My grandfather, John Green, rented this farm from the Knightleys of Fawsley from January 1902 to end of June 1919. The land was in both Fawsley and Preston Capes parishes and I have not yet ascertained exactly where the land was.

Between July 1900 and January 1902 he lived at Fawsley Wood Yard and rented land entirely in Fawsley Parish.

 Glebe Farm, Farthingstone was purchased by the Agnew family in January 1920 from the Church Commissioners. John Green my Grandfather, as a tenant of the Agnews, farmed here from about 1920 to 1936. The Blue Line on the Map outlines the land of the farm and the blue rectangle is where the farm house and farmyard were in 1920.

The total land area was 196 acres.

 This will helps explain who Aunts Bradshaw, Mawby and Cooke are in the letters written by Frances Green to her brother Abraham Walter in America. It is interesting in that it doesn't mention any sons of John. Details of John can be found in my family tree.

 This essay is taken from "The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men, Manners, Times, Seasons, Solemnities, Merry-Makings, Antiquities and Novelties forming a Complete History of the Year and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac" by William Hone published in 1832

 This essay is taken from "Rambles Roundabout and Poems" by the late George James de Wilde editor of the "Northampton Mercury" published in 1878.

 Frances Walter's brother, William, appears to have left his family in about 1833 and gone abroad. This report is from the Northampton Mercury, 8th March 1834. Two weeks after his arrest his wife began receiving support from the Desborough parish to support herself and her ten children.

 This letter doesn't really belong here. It has been bound in the book of Frances Green's letters but actually it is from Thomas Mears to Abraham Walter's daughter in America. Thomas was the brother of Charlotte Mears, Abraham's wife.

Frances Walter married my Great Great Grandfather William Green and had three children William, George (my Great Grandfather) and Elizabeth. Her brother Abraham was in Indiana.

Frances Walter married my Great Great Grandfather William Green and had three children William, George (my Great Grandfather) and Elizabeth. Her brother Abraham was in Indiana.