10 Jul Lordship Title of East Ginge (Benham) ID1454
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The second moiety of the manor remained for some time in the Gernun family, from whom it passed to the Benhams of Edmundsthorp Benham in Kingsclere, Hants. In 1316 John Benham was returned as one of the landowners of the vill, but he held at his death nothing in East Ginge but a rent of 6 marks from tenements held of Sir John Gernun, kt. His son Richard, however, held the whole of the Gernun estate here in fee. It followed the descent of Edmundsthorp Benham till the death of Richard's great grandson William Benham in 1466. He left five daughters and co-heirs, by his first wife Joan wife of William More, Alice wife of John Brown and Margaret wife of William Cooke, and by his second wife another Joan who married Ellis Gold, and Elizabeth who married an Edwardes. The moiety of the manor was divided among the five co-heirs, and not all of their shares can subsequently be traced. That of William More and Joan was inherited by their son John and sold by him to Thomas Halys, who died in possession in 1520. He had two daughters and co-heirs, Agnes wife of Clement Rede and Mary wife of James Halys. Agnes, who subsequently became the wife of Thomas Gold, had a release from her sister of her share in the estate, which she granted in 1555 to Edward Mordaunt in trust for her son-in-law William Barnes and his son Thomas. William Barnes died in 1561, and Thomas granted his lands in East Ginge to William Greenway and Peter Greenway. John Greenway, father of William and Peter, had already purchased another of the five shares from Mary Hunsdon, the daughter of Joan Benham and Ellis Gold. Twofifths of the estate thus became the possession of the Greenway family. It is possible that they purchased also the share of Alice wife of John Brown, which had been conveyed to Richard Fettiplace in 1503 and belonged to John Fettiplace in 1569. Peter Greenway died in possession of a capital messuage, a water-mill and 8 virgates of land here in 1608. His son and heir, also named Peter, was then eleven years old. Another Peter Greenway died in 1630 seised of one messuage and one virgate in East Ginge. The family was still living here in the reign of Queen Anne, when Sir Oliver Greenway was a churchwarden. Their lands afterwards came into the possession of the Curzon family of Waterperry, Oxfordshire. On the sale of the Curzon estates in the early 19th century East Ginge was purchased by a farmer named Belcher. He subsequently sold it in small parcels.
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