1833 Parochial Assessment Great Marlow Spitalcrofts, Marlow Bottom etc

The next part of my gradual transcription of the original handwritten working notebooks used to compile this assessment. These faded notebooks are in the possession of my family, and also contain some pencilled in corrections from the later 1830s, though not in these parts, and related correspondence with some landowners etc.

This properties are all on the outer limits of the historic Great Marlow parish.

Transcription by Charlotte Day.

©Marlow Ancestors. Feel free to use this transcription with credit to this blog.

White Hill

Late Richard East, George Carr [not clear whether the late Richard and George had been joint occupiers or if George had recently replaced Richard]

Property Occupied:

Cottage

Annual worth of property:

£3

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Hill Green

William Ryder

Cottage and garden

£4

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Dirty Bottom [!] [Nr Marlow Bottom]

John Wing

Thomas Holmes

[Illegible property]

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Red Barn [Farm]

William Collins

New cottage and garden

£4

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William Hobbs

New cottage and garden

£4

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Booker Common

William Li... (Illegible)

Cottage and garden

£3 10 shillings

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Alfred Hawley

Cottage and garden

£3 10 shillings

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Charles Johnson

Cottage and garden

£3

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Widow Barlow

Cottage and garden

£3

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Spittle Croft [Aka Spittalcroft, Spitalcrofts etc]

John Stanmore

Cottage and garden

£3

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James Hawkes

Cottage and garden

£4

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George Brooker of Juniper Hill

Cottage and garden

£4

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More Cadets of Marlow's Royal Military College

 Others are mentioned in a detailed post about life for the boys at the college here.

*Sir Henry De La Beche, entered the College at Marlow in 1810. Continued his training at Sandhurst. Soon abandoned military life and became instead an eminent geologist and fossil hunter. Went on research trips to examine the geology of England, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Italy and Jamaica. With William Conybeare the first to name a species of plesiosaur. Wrote a pioneering practical manual for geologists. Also a geographer. Awarded medals by the kings of Belgium and Denmark for his work in geology. 

*Lt Col John Bonamy. Born no later than 1796. Served in the Peninsula War. He was a member of the 6th Royal Warwickshire regiment.

*Sir Edmund de Gonville Bromhead. Born 1791. Soldier who rose to rank of Major-General. Became a baronet after the death of his brother. Father was a Lt General in the army. Home was Thurlby Hall, Lincs. Had at least 10 children with his wife Judith.

*General Sir George Brown. Scottish.

*Archibald Elijah Chasters.

*Sir John le Couteur, of Jersey. Born 1794. Entered the college at  the age of 14. Whilst there he spent a short time in the hospital sharing a room with George FitzClarence the illegitimate son of the then Prince William, later King William 4th. Another of William's illegitimate sons was untrusted to his protection when he took entered the college and the pair became friends. John became a Lieutenant aged 17. Published his memoirs of fighting in Canada during the Anglo-American War of 1812. Made Aide de Campe for Jersey by King William who had never forgotten his kindness to William's illegitimate sons at the Royal Military College. Conducted research on and published works about the science of agriculture. Pioneer of the use of tarmac on roads.

*Sir George Everest. Of Welsh origin. Born 1790. Served the East India Company in a military capacity and in the Bengal Artillery. Surveyor General of India 1830+. Mount Everest is named after him in honour of his previous work in the area. Refused to stop working at his surveying job even when an illness temporarily paralyzed his limbs. Was winched into a seat to supervise work as he couldn't move himself. Had the nickname of Never Rest. Left India in 1847.

*Major General Humphrey Robert Hartley. Born 1794. Was cadet Under Officer at the College. Served in the Peninsula War and also in America, France and Australia. Encouraged the establishment of regimental savings banks for soldiers who wanted to put money aside for their future lives.

*"Captain Hawley". Fought at Waterloo.

*John James Rowe. Possibly served in the Peninsular War.

*Sir Henry Watson. Soldier and M.P.