Ethel Burton

Rex (Jimmy) Fletcher

Some English Monarchs & Events

since the Norman Conquest in 1066

For a complete list since pre-Norman days go here

Clare Aldous

Jimmy Sproule

Hampton, Demountfryart, Middlecoat, Locke, Webber, Incledon, Fane, Mildmay, Burton

Procter, Ashton, Stringer, Fletcher

Aldous, Whiting, Poole, Strutt, Seward, Haw, Stevenson, Stewart

We have several original will copoies for members of this branch.

Sproule

William I the Conqueror c1027-1066-1087 (50)

William II Rufus 1059-1087-1100 (41)

1095 First Crusade

launched on 27 November

Henry I 1068-1100-1135 (67)

Archbishop Thomas Becket murdered

c1118 - 29 Dec 1170 (c52)

Stephen 1097-1135-1154 (57)

Plantagenets

Henry II 1133-1154-1189 (56)

(& Eleanor of Aquitaine)

Richard I 1157-1189-1199 (42)

John 1167-1199-1216 (49)

Magna Carta I - June 1215

Henry III 1207-1216-1272 (65)

(+Eleanor of Provence)

(Henry's brother Richard, Earl of Cornwall, was the only Englishman to become Holy Roman Emperor, except that he never got to Rome to seal the deal).  His second wife was Eleanor's sister Sanchia.

Edward I 1239-1272-1307 (68)

(+ Eleanor of Castile & her crosses)

Hampton, Demountfryart, Middlecoat, Locke, Webber, Incledon, Fane, Mildmay, Burton

Procter, Ashton, Stringer, Dobson, Fletcher

Monarchs & Events

Not all Monarchs are shown - for a complete list since pre-Norman days go here

Aldous, Whiting, Poole, Strutt, Seward, Haw, Stevenson, Stewart, Waugh

Sproule

1300

Edward II 1284-1307-1327 (43)

Edward III 1312-1327-1377 (65)

and his 3 sons - the destructive Edward the Black Prince (died before Eddie), the mega rich John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster) and Edmund (Duke of York)

1337 Start of 100 Years' War with France

1348 - The Black Death sweeps up & over Europe, killing off over 60% of its population and ending the High Middle Ages.

1350

1362 - English replaces French as the official language of the law courts of England

Richard II 1367-1377-1399 (33)

Hampton, Demountfryart, Middlecoat, Locke, Webber, Incledon, Fane, Mildmay, Burton

Procter, Ashton, Stringer, Dobson, Fletcher

Monarchs & Events

not all Monarchs are shown

for a complete list since pre-Norman days go here

Aldous, Whiting, Poole, Strutt, Seward, Haw, Stevenson, Stewart, Waugh

Sproule

1400

House of Lancaster

Henry IV 1367-1399-1413 (46)

1400 - 14xGGG Nicholas Warner born in Fressingfield, Suffolk

Henry V 1387-1413-1422 (35)

October 1415 - England thrashes France at Agincourt

Henry VI 1421 -1422-1461 & 1470-1471 (50)

1450

The Italian Renaissance cranks up to full speed

1456 - 12xGGM Johane Warner (to be Mrs William Aldous) christened in St Andrew, Wingfield - the "de la Pole church"

Edward IV 1442 -1461-1470 & 1471-1483 (41)

(& Elizabeth Woodville)

House of York

Richard III 1452-1483-1485 (32)

The Tudors

Henry VII 1457-1485-1509 (52)

1492

Columbus discovers America, Ferdinand & Isabella conquer Granada and Lorenzo de' Medici (Il Magnifico) dies in Florence

It is "the End of the Middle Ages"

William Aldous  1450 - 1531 (81) 12xGGF was Church Warden of SS Peter & Paul,  Fressingfield, N Suffolk in 1493.

Hampton, Demountfryart, Middlecoat, Locke, Webber, Incledon, Fane, Mildmay, Burton

Procter, Ashton, Stringer, Dobson, Fletcher

Monarchs & Events

Not all Monarchs are shown - for a complete list since pre-Norman days go here

Aldous, Whiting, Poole, Strutt, Seward, Haw, Stevenson, Stewart, Waugh

Sproule

1500

John Webber - 14xGGF, Barnstaple Pewterer and presently our earliest Webber ancestor, b c1500

Martin Luther 1483 - 1546 (63)

Henry VIII 1491-1509-1547 (56)

Sir Thomas More

Cardinal Thomas Wolsley

Thomas Cromwell 1485-1540 (55)

19 May 1536 - Queen Ann Boleyn beheaded

1538 - Thomas Cromwell makes

Parish Records mandatory in England

Suleiman the Magnificent

1494 - 1566 (72)

March 1540 - Waltham Abbey, the last English Monastery standing, surrenders - end of English Monastic power and assets

Hampton, Demountfryart, Middlecoat, Locke, Webber, Incledon, Fane, Mildmay, Burton

Procter, Ashton, Stringer, Fletcher

Monarchs & Events

Not all Monarchs are shown - for a complete list since pre-Norman days go here

Aldous, Whiting, Poole, Strutt, Seward, Haw, Stevenson, Stewart

Sproule

1550

Sir William Locke 1480-1550 (70) bu St Mary le Bow, London, Aug 1550 - an event recorded in an early Parish Record.

Elizabeth I 1533-1558-1603 (70)

1588 - The Spanish Armada is seen off

1597 - Bishops Transcripts (copies of parish registers) made mandatory

Hampton, Demountfryart, Middlecoat, Locke, Webber, Incledon, Fane, Mildmay, Burton

Procter, Ashton, Stringer, Dobson, Fletcher

Monarchs & Events

Not all Monarchs are shown - for a complete list since pre-Norman days go here

Aldous, Whiting, Poole, Strutt, Seward, Haw, Stevenson, Stewart, Waugh

Sproule

1600

c 1600 - 9xGGF Vincent Demonfriart (1600-1652 (52)) born and at some stage moves to Bodmin.  Our earliest Demountfriart.

1600 - Population of England

4.8 million

31 December 1600, Queen Elizabeth signs the Royal Charter which creates the British East India Company ("The Hon Co").

The Renaissance morphs  into two centuries of the Enlightenment or Age of Reason

June 1609 Nicholas Whiting 1572-1634 (62) marries Mary Keble in St Nicholas, South Elham (N Suffolk) -  10xGGPs.

Tomb of 11xGGP Sir Thomas Fane (c1510 - 1589 (79)) and Marie Fane (Neville) Baroness le Despenser (c1554 - 1626 (72)) in "Roman Basilica" St Laurence, Mereworth

House of Stuart

James I 1566-1603-1625 (59)

wears the crowns of Scotland, England and Ireland

1624 - The Westmoreland Earldom revived  in favour of Sir Francis Fane, 1580 - 1629 product of the mega-wealthy Baroness le Despencer,  Maidstone Grammar and Queens Cambridge, and husband of also seriously wealthy Mary Mildmay - 10xGgp

16 July 1627 - John Demonfryart, son of Vinsent & Jone (sic), christened in St Petroc, Bodmin.

Charles I 1600-1625-1649 (49)

1650

2 May 1650 - original will of Dr Vincent Demonfriart of Bodmin (no probate until 1677)

English Civil Wars - 1640s & 50s

Oliver Cromwell 1599-1649-1658 (59)

The reinstated royalist Curate of Haworth (Rev J Collier) enthuses in the Parish Register about the Coronation of King Charles II which he had attended on 23 April 1660.

Charles II 1630-1660-1685 (55)

1666 - Great Fire of London

24 February 1675/76, 7xGGpts Dr George Demountfryart & Anna Howard marry in St Menefreda (St Minver), Cornwall.

Yeoman William and Elizabeth Whiting of Homersfield (Suffolk) (8xGGPs) - we have copies & original 1683 & 1698 wills / inventories.

Hampton, Demountfryart, Middlecoat, Locke, Webber, Incledon, Fane, Mildmay, Burton

Procter, Ashton, Stringer, Dobson, Fletcher

Monarchs & Events

Not all Monarchs are shown - for a complete list since pre-Norman days go here

Aldous, Whiting, Poole, Strutt, Seward, Haw, Stevenson, Stewart, Waugh

Sproule

The Tregony Connection

The Early Calcutta / Bengal Connection

1700 - Population of England

6 million

1700

Dr George Demountfryart 1652-1717 (65),  Vincent's grandson and Adrian'd 7xGGF, remembered as Mayor of Bodmin in 1700 in the town's Bree Shute Well inscription.  Dr George was Bodmin Mayor in 1691, 1694, 1700, 1712 & 1716 (during which he died).  We have some Bodmin Council papers of the day which include George's flourishing signature.

House of Hanover

George I - 1660-1714-1727 (67)

April 1701 - Carnaby Strutt, 7xGGF  (presumably father of the Carnaby below), marries Jane Wilson in St Bride, Fleet Street.

1710 - Charles Hampton (6xGrt) travels to Calcutta on the King William Galley to join the East India Company as a "Writer".   He later rises to be a Commissioner.

1728 - Earliest surviving ancestor grave slab - James Whiting (7xGGF) bu 6 Feb age 72 - at Homersfield, St Mary (Suffolk), next to gravestone of wife Anne Neech bu 2 Jan 1729 aged 63.

5 October 1735  - Samuel Hampton (5xGrt Gf) born in Calcutta.

June 1733, Ann Procter (Musgrave) c1700 - 1733 buried in St Mary, Staindrop.  Adrian's 6xGGM.

The first James Fletcher family moves in to Coldwell, ffar (sic) Oxenhope - from where we know not - probably the Calder Valley to the South.  James Fletcher bu Haworth 27 June 1745.

28 November 1748 Margaret Hick born (probably Calcutta).

1737 - Artist Thomas Hudson paints a portrait of Barnstaple Mayor Alexander Webber (51), Pewterer and Adrian's 6xGGF.

1743 - 6xGGP - Francis Stringer m Arabella Darlinghurst in St Mary, Scarborough.  No knowing where they came from either.  Their son Edmund and grandson William are both Scarborough cordwainers.

July 1742 - Yeoman John Seward marries Hannah Lidbetter of Bramber in the monastic Norman nave of St Andrew, Steyning - 5xgrts.

1750

25 August 1752 - 4xGGF - Nicholas Middlecoat Jnr 1752 - 1844 (92) christened in Cuby with Tregony.

Robert Procter is Church Warden etc in "Old" Brignall (Greta Valley, Co Durham) between 1740 - 1760.

1752 - English New Year's Day reset to January 1 from March 25 previously, and several English days were disappeared from September to align with the Gregorian Calender.

 Black Hole of Calcutta - 19 June 1756

1 September 1765 - 5xGrts Capt Samuel Hampton & Margaret Hick marry in St Johns Anglican church in Calcutta.

5 April 1768 - James Fletcher (1745 - 1795 (49))- woolcomber of ffar Oxenhope - m Sarah Ratcliffe (1747 - 1789 (42)) in Haworth, W Yorks.  5x Grt Gps.  Their grave slabs in Haworth are still there but a bit sunken!

Warren Hastings is India's first Governor General 1773 - 1785

March 1767 - Carnaby Strutt c1700 - 1767 (67), 6xGrt,  is buried in Gissing, Norfolk.

George III 1738-1760-1820 (82)

April 1782 - Col Samuel Hampton appointed "Fixed Commandant" of the rebuilt Fort William in Calcutta

18 July 1784 - Alexander's grandson, (to be Maj Gen) Henry Webber, is later cited as father of baby Henry Webber ("mother unknown").

17 May 1786 Col Samuel Hampton (53) dies in Serampore leaving an amazing will AND a family bible register which we have.  Margaret had died aged just 35 after the birth of baby number 11 in 1784.

16 March 1788 4xgrt Thomas Locke Christened in Soho, London

American War of Independence 1775 - 1782

January 1788 - the 11 little ships of the First Fleet under Captain Arthur Phillip land in what will become Sydney, Australia

October 1776 - 4xggps Yeoman Thomas Seward and Elizabeth Stevenson marry in the church of St Martin in the Fields, Westminster.

William Hambly (Nick Middlecoat's brother-in-law), Mayor of Falmouth 1798, promotes Cornish food to President George Washington, who in return sends him a nice letter & some Virginia hams in 1799.

French Revolution 1787 - 1799

James Aldous Snr 1757-1810 (53) (wealthy merchant with surviving original will) & Martha Whiting 1754-1827 (70) - 4xGrts in Harleston & Starston

Hampton, Demountfryart, Middlecoat, Locke, Webber, Incledon, Fane, Mildmay, Burton

Procter, Ashton, Stringer, Fletcher

Monarchs & Events

Not all Monarchs are shown - for a complete list since pre-Norman days go here

Aldous, Whiting, Poole, Strutt, Seward, Haw, Stevenson, Stewart, Waugh

Sproule

1800

1 September 1802 - George Middlecoat born in Tregony, Cornwall - child no 13 of 14.

6 September 1801 - Elizabeth Ashton (to be 3xGrt Procter) ch in St Olave, York.

1800 - Population of Great Britain 16.3 million 172% or 10.3 million up over just 100 years

10 February 1803, 4xGrt Gpts housepainter James Stewart and Elizabeth Hamilton marry in Edinburgh.

1804 - Yeoman Thomas & Elizabeth Seward (4xGrt Gpts) move to Weston Farm (Buriton, Hampshire) and build a huge windmill to kick start 100 successful years in the hoppy limey South Downs sun for their dynasty.

Labourer John Adolphus Burton, recruited on the streets of Dublin,  departs Chatham on 4 February 1816 to join the Madras Artillery as a Matross.

Early 1800s Robert's grandson Joseph Procter Snr 1764-1847 (83) has a chemyst / grocery / tea shop (now an opticians) in Barnard Castle Market Place.

Battle of Trafalgar 21 October 1805

7 July 1812 - 3xGrt Gpts John Robinson and Sarah Harpur marry in Aghadulla, Co Tyrone.

11 August 1821 - Capt James Hampton (Madras Native Infantry) youngest son of Samuel and posthumously father-in-law of George Middlecoat, drowns in Lady Lushington shipwreck

Lt George Middlecoat (youngest son of Nick jnr) arrives in India on 14 January 1823 to be an officer in the Madras Artillery.

5 January 1826 - 3xgrts Capt George Middlecoat, son of Nicholas, marries Susannah Palmer Hampton - grand daughter of Col Samuel.  Her uncle is John Palmer "the richest East India Merchant".

Battle of Waterloo 1815

6 March 1821 - Thomas Seward's son Samuel marries Elizabeth Haw, daughter of a rich London builder, in Old St Pancras Church'

1832 - Great Reform Bill

1833 - Slavery Abolition Act passed by Westminster Parliament

1838 Belfast Baker Robert & wife  Isabella Waugh (Henderson) (3xGrt Gparents) and kids sail to Melbourne courtesy of the Victorian Government, and she has another baby on the way.

Nicholas Middlecoat Jnr buried back in Tregony, 4 August 1844 aged 92.

The Fletchers appear in the first (1841) census as a tribe of wool combers living in cottages in Coldwell, Shaw Lane (West Yorkshire) - aka ffar Oxenhope.

James Aldous Jnr 1785-1859 (74), pillar of the Harleston / Redenhall community, & Harriette Poole 1783-1866 (83) - 3xGrt Gpts with a surviving family bible register.

1850

Queen Victoria 1819-1837-1901 (82)

British wealth and engineering skills dominate the lives of the World and our ancestors for good and bad - the W Yorkshire Industrial Revolution in Wool & Cotton production, steam power, manufacturing, railways, canals (including Suez), roads, the Hon East India Company, church rebuilding, etc etc

William Blake penned "Jerusalem" at the beginning of the Century, and Hubert Parry made it a hymn at the end.

24 May 1855 2xGrts Alex Aldous and Elizabeth Seward marry in Buriton.  She contracts Scarlet Fever and dies in 1862, he lives on unhappily making a lot of money supplying alcohol to the Royal Navy Home Fleet Base, in Portsea, till his death in 1879 (aged 64).

1857 - James Cooper Stewart 1836 - 1919 (83) 2xGrt Gpt sails to Melbourne on the "Marco Polo", is a founder of Mallesons solicitors, and becomes Mayor of Melbourne in 1885.

Joseph Procter Jnr (from c1855) and John Fletcher (from c1878) with families and shops in Scarborough, where the town centre is moving towards the new (1845) railway station (where their shops are).

1847-48, the British Parliament adopts a sanitary code that for the first time organizes the transport of sewerage from houses to the nearest river.

c1850 - c1870

Victoria (Australia) Gold Rush years

May 1860 - the Joseph Sproule family join the Co Tyrone diaspora in N Monaghan, Peterborough West, Ontario.

3 April 1881 - John Adolphus Burton  (grandson of the Irish labourer JAB) returns to Madras on HMS Serapis as a newly qualified army surgeon.

1857 - 58 - Indian Mutiny

1858 British Government takes over control of India from from the East India Company

American Civil War 1861-65

1881 - A H R Sproule & family return from S Moynahan, Ontario, to Co Tyrone to inhabit large inherited estate of Denamona (Fintona).

Hampton, Demountfryart, Middlecoat, Locke, Webber, Incledon, Fane, Mildmay, Burton

Procter, Ashton, Stringer, Fletcher

Monarchs & Events

Not all Monarchs are shown - for a complete list since pre-Norman days go here

Aldous, Whiting, Poole, Strutt, Seward, Haw, Stevenson, Stewart, Waugh

Sproule

1900

1900 - Population of Great Britain 41.6 million - 155% or 25 million up over just 100 years

LINK TO OUR MORE RECENT ANCESTORS

Capt Rex Fletcher marries & manages to avoid WWI France.  In Autumn 1917 he goes to Baghdad, via 5 months of laid back travel round the Cape, to be adjutant to the River (gun) Boats - whose active days were over, leaving time for horse riding, shooting, picnics, etc in the few months before the war ended and Rex was posted to Rawalpindi Military Hospital.

1914-18 World War I

Capt Jimmy Sproule is the Medical Officer for the famous 2nd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, which crosses the Channel to Belgium on 9 August 1914.  He is repatriated to England during 1915-16 and marries in 1916 before returning to the western front.  He finishes WWI as Lt Col commanding 131 Field Ambulance (38th Welsh Division) after three years in front line trench warfare.

The motor car enters family life, accompanied by photo albums.

1939-45 World War II

1950

2000

2000 - Population of Great Britain 58.9 million - 41% or 17.3 million up over 100 years

Hampton, Demountfryart, Middlecoat, Locke, Webber, Incledon, Fane, Mildmay, Burton

Procter, Ashton, Stringer, Fletcher

Monarchs & Events

Not all Monarchs are shown - for a complete list since pre-Norman days go here

Aldous, Whiting, Poole, Strutt, Seward, Haw, Stevenson, Stewart, Waugh

Sproule