Family strategies: Patterns of inheritance in Odiham, Hampshire, 1525-1850

Continuity and Change

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 385-402

  Stapleton, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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ECONOMIC HISTORY; FAMILY STRUCTURE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FAMILY SIZE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HISTORY; HUMAN RELATION; INCOME; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MARRIAGE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SPOUSE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ENGLAND; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; INCOME; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MARRIAGE; OWNERSHIP; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SPOUSES; WILLS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033507161     PISSN: 02684160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0268416099003379     Document Type: Article

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2. See, for example, D. Hey, An English rural community: Myddle under the Tudors and Stuarts (Leicester, 1974); M. Spufford, Contrasting communities: English villages in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Cambridge, 1974); D. Levine, Family formation in an age of nascent capitalism (London, 1977); K. Wrightson and D. Levine, Poverty and piety in an English village, Terling 1525-1700 (London, 1979).
3. See, for example, D. Hey, An English rural community: Myddle under the Tudors and Stuarts (Leicester, 1974); M. Spufford, Contrasting communities: English villages in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Cambridge, 1974); D. Levine, Family formation in an age of nascent capitalism (London, 1977); K. Wrightson and D. Levine, Poverty and piety in an English village, Terling 1525-1700 (London, 1979).
4. See, for example, D. Hey, An English rural community: Myddle under the Tudors and Stuarts (Leicester, 1974); M. Spufford, Contrasting communities: English villages in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (Cambridge, 1974); D. Levine, Family formation in an age of nascent capitalism (London, 1977); K. Wrightson and D. Levine, Poverty and piety in an English village, Terling 1525-1700 (London, 1979).
5. In particular P. Laslett and R. Wall eds, Household and family in past time (Cambridge, 1972); J. Goody, J. Thirsk and E. P. Thompson eds, Family and inheritance: rural society in Western Europe 1200-1800 (Cambridge, 1976); Richard M. Smith ed, Land, kinship and life cycle (Cambridge, 1984). Both strands can be seen to be integrated in C. Howell's Land, family and inheritance in transition, Kibworth Harcourt (Cambridge, 1983).
6. In particular P. Laslett and R. Wall eds, Household and family in past time (Cambridge, 1972); J. Goody, J. Thirsk and E. P. Thompson eds, Family and inheritance: rural society in Western Europe 1200-1800 (Cambridge, 1976); Richard M. Smith ed, Land, kinship and life cycle (Cambridge, 1984). Both strands can be seen to be integrated in C. Howell's Land, family and inheritance in transition, Kibworth Harcourt (Cambridge, 1983).
7. In particular P. Laslett and R. Wall eds, Household and family in past time (Cambridge, 1972); J. Goody, J. Thirsk and E. P. Thompson eds, Family and inheritance: rural society in Western Europe 1200-1800 (Cambridge, 1976); Richard M. Smith ed, Land, kinship and life cycle (Cambridge, 1984). Both strands can be seen to be integrated in C. Howell's Land, family and inheritance in transition, Kibworth Harcourt (Cambridge, 1983).
8. In particular P. Laslett and R. Wall eds, Household and family in past time (Cambridge, 1972); J. Goody, J. Thirsk and E. P. Thompson eds, Family and inheritance: rural society in Western Europe 1200-1800 (Cambridge, 1976); Richard M. Smith ed, Land, kinship and life cycle (Cambridge, 1984). Both strands can be seen to be integrated in C. Howell's Land, family and inheritance in transition, Kibworth Harcourt (Cambridge, 1983).
9. See, for example, F. Barth, Models of social organization (London, 1966); P. Bourdieu, Outline of a theory of practice (Cambridge, 1977), and 'Marriage strategies as strategies of social reproduction', in R. Forster and O. Ranum eds, Family and society: selections from the 'Annales' (Baltimore, 1976); N. Zemon Davis, 'Ghosts, kin and progeny: some features of family life in early modern France', Daedalus (Spring, 1977), and L. Tilly, 'Individual lives and family strategies in the French proletariat', Journal of Family History 4 (1979).
10. See, for example, F. Barth, Models of social organization (London, 1966); P. Bourdieu, Outline of a theory of practice (Cambridge, 1977), and 'Marriage strategies as strategies of social reproduction', in R. Forster and O. Ranum eds, Family and society: selections from the 'Annales' (Baltimore, 1976); N. Zemon Davis, 'Ghosts, kin and progeny: some features of family life in early modern France', Daedalus (Spring, 1977), and L. Tilly, 'Individual lives and family strategies in the French proletariat', Journal of Family History 4 (1979).
11. See, for example, F. Barth, Models of social organization (London, 1966); P. Bourdieu, Outline of a theory of practice (Cambridge, 1977), and 'Marriage strategies as strategies of social reproduction', in R. Forster and O. Ranum eds, Family and society: selections from the 'Annales' (Baltimore, 1976); N. Zemon Davis, 'Ghosts, kin and progeny: some features of family life in early modern France', Daedalus (Spring, 1977), and L. Tilly, 'Individual lives and family strategies in the French proletariat', Journal of Family History 4 (1979).
12. See, for example, F. Barth, Models of social organization (London, 1966); P. Bourdieu, Outline of a theory of practice (Cambridge, 1977), and 'Marriage strategies as strategies of social reproduction', in R. Forster and O. Ranum eds, Family and society: selections from the 'Annales' (Baltimore, 1976); N. Zemon Davis, 'Ghosts, kin and progeny: some features of family life in early modern France', Daedalus (Spring, 1977), and L. Tilly, 'Individual lives and family strategies in the French proletariat', Journal of Family History 4 (1979).
13. See, for example, F. Barth, Models of social organization (London, 1966); P. Bourdieu, Outline of a theory of practice (Cambridge, 1977), and 'Marriage strategies as strategies of social reproduction', in R. Forster and O. Ranum eds, Family and society: selections from the 'Annales' (Baltimore, 1976); N. Zemon Davis, 'Ghosts, kin and progeny: some features of family life in early modern France', Daedalus (Spring, 1977), and L. Tilly, 'Individual lives and family strategies in the French proletariat', Journal of Family History 4 (1979).
14. See Barth, Models, and Political leadership among the Swat Pathans (London, 1959).
15. P. Bourdieu, Outline, and 'Marriage strategies'.
16. A. Macfarlane, The origins of English individualism (Oxford, 1978).
17. Barth, Models, and M. Anderson, Family structure in nineteenth-century Lancashire (Cambridge, 1971).
18. Barth, Models, and M. Anderson, Family structure in nineteenth-century Lancashire (Cambridge, 1971).
19. Bourdieu, 'Marriage strategies', and Tilly, 'Individual lives'.
20. Bourdieu, 'Marriage strategies', and Tilly, 'Individual lives'.
21. Zemon Davis, 'Ghosts, kin and progeny', p. 87.
22. Ibid., pp. 87 and 92.
23. The population figure for the late seventeenth century is estimated from the Compton census of 1671 (William Salt Library, Stafford, M.S. Salt 33), and also from the Hearth Tax of 1665 (Public Record Office, hereafter PRO, Exchequer K.R., Lay Subsidy Rolls, E179/176/565). Those for 1811 and 1841 are from the census returns, respectively PRO C2/49 and HO/107/395.
24. My work on the Odiham parish register was undertaken at Odiham parish church and I am most indebted to the former vicar, the Rev. P. R. W. Tidmarsh, for making them available. The 15 volumes of the registers which were exploited are now in Winchester at the Hampshire Record Office (hereafter HRO), 47M81A/PR 1-15.
25. The sources are listed in B. Stapleton, 'Demographic, economic and social analysis of a local community from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century', Journal of Regional and Local Studies 4: 2 (Autumn 1984), pp. 1-26.
26. For example, D. M. Palliser, The age of Elizabeth: England under the later Tudors 1547-1603 (London, 1983), pp. 54-7; A. Macfarlane, Origins, pp. 68-71; David Souden, 'Movers and stayers in family reconstitution populations', Local Population Studies 33 (Autumn 1984), pp. 11-28.
27. For example, D. M. Palliser, The age of Elizabeth: England under the later Tudors 1547-1603 (London, 1983), pp. 54-7; A. Macfarlane, Origins, pp. 68-71; David Souden, 'Movers and stayers in family reconstitution populations', Local Population Studies 33 (Autumn 1984), pp. 11-28.
28. For example, D. M. Palliser, The age of Elizabeth: England under the later Tudors 1547-1603 (London, 1983), pp. 54-7; A. Macfarlane, Origins, pp. 68-71; David Souden, 'Movers and stayers in family reconstitution populations', Local Population Studies 33 (Autumn 1984), pp. 11-28.
29. B. Stapleton, 'Migration in pre-industrial southern England: the example of Odiham', Southern History 10 (1988), pp. 47-93.
30. Howell, Land, family and inheritance, and M. Spufford, 'Peasant inheritance customs and land distribution in Cambridgeshire from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries', in Goody, Thirsk and Thompson eds, Family and inheritance, pp. 156-76.
31. Howell, Land, family and inheritance, and M. Spufford, 'Peasant inheritance customs and land distribution in Cambridgeshire from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries', in Goody, Thirsk and Thompson eds, Family and inheritance, pp. 156-76.
32. Macfarlane, Origins.
33. Public Record Office E101/344/17. Ulnage was an official measurement of inspection for quality of woollen cloth.
34. British Library Add Ch 8877, Household Roll of Eleanor de Montfort, and also B. Stapleton ed., P. McGregor, Odiham Castle 1200-1500: castle and community (Gloucester, 1983), pp. 139-40, 144-7.
35. See, for example, Cicely Howell, 'Peasant inheritance customs in the Midlands, 1280-1700', in Goody, Thirsk and Thompson eds, Family and inheritance, pp. 112-155.
36. These include HRO 25M63, Court Baron and Court Leet Books of Odiham Manor, 16 vols, 1538-1851; Harvard University Law Library MS 83 Microfilm of Odiham Court Rolls; HRO 15 M 50 and 10 M 69, Mildmay Estate Papers (two collections), 1620-1851.
37. The wills used in this study are located either in the Winchester Diocesan Registry at the HRO or in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury at the PRO; and all relate to Odiham. The information in them has been supplemented with further testamentary and other evidence from the Mildmay Estate Papers at the HRO as well as other sources. See note 13, above.
38. Of the Eyles family, who also declined in status, there remains insufficient evidence to suggest a plausible explanation for the decline.
39. The circumstances influencing the rise in status of the Hazell family are not known. It would appear that in the late sixteenth century the widow of John Hazell inherited his property and left his estate to her second son who became a yeoman farmer. His son had no heirs.