YATELEY'S MALTHOUSE
John Simonds, Maltster of Yateley
Mr (James) Clarke paid three shillings in Poor Rate for the Malthouse for the last time in 1752. By 1754 Mr John Simonds started to pay the three shillings rate, and continued each year until he died in 1762. This gentleman was none other than the younger brother of William Simonds, maltster of Reading, who started the Simonds brewery, which grew and grew until it merged into the new group Courage, Barclay & Simonds in 1960. Thomas, the eldest brother of John and William, was a large landowner in Arborfield. Thomas' sons John and Charles joined William Blackall Simonds to form Simonds Bank in Reading in 1814. Thomas' grandsons continued as the bankers J & C Simonds & Co in 1839, which was taken over by Barclays Bank in 1913.
John Simonds, the maltster, married a Yateley girl on 1 Oct 1757. Until now we have known her merely as Mary Hawkins from Woking. In fact our research, for this exhibition, shows that she was Mary Cave, daughter of John Cave, innholder of Yateley. Mary is therefore directly descended from William Cave who bought Monteagle House in 1617. At the time of her marriage to John Simonds she was the widow of Michael Hawkins, mealman of Woking. After John Simonds' death she was married for a third time to William Terry of Yateley, son of Stephen Terry of Sutton Warblington House, who had large estates in three counties.
Mr John Simonds is buried in Hurst churchyard, and it was our stumbling over his grave, which spawned the idea for this exhibition.
Back to 1997 Exhibition: Inns, Alehouses & Maltsters of Yateley
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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