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From: "Roger Stone" <>
Subject: RE: [STEER] Ford Congregational Chapel, Chivelstone
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 15:17:13 +0100
In-Reply-To: <002d01c53ce5$8dc25df0$7a2f4254@your904q9zk0ar>


Henry, Ann and George are all buried at Stokenham.

Roger Stone

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Steer [mailto:]
Sent: 09 April 2005 10:22
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Subject: [STEER] Ford Congregational Chapel, Chivelstone


Barbara Wilson has been kind enough to send me a copy of the report of
an inquiry by the Charity Commissioners held on 10.7.1908 that Earle
Warth discovered in the DRO.

It is interesting because it identifies the landowners from whom the
land was bought in the latter half of the eighteenth century.

Assuming that the Charity Commissioners were given accurate information,
there seems to me to be no doubt that Henry STEER the younger sold the
land for at least part of the burial ground at Ford to the trustees by
deed dated 30.11.1793. It cost the trustees £5.7.0. The chapel was
already in existence and had been built on land bought by John TOZER and
William LIFE from William PRODAM. The report reads as though the 1793
STEER parcel of land was incorporated into the existing property with a
wall built and owned by the trustees.

The trustees listed in the 1793 deed were:-

James TORRING senior

James TORRING son of James TORRING senior

Philip PRETTEJOHN

Nathaniel PRETTEJOHN

Philip PRETTEJOHN son of Nathaniel PRETTEJOHN

Nathaniel GILLARD

Nathaniel GILLARD the younger

John PEARCE

John PEARCE the younger

John PRETTEJOHN

William HEAD

Edmund STEER son of the Henry STEER the younger who sold the land



I wondered if Henry STEER the younger who died on 6.4.1808 aged 78 was
buried in the graveyard with his wife Ann (died 4.5.1818 aged 94) and
son George died 24.4.1826 aged 73).

But I have no record of Henry's son Edmund. Is he also buried at Ford?



Regards,
Jack Steer
Banbury


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