Catalogue description Filton

Deeds etc. of the manor and advowson of Filton

Part of a solicitor's collection deposited in the Bristol City Archives by Messrs. Osborne, Ward, Vassall, Abbot & Co., 41 Broad Street. 1957.

MANOR OF FILTON

According to Atkyns, Sir Thomas FitzNichols and Edward Blount were both seized of this manor, probably as co-heirs, temp. Ric.II. Thomas Mallet died seized of it in 22 Eliz.

It appears from Deed No.1. that Filton was sold after Mallet's death to George Moreton, who on 1 October 1580 mortgaged the manors of Stoke Harris and Filton and in 1584 conveyed them, together with the advowson of Filton, to Roger Revell. Richard Revell sold the manor of Filton and the advowson to John Younge for £950 in 1609.

In 1612 Younge sold manor and advowson for £1,100 to William Baldwin of Bristol, brewer, probably the William Baldwin who was sheriff of Bristol in 1615-16 and who died in December 1617. His son William Baldwin was granted livery of his father's estate at Filton in 1627.

In 1678 William Baldwin, grandson of the first, bequeathed his manor of Filton and property in Bristol to his kinsmen Rowland Thrupp and Michael Pope, in trust for his son William and daughter Dorothy, who married Thomas Burgis. The son died in 1692 and the daughter soon after, bequeathing Filton to Michael Pope, who in turn by his will of 1699 gave it to his wife Elizabeth. After her death it seems to have been divided among her nephews and neices.

In 1757 the estate was sold by auction to Slade Baker, who by a conveyance of 24/25 March, which has not survived, sold it to John and Matthew Brickdale.

ADVOWSON OF FILTON

In 1766 the Bishop of Bristol unsuccessfully disputed Matthew Brickdale's right to present the Rev.John Davie to the living of Filton (No.65, p.1). The advowson was sold by Brickdale to the Rev. John Pearse Manley in 1815. It passed from his widow to the Rev. Thomas Shaw Hellier and from Hellier to Capt. Richard Poulden in 1828. Capt. Poulden presented his son to the living.

THE CONIGRE

This name, spelt Cuniger (elsewhere Conigar and Cunigre) is first given to the "capital messuage or manor house" in Deed No.45.(1678) The last deed relating to it in this collection is dated 1807 (no.58) (conigar, connie-grea - a rabbit warren)

The name surives today in the Conygre Estate and Conygre Road.

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