MALTINGS FARM, WHEATHAMPSTEAD, HERTFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND: Thrale & Thrall family history

Thrale history

Tree: UK Thrale family

Notes:

Remained in Thrale family ownership until William Thrale's death in 1897.

In 1870, Sarah Sibley's executors offered the farm for sale at auction at the Swan Inn in the village by order of Sarah's executors. The estate comprised the 'genteel residence, ten-quarter malting, 71 acres of very superior land, and 14 cottages and gardens'. Lot 1 fetched £1,110; three fields on Wheathampstead Hill covering 18 acres. Lot 3 which included the house, fetched £800 and was purchased by William. Six freehold cottages with barns fetched £300, and a further four cottages £220. The eleven lots fetched a total of very nearly £6,000.

Upon William Thrale's death in 1897, the Maltings itself was put up for sale by Rumball and Edwards at the Peahen Hotel, St. Albans. The freehold residence and ten-quarter malting with farm buildings and paddock passed from the Thrale family. The property stretched from the High Street through to land bordering East Lane.

Today the house itself is called White Cottage; the maltings themselves are a country club.

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Media

Photos

William THRALE's musical box
Old musical box in mahogany and buhl inlaid case owned by William Thrale. Lot no.186 in the 1897 sale of William Thrale's house, the Maltings, Wheathampstead. Tunes include 'Love Was Once a Little Boy', Wake of Erin', 'Garyone', and 'Croppies Lie Down'. bought for 10/- for young May Thrale, who upon her death in 1970 at the age of 87 willed it to her grand-nephew Richard Thrale of St. Albans.

Documents

Maltings Farm, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England - 1898 advertisement for auction
2 March 1898 land auction, following the death of William Thrale.

Histories

A New Thraliana (1973)
A chronicle of the Thrale family of Hertfordshire by Richard William Thrale (1931-2007), building on the Thrale chapter from the 1952 book Historic Sandridge. Reproduced in full with consent of the author.

Property

Matches 1 to 2 of 2

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Property	Person ID	Tree
1	SIBLEY, Sarah	1870	I260	UK Thrale family
2	THRALE, William		I256	UK Thrale family