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There\u00a0\u00a0appears to be very little on record\u00a0\u00a0concerning , John other than he took over the Walter\u2019s lands, at Buckland Newton and\u00a0\u00a0Hilton from in 1557 after the death of Bridget, as I’ve mentioned earlier. I have never been able to find any reference to Walters will or an inquest\u00a0\u00a0PM. I am sure there is one or the other lurking somewhere in the archives. Due to the absence of\u00a0\u00a0either of these documents, one cannot be certain what exactly he did inherit, but I am pretty\u00a0\u00a0certain, that he did get almost the whole of the estate, with a small amount going to Francis, Walters younger son. With\u00a0\u00a0John, also\u00a0\u00a0there seems to have been no will recorded\u00a0\u00a0, but one thing is certain he did have a son also named John who died at Shaftesbury\u00a0\u00a0in 1610.<\/p>\n
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It is from the will left by John that we learn of the full extent of\u00a0\u00a0this branch of the family’s holdings, which were mostly handed down\u00a0\u00a0by\u00a0\u00a0Walter, through his heirs, these were roughly as I have mentioned previously, as being originally owned by Richard,\u00a0\u00a0who died in 1552, but also there is a bit of a mystery in this will regarding lands known as East and West Orchard,\u00a0\u00a0these are\u00a0\u00a0the names given in various documents as being in the Purbecks,\u00a0\u00a0which at this time are recorded as being owned by the Kimmeridge branch of the family.<\/p>\n
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The reference to this piece of estate could be due to him having lands in Shaftesbury with a similar names, or that\u00a0\u00a0this branch of the family also inherited a portion of this property, from The older Richard who died in 1483. I think that the latter is probably the case, I\u00a0\u00a0have seen other such anomalies, elsewhere in records,\u00a0\u00a0especially\u00a0\u00a0those of later date.\u00a0\u00a0From the small number of wills that I have inspected the family in general\u00a0\u00a0did not stick to what is widely stated, as the family tradition of\u00a0\u00a0leaving\u00a0\u00a0everything to their oldest\u00a0son and heir, but rather spreading the estate around,\u00a0\u00a0more fairly and evenly, amongst their other children,\u00a0\u00a0the daughters and their husbands\u00a0\u00a0also getting their\u00a0\u00a0quota.<\/p>\n
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John had four surviving children.\u00a0\u00a0George, John, Elizabeth and Edith.\u00a0\u00a0George inherited some of the Shaftesbury estate and\u00a0\u00a0the Somerset properties, with various parts of it going to his daughters and their\u00a0\u00a0husbands . From thereon the will gets a little muddled.<\/p>\n
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But what is certain is that, his younger son John, who is from who we all have descended, received the Hilton Buckland Newton and Dorchester properties and land.<\/p>\n
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The anomalies regarding land ownership, which I have just mentioned become obvious,\u00a0\u00a0in these later generations\u00a0\u00a0in as much as some, members of the family of this branch seem to have had some connection with both Quarleston and winterborne Whitchurch, these also being the areas inhabited, by members of the Purbeck\u00a0\u00a0branch.<\/p>\n
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On taking the face value of the documentation, that the Purbeck and the Hilton\/ Shaftesbury branches of the family were entirely independent, but I do believe that there was quite a strong connection between them for instance, they would probably meet at the Dorchester, Blandford or other local markets, and as I suggest in the previous paragraph, they did also own some adjacent land, and they could have also rented or sold land to each other.<\/p>\n
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George the eldest of Johns sons\u00a0\u00a0inherited most of the Shaftesbury property, and appears to have lived there\u00a0\u00a0for the rest of his life becoming a much respected citizen and between the year 1635-1636 was mayor he was also chairman of the Watch committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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