Official Documents and Court Records
North Cerney: Anglican Parish
Catalogue Ref. P70 GRO
Creator(s): Church of England, North Cerney parish, Gloucestershire
Accessions 8468 and 9453 are uncatalogued
North Cerney
FILE - Notes and papers collected or compiled by Canon Turner relating to the history of the parish, its activities and some of its families - ref. P70 MI 7 - date: (15th cent.)-1980s
[from Scope and Content] Include details about North Cerney and Woodmancote manors [based mainly on Domesday Book], church lands, the school, the Reading Room, Friendly Societies [with photocopies of documents at the Public Record Office], the Cheltenham-Cirencester turnpike road [with photocopy of plan, 19th cent.]; lists of churchwardens [16th-20th cents.] and parish clerks [18th-20th cents.]; owners of Cerney House [Rich, Tyndale, Holder, Croome and Viner families]; extracts of PCC wills [15th-17th cents.]; notes and pedigrees [mainly covering 16th-19th cents.] of the following families: Baldwin, Baradell, Broad, Broadhurst, Brown, Coxe, Crump, Cherington, Dean, Eycott, Hall, Large, Painter, Perry, Savory, Smith, Sparrow, Stockwell, Teale, Telling, Tombs, Townshend and Wilson]; sale particulars of Rendcomb Park Estate [used for information about inhabitants] 1913; recruiting poster for clergy entitled 'Do I look like a parson?' [used to store pedigrees], undated [1970s] Original bundle
The Guise Family and Its Gloucestershire Properties
Catalogue Ref. D326
Creator(s):
Guise family of Elmore, Gloucestershire
DEEDS : Later Deeds
RENDCOMBE, COLESBOURNE, CHEDWORTH, N. CERNEY
FILE [no title] - ref. D326/T8 - date: 1636
[from Scope and Content] Exemplification of a fine: Richd. BERKELEY, esq., Maurice BERKELEY knt., Geo. HYETT, esq., and Edw. GALTON, Esq., to Wm. GUYSE esq. & Jas. WEELE gent.: manors of Rendcombe & Marsden, [lands in Rendcombe & Marsden, Colesbourne & Eycott, 'Chedworth Woodlandes', North Cerney & Calmsden]. 29 April, 11 Ch. I [1636] ["No. 13"].
BROCKWORTH, N. CERNEY, ELMORE, RUDFORD RENDCOMBE, WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN, etc.
FILE [no title] - ref. D326/T10 - date: 1732 [copy]
[from Scope and Content] Attested copy "Release in order to a Recovery and Settlement of all Sir John Guise's Estates in Gloucestershire": Manor, capital messuage, advowson etc. of Brockworth, with Wooleryes Farm etc.; manor, advowson etc. of Elmore, with fishing in R. Severn; Manor of Rodley with lands in Westbury-on-Severn; Rendcombe Park, Manor of Rendcombe, capital messuage called Eacott [Eycott] Farm; Manor of Marsden, incl. lands called Sharshall in Colesbourne and Chedworth; Manor, cap. messuage etc. of Leaden's Court [Highleadon]; land in Newland & Woodruddings [Rudford], formerly of Sylvester CANNING, widow; farm called Cowpers Hill in Upton St. Leonards; lands in Brockworth Witcombe & Cranham, & in various other parishes [specified], & disposing uses of other properties, incl. Manor & advowson of Woodmancote & N. Cerney. [Settlement on Lady (Anne) Guise].
Note : By 1732 Eycott was better known as Eacott.
The End of Eycott Ownership at Woodmancote
Deeds and Wills : Catalogue Ref. D475
NORTH CERNEY
FILE [no title] - ref. D475/T1 - date: 1680-1827
[from Scope and Content] Messuage and land in Woodmancote; with wills of Thos. Eycott of Woodmancote, 1715 (1817), Robt. Saunders, 1730, with administration 1731, Elizabeth Eycott, 1753, Elizabeth Saunders, 1768, proved 1777 (copy), Thos. Tyndale of N. Cerney, 1765 (copy), Robt. Saunders of Little Farringdon, 1807-8, proved 1809 (copy).
Evidence of Eycotts being Catholics
Gloucester record office. There is also the book of recorded papists 1717
FILE - An Account of the Roman Catholicks who have Estates in the County of Gloucester - ref. Q/SO/4/1 [n.d.]
[from Scope and Content] North Cerney Thomas Eycott yeom. (about 30 li)
FILE - A list of the Papists and Reputed Papists in the County of Gloucester - ref. Q/SO/4/2 [n.d.]
[from Scope and Content] North Cerney: Thomas Eycott Senr. and his wife, Thomas Eycott jun., Elizabeth, Rebecca, Mary, Eycott
FILE - The names of the persons who took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to His Majesty King George and the Abjuration Oath, p'suant to the statute made in the first year of his said Majesty's reign, Intituled "An Act for the further Security of His Majesty's Person and Government, etc." at the Mashal Sessions, 1715. - ref. Q/SO/4/3 [n.d.]
[from Scope and Content] Thomas Eycott, Constable of Badgington
Other Court Documents:
A2A research ---- June 2006
1751 April 19 – John Eycott of Lincoln’s Inn, Middlesex, Gentleman
From North Devon Chichester family papers
1821 May 10 – John Eycott of Lincoln’s Inn, Middlesex, Gentleman
From Lowndes Family of Chesham Buckinghamshire
a limited administration granted to Willoughby Rockham.
(Eycott was a man of means, why he is in these papers is not known although the last item appears to be giving power of attorney to care for him.)
Proceedings of Old Bailey
1. Elizabeth Eycott, victim in trial of in JOSEPH BISHOP, theft : pick pocketing, 5th April, 1827.
---. JOSEPH BISHOP was indicted for stealing, on the 26th of February, 3 canvas-bags, value 1s.; 5lbs. of volati
2. Samuel Eycott, victim in trial of in JOSEPH BISHOP, theft : pick pocketing, 5th April, 1827.
--- JOSEPH BISHOP was indicted for stealing, on the 26th of February, 3 canvas-bags, value 1s.; 5lbs. of volati
Last days of Eycotts in Bagendon:
1715 – Will of Thomas Eycott of Woodmancote
1717 – John Eycott and Thomas Eycott registered in book for Popish Estates in Gloucester
1735 – probate will of Thomas Eycott, Bagendon
1753 – Elizabeth Eycott - Robert Saunders of Little Farringdon
Others
1635 – Eycot farm sold by Maurice Berkeley to William Guise. However Richard Berkeley was charged with committing waste by felling trees on the property
1736 – James Ecott, the younger, labourer, gets a deed for property at Rodbourne Cheney.
1768 – James Eycott of Haydon Wick, his will, provides for care of his property at Rodbourne Cheney. Bills for thatching and repairing Eycott property from 1778 to 1783. His bequest was rolled into a trust later to create the Wayte Educational Charity.
1803 – Survey of lands of Mrs. Caterine Eycot Bulkeley (Berkeley?) at Bisley and Stroud
1813 – Marriage settlement of Catherine Eycott, widow of Bathwick Somerset, 20 February.
1821 – James Eacott , Diane and child removed from Bitton to St. Albans under poor laws.
1824 – James Eacott charged with deserting his family
1860 – several matter of Deeds for Thomas Eycott, furniture dealer, city of Gloucester
North Cerney papers at GRO – by Canon Turner parish history
Owners of Cerney House : Rich, Tyndale, Holder, Croome, Viner,
24 names given for wills and pedigrees.
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Others
Cricklade – Deed to Eacott from Earl of Radnor 1643-1769 period
Chippenham – Deed to Eacott 1784-1805
Others
1773 -1883 Cumbria, Greystoke Castle – tenants bonds for Eycott.
John Eycott farmed here as at 1901. Geologic landforms, such as Eycott Hill are named after the property which is in the lake district.