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Chapel Wardens of Colnbrook

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The following list of Chapel Wardens for Colnbrook have been extracted from a book by Gordon Willoughby James Gyll, Esq., entitled "History of the Parish of Wraysbury, Ankerwycke Priory, and Magna Charta Island, with the History of Horton, and the Town of Colnbrook, Bucks" which was published in 1862:

1612    John Jeffery }
        Roger Creker } Overseers for the poor of Langley
        Thomas Pytt, }
1613    Roger Crockford
        Ralphe Gatcombe
1614    Stephen Mascoll
        Henry Osmond
1615    Henry Shorter
        John Kelley
        William Goad
        Gilbert Hedworth
1616    Christopher Chapman
        Jeffrey Dawe
1617    Peter Chapman
        Jeffrey Share
1618    Christopher Meale
        Thomas Fowler
1619    Henry Rawson
        John Mudgett
1620    Thomas Meale
        Richard Speed
1621    Ralphe Ward
        Thomas Pitt
1622    Stephen Mascoll
        Thomas Burcombe
        Gilbert Aldworth }
        Henry Shorter    } Collectors for Horton
1623    William Mascoll
        Robert Cooe
1624    Daniel Salter
        Edmund Jeffery
1625    Andrew Meale
        John Mudgett
1626    Thomas Meale
        John Child
1627-28 William Goade
        Thomas Pitt
1629    David Salter
        Edmund Jeffery
1630    Thomas Swayne
        John Graye
1631    Edmund Slocomb
        Frank Mascoll
1632    William Peters
        Robert Bedell
1633-34 John Burton
        Reginald Ludgold
        John Atlee
1635    George Goade
        Thomas Porter

A gap until 1655

1655    Edmund Board
        Henry Goffe
1656    Edmund Kimber
        Edward Chapman
1657    George Fellow
        William Englefield
1658    Edmund Archer
1658    William Francis
1659    John Dunt
        John Morris
1660    John Holderness
        Thomas Burcomb
1661    Robert Biddle
        William Guy
1662    Andrew Meale
        John Slocombe
1663    George Fellow
        Robert Staninat
1664-5  John Holderness
        William Englefield
1666-7  John Child
        William Englefield
1668    William Guy
        William Woodnut
        William Lane
        Thomas Richardson
1669    William Mercer
        James Squire
1670    Moses Sedgwick
        Robert Cox
1671    George Fellow
        John Fowdge
1672-73 Samuel Goade
        Roger Eldridge
1674-75 -------
1676    William Mercer
        James Squier
1677    Thomas Biddle
        William Stockley
1678    Charles Boder
        William Mercer
1679    William Stockley
1680-81 William Stockley
        Thomas Biddle
1682-83 William Stockley
        Isaac Redford
1684    -------
1685    Isaac Redford
        William Stockley
1686    Benjamin Fellowes
1687    Benjamin Fellowes
        John Burcomb
        Thomas Biddle
1688    John Burcomb
1689-91 Thomas Burcomb
1692-93 Thomas Burcomb
        Samuel Hosey
        Isaac Redford
1694-95 Samuel Holderness
        William Francis
1696-98 John Holderness
        John Wicherley
1699    Thomas Dew
        William Phillips
1700    William Phillips
1701-03 John Wicherley
        John Holderness
1704-5  Benjamin Fellowes
        Samuel Hosey
1706    John Guy
        John Burcomb
1707-08 Richard How
        William Finch
1709-10 Richard How
        Joseph Fulmer
1711-14 Joseph Besouth
        John Wells
1715-18 George Fellowes
        Joseph Oburne
1719-23 George Fellowes
        John Burcomb
1724    Robert Hartwell
        John Mason Onley
1725    Robert Hartwell
        Thomas Dee
1726    Robert Hartwell
1727-28 Robert Hartwell
        Thomas Dee
1729-30 Robert Hartwell
1731    -------
1732-35 Thomas Dee
        Joseph Rayner
1736    Thomas Dee, in which year he, Thomas Dee, died; and William Dee and Joseph Rayner, and his accounts were made up by his widow, Ann Dee, who remarried with John Sexton
1737-38 -------

Interregnum

1745    Thomas Fennell
        Henry Smither
1746-47 Samuel Besouth
        Henry Smither
1748    Samuel Besouth
        Richard Waring
1749    Peter Wilson
        Richard Waring
1750-01 Peter Wilson
        Thomas Webb
        Thomas Fennell }
        Thomas Webb    }Overseers of the Poor of Langley
1752    Thomas Fennell
        Richard Hibbard, Surveyor of Highways
1753-54 Thomas Fennell
        Peter Wilson
1755    Henry Thompson
        Thomas Rayner
1756    Thomas Fennell
        Thomas Webb
1757    Thomas Fennell
        Richard Waring
1758    John Ashton
        William Burcomb
1759    John Ashton
        Thomas Cane
1760    Abraham Grimsdall
        Thomas Cane
1761-62 Abraham Grimsdall
        Thomas Ogilvy
1763-70 Joel Hethering
1763-70 John Maxwell

Here an unfortunate vacuum occurs of 70 years, and not a trace of who were Chapel Wardens until 1840.

1840-42 George Andrews
        Samuel Oak
1843-46 James Laurence
        Samuel Oak
1847    Joseph Bland, Gent.
        James Laurence, Gent.
1848-51 Joseph Bland, Gent.
        James Laurence, Gent.
        George Paterson, Esq.
1852-54 Henry Jones
        James Small
1855-57 Henry Jones
        Frederick Westrup
1858-59 Henry Jones
        Vernon Hemmingway
1860-61 Henry Hickman
        Henry Jones