West Surrey
George Cobbett ~ 17th Century Ash Parish Clerk
When you look at a Parish Register on an on-line genealogy site, you get a list of births, marriages, and deaths – sometimes accurately transcribed but often wild guesses – but that’s another story! Inside those registers, other records were often made and they can be of historical value. George
The Stevens Family of Ash – From Yeomen to Gentry
When it was suggested to me that the Stevens family would make an interesting post for West Surrey local historians, I was reluctant as I felt the name ‘Stevens’ would be too frequent to accurately follow the family. As it turned out, I was able to put together their story
Stephen Gavill of Ockham, Surrey ~ 1734-1813
Brief Bio: Stephen Gavill was baptised 19 January 1734 at Ockham Parish Church, son of Francis and Elizabeth Gavill; (January 1734 was actually January 1735 as today’s calendar was not adopted until September 1752). 9 January 1760: married Sarah Geale (daughter of William Geale, blacksmith of Ripley) at Send Parish
Geale Family of Ripley, Surrey
The story begins with Aaron Geale, Blacksmith of Ripley in Surey who first appears in the ‘Send with Ripley’ Parish records in 1695 Aaron Geale was the son of Samuel Geale and Joan Draper Geale of Sandhurst, Berkshire, born 3 April 1666. We know this as Hannah Geale of Sandhurst
William Harding of Wyke ~ From Yeoman to Gentleman
If you are interested in the history of Ash, Normandy, and Frimley in Tudor times, please see my other posts on Ash Parish William Harding morphed from a Yeoman Farmer in Wanborough to becoming Lord of the important Manor of Cleygate and marrying an heiress of the influential and wealthy
Ash Parish Wills ~ 1540 to 1680
A reminder that Ash Parish included Frimley at the time covered by this list of the Last Wills and Testaments of some of the Parish residents including Yeoman farmers, lesser farmers known as Husbandman, artisans like potters, country gentlemen, women with some accumulated wealth (usually widows), and even a musician!
Ash Tax Payers in 1523
King Henry VIII needed money as he wanted to reclaim former English-ruled territory in France. This territory had been lost forever 70 years before, but Henry VIII still added ‘King of France’ to his titles! In May 1523, Parliament granted the King an annual subsidy for 4 years to fund
Frimley Chapel Register ~ 1590 to 1683
Section Event Notes 1 Baptisms from 1637 to 1683 Entered as they happened 2 Baptisms from 1590 to 1637 Transcribed from some other book now lost 3 Marriages from 1606 to 1644 Transcribed from some other book now lost 4 Marriages and Burials from 1672 to 1676 Record keeper backtracked
Frimley Chapel Curates
Frimley Chapel was part of Ash Parish and did not always have a Minister to administer to the Frimley flock as funding was not always available to pay for a Curate. On occasions, services were held by clergyman from other churches in the Diocese, or people had to take themselves
Ash Parish Poor Relief – 1574
A two-page document from the Surrey History Centre shows the residents of Ash who contributed to, and received help from, the Ash Parish Poor Relief Fund mandated by Parliament during the reign of Elizabeth I. This 1574 document captures all the groups of Ash residents – – the Gentry, the
Frimley Chapel History
The Predecessor of St Peter’s Church, Frimley, Surrey What was Frimley Chapel? For centuries, Frimley was in Ash Parish until the separate ecclesiastical Frimley Parish was formed in 1813. Ash Parish Church is tucked away in the south west corner of Ash so Frimley people had a long walk every Sunday as
Ash Parish: Robert Purse, 1599
Note that there were two men called Robert Purse in the Ash area in the 1500’s. One was this man, a Husbandman of a leaseholder of a property called Kings Inhams and the other Robert Purse was a freeholder of a property called Purses who died in 1593. Kings Inhams: