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    Lanfear, Ambrose

    Male 1717 - 1757  (~ 40 years)


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    • Name Lanfear, Ambrose 
      Christened 7 Apr 1717  Kington St Michael, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Buried 6 Oct 1757  Chaddleworth, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I01247  My Genealogy
      Last Modified 27 May 2015 

      Family Brown, Martha,   c. 21 Dec 1724, Preshute, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 9 Jan 1792, Chaddleworth St Andrew, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 67 years) 
      Married 26 Nov 1746  Wroughton, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
      +1. Lanfear, Thomas,   b. Abt 1750, Of Woodey, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 14 Jun 1830, Chaddleworth, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years)
      +2. Lanfear, William,   b. Abt 1752, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1821, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years)
       3. Lanfear, John,   c. 31 Oct 1753, Chaddleworth, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 3 Nov 1753, Chaddleworth, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
       4. Lanfear, Miriam,   b. Abt 1754, Of Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. 27 Dec 1757, Chaddleworth, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 3 years)
      +5. Lanfear, Ambrose,   b. Abt 1755, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1809, Of Islington, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 54 years)
       6. Lanfear, Mary,   b. Abt 1775, England Find all individuals with events at this location
      Family ID F00516  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • Father of this Ambrose:?
        AMBROSE LANFIRE
        Christening: 04 FEB 1682 Heddington, Wiltshire, England
        Parents:
        Father: WILLIAM LANFIRE Family
        Mother: JOANE

        Grandson? Probably too late to be a son?
        Probably son of this couple:?
        AMBROSE LANFEAR
        Marriages:
        Spouse: CHRISTIAN CLIFFORD Family
        Marriage: 22 APR 1779 Calne, Wiltshire, England

        1851 Census:
        Ann Eatwell abt 1831 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England Servant Hungerford Berkshire
        Mary King abt 1833 Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England Servant Hungerford Berkshire
        Ambrose Lanfear abt 1780 Overton, Hampshire, England Head Landed Propriorator Hungerford Berkshire
        Harriet Lanfear abt 1817 Avington, Berkshire, England Niece Hungerford Berkshire
        Mary Ann Lanfear abt 1814 Avington, Berkshire, England Niece Hungerford Berkshire
        Sophia Lanfear abt 1775 London, Middlesex, England Wife Hungerford Berkshire
        Elizabeth Nobbs abt 1794 Hungerford, Wiltshire, England Niece Hungerford Berkshire

        Remarriage? Did Martha die within 12-18 months of her marriage?
        Different Ambrose??
        AMBROSE LANFEAR
        Marriages:
        Spouse: SARAH MRS. RUDDLE Family
        Marriage: 19 APR 1744 Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire, England

        LANDFEAR Buials
        1775Ann (Aldbourne)
        1795Sarah (Ramsbury)
        LANFEAR Burials
        1836Edwin 11m (Ogborne St Andrew)
        1834Elizabeth 52 (Ramsbury)
        1787Helen (Ramsbury)
        1802Isabella (Ogborne St Andrew)
        1834James 9 (Ogborne St Andrew)
        1834Joseph 7 (Ogborne St Andrew)
        1620Judeth (All Cannings)
        1826Martha 49 (Ramsbury)
        1826Mary 75 (Ramsbury)
        1619/0Thomas (All Cannings)
        1819Thomas 80 (Ogborne St Andrew)
        1826William 32 (Ramsbury)
        1821William 68 (Ramsbury)

        My wife and myself visited Chaddleworth this summer during the course of researching her family (Lanfear). This family originated in Wiltshire and spread into the surrounding counties (and much further). The churchyard at Chaddleworth contains the tombs of some of the first Lanfears to come into Berkshire from Wiltshire. Most notable being Ambrose Lanfear (b.1717) married to Martha Brown in 1746. There are also other family members buried in the churchyard including Thomas Lanfear who married Lucretia Burbidge in 1809 . They lived in Hungerford, but were buried in Chaddleworth. Some later infant deaths in the family were buried with their great-grandparents, Ambrose and Martha. Later family members were buried in nearby Avington, includingWalter Francis Lanfear (b.1818) who was the Vicar at Avington for many years.

        Berwick Bassett
        Sponsor: Victoria County History
        Publication: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume XVII
        ...Stanley abbey's estate in Berwick Bassett passed to the Crown on the dissolution of the abbey in 1536, and in that year it was granted to Edward Seymour, (Footnote 64) Viscount Beauchamp...Bailey (d. 1749) devised the whole manor of Berwick Bassett to his cousin Giles Bailey (fl. 1753) and Giles's issue, with reversion to Thomas Nalder, John Nalder, Ambrose Lanfear, and Elizabeth Mace. (Footnote 76) Giles had evidently died without issue by 1767. (Footnote 77) By will proved 1756 Thomas Nalder devised his interest to John (Footnote 78) (will proved 1768), (Footnote 79) who bought Elizabeth Mace's interest in 1762 and was succeeded by his son John. (Footnote 80) The younger John Nalder and Thomas Lanfear owned the manor in 1767, (Footnote 81) and by 1814 Nalder had acquired Lanfear's interest. (Footnote 82) Nalder (d. 1821) (Footnote 83) was succeeded by his son John (d. 1832), whose daughters Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Martha inherited Berwick Bassett manor as tenants in common. Mary, wife of Henry Stratton, Elizabeth, wife of Robert Cooper, and Sarah, wife of Robert Gibbons, shared Martha's interest after her death in 1837, (Footnote 84) and they or their heirs or trustees sold the manor in 1875 to Sir Henry Meux, Bt. (d. 1883).