1833 Parochial Assessment Great Marlow High Street East Side Part One

I am gradually transcribing onto this blog the original handwritten assessment working notebooks used to compile the official assessment. These are held by my family. They were to be used to readjust the local taxes for 1834. Our notebooks contain some information updates written in during the later 1830s and related correspondence. I will add these updates if present for any properties below. I have also included my own research notes into the people mentioned and links to posts dedicated to some of them. Parts of the assessment are uploaded by me as and when they chime with research I am doing for myself or others. Lots are already available in the blog

To see the others available already look here

Transcription by Charlotte Day.

© Marlow Ancestors. You are very welcome to use my transcription for family and local history purposes if you credit this blog.

Format for transcription:

Name

Property occupied

Annual value of property

Additional research notes by me in square brackets.

High Street [East Side]

Rolls and Son [auctioneers]

House, storehouse, cellars, yard, offices and garden

£24 10 shillings

Furniture warehouse

£5

Garden belonging to Baines

10 shillings

*****

Benjamin Baines [a confectioner and foreign fruit dealer. I have a picture of his grave and a dedicated post about him on the blog here]

House, bakehouse, yard, stable and garden

£20

*****

Frederick Wyatt [stagecoach proprietor. Post about him and his family here].

House, stable, barn, yard, garden and orchard

£20

*****

Thomas Evans Brinsden [a surgeon]

House part of barn and 2 gardens

£15

****

William Chamberlain [a hairdresser]

House and garden

£14

*****

Miss Sneath [the Miss added in pencil. This was Katherine Sneath, a much loved Marlovian. Daughter of surgeon William Sneath and Elizabeth née Webb. Her mother's will is here and more about her family property here. Please see the Person Index for all other mentions of Katherine].

House, lawns, yards, storehouses, stables and large gardens

£30

Orchard occupied by Mr Aveling

£4 

*****

Richard Aveling [a grocer. Biography here]

House, yard, shed, barn, garden, stable and orchard

£20

*****

Thomas Corby jnr [builder. Thomas lost his right to vote because he did not have a separate entrance to his part of the property. Detailed post about him and his father here]

Part of house and garden [Dad below in other half]

£11

*****

Thomas Corby [builder, see above for link to a post about him]

House, storeroom, lofts, yard and garden

£14

*****

Widow Stevens [this property no longer exists]

House, yard and sheds

£12

*****

Hone [no first name] [Building now demolished. It was empty in 1831 but owned by Hone family].

House, lawn, stables, greenhouse, pleasure garden, large kitchen garden, coach houses, orchard, large store house and other conveniences

£50

*****

Edmund Mealing [he was an upholsterer and cabinet maker. Post about him and his family here ]

House, shop and yard

£9

*****

W. H Mathew [William Henry. Son of the below]

House and yard

£10

*****

Widow Mathews [Ann Mathews. She was running a grocery shop].

House and yard

£14

*****

Edward Griffiths [A tailor. In same premises 1832]

House and yard

£10

*****

Steadman Camden [a shoemaker and clothes seller. Biographical post on him here]

House, shop and lofts

£12

*****

John Way [he was a poulterer]

House, yard, sheds etc

£10

*****

William Bond [he was a builder, carpenter. Full biography here]

House, yard, workshops, counting house and shed

£18

Chaise house etc by Mrs Ralphs [Charlotte Ralfs on other side of High Street]

£1

Part of wharf and workshops at Bankside

£3

*****

Late Palmer [no first name]

House and garden coach houses, shrubbery etc

Hard to read property value.

*****

Sir John Mortlock [This was Alfred House later known as Cromwell House. More on him and this property here]

House, lawn, greenhouse, 2 large gardens, yards, stables, barn, coach houses

£70

*****

Revd Thomas Coxwell [this the old vicarage. Thomas Tracey Coxwell]

House and garden

£26

*****

Ralph Rose [a brewer]

House and garden 

£12

*****

Morris and Son [John Morris and son, drapers. Post about this family here].

House, yard, store houses and garden

£20

*****

George Davis [Landlord of this pub since at least 1826]

Chequers house [pub], yard and garden

£14

*****

John Wade

House and garden

£14

*****

Thomas Burrell [ironmonger and blacksmith. He was still in these premises 1851. More about him and his family here].

House, shop, garden and iron house

£10

*****

John Heppard

House and garden

£8

*****

Transcription and research by Charlotte Day.

To be continued...

Historic Confectioner's Premises Great Marlow

These sweet little premises (photographed late 2020 before this Halifax branch closed) were Benjamin Baines' grocery and confectionary shop before he went bankrupt in 1826. All his shop stock and implements not to mention his household furniture had to be sold. The Windsor and Eton Express carried an advert for this sale from which we know Benjamin sold biscuits in barrels, fish sauce, tea, sugar and pickles amongst other things.

He was able to pick himself up and continue in business in the same premises. This time he concentrated on being a confectioner.  

In 1831 he was doing well enough to advertise for an apprentice to learn confectionery, fancy bread making and biscuit baking from him.

In 1833 the premises were worth £20 a year and consisted of a house, bakehouse, stable, yard and garden.

Sadly by 1840 Benjamin was again insolvent.

He bounced back once more and continued as a confectioner here.

After his death in 1844, following a long and painful illness which the Reading Mercury said he "bore with Christian fortitude" his daughter Sarah Elizabeth (born circa 1816) took over the shop.

Her occupation is not stated on the 1841 census. She lived at home and may have already been assisting her father. He likely needed help in the home too in the final year of his life as his second wife Ann, Sarah's stepmother, died in June 1843 age 87. Less than 6 months later Ann (junior) Sarah's sister lost her battle with consumption at the age of just 24.  A matter of weeks after that came Benjamin's death. How important Sarah's strength and ability to keep the shop going must have been for her younger half siblings, the youngest of which was only 4 years old when he became an orphan.

Sarah's eldest sibling William Vincent Baines also became a confectioner at first. He ran a shop in Maidenhead High Street from at least 1838 to at least 1842. He later moved about a bit before settling at High Wycombe where he ran a coal business. He was a Wycombe Alderman, Councillor, Church Warden and Mayor at different times. In his will he left £100 worth of shares to pay for a yearly gift of coal to poor families of Wycombe. His son had the same name and operated as a coal, salt and building merchant in Marlow High Street in a now vanished building close to where the Baines' shop had been.

In 1846 Sarah witnessed two men break the window of her shop and steal 6 little cakes worth a penny each. Despite there also being another eyewitness to the incident (her sister Emma) the men were found not guilty of theft. However one of those accused broke her window again a little later and this time was convicted. 

Following Sarah's marriage in 1847 to Stephen Morris she retired from the trade. Stephen was a farm bailiff / farmer from Little Marlow. Her young half brother Henry lived with her and Stephen at the time of the 1851 census.

Baines family grave in All Saints churchyard Marlow. You have to get quite close in to this one to read it.

Main person on stone:

Sarah Baines wife of Benjamin. It says she was born 24th February 1788 and died 23rd March 1824.

Grave is also for her husband Benjamin, his second wife Ann and "their 7 children" (not named).

Benjamin it says was born 24th June 1781 and died 27th February 1844.

Ann born 17th January 1796 and died 19th June 1843.

Though the dead children are not named on the grave, the parish records do show the sad list of loss for the Baines family- Benjamin junior died 1819; Henry died 1820 (first child named Henry born to Benjamin, he later had another); Emma and Elizabeth both died 1823 but on different dates; Edward and Dorothy both died 1826 but on different dates; Jane died 1830. Some of these children were born to Benjamin and his first wife Sarah, some to Benjamin and his second wife Ann.

William Henry Brown took over the Baines' old confectioner's business. He also sold groceries. He was a native of Pontefract Yorkshire while his wife Sophia was from Middlesex. William came from Yorkshire to Bucks when his father got a job at Little Marlow. William started out in business as a grocer in Southampton before taking on a shop on the corner of the High Street in Marlow (where the Snappy Snaps photography shop is now) before the Baines premises became available. The Browns first shop was turned into The Hope beer-house which it remained until 1900, when it became a bank. 

Just before Christmas in 1862 the shop was burgled. Amongst the items stolen were Christmas cakes, wedding cakes and boxes of sweets. With stock like that if time travel is ever invented his shop is the first place in Marlow I'm going to visit / raid!

William died in 1899.

Post researched and written by Charlotte Day.

To find every mention of a person of interest use the Person Index option on menu.

Some sources:

1839 Robson's Directory. University of Leicester Archives.

Windsor and Eton Express Article 8th July 1826 [bankruptcy] Reading Mercury 20th June 1831 [apprentice sought] 13th December 1862 [theft from Brown]. Copies at British Library archives accessed via the BNA November 2020 and March 2021.

Great Marlow parish registers, my old transcriptions.

GRO marriage index also consulted online November 2020 for this post.

Parish High Wycombe in A History of The County Of Buckingham Vol 3 edited by William Pace London 1925. Www.british-history.ac.UK/vch/bucks/vol3/pp112-134

Death certificate Ann Baines.

Census transcriptions of mine from microfilm.

Researched and written by Charlotte Day.

I determine historic occupancy of buildings via research and cross referencing of property surveys, property transaction records, wills, photographs, court cases, adverts and censuses to name a few.

©Marlow Ancestors. You are very welcome to reuse this image and research for family or local history purposes if you credit this blog and link here so that my sources also remain credited for information provided.