Many of the houses in Station Rise Marlow had names in the earlier 1900s. Marlow street numbering was very poor in the past confusing both the people who lived in each house and all of us who have come later. To the best of my ability, and from varied sources, these are the former names of particular Station Rise houses.
No 1 "Trescoe". Apartments.
No 2 "Springfield" not to be confused with another Springfield and a Spinfield elsewhere in town.
No 4 "Bromleigh". In 1907 the home of Mary Betts. Mary was nee Hawks and the former landlady of the Queen pub in Quoiting Square not to mention a boarding house keeper in St Peter Street before she retired to Station Rise. Read more about her in this post. This property was by 1911 the home of widow Annie White who lived there for some years and let apartments. It is possible that she was letting to Mary Betts earlier and that Mary occupied therefore only part of Bromleigh in 1907 though no other resident except her was recorded.
No 3 "Cerene" The home of Henry "Harry" Coles the bricklayer and his family in the 1910s and 20s.
No 6 "Lochia???" hard to make out.
No 8 "Merolla"
No 9 "Hillgay" Gertrude and Sydney Rye lived here during WW1. Sydney was the live-in caretaker come gardener of The Sycamores in Marlow before serving in the war. He was in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. After his war service he returned to his job at the Sycamores but lived here in Station Rise instead.
No 11 or 13 "Edgecote" / "Edgcote".
No 15 "Glen Lyn"
No 17 "St David's" named after the parish of St David's in Jamaica. An early (quite possibly the very first) resident of this house was elderly widow Harriette Vardon Hexter, there by 1907. Her father William Patterson was the long time vicar of that Jamaican parish and though she married her husband (another vicar) in England she grew up in Jamaica. Harriette's husband was a vicar in the Somerset village of Cothelstone His death aged 82 precipitated Harriette's move from there to Marlow. She returned to Somerset in the 1910s but her daughter Muriel Hexter was still in Marlow in the 1920s when she worked as the secretary for Doctor Downs. His surgery was in the High Street. Muriel lodged with another family in Station Rise at that time.
No 19 "Crossways". This house is by the junction of Station Rise, Institute Road and Beaumont Rise hence the name. In the later 1910s and 1920s the home of retired Marlow police inspector George Summers, of whom more in the future.
Compiled by Charlotte Day from research by both Charlotte and Kathryn Day.
Some Sources:
1907, 1915 and 1920 Marlow Town Guides and Almanack.
"United Kingdom, World War I Service Records, 1914-1920", , FamilySearch. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVBR-5JLN : Sat Mar 09 17:21:56 UTC 2024), Entry for Sydney Charles Rye, 1915
Correspondence notecard of Doctor Downs.
1901 census of England and Wales transcribed from microfilm by Jane Pullinger.National Archives,Kew.
1911 census Of England and Wales for Sydney Charles Rye and Annie Elizabeth Flint UkCensusOnline.
1853 wyc district "England and Wales, Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2DSY-FX8 : 13 December 2014), William Betts, 1853; from "England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1853, quarter 4, vol. 3A, p. 589, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, General Register Office, Southport, England
Maidenhead Advertiser Feb 8th 1890.
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