Beauchamp Arms Inn, Dymock (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Sunday, March 03, 2013, 14:58 (4285 days ago)

Hi again John,

replying to
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=40307

re the Beauchamp Arms if you do investigate that line the following may help you. The pub itself does have a website but sadly very little history is on it.
http://www.beauchamparms.co.uk/foba.php

The always reliable Glospubs site has much more detail, I cannot give a direct link but enter "Beauchamp" in the search engine only gives 4 pubs one of which is Dymock's. It states the pub was definitely owned by Earl Beauchamp in 1891 & 1903.
http://www.gloucestershirepubs.co.uk/AllGlosPubsDatabase/AllGlosPubs_view.php

Genuki states that Earl Beauchamp was Lord of the Manor in 1868.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/Dymock/Gaz1868.html

As indeed was the case in 1875, according to this much more detailed entry from the
Morris & Co. Commercial Directory & Gazetteer of Dymock 1876.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cbennett/dymock1876.htm
However despite listing all the village's principle residents this family is not mentioned, suggesting they didn't actually live in the area.

Ditto this 1879 Kelly's Directory entry from this site.
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/kellys/Dymock_1879.htm

This photo of a beautiful stained glass window in Dymock Church teaches me Beauchamp is pronounced Beecham, always educational this hobby !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18909153@N08/4365525730/

Studying this site's PRs I cannot find a single Beauchamps, assuming the gentry would take care to have their name spelt correctly. Searching Beacham gives a few hits almost all in the correct (Ledbury/Upton) area. Finally the Bigland Transcripts of Dymock Church Memorials don't include any Beauchamps at all.
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/downloads/Bigland_Transcripts/Dymock_Bigland_Transcripts.pdf

The name is fairly prolific on the GlosBMD site but the vast majority of entries are for Cheltenham/Cotswolds entries. http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/bmd/SimpleSearch.aspx

It seems to me the Beauchamp family were probably not resident in the area in the last few centuries at least, if at all. I have read they were once Earls of Tewkesbury, so not too far from Dymock. The coat of arms as per the pub sign includes a Bear which nowadays is linked to the County of Warwickshire to the north. The family line appears to date back to the Norman Conquest. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauchamp
Reading the links about Kathline/Katherine I cannot easily(sorry!) find any obvious links between the UK never mind Dymock to her grandfather Arthur Beauchamp, who "came to Nelson(NZ) from Australia .... on 23 February 1861
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Beauchamp

Over to you kind sir ;-)