We are looking to trace Walcot family members formally of Bitterley Court, Bitterley, Ludlow, Shropshire.
The Walcot family lived at Bitterley Court for 300 years or so.
They owned the right to appoint the rector (they have the "patronage" or the "advowson") of St Mary's Church, Bitterley.
Bitterley Court was sold to the Wheelers in 1898, however the Walcot family retained the right to appoint the rector.
The Diocese of Hereford only has the following information about the owners of the advowson: Walcot Family Trust c/o Morgans Solicitors, Mill Street. Unfortunately Morgans has closed down and the business was bought by Lanyon Bowdler. My employer has contacted them, but they have no records about the Walcot Family Trust.
Any information would be fantastic.
@Secretary Middleton,
I was given a tip off about this request from a relation today and I know the whereabouts of some of the Walcots, because my grandmother's grandmother younger sister, Mary the daughter of Sir Thomas Phillipps Bt., of Broadway, married the Rev. John Walcot, whose father was the Rev.Charles Walcot, who had married the daughter of Captain John Molyneux R.N. of Gravel Hill, Ludlow, my gt. gt. gt. grandfather's younger brother and the uncle of her mother Harriet who had married Sir Thomas Phillipps.
My grandmothers mothers sister also married Owen Charles B.D. Walcot and some issue are still alive today. Several years ago I had a farm near to Walcot Hall and later lived near Ludlow and know the area well. Their daughter Hester Walcot lived at Great Ness and her son Eric lived nearby, as did his children, whom I am still in contact with.