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Description of property

Timeline:

1676 (NH QR) Robert Rosyer, q.r. 4d.

1730 (NH) Robert Rosier's will bequeathes half the house to son Joseph, half to son Robert Rosier. There seems to have been a single entrance, and a single well, with a backside and/or garden or close at the rear of the house, away from the High Street. The "upper" part and the "lower" part presumably refer to the ground floor and the floor or floors above it. Alternatively, the phrase may men the side of the house "lower" down the street, which adjoined a tenement held by their kinsman William Rosier, and the "upper" side may mean the higher side of the High Street hill, which adjoined the tenement held by John Siney. Unfortunately, the names of William Rosier and John Siney do not appear in any of the above three rent rolls! [However,John Siney did own  89 HS (qv), adjacent to Robert Rosier's "upper" house. Apart from this reference, we have no knowledge of William Rosier owning the property adjacent to Robert Rosier's "lower" house – i.e. 94 HS  – HLP]

1753-61 (QR) Robert Rosier for his house, q.r. 4d.
1774-90 (QR) Robert Rosier for his house, q.r. 4d.
1781 (CL)
1795 (NH QR) Robert Rosier, "late Timothy Rosier's"
1781 (CL)
1795-1804 (QR) Robert Rosier for house late Timothy Rosier's, q.r. 4d.

1805-17 (QR) Robert Rosier for a house late Timothy Rosier,(amended to Edward Martin), q.r. 4d.
1814 DCW Survey includes "Joseph Rosier. Tenement, 1 room below, 1 room above, Large Garden, in bad repair. Value £4-0-0". This may refer to 90-93 High Street.
1818-23 (QR) Edward Martin for house late Timothy Rosier, q.r. 4d.
1836 (QR) Edward Martin, for house late Timothy Rosier's, q.r. 4d.

1847 (CL) Mrs Catherine Martin (own and occ)
1851 (CS) Catherine Msartyin (64), proprietor of house.
1861 (CL) Noah Martin (own); Kerridge (deleted) (occ)

c1895 Possible time property was divided into several parts

No. 90 High Street

1896 (CL) Edward Noah Martin (own); Ephriam Vockins (occ)

1914 (CL) Edward Noah Martin (own); John Whiscombe (occ) [Carpenter and Wheelwright]

c.1932 (QR) Mr. E.N. Martin "House formerly Timothy Rosier's afterwards Edward Martin's then Catherine Martin", q.r. 4d.

1939 (Blacket's) H.A.G. Hassall
1947-1997 (CL) Hugh Adrian George Hassall (died 1997; Mavis had died 1992)

2000 (CL) Void
2011 (CL) Void

No. 93 (92) High Street

1896 (CL) Edward Noah Martin (own); Sandford (occ)

1914 (CL) Edward Noah Martin (own); John Whiscombe (occ) [Carpenter and Wheelwright]

c.1932 (QR) Mr. E.N. Martin "House formerly Timothy Rosier's afterwards Edward Martin's then Catherine Martin", q.r. 4d.

1939 (Blacket's) 91-93: Mrs L. Whiscombe; R.A. Whiscombe, carpenter and wheelwright.

1947-1956 (CL) Mrs Louisa Whiscombe

1963 (CL) Henry Robert Newton

1968 (CL) Void (deleted)  Ethel Florence Bristow

1970 (CL) Ethel Florence Dennis

1976-2009 (CL) John Cedric Hathway (Eva died 1997)
2011 (CL) John Cedric Hathway

From Norman Hidden papers:

No 89HS (or adjacent) [I believe 90-93 - HLP]:
Rosier
In 1676 Hungerford QRR indicates a property on which Robert Rosyer paid 4d q.r. "for his house". The property lay at the south end of the (east side of the) Street, and may have been either a rectorial or a Hungerford Englefield manor tenement.

In the next QRR extant, dated 1753, Robert Rosier held what is probably the same house, but the exact position is not clear. The q.r. is, as before, 4d.

In 1774, Robert Rosier is still the occupier of this property (q.r. 4d) near the south end of the east side, and in 1795 it was occupied by Robert Rosier "late Timothy Rosier's".

This series of rent rolls from 1676-1795 seems to indicate that the house remained in the Rosier family throughout this period, and the facts seem to correspond with the will of Robert Rosier made in 1730, in which he bequeathes one half of his house to his son Joseph, and the other half to his son Robert. The will describes the gift of the two halves as follows:-

There seems to have been a single entrance, and a single well, with a backside and/or garden or close at the rear of the house, away from the High Street. The "upper" part and the "lower" part presumably refer to the ground floor and the floor or floors above it. Alternatively, the phrase may men the side of the house "lower" down the street, which adjoined a tenement held by their kinsman William Rosier, and the "upper" side may mean the higher side of the High Street hill, which adjoined the tenement held by John Siney. Unfortunately, the names of William Rosier and John Siney do not appear in any of the above three rent rolls!

Further paper annotated ?No 89HS:
Clowdes
D/S will of Gilbert Clowdes 1662 nuncupative: "to wife Jane Clowdes my tenement in the backside during her life and let her take what she will of my goods, and the rest of my children"

Inventory: Hall, lodging chamber, loft over hall, lease and estate in his dwelling house.

1676 QRR widow Clowes on east side q.r. 4d.

1686 Burial: Widow Clowdes. This widow (Jane) was Gilbert Clowdes second wife; his first wife Alice (nee Alder, married 1621) died 1648/9. No record of his second marriage.

1609 Survey: Widow Clowes q.r. 4d. (Joan?) Clowes 1 tenement, backside, parcel of Chantry Close (of 3 adjacent tenements), q.r. 4d.

1591 Nicholas Clowghe – tenement, garden, backside, rent 10s. q.r. 4d.

1573 Nicholas Clowghe – 1 tenement, garden, backside, Chantry.q.r. 4d.

1570 Nicholas Clowse married Sibball Maine. Buried 1588

1589 Nicholas Clowse married Joane Pearce of Combe

Birthdate of Gilbert not known

1594 Burial Nicholas Clowes the weaver

1597 Burial Nicholas Clowes the broadweaver

See also:
- 1814 DCW Survey including ?90-93 High Street

Updated: 10.5.2011

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