River Hall - Biddenden

[DawnC86548]

HI,

I am asking for any suggestions on finding a history of a house.  The name of the house is River Hall and according to cousins the house is still around.
From what I am told, it is a different type of genealogy to research this type of genealogy.

My family is the Beales who have been in the Biddenden area since the 1600s?   The later generations supposedly lived at River Hall.

Is there records on this type of history?

Thanks for your time,
Dawn

[keyboard86]

Hi Dawn, just checked the 1851 and their is a Beale family headed by a Richard Beale 34 occ Grazier with wife Elizabeth 32 and large family all born Biddenden residing at what has been transcribed as River HALE House, Biddenden
Census Ref HO107/1620/94/22
Keyboard86

EDIT Richard & Elizabeth and family are at River Hall in 1871
Googling River Hall Biddenden lead to a fascinating item re Richard Beale under Tenants for a Nineteenth-Century Kentish Farm, plus a lovely photograph of the house as it stands now.

[DawnC86548]

HI,

I will have to try that - googling River Hall.

Question:  What is a grazier?

[keyboard86]

HI,

I will have to try that - googling River Hall.

Question:  What is a grazier?

  Google it!

Keyboard86

[grandarog]

A grazier was someone who pastures and raises cattle.
If it is a typo a glazier is some who cuts glass and mends windows.

You will find a lot of info on this link:-
https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=676&q=River+hall+biddenden&oq=River+hall+biddenden&gs_l=img.12..0i24.2816.12773.0.15551.20.13.0.7.7.0.118.1256.8j5.13.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.20.1256.EaNrVO7uXn8#imgrc=wShh-7Fl5fT1QM%3A

[DawnC86548]

Thank you for the information.  I had mostly mistype the spelling - that is what I get for doing late night genealogy!!

[David Boulding]

Some more about River Hall here:

 http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/letters/beale.html

and here:

http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/surnames.beale/560.2.1/mb.ashx

[LucyLoo777]

My husbands family have the same Beale ancestors.
The earliest Beale's I have traced are Richard Beale from Biddenden 1642 and his wife Elizabeth Beale (nee Newenden) 1646. They had a son also called Richard Beale in 1668 who also married an Elizabeth and had several children. At least one if the children also Richard Beale born in 1716 resided at River Hall.
The following link shows at the bottom of the page other ancestors leaving memorial messages to ancestor who resided at River Hallhttp://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=beale&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GScntry=5&GSob=n&GRid=43722530&df=all&

[The cooter]

This is my Family, been searching my history back to River hall including my granddad that lived in the house.