Beagle History

Staley Doub      An early American Beagler.
Mr. Crane     Kept hunting Beagles 150 years ago.
The Merry Beagler        The story in the picture.
Stoke Place Sapper'12   A Hound exported to America. 

Click on any of the links above to learn more of Beagles or Beaglers of the past.

We have been researching the lineage of our Beagles for quite a few years. The work is slow, painstaking, time consuming and can be expensive buying books or travelling to see them in libraries. We have now traced the lineage of our girls back to 1705 in an unbroken line. We know of no further resources to extend it past this date, what remains now is the filling in of the elusive 'missing ends' so that each line is as far as it will go. In the case of our English born Beagles, this may involve looking overseas. Hounds imported here have their roots in English exports many years earlier. We have been able to research so far back due to the foresight and thoughtfulness of kennel staff keeping records.

The first mention of the word 'Beagle' in literature, is in 'The squire of low degree' of 1472.
with theyr beagles in that place
and seven score raches at the rechase
Before this small hunting hounds were mentioned often, some of these can be attributed to being ancestors of our breed.

Reproduced for you here is a catalogue of some general names of Hounds and Beagles from 1697 

I have changed the f's to s's, but the age of the book and smallness of the writing, leaves a couple of the names slightly undecipherable.