Lace is on our genes A genealogy story Part 3

       

                        My Alvey Coat of Arms                         My Alvey family lineage 1600<2000 p="p">

  

HEALTH- 

There was outbreaks of plague in Nottingham 1631/36.

Infant mortality was always high , with smallpox, scarlet fever typhus, typhoid and gastro complaints prevalent - personal hygiene, dirty hands, contaminated drinking water etc., were the likely causes#

OCCUPATIONS -

  Mainly Agriculture In BJ the Open Field System was where the arable land would be -

Crock or West Field, Smith Moor Hill or Brusto or Birstie Hill Field, Mill Field, Low Field & Upper Field ( common to Bulcote), Church Field and Skithorne Hill. Also in Bulcote .

There was a Mill Field in the SW of BJ near the River Trent, there must have been a Mill in or near this field for in 1608 a mill was reported as suffering storm damage at BJ, together with one at Stoke Bardolph.

The Smithmoor Hill Farm or Brusto Field was on the hill to the north and still survives today in Brusto House (alongside the developments of Foxhill Road and Hillcrest Gardens).

Open fields were sub-divided into furlong long plots of varying size which usually depended upon the contour and nature of the land.

The method of ploughing these plots resulted in the familiar ridges seen in many old cultivated fields.

Should a ploughman stray onto a neighbours plot , a fine would be incurred (in Bulcote this was 5/-d five shillings or 25p in todays money).

Within the villages of BJ and Bulcote the nature of the soil varies immensely and because of this the plots were allotted as fairly as possible so that the good and bad land was shared and evened out equitably amongst the workers of the land.

AVERAGE WAGES ( Notts) -

Meane Servant - 25s per year ( £1.25p today)

Thatcher, Hedger, Ditcher, Agricultural (winter rate)-6d per day ( 2.5p a day)

Note! Masters risked prosecution if they paid above the rate set by Justices

1589 *** The Rev William Lee of Calverton ( some researchers suggest he was of Woodboro- practising his religion in Calverton) invented, built  and worked the First “Frame Work Knitting machine” and produced goods in either Calverton or Woodboro with varying profit ***

1606 Execution of Guy Fakes for his attempt to blow up Parliament

1609 The earliest map of BJ is one of Sherwood Forest dated 1609.

 It shows BJ consists of Main St, Lambley Lane,  and Meadow lane ( the eventual Old road to Grimsby). 

About 35 houses were scattered around these roads and the population calculated from Baptisms, Hearth Tax and Visitation returns was about 145.

 In the next two centuries the population grew very slowly, in 1801 when official census returns began BJ was accredited with a population of 447.

 Henry Hudson sails into New York - River now has his name

1611 John Alvey - Chamberlain of Nottingham

1613 John (Joseph?)Alvey ( Baker) Sheriff of Nottingham  Joseph Alvey _ Sheriff of Nottingham together with a Messr  Jowitt as the second Sheriff. 

It  was  customary for the Sheriffs to finance a Sheriff’s Dinner. In this instance  they were both summoned before the Town Council “to show cause why they do not make their Sheriffs dinner  this year according to custom, they both answered it peremptorily that they will neither make dinner nor give a  penny fine or composition, “

           Whereupon all agree, except a John Stanley to fine them £10 otherwise they are to be dis-franchised, made foreigners, and their burgess parts taken from them Jowitt paid and was    

        allowed a rebate of half his fine of £5; but Joseph Alvey only paid after much argument, his rebate was only £1..........Ah! the bloody mindedness    of an Alvey

1615 Coffee introduced into Europe

1616 Death of William Shakespeare

1631 Outbreak of plague

1631 Outbreak of plague

1634 No schoolmaster in BJ recorded

1635 Trent Bridge in sate of repair Council ordered 6 trees felled for repair

**** Major village event 1635 - the River Trent froze over in the bad winter

1636 a further plague

1636 King Charles forced a loan to himself -mid 1600 Nottm was a place of turmoil thro 1600 with taxes, loans, civil war Charterism

1641/2           We know from the Protestant Returns NTT that a William Alvye of Burton Joyce (listed as family 74 in the“Alvey      BJ database” is a high probability for being 3^rd son of family 43 who is in turn the son of family 19) and is listed amongst 24 namesakes.

                      Henry Alvey - Broughton

                      Richard Alvye Car Colston

                     Robert Alvye Car Colston

                     Robert Allvey Tithby

                     Richard Alvey Arnold

                     William Allvye Mansfied

                     John Alvey Nottingham Town

                    Richard Alvey Nottingham Town

                   Robert Alvey Nottingham Town

                    William Alvie Farndon

                   William Alvye Burton Joyce

                   Henry Alvye Epperstone

                   Gervase Alveye Norwell

                   William Alvey Southwell

                   Henry Alvie Lowdham

                   Henry Alvie Lowdham

                   Nicholas Alvie Lowdham

                   Richard Alvie Lowdham

                  William Alvie Lowdham

                  Christopher Alvie Woodboro

                   Christopher Alvie Woodboro ( church warden)

                  John Alvie Woodboro

                  Richard Alvie Woodboro - father of William ?

                  Thomas Alvie Woodboro

1642 King Charles set up Standard in Nottingham near Castle on Standard Hill

1643 Galileo dies

1644 The Great Plague was rife nationally in the country although BJ seemed to avoid its consequences ( was the because of BJ’s isolation, access  and  minimal outside contact)

1645  Saturday 1^st November; The Royalist come to Shelford ( one mile across the Trent river from BJ)  

          Hutchinson,General Poynts and Colonel Rochester assembled in village
 The Parliamentarians win and sack the large house. The musket noise, battle cries together with the blaze of lighted buildings were to be seen from miles around, lighting up the sky well into the evening time. BJ father and son die after joining the battle on the Royalist side (Johns Trueman)

 

Shelford Church is across the River Trent from BJ side

Site of Royalists/Parliamentaries battle

1647 - ALVEY Family 74:

            William Alvie & Isabell at Burton Joyce or Bleasby 1647

           Children

           1647/11/02 f Mary Alvie Burton Joyce d 1647/11/08

          1650/04/30 m Samuel Alvie Burton Joyce

           1652/08/1 f Mary Alvie Bleasby d 1655/03/24

           Link family 43: William b1617/11/16 son of Richard & Jane Alvie at Woodboro

            Nov 2 Baptism of Mary Alvey dau of William & Isabell

           Nov 8 Burial of Mary Alvey dau of William & Isabell

1649   Charles the First executed after trial

1650 - April 30 Samuel Alvey baptism, son of William &````` Isabell

1650 Tea first drank in England - imported from China

          Some BJ families in this same timeline slice

John Trueman Snr…..John Trueman Jnr…Richard Browne……

Elizabeth Levesley …Elizabeth Heige…Alice Knight…

                                William Knight of Bulcote…Grace Knight…Joan Sanderson…

Thomas Knight…Johnathon Knight…Katherine Haywood

Elizabeth Bannister…Elizabeth Parkinson…Elizabeth Boomer…

Alice Rippon…Elizabeth Prigeon…Susannah Gregory

More to follow..  ..