The Coe-Coape and
Coape-Arnold families owners of properties at Goldhanger in the
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The Coe,
Coe-Coape and Coape-Arnold families were owners of land and properties in and
around Goldhanger between the 16th to 20th centuries. Their wealth was mainly
accumulated by their ancestors during earlier centuries and their property
interests merged as the result of marriages. Together they represented an
extremely large family. These are just the members of the family who had
direct interest in the Goldhanger properties... (The information originates from
several sources and some dates are inconsistent) |
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Robert Coe (c1585-1656) of
All Saints Parish, Maldon, was a grocer, chandler, and linen-draper, acquired
considerable estate, and was a prominent citizen of the borough. |
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Charles Coe (1662-1738) Charles
was a merchant who owned the copyhold of the Manor of Little Totham with
Goldhanger in addition to many other properties around Maldon. As politically
active nonconformists the Coe family were the founder members of Maldon
Congregational Church who owned the land on which it was built. |
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Charles Coe (1697-1756)
of Maldon Charles Coe purchased
Osea Island, and it was still owned by him at
the time of his death. Afterwards it was conveyed to the Pigott family, who
were related to him. On the south wall of St. Peter's Church at Maldon there
is a monument to 'John Coe Pigott,' dated March, 1802. The next owner of
the island was Mrs. Pigott, who married Henry Coape, and was succeeded by his
son, Henry Coe Coape. The Coe family
owned most of the Barrow Marshes in the 1700s Charles Coe owned
the Heybridge saltworks and the lands in 1738-1768 In 1779 the Salt Works was owned by a John
Coe (c1700-1779). |
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Henry Coe-Coape (1810 – 1890) Goldhanger
resident and author. Henry Coe-Coape
was the son of the wealthy Maldon sugar refiner and property owner Charles
Coe. He is best known for his literary works. Henry Coe Coape’s
son, James, who was born in Goldhanger, married Georgeane Arnold of Wolvey
Hall, in Warwickshire, and his surname was changed to Coape-Arnold.
The family then owned many properties and a large amount of land in
Goldhanger until the 1920s, including... Vaulty Manor
Follyfaunts Cobbs Hall &
Gardner's Farms In the 1820 Tithe
Awards, Henry Coape is also listed as owner of Barrow Marsh Farm (then in
Goldhanger Parish) and most of the Barrow Mashes.
In the 1838 Tithe Awards he is listed as owning of 100 fields and 6 properties in the parish. In the mid 1800s
Henry Coe-Coape was a director of a railway company the frequently advertised
for investors. His address was always given as “Goldhanger”. |
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from...
The Essex Herald in April 1890 The late Mr. Henry Coe Coape, J.P. and
D.L. for Essex, whose death at eighty years of age was announced last week,
was a member of an old Maldon family. He was the oldest son of Mr. Hy. Coape,
whose country house was at Maldon. His memory is perpetuated in All Saints
Church by the handsome stained glass window placed at the east end by his
widow and family. The Coupe family, originally from Derbyshire, came into the
extensive landed estates in the Tothams, Goldhanger, Purleigh, and Maldon,
once owned by the Coe family, who for several generations resided in the
town. The south aisle of All Saints' Church contains many a limb of that
tree. The Mr. Coupe now de-ceased at one time had a racing stud at Puleigh
Barns, but he had long ceased to have any active connection with the county. |
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James Coape / Coape-Arnold
(c.1815-89) educated at
Christ's College, Cambridge He married
Georgeana Arnold and they Inherited the family properties at Wolvey Hall,
Ashby Lodge at Ashby St. Ledgers, Mirables at Niton on the Isle of Wight and
Vaulty Manor at Goldhanger. He changes his
name to include his wife’s surname. Mirables became
his main home. At the time of his death he was Chairman of the Ryde
magistrate’s court. Mirables was sold in about 1873. |
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Georgeana Arnold (1817-49). Only daughter and
heiress of George Henry Arnold (1791-1844). She was born and baptised at
Ashby St. Ledgers. She married James Coape JP (c.1815-89), in 1840 at
Whitwell on the Isle of Wight. |
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The Revd. Henry Fraser James
Coape-Arnold (1846-1923)
The only son of
James Coape and his wife Georgeana. He was born at
Niton, on the Isle of Wight. He inherited
Ashby Lodge, Wolvey Hall and Mirables estates in 1857 and properties at
Goldhanger from his father in 1889. Between 1867 and
1873 the Revd. H.F. Coape-Arnold from Warwickshire inherited lands from Henry
Coe Coape and build a pair of redbrick cottages in Church street for the use
of the Coastguards. He sold them in
1920. Kelly’s Directory of 1892 lists
Henry F J Coape-Arnold as: “the principle
landowner of Goldhanger Parish” from... The Chelmsford
Chronicle - 6 October 1916 ...Miss Grandred Coape-Arnold's family
is descended from the ancient Essex family of the Lords de Morley and
Monteagle of Gt Hallingbury near Bishop Stortford and her father still
possesses an estate in the parish of Goldhanger, which his great grandfather
John Coape acquired by marriage in about 1750. From The Hinckley Times in 2006... One of the most colourful characters
ever to live in Wolvey was Mr H. F. J. Cope-Arnold. He had been a Church of
England vicar, although married, he eloped with the daughter of another
clergyman and decided to become a Roman Catholic but eventually he came to
live at Wolvey hall with his wife and 10 children. |
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Cranfield Coe Henry Coape-Arnold (1873-1963) Eldest son of
Henry Fraser James Coape-Arnold of Wolvey Hall and Goldhanger, and his wife Mary
Genevieve. He inherited Wolvey Hall and properties at Goldhanger from his
father in 1923. He sold the latter and had no children. some members of the extended family
still reside at Wolvey Hall. |
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Information on
this page originates from several sources, including... landedfamilies.blogspot.co.uk/arnold-later-coape-arnold-of-ashby this website has detailed descriptions of both families
and their properties and archive.org/stream/Robert
Coe - puritan this 750 page book reveals that some early members of
the Coe family were Puritans who went to New England |
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