English Bicknor, Gloucestershire
Wall monumen by Ricketts ,with mourning cherub & carved portrait in the south chapel to "Edward Tomkins Machen of Eastbach Court, esq, who exchanged time for eternity April 10th in the 72nd year of his age in the year of redemption 1778
Through life honour and integrity , goodness of heart and solidity of judgement, sincere in friendship and tennets of religion ........... "
(Land at Eastbach was held under English Bicknor manor by Alexander Baynham 1524 (son of Thomas Baynham 1499 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/b34x0r and descended with an estate in Mitcheldean to Joseph Baynham the owner in 1608 who died in 1613 . His son and heir Alexander sold all or part of the Eastbach land to Edward Machen of Gloucester by 1616. In 1633 Edward settled his Eastbach estate on his son Richard. 1673 and in 1675 it was settled on Richard's widow Mary 1678 who passed it on to her son Edward Machen of Abenhall 1708 who left it to his daughter Elizabeth wife of Thomas Tomkins 1711 . Elizabeth 1712 was succeeded by her brother Richard Machen 1735, from whom the estate, including lands he had purchased from John Hopkins and others, passed to his brother Edward who had bought Blackthorns farm in English Bicknor in 1730 was succeeded at his death in 1740 by his nephew EDWARD TOMKINS who added the surname MACHEN and died in 1778
Edward left the estate to his wife Hannah 1789 and James Davies. James Davies, who took the surname Machen under the terms of Edward's will but sometimes used that of Davies owned over 453 acres in the parish in 1792. He became deputy surveyor of the Forest of Dean in 1806. At his death in 1832 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/250Fcj the Eastbach estate passed to his son Edward Machen (formerly Davies), who was deputy surveyor from 1808 until 1854. Edward, who had purchased 350 acres in the parish from the Crown and had inherited the Bicknor Court estate in the 1820s, died in 1862 and was succeeded by his son Edward, rector of Staunton. Edward 1893 left the estate in turn to his wife Sophia 1893 and son Charles 1917 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/wxadyz who sold Bicknor Court and its land and was succeded in turn by his wife Lucy 1932 and son Henry. The estate, which was further reduced by sales after 1917, (fn. 7) passed from Henry (d. 1958) (fn. 8) to his son and daughter, James Machen and Joan Agutter, and they sold the remaining part. (fn. 9) Eastbach Court and most of the land were purchased by the tenant Ernest Knight and in 1964 were bought by the Symonds family, which having built a new house higher up to the south-east, sold Eastbach Court and c. 12 ha. (c. 30 a.) to David Rowe-Beddoe in 1989 and retained c. 101 ha. (c. 250 a.) in 1993.
www.englishbicknor.org.uk/information/history.html - Church of St Mary the Virgin, English Bicknor, Gloucestershire,
English Bicknor, Gloucestershire
Wall monumen by Ricketts ,with mourning cherub & carved portrait in the south chapel to "Edward Tomkins Machen of Eastbach Court, esq, who exchanged time for eternity April 10th in the 72nd year of his age in the year of redemption 1778
Through life honour and integrity , goodness of heart and solidity of judgement, sincere in friendship and tennets of religion ........... "
(Land at Eastbach was held under English Bicknor manor by Alexander Baynham 1524 (son of Thomas Baynham 1499 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/b34x0r and descended with an estate in Mitcheldean to Joseph Baynham the owner in 1608 who died in 1613 . His son and heir Alexander sold all or part of the Eastbach land to Edward Machen of Gloucester by 1616. In 1633 Edward settled his Eastbach estate on his son Richard. 1673 and in 1675 it was settled on Richard's widow Mary 1678 who passed it on to her son Edward Machen of Abenhall 1708 who left it to his daughter Elizabeth wife of Thomas Tomkins 1711 . Elizabeth 1712 was succeeded by her brother Richard Machen 1735, from whom the estate, including lands he had purchased from John Hopkins and others, passed to his brother Edward who had bought Blackthorns farm in English Bicknor in 1730 was succeeded at his death in 1740 by his nephew EDWARD TOMKINS who added the surname MACHEN and died in 1778
Edward left the estate to his wife Hannah 1789 and James Davies. James Davies, who took the surname Machen under the terms of Edward's will but sometimes used that of Davies owned over 453 acres in the parish in 1792. He became deputy surveyor of the Forest of Dean in 1806. At his death in 1832 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/250Fcj the Eastbach estate passed to his son Edward Machen (formerly Davies), who was deputy surveyor from 1808 until 1854. Edward, who had purchased 350 acres in the parish from the Crown and had inherited the Bicknor Court estate in the 1820s, died in 1862 and was succeeded by his son Edward, rector of Staunton. Edward 1893 left the estate in turn to his wife Sophia 1893 and son Charles 1917 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/wxadyz who sold Bicknor Court and its land and was succeded in turn by his wife Lucy 1932 and son Henry. The estate, which was further reduced by sales after 1917, (fn. 7) passed from Henry (d. 1958) (fn. 8) to his son and daughter, James Machen and Joan Agutter, and they sold the remaining part. (fn. 9) Eastbach Court and most of the land were purchased by the tenant Ernest Knight and in 1964 were bought by the Symonds family, which having built a new house higher up to the south-east, sold Eastbach Court and c. 12 ha. (c. 30 a.) to David Rowe-Beddoe in 1989 and retained c. 101 ha. (c. 250 a.) in 1993.
www.englishbicknor.org.uk/information/history.html - Church of St Mary the Virgin, English Bicknor, Gloucestershire,