MANORIAL HERITAGE REGISTRY CONVEYANCE & DESCENT HISTORY ============================================================================ Whipsnade (Vaux) Public record: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_manor=whipsnade-vaux Exported: 18 October 2026, 14:42 GMT+0000 Recorded historical holders: 12 Location: Whipsnade, Bedfordshire SUCCESSION REGISTER | EARLIEST RECORDED TO PRESENT ============================================================================ Relationships below reproduce saved published paths; unrecorded routes are not inferred. 1. Walter de Woburn | 1340 Transfer: Grant Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 2. Philip de Whipsnade Transfer: Passed Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 3. Margery and Christina Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: Joint Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 4. John Haldenby and Margery his wife | 1412 Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: Joint Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 5. Laurence Pigot | 1443 Transfer: Settlement Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 6. William Cantlowe | 1443 Transfer: Conveyance Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 7. Henry Cantlowe Transfer: Recorded holder Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 8. John | 1517 Transfer: Succession Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 9. William Hawte | Attested 1532 Transfer: Recorded holder Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 10. Frances and younger son John | 1573 Transfer: Devise Holding arrangement: Joint Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 11. Gamaliel Cruys | 1598 Transfer: Conveyance Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 12. Leonard Hampson | 1800 Transfer: Sale Relationship to present holder: Not recorded DETAILED CONVEYANCE HISTORIES AND LINKED PEDIGREES ============================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 1 | 1340 Walter de Woburn Transfer: Grant Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: (fn. 8) His son Nicholas had succeeded him in 1340, in which year he granted a piece of land in the parish with hedge and ditch to Walter de Woburn. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 2 Philip de Whipsnade Transfer: Passed Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: (fn. 10) From him the Whipsnadc property, which about this time begins to be called a manor, passed to Philip de Whipsnade, who died some time before 1350. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 3 Margery and Christina Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: joint Narrative / explanation: (fn. 12) They placed their shares in the trusteeship of John de Linley, who released his right in 'a messuage with curtilage and land' in Whipsnade to Margery and Christina in 1356. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 4 | 1412 John Haldenby and Margery his wife Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: joint Narrative / explanation: (fn. 16) Whipsnade Manor passed from the Ravens to Nicholas Tettesworth some time previous to 1412, at which date John son of Nicholas conveyed his right there to John Haldenby and Margery his wife. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 5 | 1443 Laurence Pigot Transfer: Settlement Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: (fn. 17) In 1443 John Haldenby settled the manor in trust on Laurence Pigot, (fn. 18) and ten years later he alienated this property permanently to William Cantlowe, (fn. 19) already a landowner in Whipsnade, (fn. 20) whose family remained in possession for the next sixty years. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 6 | 1443 William Cantlowe Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: (fn. 17) In 1443 John Haldenby settled the manor in trust on Laurence Pigot, (fn. 18) and ten years later he alienated this property permanently to William Cantlowe, (fn. 19) already a landowner in Whipsnade, (fn. 20) whose family remained in possession for the next sixty years. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 7 Henry Cantlowe Transfer: Recorded holder Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Henry Cantlowe died seised of Whipsnade in 1490, leaving as heir a son Richard, (fn. 21) who died in 1517, and was succeeded by a son John, aged fifteen. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 8 | 1517 John Transfer: Succession Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Henry Cantlowe died seised of Whipsnade in 1490, leaving as heir a son Richard, (fn. 21) who died in 1517, and was succeeded by a son John, aged fifteen. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 9 | Attested 1532 William Hawte Transfer: Recorded holder Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: It was held in 1532 by William Hawte, kt., and Margaret his wife (fn. 23) of the king in chief, (fn. 24) in right of Margaret. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 10 | 1573 Frances and younger son John Transfer: Devise Holding arrangement: joint Narrative / explanation: (fn. 31) By his will of 1573 Miles left two-thirds of the manor profits to his daughter Frances and younger son John during the minority of his son and heir William, (fn. 32) who obtained livery of his father's lands in 1589, (fn. 33) and in 1598 quitclaimed his manor in Whipsnade to Gamaliel Cruys. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 11 | 1598 Gamaliel Cruys Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: (fn. 31) By his will of 1573 Miles left two-thirds of the manor profits to his daughter Frances and younger son John during the minority of his son and heir William, (fn. 32) who obtained livery of his father's lands in 1589, (fn. 33) and in 1598 quitclaimed his manor in Whipsnade to Gamaliel Cruys. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 12 | 1800 Leonard Hampson Transfer: Sale Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: The manor continued in the Vaux family for the next two centuries, (fn. 37) and in 1800 the whole estate was sold to Leonard Hampson by Thomas Vaux. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. END OF EXPORTED APPROVED CONVEYANCE HISTORY