 1733 - 1820 (87 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. |  Richard MILLS was born in 1733 in Swindon, Wiltshire (son of Thomas MILLS and Jane JONES); died on 1 Mar 1820 in Fovant, Wiltshire; was buried on 06 Mar 1820 in All Saints Church, Broad Chalke. Other Events and Attributes:
- Baptism: 22 Mar 1733, Swindon, Wiltshire; Christ Church, Swindon
- Occupation: Before 1765, The Star & Garter Inn, Andover, Hampshire; Publican
- Occupation: 1765, Fovant Hut, Fovant, Wiltshire; Publican - kept the White Hart (Fovant Hut) on Salisbury Plain for 60 years
Notes:
1. In ' An Actual Survey of the Great Post Roads between London and Falmouth' , by Cary in 1784, Fovant Hut or The White Hart is shown. (White Hart, a name familiar all over England for inns, is possibly a scribe's error for 'White's Hut'. White was probably a former occupier of the Hut; for the hedge running south from the turnpike almost opposite the Hut is called 'White's Hedge'. It is the boundary between Fifield Bavant and Ebbesbourne Wake.)
Fovant Hut did a brisk trade in the old days, and was the recognised meeting place where champions from rival villages engaged at fisticuffs. It was also to Fovant Hut that Parson Chaffin was wont to saunter, fiddle in hand. There he met other pretended fiddlers, whose object in coming there was not to scrape their instruments but to watch for deer which, pestered by flies, might stray from the woods of Cranborne Chase and seek sanctuary in the valley.
Occupation:
Fovant Hut has also been known as the White Hart Inn or the Hut on Salisbury Plain. It was one of a series of posting houses along the turnpike road, which ran along the ridge of the downs above the village. Although we do not know when the inn was established, the Salisbury and Winchester Journal referred to it as ‘new built’ in 1757. William Kennell, the first landlord, advertised that he had:
‘a stock of neat Wines, rich Cordials, and all sorts of Spirituous Liquors to be sold Wholesale and Retail.’
According to the National Burial Index William Kennell was buried in Horningsham in Nov 1762 age not given (just 15 miles away from Fovant as the crow flies).
We don't know who kept the Hut after his death until Richard & Elizabeth took it on in 1765.
The inn did a thriving trade until 1787 when the Lower Road (now the A30) was turnpiked. It is not known when the inn ceased to trade, but it has long since been a private house.
In 1785 Parliament sent it's surveyors to establish the Enclosure details. The first meeting took place at Fovant Hut on 19th Sept 1785.
Died:
Source Notes
Richard Mills' will is recorded in The Clay Papers 'Some Notes on the History of Fovant' amassed by the late Doctor Richard Clay. In 1967 he used some of this material to produce a small booklet that gave a short history of the village, but in general the papers remained just a collection of loose pieces of paper.
Although the original papers are held by Mr Robert Snow, Doctor Clay's grandson, copies of the documents were deposited with Salisbury Museum. Over the years interested parties made further copies, until there were several such 'collections'. In 2002, Mike Harden of Fovant History Interest Group collated, edited and indexed these different versions and had, what might be called, the definitive version of Doctor Clay's original papers bound into a single volume. Copies of this volume are now held in museums, libraries and record offices in Salisbury, Devizes and Trowbridge.
Richard married Elizabeth MORRELL on 30th Dec 1764 in St. Edmund, Salisbury. Elizabeth (daughter of Charles MORRELL and Elizabeth ?) was born in 1734; was christened on 19 Jan 1734 in South Wraxall, Wiltshire; died after 1786. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Notes:
Married:
Date from the IGI.
Marriage Licence:
St.Edmund Salisbury 1741-1837, Stratford-sub-Castle Salisbury 1654-1837.
Sarum Marriage Licence Bonds
Adminstration WIL Source MLB Date 1764 Dec 29 Groom Richard MILLS aged 31 occupation lab residing at
Salisbury St Edmund, WIL status bac notes – Bride Elizabeth MORRELL aged 28 residing at Salisbury St
Edmund, WIL status sp notes – Bondsmen CURTIS Robert,innholder,Salisbury St Edmund – to be married
at –
The issuing of a licence does not necessarily mean that a marriage took place; some people may have
had second thoughts and, it is believed, some thought the licence was sufficient and it was not
necessary to get married. If a marriage did take place, it may not have been in a parish named in
the bond of allegation. Note also that the marriage register or bishops transcript may not have
survived, thus making the licence the only evidence of the intended marriage.
Children:
- Charles George MILLS was born about 1776 in Wiltshire; died on 29 Dec 1851 in Fovant, Wiltshire; was buried on 3 Jan 1852 in Fovant Parish Church, Wiltshire.
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Generation: 2
| 3. | Jane JONES was born in 1705; was christened on 24 Sep 1705 (daughter of William JONES); and died. Notes:
Married:
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Children:
- Thomas MILLS was born in 1730; was christened on 14 Jun 1730 in Swindon, Wiltshire; and died; was buried on 14 Jun 1814 in Swindon, Wiltshire.
- John MILLS was born in 1731 in Wiltshire; was christened on 7 Mar 1731 in Swindon, Wiltshire; died on 8 Jul 1814 in Whatcombe, Dorset; was buried in St. Mary, Winterbourne Whitechurch.
- 1. Richard MILLS was born in 1733 in Swindon, Wiltshire; died on 1 Mar 1820 in Fovant, Wiltshire; was buried on 06 Mar 1820 in All Saints Church, Broad Chalke.
- William MILLS was christened on 21 Feb 1735 in Swindon, Wiltshire; and died.
- Joseph MILLS was born in 1738; and died.
- Isaac MILLS was born in 1742; was christened on 1 May 1742 in Christ Church, Swindon, Wiltshire; and died.
- Benjamin MILLS was christened on 18 Jan 1743 in Swindon, Wiltshire; died on 16 May 1744 in Swindon, Wiltshire.
- Elizabeth MILLS was born in 1745; and died.
- Benjamin MILLS was born in 1748 in Swindon, Wiltshire; was christened on 22 Mar 1748 in Swindon, Wiltshire; and died; was buried on 7 May 1794 in Swindon, Wiltshire.
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Generation: 3
| 5. | Susan WHITE was born in 1680 in Wiltshire. Children:
- Elisabeth MILLS was born in 1703; was christened on 4 Dec 1703 in Swindon, Wiltshire; and died.
- 2. Thomas MILLS was born in 1705; was christened on 26 Jun 1705 in Swindon, Wiltshire; and died.
- Richard MILLS was born in 1706; was christened on 1 Feb 1706 in Swindon, Wiltshire; and died.
- Alice MILLS was born in 1708; and died.
- Susanna MILLS was born in 1711; was christened on 8 Sep 1711 in Swindon, Wiltshire; died in 1802.
- Mary MILLS was born in 1714; was christened on 5 May 1714 in Swindon, Wiltshire; and died; was buried on 8 Jan 1797 in Swindon, Wiltshire.
- William MILLS was born in 1715; was christened on 15 Mar 1715 in Swindon, Wiltshire; and died.
- Anne MILLS was born in 1718; was christened on 13 Jul 1718 in Swindon, Wiltshire; and died.
- Jane MILLS was born in 1720 in Swindon; was christened on 10 Sep 1720 in Swindon, Wiltshire; and died.
- Katherine MILLS was born in 1723; was christened on 24 Jan 1723 in Swindon, Wiltshire; and died.
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Generation: 4
| 9. | Joane CORLIS was born in 1655 in Wiltshire. Children:
- 4. Thomas MILLS was born in 1680 in Cliffe-Pypard, Wiltshire.; was christened on 18 Nov 1680 in Cliffe-Pypard, Wiltshire; and died.
- John MILLS was christened on 22 Jul 1683 in Cliffe-Pypard, Wiltshire.
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