Descendants of John Ferrior of Steynton

Descendants of John Ferrior of Steynton

Generation No. 1

1. JOHANNES¹ FERRIOR (JOHANNES^A)¹ was born in of Steynton, and died 1729. He married MARGARET HOWELL¹ 1690 in Steynton, Pembrokeshire². She died 1742.

Notes for JOHANNES FERRIOR:

This John Ferrior was probably the son of yet another John Ferrior of who was buried at Steynton in 1714. BUT THIS NEEDS TO BE PROVED.

More About JOHANNES FERRIOR and MARGARET HOWELL:

Marriage: 1690, Steynton, Pembrokeshire²

Child of JOHANNES FERRIOR and MARGARET HOWELL is:

2. i. JOHN² FERRIOR, b. Bet. 1690 - 1729, Of Steynton/Haverfordwest; d. Abt. 1755, Steynton, Pembs.

Generation No. 2

2. JOHN² FERRIOR (JOHANNES¹, JOHANNES^A) was born Bet. 1690 - 1729 in Of Steynton/Haverfordwest, and died Abt. 1755 in Steynton, Pembs. He married MARGARET REES 19 March 1712/13 in Steynton, Pembs.. She died 1758.

Notes for JOHN FERRIOR:

John is believed to be related to Lt. Col. Samuel Ferrior, who died at Waterloo. (Source: Laura Child Feilds, 1853-1932).

According to the "General Armory" the Ferrior family were descended from an ancient Flemish family who settled in Pembrokeshire during the reign of Henry VII.

Abstract of the Will of John Ferrior

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Of sound mind and understanding.

To son John Ferrior one shilling and after decease of my wife Margaret Ferrior the house in Short Row, Haverfordwest her paying the yearly rent of 13 shillings to the free school Haverfordwest.

To daughter Elizabeh Wallace, one guinea.

To son William Ferrior, ten poiuns and his watch and buckles.

To daughter Anne, wife of John Andrew £40.

Sole executor, Margaret Ferrior

Will dated 9th October 1751.

Witnesses: George Strange

Mary Strange

More About JOHN FERRIOR:

Fact: John also held a lease on a property at Short Row, Haverfordwest. Short Row was later described as the slum area of Haverfordwest and was demolished.

Occupation: Merchant of Haverfordwest

Will dated: 1751^3,4

Will proved: 1755

Notes for MARGARET REES:

Land Tax Assessments, 1786

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Old Hays, Steynton, in the 1786 Land Tax for Steynton is almost obliterated on my copy, but it seems to be near Castle Hall and various Pills. (Old Hays ..probably two separate fields or farms....

Landlord obliterated but looks like a capital "c"..no tenant shown...payment one shilling and one penny three farthings, other part shows landlord's surname as Andrew with tenant David Jordan?..payment 2-1/2d.).

The 1801 return reads: Thornton, Pill, Pill, Mount Misery, Old Hay, Gaudelope(?), Castle Hall, Castle Pill, Castle Pill Mill.....so as these are not alphabetical, I presume they were as the recorder passed through the district. For Old Hay, Jno. Andrew is landlord and Randall is the tenant (no first name). The same Jno. Andrew is at Mount Misery and landlord is Sir William Hamilton.

Margaret's daughter, Anne Ferrior married John Andrew.

More About MARGARET REES:

Admons: 1758, Granted to her son, John Ferrior of the parish of St. Mary's, Haverfordwest

Living: 1758, At Old Hay, Steynton, Pembs.

More About JOHN FERRIOR and MARGARET REES:

Marriage: 19 March 1712/13, Steynton, Pembs.

Children of JOHN FERRIOR and MARGARET REES are:

3. i. JOHN³ FERRIOR, b. of Haverfordwest, Pembs..

ii. ELIZABETH FERRIOR, b. 1715⁵; m. RICHARD WALLACE, 1744, Steynton, Pembrokeshire⁶.

More About RICHARD WALLACE and ELIZABETH FERRIOR:

Marriage: 1744, Steynton, Pembrokeshire⁶

iii. WILLIAM FERRIOR.

4. iv. ANNE FERRIOR, b. Bet. 1712 - 1755, of Steynton, Pembs..

Generation No. 3

3. JOHN³ FERRIOR (JOHN², JOHANNES¹, JOHANNES^A) was born in of Haverfordwest, Pembs.. He married MARY.

More About JOHN FERRIOR:

Baptised: St. Mary's, Haverfordwest, Pembs

Occupation: Merchant of Haverfordwest

Will: 1765

Children of JOHN FERRIOR and MARY are:

i. SARAH⁴ FERRIOR, b. Abt. 1739.

ii. JOHN FERRIOR, b. Abt. 1740.

iii. EASTER FERRIOR, b. Abt. 1742.

iv. ROBERT FERRIOR, b. Abt. 1743.

v. MARY FERRIOR⁷, b. Abt. 1745⁷.

vi. WILLIAM FERRIOR⁷, b. Abt. 1746⁷.

vii. SUSAN FERRIOR⁷, b. Abt. 1748⁷.

4. ANNE³ FERRIOR (JOHN², JOHANNES¹, JOHANNES^A)⁸ was born Bet. 1712 - 1755 in of Steynton, Pembs.⁸. She married JOHN ANDREW⁸ 4 June 1751 in Steynton, Pembrokeshire, son of JOHN ANDREW. He was born in of Old Hays and Mount Misery, Steynton.

Notes for ANNE FERRIOR:

Anne's mother, Margaret Rees, was living at Old Hays, Stainton when she died in 1758. She was either living with her daughter and son-in-law John Andrew or it is possible that Old Hays was previously Ferrior property.

A relative of Anne's is reputed to have been the Col. Ferrier who led the last charge at the Battle of Waterloo. He was perhaps a nephew or great nephew.

More About ANNE FERRIOR:

Date born 2: Aft. 1713

Notes for JOHN ANDREW:

John Andrew was almost certainly a grandson of Francis Andrew, Gent of Thornton House, Steynton whose will was proved in 1696. John was possibly the son of Francis's son, John Andrew - BUT THIS NEEDS TO BE SUBSTANTIATED.

He is possibly the same 'John Andrew' mentioned in the Land Tax for 1786 for Steynton or it might be his son, yet another 'John Andrew' :

Note from Bettye Kirkwood in Australia

"Old Hays, Steynton, in the 1786 Land Tax for Steynton is almost obliterated on my copy, but it seems to be near Castle Hall and various Pills. (Old Hays ..probably two separate fields or farms....

Possibly the same "John Andrew" from St. Martin, Haverfordwest whose will was proved in 1760.

More About JOHN ANDREW and ANNE FERRIOR:

Marriage: 4 June 1751, Steynton, Pembrokeshire

Children of ANNE FERRIOR and JOHN ANDREW are:

i. MARY⁴ ANDREW, b. 1752, Steynton, Pembrokeshire; d. 1829; m. WILLIAM FEILD, 1 June 1780, Steynton, Pembs.; b. 1740, Burton, Pems. Wales; d. 1827, Hubberston, Pembs..

Notes for MARY ANDREW:

STEYNTON

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From Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833)

STEYNTON, or STAINTON, a parish in the hundred of RHÔS, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 2 miles (N.N.E.) from Milford, containing 2984 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the turnpike road from Milford to Haverfordwest, extends to the shore of Milford Haven, by which it is bounded on the south; and Hubberston Pill, an inlet from the haven, is navigable for small craft, at high water, for a considerable distance within its limits. In the southern part of it is situated the borough, market, and seaport town of Milford, described under its appropriate head, and comprising the chief portion of the population: in the western part of it is St. Botolph's, the seat of A.I. Stokes, Esq., by one of whose relatives it was purchased, in 1826, from the representatives of General le Hunt, who purchased it, in

1803, from the family of the Elliots, to whom it had belonged for many years. The present mansion was built in 1800, about a hundred yards to the west of the ancient edifice, and partly on the site of a monastery supposed to have been a cell to the priory of Pill, near the head of Hubberston Pill. In excavating the ground for the new building several stone coffins, containing bones, were dug up; and part of the walls of the ancient monastery, which are still remaining, have been incorporated with the

out-buildings of the modern mansion. Bolton Hill, an ancient seat formerly belonging to a family of that name, is situated in the northern part of the parish. and near an abrupt and lofty eminence called Bolton Beacon. While Cromwell lay at Haverfordwest, two of his soldiers entered this mansion, with the intention of plundering it, and Bolton, who had concealed himself, was denied by his wife to the soldiers, who, nevertheless, suspecting that he was in the house, one of them took up his child, and pretended to throw it on the fire, on which the father rushed from his concealment, and killed the ruffian on the spot: his comrade escaped, and Bolton, on reflection, deemed it prudent to inform Cromwell of all that had occurred, observing to that general, that the man he had killed had only one eye: the latter replied, "The fellow was a great rascal, and you have saved me the trouble of having him executed." Castle Hall, the seat of the Hon. R. Fulke Greville, in the south-eastern part of the parish, was originally built by John Zephaniah Holwell, whose sufferings in the black hole at Calcutta are well known: it is a spacious mansion. and the grounds are extensive and well laid out. The parish is about six miles in length from north to south, and from a mile and a half to two miles in breadth from east to west, and is wholly enclosed and in a good state of cultivation. Culm is found within its limits, and a mine which had been worked for many years, for the supply of the neighbourhood, has been reopened on Lord Kensington's estate. Great facilities are afforded for the conveyance of the produce of the mine by the navigable creek called Hubberston Pill, and by the main haven. The small village of Pill, distant about a quarter of a mile from the town of Milford, is within the parish. The living is a discharged vicarage, with the rectory of Johnston consolidated, in the archdeaconry and diocese of St.David's, and in the patronage of the King, as Prince of Wales. The vicarage is endowed with the whole of the great and small tithes of a portion of the parish: the remainder are appropriated to Mrs. Anne Wright, whose family, the Jordans, sold another portion, which now forms part of the income of the incumbent of St. Mary's, Haverfordwest. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, or, as it is stated in the Monasticon, to St. Kewel, and formerly dependent upon Pill priory, is an ancient and venerable structure, with a lofty tower, which, from its elevated situation, is seen from every part of the surrounding country: the interior consists of a nave, chancel, and two aisles, separated by series of massive columns and pointed arches. This edifice was garrisoned with a small number of troops during the parliamentary war in the reign of Charles I. There is a place of worship for Presbyterians. A school is about to be established at a place called Sodston, for children of either sex,

with an endowment of £30 per annum by Mr. and Mrs. Devonald, chargeable on certain lands in this parish. Richard Budd, about the year 1633, in consideration of having been saved from shipwreck by taking refuge within Tenby pier, bequeathed to the churchwardens of Tenby the sum of £1. 6. 8 (two marks), to be distributed in bread to the poor of that parish: the payment of this sum is charged upon the estate of St. Botolph's, in this parish; but it does not appear that he was ever the owner of that property.

At the head of Prix Pill stood Pill castle, the capture of which is recorded by Fenton: there are no remains of this fortress, but in digging near the site, about seventy years ago, at a place called Cwm, a human skull with an iron ball in it was found; and a tradition is extant that a pond near the spot, now called Deadman's Lake, derived that name from its having been deeply tinged with the blood of the slain on that occasion. Near the head of Hubberston Pill are the remains of Pill priory, founded in the year 1200 by Adam de Rupe, for monks of the order of Tyrone, who afterwards became Benedictines: the priory, which was dedicated to St. Mary and St. Budoc, flourished till the dissolution, at which time its revenue was estimated at £67. 15.: the site and buildings were granted, in the 38th of Henry VIII., to Roger and Thomas Barlow, and are now the property of the Hon. Fulke Greville. The ruins, which are very small, consist chiefly of some fragments of the walls: the low entrance gateway leading into the garden is still

remaining, but the arch above it fell down in 1826. At Butter hill, formerly a grange belonging to the priory, there is a family of the name of Roch, who are said to be descended from Adam de Rupe, founder of the priory. There are in the parish several ancient encampments, here called Rhâths: one of these

is near the priory; another near Thornton House, the neat residence of the Rev. A. Crymes; and a third, called Old Castle, near the town of Milford; but not one of them is of sufficient importance to require particular notice. Near the ruins of an ancient chapel, dedicated to St. Catherine, a silver coin of Domitian was dug up, about thirty years ago. In 1818, a celt was dug up near St. Botolph's, where also there are some remains of a Druidical altar, called by the country people the Long Stone. Sir William James, Bart., the celebrated naval commander in the East India Company's service, in commemoration of whose achievements the ornamental tower on Shooter's Hill, near London, was erected by his widow, was born at Bolton Hill mill, in this parish. The average annual expenditure for the support of the poor amounts to £461.

Notes for WILLIAM FEILD:

William was reputed to be the first shipbuilder in Milford Haven having been appointed by His Maj. the King in the year 1800. His son Richard Feild succeeded to the business on coming of age. On his death the business reverted back to the Government and merged into the Great Pembroke Dock Yard.

(Source: Laura A. Childs Neely).

More About WILLIAM FEILD:

Fact: Reputed to be the first shipbuilder in Milford (naval docks)

Occupation 1: Master Mariner of Burton

Occupation 2: 1800, Shipbuilderof Milford Haven

Marriage Notes for MARY ANDREW and WILLIAM FEILD:

Transcript of the Marriage entry for Mary Andrew and William Feild:

William Feild of the parish of Burton, shipwright and Mary Andrew of this parish were married in this church by Licence the 1st Day of June in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty by me Matthew Davids (Vicar). The marriage was solomized by us : William Feild & Mary Andrew (both signed their names). In the prescence of John Andrew and David Lewis. (Ref: Pembrokshire Records Office REf: MF 46. Steynton HPR/3/9)

More About WILLIAM FEILD and MARY ANDREW:

Marriage: 1 June 1780, Steynton, Pembs.

ii. JOHN ANDREW⁹.

iii. MARGARET ANDREW⁹.

Endnotes

1. Kathleen Beard.

2. Pembrokshire Marriage Index.

3. ferrior2.FTW, Date of Import: 13 Apr 2000.

4. NLW - Will of John Ferrior of Steynton. Ref: SD/1755/160 W.

5. Kathleen Beard.

6. Pembrokshire Marriage Index.

7. ferrior2.FTW, Date of Import: 13 Apr 2000.

8. Andrew.FTW, Date of Import: 12 Jun 2002.

9. Kathleen Beard.