Identifier: doanefamily06doan (find matches)
Title: The Doane family:
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Doane, Alfred Alder, 1855-1918. (from old catalog) Doane, Gilbert Jones. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Doane family. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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The first and chief residence of the Done family appears to have
been at the old hall of Utkinton, yet of the first earliest mansion it
is thought that not a vestige probably now remains, unless indeed it
be some of the ponderous foundation stones, covered with moss and
overshadowed by a rank vegetation of tall grass, nettles and other
verdure, showing partly a grated iron bound window inevitably sug-
gestive of the gloomy portals of a prison, sometimes mentioned in
Pleas of the Forest, and of a whispered note among older inhabitants
of the district of a said-to-be " blank " in the Done Pedigree, or of
some oft-told and weird tale of a " missing heir;" for it so happens
in the County' of Cheshire, that if an old hall or an ancient manor have
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SIR JOHN AND LADY DONE

THE DONE FAMILY OF CHESHIRE, ENGLAND. XV

not a ghost story, it must needs have something of a like nature;
either blood stains that cannot be washed off, or some locked up
mystery wholly unfathomable to the mind that feeds on it. Still, at
the same time, Ormerod in this family's pedigree does make mention
of a Done, whose personality cannot be traced, as no certain entry
of his death or burial had been found.
With regard to the family of Done, as well as the Dones of Utkinton
there were Dones of "Dudden" and Dones of "Flax-
yards". Dudden is a small hamlet two miles from Utkinton and
in the direction of Tarvin, where
is a fine old Church in which
parish registers are entries of
the Dones of "Dudden" as well as
a tablet in the church to the
same. Of the old hall of Dud-
den, their former residence, one
interesting old gable yet re-
mains. Of Flax-yards, the house
now turned into a farm-house,
still carries with it an imposing
formality with its many win-
dowed front, its dark-toned
brick and stone facings. In a
quaintly worded journal, whore
the author seems to have visited
various points of interest in the
neighborhood, ho alludes as fol-
lows to Flaxj'ards and the
Dones : " Near to Tarporley,
we see indeed, the ruins of a

house, yet with no decay of
the name or the owners thereof, the ancient seat of the Dones,
between whom and the Donos of Utkinton I have hoard wns no little
emulation until it pleased God, the heirs male of Utkinton failing were
glad to knit with the Dones of Flaxyards, that so the union by mar-
riage might make one greater name, as now in the person of the
worthy Knight Sir John Done of Utkinton, a gentleman replete in
many excellencies of nature, wit and ingenuity."

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