Reference
BW1248-1357
Title
Cokayne Hatley : Manorial Records
Date free text
1422-1897
Production date
From: 1422 To: 1897
Admin/biog history
The manor of Cokayne Hatley,(alias Bury Hatley, Hatley Port,) on the borders of Cambridgeshire, with lands in the parishes of Cokayne Hatley, Wrestlingworth, Potton, Dunton, Eyworth, Gamlingay and Abingdon, was purchased by Sir John Cokayne, Chiel Baron of the Exchequer, in 1417. (VCH II.215; BW1253). It remained intact the property of the Cokayne family for over 300 years, until 1745, when Captain Samuel Cokayne left it to Saville Cust, a descendant of his maternal grandfather, in preference to the younger branch of the Cokayne family. In 1791 Lucy Cust disentailed the estates and settled them on her nephew Brownlow Lord Brownlow, from whom they passed to his second son Henry Cust and his heirs. The manor was finally sold in 1897.(BW1345)
A history of the Cokayne and Cust families of Cokayne Hatley, with pedigrees, is given by R.J.Cust in Cokayne Memoranda I (with further details in Vol.II). Much of his account is drawn from this collection. See also VCH II 215-216.
Accession numbers 2179 and 2184
VCH II 215-216.
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