User talk:Yellowrattle
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Welcome!
Ian - welcome to the Whitney Research Group! How interesting that you own Witney Wood - I don't think that we knew it existed. How much do you know about it's history - who owned it in the past, etc. How long have you owned it? There were many Whitney families in and around that area, so I feel fairly certain that it was probably named after a Whitney at some point in history.
- Tim Doyle - Talk to me 12:30, 12 February 2009 (CST)
I am a descendant of Christopher Hart of Whitney. He was born in 1626 in Glymptone and died in Whitney in 1667. He married Mary Beckley in 1650 at Kiddington. They had four children that I know about: John, Robert, Mary and Joseph. John is my line. He was a friend of William Penn and migrated to the colonies in 1682, purchased land in Pennsylvania from Penn, and his children populated the country with many Hart cousins.
Here are some notes I have on him: Christopher Hart was baptized on September 11, 1626 in the Parish of Glymptone, England. The "Administration of the Will of Christopher Hart of Whitney" was dated September 11, 1667 and was administered by a brother, Leonard Hart, from Stratford. [sources Harriet Davenport, [email protected]; Ashley Bruce Hart, [email protected]]
Whitney, England is "a long town, consisting of two streets, of which the principal one is spacious, with a church at the upper end. It is eight miles west-north-west from Oxford, and five miles from Bampton. It is situated on the Windrush that runs southeast to the Issis." [Playfair's Geography, 1809].
I am trying to find where Christopher is buried in Whitney. I plan to come to England in June of this year and visit the area. ANything you can tell me prior to my visit would be helpful.
Barry Hart
Oxfordshire versus Herefordshire
Ian,
There are two places which may be confused here. There is Whitney, a parish, and manor on the Wye river in Herefordshire, containing the town Whitney-on-Wye. There is also Witney, a town, parish, and manor in Oxfordshire, on the river Windrush. Those two are 82 miles apart. Two places you mention in which Christopher Hart lived are Glympton and Kiddington, both of which are in Oxfordshire and about 1 mile apart, about 8 miles northeast from Witney. Thus it seems likely that he died in Witney, not Whitney.
Interesting that you own property not far from one, and descend from a person who probably lived in the other.
Robert - Talk to me 19:19, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
