Webmaster Notes
The period of Belchamp Walter's history before the Raymonds and at the time of the purchase (aquistion) of the Manor is not clear.
I started to work out the parentage of John Raymond I. My research started with Alan Freer's tree of the Descendents of William the Conqueror. This has been suplimented by other family trees that have been produced by other geneologists that appear to have the primary goal of tracing their own families back to someone famous.
While I can understand the quest to find a connection to royalty it doesn't really help when it comes to producing an unbiased record of history.
Roger Raymond
I don't know much about Roger Raymond and I have used the crest that I thought may be their crest on
this page.
Roger Raymond was the father of Philip Raymond of Essenden, Hertfordshire, according to
Peter Barns-Graham, Stirnet.
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Robert Raymond
After some more deep and sideways research I find a Robert Raymond of Hertfordshire.
Langleybury House
Langleybury is a country house and estate in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire.
Raymond 1711–1756
The estate was purchased in 1711 by Robert Raymond, then Solicitor General and later Attorney General,
subsequently Baron Raymond, who was Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from 1724 until 1732.[1]
In 1720 he demolished the original house, of which little is known, and built the mansion which still
stands on the site today. A park was laid out around the house in the later eighteenth century.
His cipher, a griffin in a crown, can still be seen on the building.
