STRONG, Thomas

Abt 1634 - 1681  (~ 47 years)

• Name	STRONG, Thomas  [1]
  Born	Abt 1634	Taynton, Oxfordshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1681	St Gregory's Parish, Queenhithe, London, England   [1]
  Person ID	I17463	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	STRONG, Valentine,   b. 1609, Little Barrington, Gloucestershire, England ,   d. 26 Sep 1662, Taynton, Oxfordshire, England  (Age 53 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	MARGETTS, Ann,   b. 25 Apr 1612, Charlbury, Oxfordshire, England ,   d. 1699, Great Barrington, Gloucestershire, England  (Age 86 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	9 Nov 1633	Charlbury, Oxfordshire, England
  Family ID	F1217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Extract from British History Online re The Sheldonian Theatre Thomas Strong, for example, 'one of the great Cotswold builder-quarrymen who were to raise the new London', sent supplies in Nov. 1665, and one of the last bills for Burford stone was paid in Oct. 1668—£20 12s. for 309 ft. at 1s. 4d. the foot. Extract from A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 6. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1965. The main road from Gloucester to Oxford runs through the southern part of the Barringtons, a mile from the river and roughly parallel to it. This is probably the road called the Ridgeway in 1584 and 1664, (fn. 16) and it was a turnpike from 1751 to 1870. (fn. 17) The road from Cirencester to Burford was turnpiked for its length through the Barringtons in 1753. (fn. 18) The valley road that winds through the villages beside the river from Northleach to Burford passes through Little Barrington village; the main route to Burford ran along Minnow Lane until diverted (probably in the late 18th century) through the green and past the church. (fn. 19) The road from Stowon-the-Wold that runs from north to south through the Barringtons to meet the Cirencester-Burford road was unfenced north of Great Barrington in the 18th century (fn. 20) and remained partly so in 1962. Between the two villages this road crosses the river by Strong's Causeway, said to have been built by the mason Thomas Strong at the end of the 17th century; previously communication had often been prevented by flooding. (fn. 21) The bridge that existed by the early 16th century (fn. 22) is likely to have been further downstream by the mill, where a road between the villages existed in the early 19th century (fn. 23) and may have been the one known as the Kingsway from the 16th century to the 18th. (fn. 24) The bridge in Strong's Causeway was rebuilt in the mid-20th century. (fn. 25) Another minor road continues the line of Great Barrington village street through Taynton (Oxon.) to Burford. —— The Barringtons have been renowned for the quality of the building-stone mined and quarried there, and this has led to associations with several successful masons, and particularly with members of the Strong family. (fn. 48) —— The good building stone from the Inferior Oolite south of the river has provided employment for masons in the two parishes. Barrington stone was used for New College, Oxford, in 1396–7, St. George's Chapel, Windsor, (fn. 149) and the Divinity Schools, Oxford, in the 15th century, Hampton Court Palace (fn. 150) and Christ Church, Oxford, in the 16th, the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, and Coleshill House (Berks.) in the 17th, (fn. 151) and Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, in the 18th. (fn. 152) Llanthony Priory had a quarry in Barrington in 1535, (fn. 153) and masons of Barrington are recorded in the mid-15th century and early 16th, (fn. 154) throughout the 17th century, (fn. 155) and in the mid-19th. (fn. 156) The most distinguished of these were members of the Strong family: Timothy Strong (d. 1635) moved to Little Barrington in the early 17th century, his son Valentine worked there from 1632 until his death in 1662, and Thomas Strong, though he did not live there, owned quarries in Little Barrington from which he took stone for the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire. (fn. 157) The River Windrush was used for transporting the stone. In the 19th century the stone was mined underground; the mines were closed by the early 20th century, and quarries still in use then (fn. 158) had been closed by 1961. 16. G.D.R. Little Barrington terrier, 1584; Great Barrington terrier, 1664. 17. Gloucester and Oxford Road Act, 24 Geo. II, c. 28; Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, 1869, 32 & 33 Vic. c. 90. 18. Oxon. and Glos. Roads Act, 26 Geo. II, c. 70. 19. Deeds at Barrington Grove. 20. Taylor, Map of Glos. (1777). 21. Rudder, Glos. 262. 22. C 115/A 14 ff. 69–70b. 23. Bryant, Map of Glos. (1824). 24. G.D.R. Great and Little Barrington tithe awards, 1584; Glos. R.O., Q/RI 17. 25. Local information. 149. W. J. Arkell, Oxford Stone, 71. 150. Harvey, Eng. Med. Architects, 92, 150. 151. Arkell, Oxford Stone, 72. 152. Rudder, Glos. 262. 153. Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii. 423. 154. Harvey, Eng. Med. Architects, 92, 150. 155. Smith, Men and Armour, 144; Glos. Colln., Great Barrington deeds, 36; Glos. R.O., D 1395/III 38. 156. Par. reg., baptisms. 157. Colvin, Biog. Dict. Eng. Architects, 576. 158. Arkell, Oxford Stone, 67.

  
  

• Sources

  [S309] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;), Database online. Record for Valentine Strong http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=0&pid=14432