Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England: Red1st

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Notes: Name Origin: Old Scandinavian sandtofte sandy homestead.

The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895:

Sandtoft, a hamlet in Belton parish, Lincolnshire, 1 mile N of Epworth and 3 miles NW of Belton.

Notes

Sandtoft lies in Hatfield Chase on the Isle of Axholme, once an area of fenland. Roger de Mowbray, an antient lord of Axholme, established a cell there under the abbey of St. Mary of York, for whose defence a mastiff was to be perpetually maintained.

The drainage of Hatfield Chase was commenced in 1626. Two years later 80 Huguenot families from Walloon Flanders, fleeing persecution, settled in the area. In 1635 there was another large influx of Huguenots, mostly artisans and farmers from Normandy and the Walloon country. A chapel was erected at Sandtoft for their use, and here the public service was read alternately in Dutch and French.

The fenland natives were hostile to the drainage of the Level, believing that the participants (as the partners in the drainage undertaking were here known) were robbing them of their rights of common established by John de Mowbray in the reign of Edward III. In the years 1628 to 1631 there were fourteen outbursts of violence. This was followed by some years of comparative peace, but the beginning of the Civil War in 1642 saw the start of a period of greater lawlessness (see this entry from the Calendar of State Papers Domestic for 1643). In Dec 1645 the sheriff of Lincolnshire was instructed to suppress the riots, making use of train-bands of the county, and any parliamentary forces which might be there, to protect the participants and repair the damaged drainage. The fenmen took their case to law, but when the Court of Excequer ruled against them in 1650, a great riot broke out: the Chapel at Sandtoft was defaced, the village which had grown up round it demolished, the floodgates opened, and the River Trent allowed to overflow the Level once more.

The mistreatment of the Huguenots by the fenman had always encouraged a small number to leave for more friendly surroundings: the riots of 1650 turned a trickle to a flood. Many found their way to the Huguenot settlement at Whittlesey, and thence to Thorney, where the French Church assembled in 1652. In 1656, a group of Sandtoft Huguenots petitioned Oliver Cromwell for relief from their persecution: judgement was given in their favour, but little practical effect was felt.

Litigation, and frequent riots, continued until 1719, when the fenmen's case was dismissed in the Court of Chancery.

The Register of Sandtoft Chapel is now lost, having once been in the possession of the antiquary George Stovin, but not found amongst his papers after his death. Stovin did, however, extract some entries from the register, see privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family
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City/Town : Latitude: 53.563925, Longitude: -0.878992

Birth

Matches 1 to 16 of 16

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth		Person ID
1	Axe, Arthur	23 Aug 1867	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I480032796
2	Axe, George	30 Dec 1869	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I480032797
3	Axe, Walter	07 Sep 1872	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I480032798
4	Axe, Walter	10 Dec 1873	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I480032799
5	Cranidge, John James	1921	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I479801158
6	Dale, Ada	1879	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I05806087406
7	Dale, William	1882	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I05806086695
8	Dimberline, Peter	Abt 1653	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I3499893373
9	Drayton, Herbert	06 Jul 1887	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I480083328
10	Du Mollin (Dumoulin), Jenneor Jaine	1655	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I1750124849
11	Hill, George	Abt 1851	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I85416
12	Hudson, Robert	Abt 1821	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I3499896111
13	Oxley, John	3 Apr 1857	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I1748850505
14	Ramsey, Robert	Abt 1823	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I14590
15	Watson, Ellen	Abt 1833	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I1750916237
16	Whitehead, William	Abt 1864	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I59232

Christened

Matches 1 to 3 of 3

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Christened		Person ID
1	Bramford, Annie Mary	14 Aug 1897	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I1750874941
2	Bramford, Irene Ruth	20 Jan 1905	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I1750874963
3	Du Mollin (Dumoulin), Jenneor Jaine	25 Jan 1655	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I1750124849

Died

Matches 1 to 5 of 5

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Died		Person ID
1	Axe, George	23 Dec 1856	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I480032786
2	Axe, Walter	Bef Oct 1872	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I480032798
3	Axe, William	24 Nov 1847	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I22991
4	De La Pryme, Elizabeth	1680	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I7739796706
5	Moore, Frank	1968	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I60219

Occupation

Matches 1 to 3 of 3

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Occupation		Person ID
1	Booth, John Slingsby	1881	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I1748840957
2	Maw, Jackson	5 Apr 1891	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I661439
3	Watson, Elizabeth	1861	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I1750250823

Residence

Matches 1 to 4 of 4

	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Residence		Person ID
1	Eastwood, Elizabeth	Abt 1881	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I21299
2	Hague, John	Abt 1881	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I21346
3	Leggott, Thomas	1841	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I479748204
4	Vermuyden, Sir Cornelius (Cornelis)	Aft 1626	Sandtoft, Belton In Axholme, Lincolnshire, England	I3500608848