Will Timothy Steevens (Stevens) 1808

 Will Timothy Steevens / Stevens of Great Marlow carpenter. Will written 1795. Proved 1808.

Says he of good bodily health and sound mind. Is making will because of transitory nature of life. 

All my household goods, furniture, stock in trade, plate, linen, china, ready money, bills, bonds, notes, mortgages, securities for money and any other property to wife Elizabeth. She appointed executor.

Witnessed by Thomas Ells grocer, Robert Goldsmith attorney at law,  .....Lynn clerk to Robert Goldsmith. All of Great Marlow.

Probate says name is Stevens though written in will as Steevens.

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1833 Parochial Assessment Great Marlow The Causeway (Part 7)

 My family has the original 

working notebooks used by the surveyors to compile this assessment. As they are fragile I am transcribing them gradually on the blog. I put them up in order as they chime in with research myself or others are doing.

The notebooks contain some scribbled notes added in the few years after the assessment too.

Transcription follows this pattern:

Name

Property occupied

Annual value of property

Any notes by me in square brackets

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The Causeway

James Bird Brooks

House, shop, bakehouse, yard, carthouse, stable, granary, woodhouse, bacon house, loft etc

£21

*****

James Carter

Cottage in yard [This was accessed from what we would now call Station Road, which was then usually called Brook / Brooks Street because of the Brooks premises on the corner of it]

£3

*****

Late Widow Dobler [this name then  crossed out and no occupier name to replace it]

Cottage [crossed out and "new house " x2 put in instead]

£3 [crossed out and value of £6 each added for each one of the "new houses" added above]

*****

Late George Wilson

House and garden

£5 10 shillings

*****

Harriet Clark

House and garden

£6

*****

Bennell (no first name) [a Mrs Bennell lived on the Causeway in 1835 when an attempt was made to burgle her house]

House and garden

£6

*****

Widow Rockwell [Probably Rockell]

Cottage and garden 

£4

*****

John Langley

Cottage

£2

*****

William Smith [milliner]

House and garden

£6

*****

Robert White

Cottage and yard

£4

*****

Elizabeth Higgs

The Roebuck house [pub renamed the George and Dragon two years later], yard, stables, carthouse and garden

£9

*****

Thomas Sparks

House and garden

£12

*****

Widow White

The Swan house [pub], yard, stable and garden 

£9

*****

End of Causeway

Colonial Meat Stores, Spittal Street

 Colonial Meat Stores opened in Spittal Street premises by 1891. They may well have been the first tenants of the premises which were built in 1883. Proprietors Frank and Caroline Baker lived at 4 Queen Square High Wycombe where they had another branch of their business. Colonial meat was usually cheaper than British meat though the public generally had to be convinced it was of equal quality. There was also a colonial meat store ran by Albert Fleet in West Street. See those premises and read more about Albert here.

Frank and Caroline took out a flurry of ads in the early days of their business advertising their bargain beef, mutton and lamb.

A few days before Christmas 1892 a poor woman of nearby Dean Street bought two pennyworth of meat from them but had nothing to serve with it to her husband and eleven children because of the family's great poverty. Her husband's trade of shoemaking was in the doldrums. He went into the fields near Holy Trinity church to see if the owner Emmanuel Plumridge* would give him some turnips. He did not see Plumridge but took the turnips anyway believing he would not have been refused them if he had been able to ask for them. A constable caught him however and sent the matter to court. Emmanuel said too many turnips were being taken from his field but he did not want the man dealt with with any harshness. The magistrate fined the accused a token shilling, which was paid by a compassionate person in the court. 

Centre, the former Colonial Meat Stores, occupying the left and central portion. 

Frank Baker died young in 1896 but his wife continued to run both branches of the stores until at least 1899. Subsequently it was run under the same name by the Wise family then Grace & Co. 

Above, advert 1907. 

*Emmanuel was a grocer and farmer who lived in Spittal Square.

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Sources included:

1891 census England and Wales, my transcription. 

The London Gazette. (1896). United Kingdom: T. Neuman.

Bucks Herald 24th December 1892.

Marlow Almanack and Directory 1907. 

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Bramell Grave, Marlow Cemetery

 In Loving Memory of Elaine Bramell, wife of Harry Bramell b. 7th Feb 1894, died  29th May 1946. 

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Will Summary And Notes Frances Street of Great Marlow 1793

 This is a summary of my transcription of an original will held at the National Archives, Kew.

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FRANCES STREET. WILL PROVED 1793.

Says she sick and weak in body but of sound and disposing mind.

All goods, chattels and personal estate to her children according to the terms of the will of her late husband [the children and husband are given no first names]. 

Daughter Frances Street, spinster of Great Marlow, and William ?Withers of Westbury and John How* of Great Marlow, gentlemen are the executors.

Witnessed by Henry Allnutt* and John Allnutt both of Great Marlow. 

*Notes: John How(e) was a bookseller with premises on the High Street. Read about his shop here. Henry Allnutt was a lawyer. 

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