Families and family trees Part 1

• Alington from ‘Horseheath Hall and its Owners’ by Catherine Parsons 1948. By kind permission of Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Extract from ’Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society’, Vol.XLI 1943-47

• Atherton By courtesy of Gillian Blackmore

• Batson Source as Alington above

• Bradman by P.Cornell By courtesy of Haverhill & District Local History Group

• Bromley Source as Alington above

Part of Horseheath Village Archives

All-in-One Tree of Martin Atherton

GeorgeAthertonb: Abt. 1806in AshdonOccupation:Farmer

CharlesAthertonb: 1840in Ashdond: 1917Occupation: 1871Publican, the Chequers Inn, CardinalsGreen

RichardElyb: 1801in Cowlinged: 1874in Horseheath, CambridgeOccupation: 1861Gamekeeper @ West Wickham for the Earlof Hardwicke

Elisabethb: 1796

AnnOsbourneb: Abt. 1839

MartinAthertonb: 1865in Horseheath, Cambridged: 1947in Horseheath, CambridgeOccupation:Agricultural Labourer

Flora KateElyb: 1868in Horseheath, Cambridged: 1941in Thurlow, Suffolk

JohnReynoldsb: 1842in Shudy Camps, Cambridged: 1915Occupation: 1901Platelayer on RailwayResidence: 1901Cardinals Green

MarthaChallisb: 1839in Helions Bumpstead, Essexd: 1913

CharlesCowellb: 1862

SarahReynoldsb: 1866in Shudy Camps, Cambridge

Jeffrey Albert AugustusAthertonb: 13 Apr 1884in Shudy Camps, CambridgeOccupation: 1901Stockman at Glebe Farm, Thurlow

NellieReynoldsb: 1886Occupation: 1901Monitress at Shudy Camps School

RubyAthertonb: 03 Sep 1912in Castle Campsd: Apr 1986

Victor JackAthertonb: 01 May 1914in Yatley, Derbyshired: 20 May 2005in Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

Edith LilyWenhamb:in Shudy Camps, Cambridged: 28 Jun 1992in Horseheath, Cambridge

EricAthertonb: Abt. 1916in Castle Campsd: 07 Jan 1943in WW II - troop ship torpedoed

CharlesAthertonb: 30 Jan 1924in Castle Campsd: Mar 1998

Christine SylviaAthertonb: 17 Jun 1938in Carlton Green, Cambridged: 03 Oct 2004in Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

[1] Clifford William BrianBlackmoreb: 26 Jul 1932in Hempstead, Essex

[1] Clifford William BrianBlackmoreb: 26 Jul 1932in Hempstead, Essex

Pauline SusanLees

Martin EdwardAthertonb: 1940in Carlton Green, Cambridge

Ronald MarkAthertonb: 1957in Cardinals Green

Richard ThomasBlackmoreb: 24 Sep 1958in West View, Mill Green

Robert BrianBlackmoreb: 04 Jun 1962in West Side Farm, Fordham

Gillian PeggyBlackmoreb: 08 Apr 1964in West Side Farm, Fordham

Stephen JohnBlackmoreb: 19 Mar 1972in Cambridged: 16 Jan 1993in Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

Emma VictoriaBlackmoreb: 25 Nov 1976in Cambridge

TarotAthertonb: 1973

P E D I G R E E OF B A T S 0 N

Arms . A T . three bats ' wings sa. on a chief gule Crest. A bat's wing, sa. „ Motto. Nocte Volamus.

H e n r y B a t s o n H i s will dated 1803

S t a n l a k e B a t s o n ob. at Horseheath, 11 J u l y 1857

/aged 83 .

— Isabella, da. of George Rachael Foyntz Ricketts , E s q . , ob. unmarried. Governor of Barbados, b. 1782 ob. 7 Deo. 1845

S t a n l a k e R i c k e t t s B a t s o n = b. 11 Nov. 1819, ob. 13 June, 1871. m. 1301. J . P . for Cambs and High Sheriff of Cambs. 1867

tanf;

Gertrude Jul ianna Louise, elder da. of the R t . Hon. H e n r y T . Lowry-Corry . ob. 16 F e b . 1874

E d w a r d -ob. unmarried

Stanlake Henry = G e r t r u d e I s a b e l l a = Sir Arthur Brooke b. 15 Deo. 1863 m . 28 J u l y , 1887

ob. 27 Nov. 1007 of Colobrooke, Brookoboro, Co. Fermanagh.

Montague E d w a r d b. 15 Sept. 1865 ob. 20 May 1881 bur. at Stone

; As /\ T h e names of the Batson owners of Horseheath are printed in a heavier type.

SIB DONALD BRADHAN

LINKS VITH VITHERSFIELD, HAVERHILL AND HORSEHEATH — : 1 — ~ •—1 1

The g r e a t e s t c r i c k e t e r and batsman t h a t A u s t r a l i a has produced i s undoubtedly Donald Bradman. He was born on August 2 7 t h 1908 a t Cootamundra i n t h e r i c h wheat and sheep b e l t o f New South Wales, t h e l a s t of f i v e c h i l d r e n born t o George ID] and Emil y Bradman.

The o r i g i n s o f the Bradman f a m i l y can be t r a c e d back t o t h e S u f f o l k and Cambridgeshire v i l l a g e s of • V i t b e r s f i e l d , H a v e r h i l l and Horseheath. The name has been w r i t t e n as Bradman and, Bradnam over the c e n t u r i e s and t h e P a r i s h R e g i s t e r s o f St Marys V i t h e r s f i e l d c o n t a i n many e n t r i e s of b o t h v a r i a t i o n s . Vhen S i r Donald pl a y e d a t Cambridge i n 1930 as a 21 year o l d on h i s f i r s t t o u r o f England he took t h e o p p o r t u n i t y t o t r a c e h i s f o r e b e a r s i n t h e r e g i o n and met'" s e v e r a l persons c a r r y i n g the name Bradman and Bradnam.

S i r Donald's g r e a t and g r e a t g r e a t g r a n d p a r e n t s on the male s i d e l i e i n t h e c h u r c h y a r d a t V i t h e r s f i e l d . John Bradraan [ A ] was born a t Horseheath c l 7 4 5 . He was an a g r i c u l t u r a l l a b o u r e r and m a r r i e d h i s f i r s t w i f e Susanna V i l l i a m s a t V i t h e r s f i e l d on October 1 3 t h 1769. Susanna was b u r i e d a t V i t h e r s f i e l d i n 1795. John t h e n m a r r i e d a g a i n t o Anne Hyner on March 3 r d 1795, a g a i n a t V i t h e r s f i e l d . There were two c h i l d r e n by t h e f i r s t m a r r i a g e and a f u r t h e r f i v e by the second . m a r r i a g e , S i r Donald's g r e a t g r a n d f a t h e r John [ B ) b e i n g t h e second b o r n t o John and Anne. John C A3 was b u r i e d on August 2 6 t h 1822 and Anne on F e b r u a r y 2nd 1855 both a t V i t h e r s f i e l d ! • #

i John Bradman I B ] was a l s o an a g r i c u l t u r a l l a b o u r e r ; he m a r r i e d Lucy R a w l i n s o n ( a n o t h e r p r o l i f i c * f a m i l y name a t V i t h e r s f i e l d ' ) on A p r i l 2nd 1830 a t V i t h e r s f i e l d . E i g h t c h i l d r e n were b o r n o f t h i s m a r r i a g e , t h e second, C h a r l e s , CO was S i r Donald's g r a n d f a t h e r . The 1851 census f o r V i t h e r s f i e l d shows John and Lucy l i v i n g a t High Noon Lane w i t h seven c h i l d r e n . T h i s house i n due

THE FAMILY TREE OF SIR DONALD BRADMAN

V i l l i a m R a wlingson ra Susanna Smocthy t>. 1729 b. 12-2-1710 d. 1781 H.H. V.F.

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Thomas R a w l i n g s o n m E l i z a b e t h Lappet b. 1737 H.H. 1755 b. d. 1805 V.F. V. F. d. 1812 V.F.

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John BradmanCAI m (1) Sussanna V i l l i a m s |. 1745. H.H. 1769 d. 1795 V.F. d. 1822. V.F. 1795(2) Anne Hyner

I d. 1855 H.H.

John Bradmanl BI m Lucy R a w l i n g s o n b. 1806 V.F. 1830 , b. 1808 V.F.

V. F.

C h a r l e s BradmantC] m E l i z a b e t h B i f f e n b. 1833 V.F. 1860 b. 1843 era. 1852. B e r r i m a d. 1907 J i n a l e e I

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George Bradwmt D] ID E m i l y Vhatnan b. 1875 1893 b. 1871

Cootamuudra I M i t t a g o n g d.1961 I d. 1944 • B e r r i m a 1 M i t t a g o n g

H.H. Horseheath V.F. V i t h e r s f i e l d

Donald.. George.. Bx adman b. 1908 Cootamundra.

course became the village post office and when Sir Donald visited the village in 1930 the house was still occupied by a relative - Mrs Tillbrooke, a niece of his grandfather (she was born a 'Bradman')

Charles Bradman I C] emigrated to Australia as a young man of 18 in early 1852. He was the eldest son of John and Lucy and baptised at Vithersfield on May 26th 1833. At the time of his emigration he too was an agricultural labourer. During this period East Anglia was in the grip of the great agricultural depression and many groups of agricultural workers banded together to go to Australia, anxious to divorce themselves from a life of agricultural serfdom. The number of emigrants claimed by Australia in 1852 was 95,000, most making for the Victorian goldfields, though some 9,OS J| went to lew South Vales, Charles Bradman being one of there. He spent the rest of his days a New South Welshman.

In 1860 Charles married Elizabeth Biffen at Berrima near Mittagong in the southern highlands of Mew South Vales and they eventually settled at Jindalee seme 7 miles north of Cootaraundra, Sir Donald's father, George, being born at Cootamundra on November 29th 1875. Sir Donald never knew his emigrant grandfather for he died at the age of 74 in October 1907 at Jindalee, ten months before Donald was born.

His father, George, ID) married at the age of 17 to Emily Whatman in 1893. The Whatman family origins go back to Brede in Sussex. Donald's mother died in 1944 at Mittagong and his father in 1961 at Berrima. Sir Donald and Lady -Bradraan live in Adelaide, South Austria and still take a very active interest in cricket.

Cambridgeshire has also produced a number of other gre^t cricketers of the 19th century, Thomas Rayward and Robe. K) Carpenter who, along with Diver, Tarrant and Buttress, all helped the County for many years to be one of the strongest in England, A far cry from today as a 'minor county'. Thomas Hayward Jnr. .was the first man after V. G. Grace to score a hundred centuries. The greatest century maker of then all, John Berry Hobbs, was also born in Cambridgeshire, so by geographical accident the two master batsmen of the 20th century are linked together.

My own interest in the Bradman family is through the Vithersfield connection. My great grandfather William Cornell and his wife Harriet Farrant (of Haverhill)

emigrated to New South Vales from Vithersfield in 1855. They lived near the Bradman family in a tenement at the junction of the road to Great Vratting near the Fox Inn during the 1830-40s and later near the Vhite Horse. They knew the Bradman family well and contact was maintained after arrival in Australia. My William Cornell's cousin Martha Anna Cornell married Sir Donald's great grandfather's brother William at Vithersfield on April 10th 1879.

An excellent book for further reading on Sir Donald's life and cricketing career is 'Sir Donald Bradman -A Biography', published by B. T. Batsford, London, 1978, from which "some of the information, in this article is drawn.

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B R O M L E Y OF H O R S E H E A T H Arms. Quarterly per pale dovetail, gu. and or. -Crest. A demy L i o n ramp. sa . issuing from a mural crown or, holding a standard vert with a griffon passant or. Motto. Non inferiora secutus.

. J o h n B r o m l e y of- = = Dorothy, da. of Thomas White, , Horseheath H a l l , bur. Insc . Horseheath Church, .

at Horsehoath bur. at Horseheath ' • 27 Oct. 1707, aged 56. 14 J u l y 1709, aged 60. Horseheath Parish Reg . Parish Keg .

J o h n d. 20 Oct. 1718, aged 36. Parish R e g .

Mary, da . of W m . Bromley of Holt Castle, Worcester.

Percy Wil l iam d. unmarried, bur. at Horseheath 29 Nov. 1729. Pariah Reg.

H e n r y 1st L o r d Montfort, b. 1705, d. 1 J a n . 1755, bur. South Audley St . Chapel, St George's, Westminster.

Frances, da. of Sir Francis Wyndham, B a r t . , d . 1733, bur. i n St Margaret's Church, Westminster;

Frances • = Charles Sloane b. 1728, 1 . Cadogan, only son m . 1747. of L o r d Cadogan.

L o r d M o n t f o r t , T h o m a s B r o m l e y = Mary Anne Blake , 2nd Baron of Horseheath b. 1733, m . 1772, d. Nov . 1799, aged 66.

sister of Sir Patrick Blake, M.P. of Langham, Suffolk. Thornton Papers.

Henry =(1) El izabeth Watts = (2) A n n , da. of William Burgham. 3rd L o r d Montfort, •. b. May 1773, : d. 1860. "

T h e names of the owners of Horseheath are printed in heavier type.