Farm location

[hanes teulu]

Stamford Mercury, 15 Dec 1809
To be sold by auction -
A desirable Freehold Estate, containing upwards of twenty four acres of excellent Meadow Land, situate in North Kyme
Lot 1 - A piece of land in the tenure of Mr Matthew Harrod 7A 0R 39P
Lot 2 - Apiece of land, adjoining both, in the same tenure 6A 3R 8P
Lot 3 - A piece of land, in the tenure of Mr Richard Bellamy  10A 0R  24P

The tenants are under advice to quit at Lady Day next

For further details apply Mr Matthew Harrod, of Billinghay ...

[AlanBoyd]

HT! I have just finished typing that up. Also:

Stamford Mercury 9th October 1840

DIED
...
At Billinghay, on the 30th ult., aged 63, Mr Matthew Harrod, a man much respected by all classes, but whose humane and generous disposition caused him too often to be the dupe of the artful and designing.
...

added: although I was going to include, in relation to the land sale “situate in North Kyme Gale Fen”

[AlanBoyd]

Unfortunately there is no tithe map for North Kyme at The Genealogist (and there isn’t one for the Lodge House area at Coningsby either).

[AlanBoyd]

29 April 1779, Stamford Mercury

To be Sold by Private Contract,
A New built Messuage or Tenement, with the Stable, Out houses, and Yard thereto adjoining; situate in BILLINGHAY in the County of Lincoln. – And two Acres of old Pasture Ground lying near to the said Messuage, in the Lordship of Kyme, in the East Fen. And eight Acres of old Pasture Ground in Kyme East Fen aforesaid, near the Twelve Feet Drain. –  Also a Lot of Land lately allotted to the above Messuage, lying in Billinghay Fen, near the Skerth Bank, containing by Mensuration 6 A. 3 R. 19 P.

The above Premises are Freehold, Tithe free, and in the Occupation of Richard Bellamy.

For further Particulars enquire of Messrs. Fawcett and Bellamy, Attornies, in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

[hanes teulu]

I have Richard Bellamy (died Oct 1848, age 40) as possible -
Richard Bellamy, bap 22 Jan 1786, parents Richard and Elizabeth of Billinghay

[Meggiejayne]

An advert in the Stamford Mercury, 28 Dec 1827, has a piece of land (13 A 1R 14P) at North Kyme parish - in the tenure of a Mr Richard Bellamy.
The owner was a Mr Matthew Harrod of Billinghay.

Oh that's interesting, as his wife's maiden name was Harrod

That is interesting!.

I had thought Matthew might be his wife's father but other Ancestry Trees have her father down as John and I came across somebody else's research quoting Matthew Harrod, farmer, aged 25 of Billinghay. I need to do further digging to find a date. Richard's wife continues to farm after his death and then by 1851 both his wife and daughter are annuitants so wonder if they are living off the sale of the farm? I suspect that Matthew is potentially a relative, uncle or brother seems most obvious.

[Meggiejayne]

Thank you everyone for your research and finding such great information. However I'm a little confused by what it all means so have a few questions if anybody could explain for me.

Tenure, does this mean that Richard actually owned the land or that he rented it and was a tenant?  It says in some articles owned by Matthew Harrod so I guess this means land was not owned by Richard?

Also it mentions occupation by Richard - is this again tenant or owner?

What do the letters and numbers mean when in relation to land?

Sorry for all the questions but trying to figure out what sort of farmer Richard was. If it was Meadow Land would that pertain to livestock rather than arable?

[hanes teulu]

I read him as a tenant.
A = acre, R = rood, P = perches

[AlanBoyd]

Useful summary of English units, including acres, roods and perches here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_units

I’m old enough to remember when much of this was on the back cover of school exercise books.