(?) Edward Isaac (-1650) and Joane (-1678)(?)
Yeoman of Horton
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(?) Edward Isaac (-1681) and Jane (-1704) (?)
Inhabitant of Horton
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(?) Thomas Isaac I (1661-1729) and Jane Wood (-1729)
Yeoman of Hawkesbury
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Thomas Isaac II (1692-1774) and Jane Hicks (1689- 1772)
Yeoman of Horton
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John Isaac I (1735-1820) and Hannah Cooper (1735-1815)
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John Isaac II (1768-1822) and Catherine Brown (1774-1841)
Farmer of Hall End Farm, Yate
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Mary Isaac (1797-1881) and James Shield III
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Ann Shield and James Eley IV
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Ernest Edward Eley and Emily Yarnold
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Grace Margaret Eley and William Edward Terrett
Son of John Isaac I and Hannah (nee Cooper)
Husband of Catherine Brown
Father of Mary Shield
Also Father of Margaret Williamson, Nathaniel, John, Catherine Shield, Jessie, Joseph, Charles, Hannah Daniell, Anne Pullen, Elizabeth and Cornelius
John Isaac II was baptised on 25th October 1767 at Horton, third son of John and Hannah Isaac. His father, John Isaac I, was a Yeoman of Fattinghouse Farm, Horton. His father died in August 1820 but sadly John Isaac II does not feature in his father’s will of 1818.
John Isaac II married Catharine Brown, the daughter of Charles and Margaret Brown of Gearing Frith, Yate. The wedding took place on 22nd November 1796 at Yate. Catharine had been baptised on 25th January 1774 at Wotton-under-Edge. In the Will of Charles Brown, of 1798, John Isaac is referred to as ‘The Younger’ and reference is made to loans made to him and his wife by her father, the testator. John and Catharine Isaac farmed at Hall End Farm, Yate, and a certificate of land tax for 1799 gives their acreage as seventy-eight acres. He also had land in Rangeworthy.
Certificate of Land Tax, August 1799:
‘One messuage, stables outhouse and appurtenances thereto belonging and seventy eight acres of land and sites of two other messuages in occupation of John Isaac the younger, and on a farm called Shortwood consisting of one messuage with outhouse, appurtenances thereto belonging, fifty-eight acres in occupation of James Isaac, all which said farm and lands and premises are situated in the parish of Yate in the said county, the property of the said Harry Bengough.’
Mary Isaac, ‘Yate Farms,
Hall End Farm (previously known as Foords Farm)
The Isaac family remained at Hall End Farm until 1890 – the last of the family being Mr & Mrs Edward Hart
John and Catharine had twelve children and the eldest six were all baptised at Wickwar between 1798 and 1807. Three children married into the family of James and Sarah Shield of Tytherington. The youngest of their children, Elizabeth, was deaf and dumb.
John Isaac made his Will on 17th February 1821 and this was witnessed and signed by his servant, James Ballard. John Isaac II was buried on 13th August 1821 at Wickwar, only a year after his father, John Isaac I. The Will was proved on 9th June 1822 and the estate was valued at £450. Catharine Isaac, his widow, died on the 8th April 1841 at Wickwar.
The Will of John Isaac II:
‘This is the Last Will and Testament of me John Isaac of the parish of Yate in the County of Gloucester Yeoman. First I order all my just debts, Funeral and Testamentary Expences to be fully paid and satisfied; And subject thereto, I Give and bequeath unto my Wife Catherine, All and singular my Farming Stock and Implements of husbandry and all other my personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever (except my Money and Securities for money) To hold the same unto her my said Wife for and during the term of her natural life, in case she shall remain my Widow and unmarried, for the support and maintenance of herself and my Children hereinafter named And in case of the death or second Marriage of my said Wife, during the minority of my Son Cornelius then from and immediately after such her decease or second marriage and whilst my son Cornelius shall be under the age of Twenty one years, I direct my Trustees, hereinafter named, to put and place one or more of my said children in the occupation of the Farm lands and hereditaments now occupied by me, and half yearly to require him, her or them (as the case shall be) to pay to them my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being, the clear issues and profits of the said Farm Lands and hereditaments, and for them my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being to pay and apply the same upon such trusts and for such intents and purposes as are hereinafter declared respecting the produce of the Sale of my Messuage Lands and hereditaments hereinafter given and devised. Provided always and it is my will that in case my said Trustees or the Survivor of them or his Executors and Administrators shall, after the decease or second marriage of my said Wife, and whilst my said Son Cornelius shall be a minor, deem it more beneficial and such discontinuance shall be legally practicable, that then it shall be lawful to and for them my said Trustees or the Survivor of them or his Executors or Administrators to sell and dispose of my said Farming Stock, Implements of Husbandry, Household Goods and Furniture by public auction and to receive and take the produce of the said Sale, and apply and dispose thereof upon such trusts and for such intents and purposes as are hereinafter declared respecting the produce of the Sale of my Lands Tenements and hereditaments. I give and bequeath unto Mr William Daniels of Tortworth in the said County of Gloucester, Yeoman, and Mr. John Minett of West End in the parish of Wickwar in the said County of Gloucester Yeoman, All my Money and Securities for Money, whether upon Bonds, Notes, Mortgages or otherwise, Upon trust that they the said William Daniels and John Minett or the Survivor of them or his Executors or Administrators do and shall permit and suffer my said wife or her assigns to receive and take the Interest and proceeds thereof for and during the term of her natural life, provided she shall so long continue my Widow and unmarried. And from and after the decease or second Marriage of my said Wife, Upon trust that they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do and shall stand possessed of and interested in the said Money Interest and proceeds upon and for the same trusts intents and purposes as are hereinafter declared respecting the produce of the Sale of my Messuages, Lands and hereditaments hereinafter given and devised. I Give and devise unto the said William Daniels and john Minett All and singular my Freehold and Leasehold Messuages Lands and Hereditaments whatsoever and wheresoever of which I may be possessed; To hold the same respectively unto them the said William Daniels and John Minett and their several Heirs Executors and Administrators Upon the several Trusts and to and for the several ends intents and purposes hereinafter declared of and concerning the same (that is to say) Upon trust to permit and suffer my said Wife or her Assigns to receive and take the rents issues and profits of my said Freehold and Leasehold Lands Tenements and hereditaments for and during the term of her natural life , or as long as she shall continue my Widow and unmarried, for the maintenance and support of herself and my children hereinafter named. And from and immediately after the decease or second Marriage of my said Wife Upon Trust that they the said William Daniels and John Minett or the Survivor of them or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such survivor, do and shall sell and dispose of All and singular my said Freehold and Leasehold Lands Tenements and hereditaments (except two pieces of Land situated at Rangeworthy hereinafter mentioned) either together or in parcels, and either by public sale or private contract, as to them my said Trustees or Survivor of them or the heirs, executors and administrators of such survivor shall seem meet, for the best price or prices in money that can be reasonably obtained for the same hereditaments respectively, and respectively to convey the same accordingly. And I will and declare that the receipt or receipts of the said William Daniels and John Minett or the Survivor of them or his heirs for the money for which the said hereditaments shall be respectively sold, shall from time to time be a good and sufficient discharge or good and sufficient discharges to the purchase or purchases of the said hereditaments or any part or parts thereof for his her or their purchase money or so much thereof as shall be therein expressed or acknowledged to be received. And that such purchase or purchases his her or their heirs Executors, Administrators or assigns or any or either of them shall not afterwards be answerable or accountable for any loss misapplication or non application of such purchase money so received or any part thereof.
And I do hereby further will and direct that they the said William Daniels and john Minett and the Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such survivor do and shall at all times and from time to time stand possessed of and interested in the money to arise by such sale or sales In trust to lay out and invest the same in the purchase of Parliamentary Stocks or Funds of Great Britain or upon Real Securities at interest in the name of them my said Trustees for the time being and do and shall alter change and vary the same as and when they shall think fit; and do and shall stand possessed of and interested in the said Stocks, Funds and Securities In trust for my children Mary, Margaret, Nathaniel, John, Joseph, Hannah, Ann, Cornelius, Charles, Jesse and Catherine Upon the trusts and for the ends intents and purposes and with under and subject to the several powers provisos Conditions and declarations hereinafter expressed concerning the same (that is to say) Upon trust so soon as any one of my said Children who being a Son shall have attained his age of twenty one years, or have died before that age leaving lawful issue or being a Daughter shall have attained that age or be married to pay assign transfer and assure one due proportionate and equal part or share of such Stock funds and securities, the same being divided into as many equal shares as there may be in number of my said children then living, or who shall have died leaving issue then living, unto and to and for the proper and absolute use and disposal of such Child so attaining the said age of Twenty one years, if a son, or to and for the benefit of his lawful issue if he shall have departed this life before that age leaving issue or so attaining the said age of twenty one years, or being married if a daughter And after payment thereof, then In trust to pay apply and dispose of the Interest dividends and proceeds of such Stock Funds and Securities for the maintenance and support of all the others or other, if but one, of my said children who shall not have attained the said age of Twenty one years being a Son or Sons, or having attained the said age or be married being a daughter or daughters, until some other or such one other of my said Children who being a Son shall attain the age of twenty one years, or die before that age leaving lawful issue, or being a daughter shall attain that age or marry which shall first happen And after such child being a Son shall attain that age or being a daughter shall attain the like age or be married, then In trust to pay assign transfer or assure one other like due proportionate and equal part or share as aforesaid unto such other child so next attaining the age of twenty one years being a son or his lawful issue if he shall have departed this life before that age leaving issue or being a daughter shall have attained that age or be married and so in like manner from time to time to pay assign tranfer or assure unto all and each of my said Children and the lawful issue of such one or more of them as shall depart this life before the age of twenty one years leaving lawful issue, one due proportionate and equal part or share of such Stocks Funds and Securities as and when he she or they shall respectively attain his her or their ages days or times aforesaid. Provided always that if any or either of my said Children being a Son or Sons shall depart this life under the age of Twenty one years without leaving lawful issue or being a daughter or daughters shall depart this life under that age and unmarried then it is my will and meaning and I do hereby direct that all the part or share or parts or shares of him her or them so dying shall go and accrue to the survivors and Survivor of such Children or Child to be equally divided between and amongst them, if more than one share and share alike and if but one to such one or only surviving Child and be vested paid and payable to him her or them at such ages and times respectively and shall go in such manner as his her or their original share or shares are herein before declared to be vested and payable; and in case of the death of any of my Children before such accruing or surviving part or share or parts or shares shall become vested as aforesaid, then such accruing part or share or parts or shares shall be subject and liable to such new chance contingency or condition of accrue to the Survivors or Survivor of such Children as in hereinbefore by me declared in respect of his her or their original part or share or parts or shares. Provided also and it is my Will and desire that it shall be lawful for my said Wife and my said Trustees at any time or times from and after the decease or second marriage of my said Wife, to pay or apply any part of the share or shares of my said Children or of any or either of them of and in the said trust premises, to him her or them, or for his her or their use and benefit, on his her or their Marriage with the consent of my said Wife and Trustees, or for the putting or placing any or either of them my said Children to or in any trade business, profession or employment or otherwise for his her or their preferment or advancement in the world, notwithstanding the part or share or parts and shares of him her or them shall not then have become payable or a vested interest or vested interests. And as to All those my said two pieces of Land situate and being at Rangeworthy aforesaid, Upon trust that they the said William Daniels and John Minett or the Survivor of them or his Heirs Executors or Administrators do and shall from and immediately after the decease or second Marriage of my said Wife, receive and take the Rents Issues and profits thereof and pay or apply the same to or for the sole use and benefit of my daughter Elizabeth for and during the term of her natural life, free from the debts contoul or engagements of any Husband with whom she may intermarry: And from and immediately after the decease of my said daughter Elizabeth to and for the use and benefit of all and every the Child and Children of my said daughter Elizabeth as tenants in common and the several Heirs of their respective bodies; And in case of failure of such issue, to and for the use and benefit of all and in every my other Child and Children equally between them as tenants in common and the several heirs of their respective bodies. Provided also that in case my said daughter Elizabeth shall depart this life before the decease of my said Wife, then it is my will and I do accordingly direct that the said two pieces of ground so as aforesaid devised in trust for my said daughter Elizabeth, shall be disposed of by my said Trustees or Trustee for the time being with the other property hereinbefore directed to be sold, and the produce thereof applied in the same manner as I have hereinbefore directed with regard to such property. And I do hereby declare and direct that the said William Daniels and john Minett their respective Heirs, Executors or Administrators shall not be accountable for any loss which may happen to the said trust premises nor for the acts receipts or disbursements of the other of them but each of them for his own receipts acts and deeds respectively And that they shall or may reimburse themselves respectively all demands and expences which they may sustain in or about the trust aforesaid. I Give and bequeath the said William Daniels and John Minett the sum of Twenty Pounds Upon the trusts and to and for the intents and purposes following (that is to say) Upon trust that they the said William Daniels and John Minett or the Survivor of them his Executors or Administrators do and hereby immediately after my decease place and invest the said sum of Twenty Pounds in or on some renewal Security at interest to accumulate for my said daughter Elizabeth for and during her Minority or until her Marriage And from and after my said daughter shall attain the age of Twenty one years or be married, Upon trust that they my said Trustees or the Survivor of them or his Executors or Administrators do and shall pay the said sum of Twenty pounds together with the accumulated interest unto or for the sole and separate use and benefit of my said daughter Elizabeth independent of any Husband with whom she may intermarry. All the rest residue and remainder of my Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever not herebefore disposed of I Give and bequeath unto my said Wife her Executors and Administrators, and do declare that the provisions which I have made for my said Wife shall be accepted and taken by her in lieu and full satisfaction of Dower or Thirds at Common law to which she may be entitled out of my said estate and effects or any part thereof. And lastly I nominate and appoint my said Wife the sole Executrix of this my Will which I hereby declare to be in revocation of all others by me at any time herebefore made In witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament contained in seven sheets of paper set my hand and seal (that is to say) to the first six sheets thereof set my hand and to this the seventh and last my seal also the Seventeenth day of February One thousand eight hundred and twenty one. John Isaac.
Signed, sealed and declared…(etc)… Fowler, Clerk to Mr Whittington, Mr Forster, Solr Sodbury and James Ballard, Servant to Mr Isaac.’
Daughter of Charles Brown and Margaret (nee Minett)
Wife of John Isaac II
Mother of Mary Shield
Also Mother of Margaret Williamson, Nathaniel, John, Catherine Shield, Jessie, Joseph, Charles, Hannah Daniell, Anne Pullen, Elizabeth and Cornelius
Catharine Brown, the eldest daughter of Charles and Margaret Brown, was baptised on 5th January 1774 at Wotton-under-Edge. On 22nd November 1796 she married John Isaac ‘the Younger’ at Yate Parish Church. The wedding took place on 22nd November 1796 at Yate and Catharine was living at her parents’ home, Gearing Frith, Yate. In the Will of Charles Brown, of 1798, John Isaac is referred to as ‘The Younger’ and reference is made to loans made to him and his wife by her father, the testator.
John and Catharine had twelve children and the eldest six were all baptised at Wickwar between 1798 and 1807. Three children married into the family of James and Sarah Shield of Tytherington. The youngest of their children, Elizabeth, was deaf and dumb.
John Isaac II was buried on 13th August 1821 at Wickwar, only a year after his father, John Isaac I. Catharine Isaac, his widow, died on 28th April 1841 at Wickwar. She was described as the sixty-seven-year-old widow of John Isaac, Farmer. The cause of death was given as ‘Disease of the Ovary’. John Roberts, the Registrar, registered the death on 1st May 1841 and the informant was Sophia Cole of Wickwar who was present at the death. Catharine Isaac was buried on 18th April 1841 at Wickwar.
Jesse married Hannah Robinson on 12th May 1835 at St Mary’s Church, Kingswood, by licence. His sister Hannah was a witness.
On 12th May 1835 she witnessed the marriage of her brother Jesse Isaac to Hannah Robinson at Kingswood.
Elizabeth Isaac was baptised on 6th March 1814 at Wickwar. She was especially provided for in her father’s will because she was deaf and dumb. In the 1851 she was a visitor at Brick house Farm, Yate, the home of her sister Catherine Shield. She was described as a thirty-six-year-old annuitant, deaf and dumb.
Cornelius Isaac was baptised at Wickwar on 2nd June 1817 at Wickwar. He was especially provided for in his father’s will of 1821 because of his age. He married Sarah Daw on 11th April 1840 at Wickwar. The bridegroom was described as a bachelor of full age, a farmer of Wickwar, and son of John Isaac, a farmer. His bride was a spinster of full age and daughter of Thomas Daw, farmer. The witnesses were John and Hannah Isaac. In the 1851 census return he was described as a shopkeeper of Wickwar. He was then aged thirty-five and born in Yate. His wife Sarah was aged forty-seven-years and was born in Wickwar.
Daughter of John Isaac and Catharine (nee Brown)
Wife of James Shield III
Mother of Anne Eley
Also Mother of Sarah Daniell, Mary Bailey, James, John, Henry, Catherine Anne Isaac, Susannah, Henry and Luke
Mary Isaac was baptised on 23rd August 1797 at Wickwar Parish Church, the daughter of John Isaac, Farmer of Hall End Farm, Yate, and his wife Catharine, the daughter of Charles Brown, Farmer of Gearing Frith, Yate. She was the eldest of twelve children.
Mary married James Shield III on 13th May 1826 at Yate Parish Church and they settled in Tytherington, first at Stidcote and then at Barber’s Lands Farm. Mary bore him at least ten children.
According to Allan Baddeley, by 1830 James Shield was a Farmer of Barmer’s Land or Barber’s Land Farm in Tytherington (certainly they were there by 1838). In the 1841 census return James Shield III was described as a fifty-year-old farmer with nine children and three servants – two male and one female.
In 1851 he is described as a sixty-one-year-old farmer of two hundred acres with seven children living at home and his granddaughter Susannah Daniels. His wife Mary, was aged fifty-three-years and described as a farmer’s wife.
The 1861 census return describes James Shield as a seventy-one-year-old farmer of 205 acres and employing two men and a boy. Six of the Shield children are still at home. Susannah Daniell, now aged thirteen years, is still living with them together with a house servant and a ten-year-old farm servant, Luke Jones.
Their eldest daughter, Sarah Daniell, emigrated to Australia and their youngest son, Luke, died in 1871, aged thirty years. The elder Henry died in 1834, aged twenty-one months.
The 1871 census return describes James Shield III as an eighty-one-year-old farmer who is living with his three unmarried sons – James, Henry and Luke Shield. Their married sister, Catherine Isaac, was staying at Barber’s Land on the night of the census.
Kelly’s Directories record James Shield III as Farmer at Barber’s Land from 1863 until 1874 and then from 1879 to 1880 the directories record his sons, James and Henry Shield.
James Shield was Overseer of the Poor of Tytherington in 1843, 1844, 1855 and 1866.
James Shield III made his will on 28th October 1872 and he died on 8th January 1875, aged eighty-four years. He was buried at Tytherington and his will was proved on 9th February 1875, his estate being valued at under £1500.
His death certificate records that he died on 8th January 1875 at Barbers Lands Tytherington aged eighty-four-years. He was described as a farmer and the cause of death was given as Bronchitis which was certified by W.G. Salmon M.R.C.S., L.S.A.. Thomas Harney, Registrar, registered the death on 14th January and the informant was his son-in-law William Isaac of Barbers Lands, Tytherington, who was present at the death.
In the 1881 census return William and Catherine were farming at Rangeworthy. William was described as forty-six-years-old and born in Berkeley. Catherine was aged forty-six-years-old and born at Tytherington. On the night of the census her mother was staying with them. Mary Shield was described as an eighty-four-years-old widow and born in Yate.
She died on 27th November 1881 at Barber’s Land Farm, Tytherington, aged eighty-four years, and was described as the Widow of James Shield, Farmer. The cause of death was given as ‘Decay of Nature’ and was certified by W.G. Salmon MRCS LSA. The informant was Selina Shield, her daughter-in-law, who was living at Barber’s Land Farm and was present at the death. Registration took place on 30th November and the registrar was E.M. Grace.
Mary Shield was buried at Tytherington.
‘I showed my History class the Eley 1858-60 needlework and they thought the V & A might be interested. There are about 16 baby bonnets, beautiful lace in some, a Bodeine Anglais bedjacket, linen or stiff cotton, a large nightie (Grandma Eley needed it!), a baby cotton vest, drawers (open!) and three pairs of most beautiful fine Brod. Ang. Sleeves, dated 1858 and 1859 and some long white lock-knit stockings (’58) and a silk sash of 1875 and fan calendar. With the mother-of-pearl inlaid workbox, family Bible with her texts etc. and extracts from Grandpa Marling’s and your reminiscences it makes a good talk. … I have the Annie Shield brooch do you remember it? A heavy thing with intertwined metal-work round the photo of a forbidding looking woman. It says Annie Shield on the back but is it her or her mother?’
‘This is the Eley family brooch – who is the lady pictured? Sean Khan our museum curator thinks the date is around 1850 if I remember rightly because of the type of photograph.’
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