This is a list of deeds and leases relating to William Whitchurch and Nunney Castle. Most of these still need to be ordered, transcribed and researched.
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| https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/d8774eba-6748-434c-b67a-159a109b3497 Reference: DD\BR\ls/11 Title: NUNNEY deeds Leases for lives of property in the manors of Nunney Maudley and Nunney Castle by Wm.Whitchurch of Frome Selwood, esq., Wm. Whitchurch of Nunney, esq. (?his grandson), John Whitchurch of Sharpshaw, Nunney, esq., and Eliz. his wife. Property includes mess. called Coombes Tenement, 1706; dwelling house in the Coombe, 1707; late erected cott. on the Down, 1719; land called Traske Close and Budgetts Parrock, 1745. Tenants’ names:- Baker, Chancellor, Dallimore, Lester, Pickfatt, Randle, Smith, Stride, Talley, Williams, Yeoman. Date: 1705-1745 |
| https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/184d027d-d000-4ada-bc8d-962443975e2d Reference: DD\BR\ls/12 Title: NUNNEY deeds Leases for lives of property in manors of Nunney Maudley and Nunney Castle by Wm.Whitchurch of Frome Selwood,esq.,Wm.Whitchurch of Lincoln’s Inn(?his grandson),and John Whitchurch of Sharpshaw,Nunney,esq.,and Eliz. his wife. Property includes Lotsomes Tenement at Trudoxhill,1719; mess.called Smarts and profits belonging to Nunney Fair, 1741, 1744; house and land called Bramblehayes, 1745; Dowdalls Parrock and Coalmixon in Trudoxhill, 1745; close called Chesslade,pt.of a tenement called Hudsons, 1747. Tenants’ names:- Cayford, Cox, Dallimore, Hiscox, Hoddinott, Lydford, Pyke, Stryde, Yeoman. Date: 1719-1747 |
| https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/ed310070-3cdd-49c9-bca3-9bead456416e Reference: DD\BR\MS/1 Title: NUNNEY deeds Manors of Nunney alias Nunney Mawdley and Nunney Castle alias Nunney Glaston with the advowson of Nunney, Nunney Castle and capital messuage of Nunney, a capital messuage called Great Queensfield in the tithing of Woodrew and lands [named], culminating in possession for life of John Whitchurch of Sharpshaw by virtue of the will of his wife Elizabeth (1748, pr. 1749) with remainder to James Theobald of White Waltham, Berks. Abstract of title to Manor of Nunney Castle 1576-1702, Nunney Mawdley 1632-1693, and both 1736-1744, The Gatehouse, lands in Rugg Field, house and shop 1655-1717, Hurman’s Combe 1557-1668, lands in Trudoxhill 1644-1728, etc., schedule of leases granted 1635-1720, giving tenants and lives but no description of property. Date: 1632-1749 |
| https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/3f44a334-2cb2-492c-b6f1-03d5b3b3cdf7 Reference: DD\BR\MS Title: DEEDS RELATING TO NUNNEY, ETC. Nos. 1-4 of this collection contain title deeds to the manors of Nunney Mawdley and Nunney Castle. The former passed to William Whitchurch of Frome from Thomas Mounsell of Limerick 1691. The latter was purchased by Whitchurch from Richard Prater in 1700, but this deed is not among the documents deposited. In 1749 both manors came to James Theobald of White Waltham, Berks., by the will of his cousin Elizabeth, which gave a life interest to her husband, John Whitchurch. These documents were purchased by Dr J Marsh from a Dulwich junk dealer in 1965 and are believed to have come originally from the offices of a London solicitor. An earlier British Records Association deposit, DD/BR/Ls, contains leases for lives of properties in both manors by Mounsell, Prater, Whitchurch and Theobald as well as surveys, rentals and plans. These documents came from the office of Messrs. Longbourne, Stevens and Powell, solicitors, 7 Lincolns Inn Fields, London, and it seems likely that the present deposit derives from the same source. The two collections should be used in conjunction. Bndl. no. 5 has no connection with either DD/BR/Ls or nos. 1-4 of this deposit. Date: 1609 – 1868 |
| https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/fcb2695f-9e72-475a-a68f-69600e8b23f9 Reference: DD\BR\ls Title: DEEDS, MAINLY RELATING TO NUNNEY This collection consists for the main part of leases for lives of various properties in Nunney. There appear to have been two or possibly three manors in the parish under the names of Nunney Maudley (Mawdley, Maundley, Mandley), Nunney Castle alias Nunney Glaston and Nunney. In 1655 the manor of Nunney Maudley was owned jointly by Thomas Sambourne and his wife Elizabeth, and Ephraim Mounsell of Upton Noble and his wife Margaret, Thomas’s sister. This joint lordship lasted until at least 1663 but by 1668 Ephraim Mounsell was sole lord. By this time he was no longer resident at Upton Noble but had moved to Limerick in Ireland. Between 1673 and 1681 he was succeeded by his son Thomas, also of Limerick, but by 1694 the manor had passed to William Whitchurch of Frome Selwood. Unfortunately, there are no title deeds in this collection relating to the transfer. It was, perhaps, due to the failure on the part of Thomas Mounsell to redeem a mortgage on the property (See History of Limerick, by Maurice Leniham, 1866), but, more likely, the family now permanently settled in Ireland found it uneconomic to manage a limited estate in Somerset (See S.R.O. corresp. file 4(122) Feb. 1974, for corresp. on this subject) A few years later in 1700, William Whitchurch purchased the manor of Nunney Castle alias Nunney Glaston from Richard Prater of Nunney Castle (See DD\LW 245 for pedigree of Prater family). The manors remained in the possession of the Whitchurch family until c.1749 when both passed into the possession of James Theobald of Waltham Place, White Waltham, Berks., later of Gray’s Thurrock, Essex, esq., but again there is no original material in the deposit relative to the transfer. There is, however, an abstract of title, 1835 (See DD\BR\ls 19 for abstract of title of James Theobald, 1835), from which it appears that the estates were bequeathed to James Theobald by his cousin Elizabeth, wife of John Whitchurch of Sharpshaw, Nunney, in a codicil to her will dated 1749. From the middle of the 18th century the names Nunney Castle and Nunney Maudley are used sometimes together, i.e. manor of Nunney Castle and Nunney Maudley, and sometimes as alternatives, i.e. manor of Nunney Castle otherwise Nunney Maudley. Although the Whitchurch family did not acquire either of these manors until the end of the 17th century, they had had an interest in the parish from at least 1624. The manor of Nunney is mentioned specifically from 1668 but references to it are few, becoming increasingly so in the 18th century. Date: 1577-1886 Arrangement: Surveys, rentals, plans 1726-1886 2,3 Mounsell leases 1655-1713 4-6 Prater leases 1662-1701 7-12 Whitchurch leases 1624-1747 13-19 Theobald leases 1749-1871 20 Out county 1577-1710 |
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