The Mabley family spread from Wavendon in the late 18th. Century to Little Linford, then nearby bustling Great Linford. Significantly, Mabley changed to Mapley with the migration. 1st. Newport Pagnell Generation x Mabley ( - ) m.
Luke Mabley ( - ) m. Alice Mote ( - ) in 1619.
Lawrence Mapley (1744 - ) m. Mary Davis ( - ) in 1767.
Thomas Mapley (1755 - ) m. Mary Sapwell ( - ) in 1775.
Great Linford ==> Sarah Mapley nee Pindar (1795 - 23/6/1850)
Hockliffe, Beds. ==> James Mapley (1783) m. Maria (1792) in 1810.
2nd. Newport Pagnell Generation Robert Mabley (1567 - ) m. Cicely Steel (1571 - ) in 1592.
From Edwin Mapley :-
From Thomas Henry Mapley :-
From Charles Mapley :-
There has been a settlement at Newport Pagnell since before the Iron Age, at the junction of two rivers, the Ouse and the Lovat,
both fordable at this point. It was a town of some importance at the time of the Doomsday survey and by the end of the 12th century
was known by its present name–Newport (new town) Pagnell (after Fulk Paynell who was given ownership of the land by William the
Conqueror).
Two wills, of John Mable (March End, 1597) and Robert Mabley (1606) are recorded at the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies. Luke Mabley
married Alice Mote in 1619 at St Peter's Church, Newport Pagnell, and their 4 children were born there. Lawrence
Mabley was listed as a contributor to the 1642 Ireland Collection, and his son John Mapley was born in Newport Pagnell in 1646, Thomas
Mapley was bequeathed the George Inn, Tickford Street, in 1721, and his presumed brother was bequeathed the tenement plot
next door. George and John Mapley were listed as residents in Newport Pagnell in the 1798 Posse Comitatus.
Newport Pagnell, and Olney, were at one time the centre of the lace industry in England, but it was through its importance as
a transport centre that the town grew, being on direct routes between Leicester and London and Cambridge and Oxford. Many
local Mapley women list their occupation as lace makers in the 18th and 19th centuries, whereas the Mapley men became employed and
skilled in the railways industry in the 19th century.
The coming of the branch of the Grand Union Canal in 1817 reduced the reliance on road traffic for heavy goods, but the railways
dealt a death blow to coaches and narrow boats. The waterway link had already fallen into disuse when the branch railway line
from Wolverton was opened in 1865. The town was by then a busy centre with a thriving coachworks owned by Salmons later the home
of Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd, a focal point for the local farming industry and to some extent a dormitory for workers at the
Railway Works at Wolverton.
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