Bishopswood, Herefordshire

Burgums and Burghams lived and worked at Bishopswood, in Herefordshire, and at nearby Ruardean in Gloucestershire.

Bishopswood lies on the banks of the River Wye about four miles south-east of Ross-on-Wye. Bishopswood was later historically used for hunting in Saxon and Norman times.

It is within the parish of Walford but was a separate ecclesiastical district formed in 1845, with a church dedicated to All Saints. It was built in 1841 and consecrated in 1845. It is a stone building with a porch, nave, a small belfrey and a single bell. The living is a vicarage with a value of £80, residence and 7 acres of glebe land. It was built by John Partridge, son of William Partridge, the iron-master, who once owned the Bishopwood estate.

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The list below shows the baptisms, marriages and burials that took place at Walford, Herefordshire.

Name	Date	Location	BMD	Minister	Notes	FT
Edith Burgom	02 Oct 1870	Bishopswood	Baptism	Thomas H. Edwards (1)	Living at Lydbrook	GG
Rosa A. Burgom	02 Oct 1870	Bishopswood	Baptism	Thomas H. Edwards (1)	Living at Lydbrook	GG
Tom H. Burgum	31 Mar 1872	Bishopswood	Baptism	H. D. de Brisay (2)	Living at Lydbrook	GG
Laura Burgum	31 Mar 1872	Bishopswood	Baptism	H. D. de Brisay (2)	Living at Lydbrook	GG

(1) Thomas Hawley Edwards was the son of John Hawley, of Shropshire and was born 26 January 1822. He attended Shrewsbury School. He was admitted the St John's College, Cambridge as a sizar (he was receiving a study grant for his fees) and received a B.A. in 1847. He was ordained deacon at Lichfield in 1846, curate at Shrewsbury St Alkmund 1846-49 and then a priest at Hereford in 1850. He was curate in charge of Bentall, in Shropshire, between 1850-57. He becoming vicar of Bishopswood from 1857 to 1871. After Bishopswood he served at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire (1871-1873), Linfield, near Haywards Heath first as curate and then as vicar (1873-1886). He died there 21 November 1887.

(2) Henry Delacour de Brisay was born at the parsonage at Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, on 5 December 1831, the only son of the Rev. John Theophilus de Brisay (who was born in Dublin) and his wife Harriette. He was baptised at Brightwell Baldwin, Oxfordshire, where his father was Rector, on 31 June 1832. The family were in Gloucestershire where Henry’s father died on 25 September 1846. On 14 May 1851 Henry graduated from University College, Oxford, and married Jane Elizabeth Marrett at Richmond, Surrey in 1854. They had 3 daughters and a son, Henry. The photograph (right) shows Henry with his wife and daughter. Taken in 1861 it is on display at the National Portrait Gallery. The family were in Barnes from at least 1858, where he was curate. By 1863 they had moved to Tettenhall in Staffordshire. In 1871 de Brisay was a clergyman without cure of souls, living in Great Malvern, Worcestershire. However, that same year, he found himself at Bishopswood. In 1879 he was appointed the Diocesan Inspector of Schools for the Deanery of Oxford. Henry's wife died in 1904, at Headington, Oxfordshire. He died at the age of 84 in 1916.

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