The ETTY family appeared in Weald when Marmaduke ETTY married Elizabeth LARDNER in 1713. They went to live Oxford but their son James returned to Weald. He was “of Bampton” when he got married in 1749 and appeared in several deeds in the following decades as “chaundler and grocer” of Bampton. Presumably, his mother and aunt Mary had put him into the business they inherited from their brother Walter LARDNER. James ETTY was the victim of an explosion in 1761 when someone placed gunpowder in the faggots he used in his bread oven. Two years later he put his house and business premises up for sale – announcing that he intended to move to Oxford to sell wine supplied by his brother Charles who was based in Oporto. However when he died, his widow brought him back to Bampton to be buried.