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Text: 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.
Page: Email dated 2015-05-30 regarding Anne Bellachouse & Ellen (or Helen)
Armstrong
Text: 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.
Page: Email dated 2015-05-30 regarding Anne Bellachouse & Ellen (or Helen)
Armstrong
Text: 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.