Re: dagnam park, essex
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Re: dagnam park, essex
Martin Wright 8/06/09
Hi Martin,
As far as I am aware there is nothing in print that deals just about Dagnam Park and the Neave family. There is however a website that deals with the parkland that was once the Dagnam estate parkland and that contains the history of the park, and the area of Noak Hill in which the Neave family made their home from 1772 to 1945.
www.friendsofdagnampark.org.uk
Dorina, Lady Neave, wife of the 5th Bt Sir Thomas Lewis Hughes Neave, makes mention of Dagnam Park in one of her books, Romance of the Bosphorus.
As for the ships that were owned by the Neave's I only have information on two of them, The Glatton was used on a regular run out to China and was also used, again on a regular basis to take supplies out to the early convict settlement at Sidney. Not only was this ship used for this purpose but it was also used to take convicts out to NSW as well. On 16th January 1801 for instance she sailed with 217 males and 130 females that had been sentenced to transportation. By 1805 the Glatton was withdrawn from service.
The other ship that I have a small bit of information on is the King George which traded between England and St Vincent and was, as far as I can gather, used in the course of the black triangle as Sir Thomas Neave 2nd Bt held lands on the Island. There is a death notice in the Times (London) dated 29th August 1839 for a Capt; James Colter who was the commander of the King George.
I will send an e-mail to you with regards to other Neave information that I may hold.
don