Navigate the whole of Lincolnshire-web from the dropdown menus above One of a series of articles about people with Lincolnshire links and claims to fame, home or abroad. They are details from larger pictures, usually of the background and for that reason show that Charles Tennyson was not fantasticating without solid evidence for his accuracy. An indication of the amount of work involved in Charles Tennyson's rebuilding of Bayons is held in the following figures. The census for the year 1841 showed almost 1,000 people living in Tealby.
Subsequent censuses show the number falling back to that of the very first.
Certainly the spelling of 'antient' was as the fancy required him to spell it, in 'olde worlde' fashion . It had been bought by old George, the Tennyson patriarch, with some 2,000 acres in 1784 . With the purchase came the ruins of an old castle . It was from this that the d'Eyncourt connection derived . This castle had once belonged to Lord Lovel and d'Eyncourt, an ancestor of the patriarch's wife, Elizabeth Clayton .