THE LEONARD LINE

William Phipps (d.1610)‘purchased an estate of a house and 2 yardlands (perhaps that held by Rewley Abbey in the 1530s by Robert Page) among the lands sold about 1575 by John Chamberlain. The estate in Yarnton remained in the family until 1739 when it was sold to ExeterCollege. The farmhouse, College Mead, is a stone-built house of 1610, partly rebuilt in brick in 1710.

The land had been part of Yarnton Manor which in turn had been part of Eynsham Abbey and subsequently Rewley Abbey. Yarnton was sold by Henry VIII to George Owen (d.1558) his physician. It seems to have been passed on in parcels. Approx. 55 acres.’

Robert Phippes (d.1613) of Yarnton

Henry Phipps (b.10.10.1595 Yarnton d.by 1662) married 25.3.1617 Judith Tustain dau of John Tustain of Kiddlington

  • WilliamPhipps (b.11.4.1619) ?died early
  • RobertPhipps (b.9.2.1625) see below

‘William Phipps by will dated 1702 gave the reversion of the residual profits of a lease as a bread charity for four aged inhabitants of St. Mary Magdalen, St. Peter-in-the-East, or St. Peter-le-Bailey. The charity was established by 1705 (fn. 42) but has not been traced thereafter.’ Is this a son?

From: 'Charities for the Poor', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 4: The City of Oxford (1979), pp. 462-75. URL: Date accessed: 12 May 2007.

Robert Phipps (b.9.2.1625 d. 1709) It is likely that this Robert is one and the same as that named below. Documents about the land suggest that they are one and the same and the dates also suggest that. Robert was Henry’s heir with regard to the land at Yarnton but the dates of birth of the children tell a different story.

Robert Phipps (d.1709/10) married 1690 Elizabeth Colin of Eynsham

  • Robert Phipps (b.18.3.1700 d. before 1702)
  • ElizabethPhipps (b.13.12.1697) only surviving child see below

ElizabethPhipps (b.13.12.1697) only surviving child married 30.5.1713 by special license, at Brightwell Baldwin, John Weston of St Giles Parish, Oxford (d 1765 Hinton). These two along with their son Phipps sold Yarnton farm and estate to ExeterCollege in 1739

  • Phipps Weston (b.1712 Oxford bap 24.2.1712 St Giles Oxford, d.Rushall 23.11.1777) married Mary Clarke (Oxford Alumni: Phipps, son of John of Oxford, pleb. BrasenoseCollege matric 17.3.1730-1 aged 17 B.A. 1734 M.A. 1737 B. & DD. From New Inn Hall 1772, Rector of Bishopstoke, Hants 1777. father of Richard 1763 and of the next named)
  • PhippsWeston (b.1738 Rushall ch. 11.4.1738 South Cerney, Glos. d.26.4.1794 Durham) married first on 3 Aug 1773, in Witney,MaryWilton or Welton (b 1733 d. 29.10.1789) dau of John Wilton of Chelsea College married secondly Elizabeth (dsp). This is possibly Elizabeth Clark whom one Phipps Weston married on 25th May 1790 in St Mary, Marylebone. (Oxford Alumni: Magdalen College matric 28.7.1752 aged 15. demy 1753-63 B.A. 1757, MA 1760 fellow 1763-72 B.D. 1768, bursar 1768, pred of Bath and Wells 1767, rector of Rushall, Wilts 1772, vicar of Shabbington, Bucks 1778-82, preb. of Salisbury 1777 and of Lincoln 1782-90, rector of Witney, Oxon, preb of Durham 1789 until his death there 26 April 1794. father of John and of the next named See Coll. Reg vi 295) Also said to be prebendary of Henstridge in 1767 to 68

Included in a valuation of his estate in 1789 half an acre in Oxey and three-quarters of a lot in West Mead.

  • PhippsWeston (1774-1793 dsp) (Oxford Alumni: son of Phipps, of Witney, Oxon, cler. UniversityCollege matric 1.Dec 1790 aged 16; brother of John 1794) possibly married Elizabeth Clark 25 May 1790 (or was this his father?) Vicar of Shabbington after Samuel Long (or with him) from 1778 to 1782. Both Phipps Weston officiated in the same parish of St Mary’s Bishopstoke in 1771 one as the minister (senior) and the other as rector.
  • Henry Weston (minor in 1794)
  • JohnWeston (b.1781 Witney) Oxford Alumni MagdalenCollege matric 25.7.1794 aged 13 demy 1794-6 brother of Phipps 1790 See Coll. Reg. vii 131)
  • 6 children died young
  • MaryWeston (b.31.10.1739 d. Piccadilly bur St James 28.1.1780) married 27.7.1761 at St James Westminster Joseph Gerard
  • KatherineWeston (bap 9.11.1741 Fyfield Parish, Berks) married on 25 Oct 1768 Fyfield Berks. Rev Samuel LongA.M. vicar of Shabbington, Bucks from 1768.
  • Phipps Long b.1769 d.8.8.1846 Shabbington MA 1797 Vicar of Shabbington (Oxford Alumni s. Samuel, of Shabbington, Bucks, cler. MAGDALEN matric 27 Oct 1789 aged 18, chorister 1784-1790; BA from All Souls’ college 1793 MA 1797 vicar of Shabbington 1799 until death 8 Aug 1846 see Bloxam i 201)
  • Charles Long b.1816 Shabbington, Bucks d. 10.1.1870 OvensDistrictHospital, Beechworth, Victoria, Australia
  • Richard Weston (b1747) (Oxford Alumni: son of Phipps, of Fifield, Berks cler. Magdalen College, matric 26 March 1763 aged16, chorister 1755-63, demy 1763-8, BA 1766. See Coll Reg I 166)
  • Charles Weston (b. 3.1.1752 Rushall bur. 11.2.1758)
  • Jane Weston (b.17.6.1754 Rushall)
  • Elizabeth Weston (b.3.10.1715 bap St Giles, Oxford)
  • Frances Weston (b.1717)
  • Mary Weston (b.1719)
  • John Weston (dsp 1764) m. Hannah Osborn
  • Catherine Weston (b.1724 bap 24.1.1725) married 9.2.1753 John Slatter (b 1729) at St Mary Magdelen, Oxford
  • John Slatter Vicar of Cumnor married Lydia(Catherine) Webber [From Cumnor records on-line b.16.3.1757 St Peter in East Oxford, d.11.8.1810 Cumnor married Lydia b.1749 d.1817 Rose Hill, Oxford. He was son of John Slatter of Oxford; BA Alban Hall, Oxford in 1788; MA from Magdalen. Master of NewCollegeSchool 1791-1806; Vicar of Cumnor 1799-1810 and St. Harc.; died age 53 of ‘fit of apoplexy’. A Blue Coat boy who ‘educated himself’Memorial west window in CumnorChurch
  • Lydia1781 -1811
  • ?John 1786-1801
  • Anne Slatter married Eaton
  • Jane Slatter married James Butler
  • Lucy Butler married William Slatter (cousin)
  • Daughter married Arthur Allen Leonard
  • William Slatter (b.1753) {from Cumnor records on line:(?bap. 24.5.1761 Cumnor d.17.2.1837 Oxford) a leaseholder who extended 89 Eynsham Rd, then a farm in 1813 substantiates Mayor of Oxford} Mayor of Oxford married Miss Gerard
  • William Slatter married Lucy Butler { from Cumnor parish records on-line: born 1783 d. 1849 Cumnor m. Lucy (b.1782 d.1832 Cumnor age 40. Vicar of Cumnor 1810-1849. Son of William and brother of John. BA 1908 Merton College, MA 1810 1813: ChaplainChristChurch. Chaplain at Merton 1819-1824. Rector of Hethe, Oxon 1823-1849
  • Fanny Slatter (b.1823 Cumnor d. 1881 Cumnor) married in Cumnor in18.1.1849 Frederick Hill Dawson (b.1825Temple, Middlesex d.1897 Rochford, Essex/Southend). Evidence that Frederick could not write, he was described as ‘gent’. Marriage witnessed by Wm Slatter and Sophia Dawson. Lived very briefly at New Cumnor Place then moved to Hillside Farm at bottom of Chawley Lane. 1847 farmed at Chawley; 1881 farming 230 acres at Hillside Farm. Had 5 children (4 died early). 1875 Overseer of Poor Law (living with sister in 1881 Rosalie Allen b.1821) Also had brother William H Dawson, solicitor in Tooting Graveney, Surrey
  • Caroline Dawson (b.1850 Abingdon) living with William in 1901 unmarried
  • Harriett Dawson b.1852 married 1872 Noblett Surrage Ruddock b. 1848 Bristol solicitor . living in Palace Road Streatham in 1891 with several children and Caroline as a visitor.
  • William Slatter Dawson b.1852Cumnor married 1882 Abingdon Mary Elizabeth (Gardner?). (b.1849 Adderbury) working as farmer The Limes Farm, Binsey Lane, Binsey, Oxon. No children in 1901
  • Percy Dawson b.1855 law student in 1881 became a barrister and was boarding in Islington in 1891at 3 Fairmead Road. In 1901 he was not practicing and was living with his brother William in Binsey
  • Ernest Henry Dawson b.1859 Cumnor d, 1865 Cumnor
  • Horace Dawson b.1861 possibly died 1864 Abingdon
  • Constance Maria Dawson b.1865 living with father in 1891 unmarried. Marriage 1898 Abingdon John Guest Gornall b.1867 Warrington, Lancashirea medical practitioner.
  • Laurence G Gornall b.1899 Warrington, Lancs
  • Eleanor Constance Gornall b.1900 Warrington, Lancs twin to Catherine
  • Katherine Mary Gornall b.1900 Warrington twin to Eleanor
  • Margaret Dawson b.1868 working as a governess in 1901 in Gloucestershire. unmarried
  • Lucy Slatter b. 1816 Cumnor d. Mar 1861 Penhow married in Cumnor on 4.7.1837 Francis Burford Leonard of Aynho see below
  • Emily Slatterb1817 – 11.3.1828
  • Caroline Slatterb.c.1823 d. 28 June 1861 (according to Peerage.com) married in 1855 Justin John Aylmer (b. 11 Aug 1831 d.12 Jan 1885 New Zealand) son of Rev William Josiah Aylmer and Elizabeth Frances Bayly. He was Resident Magistrate in New Zealand. He married again after Caroline’s death. Lot of family details on Peerage.com.
  • Selina Frances Aylmer d. 14 Aug 1929 married 16.3.1876 Warner William Warren Westenra lived at Canterbury New Zealand
  • Lucy Catherine Aylmer d. 1935 married in 1879 John George Thomson
  • Geraldine Aylmer d.1929 unmarried
  • Helen Aylmer d.6 Jan 1930 married in 1881 Thomas Noel Broderick son of Thomas Broderick
  • Jane Slatter b.15.6.1819 – 11.5.1841}
  • Anne Weston (b.1726)
  • Sarah Weston (b 17.12.1727 Yarnton d.1808 bur Aynho) see below
  • Christabelle Weston (b.1731 m.25.10.1760 by special license at St Mary Magdelen Richard………
  • Martha Weston (b.1733) m. 1742 Bicester, Oxford Henry Simmon(d)s
  • Henry Weston married 9 Dec 1765 Yarnton Hannah Ward
  • John Weston
  • Robert Weston (bap 1768 d.1840) married Mary Clarke bought Stutchbury, Helmdon in 1834 for £7000
  • Henry Ward
  • Henry Ward
  • Alfred Ward
  • John Clarke Ward (b.1805) m 1832 at St James Westminster Ann Ayres
  • William Robert Ward
  • Frank Henry Ward
  • Phipps Ward
  • Robert Weston (b.1740 bur Aynhoe 8.10.1814) married 1. 3.5.1762 at St Mary Magdelen Jane Howard of Brackley married 2 Mary (dsp)
  • John Weston (b.13.2.1763 d.1842) 9 times Mayor of Brackley married at St Peter’s Brackley Catherine Burford of Banbury (?d.20.6.1842) daughter of Edward Burford (b.1725 Banbury d, 1878) and Anne Rebecca Mapletoft (b. 1727 d. 1798) and sister to Frances.
  • Robert Weston (b.1786 Aynho, Northants d. 20.1.1871) Solicitor, 3 times Mayor of Brackley married 1. 1814 at Brackley Mary Rebecca Shorter (b.c. 1786/91 Northamptonshire died 1844 Brackley)second wife Maria. Living in the High Street in Brackley in 1841 with Mary, Arthur, Augustus and Charles plus servants and ?mother or aunt Elizabeth Leonard aged 80. Living at 19 Market Square in 1851 with Edward, Robert, Augustus and Mary at home. In 1861 at 21 High Street with Maria and four youngest children.
  • JohnWeston died young
  • Edward Henry Weston (b.1822 Brackley) went to Canada
  • John Weston went to Canada
  • Robert Weston (b. 1824 Brackley) Landsurveyor (went to Canada
  • Arthur Weston (b. 1826)solicitor in Brackley m. Mary
  • Augustus Weston (b. 1828 Brackley) Sailor went to India
  • CharlesWeston (b. 1829) went to india

Married 2. at St Dunstan’s in the West (West London) 1849 Maria Kett (b.1809/1815 Hamlet of Thorpe, Norwich died 1890 Brackley) living in Brackley in 1881 as a lodger with the Wilkins family in the High Street

  • Mary Woodhouse Weston (b.1850 Brackley)
  • Jane Elizabeth Weston (b. 1852 Brackley)
  • Fanny Margaret Weston (b. 1856 Brackley)
  • Woodhouse Robert Weston (b. 1859 Brackley) married in 1891 in WakefieldAnnie Borders
  • Harry Weston
  • daughter Weston
  • Jane Weston (b.1790) married William Davies
  • Harold Mapletoft Davis M.D. ch. 19 Oct 1831 Bloxham, Oxford inherited the Little Gidding heirlooms
  • Robert Weston (1768 – 1840) gentleman

Sarah Weston (b 17.12.1727 Yarnton d.1808 bur Aynhoe) married William Leonard (b.29.10.1726 Market Lavington d.1803 but Aynhoe) see below for FT

  • William Leonard (b 1759 Abingdon d.2.12.1840) (Oxford Alumni: s William of Abingdon, Berks, gent. All Souls’ Coll. Matric 26.April 1775 aged 16; clerk Magdalen Coll 1776-9 BA from Exeter Coll 1779 40 years curate of Hinton, Northants, incumbant of Hardwick 1799 and rector of Hethe, Oxon at his death 2 Dec 1840. See Bloxam ii 110)
  • Richard Weston Leonard (b.1775 Farrington/Abingdon d.1861 Brackley) married Frances Burford (b.17.1.1770 Oxfordd.7.2.1858) dau of Dr Burford. Was this the vicar of King Sutton Newbottle b 1785 living at 13 High St Charlton, Newbottle, Northants in 1861 with daughter Maria aged 55(gentlewoman) and granddaughter Dorothea Leonard aged 14, Elen Mariah Leonard aged 6 and 2 servants? (Oxford Alumni: so William of Faringdon, Berks pleb. Queen’s College, matric 26 Feb 1790 aged 15 BA 1796 MA 1823 rector of Newbottle and King’s Sutton, Northants 1810 until his death 4 Oct 1861)
  • Lucy Weston Leonard (b.11.9.1803 bap 21.10.1803) married 1843 in Brackley William King Malins (b.1809 Brackley)a farmer of 183 acres employing 6 men and 3 boys in Brackley, living in the High Street in 1861
  • Mary Malins (b.1838 Brackley)
  • Maria Leonard(b.1806 Brackley d. 1883 Penhow)unmarried living with brother in Penhow 1881
  • Francis Burford Leonard (1807-1886) m 4.7.1837 Lucy Slatter (b.1816 Cumnor see above d.1861 Penhow).In 1841 in Aynhoe as a clerk. In 1861 widowed living in Brook House, Penhow, Mon as Rector of Kemeys Inferior. Married 2ndElizabethTurner (b 1830 Deddington, Oxon) (Oxford Alumni: o.s. Richard of Brackley, Northants, cler. Wadham College matric 21.5.1823 aged 16 BA 1827, MA 1831 curate of Mixbury Oxon, 1831-47 rector pf Kemeys Inferior, 1846 and perp. Curate Llandevaud co. Monmouth, 1853 until his death 13 May 1886)
  • Emily Frances Leonard (b. 1839 Aynho d. 1922 St George Hanover Square) married 1865 Newport Mon. Edward Griffiths(b. 1841 Neath d. 1878 Llanmartin). In 1871 Edward was the rector of Llanmartin in Glamorgan. Subsequently Emily moved to Pretty Hedge, Tidenham, Glos. and lived there with her children
  • William E. Griffiths (b.1870 Llanmartin)
  • Leonard J. Griffiths (b.1875 Llanmartin)
  • Francis MapletoftLeonard (b.1840) married in 1870 in CardiffJessie Nell (b.1851Cardiff) living in 13 Oakfield St Roath, Cardiff in 1881 as a Clerk for HM Customs. Unable to find after 1881 – did they emigrate?
  • Mary Elizabeth L. Leonard (b. 1872 Cardiff)
  • Frances Maria Leonard(b. 1875 Cardiff)
  • Agnes MarianLeonard(b 1877Cardiff)
  • Rosa MariaLeonard (b.1841) married in 1863 in Newport (reg.)Francis Edwin Allen(b.1839 Illminster) a vicar son of John Allen (b.1800 Oxfordshire) and Rosa Clark (b. 12.11.1800 Chelmsford – 1877 Bridport) had 8 siblings. His father was headmaster of IllminsterSchool and a perpetual curate of Kingscote St Giles
  • Francis John Allen (b. 1865 possibly (unlikely)died 1882 Bethnal Green) Chardstock, Dorset living in St Saviour, Southwark in 1881 as nephew of the Boger family (his paternal aunt)
  • Lucy R. Allen (b. 1866Chardstock, Dorset)
  • Guy Leonard S. G. Allen (b. 1867 Combe St Nicholas, Somerset)
  • Ethel Mary Allen (b. 1869 Combe St Nicholas, Somerset)
  • Mary Violet Allen (b. 1870 Combe St Nicholas, Somerset)
  • Margaret Mary Allen (b. 1871 Whitchurch, Dorset)
  • Leonard Arthur C. Allen (b. 1873 Whitchurch, Dorset). clergyman
  • Agatha Mary Allen (b. 1874 Whitchurch, Dorset)
  • Ernest Christopher Allen (b. 1876 bap 2.2.1876 Whitchurch Canonicorum,Dorset). Clergyman. Unmarried in 1901
  • George Moberly D. Allen (b. 1878 Dorset)
  • Dorothy Allen (b. 1879 Whitchurch, Dorset)
  • Lionel Edward Allen(b.1883 Burbrooke, Lincolnshire)and probably went to New York
  • LucyLeonard (b.1843)
  • MaryLeonard (b.1844)
  • William Slatter Leonard (b.1846) (Oxford Alumni: 2s Francis Burford of Aynhoe, Northants, cler. St Alban Hall, matric 20 Oct 1864 aged 18, BA 1867; chaplain Christ Church 1872-6 MA 1872 chaplain New Coll. 1873-5, vicar of Down Ampney since 1875)
  • DorotheaLeonard (b.1847) married 1876 (11a 253) Charles Tudor Williams (b. 1849 Caernarvon) a clerk in Holy Orders . In 1881 they were living in Winston Villa, Church Hill, South Stoneham, Hampshire as the Vicar of St James West End. By 1891 they had moved to Scremby in Lincolnshire and were still there in 1901
  • Arthur TudorWilliamsb 1879 South Stoneham
  • Cyril TudorWilliamsb 1880 South Stoneham
  • Margaret Dorothea Williamsb 1886 South Stoneham
  • Winifred DorotheaWilliamsb. 1888 South Stoneham
  • Kathleen DorotheaWilliamsb. 1893 Scremby
  • Arthur Allen Leonard (b.1850 Penrow d.12.1.1912) married daughter of William Weston and Lucy. In 1901 census working as CofE clergman in Beaminster unmarried with his sister Florence and a servant. In 1881 he had been vicar of Fordington in Dorset and living by himself in Fordington Vicarage. By 1891 he was settled in the vicarage at Beaminster with Florence. (Oxford Alumni: 3s Francis Burford of Penhow, Co Monmouth cler. Oriel Coll matric 25.Oct 1869 aged 19 BA 1873, MA 1877 vicar of Fordington, Dorset 1880-7. See St Paul’s School Reg 343)
  • Ann ALeonard (b.1854)
  • Ellen MLeonard (b.1855)living with brother Frances in Roath in 1881 unmarried
  • Florence OctaviaLeonard (b.1857)
  • Frances BLeonard (b.1858)
  • Edith SLeonard (b.1861) – child of Lucy
  • Gertrude ElizabethLeonard (b. 1864 Penhow) – child of Elizabeth
  • Richard W.W.Leonard (b. 1866)
  • Mark Leonard (b.1809)
  • Ann Leonard (b.1811)
  • 5 other children
  • Phipps Weston Leonard b. 9 Nov 1767 Abingdon, Berkshire
  • John William Weston Leonard (b.1791 d. 26.7.1850 at Burghersdorp SA) married 1814 Elizabeth Howard of Brackley (b.1793 d.5.10.1874) emigrated to South Africa in 1820
  • Mary Ann Leonard(b 1815 England)
  • Elizabeth Leonard(b1816 England)
  • John Leonard Leonard(b.1823 in Cape of Good Hope) married 1847 Mary Shone dau. of Thomas Shone and Sarah Philips
  • James Weston Leonard see below
  • Richard Leonard(b.c.1801 Steeple Aston, Oxford d.c.1848) married Harriet Timms (b.1803 Bicester d.1877) In 1841 living in St Pancras London
  • John Leonard (8.8.1824 Steeple Aston) married Elizabeth(b.1824 Steeple Aston)
  • James Leonard (b.1849 Steeple Aston)
  • Frederick Leonard (b.1850 Steeple Aston)
  • James Leonard (b.20.10.1827)
  • Prudence Leonard (b.27.12.1829 d. 1869 Strand, London) possibly married at St Giles in 1852 Robert Marks (b.c.1802 Buckland, Somerset d. 1869 Strand)
  • James Leonard Marks (b.1849 St Pancras)
  • Frederic Marks (b.c.1856St Martin in the Field London d. 1889)
  • Phipps Leonard Marks (b.1857London d. 1867 St Giles, London)
  • Alfred Marks (b.c.1859St Martin in the Field London)
  • Margaret Prudence Marks (b.c.1866St Martin in the Field London d. 1869)
  • Phipps Leonard (b.19.1.1834) married Jane E. Lee (b.1836 Lambeth) daughter of Sarah Lee (b.1800 Bristol). In 1861 Phipps was a painter and Jane a staymaker.
  • Frederick Leonard (b.c.1834 Steeple Aston)
  • Richard Weston Leonard (b.5.3.1837)
  • Francis Leonard (b.c.1839London)

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John Leonard

Edward Leonard (b.16.4.1690) married 24.12.1716 at Wyelye Joane Still (b.9.2.1695West Lavington, Wiltshire) dau of William Still and Joan White (married 15.6.1685 at Wyelye) sister of William Still (b.1.5.1696 Wyelye)

  • Margery (b.16.10.1717 Market Lavington)
  • William Leonard (b.29.10.1726) see above
  • Thomas Leonard (b.3.1.1728) married 10.1.1754 at West Lavington Ann Lane dau. of James Lane Did he marry for a second time Hannah Still on 6th Nov 1761 in West Lavington?
  • Mary (b.21.8.1732)