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Wednesday, January 1, 2025

This Blog in 2025

Happy New Year to all readers and especially to those who have reached out and contributed information. You are stars!

We have a huge amount of posts to update, and we are working steadily through these updates in between our other commitments. Recently updated posts include landlord listings for the Horns, Chequers and Crown, more gardeners added to Where Your Gardener Ancestors Worked here, many more historic Marlow wage examples added to this post, more examples of the historic Marlow cost of living and my expanded post about the history of Field House /Farm. Historic advert images have been added to my post on the early history of York Road. The post on Hard To Find Farm Little Marlow has been also been expanded.

We write and schedule new posts a considerable time in advance of their publication. Plans can sometimes change but as far as ours stand at the moment the following posts will be uploaded in the first six months of the year= 


Will Transcriptions:

Grace Church of Medmenham 1776.

Christopher Dominick 1762.

Elizabeth Lambe 1731.

Bridget Manning 1735.

David Weedon of Medmenham 1617.


Biographies of Individuals:

George Cole, teacher (includes gravestone)

George Langley of Dean Street.

Walter Lovegrove (Marlow Hero no 8).


Biographies of Families:

Benning family Victorian shopkeepers of 101 High Street.


Grave Photos / Transcriptions:

Charlotte Dyall 1922.

Elizabeth Lee 18?7 and James Lee 1864.

Lucy Martin 1956.

William Starke 1930.


Specific Streets=

Edwardian Cambridge Place, property by property.

More historic shopkeepers of Quoiting Square.

Edwardian Spittal Street and Spittal Square, property by property. 

1700s Spittal Street people.

Edwardian St Peter Street, property by property.

Early History of Wethered Road.


Church Related:

History of the Wesleyans at Marlow .


General Marlow History =

Marlow Workhouse 1775-1843.

Life in the Bledlow Union School for the pauper Marlow children sent there.

Life in the Saunderton Workhouse for the Marlow people sent there.


Nearby Places:

Apart from the Medmenham wills mentioned above.

Historic occupiers of Wood Barn Farm Little Marlow.



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