The Vavasour family are an English Catholic

Recusancy

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 family whose history dates back to Norman

Normans

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 times. They are featured on the Battle Abbey Roll

Battle Abbey Roll

The Battle Abbey Roll is supposed to have been a list, lost since at least the 16th.c., of the Companions of William the Conqueror, which had been erected or affixed as a memorial within Battle Abbey, Hastings, founded by William ex-voto on the spot of the slaying of Harold in the Battle of...

 and lived at Hazlewood Castle

Hazlewood Castle

Hazlewood Castle is a country residence situated in North Yorkshire, England by the A1 and A64 between Aberford and Tadcaster.The first records of the house are to be found in the Domesday Book...

 from the time of the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

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 until 1908.

In 1985, the Vavasour family established Vavasour Wines, a vineyard

Vineyard

A vineyard is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice...

 in the Awatere Valley of Marlborough, New Zealand

Marlborough, New Zealand

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History

Thomas Vavasour

Thomas Vavasour

Thomas Vavasour was an English Roman Catholic physician, and pensioner of St. John's College, Cambridge.-Life:...

 was a physician and recusant of the reign of Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I of England

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Baronets (1628 Baronetcy of Haselwood, Yorkshire)

(The first (and now extinct) Vavasour Baronet

Baronet

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• Thomas Vavasour, 1st Bt. (24 October 1628 - before 1636)
• Walter Vavasour, 2nd Bt. (before 1636 - after 1666)
• Walter Vavasour, 3rd Bt. (after 1666 - 16 February 1713)
• Walter Vavasour, 4th Bt. (1713 - May 1740)
• Walter Vavasour, 5th Bt. (1740 - 13 April 1766)
• Walter Vavasour, 6th Bt. (1766 - 3 November 1802)
• Thomas Vavasour, 7th Bt. (1802 - 20 January 1826)

The baronetcy became extinct upon the death of the 7th baronet.

Baronets (1828 Baronetcy of Hazlewood, Yorkshire)

• Hon. Sir Edward Marmaduke Joseph Stourton, 1st Bt. (1786-1847)

• Sir Edward Marmaduke Joseph Vavasour, 2nd Bt. (1815-1885)

• Sir William Edward Joseph Vavasour, 3rd Bt. (1845-1915)

• Sir Leonard Pius Vavasour, 4th Bt. (1881-1961)

• Sir Geoffrey William Vavasour, 5th Bt. (1914-1997)

• Sir Eric Michel Joseph Marmaduke Vavasour, 6th Bt. (b.1953)