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This project covers the ancestry and descendants of the Elim Estate, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. This is one of the individual plantation projects in the Jamaican Planters and Plantation series.==Summary==1811 - Elim Estate registered to Thomas Foster.1817 - [Foster], Thomas, Elim, 368 slaves/ 324 stock.1833 - Elim Estate registered to John Foster.18th Jul 1836 - 385 Enslaved - £7252 17S 8D==Refere...
This project covers the ancestry and descendants of the Bogue Estate, Balaclava, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. This is one of the individual plantation projects in the Jamaican Planters and Plantation series.==Summary==1811 - Bogue Estate registered to Frederick, William, and John Foster.1811 - Foster, F. W. and John, Bogue 369 slaves/ 547stock.1817 - [Foster], Fred., William & John, Bogue, T1833 - B...
Historic Buildings of The Channel Islands See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page ===== Image right - Mont Orgueil Castle or Gorey Castle , Saint Martin, Jersey - by Man vyi - Self-photographed, Public Domain, Wiki Commons
Historic Buildings of Hampshire ==England Image right - Beaulieu Palace House >===== Image - this photo was taken by Przemysław JahrAutorem zdjęcia jest Przemysław JahrWykorzystując zdjęcie proszę podać jako autora:Przemysław Jahr / Wikimedia Commons - Own work, Public Domain,[ WIKI]The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Gloucestershire, w...
Aynhoe Park, Oxfordshire, England===Aynho Park==Aynhoe Park, is a Grade I listed 17th-century country house rebuilt after the English Civil War on the southern edge of the stone-built village of Aynho near Banbury, Oxfordshire. It overlooks the Cherwell valley that divides Northamptonshire from Oxfordshire. The house represents four architectural periods: Jacobean, Carolean and both the early 1...
Witley Park, Surrey, England= Witley Park was a 19th-century house and is an estate in Surrey, between Godalming and Haslemere. ===History===The estate named Lea Park between Godalming and Haslemere, Surrey, and the adjacent South Park Farm, were purchased in 1890 from the Earl of Derby. The title to the estate included the titular Lordship of the Manor and control of Hindhead Common. Lea Park ...
This project covers the ancestry and descendants of the Lancaster Estate, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. This is one of the individual plantation projects in the Jamaican Planters and Plantation series.==Summary==1811 - Lancaster Estate registered to Charles Foster.1811 - Foster, Charles, Lancaster 155 slaves/ 210 stock.1817 - [Foster], Charles, Lancaster, T==References, Resources, and Links==* Jamaic...
Lanyhydrock House, Cornwall, England= Lanhydrock (Cornish: Lannhedrek,[1] meaning "church enclosure of St Hydrock") is a civil parish centred on a country estate and mansion in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The parish lies south of the town of Bodmin[2] and is bounded to the north by Bodmin parish, to the south by Lanlivery parish and to the west by Lanivet parish. The population was 171 in the 200...
Odell Castle Estate (Odell & Wahull Manors), Bedfordshire, England====Domesday Book of 1086===There are two manors in Odell recorded in the Domesday Book. * 1. One was held by an Arnulf of Ardres (a town near Calais). >>He had four and a half hides and a third of a virgate and held the manor from Count Eustace II of Boulogne. The manor comprised three villagers, seven smallholders and two slave...
Pooley Hall, Warwickshire, England= Pooley Hall is a Manor house built in 1509 on the outskirts of Polesworth, Warwickshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building and a private residence.===The Cockayne Family===The present Hall was built in 1509 by Sir Thomas Cockayne "The Magnificent", who was knighted at the Battle of Tournai by King Henry VII. It was built on the site of an earlier Hal...
Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, England= Cholmondeley Castle (/ˈtʃʌmlɪ/ chum-lee) is a country house in the civil parish of Cholmondeley, Cheshire, England. Together with its adjacent formal gardens it is surrounded by parkland. The site of the house has been a seat of the Cholmondeley family since the 12th century. The present house replaced a timber-framed hall nearby. It was built in the earl...
Historic Buildings of Brecknockshire, Wales>===Now mainly in Powys - >>> Borough of Brecknock parishes of Penderyn and Vaynor went instead to the Cynon Valley and Merthyr Tydfil districts in Mid Glamorgan, whilst the urban district of Brynmawr and the parish of Llanelly from Crickhowell Rural District became part of Blaenau Gwent Image right - Brecon Castle See Historic Buildings of Britain and...
Aldcliffe Hall, Lancashire,England= Aldcliffe Hall was a 19th century country house, now demolished, which replaced a previous mediaeval building, on the bank of the Lune estuary in Aldcliffe, Lancashire, England.Built in a porous local stone, it was covered in stucco for protection.===History===The Aldcliffe estate was acquired by the strongly Catholic Dalton family in 1557 during the reign of...
Historic Buildings of Worcestershire ==England Image right - Hagley Hall ===== Image by Hagley Hall - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wiki Commons =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Worcestershire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as appropriate. GENi profiles of ...
Great Moreton Hall, Cheshire, England= Overview from Wikipedia: Great Moreton Hall is a former country house in Moreton cum Alcumlow near Congleton, in Cheshire, England, less than a mile (1.6 km) from its better-known near namesake Little Moreton Hall. Designed by Edward Blore, it was built in 1841 by Manchester businessman George Holland Ackers, to replace a large timber-framed building that ...
Historic Buildings of Wiltshire ==England Image right - Longford Castle ===== Image by Peter - originally posted to Flickr as Longford Castle, CC BY 2.0, Wiki Commons =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Wiltshire, with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as approp...
Coworth House, Berkshire, England= Coworth House , located in Sunningdale, near Ascot is a late 18th Century house recently gutted and rebuilt for use as a hotel. ===History===Cowarth House was a new house at the time of the American Declaration of Independence and contemporary with Captain Cook's third and last world voyage, being first built in 1776. It is named for and situated in the Hamlet...
Swallowfield Park, Berkshire, England=The present house at Swallowfield Park , was erected in 1689 by Henry Hyde, the 2nd Earl of Clarendon, for his wife, the Swallowfield heiress, Flower Backhouse. She was the daughter of William Backhouse, the famous alchemist and inventor, whose family had owned the estate since the late 16th century. Their old Tudor mansion had replaced the previous 'castle...
Bostock House & Bostock Hall, Cheshire, England=The manor of Bostock became the seat of a family who were tenants of the Vernon family, although there are no accuraterecords from the 11th and 12th centuries. This family then took the name of their home styling themselves as ‘de Bostock’. The exact location of the early settlement is not known, but the original Bostock Hall is situated about a m...
Welford Park, Berkshire,England= Welford Park was originally the site of a monastic grange that was granted to Abingdon Abbey way back in Saxon times. The house was known as 'Farm Court' and was run on behalf of the monks by a bailiff.After the Dissolution, King Henry VIII used the place for a time as a hunting lodge. Later, in 1546, it was granted on a long-term lease to Sir Thomas Parry Senio...
Sunninghill Park, Berkshire, England= Sunninghill Park is a country house and estate of some 665 acres (2.69 km2; 1.039 sq mi), located north of Cheapside, in the civil parishes of Sunninghill and Ascot and Winkfield, adjoining the south-western boundary of Windsor Great Park in the English county of Berkshire. It was the official residence of the Duke of York from 1990 until 2004.SUNNINGHILL P...
Historic Buildings of West Sussex ==England Image right - Wakehurst Place Ardingly ===== Image Geograph © Copyright Ian Capper and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . See >===== Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page >===== Historic Buildings of East Sussex The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in West Sussex, with ...
Historic Buildings of Rutland (now East Midlands) ==England Image right - Tolthorpe Hall >===== Image by Davecrosby uk - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wiki Commons =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Rutland (East Midlands), with links to sub-projects for specific buildings as app...
Historic Buildings of Nottinghamshire ==England Image right - Kelham Hall >===== Image Geograph © Copyright David Hallam-Jones and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence . =====See Historic Buildings of Britain and Ireland - Main Page The object of this project is to provide information about historic buildings in the county of Nottinghamshire, with links to sub-projects for specific...
Starborough Castle, Surrey, England= Starborough Castle , known historically as Sterborough Castle, is a Neo-Gothic garden house of dressed sandstone near the eastern boundary of Surrey, built in 1754 by Sir James Burrow. It occupies the north-eastern portion of an artificial island south of the River Eden, roughly 3 km to the south-west of Edenbridge. It is a Grade II* listed building and sche...