Village Documents

This page has documents relating to places that the Holmes à Court family in England have had an association with, namely Heytesbury and Knook in Wiltshire, and also the Isle of Wight. I will continue to add to this page as I get the time.  Note that some of these images are fairly large so might take some time to load on a slow connection.

Isle of Wight

List of agreements with the Heytesbury Estate for the Isle of Wight 1762 - 1892
Listing tenants name, date, residence and brief details of agreement

Abstract accounts of the proceeds of sales in 1858 and 1859, mainly Isle of Wight, also Killmallock Estate
General list of property sold and destination of proceeds

Isle of Wight Westover Estate Shooting - Schedule of lettings 1861

Lease for Mill Place and Eades Farm in the parish of Calbourne, Isle of Wight, 1866 - page 1  page 2  page 3 

The first Isle of Wight lifeboat 1880
A newspaper cutting about the first Isle of Wight lifeboat, named by Lady Heytesbury in 1880.

Sale particulars for the George Hotel, Yarmouth, 1892 - page 1  page 2 
The George Hotel was owned by the Holmes family from when it was built as Sir Robert Holmes' house c1668 until 1892.

Register of Sales of the Isle of Wight Estates 1892 to 1912 - page 1  page 2  page 3  page 4  page 5  page 6  page 7  page 8  page 9  page 10 
Handwritten details of sales for the Isle of Wight estate

Sale of the Heytesbury Estates Isle of Wight 1913 - page 1  page 2  page 3  page 4  page 5  page 6  page 7  page 8  page 9  page 10  page 11  page 12  page 13  page 14  page 15  page 16  page 17  page 18  page 19  page 20  page 21  page 22  page 23  page 24  page 25  page 26  page 27  page 28  page 29  page 30  page 31  map 1  map 2  map 3 
Printed list of sale particulars for Thorley. Freshwater and Calbourne. including pictures and descriptions of individual houses and details of land sales, along with location maps

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Knook, Wiltshire

Knook Enclosures Maps 1794 - page 1  page 2  page 3  page 4  page 5  page 6  page 7 
Images from a large hand drawn Enclosure map of the parish of Knook, showing land ownership following an Act of Parliament 1794.

Knook Ordnance Survey Map 1887 - page 1  page 2  page 2  page 2  page 2 

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Heytesbury, Wiltshire

Agreements with the Heytesbury Estate 1880 - 1916
Listing tenants name, date, residence and brief details of agreement

The Heytesbury Estate Lists and Particulars of Cottages to Michaelmas 1885 - page 1  page 2  page 3  page 4  page 5  page 6  page 7 
This is in effect a mini census for Heytesbury, Tytherington and Knook  for 1885, listing tenants name, employer, occupation and area of the village they lived  (147 houses for Heytesbury, 17 for Tytherington and 32 for Knook).

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