10 Jul Lordship Title of Watlingtons ID1666
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The manor of WATLINGTONS may be identical with a hide of land held by a certain Robert of Walter Fitz Other in 1086. Its early history is uncertain. It may possibly be the holding of Richard Newbaude in West Hagbourne and Upton in 1316. It was apparently held of the lord of West Hagbourne in 1355 by Edmund de Childrey, and it subsequently followed the descent of the manor of Frethornes in Childrey until 1411. It was afterwards in the possession of the Bekingham family, co-heirs of Thomas Childrey. Edmund Bekingham died seised of it on 30 August 1498. He had made a settlement upon his son Thomas and his wife Mary Browne. She survived her husband and married secondly Thomas Price, retaining this manor until her death in 1549. Her heir was her granddaughter Mary, who married Thomas Windsor, younger son of Sir Andrew Windsor, kt. She also inherited the main manor of West Hagbourne from her mother Anne Newton, and the two manors descended together to Richard Windsor, who held courts for Watlingtons from 1638 to 1656. He sold this manor to James Whitchurch, gent., and a Mr. Parry, who were in possession in 1675. Philip Parry of London, haberdasher, and James Whitchurch sold it to John Sherwood of East Hendred, whose son Edward succeeded to it about 1682. His daughter Mary married George Cooper, M.D., whom she survived. She died in 1788 and was succeeded by Sir John Pollen, bart., her second cousin, whose grandmother was Mary Sherwood. His son Sir John Walter Pollen sold the manor of Frampton to a Mr. Allen, and seems also to have alienated Watlingtons, as it came into the possession of John Aldworth, who was lord of the manor in 1842. In 1877 Robert nephew of John Aldworth was tenant of the Manor House, West Hagbourne. The manor descended to the daughter of Mr. John Aldworth, who married her cousin Mr. Philip Aldworth of Frilford, and is the present owner.
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