trying to find info on Knavingcots Farm, Westbury on severn

[josey]

For comparison:
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sidebyside.cfm#zoom=16&lat=51.8310&lon=-2.4203&layers=6&right=BingHyb

Click the link & look at the drop down boxes top left, you'll see the date range of the 6 inch (to the mile) map 1888 - 1913. You can change it to the 25 inch 1892 - 1905 if you want. The date of the map depended on the county.

[Capetown]

Knavingcot/Knaven Greene


Looking at the Forest of Dean records, the earliest mention is a baptism on the 18 November 1585 at Newland of
Elizabeth CLERK, father: James
residence: Knavengrene.

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Burial at Newland: 8 December 1607

Christopher CLARK - estimated year due to erosion between 1600 & 1612

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His Son ?

CLERKE/CLARKE surname is there in 1625 then PARRI in 1635.

Christopher CLARK married at Gloucester St Nicholas - 18 November 1640 to Joane TREHERNE

Burial at Newland - 18 May 1615, Joan CLARKE, dau of Christopher

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On the 'net'

The Index Library Abstracts Inquisitions Post Mortem : King Charles the 1st

'certain closes of land within the parish of Newland; and one parcel or close of land called Knavengreene situate within the parish of Newland.....

The close called Knaven Greene is held of the King as of his Castle of St Briavels'

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British History on Line

Newland

'To the west there was at least one dwelling in 1585 at a place called Knaven Green'

[B17_Fan]

Knavingcot/Knaven Greene


Looking at the Forest of Dean records, the earliest mention is a baptism on the 18 November 1585 at Newland of
Elizabeth CLERK, father: James
residence: Knavengrene.

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Burial at Newland: 8 December 1607

Christopher CLARK - estimated year due to erosion between 1600 & 1612

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His Son ?

CLERKE/CLARKE surname is there in 1625 then PARRI in 1635.

Christopher CLARK married at Gloucester St Nicholas - 18 November 1640 to Joane TREHERNE

Burial at Newland - 18 May 1615, Joan CLARKE, dau of Christopher

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On the 'net'

The Index Library Abstracts Inquisitions Post Mortem : King Charles the 1st

'certain closes of land within the parish of Newland; and one parcel or close of land called Knavengreene situate within the parish of Newland.....

The close called Knaven Greene is held of the King as of his Castle of St Briavels'

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British History on Line

Newland

'To the west there was at least one dwelling in 1585 at a place called Knaven Green'

Thankyou for all this info. Just wondered if the last bit was correct, because knavingcots is to the east of newland.

[Capetown]

British History on Line

Coleford not Newland

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol5/pp117-138

mentioned, first paragraph after the 1880 map

[B17_Fan]

Still mentions it being to the east, not west.  not sure if that is the right place

[Regorian]

Sounds like the two place names are/were different. Coleford was West Dean, originally chapel of ease to All Saints, Newland, churchwise. In the East, parishes of Westbury on Severn and Newnham.

[B17_Fan]

I'm wondering if knavingcots was ever a farm in its own right. On the 1911 census, in the address part, it says knavingcots and then it looks like Coles or cottage, then Westbury. The man who lived there was a solicitor. So guessing not a farm. Maybe it was a workers cottage?

[Capetown]

? 1911 census what was the name of the Solicitor


In previous reply, I listed from the Forest of Dean records...

Sarah STEELE - burial - aged 43, 19 February 1901 - residence: Knavingcotes


George STEELE a labourer of Newland married Sarah HUDSON at Oxenhall, 25 July 1887

GlosBMD - one birth: STEELE, HUDSON

Edith Emily - christened in 1888 at Newnham.


1901 Census, Westbury on Severn Newnham

George STEELE - aged 43 - Carter on farm, born Aston Ingham
Edith STEELE - daughter aged 12, born Newent.

[B17_Fan]

? 1911 census what was the name of the Solicitor

It was Henry Allen Armitage.