Tristram HILL^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]}

1795 - 1873  (~ 77 years)

• Name	Tristram HILL
  Christened	13 Apr 1795	Beaworthy, Devon, England
  Gender	Male
  _UID	B676ABB5BA23D511B6E7DD3AFA2E9C35FC29
  Buried	4 Apr 1873	Bratton Clovelly, Devon, England
  Person ID	I12	YoungFamily
  Last Modified	5 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	John HILL,   c. 25 Dec 1754, Hallwell by Holsworthy, Devon, England ,   bur. 4 Feb 1818, Beaworthy, Devon, England  (Age ~ 63 years)
  Mother	Mary BICKLE,   c. 8 May 1768, Beaworthy, Devon, England ,   bur. 8 Mar 1848, Beaworthy, Devon, England  (Age ~ 79 years)
  Married	9 Dec 1790	Beaworthy, Devon, England   [9]
  _UID	AB76ABB5BA23D511B6E7DD3AFA2E9C35F179
  Family ID	F17	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary PARSONS,   c. 16 Mar 1800, Black Torrington, Devon, England ,   d. 25 Nov 1830, Black Torrington, Devon, England  (Age ~ 30 years)
  Married	1 May 1820	Buckland Brewer, Devon, England   [10]
  _UID	4F77ABB5BA23D511B6E7DD3AFA2E9C3596C8
  Children	1. Mary HILL,   b. 1822, Northlew, Devon, England ,   d. 17 Jan 1909, Whitchurch, Cornwall, England  (Age 87 years)   2. James HILL,   c. 12 Nov 1826, East Putford, Devon, England   3. Hannah HILL,   c. 21 Jun 1829, Buckland Brewer, Devon, England ,   d. 15 Mar 1862, West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia  (Age ~ 32 years)
  Last Modified	15 May 2022
  Family ID	F15	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary WOODMAN,   c. 17 Dec 1800, Saint Dominick, Cornwall, England ,   d. 6 Jul 1856, Northlew, Devon, England  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Married	8 Sep 1834	Northlew, Devon, England   [11]
  _UID	A976ABB5BA23D511B6E7DD3AFA2E9C35EF59
  Children	1. Tristram HILL,   c. 6 Sep 1835, Northlew, Devon, England ,   d. 8 Jan 1882, Lifton, Devon, England  (Age ~ 46 years)   2. Harriet ^ HILL,   c. 30 Apr 1837, Northlew, Devon, England ,   d. 1 Jan 1840, Northlew, Devon, England  (Age ~ 2 years)   3. William HILL,   b. Jun Qtr 1839, Okehampton Dist., Devon, England (vol. 10, p. 172)   4. Philip HILL,   b. Sep Qtr 1842   5. Aaron HILL,   b. Sep Qtr. 1842
  Last Modified	15 May 2022
  Family ID	F13	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Hannah SMALE,   c. 14 May 1809, Beaworthy, Devon, England
  Married	27 Nov 1858	Northlew, Devon, England
  _UID	5B77ABB5BA23D511B6E7DD3AFA2E9C35A288
  Last Modified	15 May 2022
  Family ID	F16	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Aged 81 years on death. Death registration Jun Qtr 1873 Oakhampton District 5b, 269 aged 80 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tithe Apportionment Bratton Clovelly owned by Wreford, Samuel; occupier Hill, Tristram; property Part North Coombe, Bratton Clovelly Manor - acreage 9.1.13 Property 93: North Coombe, part Tithe Map Number Name & Description State of Cultivation Acres Roods Poles £. s. d. 605 Common Coarse Pasture 1 1 32 0 0 3 606 Lower Plot Arable, Coarse Pasture 2 2 23 0 1 2 607 Middle Plot Arable, Coarse Pasture 2 0 14 0 0 10 608 Homer Plot Arable 1 2 15 0 1 4 609 House, Yard 0 0 21 610 Garden 0 0 30 0 0 3 611 Common Coarse Pasture, Arable 1 0 38 0 0 5 Total 9 1 13 0 4 3 House and garden plot, together would, if perfectly square be 200 feet on all 4 sides. _________________________________________________________________________________________ For awhile I had a Thomas Hill as another child of Tristram and Mary Woodman. However, with the GRO birth index now being searchable (2018) and containing a mother's maiden name I have now successfully eliminated the Thomas Hill bn Dec Qtr 1846 as that child's mother's maiden name was Brimblecombe. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  
  

• Sources

  [S15] 1851 Census, England, Office of National Statistics, General Register Office, Kew, Surrey, England, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Lifton, Tavistock, Devon, England, HO/107/1884, fol 272, pg 16, LDS Film #0221033, 30 Mar 1851. Lifton Down, Tavistock: Tristram Hill, head, marr, 56, ag lab, born at Beaworthy Mary Hill, wife, marr, 46, born at Calstock, Cornwall Charlotte Hill (aka Glass) daughter, unm, 20, house servant, born at Inwardleigh, Devon Philip Hill, son, 7, born at Bratton Clovelly, Devon Aaron Hill, son, 7, born at Bratton Clovelly, Devon [S52] 1861 Census, England and Wales, Office of National Statistics, Kew, Surrey, England, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Bratton Clovelly, Devon, England, RG 9/1465, ED 2, fol. 15, p. 4, FHL film #0542817, 1861. Household Schedule #13, Northcoombe Moore: Tristram Hill, head, mar, 66 farmer 9 acres & ag lab, born Beaworthy, Devon Hannah Hill, wife, mar, 52, born Beaworthy, Devon William Hill, son, unm, 22, ag lab, born Bratton Clovelly, Devon Mary J. Palmer, daughter-in-law [step daughter], unm, 17, domestic servant, born Beaworthy, Devon William Madge, boarder, 6, scholar, born Bratton Clovelly, Devon [S50] 1841 Census, England and Wales, Office of National Statistics, General Register Office, Kew, Surrey, England, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Bratton Clovelly, Devon, England, HI107/231/4, ED 8, fol. 4, p. 1, 6 Jun 1841. GrindHill: Tristram Hill, 45, farmer, born in county Mary Hill, 40, born in county Charlotte Glass, 11, born in county Tristram Hill, 6, born in county William Hill, 1, born in county [S132] Newspaper, Various, (Various), Western Times 01 September 1868, p. 7, 1 Sep 1868. Western Times 01 September 1868, p. 7 HATHERLEIGH. PETTY SESSIONS. Wednesday. J. H. Veale, Esq., was the presiding magistrate. Tristram Hill of Beaworthy, had to pay 1s and costs for allowing his cow to stray on the highway. [S132] Newspaper, Various, (Various), North Devon Journal 03 August 1865, p. 7, 3 Aug 1865. North Devon Journal 03 August 1865, p. 7 HATHERLEIGH. PETTY SESSIONS. Tristram Hill, a farmer of Bratton Clovelly, was summoned for allowing his horse to stray on the public roads, on May 30th. Defendant did not appear. Having been frequently cautioned he was fined 2s. and costs. [S132] Newspaper, Various, (Various), Western Times 01 August 1865, p. 2, 1 Aug 1865. Western Times 01 August 1865, p. 2 DEVON SUMMER ASSIZES. At ten the Court again assembled and proceeded to take the special jury case of Harry v. Brown. RIGHT OF COMMON: A LAWYER'S FRIEND. The nominal plaintiff in this case was Mr. John Harry, farmer, occupier of a farm called Upcott, in the parish of Halwell, the real plaintiffs being the Trustees of the late Sir W. Molesworth, who sued the defendant, William Redeaway Brown, owner of a farm named Rowden joining the above estate, but in the parish of Germansweek, for damages and trespass in breaking certain hedges and setting up a right of common. Mr. Karslake, Q.C., Mr. Kingdon, and Mr. Little for the plaintiff; Mr. Prideaux for the defendant. The defendant, a sturdy old farmer and cattle dealer, past his threescore and ten, is famous for the legal battle he has fought, with the usual fate of the resolute litigant. Game to the last he again put himself in the way of another go at the old venture. In 1861 he was flung in a notable trial at the Exeter Assizes before Baron Martin, arising out of a claim he set up to a piece of common, named Rixhamycombe in the parish of Halwell, which he had proceeded to enclose. The Molesworths had held property in the parish for two or three hundred years it was believed and claimed to be lords of the manor (by repute) of Halwell. Upcott estate, joining defendant's farm, had been a common and like other commons it had been undergoing a process of absorption by the occupiers of the surrounding properties - in that work the Molesworth tenants appeared to have shewn a becoming activity - sundry parts of the common had from time to time been broken up enclosed and tilled when parties were in the mood for it and then thrown back into grass again. In fact the whole 241 acres which constituted the Common had lost that character in great measure and had become, with more or less stringency, enclosed. Other owners had, years ago, small properties adjoining it, but these had been purchased by the "lord of the manor". Rowden, the estate owned by defendant, was in the parish of Germansweek, and seeing his neighbours making free with the common and enclosing parts thereof he conceived his possession of Rowden gave him a right to try his hand in the same direction. The cause of the action in 1861 arose out of his laying claim to a piece of boggy waste named Rixhamycombe, but the trial taught him that his appropriation act would not pass. He had since given up his claim to the soil, but persisted in believing that he had rights of common, and acting upon his belief he made a gap in the fence, put in some bullocks, and broke across the boundary that had been set up. So confident was he that he had rights of common there and something more that he proposed to come to terms with the Molesworth trustees by his taking sole possession of one portion of the common and they the other. A road leading from Okehampton to Launceston had been cut across the common some few years since and he seriously proposed that the Molesworth trustees should take the 141 acres on the north side of the road and he would be content with the 100 acres on the south - that arrangement to end all strife. Mr. Karslake in his opening address shewed how the defendant's farm had been completely separated from the common by a border fence put up more than forty years ago (in which for a long period there was no opening) to give access to the common from Rowden until Squire Woollcombe had permission to place a hunting gate there, which was always kept locked, except when the hounds were out, and a man paid to look after it. Defendant having invaded this property and treated it as common by driving his bullocks on it and breaking the fence, this action was brought to shew him that he had no right to do it: and to inflict upon him such damages as might deter him from pursuing this kind of litigation which became a costly affair for those dragged into it as well as to himself. Mr. Karslake called Mr. John Harry...A little dole-bank was put up as a fence to keep out the cattle. [The Judge could not understand what was the meaning of "dole-bank", nor could the learned counsel enlighten him, only that the term was used in Dorset and Wilts as well as in Devon to designate a sort of bank fence.] The bank was about 6-1/2 feet high.... Cross-examined by Mr. Prideaux Next witness, Roger Courtice, cross-examined by Mr. Prideaux Next witness, Benjamin Courtice, brother of Roger...After 1830 we began the breaches: I assisted in tilling Stanlake's breach. Never tilled it more than once; took the crops off, and left it. Haggerton and Hutchings, and then farmer Woolridge, lived at Rowden. None of them interfered with us while we were making the breaches, nor claimed right of common. Remember some of John Woolridge's horses breaking in upon Stanlake's breach, when some parts of it were in corn and others in grass. I put them in pound, and charged 5s, which he paid. It is said we can't ride or lead a horse with a halter to pound; that they must be driven or led with a bind round their neck. Cross-examined - I know it was Woolridge's horses. His son rode one of them in the "cavaltry." I mean to swear that I never knew Haggerton, Hutchings, nor Woolridge send cattle on the common. Next witness William Toll. Next witness William White servant to Mr. Genjamin Courtice, supported the former witness. Tristral Hill, in his 72nd year, was born at Beaworthy parsonage, and had lived there all his life and knew when all lay a common. A dole went right through the whole of it, dividing the two parishes. People could pass over the dole. Used to pass over it when a boy to go to a little shop. It was enclosed about 38 years ago when Squire Newton was owner of Rowden. The new fence was made on the old "dole." The Launceston and Okehampton road was made after the common had been enclosed by a fence. Next witness Richard Duke Next witness Thomas Haggerton Next witness Holland Hutchings Next witness Mr. Josias Box Next witness Ezekiel Leach Next witness Mr. Seccombe Next witness John Bickell Metters had lived in the neighbourhood all his days. Recollted attending a "spurling" when the boys went to beat the bounds. Knew the boundaries of the two parishes; Rixhamycombe was in Holwell, and Rowden was in Germansweek. Remembered the hunting gate being put in at the cost of Squire Woollcombe. On hunting days it was left open and at other times was kept locked. A man was paid to attend to it; before that gate was put in there was no way from one side to the other. Rixhamycombe was in Holwell, had been there attending turf cutting. Nex witness Mark Cann was called but not wanted. Next witness Mr. Woollcombe, solicitor This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Prideaux on behalf of defendant proposed to prove that Upcott was a Common, and that the occupier of Rowden had a right to pasture hi cattle there - that it had been done for the last 30 years - for the last 60 years - from time immemorial. It had been suggested that to establish that right for 30 or 60 years he must prove continuous enjoyment but that was not the cae a sregarded immemorial rights. If he gave evidence of enjoyment for the last 26 years and reasonable evidence of enjoyment from time to time as far back as 70 years, he thought they would be justified in finding a verduct for the defendant. Witness Wm. Reddaway Brown Next witness Jeremiah James Next witness William White said his fahter was a farmer living at Germansweek. Was 82 years of age. Remembered his father occupying Rowden Farm 70 y ear ago. Knew Rixhamycombe;used to take his father's cows there from Rowden Farm. Used to "being 'em in aivelins; hadn't to go far to vend 'em." Didn't see any fence there then: turned them out there and went and fetched them of an evening. "Nobody ever denied ma. My father used to zay to me, Here Will, Bill, or what a used to call ma, put tha cows into Rix'amycombe." Next witness, Jane Metters was in her 80th year. Was born in Germansweek, and knew all the place before the inclosures were made. Everybody used to send their cattle; she used to keep cows and geese then, and they went wherever they liked. All the commons were mixed together like. Next witness, Wm. Woolridge, 62, son of John Woolridge occupied Rowden Farm six years twenty years since. Knew all the locality, always turned the cattle out, and nobody hindered. Next witness, John Luxton, servant to William Reddaway Brown, lived at Rowden 5-1/2 years, ten years ao. Attended to the cattle and turned then out on Rowden Breach and Stanlake Breach, and Rixhamycombe. There was a fence round "thickee" breach that was in tillage. Cattle used to go all about. This was the case of the defendant. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs with 40s damages.... The judge addressing Brown bid him be warned, he meant it not unkindlym but if he continued these litigations he would be visited with very heavy damages indeed. [S132] Newspaper, Various, (Various), Exeter Flying Post 08 May 1861, p. 1, 8 May 1861. Exeter Flying Post 08 May 1861, p. 1 DEVONSHIRE IMPORTANT SALE. MR. JOHN M. LETHEREN will sell, by Public Auction, at the George Inn, in Hatherleigh, on Tuesday, the 4th day of June, 1861, at One for [sic] Two o'clock precisely, the undermentioned valuable properties, in the following lots: Lot 1. - The freehold manor and estate called northcombe, containing about 794 acres, situated at the parish of Bratton Clovelly, adjoining the highway from Okehampton to Holsworthy, in the occupation of Mr. Richard James and others, as tenants comprising also the Reversion of a Tenenment with about nine acres of Land in lease to Tristram Hill, at a rent of GB2 15s per annum. The above properties offer an excellent opportunity to capitalists for investment, the extent of the acreage and the quality of the land presenting great facilities for improvement, and for a sportsman are generally admitted to be equal to any in the County of Devon, being surrounded by the well-known Broadbury country. To view, apply to the respective tenants. Full particular, with plan and conditions of the Sale, may be had on application to Mr. George Gould, Jun, Land Agent, Okehampton; the auctioneer, North Tawton; Messrs, Radford and Williams, Solicitors, Sidmouth or to Mr. T. J. Bremridge, Solicitor and Proctor, Exeter. Dated 1st May 1861 [S132] Newspaper, Various, (Various), Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams 02 April 1869, p. 3, 2 Apr 1869. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams 02 April 1869, p. 3 PETTY SESSIONS. Before J. H. Veale, Esq., chairman, N. Nowler, T. L. Oldham, and L. P. Madden, Esqrs. Tristram Hill, of Beaworthy, for allowing his cow to stray on the highway, was fined 2s. 6d. and expenses. [S147] Marriage Bonds and Allegations, Diocese of Exeter, (Not published), November-December 1790, 23 Nov 1790. John Hill of Beaworthy in the County of Devon, Yeoman, appeared personally, and made oath, that he, the said John Hill is above the age of Twenty-one Years, and not related to Mary Bickell of Beaworthy aforesaid Spinster (for the Marriage of whom Licence is prayed) within the Degrees prohibited; and the said I John Hill on his Oath saith, that the said Mary Bickell is likewise above the age of Twenty-one Years, and that the said John Hill hath had her usual Abode in the parish of Beaworthy aforesaid, for four weeks and upwards, immediately preceding the Date hereof. the mark of Sworn before me, this 23rd John "H" Hill Day of November 1790 James Carrington [S34] Parish Register, England, Kent: Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Marriages, Parish of Buckland Brewer, 1820, 1 May 1820. Tristram Hill of Beaworthy and Mary Parsons of East Putford. [S121] Parish Register Transcript, Church of England, Devon Record Office, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Northlew, Devon, England, marriaes, LDS Film #0916765, 8 Sep 1834. Tristram Hill of this parish, and Mary Glass of this parish, were married in this Church by Banns being of age this eighth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four by me Wiliam H. Beale, Curate. This marriage was solemnized between us Tristram Hill, Mary Glass her mark In he Presents of Samuel Cole, William Lobb.