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The Caves of Yateley

The Cave family is an gentry family with its roots in mediaeval England. The family came to prominence as courtiers in the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth. Their 'seat' is Stanford Hall in Leicestershire, a fine building built in the 1690s on the site of the orginal manor house by Sir Roger Cave.

 

William Cave , the first Cave to make his home in Yateley, purchased Monteagle House in 1617. At that time it was called Brickhills. His son, the second William sold the house in 1688, and went to live in Elvetham with his son, the third William who had just married an Elvetham girl. Despite living in Elvetham the second William was buried at St Peter's, Yateley in 1707 aged 88. Misfortune struck the Elvetham generation. The third William christened a fourth William in Elvetham, but he did not live till his third birthday. Six weeks after the infant William's death, his parents christened a second child as William, but he did not survive either. The third son was named John Cave, and he survived to become an innkeeper. John signed his will with an X, so apparently he could not write his name. Surprising, as his grandfather attended Oxford University.

 

However this John was an enterprising man in many ways. Two of his daughters married two brothers: Stephen & William Terry, and the Cave sisters' brother John Thumwood Cave married the sister of his own two sisters' Terry husbands. With three sister/brother marriages the Yateley Cave & Terry families became entwined. Before John's older daughter married William Terry of Yateley, she already had children by two previous marriages. Her second marriage had been to John Simonds, of the family which owned the famous Reading brewery which was only taken over by Courage in the 20th century. The Simonds family also founded the Simonds Bank in Reading, the name for which can still be seen today on a brass plate on Barclays Bank, King Street Branch. John Simonds owned Yateley's malthouse on Potley Hill Road which, after his death, was taken over by his wife's family.

 

John Thumwood Cave christened at St Peter's in 1736 (as son of John the innkeeper) was and buried there 49 years later. He had become Yateley's maltster after his sister's second husband had died. This second John, and his wife Ann Terry, had three sons: John, William and Stephen. William Cave, of the fifth generation, took over his father's role as Yateley‘s maltster, but he died at the relatively young age of 38 in 1807.

 

Two children of the sixth generation reach maturity, a girl Susanna, and another William Cave, brought up as a maltster in the household of his stepfather John Bailey, a Yateley resident who ran a substantial poultry business in London. This William diversified his own malting business by purchasing the Hartley Wintney Brewery, and adding a substantial number of tied public houses before he was buried next to his mother at St Peter‘s in 1876.

 

After William died Cave's brewery in Hartley Wintney was sold to Thomas Kenward. The details of William's son, Sir Thomas Sturmy Cave, are on another page. Sir Sturmy's son, William Sturmy Cave, was decorated as an officer in the Hampshire Regiment in the 1st World War. He had a son, yet another William Cave, who is alive today, the tenth generation.

 

William Cave, the Hartley Wintney brewer, was the last male Cave to be born in Yateley, but the family still had links to the village until well into the 20th century -- thus exceding 400 years.

 

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