Home Ownership - 16 Great Green

The table below gives details about who owned and occupied the house. The sources for information vary; the records pre 1800 are mainly manor court rolls. Every time a property changed hands, even between family members, the transaction had to be recorded at the manorial court. The names of those who surrendered and those who were admitted and the entry fines they paid were written in the rolls of parchment by the clerk. An entry fine was paid to the lord of the manor and the new owner was given a written copy of the transaction, hence the term copyhold.

All records were in abbreviated medieval latin until 1752 except for a short period during the commonwealth between 1650 and 1660.Freehold property is rarely mentioned but can sometimes be found in the manor rentals. It is difficult to trace the history of a house as addresses are never given ad therefore the only way is to use the owners name or very occasionally the name of the house.

Post 1800 there are many more sources of information although actual addresses are not used until mid 20th century. One method of identifying a house in the records is by the description of the land that went with it or the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor which often didn’t change over a hundred years.

The table is arranged over five columns. The first gives the year of the record and the second is the source document sometimes with a reference number. The next two columns record the transfer of ownership and the occupier of the property. Click on the names to link to the people database. Sometimes there is no link to the database so go to the people page on the top navigation bar and simply type in the name you are searching for. The search function returns all documents where the name searched for appears in that document. Click on a name match to view the document in which that name appears. When viewing a record that contains other names, it is possible to perform a new search on that name by clicking on the name link.

The last column shows information about the property and any comments.

Date Source Owner/Buyer Occupier Comment
1663 1663 Hearth tax Bennit  Collison Parkinson
1694 manor court book Bennit  Collison transfered ownership to Joan Constable and Elizabeth Burrows Thomas Stringer Messuage on Great Green.Joan and Elizabeth are his married daughters.
1705 manor court book Joan Constable transfered ownership to Thomas Wilshere Thomas Stringer Messuage on Great Green
1727 1727 pollbook Thomas Wilshire Of Pirton Herts  
1734 1734 pollbook Thomas Wilshire Of Pirton Herts  
1744 manor court book Thomas Wilshire Of Pirton transfered ownership to Edward Wilshere Messuage on Great Green
1754 1754 pollbook Edward Wilshire Of Croyden Camb John Hobbs
1784 1784 pollbook Edward Wilshire Of Croyden Camb Widow Dawson
1802 manor court book Edward Wilshire transfered ownership to John King Messuage on Great Green
1811 1811 owners John King Wm King,John King Cottage And Garden
1818 1818 enclosure John King  House,Garden And Orchard
1824 manor court book John King transfered ownership to James King
1832 register of electors  James King  James King Near Great Green,  house and land copyhold
1833 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green,  house and land copyhold
1834 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green,  house and land copyhold
1835 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green,  house and land copyhold
1836 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green,  house and land copyhold
1837 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green,  house and land copyhold
1838 register of electors  James King    Davies Near Great Green,  house and land copyhold
1839 register of electors  James King    Davies Near Great Green,  house and land copyhold
1840 register of electors  James King    Davies Near Great Green,  house and land copyhold
1841 1841 census Thomas Weeden  -Ag lab
1841 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green,  house and land copyhold
1842 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green,  house and land copyhold
1844 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1845 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1846 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1847 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1849 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1850 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1851 1851 census Charles  Weedon – Ag Lab
1851 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1852 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1853 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1854 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1855 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1857 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1858 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1859 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1860 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1861 1861 census James  King – Farmer
1861 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1863 1863 rates James King James Kingsley Farm
1864 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1865 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1866 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1867 register of electors  James King  Near Great Green
1868 register of electors  James King Great Green
1869 register of electors  James King Great Green
1871 1871 census James  King – Baker & Farmer
1871 register of electors  James King Great Green
1872 register of electors  James King Great Green
1873 register of electors  James King Great Green
1874 register of electors  James King Great Green
1875 register of electors  James King Great Green
1876 register of electors  James King Great Green
1877 register of electors  James King Great Green
1877 sanitation James King Edwin Baines 1/2Cottages With Garden. 1/2 Shared Well, Drainage-Into Moat Ditch. 8 Inmates Sharing 1 Living Rooms, 2 Sleeping Rooms And 1/2 Shared Privy
1877 School admission register James  King born 24/6/1867  living with James  King
1877 School admission register William  King born 21/2/1868  living with James  King
1877 School admission register Elizabeth  King  born 4/9/1870  living with James  King
1878 register of electors  James King Great Green
1878 School admission register Charles  Baines born 14/10/1871 Last school – Infant Department,  living with Edwin  Baines
1879 register of electors  James King Great Green
1880 register of electors  James King Great Green
1881 1881 census Edwin  Baines – Agricultural Labourer
1881 register of electors  James King Great Green
1882 register of electors  James King Great Green
1882 School admission register Ruth  Baines born 8/7/1874  living with Edwin  Baines
1883 register of electors  James King Great Green
1883 School admission register Martha  Baines born /6/1875  living with Edwin  Baines
1884 register of electors  James King Great Green
1884 School admission register William  Baines born 20/11/1876  living with Edwin  Baines
1885 register of electors  James King Great Green
1885 School admission register George  Baines born 3/2/1878  living with Edwin  Baines
1886 School admission register Ellen  Baines born 1/3/1879  living with Edwin  Baines
1887 School admission register Alice Baines  living with Edwin  Baines
1888 School admission register Alice Baines  living with Edwin  Baines
1888 School admission register Katie Baines  living with Edwin  Baines
1889 School admission register Lizzie  Baines born 9/6/1881  living with Edwin  Baines
1889 School admission register Emma Baines  living with Edwin  Baines
1889 School admission register Emma Catterill  living with Charles  Catterill
1891 census Edwin  Baines – Farm Laborer
1891 census Charles Catterill dealer
1891 School admission register Katie  Baines born 31/7/1883  living with Edwin  Baines
1891 School admission register Annie Baines  living with Edwin  Baines
1891 School admission register Gertrude Catterill  living with Charles  Catterill
1893 School admission register Alice  Baines born 13/6/1885  living with Edwin  Baines
1893 School admission register Annie Baines  living with Edwin  Baines
1893 School admission register Emma Catterill  living with Ellen  Catterill
1893 School admission register Hettie Catterill  living with Ellen  Catterill
1894 School admission register Annie Baines  living with Edwin  Baines
1894 School admission register Ida Baines  living with Edwin  Baines
1896 School admission register Emma  Baines born 12/4/1887  living with Edwin  Baines
1899 School admission register Ida  Baines born 20/6/1891  living with Edwin  Baines
1901 1901 census Edwin  Baines – Labourer In Gravel Pit
1902 School admission register Fred  Baines born 20/8/1894 Last school – Pirton Infants,  living with Edwin  Baines
1909 register of electors  James Francis  David Burton Great Green, dwelling house
1909 register of electors  James Francis  Edwin Baines Great Green, dwelling house
1910 1910 rates James  Francis David  Burton Land & Buildings
1910 register of electors  James Francis  David Burton Great Green, dwelling house
1910 register of electors  James Francis  Edwin Baines Great Green, dwelling house
1911 1911 census Edwin  Baines – Railway Labourer
1911 register of electors  James Francis  David Burton Great Green, dwelling house
1911 register of electors  James Francis  Edwin Baines Great Green, dwelling house
1912 register of electors  James Francis  David Burton Great Green, dwelling house
1912 register of electors  James Francis  Edwin Baines Great Green, dwelling house
1913 register of electors James Francis  David Burton Great Green, dwelling house
1913 register of electors James Francis  Edwin Baines Great Green, dwelling house
1914 register of electors James Francis  David Burton Great Green, dwelling house
1914 register of electors James Francis  Edwin Baines Great Green, dwelling house
1915 register of electors James Francis  David Burton Great Green, dwelling house
1915 register of electors James Francis  Edwin Baines Great Green, dwelling house
1926 School admission register Margaret  Audrey Burton born 7/1/1921 Last school – None,  living with Thomas  Burton
1935 1935 rates J Burton Thomas Burton Agricultural Dwelling Hse
1941 1941 Farm survey Rev Ch Hewitt Of The Vicarage Pirton Tom Burton, Full Time Farmer
1694 Benedict Collison Joan Constable Thomas Stringer
1705 Joan Constable Thomas Stringer
1744 Thomas Wilshere Edward Wilshere
1758 Rentall Edward Wilshere
1761 Rentall Edward Wilshere
1899 Sale James francis sold for £460 by Eliza King, James King’s widow to James Francis
1921 Sale Tom Burton Tom Burton James Francis sold to Tom Burton smallholder for £620
1939 Sale Audrey Ford Tom Burton built a house on the farmyard fronting on Priors Hill for his daughter Audrey
1946 Sale Fred Weedon Tom Burton sold to Fred Weedon farmer for £1,400
1961 Sale C James C James Fred Weedon died and his daughter Freda sold to C James
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