John Neale

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Burial: 4 August 1690.

Place of Burial: Birdingbury.

The burial is recorded in the parish register.

Relationships

(probable) Father: John Neal.

(probable) Mother: Catherine Priest.

The only evidence for this is a 1637 probate bond in which the deceased is John Neale, miller, of Birdingbury and the widow is named Catherine. I have not come across any mention of another Neale family in the Birdingbury area in the time period. The younger John Neale also appears to have been a miller.

Spouse: Joan.

Joan is named as John’s widow in a probate bond.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. The children's birth dates come from the Birdingbury parish register.)

Anne Neale (born 1 January 1649/50).

Elizabeth Neale (born 25 April 1651).

John Neale (born 23 April 1653).

Thomas Neale (born 24 June 1656).

Henry Neale (born 10 November 1660 - died about 1731) married Elizabeth.

Mary Neale (baptized 15 January 1665/6 in Birdingbury, Warwickshire - buried 9 April 1667 in Birdingbury).

Evidence

from the Birdingbury parish register. (The first five baptisms are recorded as a group, twice, in the register.)

Anne Neale the daughter of John Neale was borne January the 1st 1649

Elizabeth Neale the daughter of John Neale was born April 25 1651

John Neale the sonne of John Neale was Borne April 23 1653

Thomas the sonne of John Neale was borne June 24 1656

Henry the Sonne of John Neale was borne Nov 10 1660

Maria filia Johannis Neal bap fuit Decimo quinto die Janu: [1665]

Maria filia Johane Neal Sep fuit nono die Aprilis 1667

1690 Johannes Neale sepultus fuit quarto die Augusti

From an abstract of a 1658 conveyance of the manor of Birdingbury (National Archives DR 18/1/194):

...windmill and watermill with barn & cowhouse; 3 little pieces of ground near the watermill called the yard, the Hopp yard and the Breakes (3 ac in all); enclosed meadow known as Mill Meadow (3 ac) out of which certain freeholders have one-sixth of the hay at their own expense: all in the occupation of John Neale...

Hearth Taxes (John Neale)

1662: Birdingbury, one hearth

1663: Burdingbury, one hearth

1670: Birdingbury, one hearth

1674: Birdingburie, one hearth

John's probate inventory:

A trew and Perfect Inventorie Indented of all and Singular the Goodes & Chattles Rights and Creddits of John Neale late of Birdingbury Deseassed. Taken and prized the 7th day of August by us whose names are under written: 1690:

Impris: his Apparrell with monney in his purse-- 1 10 0

Itm all the Goodes in the Chamber wherein hee lay -- 1 10 0

Itm all the goodes in the Chamber over the hall house -- 1 3 4

Itm All his Goodes in the hall House -- 1 15 0

Itm all his Goodes in the Kitchen -- 2 3 4

Itm all his Goodes in the Buttery -- 1 13 4

Itm all his Goodes in the Barne -- 1 3 4

Itm all his Goodes in the yard -- 0 13 4

Itm all his Cattell -- 5 0 0

Itm all his Corne & pease Growing on the ground -- 1 10 0

Itm all his Goodes in his wind mill and the said mill -- 50 0 0

Itm all his other goodes & Implements unseen and forgotten -- 0 6 4

The sum[m]ry is 68 8 0

Will: Bayes

William Barrie prisors

References

Parish registers for Birdingbury, Warwickshire. Digital images on Ancestry.com [accessed 8 December 2015].

Probate bond for John Neale (1637) in the Consistory Court of Lichfield and Coventry. Digital images on Findmypast.uk [accessed 8 December 2015].

Probate bond for John Neale (1690) in the Consistory Court of Lichfield and Coventry. Digital images on Findmypast.uk [accessed 8 December 2015].

Warwickshire Heath Tax Returns in Warwickshire, England, Occupational and Quarter Session Records, 1662-1866 on Ancestry.com [accessed 8 December 2015].