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What is an Orriell?
« on: Monday 08 April 24 17:32 BST (UK) »
Good Day Roots Chatters

Has anyone come across the word Orriell? I am transcribing a PCC Will from the late 1500s.

One line reads:

  "Item I give him more all the Wares in the Cheste in the Orriell which is Lace and such like stuff."

I can only find Orriell as a surname or possibly a place name. The second and third letters are definitely two "Rs" as written in the words more and Wares.

It sounds like it is a room in the house or maybe an out-building.

Any thoughts? 

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Re: What is an Orriell?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 08 April 24 17:36 BST (UK) »
Modern spelling is oriel, some kind of a window, projecting from an upper storey.  Perhaps storing goods in the window recess.

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Re: What is an Orriell?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 08 April 24 17:38 BST (UK) »
I have never come  across such a spelling. All I know of is an Oriel which is a type of window that protrudes from the wall, common in historic buildings.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: What is an Orriell?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 08 April 24 17:38 BST (UK) »
Molly C just beat me to it.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: What is an Orriell?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 08 April 24 17:45 BST (UK) »
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Re: What is an Orriell?
« Reply #5 on: Monday 08 April 24 23:00 BST (UK) »
Yes oriel also means a room with an oriel window, as Vance has said.
He beat me to it.
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Re: What is an Orriell?
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 09 April 24 07:59 BST (UK) »
....and an Oxford college

https://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/our-history/


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Re: What is an Orriell?
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 09 April 24 14:41 BST (UK) »
Yes, Oriel college, or the window shape / structure. Clear enough.
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Re: What is an Orriell?
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 09 April 24 15:18 BST (UK) »
Good Morning

Thank you for your responses. It makes perfect sense that the chest was situated in the bay window space of the oriel. I had heard of oriel before but I associated it with public buildings like churches or colleges. The testator, John Bowdler of Shrewsbury, must have had a pretty fancy house. I think he may have been a draper hence the lace and stuff in the chest which he refers to as wares.

Thanks again
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