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Robert Wait (Alias Wayte) Rachel (Daniels Or Ford) Robert Wait (alias Wayte) 1695 - 1755 Farmer of Rangeworthy and Iron Acton in Gloucestershire, and of Norton Malreward in Somerset AND HIS FIRST WIFE Rachel (Daniels or Ford) ? - 1747 by Geoffrey Audcent © 2014, Mendip Road, Yatton, North Somerset William Wait (1669-1754) Farmer of Castle Combe Robert Wait (1695-1755) Farmer of Rangeworthy and Norton Malreward Abstract – Robert Wait was born and baptised at Castle Combe in Wiltshire in 1695 (os). He was a successful farmer at Rangeworthy and Iron Acton (where he was the tenant of Acton House Farm) in Gloucestershire, before moving to northern Somerset in 1744, where he took over a large farm at Norton Malreward. Robert had nine children by his first wife. She was an early Methodist and travelled to Kingswood every Sunday to hear the Methodist ministers who preached there. Following her death in 1747 Robert remarried and had one further child. In 1749 Robert made a will, describing himself as a farmer of the parish of Norton Maleward, in good health and in perfect mind and memory “thanks be given to God therefore”. Robert died in 1755 and was buried at Norton Malreward. His will was proved in London at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in July 1755 with administration of all goods, chattels and credits granted to his eldest son. Robert Wait (alias Wayte) 1695 - 1755 Farmer of Rangeworthy and Iron Acton in Gloucestershire, and of Norton Malreward in Somerset AND HIS FIRST WIFE Rachel (Daniels or Ford) ? - 1747 Six-Times-Great-Grandparents to Mrs Sandra Audcent (nee Russell) Robert Waite was born on 19 January 1695 at Castle Combe in Wiltshire (the “prettiest village in England”).1 He was baptised there in the parish church of St. Andrew’s on 6 February 1695 (old style, new style 1696), and was the son of William Waite and his wife Jane.2 Robert became a farmer, first in Gloucestershire and subsequently in Somerset. Robert married his first wife before 1723 (as their eldest son was born in November 1723). She was named Rachel, although her surname is disputed - according to Burke’s ‘Landed Gentry’ her surname was ‘Daniels’, but she could equally be the Rachel Ford who is recorded as marrying a Robert Wait by licence on 12 November 1722 at St Michael’s in Bristol. The marriage allegation and bond are preserved in the Bristol records office and might help to prove this (by confirming the bride and groom’s parish of residence) but are unfit for production. From 1723 to the mid-1740s Robert and Rachel resided in various parishes in southern Gloucestershire. In 1823 they were at Wapley-Cum-Codrington (where their first-born was baptised), and from 1730 to 1740 they were at Rangeworthy a small village on the old coach road from Bristol to Dursley (where they had four children baptised). During the early 1740s they were at Iron Acton, where Robert is recorded as the tenant of Acton House Farm (as evidenced by a bundle of receipted bills for payments for land tax, rates, and building repairs made by him, which were allowed against rent).3 Robert rented Acton House Farm from the wealthy Long family.4 The Overseers’ accounts are preserved in the Bristol records office but are unfit for production. An account written many years later (relating to the death of their son) records that Robert and Rachel had “engaged in the farming business …. in which they were greatly favoured with 1 His date of birth is from Sir Bernard Burke, ‘Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, Volume 2 (pages 1482-3 in the 1852 edition and pages 1584-5 in the 1863 edition). 2 From the parish register, which states that “Robt” son of “William and Jane Waite” was baptised on 6 February 1695 (old style, new style 1696). 3 National Archives: The Estate, household, personal and business papers of the Long families of Rood Ashton, South Wraxall, Whaddon, Draycot Cerne and elsewhere: 947/1130 - Bundle of receipted bills for payments for land tax, rates, and building repairs made by Robert Wait, tenant of Acton House Farm; Robert Batten and subsequently his widow Hannah, tenants of the Manor Farm; Jacob Highnam, tenant of the White Hart public house; and allowed against rent. (dates 1741-1747) 4 Acton House Farm remained in the ownership of the Long family until the mid-Nineteenth century. See Gloucestershire Arcives, ref D6700/2/19b: Acton House Farm and Two-Pool House, includes sale particulars (1804- 1856). prosperity by a kind and gracious Providence.” 5 This account also states that in April 1744 Robert and his wife left Rangeworthy and moved to Norton Malreward in northern Somerset, where they took over a large farm. At first they encountered some hostility from the villagers owing to ignorance and suspicion of their Methodist principles and practice. However, the family soon won the respect of the local community through their conduct and conversation, which were “uniformly exemplary”, and which greatly lessened the prejudice against them. The family did not sever all their links with Iron Acton - in 1776 Robert’s son (William) was mentioned as the freehold owner of a “house and land” at Iron Acton (which was leased to a Mrs Cadle, widow) - doubtless he had inherited this property from Robert. 6 Robert’s wife and sons were notably devout in her Christian faith and became early Methodists. It was recorded that after being “brought to a knowledge of the truth” Rachel “embraced it with her whole heart.” From 1739 Kingswood became the cradle of the early Methodist movement, where John Wesley and George Whitefield preached outdoors to huge crowds of up to 10,000 people on Hanham Mount. Every Sunday Rachel travelled (with her son teenage son William) from Rangeworthy to Kingswood, to hear the Methodist ministers who preached there. She continued to do so after moving to Norton Malreward. This involved round trips of over 20 kilometres. Robert and Rachel had three sons and five daughters and who survived long enough to be named in Robert’s last will and testament, made in November 1749:- 7 1. Jane Wait. Baptised at Wapley-Cum-Codrington (near Westerleigh) on 29 November 1723. She married a Mr Williams (before November 1749) and was left £50 of good and lawful money in her father’s will. 2. William Wait (“otherwise Wayte”). Born 12 July 1725 at Rangeworthy and baptised at Doynton, Gloucestershire, on 9 August 1725. He was his father’s principle heir and acted as executor of his father’s estate in 1755. He bought the Belluton property from the Lansdown family at Woodborough and moved there. The property was the childhood home of John Locke – one of the greatest philosophers of the early modern period. William was a prominent and pious Methodist. He died 27 August 1806 aged 81 and was buried on 4 September 1806 at Norton Malreward. The will of William Wait, Gentleman of Stanton Drew, Somerset, was granted probate on 14 October 1806 (PROB 11/1451). He married in February 1759 Elizabeth Wiltshire, of Bradford-on-Avon – regarded by John Valton in 1785 as one of the three most pious Methodist women in the South West of England (The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers Part Three, page 120). They had the following children baptised at Norton Malreward. He was buried at Norton Malreward on 4 September 1806. Had issue. 3. John Wayte. He was left £80 in his father’s will. Jane “the wife of John Waite of the Parish of Whitchurch” was buried at Norton Malreward on 17 May 1762. He may be the John Waite recorded as paying land tax for a messuage in Castle Street, Bristol, up to March 1761 (after which the property was taken over his Daniel Waite, grocer, who continued to pay land tax on the property until 1789). 5 This information, and certain other details about Robert and Rachel the obituary of their son William, in The Methodist Magazine 1808, Volume 31, pages 130-4. 6 The Poll at the Election of a Knight of the Shire for the County of Gloucester, Begun on Monday the 6th, and Continued Until Friday the 17th of May, 1776. The Hon. George Cranfield Berkeley, William Bromley Chester, Esq., Candidates (1776), page 23. 7 The parish registers at Norton Malreward also refer to the burial of William, the son of William Wait on 21 May 1760, and to Priscilla, the daughter of Mr William Wait on 21 Sept 1766. These are probably Robert’s grandchildren. 4. Elizabeth Wayte. She was left £50 in her father’s will. 5. Daniel Wayte. Baptised at Rangeworthy on 22 March 1730. He was left £80 in his father’s will. He became a grocer of Bristol and was involved in the trial of Jonathan Britain (see The Gentleman's and London magazine 1772). His son was Daniel Wait Esq, alderman of Bristol, and died at Bristol in 1813 aged 53 (see The European magazine & London review, 1813, Vol 64, page 268). 6. Mary Wayte. Baptised at Rangeworthy on 21 June 1732. She was left £50 in her father’s will. She was married by licence to William Chilton, a carpenter of Whitchurch. They are ancestors of the Russell family. 7. Sarah Wayte. She was left £50 in her father’s will. 8. Susannah Wayte. Baptised at Rangeworthy on 28 July 1737. She was left £50 in her father’s will. 9. Robert Wait. Baptised at Rangeworthy on 26 November 1740. He must have died young as he was not mentioned in his father’s will. Rachel died just three years after the move to Somerset and was buried at Norton Marleward on 16 October 1747.
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