"Breeches Maker" in 1790-1797 Cambridge Directory

[liverpool annie]

Hi Annie !

Thats very cool .... Harrods !!  of course they would have been suitable for horsemen !!

I had a relative who was a hat maker to the King ... and made hats for the Guards !!

Annie 

[liverpool annie]

Keith ... came across these ....

Elsworth 20th May FARMS in CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

To be SOLD by AUCTION by Mr. SMITH. On Wednesday 7th June 1797 at 4 o'clock at the PLOUGH in Elsworth, in the county of Cambridge.
Lot 1. A Very Eligible FARM, part Freehold and part Copyhold, situate in the Lordship of ELSWORTH, in the county of Cambridge. Consisting of a good FARM-HOUSE, (lofty rooms and good cellars) good Farm-yard, well watered, three barns, large brick stable, two-stall board ditto granary and other suitable out-buildings; and 139A. lR. 21P. by admeasurement (be the same more or less) of very rich Pasture Ground, with fine thriving elm spinnies growing thereon; and very extensive common rights and folding thereto belonging in the occupation of Miss Ann Bricheno; together with a cottage in the tenure of Wm. Perrey.
Lot 2. A FARM-HOUSE, two barns, other out-buildings, and orchard adjoining; with common rights thereto belonging; in the tenure of Mr. John Murden, at Elsworth; together with six acres by admeasurement (be the same more or less) of very rich Arable Land.
Lot 3. A CLOSE of rich PASTURE LAND, called Roger's Close, containing by admeasurement (be the same more or less) 2A 2R 20P with a fine thriving spinney growing thereon; in the occupation of Mrs Ann Bricheno; together with a cottage thereto adjoining, in the tenure of Wm. Beck, at Elsworth aforesaid. There being upwards of a Thousand Acres of Commonable Land in the Lordship of Elsworth, superior advantages must derive to the purchasers of the above Estates, should an inclosure take place.
Elsworth is remarkably well situated for Cambridge, Huntingon, St. Ives, St. Neots, Potton, and Royston markets.
May be viewed by applying to the respective tenants; and full particulars known of Mr. W. BRICHENO, *Pertenhall, in the county of Bedford, or Mr. Smith, at Kimbolton.

*Pettenhall

http://www.elsworthvillage.org.uk/opus123.html

The manor of HOWE AND PERTENHALL alias COVINGTON FEE appears to have belonged to the Knights Templars. There is but slight documentary evidence relating to the tenure of the Templars in Pertenhall, but property in the parish retained the name of Templars' Lands down into the 19th century, (fn. 23) and there is still a moat that is pointed out as the site of their manor-house. The Knights Templars' manor of Pertenhall passed, with the bulk of the property of their order, to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, who had a preceptory in the neighbouring parish of Melchbourne. These latter appear to have made a temporary grant of the manor in the early part of the 14th century to John Merlyn, to whom Edward II granted rights of free warren in 1319. (fn. 24) The Prior of the Knights Hospitallers held a view of frankpledge in Pertenhall. (fn. 25) After the Dissolution no further mention of this manor occurs until the year 1660, when Richard Spicer alienated it to Simon Grey, (fn. 26) who retained it until 1690, when he conveyed it to Francis Brace (fn. 27) ; he sold it five years later to James Oliver. (fn. 28) The manor remained in the hands of the Oliver family for a considerable period, and it is probable that an heiress of that family married Simon Taylor, who, with his son Simon Oliver, suffered a recovery of the manor in 1772. (fn. 29) It was purchased from Simon Taylor in 1790 by a clergyman named Paget, (fn. 30) whose heirs held the manor in 1801. (fn. 31) It was purchased from them by William Bricheno, (fn. 32) who sold it to John King Martin in 1820. (fn. 33) His representatives still hold property in Pertenhall at the present day.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42404

[annieoburns]

Hi other Annie,

[annieoburns]

Sorry other Annie, seems to want to post message whenever I do an 'indent'.  I was going to add that I would love to tease out the Harrods connections as I suspect he was orphaned at this stage and may have been sponsered by workhouse system.  Someday I will track down a record to back up my hunch.

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi again Annie and Annie,
All very interesting!  And it looks as though you've definitely nailed down the correct family spelling - Mr BRICHENO the breeches maker it is then...
Not his only claim to fame, though, and perhaps I'll have a bit of a poke about with his ancestry.
keith

[Keith Sherwood]

Just noticed today when looking on the modern map for Over that there is a "Glover Street".  Makes me wonder whether this small village had a reputation for its glove making...
keith
p.s. Hoping to make a visit there very shortly!

[Dancing Master]

There used to be a bounty paid for moles, rats or other animals classed as vermin.  you used to see them hanging up near to some farms.

As for sparrows -  I don't understand why people are saying they don't see them anymore,  we have large numbers of them in our garden.   But  we grow the sort of plants that birds and butterflies enjoy,  not these sanitised gardens where a blade of grass is not allowed to be above ground level, or perish the though seedheads on the plants.,

I leave seedheads on for the bullfinches, [had quite a few birds which we don't even recognise around here normally this summer.




quote author=Gaie link=topic=328203.msg2086441#msg2086441 date=1221665077]
You'd be hard-pressed to catch a sparrow nowadays! !

There seems to be some info on breeches makers here:

http://journals.cambridge.org/

It seems to be a subscription site, and the abstracts aren't displaying the tantalising snippets that the search engine hints at.  Is there access at Cambridge libraries?

Kind regards
Gaie

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi again, Everyone,
Just an update to say that I've finally nailed down John JOHNSON in his brother James's will of 1812 which I found on microfilm at the CCRO.  There he is mentioned as ..."my brother John JOHNSON glover and breeches maker of Cambridge".  I might well have had trouble trying to decipher the word "breeches" without all this prior knowledge!
So, he was the brave and pioneering one who made the move to Cambridge as an artisan/craftsman, while his three brothers continued to farm in the nearby villages of Over, Longstanton, Swavesey, Willingham and Dry Drayton.  And his Cambridge branch of the JOHNSON family really flourished in the 19thC as a result...
Very many thanks for all your help on here,
keith

[liverpool annie]

I just caught up with this Keith ... sorry !

Thats good news about your John Johnson ! ... see you do come from Pioneering stock after all ... now then to show you really are from that family ... when are you going to Godmanchester again ?? 

( I'm just kidding !!  )