John Chamberlayne (1791 - 1867)

Born 25 Aug 1791 in Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, England

Ancestors

Died 26 Nov 1867 at age 76 in Eastwick, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Birth and Parentage

John was born at 5 o' clock in the morning on Thursday, 25 August 1791 (OS), in the country house known as The Ryes, near Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex. He was the third son of Stanes Chamberlayne and Mary née Brockett. Baptised privately there on the same day, he was 'fully' baptised at Ryes on Friday 9 December of the same year. His 'sponsors' or godparents were The Hon. John Stuart, Hannah Martyn and William Heath. ^[1]

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LIfe and Career

Typically for the time, as his oldest brother Stanes Brocket was destined to inherit the family property and his second oldest, William was destined for the army, John was sent to Jesus College, Cambridge, where as a Fellow-Commoner, he gained his BA in 1813, confirmed by the Cambridge Chronicle and Journal on Friday 7 May that year,^[3]and then MA in 1816.^[4] Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses, however, has no record of him. ^[5]He became a deacon in the Church of England. Ordained priest on 24 March 1816 by the Bishop of Ely in St James' Piccadilly, ^[6]he became Perpetual Curate Perpetual Curate of Norton Mandeville, Essex, from 26 March 1816. ^[7] This was a clerical position valued in 1831 at only £83 a year, equivalent to £9,812.04 in 2017 and had no parsonage house. It had 22 acres, 1 rod and 26 perches of glebe, mostly purchased with benefaction money and a grant from Queen Anne's Bounty, in 1743. ^[8]

Credit: Hertfordshire Churches in Photographs

No doubt seeking a living which would allow him more than the bare minimum, he was appointed Rector of St Botolph's, Eastwick, Hertfordshire, (at that time in the Diocese of London)^[9] on 10 ^[7]or 17 June 1825.^[10] His patroness was then Jane Plumer (widow of William Plumer^[11] of Gilston Park. ^{[12][13][14][15]}

The Rectory, of Eastwick, Herts^[16]was

a Rectory, value £204, with residence and 50 acres of grebe, in the gift of R.P. Ward Esq., ^[17]and held by the Rev. John Chamberlayne, M.A., of Jesus College, Cambridge. The parish contains 810 acres, and 170 inhabitants.^[18][19]

In 1836, his name appears in a list of names of land tax commissioners for the county of Hertford.^[20]

In both the census of 1851 and 1861, John was at Eastwick. His sister Emma was with him in 1851, ^[21]and Emma and Harriet, described as Gentleman's daughters, were there ten years later.^[22]

However, according to the anonymous author of Facts not Fables, relative to the family of the Chamberlaynes, in the county of Essex., who described John as a 'pluralist',^[23]

the Reverend John Chamberlayne was, for the most part, for which he had very advantageous and profitable reasons, living and surfacing at Ryes, very little at his living in Eastwick, so little that, I believe, the Bishop took serious notice of it...

Death and Burial

He died aged 77 at the Rectory, Eastwick on 26 November 1867 ^[24][4]and was buried in St Mary the Virgin, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, where there is a memorial to him and his sister Emma, above those of their parents.

Sources

1. ↑ Chamberlayne Family Bible
2. ↑ Freely Available from ARCHIMAPS. Retrieved from (Here;) Accessed 20 Oct 2022.
3. ↑ British Newspaper Archive. Cambridge Chronicle and Journal - Friday 07 May 1813. Retrieved (with sub) from the bna (Here;) Accessed 27 Apr 2024.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} ed. Edward Cave., (1868)., The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 224. Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 27 Apr 2024.
5. ↑ John Venn, John Archibald Venn., (2011)., Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900., Vol 1. CUP. Retrieved from Google Books (Here;) Accessed 27 Apr 2024.
6. ↑ British Newspaper Archive. Cambridge Chronicle and Journal - Friday 29 March 1816. Retrieved (with sub) from the bna [(Here;) Accessed 27 Apr 2024.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Chamberlayne, John (1815 - 1825). Retrieved from The Clergy Database (Here;) Accessed 20 Oct 2022.
8. ↑ Norton Mandeville. White's Directory of Essex 1848, History House. Retrieved from History House (Here;) Accessed 20 Oct 2022.
9. ↑ Commissioners appointed to consider the state of the established Church. (1835)., Liber ecclesiasticus. An authentic statement of the revenues of the Established Church, compiled from the report of the Commissioners. Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 27 Apr 2024.
10. ↑ Foster, Joseph, (1890). Index ecclesiasticus; or, Alphabetical lists of all ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales since the reformation. Containing 150,000 hitherto unpublished entries from the bishops' certificates of institutions to livings, etc., now deposited in the Public record office, and including those names which appear in Le Neve's 'Fasti.' Oxford: Parker & Co. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 20 Oct 2022.
11. ↑ Plumer, William. History of Parliament. Retrieved from History of Parliament Online (Here;) Accessed 19 Oct 2022.
12. ↑ Burke, John (1833)., A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours, Volume 1. Pub: Henry Colburn. Retrieved from Google e-books (Here;) Accessed 19 Oct 2022.
13. ↑ The Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record, (Vol 2. p.233)., (1825). (Here;) Accessed 19 Oct 2022.
14. ↑ Gilbert, Richard, (1836)., The Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory: Containing a Complete Register of the Dignities and Benefices of the Church of England, with Their Respective Value, Founded on an Average of Three Years; and Exhibiting the Names of the Incumbents, Patrons, and Impropriators, County, Diocese, Archdeaconry, Population, and Church-accomodation of the Livings: ... To which are Added, an Alphabetical List of the Dignitaries and Beneficed Clergy; and the Ecclesiastical Patronage at the Disposal of the King. J. G. & F. Rivington. Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 19 Oct 2022.
15. ↑ Cox, C. (1841)., Clergy List for 1841, Eastwick. Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 19 Oct 2022.
16. ↑ University of Leicester Special Collections Online 1855 Post Office Directory of Hertfordshire. (p.20). Retrieved from Special Collections (Here;) Accessed 19 Oct 2022.
17. ↑ Hertfordshire Genealogy. Eastwick. Retrieved from Hertfordshire Genealogy (Here;) Accessed 19 Oct 2022.
18. ↑ Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. [1855. Part 1: Counties & Localities]., (p.219-220)., University of Leicester Special Collections. Retrieved from Special Collections Online (Here;) Accessed 19 Oct 2022.
19. ↑ Lewis, Samuel, (1835)., A Topographical Dictionary of England, Volume 2. Eastwick. Pub: S. Lewis. Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 27 Apr 2024.
20. ↑ Statutes at Large ...: (37 v.) (1836)., A collection of the public general statutes, 1833-1869. Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 27 Apr 2024.
21. ↑ Emma Chamberlayne in household of John Chamberlayne, Eastwick, Hertfordshire, England, England and Wales Census, 1851, FamilySearch Online Database with images, citing Eastwick, Hertfordshire, England, p. 4, from 1851 England, Scotland and Wales census, citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.. Retrieved from FamilySearch (Here;) Accessed 27 Apr 2024.
22. ↑ Emma Chamberlyne in household of Rev John Chamberlayne, Eastwick, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom in England and Wales Census, 1861. FamilySearch Online Database with images, citing PRO RG 9, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey. Retrieved from FamilySearch (Here;) Accessed 27 Apr 2024.
23. ↑ Essex Archives Online. Anon, (1835)., Facts not Fables, relative to the family of the Chamberlaynes, in the county of Essex. Reference: LIB/B/CHAMBEL. Retrieved from eao (Here;) Accessed 27 Apr 2024.
24. ↑ British Newspaper Archive. Bury and Norwich Post - Tuesday 3 December 1867. Retrieved from BNA (Here;) Accessed 24 Mar 2023.

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