Abinghall (Abenhall)(Abbenhall) House (General)

by ChrisL, Thursday, June 12, 2014, 01:40 (3818 days ago) @ HarryBrook

Thank you very much Harry. I have received amazing help in this quest to find more about Abenhall House, which was occupied by some of my ancestors from John Robinson, who is mentioned in the 1867 Auction found by Mike, to the last, Jane Teague in the 1940's. I too realised that Abenhall House could not be spatially linked to Gunn's Mills in the way I had interpreted a quote "Joseph [Lloyd] owned Abenhall House, a Cottage, Land and four Paper Mills, the whole being called Gun Mills", when I checked the 1891 Ordnance Survey maps and found the House on the southern edge of Mitcheldean, and Gunn' Mills almost 1 1/2 miles to the south on the road to Littledean, south of St Michael's Church at Abinghall. Although the house was put up for "Auction on Friday 31 May 1867, at four for five o'clock", do we know that it sold? Jane Teague had the Furniture, etc sold by one of her Executors in August 1947, and the house in 1949. Can you clarify what "an indenture of mortgage made 23 October 1895 between Philip Nicholls, collier (my great grandfather), and John Robinson, solicitor, of Abinghall in the County of Gloucester" actually means in terms of ownership? John Robinson was born in Abinghall 1 Aug 1827 and died in Abinghall House 22 Aug 1899. He was a Solicitor.
The picture is amazing! Thanks again.
ChrisL