1833 Parochial Assessment Great Marlow Part 42

 The next part of my gradual transcription of the original handwritten working notebooks used by the assessors to compile this assessment. These faded notebooks have long been in the possession of my family, and also contain some pencilled in corrections from the later 1830s, though not in these parts.

I am uploading the parts out of order that they appear in the assessment. Instead I transcribe and add them as they chime in with research I am doing for myself or others.

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Name

Property occupied

Annual worth of that property

Any notes by me in square brackets

Hooks Cottages

Woodrow [no first name]

House and garden

£6

*****

William Stevens

House, garden and shop

£6

*****

Edward Pratt

Cottage and garden

£4

*****

Oakengrove

William Smith

Cottage and garden

£4

*****

Jordan [no first name]

Cottage and garden

£5

*****

William House

House, garden and stable £6

Part of a garden at Lane End 

10 shillings

*****

Thomas ?Fulton

House and garden

£5

*****

Burrough's Grove

John Green

Horse Shoes House [pub], garden, stable, woodhouse and garden

£8

*****

Wymers

Henry Webb

House, lawn, flower garden, stable, chaise house, garden, a cottage and small garden

£21

*****

Handy Cross

William Earies (Earis/Eyres/Ayris)

The Blue Flag house [Pub] shop, shoeing house, cottages, stable and garden

£9

*****

Each occupying a cottage and garden with an annual value of £3:

Jeffrey Sears

John Plumridge

George Wye

*****

Ragman's Castle

William Dance

Cottage and garden

£4

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Will Summary Peter Shanin [Shavin] of Great Marlow 1667

 Transcription by me from a will ordered from the National Archives, Kew.

PETER SHANIN, GOLDSMITH OF GREAT MARLOW. WILL PROVED 1667. Note: in other records Peter and his family members appear as SHAVIN.

Weak in body but of good and perfect memory.

Commends soul to God.

Kinswomen Mary... and her daughter Mary 1 shilling each.

Loving wife Elizabeth the executor. She gets all of the below: 

Tenement or dwelling house in Temple... Parish of St Clements in the Strand Middlesex [London] in occupation of upholsterer Christopher ?Prosse.

Tenement East side of Great Marlow High Street then divided into several tenements in occupations of Richard Fulton, ....Barnes and ....Barnes, widow.

House in Henley Street where testator then lived which was recently bought of Thomas Braughing of Great Marlow plus all the outhouses, buildings, barns, stables, yard, orchards, gardens and appurtenances that go with it.

All rights, claims and title to a tenement in Knightsbridge, Middlesex [London].

All other personal property, bonds, bills, debts, monies, household goods and utensils, plate.

Witnessed by Richard Widmore, Thomas Floide, Thomas Ffarmer.

Transcribed and then summarised by Charlotte Day from a P.C.C will held at the National Archives, Kew.

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Oaken Grove / Oakengrove Great Marlow Occupiers

 Note: there was a small farmstead at Oakengrove and also other homes. I try in this post to cover both and to distinguish between  them but that is sometimes difficult. Address normally given as off Harleyford Lane, occasionally as Red Pits or Upper Red Pits. Close to Temple. The farmstead doesn't seem to usually have a farmer actually living on site and perhaps in fact had no farm house anyway.

This post focuses on the occupiers of land or property at Oakengrove. These are rarely the actual owners.

Circa 1793 to his death 1853- William Smith. Age 96 or 97 when he died. Wife Mary. Not at the farm. In 1833 occupied a cottage worth £4 a year so a medium sized one. In 1851 this address is given as Pound House, Temple. William then was an agricultural labourer. His son also called William was a gentleman's servant. William Junior later moved to Maidenhead but is buried in Marlow near his parents.

               

Above, grave of William Smith "who lived at Oakengrove in this parish for upwards of 60 years".  Mar 20 1853. Also Mary his wife, died May 27th 18(55?) age 85. At All Saints, Marlow. Note other sources give age at death for William as 97.

1831-1846 William House, under gamekeeper to Sir William Clayton. Wife Ann. In 1833 his home consisted of a house, garden and stable worth £6 a year.

1833- Other residents Oaken Grove= "Jordan" in a cottage worth £5 a year and Thomas Fulton in a £5 house and garden. 

1834-1841 Thomas Holdgate at the farmstead. Owner Alexander Higginson in whose family the land had been for some time. In his will proved 1855 Alexander left Oakengrove to his brother George Stowell Higginson or if George died before him to Alexander's nephew George Wentworth Alexander Higginson.

1860- William Bowles, fruiterer used land at Oakengrove. Went bankrupt that year but survived it. His shop was in Quoiting Square. Bankrupt again 1886 after more than 40 years as fruiterer and farmer. 

1881- residents 1.) Alfred, a carter, and Mary Fidler. They had a lodger William Young, a 17 year old plough boy. 2.) Charlotte and Jacob Mendy and their little daughter Ellen. Jacob and family moved so that  he could be the head carter at Brandy Bottom Farm, Little Marlow and was probably later at Barmoor Farm too.

1901-Households= 1.) Hannah and Joseph Betts and their young son George. The couple had married in 1893. Hannah was nee Pratt. Joseph was a farm carter. The family moved in the next few years to Munday Dean. 2.) Emma and George Simmons. George was a domestic gardener. Perhaps at Harleyford or Temple House.

For more farm occupier posts for Little Marlow and Great Marlow see the Specific Shops, Streets Etc option on the menu. You will also see a Person Index option on the menu to help you find every mention of a person on this blog. For more Little Marlow content in general see Other Places on the menu.

Farm occupancies calculated from wills, adverts, trade journals, censuses, property records, court cases etc. I hope to fill in the gaps in dates as I wade through my Everest sized mountain of research notes.

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