This is the research of David Binge who is descended from Allan Binge, baptised November 8th 1778 in Dry Drayton,Cambridgeshire, England.
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IGI Data and Society of Genealogists Data to 1772 in Cambridgeshire Sorted by date
This Table is constructed in Word 6
This one is the GRANCHESTER BING/BYNG connection,beginning 1665
EDWARD and MARY(nee ALLEN) BYNDGE,4xg-grandparents.
married Jun 10 1772
Edward chr Apr 16 1773
William chr Mar 14 1775
John chr Feb 9 1777 buried Mar 13 1781
Allen chr Nov 8 1778 ****SEE BELOW****
Elizabeth chr Dec 25 1780,buried Oct 28 1781
Elizabeth chr Feb 16 1783
Mary chr Apr 10 1785
John chr May 6 1787
Esther chr Dec 28 1788
ALLEN and SARAH(nee WATTS) BYNGE,3xg-grandparents.
married Jan 26 1803
Mary chr Jan 6 1805,buried same year.
Mary chr Jul 6 1806
Elizabeth chr Oct 23 1808 *****SEE BELOW****
Allen buried Dec 8 1813,aged 35
ELIZABETH BINGE great great grandmother
William chr Apr 3 1831 *****SEE BELOW*****
Emily chr Aug 4 1844
Elizabeth married David Chapman Nov 22 1846
WILLIAM and ELIZABETH(nee KESTER) BINGE g-grandparents.
married Nov 2 1853
Alice born Oct-Dec 1854
Harry born Oct-Dec 1856
Allen 12 at 1871 census
Fanny 9 ditto
David born Aug 27 1864 ****SEE BELOW****
George 6 at 1881 census
DAVID and ELIZA JANE(nee BARKER) BINGE grandparents.
married Dec 25 1887
Clara born Jul 21 1889 Dry Drayton
Florrie
Alice
Daisy born May 29 1896 Croydon
Ada 1899
David born Sep 12 1902 Croydon ****SEE BELOW****
Rose
DAVID WILLIAM and FLORENCE LILIAN(nee MATTHEWS) BINGE parents
David William born Oct 02 1928
James Henry born Jul 15 1930
Alan George born Jun 14 1935
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6xg grandparents WILLIAM BINGE--Frances Pisfoot (at Cottenham)(IGI) issue - Edward,chr 1.7.1705,Sarah, 8.7.1707 m. 18.2.1704 | | 5xg grandparents EDWARD BINGE-Alice Perkis (at Swavesey)(IGI) issue - Elizabeth 1732,William 1734,Alice 1736 chr 1.7.1705 in Cottenham Sarah,1738,Frances,1743,Hester,1745 m.9.12.1731 | Edward mentioned in will, ?not baptised? | | Odd IGI note: Mary Allen abt 1751 spouse Edward Binge(1747) 4xg grandparents EDWARD BYNDGE-Mary Allen both born about 1750, Edward died 1804, buried at Dry Drayton as yeoman of m 10.6.1772 not in Dry Drayton of Waterbeach. Mary died aged 75 in 1826 at Waterbeach. I records. both left wills recorded at Ely. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I I I | I I I I I I I Edward William John | Elizabeth Elizabeth Mary John Esther Sarah Francis Francis had 10 children between 16.4.73 14.3.75 9.2.77 | 25.12.80 16.2.83 10.4.85 6.5.87 28.12.88 20.9.75 1.7.99 1822 and 1838,died 1845 m m d13.3.81 | d 1781 m m d20.11.96 m Francis Mary | Thomas Camps Thomas Hobson Mary Liveal Stonebridge Wolf |-------------------- | 28.5.04 of Histon 7.10.07 23.10.21 10.12.1793 03.11.1795 | I 3xg grandparents ALLEN BINGE-Sarah Watts ??daughter of James and Ann chr 8.11.1778 c1780,still living at of Great Gransden,c 2.2.1777 bur 8.12.1813 1841 census,possible aged 35 death 1849 m 26.1.1803 I -------------------- I I I Mary Mary I 6.1.05 6.7.06 I b03.2.05 I 2xg grandmother (John Harris)-ELIZABETH BINGE-------- mDavid Chapman 22.11.1846 chr 11.9.08 I William was born out of I ????? ---------------- wedlock-father John Harris. I I I I Emily's father not known. | Emily Frank Mary Ann | Binge Chapman Chapman | 4.8.44 1848 1.7.49 | great grandparents WILLIAM BINGE-Elizabeth Kester chr 3.4.1831 c1832,d 30.11.86? m 2.11.1853 I **William Arthur, otherwise Allen? *Harry in 1871 census --------------------- --------------------------------- | I* I ** I I I note 10 year Alice Henry William Fanny I George gap between 15.10.54 12.56 Arthur 6.4.62 I 1874 David & George(found in 1881 census) 3.7.59 I grandparents DAVID BINGE-Eliza Jane Barker b 27.8.1864 b 28.9.1866 d1938 m 25.12.1887 I -------------------------------------------------- I I I I I I Clara Elizabeth Sept 1889 Chesterton 3b 455 ?Alice Clara Florence Daisy Ada I Rose Florence Mabel June 1893 do 3b 461 21.7.89 13.3.93 29.5.96 1898 I 29.12.05 Daisy Maud Sept 1896 Croydon 2a 203 Dry D Dry D Croy I Ada Beatrice Sept 1898 do 2a 247 I Alice not yet found (not 1888 or 1890-92) I parents DAVID WILLIAM BINGE-Florence Lilian Matthews b 12.9.1902 d1987 b 20.2.1905 d1964 m 26.6.1926 I --- --------------------------------------I | | | | | | Alan George James Henry DAVID WILLIAM BINGE-Margaret Winifred King b 14.6.35 b15.7.30 b 2.10.28 b 16.4.1933 | | m 9.3.1957 Michael Trevor Martin Nigel Lindsay | | | | | | | ------------------------ etc etc | | John Anthony Paul David b 24.12.1961 b 22.5.1963 (Handicapped) m 02.10.1994 maintree.doc 3.3.98, updated 25.3.98,14.4.98
DRY DRAYTON.
Parish of St Peter and St Paul.
From Cambridgeshire,by Norman Scarfe.
The name implies 'tun on a stiff slope up which things were dragged',
and the parish does occupy clay slopes above the Huntingdon Road,which
supplies its N.boundary. 'Dry' merely distinguished it from Fen
Drayton.Medieval village layout in parallel lanes, Petits Lane,
Butchers Lane etc.,ignoring 'High Street'. Site of Crowland Manor
House(Park) just E of church: pulled down when manor bought by rector,
Revd.Dr.Samuel Smith(d.1841),who rebuilt pleasant white-brick rectory
in 1830 and is depicted at prayer in window by Willement,1853,in
impressively rebuilt chancel. At the dissolution the Huttons acquired
the manor and are portrayed in fine brass effigies.Clay does not make a
steady foundation,and the church's patched exterior is partly due to
subsidence,partly to the random collection of stones.
20 out of 42 tenants died in the Black Death of 1348-50,plus wives and
children.
POPULATION
1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911 1921 1931
376 400 420 432 478 497 470 477 374 345 323 434 350 373
Schools were established between 1660 and 1730
Extracts from ‘ The Draining of the Fens’ by H.C.Darby, Professor of geography in The University of London,published in 1956
In 1531 Henry the Eight, “considering the daily great damages and losses” in the
many marshes of his realm, and, knowing that, although, “divers and many provisions
have been before this time made and ordained, yet none of them are sufficient
remedy,....hath...ordained, established and enacted, That commision of sewers, and
other the premisses, shall be directed in all parts within this realm from time to time,
where and when needed shall require.” in fact, this Sewers Act of 1851 remained the
basis of successive legislation until the nineteenth century.
The authority of the commission thus appointed was judicial, executive and even legislative in character. In the first place, the commissioners or “Justices” were empowered to hold a court of sewers which determined, by the verdict of a jury of “honest and lawful men”, the defaults and obligations for maintenance within the area prescribed by its commission. The commissioners were then able “to tax, assess, charge, distrain and punish” all offenders or defaulters according to “ the rate of every person’s portion, tenure or profit.”
The commisioners were able, in short, to inspect all waterworks in their area and to cause any problems to be dealt with. They could appoint bailiffs and surveyors, raise money and levy fines, and impress people into service to do the work needed. They could also make statutes to control the work.
The dissolution of the monasteries in 1536 -9 deprived the land of its ecclesiastical overlords and, since they had been responsible for its drainage and upkeep, much of the land became flooded when it became subdived under new owners. From the end of the 16th century onward there were lots of attempts to drain relatively small areas, and the Dutch engineer CorneliusVermuyden (1590-1677) was asked to undertake some of the work, but initially went off to reclaim the fens of South Yorkshire.
In 1634 Francis, the 4th Earl of Bedford, undertook to start major works and brought in Vermuyden to help him. Their major work was the New Bedford River, 70 feet wide and 21 miles in length, and eight other cuts and drains. Many objected to the draining on the grounds that flooding from time to time enriched their lands, and others in that it deprived men of their livelihood in supplying reeds and catching waterfowl. Some even destroyed the drains.
The book goes on to detail the work which continued throughout the 17th, 18th and nineteenth century and in fact still continues to this day. One major result of the drainage was the drop in the level of the land as the peat dried out. In 1848, at Holme, near Whittlesey Mere, south of Peterborough, a post was driven into the ground, its top level with the surface. By 1860 the surface had dropped 4ft 9in, and by 1932 it was 10ft 8in. I wonder what the height of the post is today?
A visitor to the southern fenland wrote on June 19th 1763: “there are 1,400 cows kept in the parish of Cottenham, which feed on the fens in the summer. The water is, in this dry season, up to their bellies. The natives dry the cowdung for firing in the winter, so ‘tis kept in heaps about the fields, as is also the dung of their yards; so when you walk the stink is unconceivable. Mr Harris (later Lord Malmesbury) took a ride to survey these fens, and he says nothing can be so detestable. He talked with the natives, who told him, that during the winter the water was constantly above their ancles (as spelt) in their houses.” In some areas the custom of using dung prevailed until the 1830’s.
There is also mention of the fen ague, or malaria, as being common in the nineteenth century, and refers to opium chewing as being a common remedy for its effects. “ You could stand in a druggist’s shop on market day and see many a farmer’s wife or common labourer enter and lay down their pence for a small packet of opium”. George Borrow’s Lavengro (1851) mentions the fenny country around Peterborough “which, owing to immense quantities of rain which had lately fallen, was completely submerged”.
From 1820 onwards the windmills which had been used to raise water into the drains were gradually replaced by steam engines, which could work at all times, but it was towards the end of the century before all the windmills ceased to be used. From about 1913 the steam engines were gradually replaced by diesel engines, which in turn have been displaced by electric pumps.
It seems that our farming ancestors had a far harder time of it than we could possibly imagine!
DRAINS 5.4.98
The following file,complied by David Binge, is a list of family groups of Binges, based on family relationships to the marriage of Edward and Mary Binge, married on 10th June 1772, at Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire.
| David B. | Elizabeth | Jennifer | John | David W. | Clive> |
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