Matcham

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George Matcham's father George by Gilbert Stuart [various art websites and ThePeerage.com]

George Nelson Matcham drawn in 1828 from National Trust Collections.org.uk
From the Stourhead Collection, artist Stephen Catterson Smith the elder (Skipton 1806 – Dublin 1872)

George Nelson Matcham married Harriet Eyre of Newhouse in 1817 (daughter of William Eyre) The Peerage.

This page contains a full copy of Matcham's book "Hundred of Frustfield" in Sir Richard Colt Hoare's History of Modern Wiltshire, published in 1844. Sir Richard (the fourth owner of Stourhead) died in 1838 and patronage was continued by his brother Henry Merrick to complete the volume.

Matcham's book has been reconstructed here from two sources. The first is a photocopy of all the pages covering Whiteparish (to page 80) plus the two end pages, taken from the bound Church copy and loaned by Marion Clutterbuck, vicar at the time. The second source is an unbound print of the full book, but missing some pages, chiefly those located in between the numbered pages and showing pedigrees and engravings. This copy was lent by Patricia Boyle, who as Pat Keeley was the wife of the Rev. Roger Keeley, vicar of Whiteparish from 1957 to 1987.

Some of the pages in the bound and unbound copies are not in the same order, but it appears that there are pages out of order in both copies. Here I have re-ordered the pages according to the contents list in the book.

I've copied a number of sections of the book into web pages for ease of access and searching:

In the contents list below the numbers are the page numbers printed in the book. At one point a number of extra pages have been inserted before printing, with pages 28* to 34* coming between pages 28 and 29. Some family pedigrees are on double size fold-out pages inserted between two numbered pages, and some single pages with engravings have also been inserted between numbered pages. From page 81 I've used A4 scans of the pages, so have omitted the page heading including page number on some sheets to fit onto the page - all other detail is shown.

Title page
i) Map of Frustfield
ii) Map of the Diocese of Salisbury Add page from my copy of Matcham
iii) Dedication to Henry Merrik Hoare, Esq.
iv) Dedication, second page
v) Preface
vi) Preface
vii) Preface
viii) Preface
ix) Page missing

x) Page missing

xi) Contents
xii) Contents continued, list of plates and separate pedigrees

1) General History of Frustfield Hundred
2) ...
3) Parish of Whiteparish
4) Tything of Alderstone
5) Pedigree of Berenger
6) ...
7) ...
8) ...
9) ...

10) ...
Facing p10) Pedigree of the Family of St Barbe
11) Pedigree of Bristow, Advowson of the Church
12) List of Patrons, Rectors and Vicars
13) Church; with Plan
14) Monumental Inscriptions
15) ...
16) ...
17) ...
18) ...
19) Extracts from the Parish Register: Baptisms

20) Marriages, Burials
21) Church Lands
22) ...
23) Schools
24) ...
25) ...
26) Manor-house of the St Barbes
Facing p26) The ancient mansion of the Saint Barbes at Whiteparish Add page from my copy of Matcham
27) Family of Bulkeley
28) Pedigree of Bulkeley, Broxmore House

28*-34*) Notices of the family of Bristow, of Broxmore
30*) Bristow continued
31*) Bristow continued, Bristow, of Beesthorpe Hall, Notts, and of Twyford House
32*) Pedigree of Fitzhamon, Alias de Burstow, of Burstow, in Surrey
33*) Pedigree of Bristow, of Ayot Saint Lawrence, and of Little Bibbesworth, Herts.
34*) Pedigree of Bristow of Broxmore Park, Wiltshire
Facing Page 34* i) Pedigree of Wyche of Salisbury Add page from my copy of Matcham
Facing Page 34* ii) Pedigree of Wyche continued- Sir Peter Wyche=Anne Meredith Add page from my copy of Matcham

29) Tythings of Whelpley and Abbotstone
30) Tythings of Whelpley and Abbotstone continued

31) Tythings of Whelpley and Abbotstone continued; Pedigree of Engleys, or Pedigree of Ryngewode, or Ringwood
32) Tythings of Whelpley and Abbotstone continued
33) Tythings of Whelpley and Abbotstone continued
Before Page 34) Engravings of Brickworth House and Cowsfield House
34) Tythings of Whelpley and Abbotstone continued, Family of Eyre, of Brickworth **EYRE of Brickworth**
35) Tythings of Whelpley and Abbotstone continued
36) Tythings of Whelpley and Abbotstone continued
37) Tythings of Whelpley and Abbotstone continued
38) Tythings of Whelpley and Abbotstone continued
39) Tythings of Whelpley and Abbotstone continued, Whelpley Farm

40) Whelpley Chapel
41) Whelpley Chapel continued
42) Whelpley Chapel Institutions
43) Whelpley Freeholders
44) Pedigree of Barrett and Keileway, of Whelpley and Whiteparish; Younge's Farm; Manor of Blackswell (now Blaxwell)
45) Pedigree of Bacon, of Whiteparish
46) Sansom's Farm; Dry Farm; Chadwell, anciently Chaldewell Farm
47) Newton; Harestock; Pedigree of Heyraz, Keeper of the King's Harriers
48) Manor of Moore see transcription
49) Pedigree of Bettesthorne, Brereton, and Compton

50) Abbotstone Manor Institutions; The Manor of Tichbourne
51) Newhouse, otherwise Tychebourne Park
52) Newhouse, otherwise Tychebourne Park continued
Facing Page 52) New House Add page from my copy of Matcham
53) Family of Eyre **EYRE family excluding Giles Eyre of Brickworth and his heirs (see Page 34 for Giles Eyre)**
54) Family of Eyre continued
55) Family of Eyre continued
56) Family of Eyre continued
56 i) Pedigree of the Family of Eyre Add page from my copy of Matcham
56 ii) Pedigree of the Family of Eyre of Brickworth, Landford, New Sarum, &c. and Eyre of Eyre Court, Co. Galway
57) Family of Eyre continued
58) Family of Eyre continued
59) Family of Eyre continued

60) Family of Eyre continued
61) Family of Eyre continued
62) Langley Wood
63) Langley Wood continued
64) Langley Wood continued
65) Langley Wood continued
66) The Earldoms
67) Fyrstefelda - Frustfield
68) Frustfield continued
69) Tything of Cowsfield

70) Cowsfield Louveries
71) Cowesfield Chapel Institutions
72) Cowsfield Spilman
73) Cowsfield Spilman continued
74) Pedigree of Spelman; Pedigree of Hitchcock
To face p.74) Pedigree of Lawrence, of Cowesfield
75) Cowsfield Esturmy
76) Melchet Park (in the Hundred of Alderbury)
77) Melchet Park continued
78) Family of Tregagle
79) Pedigree of Tregagle

80) Melchet Park continued
81) Landford (anciently Laneford)
82) Landford continued
83) Landford continued
84) Pedigree of Lygh, or Lye, of Corsley and Landford, co. Wilts
85) Pedigree of Davenant
86) Pedigree of Davenant continued; Landford continued
87) Landford Lodge, Landford Church Institutions
88) Landford Church Institutions continued; Landford continued
89) Landford Church; Monumental Inscriptions

90) Landford Church Monumental Inscriptions continued
91) Landford Church Extracts from the Register: Baptisms
92) Landford Church Extracts from the Register: Marriages, Burials
93) Advertisement
94) Plaitford
95) Plaitford continued
96) Pedigree of Warder; Plaitford Church
97) Tithing of West Wellow
98) West Wellow Church
99) West Wellow Church continued

100) Bramshaw
101) Bramshaw continued
102) Bramshaw continued
103) Pedigree of Le Boteler
104) Warrens; Pedigree of Warren, of Bramshaw
105) Birchenwood
106) Birchenwood continued
107) Pedigree of the Family of Eyre of Salisbury
108) The Birchenwood Advowson
109) The Church

110) The Church continued
111) Appendix: Nomina Villarum; Veredictum Hundredi de Furstefeld, Anno 39 Henry III
112) Appendix: Grant of the manor of Alderstone, with the other Estates of St. Edmund's College, in Salisbury, to William St. Barbe
113) Appendix: Grant of the manor of Alderstone continued
114) Appendix: Grant of the manor of Alderstone continued
115) Appendix: Grant of the manor of Alderstone continued
116) Appendix: Rymer's Federa, vol. xv. page 99 - Anno 38 Henry VIII
117) Appendix: Rymer's Federa continued
118) Appendix: Pedigree of Tropnell
119) Appendix: Notices of ancient families connected with the Parish of Whiteparish: Stratford; Berenger; Fitz Ellis; Hatchments in the Church of Whiteparish in 1838

120) Appendix: A Rate on Frustfield Hundred for Ship Money
121) Appendix: Population Returns 1821, Census of Frustfield Hundred 1801 to 1841 (every ten years
122) Appendix: County Rate Returns for Frustfield Hundred 1843; Poor Rate 1833, 1834, 1835; Church Lands in the Parish of Whiteparish 1826
123) Appendix: Donations distributed to the Poor; Charity Schools for the Education of the Poor; items of interest
124) Appendix: Addenda et Corrigenda
125) Appendix: Addenda et Corrigenda continued

After Page 125 i) Synopsis of the Diocese of Salisbury Add page from my copy of Matcham
After Page 125 ii) Map of the Diocese of Salisbury with list of all Archdeaconaries, Deaneries and Parishes Add page from my copy of Matcham

Page 0 - Title page

Page i) Map of Frustfield

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Page ii) Map of the Diocese of Salisbury Add page from my copy of Matcham

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