The Teighe Family

It is believed that West End House was taken over by Michael & Mary Ann Teighe in December 1785.  They are thought to have been refugees from France and had a town house in Paris.  They had 3 children, Dominick, Michael Thomas & Catherine.  Besides the house they had control of much of the Cabbage Hill land (parish boundary) through to Priestwood Farm (where Braybrooke School is now).  They also had some land out towards Shephards Lane and  Folders Lane.  Back to Westend Lane they had Woolpool and Hasleys (current Park Farm House) and control of the land either side of the lane down to the stream.

Michael Teighe Snr died in 1801.  Dominick acquired much of the estate at this time.  For an unknown reason Dominick borrowed money in 1802 and 1812 from John Allwrights of Swallowfield - this was for £1100 secured against a mortgage for the land at West End.  Dominick died in 1820 and had not repaid the debt.  He had 4 daughters and left them equal shares of his estate, but due to the unpaid debt in 1826 the land became Mr Allwrights outright.  John Allwright Snr died 1809, his son John took over the estate (choosing to drop the 'w' from his name)

Mary Ann Teighe died in 1825 (her grave is located a few yards from Warfield Church door).  Michael Thomas took over the lands.  Ive found some stuff on the net about the Teighes of Warfield, to be looked into further although it appears to be something to do with the splitting up of the land (enlosures).

Enclosures

In 1839 Michael Thomas Teighe was living in Whitley Reading.  This year also saw the death of John Allright 2nd and his estate was passed to John Allright 3rd.  An exchange between the 2 dated somewhere in 1839 took place involving land between West End & Avery Lane which resulted in Mr Allright having control of most of the land except a small parcel opposite West End Farm House (where Keiths Farm Shop now stands)

In 1842 Michael Thomas sold all his land at West End for £2000 to John Coxwell of Warfield Cottage.  He died around 1847 and left the West End estate to George Thomas Ellison of Portman Square London.

I will post a complete version of 'A Brief History of West End' written by my grandfather in a later post.

The Gales first appeared at West End in the late 1840s.