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JohnBurgessYateley

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John Burgess & Yateley

Although he was born and buried in Odiham, John Burgess appears to have lived during the latter part of his life at Brook Farm in the parish of Yateley. This property, now known as Brook House, is on the left just before the motorway off the road to Fleet. Hawley was then a tithing within the parish of Yateley, which extended to the northern part of Fleet Pond, and included Fleet Mill.

 

In 1797 John Burgess purchased for £90 from the Trustees for the Poor for the parish of Yateley "a house and garden and outhouses thereto belonging with half an acre of land situated near Potthill Hill" and lying within the Manor of Hall Place. Burgess is described as "of the Strand London and of Brook Farm in the tything of Hawley, Gentleman." So in 1797 he was already living at Brook Farm.

 

In about 1814 he (or another member of his family) purchased Minley Manor and its large estate, also all then within the ancient parish of Yateley. It seems that he did not himself move from Brook Farm, so possibly this was an investment in property.

 

In 1815 he made his will leaving all his estate, real and personal, to his son William Robert Burgess. The witnesses to the will were Thomas Courtney of Oxford House, Strand, James Giblett, a lawyer of Crown Office Row, the Temple, and John Clarke, clerk to Messrs Burgess & Son, Strand. The will starts with the words:

"This is the last Will and Testament of me John Burgess of Brook farm in the Parish of Yateley in the County of Southampton Esquire..."

He made two other bequests: £5,000 each to be paid by his son to his two sons-in-law within five years of his death. His daughter Mary was married to Rev Robert Clarke Caswall, and his daughter Jane was married to Rev James Ogle, vicar of Crondall.

 

In 1820 John Burgess died, aged 71. He is buried in Odiham churchyard with his wife Jane, who had predeceased him in 1812.

 

Thanks and acknowledgements to Rayner Burgess Limited

 

Back to 2000: St Peter’s Church Millennium Exhibition


Written by Peter Tipton for the Yateley Society's Millennium Exhibition in St Peter's Church

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