There seems to be some uncertainty as to the ownership of Purse Caundle manor house immediately after the time of the Hoskins. According to Lady Victoria Herbert (see APPENDIX C1G) it passed to a London merchant named RAW, by whom it was left to a Huddlestone family relative. Hutchins was to say that the manor house and estate in 1815 belonged to a Mr. Gooch, who held it in trust for his son, a minor.
Another version is that in 1749 the Purse Caundle manor house seemingly passed from the Hoskins family to Mr. Timothy Lucas, a woollendraper of Marlborough, Wiltshire, from a daughter of John Hoskins. Timothy Lucas died in 1774. In his will made 2nd June 1771, and proved 27th May 1774, he left his "Dorsetshire Properties" divided between several legatees - including his son-in-law Ferdinand Huddleston, who had also been appointed one of the two will's executors.
Ferdinand Huddlestone, of Sawston Hall in Cambridge, was born 31st March 1737, the eldest son of Richard Huddleston (who died in 1760) and Jane (nee Belcher). He was to be married on 5th May 1766 to Mary Lucas, (daughter of the above Timothy Lucas), who was to die on 15th December 1823.
Ferdinand presumably acquired in 1774 the Purse Caundle manor house, together with the land leased to tenant farmers. He was succeded by his son Richard (possibly at Sawston Hall), who died in 1847 without heirs. The successor was Richard's brother Edward of Purse Caundle, who eventually bought out the other legatees. According to HCRO ref: 29M62/7, Edward Huddlestone Esq. in March 1822 was said to have been "late of Kingsclere, Hampshire, but now of Purse Caundle". Ferdinand Huddlestone also had a daughter Jane, who married Robert Canning of Foxcote, Somerset.
Amongst the Huddlestone estate property in 1826 was Caundle Brake, 'a fine Gorse Cover belonging to that generous and distinguished sportsman, Edward Huddlestone, Esquire'. Caundle Brake is on the northern side of the lane leading to Stalbridge Weston, and which often appeared in fox-hunting reports of the Blackmore Vale Hunt around this period.
Edward's eldest daughter Frances (at Purse Caundle in 1828), married William Jones (born December 1798) of Clytha House, Monmouthshire. They had a daughter born February 1838, with possibly a baby having died in 1828.
Richard Scheil of Milborne Port, on 30th March 1831 wrote to Edward Huddlestone of Purse Caundle, inviting him to an election dinner. (Cambridgeshire Record Office ref: 488/C1/EH77) He sometime left Purse Caundle to live at Sawston Hall, leaving other members of the family to live in the manor house until the end of the 19th century. Such members at various times were a Mary Huddleston (certainly between 1822-1840, and possibly died April 1840), and a Sarah in 1827. There is contemporary Huddlestone correspondence in Cambridgeshire Record Office, ref: 488/C1/MHc/104-164.
The Huddleston family was Roman Catholic, as family correspondence in the 1830s and '40s concerned Catholic society matters; and an Edward Huddleston S.J. had been ordained in 1836/7, brother of Mary above.
The Annual Register of 1858, page 438, reported the death at Purse Caundle of Lieut-Colonel Huddlestone, aged 56. On the floor of the chapel in Purse Caundle church is a memorial stone with a shield Gules, cross or: 'Within this chapel lieth the body of Colo. HENRY HUDDLESTON, of the Hon. East India Company's Service, Bengal Presidency, 7 Reg. N.I. who departed this life in much peace and trust in God his Savious, at the manor-house of Purse Candel in this county, on the 25th day of Oct. in the year of our Lord 1858.
Requiescat in Pace
Arms: Gules, fretty argent.'
The newel staircase at Purse Caundle manor house was to be demolished in 1874.In the several national 10-yearly censuses at Purse Caundle, up until 1891 no Huddlestone was ever recorded as being in residence there. On the relevant dates there were obviously tenants, for a part at least of each year.
However, in the Purse Caundle Vestry Minutes 1862-1889, in March 1886 "H.H.Hudleston Esqr be elected Waywarden and Guardian for the Poor for the Parish for the next year." In 1888, "H.H.Huddleston Esqr elected Guardian for the Parish . . . for the next year." Then in 1889 "H.H.Huddleston Esq re-elected Guardian of the Poor." A Guardian in this respect was a member of the Board of Guardians governing the local workhouse, presumably at Sherborne. A Waywarden as early as 1776 was the superviser of the parish highways, and from 1862 a member of the District Highway Board.
The Times of 26th January 1895 announced the sudden death at Swindon, on the 19th, of Kathleen, "the beloved wife of Henry Huddleston of Purse Caundle."
In 1900 Colonel Huddleston sold the manor house to Mr. Merthyr Guest (see APPENDIX C1F).
(See also: http://www.huddleston.org.uk/)
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