The Hartwrights

William Hartwright of Clerkenleap’s son John of Swinesherd (1753 – 1837)

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 John married Elizabeth Day of Peopleton in 1781, one of his younger brother’s - James - married her sister Mary in 1789.

John was chapel warden at Whittington near Worcester from 1805-1810. He moved to Stonebow, Peopleton, Worcs. and thence to Ravenshill Farm, Tibberton, Worcs. as tenant of the Berkeley’s of Spetchley Park, nr Worcester. In the codicil to his will John left £40 to be invested and the interest used to benefit the poor of Tibberton Parish each year at Christmas -  Hartwright Bread Charity. Go to John & Henry Hartwright – The case of the missing wheat for more about the man who stole John’s wheat.

 John of Swinesherd has many more descendants than William of Manchester.  Here is just a small amount of the information that there is on this one branch.

John’s eldest son was another John (1782 - 1869) who first wife was Mary Coldicott. Some of their children were christened at the old church at Tedstone Wafre in Herefordshire. Eventually he too went to farm at Ravenshill Farm, Tibberton. He had three sons, the youngest was John Henry (1832 – 1876) who also  farmed at Ravenshill Farm Tibberton.  His wife was Harriet Featherstone (marriage 1866). Their youngest son Ted (1875 – 1928) was only a one year old when his father John Henry died and Harriett continued farming and raising her family of at Ravenshill. For more about this farming family go to Every Day Country Folk –  Some Farming Hartwrights in Worcestershire

Harriett Hartwright nee Featherstone	Two of Harriet and John’s sons  Harry 1868 - 1947 and John 1869 - 1936

There are present day Hartwrights descended from all three of her sons. Click here to go to UK Hartwright Reminiscences of life during World War II from Margaret Hartwright and John Royall Hartwright and also Hartwrights behind bars.   (The Rose and Lion in Bromyard, Herefordshire)

 John of Swinesherd’s third son Henry (1789-1839) In 1822 married his cousin Elizabeth Hartwright, daughter of James Hartwright and Mary Day already mentioned. So his mother and Elizabeth’s were sisters and his uncle became his father–in-law.  To complicate things more, when Elizabeth died Henry married her sister Mary in 1836, which must have been illegal!  Henry was a juror at the Coroner’s Inquest into the Death of Richard Hemming in 1826 in the case known as “The Oddingley Murders”.

 Go to home.freeuk.com/whe/WorcestershirePast/articles.html for more information about The Oddingley Murders. Jury members, witnesses and other people connected with the case are included in A List of 600+ other names mentioned in the same documents as Hartwrights . The case is also mentioned in Every Day Country Folk - Some Farming Hartwrights in Worcestershire

Other names associated with this branch include King, Coldicott, Holloway, Baylis, Payne, Trewin, Junor, Lloyd and Perrins