Reference
V353-433
Title
Deeds of the Hoare family of Wavendon, Bucks (Beds estate)
Scope and Content
This group of deeds relates to property in Aspley Guise owned by Henry Arthur Hoare in the 1860’s. His father, Sir Henry Hugh Hoare, purchased lands in neighbouring Wavendon, in Buckinghamshire, including Wavendon House, formerly the property of James Selby, from several different owners.
Numbers V353-V383 in this group of deeds relate to the purchase, a year before his death, of an inn in Aspley, close to the county boundary and some parcels of land in Wavendon [property A.]
The Wavendon estates were inherited by Sir Henry Hugh’s second son, Henry Charles Hoare, who made a further purchase of lands in Aspley in 1841 [property B]. This was subsequently mortgaged to Henry Hoare, a London banker and member of another branch of the family [V422]. This purchase will undoubtedly have become part of Crabtree Farm which an inventory and valuation [SF2/51/1-5] show to have been owned by Sir Henry H.A. Hoare in 1894. The earliest deeds in this collection relating to property B date from 1725, earlier material being in the How [H.W.] [also NC] collection. The property passed from the Hows to William Wright [V399 and V400] schoolmaster of the boys’ boarding school which flourished in Aspley in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; his will is included in this collection [V401] and also a deed describing the school premises in 1825 [V402].
Properties B, C and D were acquired by Henry Arthur Hoare in 1859 by paying off the mortgages on them. Although this group of deeds contains no further details about the Weathercock Inn it seems reasonable to assume that it was held by Henry Arthur Hoare as the Register of Ale-house licences show that it was owned by his son, H. Hoare of Wavendon in 1891, Sir H. Hoare by 1903.
Level of description
sub-fonds