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[LEI] 1719 Poll Book GROCOCK / GROOCOCK

jim goodman
to leicestershire.

GROOCOCK

Justinian in Sproxton
Arthur and William in Medburne
Richard in Cleibroke
John in Cosby
William in Peatling parva

this last one
it says here GROOCOCK is inserted instead of GROFOLK

I guess they thought GROFOLK was not right

jim
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Birth: 17769/1885 SMITH LENYARD A ALFRED RACHEL CENTRAL CUMBERLAND

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Birth: 18158/1889 SMITH IDA ALFRED RACHEL CENTRAL CUMBERLAND

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Birth : 10844/1893 SMITH EDITH E ALFRED RACHEL CENTRAL CUMBERLAND

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Birth: 10845/1893 SMITH EDWIN J ALFRED RACHEL CENTRAL CUMBERLAND

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Birth: 36762/1895 SMITH HAROLD W ALFRED RACHEL PARRAMATTA

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Birth: 11283/1898 SMITH ERIC L ALFRED RACHEL CASTLE HILL

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Birth: 30630/1900 SMITH HARRY B ALFRED RACHEL CASTLE HILL

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From Anthony Yates email dated 2015-05-30

Anne Bellachouse

This is the spelling of the name we had in our 1877 Genealogy , but it's not what the family themselves used, or what the people in Hardwick still remember.

It's BALLECHOUSE, though sometimes one of the Ls is missed, or the final E , though 'Ballechouse' is what Anne's dad James used in documents. Hardwick is a strange and tiny place, there is no real village , just a spectacular stately home, Hardwick Hall (built in the 1590s and almost unchanged since) and a splendid pub/restaurant the Hardwick Inn of similar vintage. Anne's grandad John (or Jehan) Ballechouse was a Flemish painter/craftsman who came to England in the 1570s to work for the mega-rich house-building-obsessed 'Bess of Hardwick' at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Not the present Chatsworth (which doubles as 'Pemberley' in film/TV dramatisations of Jane Austen) but the previous one.

In the 1590 Bess started work on her most famous house, Hardwick, and John B moved to be the interior decorator of the new building, but for large periods was the effective overall project manager for the whole Hardwick Hall project. (Architect Robert Smythson was very hands-off - he delivered his plans, took his money and moved on to his next job) John Ballechouse is a man well known to history, especially Art- and Architectural-history, and well remembered in Hardwick eg. in the Visitor's Guide to Hardwick Hall.

Bess had the Hardwick Inn built and on completion of the Hall, John B moved to become the first ever landlord of the Hardwick Inn pub. After Bess's death Hardwick Hall was largely surplus to the needs of her Cavendish family, but rather than sell or demolish it it was kept for occasional use only, which means it's not been extended or altered or modernised by each succeeding generation but left as a 'time-capsule' of the tastes of the avant-garde of the 1590s. James Ballechouse , his son, became Estate Manager for Hardwick, caretaker of the Hall and second publican of the Inn. There is a short 'History of the Hardwick Inn', whose first chapter covers the Ballechouse family. James' son Robert married Katherine Bate, sister of my 8 x GGF Richard Bate. Our Ballechouse family were the only occurence of this surname in England, and the name died out with Nathaniel B, son of James' B's other son John Jnr. I've attached a small family tree - you can see pics of Hardwick Hall, the Hardwick Inn and art-works by John Ballechouse on the internet.

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Founder of the Bate library in St Helens Church, Ashby