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David

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
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This one is the GRANCHESTER BING/BYNG connection,beginning 1665

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    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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FAMILY TREE

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.

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