MARCHANT, William

- 1762

• Name	MARCHANT, William
  Gender	Male
  Died	1762
  Person ID	I1627	Casey Family Tree | Paxman
  Last Modified	24 Dec 2014

  
  

  Father	MARCHANT, Silvester,   d. 1687
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Sarah,   d. 1724
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F550	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	ROSE, Mary,   d. 1780
  Married	1728
  Children	+ 1. MARCHANT, Ann,   b. 1729   2. MARCHANT, Sarah,   b. 1731   3. MARCHANT, Mary,   b. 1733,   d. 1735  (Age 2 years)   4. MARCHANT, William,   b. 1735,   d. 1806  (Age 71 years)   5. MARCHANT, Mary,   b. 1737,   d. 1737  (Age 0 years)   6. MARCHANT, Hannah,   b. 1737,   d. 1737  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	24 Dec 2014
  Family ID	F551	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos

  Gaunt House, Standlake, Oxfordshire The archway to the right used to support the drawbridge over the moat. Gaunt House, a moated house 0.5 miles (800 m) east of Standlake Village across the River Windrush, existed by the latter part of the 15th century. It is named after the family that owned it until 1516. In the English Civil War it belonged to Samuel Fell, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and was garrisoned by Royalist troops until the Parliamentarian Colonel Thomas Rainsborough besieged and captured it in May 1645.Thereafter it was garrisoned by Parliamentarian troops, including cavalry who raided Kidlington in October 1645 and infantry who fought at Radcot in April 1646. After Samuel Fell's death in 1649 Gaunt House passed first to his widow Margaret and then to his son John Fell, who was Bishop of Oxford from 1676. On his death in 1686 John Fell left Gaunt House to Christ Church, Oxford to provide an income to pay bursaries for poor students. It remained with Christ Church until it was sold 1955. Gaunt House was originally timber-framed but only a section of the original structure remains: all the rest having been replaced in stone by the early part of the 17th century.

  
  

• Notes

  Living in Gaunt House 1725 (after death of his mother Sarah)