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Moat Farm, Bures

 

 

 


Photograph taken 2015

Early C16, with C17 porch and C15 rear range remodelled in C17

Taken from Leigh Alstons article on "Wind and Watermills"
Tany Manor and Park can be recorded as far back as circa 1300.

There were many Watermills recorded along the stretch of Assington Brook.
Moat Farm may well have been the site of site of such a device
Assington Brook may possibly have dried up during the summer months and then it would have been known as a "Winter Mill"
However, this is speculation but a possibility.

Earliest Known date recorded of the Property

Tithe map of 1837.

Here its just called "The Moat"

1838, Occupier Henry Dalton ( b Bures circa 1835)
Sir Joshua Rowley, Landowner


The March 25th date is consistent with the burial date of Matilda on April 2nd 1855

1855 Occupier Henry Dalton,
Sir Joshua Rowley, Landowner

These members of the Dalton family were all Christened in Bures St Mary

3 Sep 1816, Deborah Dalton dau of Ezra and Mary Anne Dalton *
3 Sep 1816, Sarah Dalton dau of Ezra and Mary Anne Dalton
30 Apr 1818, James Dalton son of Ezra and Mary Ann Dalton
26 Aug 1824, Charles Dalton son of Ezra and Mary Ann Dalton
26 Aug 1824, Hannah Dalton dau of Ezra and Mary Ann Dalton
26 Aug 1824, Mary Ann Dalton dau of Ezra and Mary Ann Dalton
1 Aug 1828, True Dalton (fem) dau of Ezra and Mary Ann Dalton

9 Oct 1829, Elizabeth Dalton dau of Ezra and Mary Ann Dalton

15 Nov 1825, Eliza Ann Dalton dau of James and Mary Ann Dalton *
24 Jan 1827, William True Dalton son of James and Mary Ann Dalton
1 Aug 1828, Charles James Dalton son of James and Maryann Dalton
4 Jan 1830, Ruth Dalton dau of James and Mary Ann Dalton
4 Nov 1835, Henry Dalton son of James and Mary Ann Dalton
3 Jun 1838, Jessie Gertrude Dalton dau of James and Mary Ann Dalton

* Two separate Dalton families

Acknowledgement to Richard Allbright in the USA for this information,

The Census 1881 then records the Land Owner as Sir Joshua Rowley and still occupied by Henry Dalton


Jonathon Warden (53) , Tenant Farmer,
Emma (50) wife

Children
Emma
Emily
Jonathon Jnr
Arthur
Harry
Frederick
Agnes/Sarah
Beatrice


Census 1891
Jonathon Warden (63)Tenant Farmer
Emma (60) Wife

Arthur
Harry
Frederick
Agnes/Sarah
Beatrice


Census 1901
Jonathon warden (73) Tenant Farmer
Emma wife died 1898

Alice
Emily
Frederick
Agnes/Sarah
Beatrice

 

Early in the 1900`s Moat Farm was owned by the Bristol Estate at Bury, owner of Ixworth Hall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Bristol


In 1901, Jonathon Jnr (39) was a Tenant Farmer at Over Hall Farm
Elizabeth (40) Wife

Children

Clare
Edith
Alice
Florence
***Walter ( aged 15, see below)
***Charles (11)
***Edgar (6)

Jonathon Warden Snr farmed Moat Farm circa 1881 - 1922

***Later farmed by Charles & Kate Warden, together with his brothers Edgar and Walter circa 1922/25 to possibly 1933
Edgar actually owned Moat Farm, the other two were tenants or workers.
One of the men who worked for my grandfather was Charlie Baldwin, father of Betty Hayward -

Walter was the father of Ralph (George's uncle), Edgar never married.

The nine children of Charles and Kate were:- Lilian, Harry ( Killed in Action) , Myrtle, Dorothy, Brenda, Margery, Edgar, Freda, and Rita (my mother).+

Notes:-
Sir Joshua Rowley
The land owner ( possibly Joshua Rowley) not only owned Moat Farm but Over Hall, Hole(Hold) Farm and Maltings Farm
Joshua Rowley private residence was Tendring Hall near to Stoke by Nayland


Moat Farm 2012

Courtesy of Marion Clampin who kindly supplied all the information on the Warden family

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20/05/2015
Updated 25.08.2019

Dalton Family Records
http://www.daltondatabank.org/suffolk.html
Acknowledgement to Richard Allbright in Morristown, New Jersey, USA for the Dalton details