The succession of ownership and occupation of Chapelthorpe is rather confusing so this post sets out a summary. Dates and details here are approximate. We are talking here about the house (now Chapelthorpe Hall) and its land, not the various farms.
Nearly all this information is contained or confirmed in documents in the archive or copy documents I have obtained from one place or another.
1683. William Beaumont of Darton buys Chapelthorpe.
1688. William settles Darton to his son George, who he expects to outlive him. William continues to live at Darton. George lives at Chapelthorpe.
William's plan no doubt is that in due course George will move to Darton, and Chapelthorpe will be the residence of a younger son in the family.
However George never moves to Darton because he dies in 1712, before William.
1713. William Beaumont dies. The heir for Darton is the 16-year old George, son of George and grandson of William. William's younger son Thomas takes over Chapelthorpe.
The younger son of George (d.1712) is another Thomas, who becomes a clergyman and goes to live in Nottingham having obtained a living there. Meanwhile Jane, daughter of George (d.1712) is married to Abel Smith, a banker in that town.
1731. Thomas Beaumont of Chapelthorpe dies leaving a complicated will letting his nephew Thomas (the clergyman who lives in Nottingham) have Chapelthorpe for life.
1736. George Beaumont (the one who inherited Darton in 1713, who lives there, and whose young wife has also died) dies leaving two little boys, Thomas and George. Naturally the elder boy Thomas is destined to take over Darton when he comes of age. His uncle, the Nottingham clergyman, however in due course lets Thomas live at Chapelthorpe, which Thomas apparently prefers rather than Darton.
The younger George moves away from Yorkshire, spending more time at Nottingham and thereabouts. He becomes a clergyman, marries, and has numerous children.
1750. During the mid c18 the chapel was built (Chapelthorpe was in the Parish of Sandal Magna).
1768. An arrangement is made between the two Nottingham clergymen paving the way for the ending of the 1731 settlement after the death of the elder man, which occurs in 1771.
1773. The younger George (now Rector of St.Nicholas' church, Nottingham), now dies, leaving several sons. The oldest of these is Thomas, himself a trainee clergyman, who eventually establishes himself as sole owner of Chapelthorpe. Embarking on its sale, or reliant on that, he builds a fine house at East Bridgford in the 1790s. The connection of what may be called the Nottingham Beaumonts with Yorkshire is now for practical purposes ended.
1785. Thomas Beaumont of Chapelthorpe (the owner of Darton, who having lived for some years at Chapelthorpe, has moved to Darton quite recently) now dies, leaving one son Thomas Richard Beaumont, whose marriage in due course brings him Bretton Hall.
Chapelthorpe is now advertised to let.
1811. Rev. Thomas Beaumont of East Bridgford sells Chapelthorpe. The procedure is that it has to be surrendered to the Lord of the Manor. We have a document about it, but it does not show the name of the purchaser. (Box 18/321)
I think that Mr Walker, the historian of Wakefield may have assumed that the ultimate seller - in 1814 - was Thomas Richard Beaumont (see J.W. Walker, History of Wakefield (1934), p.524). This is possible, if TRB bought it from Rev. TB in 1811.
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