Thomas Garratt/Garrett/Gerrard
Yeoman Farmer of West Haddon
Northamptonshire
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THOMAS GARRATT(GARRETT/GERRARD)
Bapt: 20 SEPT 1640 St Margaret's church, Crick, Northamptonshire.
Buried: 22 SEPT 1724 All Saint's church, West Haddon
DEBORAH (…….) c1645-50
Buried: 2 JUNE 1717 All Saint's church, West Haddon
HENRY: Abt 1669
JOHN GERRARD
Bapt: 24 AUG 1671
Married:
SUSSANAH GERRARD
Bapt: 10 APR 1673
Buried: 16 MAY 1673
THOMAS GERRARD (Garratt)
Bapt: 30 MAR 1675
(Note to the Ordination register Worcestershire County Archive)
Married Elizabeth Willetts 24 JUNE 1704
Rowley Regis, Staffordshire
EDWARD GERRARD
Bapt: 24 AUG 1677
Buried: 10 DEC 1678
WILLIAM GERRARD
Bapt : 20 JUNE 1680
Buried : 29 MAY 1739
Married: Anne (…….)
Buried : 24 OCT 1755
MARY GERRARD
Bapt: 24 DEC 1682
Married: William Muscot 21 JAN 1712/13
EDWARD GERRARD
Bapt: 19 MAY 1685
ELENOR GERRARD
Bapt: 3 DEC 1687
Married: (…….) Bridget
DEBORAH GARRET
Bapt: 23 SEP 1690
Married: Joseph Aldridge 24 JUNE 1716
Bapt: DEBORAH GARRET Wife of Thomas 22 APR 1717
Buried: DEBORAH GARROTT Wife of Thomas 2 JUNE 1717
All Saint's church, West Haddon.
Except for Thomas Garrett's birth, Deborah and Henry's births, all births, marriages and burials taken from All Saint's church, West Haddon, Northamptonshire, Parish Register Transcripts.
Entry from All Saint's church register,West Haddon, for the burial of Thomas Garrett, 22nd September 1724.
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Thomas Garratt with his wife Deborah and son, Henry, moved into West Haddon to farm in about 1670.
His family is named from Gerrard through to Garrett in the Parish Registers. Garrett in the voting list and Garratt in his Will.
He is noted variously as a 'husbandman' in his Parish burial record, as a 'freeholder' in the Voting for the Knights of the Shires and 'yeoman' in Northamptonshire Wills and Inventories.
In the Hearth Tax Returns for 1674 Thomas is not listed. Is he renting
a farm?
“a Yeoman is a person qualified by possessing free land of 40/- annual [feudal] value, and who can serve on juries and vote for a Knight of the Shire. He is sometimes described as a small landowner, a farmer of the middle classes."
"a Yeoman would not normally have less than 100 acres" (40 hectares) and in social status is one step down from the Gentry, but above, say, a husbandman."
In the Poll for The Knights of the Shire of May 1702 he voted for Lord Spencer and Sir St Andrew St John.
In July 1705 he voted for Lord Mordant and Sir St Andrew St John.
He was recorded as a ‘freeholder’.
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