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Description: | The volume was compiled by Charles Argentine Alington, but includes some recollections from his father, George Marmaduke Alington (1798-1890), who also wrote the occasional entry. From 1876 onwards Charles A Alington gives a brief summary of the year's events, which includes comments concerning his family, the weather, agricultural prices and local and national news.
231 pages.
9-10. Extracts concerning Swinhope from the Domesday Book.
11-12. Copy of an old survey of the Manor of Swinhope.
13-20. Recollections of Swinhope by GMA (George Marmaduke Alington).
13. "There used to be a pottery where the brickyard pond now is...There used to be in some of the cottages rough figures of Bonaparte which were made in the pottery."
14. The old name of the Talbot Inn was the "Chicken Inn". It was a wretched hovel when my father first remembered it built chiefly of mud..."
"Mr Browns house at Thorganby used to be an inn - my father remembered the present Mr Browns (1871) Grandfather (once shoeing smith at Brocklesby) as Innkeeper & farmer."
15. "My Grandfather was the first to grow wheat upon the wolds. The year he married he sowed acres of wheat - people laughed at him for doing so."
"The old mill stood near the farm house (present Rookery) - Part of the grass land is named the Mill Close in old papers."
"An old glebe house stood near the row of cottages - a poor building of mud & stud...Old Will Parker, shepherd, lived in the glebe house.
Old Bill Moody a very ill tempered old fellow was held in terrorem over children - He was once carried round the village on a ladder for beating his wife, whilst the bearers sang "He beat her behind her beat her before, He beat her all over until she was sore.""
16. "The body of the Church was used as a lumber room - ploughs kept there - many pigeons roosted in it."
17. "Sammy Sugars was another character in the Louth Yeomanry enormously fat - could not see his own holsters."
"Lord Brougham once stopped at the Talbot Inn in Swinhope. Old Michael Betts the landlord said he did not order anything, but swore a good deal at having to send some distance for a smith to shoe one of his horses."
18. "My father & gd father once rode to Revesby to visit Sir Joseph Banks - Old Michael Betts riding with them, & carrying their baggage. Sir Joseph greeted them "Hallo A, don't you smell a _ stink?" His wife and sister, two very stout people had that day fallen through the floor of a closet at Horncastle into the night soil beneath."
"Lord Monsons coach man had a great reputation for drinking - a servant would commend himself for being able to drink down Lord Monson's Sam."
19. "My Grandfather had a long argument with Sir Joseph [Banks] on the effect of bones on land - whether they should be used fresh or decomposed."
"At Revesby were some Kangaroos brought by Sir Joseph from Australia - my father & grandfather were shut into the Kangaroo enclosure by accident, and were rather alarmed by the Kangaroos coming up to them - but they were quite tame."
Mentions the great elm, near the entrance to the Old Manor House, which measured 17 feet in girth and was blown down in the winter of 1881.
20. Comments concerning the invasion scare of 1805: "...all of the carts and wagons were numbered and arrangements made for transporting everything out of the reach of the Enemy."
"When the magistrates were discussing the matter, how to delay the enemy whether to break up the roads - my grandfather said "If they would only retain the present surveyors in office, that would be enough." Old Mr Coltman, chairman, "Sir, is this a time to joke, when the French are at our doors."
21. Comments concerning the pictures at Swinhope.
22. "October 21st 1875 this day seventy years ago the Battle of Trafalgar was fought & I can well remember the universal excitement caused by the news of the Victory & the Death of Nelson G.M.A."
25-26. Copy of a letter from Vincent Amcotts to Marmaduke Alington. Mr Remington has provided an estimate of the money that the farm will make in 1728. A breakdown of the sums yielded from various activities and a total (£303) is provided. 14 Mar 1728.
27-31. Copy of a survey of Swinhope made by Mr Amcotts in 1728.
31-33. Letter from Jo. Wilson to Marmaduke Alington. Estate news: the tenants complain about the behaviour of Mr Field.
Harrington, 9 July 1731.
33. Note concerning the sum of £3 11s 6d being allowed for George Patchett to build a dovecote.
35-36. "Copy of an old plan of one of the farms of Swinhope." Undated.
39. List of the rectors of Swinhope, 1671-1757.
40-42. A terrier of Swinhope, 1671.
42. Valuation of the rectory of Swinhope, 1875.
49. Notes on the Argentine family. Includes a colour sketch of their coat of arms.
51. Copy of an old pedigree: "Pedigree of Argentine & Allington - 1694."
52. Notes on the pedigree of 1694.
53-59. Notes on the monuments of the Alington family in Horseheath Church, Cambridgeshire.
60-105. Notes on the history of the Alington family.
107-110. Notes on the life of Marmaduke Alington, 1760-1840.
109. "He built the two Farmsteads, High Farm & Hoe Hill - and also the front part of the Talbot Inn - where he settled his old Coachman, Michael Betts."
125-126. Notes on the Jennings (of St Albans) and Lister families (connected by marriage with the Alingtons).
129-130. Notes on the connection between the Alington and Cecil families.
131. Extracts from the Horseheath register relating to the Alington family.
133-134. Notes on the life of George Marmaduke Alington (1798-1890).
136. Recollections of life at Westminster School by George Marmaduke Alington.
"I often shot snipes in the ozier beds on the banks of the Thames where the Milbank Penitentiary now (1875) stands."
137. Notes on the history of the old farmhouse (Rookery), 20 Feb 1879.
138. Recollections concerning the Alington family during the period from 1842 to 1848.
141. "In the year 1852 June 9th my elder brother George Hugh died at Malta. He was a Lieutenant in the 68th Light Infantry..."
152. 1863. "In January of this year C.A.A sailed for Africa, with a relief party for the Central African Mission..."
162. Entry concerning the wedding of Charles A Alington and Eleanor Cave, the youngest daughter of Daniel Cave of Clive Hill, Gloucestershire (1st Jul 1873).
163. 1874. "May 5th Tuesday Born at Muckton Rectory - Eleanor Cave Alington. [In the evening of the same day my dear wife passed away, having been unconscious since the night before]."
165. 1876. 2 Jan. "My Uncle, M H Lister of Burwell Park, died this morning...He slipped in his dressing room some weeks ago, & broke his thigh - but this was not the immediate cause of death - Bronchitis set in."
Comments on the "wretched state" of the vault beneath the chancel of Burwell Church.
166. 1877. Purchase of the Mill Close at Binbrook for £380.
167. 1878. "The Michaelmas rent day was deferred till middle of Feby 1879 owing to the great depression prevailing throughout the country."
168. 1879. "Completed the purchase of No 2. Cambridge Terrace, Scarborough. My sister Ellen being desirous of continuing to live there, and the house being offered for sale."
169. 1879. Comments on the great depression of trade and the impact of the bad weather on the harvest.
170. 1879. "A. H. Alington - now commanding H.M.S. Boxer - Gazetted a Captain Octob 31. 1879."
171. "This day Feby 17 - 1879 I completed my 81st year... G. M. Alington."
174. 1880. "Disastrous floods have prevailed in many districts..."
175. 1881. "The foot & mouth disease amongst cattle has broken out in this neighbourhood - said to have been brought from Lincoln Fair by some beasts from Norfolk."
177. 1881. 1 Sep. "Our hopes of a good harvest have been sadly disappointed - Heavy rains have been falling for weeks..."
178. 1881. 16 Dec. "The Great Elm Tree at Swinhope was split by the wind."
181-182. 1882. Comments on the sale of the Burwell Park Estate.
185. 1883. July. "Some very heavy thunderstorms. 11 cow of Mr Betts, Talbot Inn, Swinhope killed by lightning. Fortunately he was insured."
186. 1883. 21 Nov. "The Chancel of Horseheath Church reopened - The old family monuments have been put into substantial repair at a cost of £45..."
188. 1884. February. "Mrs Ellis died. Her husband died a few days after his wife. He had been at Swinhope nearly all his life coming here as labourer in my grandfathers time, then acting as Bailiff."
190. 1884. "In December of this year I left my old home at Muckton. Being instituted to the Rectory of Swinhope on 11th Decr 1884."
191. 1885. Comments on the sale of the contents of Burwell Park.
192. 1885. "This autumn a large reduction was made in all the Rents at Swinhope."
198. 1887. "We have lost one of our oldest inhabitants this spring. Mr John Betts of The Talbot Inn - (who followed his father there, Michael Betts - once coachman to my grandfather) he died Apl 7th aged 74."
"So many cases of stealing oysters occur at Cleethorpes by excursionists - that it is necessary to punish somewhat severely."
199. "The Queens Jubilee was kept at Swinhope on 21st of June."
"Mr Rob Iles at the High Farm is now so much in arrear - that I have been obliged to ask him to send me a notice to leave..."
205. 1889. Jan 16. "The Elections for the new County Council have taken place. I have been returned for the Tealby Division without a contest..."
206. 1889. "This autumn I had to re-build the water wheel - the old one being quite worn out."
208. 1890. 18 Feb. Death of his father, George Marmaduke Alington: "...about a quarter before one this afternoon the good father died..."
209-211. 1890. 22 Feb. Funeral of George Marmaduke Alington. Obituaries from newspapers.
214. "This year I added to Mr Scorers house a room downstairs & two rooms above..."
215-218. 1892. Final illness and death (31 Mar) of his daughter, Eleanor Cave Alington.
220. 1893. 20 Aug. "A fire took place in my stackyard by wh: all my old wheat & oat straw were destroyed..."
222. 1894. 2 Jun. "To day the poor old Cob "Bezique", my fathers favourite fell down dead in cart as she was taking some planks to Gravel Pit." | Temporal: | c1871-1899 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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