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    Dashwood, Annabella

    Female 1683 - 1771  (~ 87 years)


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    • Name Dashwood, Annabella 
      Christened 4 Oct 1683  St Botolph Bishopsgate, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Buried 19 Jan 1771  Buxted, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I01445  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 29 Apr 2015 

      Father Dashwood, Samuel,   b. Abt 1643, Of St Mary Le Bow, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 14 Sept 1705, Hanover Square, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 62 years) 
      Mother Smith, Ann,   c. 27 Dec 1650, St Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jun 1721, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years) 
      Married 19 May 1670  St Dunstans in the East, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F01051  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family Medley, Thomas,   c. 4 Feb 1678, Barcombe, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 23 Feb 1728, Buxted, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 50 years) 
      Married 12 Aug 1713  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
       1. Medley, Thomas,   b. Abt 1715, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 11.03.1735/36, Buxted, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location
       2. Medley, Samuel,   b. 1716, Friston, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 16 Apr 1741, Buxted, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 25 years)
       3. Medley, Edward,   c. 30 Aug 1719, Holborn, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 16 Aug 1751, Buxted, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 31 years)
       4. Medley, George,   b. 6 Aug 1720, Of Buxted, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 1 Jan 1796, Buxted, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 75 years)
       5. Medley, Francis,   c. 24 Apr 1722, Westminster, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1742, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 19 years)
       6. Medley, Annabella,   b. Abt 1725, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 23 Dec 1758, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 33 years)
       7. Medley, Catherine,   b. 9 Oct 1726, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1786, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years)
      Family ID F01949  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Description Will of Annabella Medley Date 26 February 1771 Catalogue reference PROB 11/964 Dept Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury=wants to be buried near husband in Sussex, grandaughter Julian Evelyn, son George, daughter Catherine Medley.
        Warningore Park in St John Without and Chailey, inherited by Thomas Medley on the death of John Raynes in 1689 [no ref. or date]
        Related information: For a map of Warningore Park in 1661, presumably made on purchase, see AMS 4809
        Contents: This estate passed to Thomas Medley in the right of his wife Susannah, sister of John Raynes, on his death in 1689. After her death, Thomas held by the courtesy of England, and in 1713 his son Thomas Medley released to him his right in Warningore Park in consideration of his own marriage with Arabella Dashwood - see SAS/PN 165

        The whole estate - settlement of 1713 [no ref. or date]
        Related information: The parcels in the settlement on the marriage of Thomas Medley the younger with Annabella, daughter of Samuel Dashwood kt, lord mayor of London, Aug 1713, provide a list of the entire estate with tenants' names and annual values - see SAS/PN 357

        Draft deed SAS-B/343 Feb 1748
        Contents:
        Between Edward Medley of Friston, esq. (who was the 3rd, and then the eldest surviving son and heir of Thomas Medley sometime of Coneyboroughs in Barcombe, but late of Friston, esq. decd.) by Annabella his wife, who was one of the daughters of Samuel Dashwood by Dame Anne his wife, both decd., and the said Thomas Medley was the eldest son and heir of Thomas Medley late of Coneyboroughs, esq. also decd.) of the one part, Charles Rochester of Featherstone Buildings, St. Andrew's, Holborn, gent., of the 2nd. part and Henry Gibbs of Featherstone Buildings, gent., of the 3rd part, to lead the use of a Fine for docking and barring estates tail (following a lease for a year to the said Charles Rochester) of the following
        The capital messuage or mansion house and farm called Bechington otherwise Berchington in Friston and lands &c. called Westland, Great Westland, Belge, the Mead by the mill, the meadow adjoining thereto, High Grass, Sheepy, Smith's Croft, the Warren, the Newfield, the Cowfield, Wickland field, Standcroft, Westland otherwise Holmbush Lane, South Lane, and the Wicklands, containing 289 ac. And the Sheepdowns, sheepwalks or pastures belonging to the said farm called Southdowne, Abbotsdowne, Otherdowne, Milldowne, Wicklands downe and Duddles Downe containing 465 ac. in Friston (formerly the estate of Thos. Medley, grandfather of the said Edw. Medley
        Parcels of pasture ground called Mounts and Farne Street containing 44 ac. in Jevington, Folkington als Fokeington and Hailsham and a meadow or pasture called Partridge Thorne, 20 ac. in Hailsham And meadow and pasture called the Twenty Acres in Hailsham; all formerly in the possession of Thos. Medley the grandfather and since in the tenure of James Dippory
        The manor of Claverham Harwards with its rights, members and appurtenances in Arlington, Chalvington otherwise Chaunton, Selmeston, Hellingly, Ripe, and Chiddingly
        The farm called Old Claverham Farm with the messuage, barns, stables, lands &c. in Arlington, Chalvington, Selmeston, Hellingly, Ripe, and Chiddingly, containing 435 ac., subject to a fee farm rent of £50 a year payable to the heirs or devisees of Richard Perry late of London, merchant
        The messuage, barns, stables, outhouses &c. and 3 pieces of land containing 14 ac. in Chalvington, one piece called Pococks, containing 6 ac., adjoining lands called Northole, E., lands called Culverbrook, S., the king's highway from Chalvington to the Dicker, W. and other lands of the said Edw. Medley called Willards, N. one other piece being called Broom Croft, 2 ac., adjoining Willards, W. and S. and the Dicker, N. The 3rd piece called North Hole, 6 ac., adjoining the king's highway from the Dicker to Selmeston, E., lands of James Markwicke, S., land called Pocock, W. and lands of Thos. Willard, late of Elizabeth Willard, N
        The manor of New Claverham in Arlington and Selmeston otherwise Simpson, and the farm called Claverham farm, with the capital messuage, barns, buildings, lands &c. containing 242 ac. in Arlington and Selmeston, formerly in the tenure of Joseph Picknall at the yearly rent of £132. 2. and since of Storer Adams
        The manor of Otham in Otham, Hailsham, Folkington, Westham and Arlington and all rents, quitrents, rents of assize, rents parcel of fee farm rent payable to the King
        And all the site of the Manor of Otham and the demesne lands of the said manor and the messuages, buildings, lands &c. belonging containing 110 ac. in the said parsishes
        A toft and lands containing 20 ac. called Newgate in Hailsham and Otham
        Marsh and meadowland called Otham Wish containing 3 ac. in Hailsham and Folkington
        All the said manor, site, toft, lands &c. being formerly in the tenure of Mary Fryer, widow, at the yearly rent of £60 and since in the tenure of William Body junr
        Also 2 closes of pasture land called Hawks, formerly in the tenure of John Henley and since of Edw. Jenner, and woodland or coppice ground adjoining called Hawkswood in the possession of the said Edw. Medley in Hailsham and Hellingly containing 24 ac., bounded by lands of Thos. Delve, W., the highway from Horsebridge to Magham Downe, E. and N. and the highway from Magham Downe to Lepecross, S
        Three messuages or tenements, one called the Chequer Inn, reputed for two burgages, with all barns, buildings, orchards &c. and pieces of land, meadow, &c. containing 20 ac. And land formerly a hop garden, 4 ac.,; all in Eastgrinsted in the tenure of Wm. Parker at the yearly rent of £90
        The manors of Pett and Mersham with the royalties, rents, services, courts &c. to the said manors belonging, with all their rights, members and appurtenances (the Advowson of the church of Pett only excepted)
        The messuage or mansion house called Mersham, with 2 barns, one stable, one oasthouse, one weynhouse, 2 closes, one garden and one orchard and the following lands &c., viz
        The sixteen Acres or the Great Downe; the Upper and the Lower Tongs, 8 ac.; the Gate Field, 4 ac., pasture; the Three Acres otherwise the close next the Gate field; the Thirteen Acres, pasture; Stumblett Wood, 5 ac., woodland; 1 ac. of woodland adjoining; Stumblett Field, 3 ac. 2 r., pasture; the Cliffe Field and the Cliffe otherwise the Lower Cliffe Field, 16 ac.; the Pear Tree Field, 5 ac., pasture; the Barr Field, meadow, 4 ac.; the Brook Field, 3 ac., meadow; the Upper Best Brook, 3 ac. 2 r.; the Lower Best Brook, 4 ac.; Knaves, 1 ac., meadow; Oasthouse Brook adjoining the Oasthouse, 3 ac.; Lower Brook, 3 ac.; Orchard Brook, 1 ac.; pasture adjoining Horse Brook, 1 ac.; the Hop Garden Brook adjoining the Hopgarden, 2 ac.; pasture adjoining Hopgarden Brook, 2 ac.; the last 8 pieces being formerly called the Rushy Brooks
        A piece of land in tillage, formerly a hopgarden, adjoining the new barn on the Margrate land, 3 ac.; 3 pastures called Margrate lands, 21 ac.; a piece of land then or late in tillage also called Margrate lands, 10 ac.; pasture with a barn, part also of Margrate lands, since called New Barn Field, 1 ac. 2 r.; The Eight Acres in tillage, 9 ac.; the Six Acres adjoining the last, in tillage; pasture also called the Six Acres, adjoining the last, 6 ac.; pasture adjoining, 6 ac.; 2 ac. 3 r. in tillage; 3 ac. in tillage; 4 ac. part pasture and part hopgarden; the last three pieces being called Hop Garden Fields
        The Old Hop Garden adjoining Margrate Wood, 2 ac.; Margrate Wood, woodland, adjoining the Old Hop Garden, 16 ac.; Great Pett Wood, 12 ac.; the Firzy Field, pasture, adjoining Great Pett Wood, 5 ac.; Little Pett Wood, 3 ac. adjoining woodlands of Mr. Manner of Rye, E., W. and N. and the king's highway from Pett Church to Pannell Bridge, S.; the Nine Acres, marshland, adjoining the highway from the Salts to Pett, E.; marshland adjoining the last, 2 ac. 3 r.; marshland adjoining the last, 7 ac
        The Salt Panns, marshland, 4 ac. 2 r.; Rail Marsh, 4 ac.; Dennetts Marsh, 4 ac.; the Little Marshes, 4 pieces, 12 ac.; adjoining the Outlands, S.; Home Marshes, 2 pieces, 23 ac. adjoining Shervall Marshes; Pound Marsh, 5a. 3r. 29p.; the Outlands or Salts; the Green Ley, pasture, 10 ac. adjoining the Outlands or Salts
        Cliffe Coppice, woodland, 5 ac. adjoining Green Ley, S. and E., to the Upper Tongs, the Thirteen Acres and the Cliffe Eight Acres, N. and W.; a toft and 7 pieces called the Haddocks, 30 ac.; all the last mentioned toft, barns, stable, buildings and farms were formerly in the tenure of Joseph Edw. Gage, esq., and Edward Burden and late of the said Thos. Medley the grandfather and then of John Nabbs and Wm. Farncomb
        Also the Teet Marshes, 2 pieces, 16 ac.; the Rail Marshes, 2 pieces, 10 ac. 3 p.; another marshland, 12 ac.; the last 5 pieces being theretofore in the occupation of Nicholas Meiles and then of Moses Cloake
        The Delfe Marshes, 3 pieces, 30 ac., formerly in the tenure of Wm. Farncomb. And 3 marshes adjoining Pound Marsh, 25 ac., late in the tenure of Thos. Weeks and then of Wm. Cramp
        All the above named manors, messuages, lands &c. and premises being in Pett, Fairlight, Iclesham and Guestling and were late the estates of Joseph Gage, esq., father of the said Joseph Edw. Gage, and by him purchased of Andrew Wharton, esq., and Edward Betworth, citizen and haberdasher of London, with the proper moneys of the said Jos. Edw. Gage, and were purchased by Thomas Medley the grandfather from the said Jos. Edw. Gage and Thomas Gage his only brother
        The said Charles Rochester being made the tenant for the purpose of a Recovery by the said Henry Gibbs