IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Richard Awbery (1809-1885) was farming 420 acres of land, mostly centred on Lower Wootton Farm in Wootton St Lawrence parish and Ibworth Farm in Hannington parish.  At the same time his brother, Tom Awbery (1811-1895), had been the farmer at Upper Wootton Farm, but afterwards took up the lease of Pit Lane Farm next to Ewhurst Park, in the parish of Kingsclere.  By 1867 Tom Awbery was farming at Dell Farm in Oakley.

The Awbery brothers were among the more prosperous farmers of northern Hampshire, having learned their “trade” from their father.  Their prospects had flourished during the golden days of mid-century farming boom in order to provide them with sufficient wealth to shield them from the crises of the latter decades of the Victorian era, when British farming went into decline, but which time the brothers had already retired from their businesses.

This extensive pedigree, comprising 14 sheets of charts and parish register extracts (with introduction), traces the family from its Berkshire roots around 1650 up until the end of the nineteenth century, in Hampshire, by which time many members of the family had even entered careers outside of agriculture.

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Picture: Manor Farmhouse, Wootton St Lawrence.