See earlier notes. Annual lists of Dewlish manor tenants survive for 1630 to 1641, and then from 1 73, the only Wegood &c. entries being John (28.9.1640) and William (23.9.1641)- "Willm" was substituted for John in the earlier list. The substitution, and non-appearance of John on the 1641/2 Protestation Rolls (based upon a decree of 30,7.1641 requiring that "every man of 18 or over should take the oath to live and die for the true Protestant religion &c.") suggest that John died before the decree became effective. The baptisms of John, his sons Emanuel and William, and William’s son James, the marriages of John and William and the burial of John have not been found. The missing marriages are not in the Dorset Family History Society's index, which purports to cover surviving records to 1837, although that of Emmanuel is included. There are no positive clues to the family's whereabouts pre-1640/2, and unsuccessful widespread search of Somerset and Dorset records must leave open the possibility that whatever relevant records there were in those Counties no longer exist. Dewlish registers do not cover baptisms 1647/51, marriages 1645/55 or burials 1644/53, those of neighbouring Bere Regis were destroyed by fire in 1788 (with the Vicarage and forty houses, 'Lost villages of Dorset', Ronald Good), and although a transcript exists there is a 1640/65 gap. See earlier notes re limitations on research - Civil War &c.
Joane Weygood, an apparent adult, was buried in 1673 at Godmanstone, where William resided from 1668 or before; it is likely that she was John's widow and She has been so regarded. In 1671 a Joane Waygood married Jacob Fayell/ Foyell at St. Dunstan‑in‑the‑West, London, by licence of the Archbishop of Canterbury (App. C 560), husband "gent aged about 30 years" and Joane "mayden aged about 30 years and att her owne Disposing"; was she perhaps a daughter of John and Joane?
See earlier notes, and those on John immediately above. Williams arrival at Godmanstone cannot be dated, but the record of Emanuel's marriage in 1654 in neighbouring Frampton, his wife's abode, shows that he was "of Godmiston", and adds, "their purpose of marriage was published the 14th of May". William’s daughter Edith was baptized at Godmanstone in 1668, and his family appears to have settled there before moving to adjoining Nether Cerne around 1695; the baptism of his obvious son, James, has not been traced, and could have been performed in an earlier location, or/and within the "Commonwealth period". Emanuel's son, John, orphaned before he was three years old (probably as a result of plague) appears to have been cared for as a child by William and wife "Filis", and later to have moved with them to Nether Cerne, where he died the remote possibility that there was a second John (son of William) can be discounted, since no record of baptism, marriage or burial of a second John has been found.
Emanuel was apparently the elder brother and would have been at least 30 at marriage.
See notes immediately above re Emanuel and William. (cont.)
See notes above re John, Emanuel and William. Entry of wife Elizabeth's burial shows that she was "of Nether Cerne".
married by license.
no trace of baptism, parentage confirmed by burial record.
born Nether Cerne 1703/4 (day and month not shown), burial, and that of his mother appear as consecutive entries in Puddletown register, Susannah shown as "his mother from Cerne", James as farmer. His wife, Mary, re-married at Minterne Manna on 1.8.1745, Robert Anthony, "of Piddleton". No record found of the baptism of any of his undoubted children, although the Puddletown burial refers to William as "son of Mary, widow". As a general rule parish register entries at this time Of baptisms and marriages are in the ratio of around three to one; in the period of James's marriage Minterne Magna marriages (95) exceeded baptisms (91), suggesting that while there was no alternative venue for marriages there was a local one for baptisms. No local non-conformist chapel is on record at this time, but clergy who had seceded or been ejected from the established church had earlier organized religious groups holding services in convenient places, including private dwellings, and this might be the explanation. The parish register for Trent, about two miles NW of Sherborne, records the birth in 1742 of an unnamed Anabaptist (German Protestant sect) male child; that for West Knighton, adjoining Puddletown, has a 1728/46 gap; neither is thought to be relevant.
mother of illegitimate daughter, Sarah, c 24.8.1760 Up Cerne, m 17.8.1788 Wolborough Devon, Thomas Ley.
Sister Mary married at Stoke Damerel, Devon, and niece Sarah (illegitimate daughter of sister Katherine) at Wolborough in that County, he probably also went to Devon and could have been father of Martha and Sarah whose Stoke Damerel marriages appear at App. C 566 and 569- the record of Sarah’s marriage is in the name Weygood, as used for his son John. At his own marriage John senior signed the register in a good hand, wife Mary made her mark.
See James c 26.3.1704, this section above. Yeoman according to his will, which gives his address as Middlemarsh, wife Lucy probably daughter of Solomon Squire bu 6.5.1753 Alton Pancras. A James was churchwarden at Minterne Magna 1770, 1780, 1783, 1792, 1793, 1799, an office apparently held by this James and his son b 1767.
See James c 26,3.1704, this section above. Wife Mary at Hermitage at death. Could have been parents of Amos b 1781 Minterne Magna, who appears with wife Mary, b 1806 Glanvilles Wootton, on Minterne Magna census of 1861, of whom no other record has been found (App. C 520), and Betty of Glanvilles Wootton (App. C 568), whose marriage was performed by Rev. H. Evans; an unusual four witnesses signed the register, including two apparent members of the clergyman's family - the record was endorsed, "Very fine day"; it seems that Mary was a friend or servant. Stamp duty operative 1783/94 may account for absence of baptism of Betty.
See James c 26.3 1704, this section above.
See James c 26.3.1704, this section above. Burial date and that of his son, also John, could have been transposed (ages at death not shown), similar confusion arises for the same reason in the case of mother and daughter Elizabeths, where the 1806/7 burials and the 1807 marriage could have been wrongly attributed. A tragic family, the five children having died as young adults before the age of 32 years, probably from a shared health problem, but see note, this section below, re Ann b 7.4 1774. The Old Meeting House at Wareham, where the children were baptised, was not used at the time, or earlier as far as can be ascertained, by the Society of Friends (Quakers).
as Betty Weagood, Elizabeth in father's will, probably born before parented marriage.
as Jenny, buried as Jane.
baptism not traced, birth year calculated from age at death, father's will refers to sons James John and Thomas, in that order. Yeoman, subject to bankruptcy sale of estate and effects at Middlemarsh (Sherborne Mercury 13.3.1815), agricultural labourer at Middlemarch 1841, with him at that time sons George (with wife Ann and son James) and Charles. See James bu 20.7.1797 re churchwardenship.
on 1806 voters list at Middlemarsh, farmer from 1817 or before, at Causeway Farm, Middlemarsh
100 acres), before 1841, children Thomas, Alfred and Jane at the farm with their parents 1841 and 1851, in 1851 with Jane's daughter Emily. Employed at the farm in 1851 was grandson William Henry b 4,11 1836 (Sec. 20). Churchwarden at Minterne Manna 1800 and probably later, wife Graced parents Daniel and Mary.
presumably private and public baptisms. Servant living at 38 Long Acre, London, 1823, butler to James Hammond Esq., of The Clock House, Potters Bar, Herts., 1828, shown is land agent in marriage certificate of son James Henry Thomas c 15.6.1823 (Sec. 21). His will, made at Middlemarsh and proved 1829 describes him as "gent" (a term with a broad meaning including persons who did not work with their hands, or who lived of r income), the sole beneficiary of his "under £100" estate being his brother John, earlier provision had probably been made for wife and children. It may be that illness made a continuation of his "live-in" employment impracticable, and that he returned to Dorset to die; his widow, Mary (shown in the record as "of South Mimes, Middx.", about three miles from Potters Bar) re-married on 13.3.1832 at Wandsworth All Saints, James Alexander Sill. Employer James Hammond resided a great deal in France and was only occasionally at Potters Bar; whether "The Clock House" had commercial connotations is not clear, but Thomas’s son James was later to become, amongst other things, a clock importer and dealer.
See Mary c 20.3.1773 (Sec. 1). App. C 565 probably more likely in this case.
as Jenny, married as Jane.
died at Duntish, probably lived there with family of brother Arkinwald/Arkenwald.
At marriage, by licence, master of merchant ship Hydra, of Plymouth, shown as master of (merchant) ship at children's baptisms, as "sailor" at marriage of Charlotte and "master mariner" at marriage of Sarah, both in 1842. Lived at Wood Side. No Waygood signed the register entries of the two marriages, suggesting that parents and brother Matthew may not have been alive; their deaths do not appear in the indexes from 1837, and an incomplete search of Plymouth St. Charles burials has produced no relevant information; death at sea is of course a possibility. The first two children were obviously named after Matthew and Charlotte Duncan, witnesses of William's marriage; a Matthew Duncan signed the register at Sarah's marriage. By 1780 William's parents were in Minterne Magna, where lordship of the manor was held by the Digby family, a member of which captained the 'Africa' at the battle of Trafalgar (1805), having collected t60,000 in prize money (a colossal sum for those times) prior to that event. Eligible 'locals' from the parish population of around 300 in total were probably encouraged by his successes, and William’s seafaring life may have commenced in the Royal Navy; resolution of this latter point would require very extensive complex searches at the Public Record Office at Kew; two family members have kindly made valiant efforts, unfortunately without success.
Name apparently derives from St. Eorkonweald (died 693), sometimes later referred to as St. Archibald (Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names - E.G. Withycombe), and variants appear in records of the Stevens family in 1678 and 1738. Married by licence, death not traced, butcher 1811, marriage records of children Elizabeth and William show him as farmer and builder respectively, on the marriage record of James he is shown as deceased. Dorchester Prison Debtors Register records that a King's Bench writ was issued on 21.6.1811, and a warrant on the following day, in relation to a sworn debt of £200; he was brought to the Gaol on 26.6.1811, and remained in custody there, for want of sureties and because of the debt, until 15.6.1812, when he was removed to the Court of Chancery in London, under a writ of habeas corpus, having in the interim appeared at Quarter Sessions at Bridport, Blandford and Sherborne on an unresolved indictment for assault on a Sheriff's officer in the execution of his office; the record shows that while in custody at Dorchester he maintained himself, and that the authorities "took no fee of this man". Arkenwald secured his discharge from London's Fleet Prison in relation to the debt, in 1812, under the provisions of an 1811 Act for the Relief of certain Insolvent Debtors (i.e. those whose debt did not exceed £2,000), but apparently equally for the purpose of alleviating "the present crowded state of the Prisons and Gaols in England and Wales"; his problems did not end there, however, as his detention continued until 14.8.1815 to cover the assault and contempt. Unable to sign his name. Wife/widow Mary died in Dorchester.
dairyman 1816, agricultural labourer 1841. Land tax assessment of 1798 shows him as occupier of land at Duntish, owned by Charles Sturt Esq., confirmed by 1806 voters list, under which the owner qualified but John did not. John appeared in his own right on the Glanvilles Wootton lists of 1831 and 1835, subject to endorsement on the earlier, "objection to undecided, Tend. P"; the latter shows Sarah Harben and himself as occupiers of a freehold house and lands in the village, where John, wife Harriet, children Phoebe, Mary, John and Jane and children of daughters Mary and Harriet were living together in 1841. In 1851 and 1861 widow Harriet was at Glanvilles Wootton with daughter Jane and the two illegitimate grandchildren, in the later year Harriet was described as house and land proprietor. Married by licence, bond signed by John in good handwriting.
agricultural labourer living at Minterne Parva, Buckland Newton, 1841 and 1851, pauper in later year, wife Frances buried as Fanny, which name appears in children's baptisms at Minterne Magna.
See John bu 16.3.1800, this section above. Husband victualler, children baptised at Wareham South Street Presbyterian Chapel, 6.7.1800 Elizabeth, 25.4.1802 Mary, 23.10.1803 John Waygood (bu 2.6.1805 Wareham St. Martin); a St. Martin burial, 25.4.1806, refers to Ann and James, wife and son of John Tuck, probably indicating that she died in childbirth, no trace of baptism of James, a further St. Martin burial, 17.3.1799, refers to daughter Jane, again baptism not traced.
See John bu 16.3.1800, this section above
See John bu 16.3.1800, this section above.