THE ANTHONY FAMILY of BARTON STACEY, HAMPSHIRE, 1760S to 1850S
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Barton Stacey History Group The Anthony Family of Barton Stacey F1A3 THE ANTHONY FAMILY OF BARTON STACEY, HAMPSHIRE, 1760s to 1850s by Linda Moffatt © 2018 for the Barton Stacey History Group If you are able to amend or add any more information to this account, please contact the Barton Stacey History Group at [email protected] www.bartonstaceyhistory.co.uk The earliest reference so far found to the surname Anthony in Barton Stacey parish is that of the tailor Robert Anthony in 1758. Robert Anthony was perhaps in some way related to the William Anthony, a tailor of ‘Sumborne’, Hampshire (presumably Kings Somborne) who took on an apprentice, Moses Martin of Broughton, Hampshire, on 24 November 1743. There was also an Anthony family living in nearby Chilbolton, Hampshire, with burials recorded from the early 18th century. The men of this family were tailors and the forenames used in Chilbolton recur in Barton Stacey, for example, Robert Anthony, Anthony Anthony and Rose Anthony. ROBERT ANTHONY. The first reference to Robert Anthony in Barton Stacey was in 1758 when he purchased from Richard Martin of Barton Stacey, a yeoman, the property called Tamages Close. This parcel of land in Barton Stacey containing 34 lugs1 and had some years before had a house, woodhouse, stable and other buildings erected on it. Its location is described as ‘east against the highway south [i.e. on the west side of the road through Barton Stacey village], west against a close belonging to one Beacham, north against a piece of ground belonging to the Lords or Ladys of the Manor of Barton Stacey’2. Robert Anthony held this land, and presumably lived upon it, until 1787 when he sold it to Thomas Newlyn, a gentleman of Winchester. He continued as a tailor; on15 October 1760 he took on John Baker as an apprentice. UK, Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures, 1710-1811 for Robert Anthoney, The National Archives IR 1/54. 1 A lug contained 48 square yards, ref. British Husbandry: Exhibiting the Farming Practice in Various Parts of the United Kingdom, Volume 2, 1841, by John French Burke. Using this measure, 34 lugges = 1632 sq yds = about a third of an acre. 2 Hampshire Record Office, Ref. No. 12M49/A5/1. 1 Barton Stacey History Group The Anthony Family of Barton Stacey F1A3 Robert Anthony married Mary Turton on 12 August 1771 at All Saints, the parish church of Barton Stacey. Children of Robert and Mary (Turton) Anthony, born and baptised at Barton Stacey. There are other possible children, see Notes on p.8. i. [perhaps] Rose, buried at Barton Stacey on 3 September 1775. ii. Magdalen, baptised 3 December 1775. She is perhaps the Catherine Anthony (known from censuses to have been born in 1775 or 1776 in Barton Stacey) who married John Gover on 12 December 1799 at Barton Stacey. They lived in nearby Wonston. iii. ANTHONY, baptised 19 November 1780, OF WHOM MORE FOLLOWS. iv. Edward, baptised 13 June 1784. He appears to have married Mary Ward on 23 April 1817 at St Peter Chesil, Winchester. He was widowed before the time of the 1841 census and boarded at addresses in Winchester until his death in Cross Street on 6 November 1862. He left a will, proved at Winchester on 20 November 1862, naming as executors his nephews Edward Anthoney of Barton Stacey, labourer and James Anthoney of the Weyhill Road, Andover, servant. v. Joshua, baptised 21 January 1788. He appears in later censuses, where he is described as a Chelsea Pensioner. He attested for the 37th Regiment of Foot at Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland on 1 April 18133. His military records, part of the first page of which is shown here, state that he was a wool sorter. He said that he was born in Sutton Scotney around 1788. He served for 19 years with this Regiment, spending 1813- 1816 in Holland and 1817-1825 in Canada. The regiment was briefly back in England for a year in 1825, then the following year moved to Ireland for 17 years4. He was discharged as unfit for further service on 26 May 1832, after appearing before a Medical Board at Youghal Barracks, Dublin. He was ‘a martyr to rheumatic pains for which he has taken a great variety of Medicines…’. His condition was ‘contracted partly by and in the service’ and thus entitled him to an army pension. He had been ‘a good deal in hospital but .. his conduct has been good and .. he is a trustworthy soldier’. Joshua Anthony remained unmarried and lived, at least from the time of the 1841 census, in Wonston with the family of shepherd John Lewis and his wife Sarah (Joshua’s niece, daughter of his sister Catherine). He died in 1872 aged 84. 3 The 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in Ireland in February 1702. It amalgamated with the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot to become the 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment (later the Royal Hampshire Regiment) in 1881. 4 http://www.nam.ac.uk/research/famous-units/37th-north-hampshire-regiment-foot. The website of the National Army Museum. 2 Barton Stacey History Group The Anthony Family of Barton Stacey F1A3 ANTHONY ANTHONY was baptised at Barton Stacey on 19 November 1780, probably the eldest surviving son of Robert and Mary (Turton) Anthony. He married Frances Haines (born about 1786) on 27 January 1803 at East Stratton, Hampshire. Their home was in Bransbury hamlet in Barton Stacey parish. Anthony Anthony appears at least once in the Overseers' Account Books for Barton Stacey parish. On 25 January 1824 he received £1.1.0 poor relief. He was one of the parishioners who signed the famous petition to the King in 1830 at The White Swan, Sutton Scotney5. In 1834 Anthony Anthony applied to the Bishop of Winchester to register a non-conformist meeting house (as had James Anthony in Chilbolton in 1814). The Primitive Methodist Chapel was built ten years later in Barton Stacey near the home of Anthony's son Edward. To The Right Honble the Bishop of Winchester or His Registrar We whose names are hereto subscribed do certify that the House in the Occupation of George Cannings situated in the parish of Barton Stacey in the county of Southampton is intended forthwith to be used as a place of Religious Worship by an assembly of his Majesties Protestant Subjects and do hereby request you to register the same this seventeenth day of February 1834 [signed] Anthony Antoney [signed] John turton He appears in the 1840 Tithe Award for Barton Stacey parish, the occupier of one of the cottages belonging to William Courtney. Some time in 1840 he began working as the porter at Andover Workhouse which was erected in 1836 at the west side of Junction Road, Andover6. As porter, Anthony Anthony had quarters in the administrative block on the east side, near the entrance off Junction Road. At the time of the 1841 census he was described as ‘porter and tailor’. His wife was laundress and his daughter Mary needlewoman. Their three youngest sons were living at this time with Anthony’s brother Edward in Barton Stacey. When the scandal of the conditions for inmates of Andover Workhouse broke, Anthony Anthony’s testimony to the enquiry was reported in The Times of 8 October 1845. Anthony Antony. - I was porter at the Andover Union Workhouse for about four years. During the latter portion of my being there the men were employed in crushing bones [for use as fertiliser]; and the master [Colin McDougal] wished me to see to the bones when they were delivered at the workhouse, and to measure the bone-dust when it was taken away. The bones were in a bad condition generally, but sometimes better than at others. There were horse bones as well as others … I have known some of the men to eat the pieces of meat and whatever was on the beef and mutton bones. I used to give them their quantity for their day’s breaking, and I have seen them eat the stuff on the bones, and also the marrow. It was not sweet. I used to say to the men, “I can’t think how you can eat it.” Sometimes it was shocking bad, and smelt very much. It was not fit for men to eat. They said, “If you come and work with we half a-day upon such short allowances as we get, you will come to it as fast as we.” I used to measure out the bone dust with a bushel measure. The smell often made me sick … I felt that I must resign, or I should not be able to live. I gave notice and left…’. Later that year the Poor Law Commissioners forbade the further use of bone-crushing. 5 See our booklet Barton Stacey and the Swing Riots, which can be purchased at www.bartonstaceyhistory.co.uk. 6 http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Andover 3 Barton Stacey History Group The Anthony Family of Barton Stacey F1A3 It seems certain that the family of his son Edward was living in the home of Anthony and Frances (that described in the 1840 Tithe Award) at the time of the 1841 census. This thatched cottage, amongst others, was owned by William Courtney, the local farmer whose home at Newton Stacey was visited in November 1830 by men subsequently charged at the time of the Swing Riots. Edward’s home lay at the southern end of Barton Stacey village (west side) and was eventually demolished in 1939 when occupants of these cottages were rehoused to the new Council houses at Kings Elms in the village.