History of Horstead and Stanninghall

[RedZell]

Hi Geoffers,

I would very much appreciate receiving information as to any references to the POSTLE family that you might find in this publication.

Thanks,
Iain

[notanotherminer]

Hi Iain and welcome to Brit-Gen

Geoffers has not been on the Forum for some time and may not see your post. However if you would like to start your own thread with as much detail as possible about your Postle families I'm sure our members will do their best to help.

[Eric Ponton]

Hi Geoffers,

I would very much appreciate any references to EMPSON or KELF that you might find in the book please.

Pam Downes

Just seen your blog. My GGF Charles Henry Ponton married Elizabeth Kelf 27 July 1890 in Norwich.She was born 1855 in Norwich and died Nov 1933 in Norwich.She did live for a time in Newcastle when Charles Henry was alive.
Is she perchance related to any of the Kelfs you are interested in?

[Pam Downes]

Just seen your blog. My GGF Charles Henry Ponton married Elizabeth Kelf 27 July 1890 in Norwich.She was born 1855 in Norwich and died Nov 1933 in Norwich.She did live for a time in Newcastle when Charles Henry was alive.
Is she perchance related to any of the Kelfs you are interested in?

Hi Eric,
I haven't done much on the Kelfs (and when I did, I went very nearly went wrong about one generation back ).
A quick glance at the 1861 census says 'no', but as Kelf is such an unusual name then I'm sure she/they/we connect at some point in time. My line is through Charles, the French polisher born c 1829 in Norwich, and his wife Mary Ann Agnes nee Cooke, and their daughter Mary born c 1852.
My FH research is currently on hold at the moment until I get all my old notes which are at present filed on 'pieces of paper' either written up if relevant or binned, but I've made a note of your connection to the Kelfs for when I get started again.

Pam

[Chris Haines]

Since it seems that Geoffers is no longer active on the Forum (very sadly missed), readers of this thread who want to see what is in Percy Millican's 1937 book on the History of Horstead and Stanninghall - and also have an
http://
search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=27417
Chris

[Chris Haines]

Hi Iain
There are mentions of the following POSTLEs in the Percy Millican book:
Robert POSTLE on pages 102, 113 and 119;
Samuel Tolver POSTLE from Suffolk (and his wife Hannah née WATTS) on pages 122 & 158.
If you're an Ancestry subscriber, the digitized copy of the book can be viewed at
http://
search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=27417
Chris

[Chris Haines]

Hi Geoffers,

I would very much appreciate receiving information as to any references to the POSTLE family that you might find in this publication.

Thanks,
Iain

Hi Iain,
I forgot to press the "quote" button when sending my recent message about POSTLEs in the Millican book.
Chris

[RedZell]

Hi Iain
There are mentions of the following POSTLEs in the Percy Millican book:
Robert POSTLE on pages 102, 113 and 119;
Samuel Tolver POSTLE from Suffolk (and his wife Hannah née WATTS) on pages 122 & 158.
If you're an Ancestry subscriber, the digitized copy of the book can be viewed at
http://
search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=27417
Chris

Hi Chris,

Thanks very much for doing this POSTLE look-up for me and confirming that the book contains these POSTLE references; I do know that Robert was Samuel's father's name and that Samuel's father Robert POSTLE of Horstead is an ancestor that I am pursuing.

Unfortunately, I am not currently in a position to subscribe to Ancestry (and to my surprise, the Library Edition of Ancestry does not grant access to this particular publication), but I now know that I definitely need to obtain the information contained in Mr. Millican's book at a later date.

Thanks again and have a good day!
Iain

[Chris Haines]

Hi Chris,

Thanks very much for doing this POSTLE look-up for me and confirming that the book contains these POSTLE references; I do know that Robert was Samuel's father's name and that Samuel's father Robert POSTLE of Horstead is an ancestor that I am pursuing.

Unfortunately, I am not currently in a position to subscribe to Ancestry (and to my surprise, the Library Edition of Ancestry does not grant access to this particular publication), but I now know that I definitely need to obtain the information contained in Mr. Millican's book at a later date.

Thanks again and have a good day!
Iain

Hi Iain

From a quick scan of the Millican History of Horstead etc, it looks to me as though the main involvement of the POSTLE family was as tenants of property at Heggatt Hall owned by the BARET family and also at Horstead House, or by marriage into the WATTS family who once owned the latter. So you may well wish to get access to a copy yourself to explore the complexities of the ownership of Heggatt Hall and Horstead House.

Meanwhile, here’s a quick note about the POSTLE references on the pages already mentioned.

page 102: A footnote concerning the Heggatt Hall estate occupied by the BARET family states that on the death of Robert BARET Jnr, the whole of the estate was let to Robert POSTLE who remained there till 1823. (It seems to have been a fairly substantial property, since elsewhere on this page it says that when it was sold by Robert BARET’s daughters in 1832 it comprised 487 acres.)

page 113: A short list of the known tenants of a former farm (house [now gone] plus 71 acres), which was sold in 1678 to Thomas BARET, the then owner of Heggatt Hall, includes a Robert POSTLE in 1808.

page 119: At the start of the 19th century, Horstead House belonged to the WATTS family, but then passed by bequest to a godson & distant relative to the LYONS family, who lived there for a while but then leased it. In 1854, it was leased to Robert POSTLE [and in 1868 to Elwin HASTINGS].

page 122: A family tree of the descendants of Stephen WATTS of Horstead and his son John WATTS (baptized 1675 in Horstead, buried 1756 in East Dereham), shows that John’s granddaughter Hannah WATTS (born 1782) in 1829 married Samuel Tolver POSTLE of Thelnetham, Suffolk, and afterwards of Browick Hall, Wymondham, Norfolk. [Since she was 46-47 at the time of marriage, one assumes there were no children from this.]

page 158: In a discussion of the occupancy of Horstead Lodge, it is noted that in 1829, two of Hannah’s sisters (Elizabeth and Maria) purchased the lands belonging to the house, and that this was the same year that Hannah married Samuel Tolver POSTLE – repeating the details given in the family tree on page 122.

I hope this provides a few clues to keep you going until you can get access to the book.
Chris