Edward Haylock and Dorothea Browning Haylock
West Wratting, Cambs. England
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This is the entry to the Manor of West Wratting. The
Haylocks lived in this home at least from the 1500's until 1846
when it was sold after Edward Haylock's death.
The property was renamed and has been called Concordia
for almost a century.
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Manor at West Wratting
Home of Edward and Dorothea Haylock and their fifteen children
during the late 18th and until the mid 19th century. The interior
of the house has the original Adams fireplaces in the parlor
and dining room.
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Another view of the Manor, originally built in
the 1500's but remodeled into this stately Georgian residence
in the 1700's. The present kitchen which is in the back portion
of this side of the house has the floor laid in the 1500's. |
1841 Census for West Wratting
Living in the house known now as Concordia House, and previously
the Manor of West Wratting
- Edward Haylock - Farmer age 75
- Dorothy Haylock - wife age 60
- Frances Haylock - age 25
- Emma Haylock - age 25
- Frances Scotchner, House Servant age 15
- Mary Newman, House Servant age 14
- William Beeton, House Servant age 15
- William Crackwell, Ag Lab age 35
- James Crackwell age 7
- Charles Crackwell age 3
- Edward Haylock - Farmer - age 35 & Elizabeth Hanchet
Haylock, wife age 25
- Edward Haylock age 9
- Agnes Haylock age 7
- Thomas Haylock age 3
- Eliza Plumb, House Servant
It was common to round off the age of the members of the household,
accounting for the age of both (Frances and Emma being listed
as age 25.
I obtained a copy of the deed dated 13 April 1796 giving Edward
Haylock, husband of Dorothy Haylock, and parents of the last brood
to live in West Wratting the deed to The Manor at West Wratting.
I also gathered my courage and boldly knocked on the door of
Concordia House once I realized that it was the home of Edward
and Dorothy and their fifteen children. The present owner, Mrs.
Cater, graciously allowed me to take photographs of the house
and the gardens. She also invited me inside to see the downstairs
area of the house.
Of the original house: The front door opens onto an entry hall
with a graceful curved staircase leading to the second story.
To the right of the entry hall is the dining room and to the left,
the parlor. These two rooms are the same size and each still has
the original Adams fire places that were installed when the Manor
House was built in the mid-Eighteenth Century. There are deep
set curved top bookcases built symetrically on each side of the
fireplaces in both rooms. At the end of the entry hall, and to
the right is the older portion of the house which Mrs. Cater believes
was built in the early Sixteenth Century.
One step down leads to this original part of the dwelling which
has been made into a modern kitchen. At the time Edward and Dorothy
raised their fifteen children in the house, there was also a wing
on the parlor side of the house that was as large as the remaining
dwelling, making it an "L" shaped structure. This wing
of the house was removed, probably in the 1920's-1940's.
Although I did not go upstairs, Mrs. Cater says the present
structure has three bedrooms from the original dwelling upstairs.
There is also a third floor with additional bedrooms. The third
floor of the present structure plus the rooms of the missing wing
provided sleeping rooms, the nursery, and the servant's rooms.
The Caters have added a two story structure to the back of the
house with a den behind the parlor downstairs, and a dressing
room attached to the master bedroom upstairs. When the wing was
removed, it effectively removed half of the house. The wing for
the "L" shape of the original house is clearly shown
on the enclosure map. Edward Haylock maintained an office for
the farm across the road in a long, narrow structure. This structure
is no longer standing.
Mrs. Cater says that the name of the house was changed from
The Manor of West Wratting to Concordia House during the last
quarter of the Nineteenth Century. She confirmed the existence
of the"L" shaped wing saying that when she and her husband
made renovations after purchasing the property the workmen found
the foundations for that part of the house under what is now the
bricked driveway and beyond the brick wall that they added with
their improvements.
Concordia Cottage
This is a brick dwelling next to the Manor at West Wratting.
At one time it was part of the same deeded property of the Manor
of West Wratting, but the owners previous to the Caters sold the
house to the present occupants. It is likely that Edward Haylock
and his wife, Elizabeth Hanchett lived in this house during the
years they farmed in West Wratting and before the emigrated to
Australia. Since it was originally the same property as the Manor
at West Wratting this younger Edward Haylock family would be included
in the same census list although they were likely living in a
household of their own.
Edward and Dorothea Browning Haylock were the last Haylock
family to live in West Wratting, Cambs. England. Follows their
children and descendants who have emigrated to Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, and the USA. Also their descendants who remain in
England. The male children were educated first at Bury St. Edmunds,
then at Cambridge University. The names that are highlight as
links have additional information and photographs of interest
to the family.
James - b. 1798, d. 1864, buried West Wratting, School
teacher, no children
Martha Casburn, b. 24 Nov. 1799 m. James Taylor Haylock
of Balsham, b. 2 Aug. 1797, married James Taylor Haylock of Balsham,
5 children
John - b. 1801 (no further information) an engineer
who worked in London on the lighting of the streets with gas lamps.
no record of marriage or children
Edward - b. 1803, m. Elizabeth Hanchett, three children,
emigrated to Australia - numerous descendants in Australia, have
address of several, one baseborn child, Emma, in England before
marriage to Elizabeth.
Thomas Buswick - b. 1804, m. Eleanor Dixon, emigrated
to Australia, eight children and numerous descendants in Australia,
have current addresses of one
Mary - b. 1806 unmarried at father's death in 1846
Frances Dorothy b. 1808, Married to Joseph Locke, a
Stonemason, Marlebone, London Oct 31 1850
Anne b. 1810, married John
Haylock of Balsham, 13 children
Emma b. 1811, unmarried at time of Father's death in
1846
Julia b. 1812, married a Dr. Howard of Linton, had 5
children
Celia b. 1814, died at age 20, unmarried, no children
Henry Bowyer b. 1815
numerous descendants in England, have address for one of these
descendants
Agnes b. 1816 twin to Ellen. died 1832.
Ellen b. 1816, twin to
Agnes, m. John Havers in 1837, 7 children, emigrated to Canada,
many descendants in USA and Canada
George Charles b. 1821, emigrated to Demerara, British
Guyana, married, returned to England and buried in Berwick on
South Coast at St. Michaels, no children
West Wratting Parish Records,
Etc, Cambridgeshire, England
Pam Cooper's West Wratting Home Page
- http://home.st.net.au/~pcooper/westwrat.htm
GEN
UKI - Parish Records for West Wratting ... This particular
link in the GEN UKI pages gives specific reference to the Haylocks
of West Wratting in a history of the village. The Genuki Web pages
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Haylock Families Of West Wratting,
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