Elizabeth Fradd [nee Oliver] 1772

Elizabeth Fradd (nee Oliver) was born in 1772 in Little Petherick \ St Petroc Minor, Cornwall, England (Christened12th July 1772).  She married William Fradd on the 20^th of April 1795 in Little Petherick, Cornwall, where they raised 9 children.

Jonathan Ball’s relationship with his half- brother, William Fradd, must have been close because not only did he act as a witness at William and Elizabeth’s wedding in 1795 but, on December 2^nd 1797 he mortgaged the lease for Bellaminer’s to an Anthony Hawkey of St.Issey, for £300 and, a few days later received £151 from William for a half share in the property.

Ballaminers

The Balls were well-to-do yeomen; middle class business men and farmers who leased and worked the ‘gentlemen’s’ lands. None of the Balls owned the houses they lived in or the land they farmed.

Formerly part of the Prideaux Estate, Ballaminers House is believed to have been built around 1770. It was originally the farmhouse to a fully functional 100 acre working cattle farm which raised beef and probably supplied milk to Padstow and the village of Little Petherick. The village well and pump which belong to the house still remain and can be seen in the lane approaching the farmhouse. The house was built of traditional mellow toned Cornish stone and still has the original wooden floors.

 Ballaminers Pump And Well

Jonathan leased the house and land known as Middle Ballaminers in 1788:

“All that one Messuage and Tenement (ii) area commonly known by the name of Middle Bellaminers consisting of one Barn one Oxen House or Mowhay and five fields or closes of land called or commonly known by the names of the Under Meadow the Barn Park Middle Close Higher Close otherwise Wells Park and Long Close otherwise North Park containing 17 acres and half of land or thereabout”

(ii) Encompasses all the land, buildings and other assets of the property.

Ballaminers was a cattle farm. Jonathan raised beef and probably sold milk in the village. In preparation for his marriage to Ann Lobb in 1795 the lease was changed to include her name. Dec 2nd 1797 he mortgaged the lease for Ballaminers to an Anthony Hawkey of St Issey for £300 and a few days later received £151 from William Fradd, his half-brother, for a half share in the property and they worked Ballaminers in partnership.

In a further contract in 1820 after William’s death, his widow Elizabeth (Oliver) Fradd and son William arranged with Jonathan to split the farm into two.

Elizabeth Fradd and her son William’s portion or share was as follows:

“ All that part of the Dwelling house at the East End thereof now occupied by them the said Elizabeth Fradd and William Fradd and the Fields and closes of Land called by the names of the Barn Meadow and Higher Cow park and one half of that part of the Long Park Field which adjoins with Higher Bellaminers and the Garden next to the Barn Meadow Together with one full half part of the Barn and oxenhouse at the Higher or West end thereof and the like half part of the Mowhay at the upper or West end thereof with that part of the Town place extending from the east end of Balls little front Garden to Lower Bellaminers Gate and an equal right in common with the said Jonathan Ball to the Road or Lane from Lower Bellaminers Gate to the Water Gate”

Jonathan’s portion or share:

“ All that part of the Dwelling house at the West end thereof now occupied by the said Jonathan Ball and small Garden in part and the Garden by the Water Gate and the Fields closes of land call the Under meadow and Lower Cow Park and one half of that of the Long Park Field next to the Meadow Together with one full half part of the barn and Oxhouse at the Lower or East end thereof And the like half part of the Mowhay at the lower or East End thereof with that part of the Town place extending from the under Meadow Gate so far as and to the East End of the little front Garden and an equal rights in common with the said Elizabeth Fradd and William Fradd to the Road or Lane from Lower Bellaminers Gate to the Water Gate”

They were required at their joint expense to divide and fence off the Barn and Oxhall by a wall or other sufficient partition and remove the door of the Barn if requisite to one of the Divisions and place a new Door in the other and do such other work necessary to form two small Barns and Ox-halls one for each party.

Also divide the Mowhay and Field or close of Land call the Long Park with proper and sufficient hedges and put a gate or gates and ports thereto for giving effect to the partition thereby made of the same field and Mowhay.

On Jonathan’s death in 1848 the lease of his half of Middle Ballaminers approximately 10 acres went to his wife Ann (nee Lobb) until her death in Dec 1861 when the family left the land.

Elizabeth Fradd (nee Oliver) died in 25th November1845 in Padstow, Cornwall, England of Typhus.