Catalogue description HAYNES COLLECTION

MANORIAL [12] Wick and Abson 1625-1818

DEEDS [368] Wick and Abson (manor, other properties, grants by copy of court roll, leases & rentcharge) 1513-1797

Gloucestershire and Bristol

Bitton 1801

Bristol 1675-1803

Clifton (manor and other properties) 1655-1847

Clifton, Leonard Stanley Stonehouse and Bristol 1737-1761

Doynton 1654-1657

Henbury 1662-1737

Leonard Stanley 1605-1687

Mangotsfield 1685-1874

Pucklechurch, Marshfield and Wick and Abson 1511

Standish 1628

Stonehouse 1548-1788

Thornbury 1804-1827

Hampshire Kingsclere 1713

Newton 1694

Middlesex Kentish Town 1871

Somerset Badgeworth 1619-1780

Bath (Walcott) 1755-1787

Keynsham 1873

Wedmore (Chapel of Blackford, other property) 1579-1777

Whitchurch 1676

[Fragments]

BONDS [18] 1589-1803

INVENTORIES [10] 1723-1846

WILLS [39] 1630-1875

FAMILY SETTLEMENTS [24] Haynes 1685-1715

Hart and Sandford 1683-1735

Russ 1792-1832

Haynes 1818-1875

PARISH RECORDS [7] Church Rate Assessments 1673-1764

Poor Rate Assessments 1665-1769

Land Tax Assessments 1692-1769

Window Tax Assessments 1753-1765

Other Assessments 1657-1733

Miscellaneous 1731-1801

Memoranda & Receipts

ESTATE RECORDS [22] Account & Memo. Books 1727-1816

Wick and Abson Papers 1631-1844

Mining Leases 1669-1803

FAMILY RECORDS [8] Account Book, debts 1738-1816

Haynes Papers of Major Thomas Haynes 1813-1814

Freemason's Certificates 1901

Accounts and Receipts 1692-1876

LEGAL PAPERS [12] Papers re Gandy v. Parishioners of Wick and Abson 1726-1746

Other legal papers 1615-1819

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS [18] Attorney's papers, day books, accounts 1796-1874

Mangotsfield Tithe Commutation 1839-1845

Estate of Gen. Sir George Pollock 1852-1874

CORRESPONDENCE [8] 1646-1886

MISCELLANEOUS [9] 1700-1897

BUSINESS RECORDS [12] Cowhorn Hill Colliery 1771-1813

Wick Iron Company 1785-1818

Haynes family of Bristol

Extracts from an account of the Haynes family by the Rev. L.H.Dahl, formerly incumbent of Stapleton. The book was in 1953 in the possession of Professor G.E. Blackman.

[Note : The first date following names is not the date of birth but of succession to the estate.]

Thomas Haynes, 1486-1509. m. Agnes Wall, widow of John Wall, by whom the manor of Southmead was acquired. He lived at Westbury-on-Trym and was buried in Westbury Church.

Richard Haynes (son), 1509-1583. m. (i) Dorothy Veal, by whom he had four sons and six daughters. [n.b. The Veal family came over with the Conqueror. see Atkyns.] (ii) Isabel ...... He died at Southmead aged 74 and was buried in Westbury Church. (M.I.)

Extract of will of Richard Haynes. 1580 : To be buried in the church of Westbyrge in my Father's Grave. To the poor box 10s., to 12 poor men of Westbury. To my wife Isabell. To my daughter Charitye my manor house of Southmeade and lands. My son Edmund : my daughter Agnes : my servant Henry Smythe : my son Thomas Heynes shall be my heir. To my daughter Charitie £10. To my daughter Catharine Moss £3 : my other servants. Residue to son Edward and daughter Agnes, made executors. I will that my last will and testament shall be faire-written in parchment and sealed uppon with a label pendant, and after Provinge thereof to be layed in the Tower of Westbyrre aforesaid, or else in some other safe keepinge to be seene at all tymes when neede shall be. My beloved brother-in-law Mr William Veel of Iron Acton, gent., John Hyett and Anthony Peyton, overseers. Witn. John Bantinge, curate, Thomas Goodman, James Busshell, Robert Backe and others.

Thomas Haynes (son), 1583-1604. m.(i) Joan Large. [There is a quaint monument to the Large family in Westbury Church] (ii) Mary, daughter of Matthew Poyntz of Alderley. [n.b. Atkyns has Joan daughter of Sir Anthony Poyntz, who was buried in the Gaunt Chapel, Bristol.] Thomas Haynes was buried in Westbury Church. (M.I.)

Richard Haynes (son), 1604-1665. m. (i) Margaret daughter of Edward Trotman of Cam. (ii) Mary Capell of Ross. He was churchgarden of Westbury Church.

[Note : Richard Haynes, alias Stringer, died at Stapleton 6 June 1631. Robert Haynes son and heir aged 21. Mentions 2 messuages and cottage and 60 acres of land, premises called Perkins and refers to wife Christiana. I.P.M. Thornbury, 4 September 1632. [Glos. I.P.M. Pt. 1, p. 179] This Richard Haynes was probably a son or relation of the Richard Haynes above.]

Thomas Haynes (son), 1665-1681. m. Mary Lambert of Chippenham. He made a considerable fortune in Bristol by trade (is described as a grocer) and in 1665 purchased the manor of Wick and Abson. He left Southmead manor and lived at Wick Court.

Extract of will of Thomas Haynes, 1679 : all my messuages, lands etc. in Wick, Abson and Doynton to my son Richard for life with remainder to his first son and each succeeding nine sons and for want of such issue to the daughters of the said Richard. To son Thomas £3000 to be laid out in the purchase of lands. To son James at 21 the house I dwell in in the parish of All Saints, Bristol, together with 4 acres of land in Barton Regis, Glos. To my wife Mary Lambert £600 in recompense for her dower, a and also £50. To son James £1000. To my daughters Mary and Hannah Haines £2000 each. My sonne James shall be put to school to Mr. Flowers of Chippenham to learn the Lattin tongue and Arithmetick according to his capacity, and be bounde an apprentice to some convenient trade or profession. Daughter Hannah to be placed at school. To sister Hawkesworth wife of Richard Haines of Thornbury, Glos., £10; to sister Ann Stone £10; to poor of Thornbury and of Wick and Abson £10. Residue to son Richard. Signed Tho. Haines. Overseers : Thos. Gouldney and Thomas Speed of Bristol, merchant.

Richard Haynes (son), 1681-1727. m. Anne, daughter of Christopher Cole of Charlton. R.H. was a J.P., High Sheriff of Glos. (1700) and Lord of the manor of Wick and Abson. He kept a Court Leet at Wick, and owned large estates in other parts of the country. [For Letters see Acc. Nos. 09808 and 8019] He was buried in the Canynge Chapel of Westbury Church. (M.I) His eldest son Christopher died while studying at the Temple, London, and Thomas succeeded to the lordship.

Thomas Haynes (son), 1727-1776. m. Sarah ..... He was, like his father, a Justice of the Peace. [For Letters see as above]

Richard Haynes (son) 1776-1816. m. Christian Russell. Had two brothers, Christopher and Joseph and a sister Elizabeth who married William Cornish.

Extract of will of Richard Haynes, 20 May 1816 : manor of Wick and Abson mortgaged to Walter Swayne. Wife Christian to live in the mansion house until her death, if she refuses, then Joseph Haynes R.N. shall live there for life. The manor mortgaged for £4000.

His two sons died before him

Christopher Haynes (1741-1806) m. Ann, daughter of William Lennott of Mangotsfield and by her had five daughters, Rebecca, Mary, Christian, Phillipa and Sarah. Educated at Oriel College, Oxford, M.A. 1765. Curate of Mangotsfield 1767. For 31 years Rector of Siston. Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Beaufort.

Capt. Joseph Haynes, R.N. m. Phillipa Shute. He died about 1814.

Richard Haynes (nephew) 1816-1846. Son of Christopher Haynes. m. Sarah Cornish, whose father was a solicitor. Died at the age of 73 in Downend, and by profession was a solicitor. [London address in 1816 : 2, Hunter Street, Brunswick Sq.]

Richard Haynes (son), 1846-1885. m. (i) Ann Russ, his cousin, the heiress of John Russ of Clifton. She died in 1871. (ii) Alice Woollery Adlington of Bedford Row, London, a ward in Chancery. Her father was one of the Registrars of the Court of Chancery. Richard Haynes was a Chancery lawyer and his office was in Pump Court, Lincoln's Inn. He died at Downend in 1885.

Wick Court was sold in 1856 to Richard Batterbury of 8, Fitzroy Road, Regents Park, for £8000.

PEDIGREE OF HAYNES

A pedigree of Haynes of Westbury-on-Trym and Wick and Abson appears in B. & G. Trans. vol.IX, pp.281-5.

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