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Dear Kathryn,

Error message from Roots Chat tells me that my attachments were over the 500KB size permitted.  Don't know how to transmit them in that case!  Ideas?  Am happy to e-mail them to you.

Richard Munday

George Munday was born at Priors Dean in 1845, into the family that continued to run the Manor Farmthere until 1921.  He appears in the censuses at the Manor Farm until 1881; in 1891 he is the living with his sister Harriet at Church Farm, Priors Dean and, though still only 46 years of age, is listed as a "retired farmer".  We cannot find him in later censuses, and by 1901 his sister was living alone.  Free BMD does not list any George Munday deaths of quite the right age; one close one, at Winchester in 1893, was definitely not him.  What became of him?

Interesting.  Tarrant Monkton, I understand, was held by Tewkesbury Abbey, but I am not aware of a connection between Tewkesbury and Tarrant Gunville.  Unless the nunnery was affiliated?

After the Reformation Gunville passes into the hands of the Swayne family, who hold it for a long time.  My particular interest is finding evidence of a link between the Munday family who lived in Tarrant Gunville at least from ca. 1540 to ca. 1595, and the Thomas Munday who first appears in the Cann parish records in 1621.  In the absenmce of Tarrant Gunville parish records for this period, I have hoped that manorial records might offer some clues.

Many thanks to both you and to Nanny Jan.  Dorset records office referred me to the the same manorial records website: and as you suggest (and is so often the case!) the answer looks likley to be complex!

Richard Munday

Who held the manor of Tarrant Gunville in the period ca. 1500-1540?