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325:. Birmingham Reference Library and Birmingham City Archives contain a calendar of estates owned by the Smalbroke family in Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Buckinghamshire. The records were deposited by Major-General Sir Richard Howard-Vyse, Buckinghamshire, through Messrs. Chesshire Gibson & Co, Birmingham and
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Smalbroke married Catherine Brooks, a sister of Archdeacon Brooks, with whom he had five sons and four daughters; Elizabeth, Thomas, Catherine, Richard, William, Mary, Samuel, Anne and John. Elizabeth never married as did Thomas who died on 2 July 1778. He settled the family estate on three of
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Smalbroke's accounts show the difference between his six fields in 1608 to his twenty properties in 1646. Thomas Smalbroke died in 1649. Thomas married three times in his life, including a marriage to Elizabeth Rotton, his cousin, in 1607. He had seven children with Elizabeth; Thomas, Richard,
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Yardley, which is indicated by his initials inscribed above the doorway. The family farmed at the hall and had other buildings in the surrounding area which were lost over time. Throughout the 16th century, the family kept detailed logs of the family accounts, documenting the
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Richard, was born in 1553. He married Margaret Hall (d. 22 December 1573) on 17 August 1568, the young widow of Richard Greswolde with whom she had two children; Henry and Thomas Greswolde. She had three children with Richard Smalbroke; Robert, Joan and Richard Smalbroke
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on 20 February 1730. Also in 1730, he donated £100 to
Magdalen College for the construction of new buildings. He published eleven sermons between 1706 and 1732, three charges and over 22 controversial pieces. He was involved in many disputes, which were said to have weakened his writing ability.
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The family's ties with the Knight family were strengthened when
Richard's son, Samuel Smalbroke, married Elizabeth Knight on 14 February 1665. By 1682, Samuel Smalbroke was calling himself 'gentleman of Rowington'. It was Samuel Smalbroke's acquisition of the Rowington estate which completed the
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Smalbroke, who died on 8 May 1805 at an advanced age, was the last surviving son of the bishop. He was buried in Westminster Abbey. On his death, the family property passed to the surviving children of his sister Catherine, who had married the Reverend William Vyse in 1733; the Rev. Dr.
131:. Aylmer and Barbara had 12 children who all lived at Blakesley Hall. Their eldest son, named Aylmer after his father, inherited the hall in 1679 when his mother died at the age of 82. Aylmer never married and when he died in 1684, he left Blakesley Hall to his brother Robert, who lived in
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eight children; John, Robert, Anne, Elizabeth, Richard, Thomas, Ambrose and Henry. She was buried on 28 December 1620. Her husband had died the year before on 2 April. The other sister, Dorothy, was born around 1556. She married
Richard Garratt on 24 January 1579/1580. She had no children.
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Richard's sister, Mary, who was born around 1546, married
Richard Stokes in 1557. They had one daughter named Elizabeth. Mary died around June 1591. Bridgett, another of Richard's sisters, was born about 1555. She married Ambrose Rotton on the same day as her sister, Mary, at
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Smalbroke, his uncle, died leaving six fields to Thomas in his will. Blakesley Hall passed to Richard's wife, Barbara. Barbara subsequently married into the gentry, firstly to Henry Devereux of
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was born in 1672 at 19 High Street in Birmingham. He was baptised on 3 November 1672 at St Martin's, Birmingham. Elizabeth was born around 1676 and married John Staunton on 26 December 1699. Samuel died on 21 May 1701.
135:. Robert had a successful military career and did not want take on the Yardley property. Therefore, one year after his brother's death, in 1685, Robert sold Blakesley Hall to the Rector of Solihull for £1261 and 10s.
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