Havell Family, Moulsford/Reading

[MattB]

Hello,

I’m looking for any information, family connections or help with the Havell family of Moulsford/Reading please.

Many of the family from the late 1700s onward were significant artists and engravers.

However, I’m interested in the apparent Norman origins of the family. Apparently there is a privately published book called The Moulsford Mystery (Philip Vickers, The In-Hand Press, Farnham, Surrey, England, 1995), which includes more on this and reminiscences of the artist William Havell, but only 100 copies were printed (I think Reading Museum has one but grateful if anyone has a transcript?).

They farmed for some time at Southbury/Sowbury farm.

Grateful for help on any aspect of the above.

Matt

[Vance Mead]

There's a Ralph de Hauville in Domesday Book, 1086, in Thornhill, Wiltss
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7318674

The earliest I found in Moulsford is William Hawevyle or Havyle, of Mulsford, husbandman and bailiff.

1416
Hawevyle, William, of Mulsford, husbandman
trespass: free warren and taking rabbits and pheasants
index
https://waalt.uh.edu/index.php/CP40/621
original, third entry
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no621/aCP40no621fronts/IMG_0501.htm

1422
Havyle, William, of Mulsford, bailiff
Account as receiver of money on behalf of plaintiff
index
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/Indices/CP40Indices/CP40no647/CP40no647Pl.htm
original, fourth entry
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no647/aCP40no647fronts/IMG_0280.htm