Reveal, Revell, Revill Study

Carnfield and Ogston

The earliest of the Carnfield Revells of whom anything is known is Thomas Revell, sergeant of law, of Higham (will dated 1474) - mentioned in the Foundation Charter of North Wingfield Church. His third son Hugh was involved in lead smelting and established the family at Carnfield by a large purchase of land and houses there in 1501. The last male of the family died in 1797 and Carnfield passed to the Wilmot and then other families. The family's estate at South Normanton, Pinxton and Blackwell was not far from the Turbutts' Ogston estate.

Thomas Revell of Carnthwaite m. Ann Eyre, daughter of Edward Eyre (1487-1556) of Holme Hall, Chesterfield and Elizabeth, daughter of Ralph Reresby of Thrybergh. Daughter Mary m. John Wooley. Refer to Pedigree of Wolley of Allen Hill

The Visitation of 1569 makes the Derbyshire branch to have descended from Simon, third son of Sir William Revel, Knt. John, the elder son of John Revel, (the first of the family who came into Derbyshire,) settled at Ogston in the fourteenth century.

Francis Revel of Carlingthwaite (b.1595), son of Edward Revell, m1. in 1634, Jane, daughter of Peter Columbel of Darley; m2. Ann, daughter of David Elwyse of Denbigh, Wales.

Francis Revel of Carlingthwaite (son of above Francis), m. Dorothy, daughter of Sir Nicholas Wilmot of Osmaston - 6 children.

Marriage Settlement 1666: between Francis Revell of Carnfield and Dorothy his wife, daughter of Nicholas Wilmot of Grays Inn, and Ann Revell of Brookhill widow, mother of Francis and relict of Francis Revell of Carnefeild deceased, and Ann, Elizabeth and Mary Revell, her daughters and Nicholas Wilmot and Robert Wilmot of Grays Inn. Manor of Carnefeild, half the manor of South Normanton, one third of the manor of Pinxton, the capital messuage called Brookhill and messuages and lands in Carnefield, South Normanton, Tapton, Dronfield, Brimington, Whittington, Blackwell, Alfreton, Higham and Wormhill

Rev Francis Revel,(son of above Francis) Rector of South Normanton, and grandson of Francis (b.abt.1595) m. Elizabeth. Deed of Seperation: 10 October, 1737

Carnfield Hall and Ogston Hall

The present owner of Carnfield Hall is James Cartland who is recorded as saying Dame Alice Babington moved to the area in the 1470s and built Carnfield Hall

Parish Registers, South Normanton

Revell Family of Carnfield Hall

1561: George Revell son of Edward Revell baptised
1562:Edward Revell, son of Edward Revell christened 17 Feb
1576: Ann Revel dau to Adam Revel christened 15 Dec
1584: Edward Revel was buriedxviij day of August
1595: Ann Revel, gent, (sic) vidua was buried xiij Oct
1613: Mrs Dorothy Revell, wife of Mr. Edward Revell gent, buried 6 July, 1613.
1615-6: Robert Revel gent was buried xvi February

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By 1627 George Revell of Carlingthwaite was deceased, his brother Edward was his heir.

1629 Edward Revell of Carnthwaite Hall, died. Will dated 16 Oct

1638:Marriage settlement between Francis Revell reputed son of Edward Revell, and Anne Elyse one of the daughters of David Elyse DD and late of Llwynne L(anryader) Denbighshire deceased. Lease with counterpart by Edward Revell of Charlingtwayte Hall esq to Francis Revell his reputed son, of the capital messuage of Bruckhill with lands in Pinxton, to hold for the life of Anne Elyse one of the daughters of David Elyse late of L(lwyne) L(anryader) Denbighshire deceased. Source: Derbys Archives D37 M/RT193-194

In 1689 a Robert Revel was married to Ann Wilmot.

Robert Revel born about 1690 at Carnfield married Frances, daughter of John Harpur. In 1718 they settled her moiety in trust for the use of Robert Revell & his heirs; this deed also includes a moiety of the estates in Tywford and Stenson, (Barrow upon Trent) and Littleover, Derbys. Their daughter Frances born about 1715 at Carnfield, married Strelley Pegge 22 May 1735 at Brampton

Frances died of smallpox aged 20 in Nottingham, and the estate went to her uncle, Rev. Francis Revell who moved in with his Wife, Mistress (a French lady), and two illegitimate children.

Pedigree of Strelley and Pegge

The Pegge-Burnels inherited the Beauchief Abbey estates from the Strelleys, who obtained the property at the Dissolution

William Revel, the last heir male of this branch, died in 1706; his sisters and coheirs married Richard Turbutt, Esq., and Sir Paul Jenkinson, Bart., of Walton. Hugh Revel, a younger brother of John Revel, the younger, above mentioned, settled at Carnfield or Carnthwaite in South-Normanton. This branch became extinct, in the legitimate line, by the death of Edward Revel, Esq., who was living at the time of the Visitation in 1634. Robert Revel, Esq., who was sheriff of the county in 1700, being descended from a natural son of Edward above-mentioned, had a grant of arms in 1711, differing from the old arms of the family, by having a border compony, Or and Sable. Edward Revel, Esq., his descendant, died without male issue in 1770. From: 'General history: Gentry families extinct since 1500', Magna Britannia: volume 5: Derbyshire (1817), pp. CXII-CLII. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50708 Date accessed: 13 June 2009.

The Revell family continually altered and extended the property at Carnfield, building the great staircase in 1620 and a 'Georgian' front in 1698, when some of the old mullioned windows were replaced timber-framed sash-weighted windows. Some original mullion windows remain on the south face of the Hall.

The first of the Revells was Hugh - married to Mary Longford - and the last was Colonel Tristram Revel, Adjutant of the Derbyshire regiment, who died age 66, at Horsham, in Sussex, in 1797. Having no children, Tristram Revel left everything to the son of his benefactor, Sir John Eardley Wilmot, the Lord Chief Justice. Tristram Revel was one of the trustees in the last will and testament of Lucy Strelley of South Wingfield, spinster

The Revells died out in 1797 and their successors, were the Radfords, who were in occupation in the last quarter of the 19th and first quarter of the 20th century.

There are various papers about the Revell family of Carnfield Hall held at the The Historical Manuscripts Commission

Extract from: Old Halls of Derbyshire

Close by the boundary line which separates the parishes of Alfreton and South Normanton stands an old homestead once held by a branch of the Revels.This portion of Derbyshire is evidently not much frequented by the tourist, and yet the stroll from Ogston to Carnfield through the villages of Higharn and Shirland, is one of the most delightful in the county. George Revel was living at Carnfield Hall when he purchased a moiety of South Normanton from Lord John Sheffield, in the sixteenth century. The manor was then in moieties, and remains so still. Then with the Sheffields and Longfords, now with the Radfords and Cokes. The Sheffields inherited from the Babingtons, who possessed it from marriage with the Staffords, who acquired it by espousing the heiress of Sir Alured Sulney or Solney, Knight of the Shire . The Sulneys, of Newton Solney, in Repton, held a knighthood for five consecutive generations. Sir Alured was the last of his line. He purchased the lordships of South Normanton and Pinxton from the Le Wynes in 1347, but his co-heiresses took his lands to the Staffords and Longfords. The Le Wynes had acquired South Normanton with the heiress of Ralph Le Poer, who had been granted it by the De Alfretons.

The family of Heriz possessed Ogstone and Brackenfield, then called Brackenthwayte, in the reign of King John. Sir Richard Willoughby held Brackenthwayte under the Deincourts in 1369. About this time Ogstone became the property and seat of the Revels. The sisters and coheiresses of William Revel, Esq., who died in 1706, married Richard Turbutt, Esq., of Doncaster, and Sir Paul Jenkinson, Bart., of Walton near Chesterfield. The whole of this estate is now the property, and Ogstone the seat of William Turbutt, Esq. Mr. Turbutt purchased a moiety of John Woodyeare, Esq., of Crookhill near Doncaster, who married a grand-daughter of Lady Jenkinson. From: 'Parishes: Mackworth - Mugginton', Magna Britannia: volume 5: Derbyshire (1817), pp. 202-217. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50732. Date accessed: 04 February 2008.

A branch of the Revels was at Carnfield as early as it was at Ogston. John, the founder of Ogston House, was brother of Hugh of Carnfield. They were not joint lords of Normanton for two centuries after locating themselves here, but they survived their cousins of Ogston by two generations, for the), were not extinct till 1770, which was sixty-four years after Richard Turbott had married the heiress. We say extinct! In the legitimate line, we mean ; for Lieutenant-Colonol Tristram Revel, who died in 1797, was what our idiom denominates a natural son of his father. Thomas Revel, the founder of Shirland Chantry, in the fifteenth century, made ample provision for the repose of his soul, if masses were ought effective, for he conditioned for thousands of them to be said.

The family of Heriz held four knights fees: one at Stapleford, one at South Wingfield in Derbyshire, and two at Gonalston and Widmerpool. Sir John Heriz appears to have died about 1270. Pedigree: Pipe Roll 20 Hen iii. See Thor. iii. 50.

The last Revel of Carnfield left his moiety of South Normanton to his relative, Sir John Eardley Wilmot, of Berkswell, the celebrated Lord Chief justice, who refused the Great Seal and a peerage. But the Judge allowed Colonel Tristram to enjoy the estate for his life, and the property not to revert till the grandson of the Chief justice had become entitled. Early in the present century this moiety of Normanton was acquired by Thomas Radford, whose wife was Isabella .

Carnfield Hall was undoubtedly built by one of the Revels, and I've fancy from the architecture, by George, some three centuries back-say about 1567, just when the Cokes were purchasing the other moiety of the manor from the Longfords. The old building seems to speak very plaintively to us, from the associations of the Revels simply, for there has been scenes within its walls that would make an amazing sensational page.

In the " Nielbourn Papers there are some particulars of the Carnfield Revells. One letter dated 7th August, 1634 from Edward Revell to Sir John Coke, Secretary of State.

Extract:Richard Bullock, living about 1484, whose wife was Isabell Hunt of Ashover, was evidently the first of his line to hold the lordship of Unstone. His son Philip mated with Margery Revel of Carnfield, and had William, who married Grace Needham of Snitterton ; whose son Edward married Joane Parkins of Rotherham ; whose son Ralph married Barbara Shaw of Brampton ; whose son John married Anna Harrison, of Glutton? ; whose son George married Abigail Mower, and had a daughter and heiress, Anne, the wife of John Lathom, of Unstone Hall and the Hallowes - Source

1602 Articles of agreement
Articles of agreement made between Robert Collyor of Ogston gent, and Edward Revell of Ogston gent.

Recites that Robert has married Margaret Edward's mother and in her right has the profits of Ogston during her life, that Robert and Edward both wish to live at Ogston, therefore it is agreed that Edward will pay Robert £200
If Margaret is living at a given date in 1607, Robert Collyor will pay to Edward £100, in default of which payment, Edward may enter the premises
Robert Collyor will allow for Edward, wife Jane, their manservant and maidservant, food, bedding, lodging, fire and candlelight for 60 years if Margaret lives so long, also sufficient grass, water and pasturing within the demesne lands for 2 geldings or 1 gelding and 1 mare and hay, water, stabling and straw for them (further details given), also 20 strikes of oats according to Chesterfield measure annually
If Robert dies within 60 years and Margaret then refuses payments etc under 3, Robert's heirs will pay £200 to Edward and Jane
If Edward and Jane prefer to live elsewhere than at Ogston, Robert Collyor will pay them such sums as named arbitrators specify.
Edward will allow, on the death of Margaret within 60 years, to Robert and one servant boy, food, bedding, lodging, fire and candlelight, and grass, water and pasturing for a gelding or mare, with hay, water, stableroom and straw, also 20 strikes of oats annually (as under 3)
If Robert prefers to live elsewhere than at Ogston, it is agreed as under 5
If Robert survives Edward and Margaret and Edward's heirs refuse to pay Robert as under 6 then they are to pay him £100
If Edward and Jane have children Robert will allow them, so long as they remain at Ogston, food etc as arbitrators specify.
Detail relating to the arbitrators (called overseers in this agreement)
Agreement with reference to Margaret Collyon who is unaware of the terms of this document that Edward does not wish to remain with his mother without her "good likeinge" and if Edward and Jane realise they cannot continue at Ogston with Margaret's consent Robert will pay them £200 or they may have the profits etc of Ogston (further detail) for 4 years
Further general arrangements relating to the estate, including a reference to a messuage near the Ford occupied by John Curtis
Robert will leave and give to Edward the 'seelinge', glass, wainscot and windows in the dining parlour and the new bedstead in the great parlour, all other glass, doors and windows in and about Ogston provided they are not removed in Margaret's lifetime
Arrangements for settling disputes

27 Apr 44 Elizabeth.
Reference: D37 M/F9/1

1642
Notes or directions "delivered" by Edward Revell of Ogston "purporting my last will & Testament", endorsed probate, abstracted. To wife Alice household stuff and personal estate (debts owing to Edward excepted) to younger children of brother Robert deceased - William, Jane, Dorothy, Alice, Anne and Elizabeth and to Francis son of Edward's deceased brother George, £100 to be equally divided between them.
Wife to have her corn ground free of toll at Higham Mill
Servant Christopher Elliott to have house, croft and 2 closes called Butt Dykes for his and his wife Isabell's life, rent 12d annually
To brother John, all Edward's property, paying £40 annually to Edward son of Robert Revell deceased
To servant John Wharton, house at Woolley which he has built upon Revell's land for the lives of John and his wife, rent 1d, 40s each to servants
£100 charged upon testator's personal estate to be changed instead upon his other estate and lands
Executor brother John Revell (19 Apr)

Reference: D37 M/F12/1