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Seymour & Boleyn Cottages - Hitchin
« on: Sunday 24 July 11 21:35 BST (UK) »
has anyone got any information on the history of seymour cottage and boleyn cottage in great wymondley hitchin. They used to be two cottages but are now one and just known as boleyn cottage. I have found that they were built in 1818 but i am interested in anything else about them. There are four cottages altogether and are all thatched and were named after Henry viii 's wives. My partners son and his wife has just bought Boleyn cottage.


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Re: seymour & boleyn cottages hitchin
« Reply #1 on: Monday 25 July 11 15:05 BST (UK) »
In view of the names given to the properties it might be worthwhile looking at the deeds to see if they are replacement dwellings on older foundations, e.g. Elizabethan maybe?
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Re: seymour & boleyn cottages hitchin
« Reply #2 on: Monday 25 July 11 17:32 BST (UK) »
Thankyou for answering, will pass the info on
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Re: seymour & boleyn cottages hitchin
« Reply #3 on: Monday 25 July 11 21:01 BST (UK) »
As there were originally six, maybe whoever built them - or did them up for resale, thought it would be a cute idea to name them after six famous wives.  I doubt if Henry VIII would want to celebrate them all, especially as he executed 2 of them.
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Re: seymour & boleyn cottages hitchin
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 18:09 BST (UK) »
I can't make sense of the naming sequence. Why Boleyn and Seymour together? Doesn't make chronological or any other type of sense. If there were three pairs I would name them : Aragon and Boleyn; Seymour and Cleves; and Howard and Parr or maybe I'm missing something.
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Re: seymour & boleyn cottages hitchin
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 26 July 11 18:35 BST (UK) »
I don't know, all i know of is they were built for william wilshire in 1818 and he named them after henry's wives and for some reason seymour and boleyn was bought together and knocked into one cottage and just known as boleyn cottage.
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Re: Seymour & Boleyn Cottages - Hitchin
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 04 August 11 11:31 BST (UK) »
They probably weren't interested in chronology - or maybe thought it was tactless to put Aragon and Boleyn together!

If they were really interested in genealogy they should have put Boleyn and Howard together as they were cousins.
Chowns in Buckinghamshire
Broad, Eplett & Pope in St Ervan/St Columb Major, Cornwall
Browning & Moore in Cambridge, St Andrew the Less
Emms, Mealing & Purvey in Cotswolds, Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham in Norfolk
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Re: Seymour & Boleyn Cottages - Hitchin
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 04 August 11 13:36 BST (UK) »
And both of the same type of temprement.
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Re: Seymour & Boleyn Cottages - Hitchin
« Reply #8 on: Monday 08 August 11 15:08 BST (UK) »
Quite often the oldest parts of the deeds of very old properties are held at HALS for safekeeping.  It may be worth contacting them to see if they have anything.

http://www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/hals/

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