Tag Archives: Branfill

Picturing the Branfill family

Posted on 11/12/2021 by hurdler46

The Branfill family of Upminster Hall were prominent landowners in Upminster for over two hundred years from 1685 but we have had no images to show us what they looked like. Upminster’s historian Thomas Lewis Wilson recorded a long list … Continue reading →

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Upminster Hall: owners and buildings

Posted on 25/10/2020 by hurdler46

Upminster Hall and its estate have a history that can be traced back almost a thousand years to before the Norman Conquest of 1066. Unlike Upminster’s other main manor, Gaynes, which frequently changed hands before it was split up and … Continue reading →

Posted in Upminster Buildings & Places | Tagged 49 Wing HQ RFC, Branfill, George Wiseman, Goldsmiths, Ralph Latham, Timber framed building, Upminster Estates, Upminster Golf Club, Upminster Hall Manor, Upminster Tithe Barn, Waltham Abbey, William Garbutt Key | 3 Comments

The Branfills at Upminster Hall

Posted on 04/08/2020 by hurdler46

The aftermath of the recent Black Lives Matters protests has thrown a spotlight on historic figures who had links with the slave trade. Upminster has not escaped this scrutiny which has brought to light unpleasant local connections with the Branfills … Continue reading →

Posted in Upminster People & Events | Tagged Andrew Branfill, Benjamin Branfill artist, Branfill, Braund family, Champion Branfill, Champion slave ship, Guinea man, John Harrison EIC, Rev James Bearblock, Robert James East India Company, Royal African Company, Upminster Hall, Upminster Hall Manor | 5 Comments

Around Corbets Tey: Hacton Hamlet

Posted on 14/01/2020 by hurdler46

The populous Upminster hamlet of Hacton seems to be one of three clusters of medieval settlement in the parish, the other two being the village centre and Corbets Tey. The area was to the west of the Gaynes manor estate … Continue reading →

Posted in Upminster Buildings & Places | Tagged Anglo-American Museum of Art LSU, Belle of Essex, Benjamin Pead, Branfill, Champion Branfill, Hacton Bridge, Hacton House, Hacton-on-the-Hill, Humphrey Repton, Park Corner Farm, White Hart Hacton, William Braund | 1 Comment

Upminster Common Revealed: Part 1 – Bird Lane and around Tylers Common

Posted on 06/10/2018 by hurdler46

To the Victorian Census Enumerators the whole area to the north of Upminster parish – north of the line of what is now the A127, the Southend Arterial Road – was referred to as “Upminster Common”. In earlier times the … Continue reading →

Posted in Upminster Buildings & Places | Tagged Admiral John Child Purvis, Branfill, Capt John Redman, Great Tomkyns, Harman Browse, Horace Newte, Mineral Spring, Moat Farm, Tylers Hall Farm, Upminster Common Tylers Common, Upminster Hall Manor | 1 Comment

Upminster’s Remarkable Historian: T L Wilson (1833-1919)

Posted on 14/02/2015 by hurdler46

How strange it seems today that a village carpenter, who died in relative poverty, devoted much of his life to documenting Upminster’s history through his books and scrapbook collections of local archives. That carpenter and local historian was Thomas Lewis … Continue reading →

Posted in Upminster People & Events | Tagged Branfill, Congregational Church, Thomas Lewis Wilson, Upminster, Upminster Cricket Club | 20 Comments