YATELEY'S MALTHOUSE
The Caves, Maltsters of Yateley
After John Simonds' untimely death a few days after his 26th birthday, his wife's only brother, John Thumwood Cave, became Yateley's Maltster for 20 years until his death in 1785. He took a very active interest in parish affairs and his signature can be seem on many documents. His father seems to have been adept at dynastic marriages. John Thumwood Cave married Ann Terry, the fifth daughter of Stephen Terry of Sutton Warblington. Sarah Cave, Mary Simonds' younger sister, married Stephen Terry the younger. So by the time Mary had married William Terry as her third husband, there were three marriages between Cave brothers and sisters.
That is not all. Two other Terry daughters, Mary and Catherine, married Wyeth brothers, Mark and Daniel. They were nephews of Daniel Wyeth, butcher and owner of the George Inn in Odiham, who purchased all the Clarke estates in Yateley in 1765 including the Malthouse, where John Thumwood Cave had already be malting for three years. Was this a matter of a rich family member stepping in to buy the real estate to protect a thriving business, or just a very shrewd investment?
After John Thumwood Cave's death in 1785 the connection with the Simonds family was further cemented. His daughter Sarah married as her second husband Charles Simonds of Newlands, Arborfield, who was cofounder of Simonds Bank. There were no children so John Simonds, his banker nephew was his uncle Charles' heir.
When John Thumwood Cave died his second son, William, who was to take over his mantle as Yateley's Maltster, was only 16 years old. His mother Ann paid the Poor Rates until 1803 so obviously she was in charge. Like John Simonds before him, William died young, only 37 years old, leaving his widow Ann with child. This unborn child was his son William, later to became the brewer of Hartley Wintney and owner of the Plough.
The elder William's wife was Ann Giblett, whose father Thomas stepped in and bought the Malthouse. See The Plough‘s story. Daniel Wyeth who had purchased the Clarke estates in 1765 had died childless. In his will he had directed that the George Inn at Odiham be sold to provide substantial legacies for his nieces and nephews. Most of his properties were put into trust to provide an income for his widow, Elizabeth née Hare. One of Daniel's trustees was his brother-in-law Thomas Earle, who was married to Elizabeth's sister Ann Hare. It was their son George, a druggist of Winchester, who as trustee for Daniel Wyeth's will, surrendered the copyholding to Thomas Giblett, Ann Cave's father, in October 1808.
With Ann's mother-in-law Anne (née Terry) also dead, Ann (née Giblett) is recorded as paying the Poor Rate for the next few years. But some time between 1812 and 1819 her brother William Giblett moved from Stratfield Turgis to become Yateley's Maltster. When his father Thomas died, the Manorial Court book describes William as Maltster in 1833. Around the same time Ann's young son William is also described as Maltster, so it was still a thriving family business. In 1836 William Cave bought Jonathan McKenzie's brewery in Hartley Wintney.
The 1841 census shows Robert Stone as the Maltster, living at the Malthouse alone except for servants. By the 1851 census Thomas Giblett's grandson, another William, had survived his father and sold the copyholding to William Bailey of Yateley, Gentleman. James Cobbett from Frimley had moved into the Malthouse, as a tenant, describing himself to the enumerators as a farmer of 75 acres with 2 labourers. The name of the property had changed to Malthouse Farm. Meanwhile Ann Cave had remarried, at St George‘s, Hanover Square, to a successful London poulterer, John Bailey. After about 300 years the story of malting in Yateley had closed.
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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