YATELEY'S MALTHOUSE
The Clarkes, Yateley's Maltsters
The first reference to a Maltster in the Manorial Court books is to James Clarke. He left his extensive property to his son John, who had been born in 1713. James Clarke's burial is not recorded, but it was about 1752. John Clarke died about twelve years later, by which time he was "of Sherfield Loddon." In his will he instructed his executors to sell off most of his Yateley property to provide cash legacies for Mary Wither and the two daughters of his cousin, Elizabeth Richardson of Hartley Wintney "to their use without intermeddling of their respective husbands". On 17 Mar 1765, at the direction of his executors, Elizabeth Kerby wife of Joseph Kerby late Elizabeth Richardson, widow, sold the Malthouse. Most of the Clarke's Yateley property, including the Malthouse, went to Daniel Wyeth, a rich butcher from Odiham, who also owned the George Inn at Odiham.
This sale must have ended the long involvement of the Clarke family with Yateley. James Clarke, Yateley's Maltster, had inherited Ford House (now called Clarks Farm, and until recently the mushroom farm), and extensive lands around Potley Hill towards the River Blackwater. The Clarkes had been copyholders of most of this land 200 years before, at the time of the Crondal Customary early in Elizabeth‘s reign. They had been important people in Yateley and James and his son John are styled as Mr in the parish registers.
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Original page written by Peter Tipton for the Yateley Society's 1997 Exhibition: Inns, Alehouses & Maltsters
Additional research by Norma Dowling, Richard Johnston, & Elizabeth Tipton
Original page has been revised to include the Society's latest Research
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