Families and family trees Part 1 • Alington from ‘Horseheath Hall and its Owners’ by Catherine Parsons 1948. By kind permission of Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Extract from ’Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society’, Vol.XLI 1943-47 • Atherton By courtesy of Gillian Blackmore • Batson Source as Alington above • Bradman by P.Cornell By courtesy of Haverhill & District Local History Group • Bromley Source as Alington above Part of Horseheath Village Archives All-in-One Tree of Martin Atherton George Atherton b: Abt. 1806 in Ashdon Occupation: Farmer Charles Atherton b: 1840 in Ashdon d: 1917 Occupation: 1871 Publican, the Chequers Inn, Cardinals Green Richard Elisabeth Ann Ely b: 1796 Osbourne b: 1801 b: Abt. 1839 in Cowlinge d: 1874 in Horseheath, Cambridge Occupation: 1861 Gamekeeper @ West Wickham for the Earl of Hardwicke Martin Flora Kate Atherton Ely b: 1865 b: 1868 in Horseheath, Cambridge in Horseheath, Cambridge d: 1947 d: 1941 in Horseheath, Cambridge in Thurlow, Suffolk Occupation: Agricultural Labourer John Martha Reynolds Challis b: 1842 b: 1839 in Shudy Camps, Cambridge in Helions Bumpstead, Essex d: 1915 d: 1913 Occupation: 1901 Platelayer on Railway Residence: 1901 Cardinals Green Charles Sarah Cowell Reynolds b: 1862 b: 1866 in Shudy Camps, Cambridge Jeffrey Albert Augustus Nellie Atherton Reynolds b: 13 Apr 1884 b: 1886 in Shudy Camps, Cambridge Occupation: 1901 Occupation: 1901 Monitress at Shudy Camps School Stockman at Glebe Farm, Thurlow Ruby Victor Jack Edith Lily Eric Charles Atherton Atherton Wenham Atherton Atherton b: 03 Sep 1912 b: 01 May 1914 b: b: Abt. 1916 b: 30 Jan 1924 in Castle Camps in Yatley, Derbyshire in Shudy Camps, Cambridge in Castle Camps in Castle Camps d: Apr 1986 d: 20 May 2005 d: 28 Jun 1992 d: 07 Jan 1943 d: Mar 1998 in Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge in Horseheath, Cambridge in WW II - troop ship torpedoed Christine Sylvia [1] Clifford William Brian [1] Clifford William Brian Pauline Susan Martin Edward Ronald Mark Atherton Blackmore Blackmore Lees Atherton Atherton b: 17 Jun 1938 b: 26 Jul 1932 b: 26 Jul 1932 b: 1940 b: 1957 in Carlton Green, Cambridge in Hempstead, Essex in Hempstead, Essex in Carlton Green, Cambridge in Cardinals Green d: 03 Oct 2004 in Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge Richard Thomas Robert Brian Gillian Peggy Stephen John Emma Victoria Tarot Blackmore Blackmore Blackmore Blackmore Blackmore Atherton b: 24 Sep 1958 b: 04 Jun 1962 b: 08 Apr 1964 b: 19 Mar 1972 b: 25 Nov 1976 b: 1973 in West View, Mill Green in West Side Farm, Fordham in West Side Farm, Fordham in Cambridge in Cambridge d: 16 Jan 1993 in Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge PEDIGREE OF BATS 0 N Arms. AT. three bats' wings sa. on a chief gule Crest. A bat's wing, sa. „ Motto. Nocte Volamus. Henry Batson His will dated 1803 Stanlake Batson — Isabella, da. of George Rachael ob. at Horseheath, Foyntz Ricketts, Esq., ob. unmarried. 11 July 1857 Governor of Barbados, b. 1782 /aged 83 . ob. 7 Deo. 1845 Stanlake Ricketts Batson = Gertrude Julianna Louise, Edward - b. 11 Nov. 1819, ob. 13 elder da. of the Rt. Hon. ob. unmarried June, 1871. m. 1301. J.P. Henry T. Lowry-Corry. for Cambs and High ob. 16 Feb. 1874 Sheriff of Cambs. 1867 Stanlaktanf; e Henry = Gertrude Isabella = Sir Arthur Brooke Montague Edward b. 15 Deo. 1863 m. 28 July, 1887 of Colobrooke, b. 15 Sept. 1865 ob. 27 Nov. 1007 Brookoboro, Co. ob. 20 May 1881 Fermanagh. bur. at Stone ; As /\ The names of the Batson owners of Horseheath are printed in a heavier type. SIB DONALD BRADHAN THE FAMILY TREE OF SIR DONALD BRADMAN LINKS VITH VITHERSFIELD, HAVERHILL AND HORSEHEATH Villiam Rawlingson ra Susanna Smocthy t>. 1729 b. 12-2-1710 — : 1 — ~ •—1 1 d. 1781 H.H. V.F. I The greatest cricketer and batsman that Australia has produced I is undoubtedly Donald Bradman. He was born on August 27th 1908 Thomas Rawlingson m Elizabeth Lappet at Cootamundra in the rich wheat and sheep belt of New South b. 1737 H.H. 1755 b. Wales, the last of five children born to George ID] and Emily d. 1805 V.F. V. F. d. 1812 V.F. Bradman. I The origins of the Bradman family can be traced back to the Suffolk and Cambridgeshire villages of •Vitbersfield, Haverhill John BradmanCAI m (1) Sussanna Villiams and Horseheath. The name has been written as Bradman and, |. 1745. H.H. 1769 d. 1795 V.F. Bradnam over the centuries and the Parish Registers of St d. 1822. V.F. 1795(2) Anne Hyner Marys Vithersfield contain many entries of both variations. I d. 1855 H.H. Vhen Sir Donald played at Cambridge in 1930 as a 21 year old on his first tour of England he took the opportunity to trace John Bradmanl BI m Lucy Rawlingson his forebears in the region and met'" several persons carrying b. 1806 V.F. 1830 , b. 1808 V.F. the name Bradman and Bradnam. V. F. Sir Donald's great and great great grandparents on the male side lie in the churchyard at Vithersf ield. John Bradraan [A] Charles BradmantC] m Elizabeth Biffen was born at Horseheath cl745. He was an agricultural b. 1833 V.F. 1860 b. 1843 labourer and married his first wife Susanna Villiams at era. 1852. Berrima Vithersfield on October 13th 1769. Susanna was buried at d. 1907 Jinalee I Vithersfield in 1795. John then married again to Anne Hyner on March 3rd 1795, again at Vithersfield. There were two children by the first marriage and a further five by the George Bradwmt D] ID Emily Vhatnan second . marriage, Sir Donald's great grandfather John [B) b. 1875 1893 b. 1871 being the second born to John and Anne. John C A3 was buried Cootamuudra I Mittagong on August 26th 1822 and Anne on February 2nd 1855 both at d.1961 I d. 1944 Vithersfield! • # 4» • Berrima 1 Mittagong i John Bradman IB] was also an agricultural labourer; he married Lucy Rawlinson (another prolific * family name at Donald.. George.. Bx adman Vithersfield') on April 2nd 1830 at Vithersfield. Eight b. 1908 Cootamundra. children were born of this marriage, the second, Charles, H.H. Horseheath CO was Sir Donald's grandfather. V.F. Vithersfield The 1851 census for Vithersfield shows John and Lucy living at High Noon Lane with seven children. This house in due emigrated to New South Vales from Vithersfield in 1855. They course became the village post office and when Sir Donald lived near the Bradman family in a tenement at the junction visited the village in 1930 the house was still occupied by of the road to Great Vratting near the Fox Inn during the a relative - Mrs Tillbrooke, a niece of his grandfather (she 1830-40s and later near the Vhite Horse. They knew the was born a 'Bradman') Bradman family well and contact was maintained after arrival in Australia. My William Cornell's cousin Martha Anna Charles Bradman I C] emigrated to Australia as a young man of Cornell married Sir Donald's great grandfather's brother 18 in early 1852. He was the eldest son of John and Lucy and William at Vithersfield on April 10th 1879. baptised at Vithersfield on May 26th 1833. At the time of his emigration he too was an agricultural labourer. During An excellent book for further reading on Sir Donald's life this period East Anglia was in the grip of the great and cricketing career is 'Sir Donald Bradman -A Biography', agricultural depression and many groups of agricultural published by B. T. Batsford, London, 1978, from which "some workers banded together to go to Australia, anxious to of the information, in this article is drawn. divorce themselves from a life of agricultural serfdom. The number of emigrants claimed by Australia in 1852 was 95,000, most making for the Victorian goldfields, though some 9,OS J| % V Cornel1. went to lew South Vales, Charles Bradman being one of there. He spent the rest of his days a New South Welshman. In 1860 Charles married Elizabeth Biffen at Berrima near Mittagong in the southern highlands of Mew South Vales and they eventually settled at Jindalee seme 7 miles north of Cootaraundra, Sir Donald's father, George, being born at Cootamundra on November 29th 1875. Sir Donald never knew his emigrant grandfather for he died at the age of 74 in October 1907 at Jindalee, ten months before Donald was born. His father, George, ID) married at the age of 17 to Emily Whatman in 1893. The Whatman family origins go back to Brede in Sussex. Donald's mother died in 1944 at Mittagong and his father in 1961 at Berrima. Sir Donald and Lady -Bradraan live in Adelaide, South Austria and still take a very active interest in cricket. Cambridgeshire has also produced a number of other gre^t cricketers of the 19th century, Thomas Rayward and Robe. K) Carpenter who, along with Diver, Tarrant and Buttress, all helped the County for many years to be one of the strongest in England, A far cry from today as a 'minor county'. Thomas Hayward Jnr. .was the first man after V. G. Grace to score a hundred centuries. The greatest century maker of then all, John Berry Hobbs, was also born in Cambridgeshire, so by geographical accident the two master batsmen of the 20th century are linked together. My own interest in the Bradman family is through the Vithersfield connection. My great grandfather William Cornell and his wife Harriet Farrant (of Haverhill) BROMLEY OF HORSEHEATH Arms. Quarterly per pale dovetail, gu. and or. - Crest. A demy Lion ramp.