Family Chronicle - The Agincourt Honor Roll
Including:
Bekwith, John.
Bekwyth, John.
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
Earls Colne Priory
FROM THE WEBSITE
Following the battle of Hastings in 1066, William of Normandy gave the manor of Colne to Aubrey de Vere his brother in law.
When Geoffrey, the son of Aubrey and Beatrix, fell gravely ill they sought the help of Faricius, the abbot of Abingdon. He was a skilled physician and a man of wide culture originally from Arezzo in Umbria. Geoffrey recovered under the care of Faricius. In gratitude Geoffrey gave the Abbey of Abingdon the church of St. Andrew in the Colne and a church in Kensington. Faricius arranged two monks to establish a chantry in the Church of St. Andrew to pray for the souls of the de Vere family.
The de Veres later planned to establish a monastery at the Colne, linked to Abingdon. Faricius agreed as did Maurice Bishop of London and this was confirmed by royal charter c. 1105. After the death of Beatrix, Aubrey became a monk, he later died and was buried in the monastery around 1112.
The funeral was conducted by Abbot Faricius, who increased the number of monks from six to twelve. When the priory church was finished in 1148 it was dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint John the Evangelist by Robert, Bishop of London.
Local people gave many gifts of land to finance the building and the upkeep of the monastery.
he priory church was a noble Norman Structure, twice as large as the present parish church. At the centre was great tower of flint and freestone and at the west end were a pair of smaller towers. The purpose of the monastery was the offering of prayer and praise to God, according to the Benedictine rule in 1321 the priory became independent of the Abbey of Abingdon, and freer to include local people in the life of the priory.
issolution
In the 1530's Henry VIII suppressed the monasteries taking their possessions and land. Colne was unusual in that the lands were returned to the de Veres probably because their family tombs were there. In 1583 Edward deVere sold the manor of Earls Colne to Roger Harlackenden, his steward and nine years later he sold the priory to Richard Harlackenden. Gradually the monastery buildings fell in to ruin, and most of the remains were progressively swept away when the present house was built in 1826. the exception being the base of the north west tower which remained as a ruined fragment until 1988.
The site of the old church and monastery is now scheduled as a national monument. The Earls Colne Society has taken the occasion of the second millennium to record these events and to place a cross (based on a design by Constantinople just before the end of the first millennium) beyond which the site of the monastery can be viewed.
To view the cross, walk along the path opposite St. Andrews Church which runs alongside the graveyard turning right at the end or follow the path which starts to the left of the main entrance to the priory.
FROM THE WEBSITE
Following the battle of Hastings in 1066, William of Normandy gave the manor of Colne to Aubrey de Vere his brother in law.
When Geoffrey, the son of Aubrey and Beatrix, fell gravely ill they sought the help of Faricius, the abbot of Abingdon. He was a skilled physician and a man of wide culture originally from Arezzo in Umbria. Geoffrey recovered under the care of Faricius. In gratitude Geoffrey gave the Abbey of Abingdon the church of St. Andrew in the Colne and a church in Kensington. Faricius arranged two monks to establish a chantry in the Church of St. Andrew to pray for the souls of the de Vere family.
The de Veres later planned to establish a monastery at the Colne, linked to Abingdon. Faricius agreed as did Maurice Bishop of London and this was confirmed by royal charter c. 1105. After the death of Beatrix, Aubrey became a monk, he later died and was buried in the monastery around 1112.
The funeral was conducted by Abbot Faricius, who increased the number of monks from six to twelve. When the priory church was finished in 1148 it was dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint John the Evangelist by Robert, Bishop of London.
Local people gave many gifts of land to finance the building and the upkeep of the monastery.
he priory church was a noble Norman Structure, twice as large as the present parish church. At the centre was great tower of flint and freestone and at the west end were a pair of smaller towers. The purpose of the monastery was the offering of prayer and praise to God, according to the Benedictine rule in 1321 the priory became independent of the Abbey of Abingdon, and freer to include local people in the life of the priory.
issolution
In the 1530's Henry VIII suppressed the monasteries taking their possessions and land. Colne was unusual in that the lands were returned to the de Veres probably because their family tombs were there. In 1583 Edward deVere sold the manor of Earls Colne to Roger Harlackenden, his steward and nine years later he sold the priory to Richard Harlackenden. Gradually the monastery buildings fell in to ruin, and most of the remains were progressively swept away when the present house was built in 1826. the exception being the base of the north west tower which remained as a ruined fragment until 1988.
The site of the old church and monastery is now scheduled as a national monument. The Earls Colne Society has taken the occasion of the second millennium to record these events and to place a cross (based on a design by Constantinople just before the end of the first millennium) beyond which the site of the monastery can be viewed.
To view the cross, walk along the path opposite St. Andrews Church which runs alongside the graveyard turning right at the end or follow the path which starts to the left of the main entrance to the priory.
The Records of Earls Colne: Freehold Property: Freehold Titles: 52400297
FROM THE WEBSITE
Freehold Titles (CP25/2/)
michaelmas 26Eliz1-27Eliz1 (1585)
document 52400297
Roger Herlakenden plaintiff Rich# Symons and his wife Eliz deforciants three messuages three gardens 2a of meadow 4a of pasture in Earls Colne warranty also against Robt Jarvis and his heirs Edw Huberd esq and his heirs and Wm Beckwith and his heirs consideration 80li
FROM THE WEBSITE
Freehold Titles (CP25/2/)
michaelmas 26Eliz1-27Eliz1 (1585)
document 52400297
Roger Herlakenden plaintiff Rich# Symons and his wife Eliz deforciants three messuages three gardens 2a of meadow 4a of pasture in Earls Colne warranty also against Robt Jarvis and his heirs Edw Huberd esq and his heirs and Wm Beckwith and his heirs consideration 80li
The Records of Earls Colne: Copyhold Property of Colne Priory Manor: Colne Priory Manor Court Rolls: 53800916
FROM THE WEBSITE
Colne Priory Manor Court Rolls (ERO D/DPr20)
14.6.1557 (Monday 14 June 1557)
document 53800916
it is presented that Robt Jollye 20d and Wm Bekwith 20d staying in the house of Jn Lomkyn did not celebrate or observe the feast of the ascension nor divers other feast days etc and also they went into the lord's wood called Chalkney Wood and cut down divers ash trees growing there and took them away without licence
amercement 3s4d
FROM THE WEBSITE
Colne Priory Manor Court Rolls (ERO D/DPr20)
14.6.1557 (Monday 14 June 1557)
document 53800916
it is presented that Robt Jollye 20d and Wm Bekwith 20d staying in the house of Jn Lomkyn did not celebrate or observe the feast of the ascension nor divers other feast days etc and also they went into the lord's wood called Chalkney Wood and cut down divers ash trees growing there and took them away without licence
amercement 3s4d
The Records of Earls Colne: Documents of Record concerning Testaments: Wills: 2501174
FROM THE WEBSITE
Wills (PROB11/54/44 Jeff Game 1556 1572 transcript only)
29.8.1556 (Saturday 29 August 1556)
document 2501174
I Jeff Game butcher of Earls Colne the 29.8.1556 now deceased whole mind soul to god Wm Becwith and Marion his wife my sister all my reversions in these my two messuages called Bells and Perchmeners with croft of land and annexed meadow called Winters set in Colne aforesaid for life after their deaths to their daughter Eliz Beckwith and her heirs lawfully begotten if default to the heirs lawfully begotten of the said Wm or Marion forever to Margt my sister 11s of money within three months after the decease of Margt Game my mother by the hand of Wm Beckwith whom I make my executor witnesses Vincent Papworthe Jn Dickson and Thos Williams
FROM THE WEBSITE
Wills (PROB11/54/44 Jeff Game 1556 1572 transcript only)
29.8.1556 (Saturday 29 August 1556)
document 2501174
I Jeff Game butcher of Earls Colne the 29.8.1556 now deceased whole mind soul to god Wm Becwith and Marion his wife my sister all my reversions in these my two messuages called Bells and Perchmeners with croft of land and annexed meadow called Winters set in Colne aforesaid for life after their deaths to their daughter Eliz Beckwith and her heirs lawfully begotten if default to the heirs lawfully begotten of the said Wm or Marion forever to Margt my sister 11s of money within three months after the decease of Margt Game my mother by the hand of Wm Beckwith whom I make my executor witnesses Vincent Papworthe Jn Dickson and Thos Williams
Beckwith Graveyard, Wood Co., WV
BECKWITH GRAVEYARD
Wood Co. WV
Some Pioneer Graveyards of Wood Co. by John A. House
Winter wind temper thy icy blast.
Harm not those beneath the mound.
Summer breeze whisper softly for at last
Here asleep they wait the trumpet sound.(R. H.)
In passing over the gravelled road from Parkersburg to Belleville, after leaving the village of Lubeck, which lies on the flatlands on
the "divide" between the waters of Neal's Run and Little Sandy Creek, one goes to the head of one branch of the latter, crosses a very low gap in a white oak and hickory ridge, and comes over on to Lee Creek (South Fork - the "Broad Run" of the pioneers), just below the mouth of Woodyard's Fork, at the old Beckwith home.
Here, on a low point to the left of the road, in a little enclosure about One hundred by one hundred twenty-five feet, is the private burying ground of this family of Wood County pioneers, who settled at this spot in early pioneer days.
The farm has passed into the hands of others, strangers or descendants so far removed they seem to have lost interest in their ancestry. Though enclosed by a good fence, the cemetery is grown up with brush, briers, burrs and weeds, until one can scarcely get among the decayed and neglected tombstones.
I noted names and dates:
Barnes Beckwith, March 22nd, 1855, aged seventy-eight years,
four months. (Born August 23rd, 1776)
Betsey Beckwith, August 18th, 1826, aged thirty-nine years, 10 months
(Born July 29th, 1787).
Betsey Beckwith, September 24th, 1846, aged thirty-two years, five months
(born April 1st, 1814). (She was twelve years old when her mother died.)
Rebecca Beckwith, March 16th, 1839, aged twenty-seven years, four months
(born October 9th, 1811). (About fifteen years old when her mother
died.)
Barnes Beckwith, 1818 - 1905.
Virginia (his wife), 1820 - 1899.
Barnes Beckwith married Virginia Samuels in 1840.
L. A. Beckwith (Lewis) born 1816 - died 1896. *Lewis marked out and
Lawrence penciled in.
Mary A. (wife) born 1813 - died 1893.
They probably inherited the old homestead, as around them in the
old cemetery sleep many of their children.
Elizabeth Beckwith, 1846 - 1916.
Tapley Beckwith, 1848 - 1919.
Richard B. Beckwith, 1845, two years old.
Lewis Beckwith, 1841 - 19-- (no date) Flag. *23 penciled in after 19.
Elizabeth (wife) 1892, aged forty-three (49).
Adaline, daughter to A. N. Beckwith, died May 16th, 1890, in her
sixty-sixth year.
Philip Wigal died June 17th, 1852, in his fifty-first year.
Elizabeth Napier ("Mother") 1819 - 1905. *Gilchrist penciled in between
Elizabeth and Napier.
Infant of P. and S. Wigal, April 19th, 1815.
Otto F. Eberhardt, January 12th, 1878, aged fifty-one.
Sarah G. (his wife) August 18th, 1828 - October 16th, 1896.
Mary Smith, January 8th, 1854 - 1898.
Two children of Charles and Mary Smith. These last graves in an
outside row, away from the family burying plot.
Lewis Beckwith, who was an extensive landholder on Big Run, dying about 1815, could hardly have been of this immediate family,
nor is it shown if he were buried in Wood County. If he was a resident, his deeds would disclose the fact.
BECKWITH GRAVEYARD
Wood Co. WV
Some Pioneer Graveyards of Wood Co. by John A. House
Winter wind temper thy icy blast.
Harm not those beneath the mound.
Summer breeze whisper softly for at last
Here asleep they wait the trumpet sound.(R. H.)
In passing over the gravelled road from Parkersburg to Belleville, after leaving the village of Lubeck, which lies on the flatlands on
the "divide" between the waters of Neal's Run and Little Sandy Creek, one goes to the head of one branch of the latter, crosses a very low gap in a white oak and hickory ridge, and comes over on to Lee Creek (South Fork - the "Broad Run" of the pioneers), just below the mouth of Woodyard's Fork, at the old Beckwith home.
Here, on a low point to the left of the road, in a little enclosure about One hundred by one hundred twenty-five feet, is the private burying ground of this family of Wood County pioneers, who settled at this spot in early pioneer days.
The farm has passed into the hands of others, strangers or descendants so far removed they seem to have lost interest in their ancestry. Though enclosed by a good fence, the cemetery is grown up with brush, briers, burrs and weeds, until one can scarcely get among the decayed and neglected tombstones.
I noted names and dates:
Barnes Beckwith, March 22nd, 1855, aged seventy-eight years,
four months. (Born August 23rd, 1776)
Betsey Beckwith, August 18th, 1826, aged thirty-nine years, 10 months
(Born July 29th, 1787).
Betsey Beckwith, September 24th, 1846, aged thirty-two years, five months
(born April 1st, 1814). (She was twelve years old when her mother died.)
Rebecca Beckwith, March 16th, 1839, aged twenty-seven years, four months
(born October 9th, 1811). (About fifteen years old when her mother
died.)
Barnes Beckwith, 1818 - 1905.
Virginia (his wife), 1820 - 1899.
Barnes Beckwith married Virginia Samuels in 1840.
L. A. Beckwith (Lewis) born 1816 - died 1896. *Lewis marked out and
Lawrence penciled in.
Mary A. (wife) born 1813 - died 1893.
They probably inherited the old homestead, as around them in the
old cemetery sleep many of their children.
Elizabeth Beckwith, 1846 - 1916.
Tapley Beckwith, 1848 - 1919.
Richard B. Beckwith, 1845, two years old.
Lewis Beckwith, 1841 - 19-- (no date) Flag. *23 penciled in after 19.
Elizabeth (wife) 1892, aged forty-three (49).
Adaline, daughter to A. N. Beckwith, died May 16th, 1890, in her
sixty-sixth year.
Philip Wigal died June 17th, 1852, in his fifty-first year.
Elizabeth Napier ("Mother") 1819 - 1905. *Gilchrist penciled in between
Elizabeth and Napier.
Infant of P. and S. Wigal, April 19th, 1815.
Otto F. Eberhardt, January 12th, 1878, aged fifty-one.
Sarah G. (his wife) August 18th, 1828 - October 16th, 1896.
Mary Smith, January 8th, 1854 - 1898.
Two children of Charles and Mary Smith. These last graves in an
outside row, away from the family burying plot.
Lewis Beckwith, who was an extensive landholder on Big Run, dying about 1815, could hardly have been of this immediate family,
nor is it shown if he were buried in Wood County. If he was a resident, his deeds would disclose the fact.
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
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