HAMSEY - Park VillaP125/39

Manorial tenure: copyhold of the manor of Hamsey, quitrent 8d, heriot 1s 0d certain (M505/26) [3]

Tithe numbers [1]

1840 / 199, 200
Descriptions of property (centred at TQ 402136)
<1627-1627 / NOT FORMEDgranted from the waste in 1627 [3]
1627 / piece of waste 60 feet by 16 feet at Drove Lane End by Cooksbridge, now built upon; grant from waste [3]
1639 / messuage at the Drove Lane End with a garden [3]
1684 / late waste [3]
c1750 / messuage or cottage and garden in Hamsey (W: road from Offham to Cooksbridge; N: droveway from the road to Hamsey Church) [3]
1752 / Shown as house and 1r 5p on the E side of the road S of Cooksbridge [7]
<1838-1841+ / House and garden, garden; land: 1r 26p [1]
1876 / house called Park Villa, stable, coach-house, outbuildings and gardens at Cooksbridge owned and occupied by William Ticehurst [3]
1881 / 17 rods (W: road from Lewes to Cooksbridge; N: wasteland formerly held by William Ticehurst as tenant at will; S: road leading to Hamsey Common; E: land of Edward Partington esq) with the stable, coach-house and outbuildings standing on it [3]
Descriptions of house (at TQ 402136)
1639 / messuage [3]
<1838-1841+ / house and garden [1]
1876 / house called Park Villa, stable, coach-house, outbuildings and gardens at Cooksbridge owned and occupied by William Ticehurst [3]
Land tax assessments [2]
1840 / not identifiable
Owners
1627-1639 / John / Beale / granted to him in 1627; in 1639 he surrendered to TW [3]
1639-1639+ / Thomas / Wigsall / the younger; admitted 1639 [3]
<1649-1649 / Thomas / Hersey / surrendered out of court to JW [3]
1649-1650 / Joseph / Whiteman / admitted 1649; in 1650 he surrendered to WR and ER [3]
1650-1684 / William / Rootes / and his wife Elizabeth; by 1684 when her death was presented Elizabeth was the wife of Thomas Stapley, late widow of William Rootes; who is heir? [3]
1684-1692 / Mary / Bunce / Mary youngest daughter of Elizabeth Stapley; wife of John Bunce when admitted in 1684, and in 1692 when she surrendered to WP [3]
1692-1700 / William / Pollington / husb / of Hamsey, husbandman; in 1692 admitted for life, remainder to his wife Sarah for life, remainder to WP’s heirs; in 1700 they surrendered to RB [3]
1700-1710 / Richard / Bridger / of Coombe in Hamsey, esq, admitted by his attorney Benjamin Ellis; annotated ‘where Goring dwells 1704’; RB appointed John Smith, clerk, his attorney to surrender to DW [3]
1710-1715 / David / Wood / bckth / of Barcombe, blacksmith; in 1715 surrendered to WB and MB [3]
1715-1744 / William / Banks / and his wife Mary Banks; in 1719 they mortgaged for £26 at 5% to Stephen Kenward of Lewes, yeoman (paid off 1723); in 1733 Mary, a widow, mortgaged for £28 7s to John Bridger of Coombe, esq; paid off 1744; her death presented 1744, youngest son OB [3]
1744 / Offington / Banks / immediately on admission surrendered to TA [3]
1744-1754 / Thomas / Alchin / yeo / or Alchorne of Hamsey, yeoman; surrendered to EM in 1754 [3]
1754-1777 / Elizabeth / Minyon / wid / widow; death presented 1777; by will of 24 Dec 1770 to EH [3]
1777-1823 / Elizabeth / Howell / Elizabeth wife of Thomas Howell of Hamsey, yeoman, for life, remainder to TH’s daughter Elizabeth Howell [3]
1823-1843 / Elizabeth / Weston / Elizabeth Howell; admitted 1824; wife of William Weston by 1823, when they mortgaged to Thomas King of Cliffe, butcher, for £70 at 5%, paid off 1831; in 1833 they mortgaged for £55 at 5% to Warren Lee of Lewes, printer; paid off 1835, when they mortgaged for £120 at 5% to William Martin of Ringmer, builder; paid off 1845; death presented 1843; by will of 1842 to her husband WW [3], who was listed as owner-occupier by tithe [1]
1843-1846 / William / Weston / yeo / of Cooksbridge in Hamsey, yeoman; Martin mortgage paid off 1845 when WW mortgaged for £150 at 5% with power of sale to Thomas Huggett of Lewes, cordwainer; in 1846 the mortgage was paid off and WW sold to WT [3]
1846-1877 / William / Ticehurst / of Lewes, postmaster; death presented 1877; by will of 1876, proved 1877, to trustees for sale (Richard Wisdom of Lewes, solicitor’s managing clerk, and Isaac Funnell the younger of Lewes, merchant’s clerk), who were admitted in July and in August surrendered to JN (with freehold) for £530 [3]
1877-1881 / James / Nightingale / trnr / of Lewes, trainer; in 1879 he mortgaged this and freehold (see above) for £700 to Thomas Blenkiron of 123 Wood Street in London, warehouseman, who in 1881 foreclosed on the mortgage and sold the property to WB for £700 [3]
1881-1901 / William / Burton / of 55 High Street, Marylebone, London, horse-dealer; in 1882 he mortgaged for £700 to Thomas Arthur Howland of 55 Great Portland Street, London, Charles Claridge Howland of 297 Caledonian Road and Robert Howland of 389 Holloway Road, all licensed victuallers [3]; sold to the Coneyboro Estate in 1901 [5]
1901-1901+ / CONEYBORO / ESTATE / purchased for £800 by John William Dodson, Lord Monk Bretton, in 1901 [5]
Occupiers
<1704-1704+ / Goring / [3]
<1838-1838+ / William / Weston / owner-occupier [1]
1896-1896+ / Agnes / Parkes / wife of Albert William Parkes of 27 College Road, Brighton, esq; took a lease for 21 years at £60 in 1896 [5]

Sources

1ESROTD 111 (Hamsey tithe map)

2ESROLT, LLT Hamsey (land tax assessments)

3ESROADA - manor of Hamsey court-books and rentals

4ESROW/A

5ESRO ACC 6506/41 (deeds)

6PROPROB 11/

7ESROMOB 1699