arguments of their great grand-father's days at Cell Barnes. Mary Thrale had married John, Robards in 1784 and Ann Thrale John Munt in 1799. In this year Ralph, who by this time had moved to Wheathamstead and had become a miller, sued together with his sisters Ann Munt and Mary Robards the family of his brother Thomas of Fairfolds, who had earlier died in 1797. (21) The issue was centred in the main around the will of 1174 and also involved Francis Kingston the surgeon at St. Albans and Richard Oakley of the Grove Farm, Wheathampstead. The case took up twelve membranes. In 1800 Ralph Thrale then sued Richard Oakley over the will of his brother-in-law John Robards who had died in 1789 intestate and insolvent. (22) Further details were given in 1804. (23) , being a continuation of the first suit. Apparently when Ralph's brother Thomas had died, the livestock and crops of Pound Farm were sold at auction for £480 and Richard Oakley had purchased part of the farm for £53. It is not known how the whole muddle was eventually settled.
At the time of the death of Thomas Thrale in 1797, his farm Fairfolds was still in the tenure of his aunt Mary Hawkins. His son Thomas inherited the property including a house on Wheathampstead Hill. He had married Mary Wilson in 1784 and she was left £50 a year. His daughters Susannah and Mary inherited property in Sandridge. Francis Kingston and Richard Oakley were executors. (24) Sadly, Thomas Thrale the younger was to die in 1814 at the age of twenty-five unmarried, and thus after many generations both Pound Farm and Fairfolds Farm were to pass from the Thrale family. His sisters Susannah Smith and Elizabeth Parsons inherited the properties, and the latter received a further considerable legacy of £3,000. Richard Oakley was again executor. (25) Elizabeth had married Charles Parsons in 1813 (that family again!) and was to bring up a large family at Fairfolds. Even in recent times, members of the Thrale family have related anecdotes concerning young members of the family hiding in the old oak trees fronting Pound Farm in order that they might play truant from school. These trees still exist although in rather hollow form.
There is also the hearsay tradition in the family of a 'spendthrift sportsman' and this must almost certainly be Ralph, the miller of Wheathampstead. He had married Abigail Burchmore of Harpenden in 1796 at Wheathampstead, where he brought up his family. It is rather significant that his half-brother Ralph had willed that the legacy of ten shillings should be paid to him personally each week into his own hands, no more no less. Another significant fact is that in 1795 he was finded 6s 8d for
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Thrale/Thrall history
