Lordship Title of Symeons ID14217

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The so-called manor of SYMEONS (Simeons, Symons) is first mentioned in 1468–9, when it was held by Edward Cheyne and his wife Beatrice. The estate probably derived its name from the family of Simeon of Abingdon. Henry Simeon and Gunnora his wife were dealing with a 'messuage, land, and rents in Chilton' in 1288–9. In 1488 Edward Cheyne conveyed the manor to Thomas Latton, who on his death in 1503 is described as holding the manor of Chilton, meaning this manor. John Latton his son, who died in 1548, also owned a capital messuage called Sewardes and the reputed manor of Gainsfords. He was succeeded by his son William, who died seised of these properties in 1551, leaving a son John, who died in 1596. William, the son and successor of the latter, sold the manor in 1604 to Henry Knapp and Adam Cox, but his mother, who had married Sir David Williams as her second husband, still retained certain lands in Chilton for which he was acting as trustee in 1623, she having lost her reason. Alice daughter of Adam Cox married John son of Henry Knapp, bringing him part of Symeons Manor as her share of her father's property. In 1647 a quarter of the remaining moiety of the manor was conveyed to Alice by Francis Hyde and Agnes his wife, and in 1650 a quarter of the manor was conveyed by Robert Terrell and Mary his wife and Zachariah Keane and Elizabeth his wife to Nicholas Knapp. Apparently the whole manor came into the hands of the Knapps. John Knapp, the son of John and Alice, alienated part of the manor to his brother George, who conveyed it to Richard Knapp, but apparently one quarter was retained to the use of his widow Mary and his son Jerome, who were dealing with this share in 1709. Anne Chancellor held another share in 1704, which was probably the quarter purchased by Nicholas Knapp in 1650. Richard Knapp had a daughter and heir Catherine, who married her cousin Robert Knapp, grandson of John and Alice Cox, and the manor seems to have devolved upon their daughter Catherine, who with her husband Charles Peeres was holding it in 1739. Their son Robert settled the manor in 1800, and shortly afterwards sold it to Sir Thomas Metcalfe, who in 1803 conveyed it to Benjamin Morland. It descended with the main manor of Chilton held by this family, and was in 1865 conveyed to Lord Overstone, whose daughter Lady Wantage now holds it.
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