Bateman's Grocers West Street

 Below, on the right, see the premises as they appear today of George and Elizabeth Bateman's Victorian era shop.

George and Elizabeth moved here from Hambledon Buckinghamshire where George was farming on a modest scale. Even before the move he was a property owner in Marlow, sufficiently so to be eligible to vote back in 1831 and the couple had earlier used the parish church at Marlow for the baptism of their daughter Charlotte and her subsequent burial as a teenager.

Circa 1851 George began a tea dealership in these premises, taking over from grocer Joseph Cockman and his wife Sarah. George died not too long after the move to Marlow and Elizabeth continued the shop as a grocery business. George has owned the building and in his will left that and all the rest of his worldly goods to his wife for her life. In the will he still defined himself as a yeoman.

Elizabeth died in her 80s.

Prior to grocery shop use the site  was the home of Thomas Bowen senior, retired landlord of the Red Lion. His will is transcribed on this blog here. More on the Red Lion and the Bowens here.

More posts about historic West Street businesses and people indexed here.

Marlow will transcription index here

Post by Charlotte.

©Marlow Ancestors.

Sources:

Will Of George Bateman 1851, National Archives, Kew. Transcribed by me Charlotte Day.

Post office directory of Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, with Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Huntingdonshire. United Kingdom, n.p, 1854. Via Google Books.

A poll of the freeholders of the county of Buckingham at the election of two knights of the shire to serve in the parliament... taken at Aylesbury... 1831. (1831). United Kingdom: (n.p.).

Slater, I. (1852). Slater's, late Pigot & co., royal national and commercial directory and topography of the counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire. United Kingdom: (n.p.).

1861 census Great Marlow, transcribed by Jane Pullinger from microfilm.