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religious and missionary. In 1900 she was training at the House of
Training for Women Missionaries, Redcliffe House, Upton Park,
London, whose warden was the eminent Cowley Father, The Rev.
G. Congreve. The annual report of this house for 1899 is included
with her letters and papers about her investments and the sale of
her shares to contribute to the work. In 1903 she was at St. Mary’s
Hostel, Salisbury, Rhodesia, and by 1904 at St. Monica’s School,
Penhalonga (2 B.D. 1D/3).
2 CHATTERTON
A further deposit of records from Messrs. Chatterton, Moran and
Popple, solicitors, of Horncastle, was received in June 1971; the
previous deposit (Report g p.49) had consisted of a variety of
documents e.g. title deeds, Parish and Urban District Council records,
Water Board records. This subsequent deposit, in fact, consisted.
mostly of title deeds and supporting papers, ranging in date from the
17th to 19th centuries covering roughly the area of South East Lindsey;
there being no large client’s bundles, it was decided to list them in
alphabetical order of parishes. It further emerged that there were
groups of probates, apprenticeship indentures, bankruptcy case papers,
and some books of the firm including a cash ledger (1825-58).
One prominent family in the Horncastle-Spilsby area during the
18-19~. were the Brackenburys; this family originated, mostly probably
in the Belchford area, but during the late 17th to mid-19th centuries
established branches at Spilsby, Gt. Steeping, Scremby and Skendleby.
Names that appear most frequently in this collection are Carr Brackenbury
(c. 1665- 174 1), Receiver-General for Lincoln and sometime
accountant for the Ancaster estates in Lindsey (see 2 Ant 6/87-91,
181); his second son, the Revd. Joseph Brackenbury (171g-77), who
was incumbent, at various stages, of Halton Holgate, Hundleby, Lower
Toynton and chaplain to the Duke of Queensbury and Dover; and
also his grandson Joseph (1753-1811) clerk to Alford Sewers and
an attorney with a practice in Spilsby.
Carr Brackenbury was born at Great Steeping and made a career
at the law, having at his death a chambers in Clements Inn. He was
married twice, firstly to Ann Gate, sister of Joseph Gate of Panton
by whom he had g children; she died in 1727. His second marriage
brought more money into the family: about 1730 when quite
advanced in years he married Anne, daughter of Sir John Tyrwhitt
(5th Bart.) of Stainfield by whom he had two children who died in
infancy and one son, James, who survived. During his lifetime he
acquired much property in the Spilsby area, including the Manors
of Lusby, Donington on Bain, Skendleby and Hogsthorpe. Lusby was
mortgaged to the Earl of Ancaster in 1724 (2 Chat l/368). There
is a copy of his will in the collection (2 Chat S/1).
His second son, the Revd. Joseph Brackenbury was educated at
Jesus Coll., Cambridge where he gained a B.A. in 1739 and an M.A.
in 1743. He was a party to the marriage settlement of his daughter
Elizabeth, on her marriage to John Comyns of Hylands, Essex in 1769
(2/ 1/l), which was an apparent failure, as we also have the Deed
of Separation which is dated 1794, to which his son Joseph was a party
(21 l/2). Just before his death he was involved in a mortgage of
roperty in Mumby, Hogsthorpe and Burgh le Marsh for E3,ooo
Poaned to him by the then Bishop of London the Rt. Revd. Richard