world, that the first notice you had of his death or sickness, was by the arrival of that vessel (clad in mourning-attire) which, according to his own desire in his sickness, brought over the deserted body

to its native place of Lupton; that thence it might find a grave, where it first received a soul; and obtain a mansion in the earth, where first it became one to a reasonable spirit. A little before this time, the desire of an interview among yourselves (which the distance of your habitations permitted not to be frequent) had induced divers of you to appoint a meeting at some middle place, whereby the trouble of a long journey might be conveniently shared among you. But, before that agreed resolution could have its accomplishment this sad and most unexpected event intervening, altered the place, the occasion, and design of your meeting; but effected the thing itself, and brought together no less than twenty, the brothers and sisters of the deceased, or their consorts; besides his many nephews and nieces and other relations, to the mournful solemnity of the interment. Within the time of our being together upon this sad account, this passage of the Psalmist here insisted on, came into discourse among us; being introduced by an occasion, which (though then, it may be unknown to the most of you) was somewhat rare, and not unworthy observation; namely, that one of yourselves having been some time before surprised with an unusual sadness, joined with an expectation of ill tidings, upon no known cause, had so urgent an inculcation of those words, as not to be able to forbear the revolving them much of the former part of that day, in the latter part whereof the first notice was brought to that place of this so near a relation's decease. Certain months after, some of you with whom I was then conversant in London, importuned me to have somewhat from me in writing upon that subject. Whereto I at length agreed, with a cautionary request, that it might not come into many hands, but might remain (as the occasion was) among yourselves.

Monument, Brixham Church
His mural monument survives in Brixham Church inscribed as follows:

Nethway is an historic estate in the historic ecclesiastical parish of Brixham (St Mary's Church) and in the modern civil parish of Kingswear in Devon.

1905 postcard image

Baroque wall monument to Gilbert Hody (d. 1705), has heraldic cartouche set in broken scrolled pediment with angels set above oval cartouche framed by Tuscan columns with richly carved rosettes and sways. & see Hoskins, p.318

Nethway House Broad Road Kingswear Dartmouth TQ6 0EE

Russell, P. + Yorke, G., 1953, Kingswear and its Neighbourhood, 66 (Article in Serial). SDV176862.

Kittery Court, Kingswear. Comprises at least ten separate properties brought together since 1717, including houses and warehouses and the site of manorial property cleared for a garden in 1875. The house itself was bought by John Fownes of Nethway in 1717, then called Kittery House or Barnes House.

All was quiet for the next 12 months of the “phoney” war and quite a few of the evacuees returned to their homes. Various large houses in Kingswear were requisitioned, including The Priory, The Beacon, Inverdart, The Mount, Mount Ridley, Brookhill, Kingswear Court, Nethway House and the Redoubt (now Kingswear Park). In 1941 the Germans were raiding Plymouth regularly and Nethway House was taken over by Plymouth City and a children’s home was moved there. As far as I can remember the children were between 4 -12 years old. They were very lucky, because bombs aimed at the Radar Station dropped in the next field.(Reg Little, Kingswear Historian – Blog (1927 – 2016) Reminiscences of a lifetime in Kingswear & Dartmouth )

The Fownes also owned (built?) Nethway House, Kingswear, dating from 1689, where a 1st cousin of mine (several times removed), John Brooking, lived in the nineteenth century.

COLE, John IV (b.c.1376), of Nethway, Devon. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993, MP Devon 1417, 1423

Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Devon, England,21 Jul 1855 BIRTHS. BROOKING.—JuIy 17, Nethway House, Devon, the wife of John Brooking, Efcq., solicitor, and Town-clerk of Dartmouth, of son.

BIRTHS. BROOKING.—JuIy 17, Nethway House, Devon, the wife of John Brooking, Efcq., solicitor, and Town-clerk of Dartmouth, of son

Helen went to work at a residential nursery in Nethway House, Residential Nursery, Devon, looking after very young evacuees from Plymouth. She remained here until 1945 when she moved

lynne maurer - vice chairman Councillor Telephone: 01803 752491 Email: lynnemaurer@gmail.com Nethway House, Broad Road, Kingswear, Devon TQ6 0EE

Humphrey Hody (1659 – 20 January 1707) was an English scholar and theologian. See Lysons, General history: Families removed since 1620: Hody, of Netheway, in Brixham. — Sir John Hody, of Stowel, in Somersetshire, acquired this place in marriage with the heiress of Cole, who had a residence also at Pillesdon, in Dorsetshire; his son, Sir John Hody, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, married the heiress of Jewe, of Whitfield, and Beerhall, in Devon; the posterity of his elder son continued at Netheway for several descents. John Hody, Esq., sold Netheway in 1696, and left Devon. Edmund Hody, M. D., of this branch, was of London in 1750. Hugh and Arthur, two younger sons of Christopher Hody, Esq., of Netheway, who wrote their name Huddy, were of Brixham in 1620: the co-heiresses of Hugh married Burland, of Dorsetshire, and Hody, of Northover, in Somersetshire. Sir William Hody, second son of the Lord Chief Justice, was Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and ancestor of the Hody's of Pillesdon, in Dorsetshire, and Crewkerne, in Somersetshire. Robert Hody, Esq., who was of Crewkerne in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, had two sons; John, the elder, who was of Beer-hall, (Thorncombe,) in Devon, left an only daughter married to Bowditch; the next son was ancestor of the Hodys, of Northover, in Somersetshire; of which branch was the learned Dr. Humphry Hody, archdeacon of Oxford, who died in 1706. Arms of Hody: — Argent, a fesse party, per fesse indented, V. and S. between two cottises counterchanged. Crest: A bull passant, Argent.

Other
http://www.maidenheadcivicsoc.org.uk/news/newsletters/2013/NFeb13.pdf

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