Our Early Ancestors<\/p>\n
Although many of our earlier ancestors are quite widely documented in both original, documents and transcripts, quite often there is not enough evidence to be able to allocate them a place on a family tree. In\u00a0\u00a0the past some accounts regarding the family, can I believe be a little misleading.<\/p>\n
These accounts , were some times based on circumstantial evidence, or be based on other details published in yet earlier accounts. one of\u00a0\u00a0these being “hutchins history Of\u00a0Dorset”\u00a0\u00a0which\u00a0\u00a0was largely used as a source of\u00a0\u00a0reference by\u00a0\u00a0historians.\u00a0\u00a0This publication is a large and quite comprehensive work\u00a0\u00a0produced in 1898 and was compiled by a Dorset clergyman , who over a number of years, with the aid of students and assistants managed to assemble this magnificent\u00a0\u00a0Magnum Opus of reference.<\/p>\n
.In respect of our family however it is a little misleading, as I discovered\u00a0\u00a0early on in my researches The discrepancies became apparent to me, after I had consulted a number of original documents and transcriptions, I will be going into more detail regarding this later on in this account<\/p>\n
It not surprising that given the enormous amount of\u00a0\u00a0research that the rev Hutchins and his assistants had to carry out , and having to consult original documents without the aid of modern indexes and transcriptions\u00a0\u00a0and at that the material he had to research would have been dotted about in various parts of the country, that there should be a few discrepancies in such a magnificent\u00a0\u00a0work<\/p>\n
Ignoring the above\u00a0\u00a0and only taking them into account when reading the text, the rest of the chapter dealing with our family is of great interest particularly in respect to details of\u00a0the amount of\u00a0\u00a0properties and land they owned. Much of\u00a0\u00a0this account however\u00a0\u00a0does not deal with our line of ancestry the branch of the family to which he is largely referring\u00a0became extinct by aprox 1650 the reasons being that their were a great number of female heirs in the family in these earlier days to whom these holdings passed and from thence, to their descendants bearing\u00a0\u00a0their husbands family name, many of these families were quite wealthy in their own right, since the earlier bearers of our family name, appeared to be very adept at, marrying\u00a0\u00a0off their daughters to wealthy and well connected families.<\/p>\n
But by the time that the last male heir to that branch of the family had died their actual fortunes had dwindled drastically by reason of\u00a0\u00a0that a great deal of\u00a0\u00a0both the estates and properties had been mortgaged to enable the mortgagee to maintain\u00a0\u00a0his life style has a gentleman.<\/p>\n
of In our family line however things appear to have been a little different although our own early ancestors were often referred to as gentlemen they did take an active interest in their estates and\u00a0\u00a0performed\u00a0\u00a0more the role of squire, rather than that of\u00a0\u00a0Gentlemen independent means.<\/p>\n
As you will\u00a0see later on in this history although the Dorset branch of the family continued to farm for several centuries in the Buckland Newton, Hilton and Mappowder area, as the years passed the families got larger and there were more descendants after each death to take their share of the legacies.\u00a0In my researches I have never been able to find out when the Hilton properties an disappeared from the families holdings I rather think it was just after the civil war, which is not surprising since they were only held under grant from the Crown.<\/p>\n
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