Will of Elizabeth Lambe 1731

 Will of Elizabeth Lambe of Great Marlow. Written 1728, proved 1731.

 Says she is writing will because of the uncertainty of this transitory life.

Commends soul to God and hopes for pardon and remission for her sins.

Debts and funeral charges to be paid by her own executor. She to be decently interred.

To Mrs Susan Cooke a ...gown.....(several indecipherable words)

To Mr John Cooke four silver (medals?) and two pairs.....

To Mr Thomas Stanton a gold ...ring.

To Mrs Cordelia Stanton a gold locket.

To Mrs Dority [spelling reflects the common pronunciation of the name Dorothy at this time] Ward a green emerald ring with two diamonds.

To Mrs Dority Cavalier a mother of pearl snuff box bound with silver.

To Mr Peeter Pagett a silver snuff box.

To my brother....Bot... £5 and to Debora his wife £5, my wedding ring and a black cloth gown.

To John Rogers and Thomas Rogers my nephews £10 apiece.

To Richard, Robert and Debora (Dirks?) my cousins £5 apiece.

To Grace (Dirks?) a black silk gown.

To my sister Mary (Borch? Booth?) a black  gown and to her husband a silver spoon.

To Mrs Dority Horniman an ash coloured suit of silk and a quilted petticoat of red and green. In case the Ship "Mediterranean" in which the said suit and petticoat goes should miscarry the executor to make good the loss by way of a quantity of silk. [As becomes clear later in the will the testator is writing her will onboard a ship].

To Mr William M... £10.

I give mourning rings to Reverend Mr Benjamin Crow, to Mr William Gray, Mr Thomas Blackwell, Mr Thomas ...., Mr David Cannon, Mr Ch..g merchant at..., Mr John ..an, Mr John Row, Mr Robert Cartwright and his wife Mrs Mary Cartwright, Mr... my nephew and to his wife, each of the three sister of Mr (Mins?) in Bishopgate Street [presumably the street in London], Mr John Newton distiller and to his wife, Mr Thomas Buttler, Mr Cavalier of ...ghouse, to Captain Brown and to his wife, to Captain..., Mr Chamberlain Godfrey.

To Captain John Hark at my safe arrival at Legh... £10.

All else of personal estate to loving niece Anne Rogers who is also made executor of the will.

Witnessed by Richard Sh... and William May.

***

Questions may have arisen over the will as Elizabeth had made a mistake. Mr William May and Debora Rogers both of London appeared to give sworn statements as to being familiar with the testator and her wishes. William said that Elizabeth Lambe was late of Great Marlow, formerly of London and also of an illegible place in Italy. He was a fellow passenger on a merchant ship carrying Elizabeth from Legh...to England in April 1728 when and also took lodgings opposite her own lodgings when they arrived in London. There they both lived for several months.  She asked him to come and help her with her will in October 1728 [presumably ahead of her return voyage from London to Leigh...]. At the time Elizabeth indicated that she had forgotten the first name of the niece Rogers that she wanted to execute her will (!!!!). It was either Anne or Debora she thought but didn't think it mattered if the will got it wrong. Elizabeth was dictating the document to William and as she said it wasn't important that he rendered the name correctly he plumped for naming the executor as "Anne Rogers". Some time later he was once more a fellow passenger on the "Mediterranean" ship with Elizabeth and also her niece - Debora Rogers as it transpired not Anne! During the voyage Elizabeth indicated to him that this was the niece she intended to be the executor and main beneficiary of the will. This niece Debora he brought to the probate hearing. The court accepted this and Debora was allowed to execute the will. 

Hopefully she used some of her inheritance to get a nice big pendant with her name on to hang about her neck in case other relatives of hers were similarly vague as to her identity.

This p.c.c will transcribed from the original held at the National Archives, Kew and then summarized by me Charlotte Day.

Many other will transcriptions are on this blog, see the Wills Index.

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The Tucker Family of Queens Road

Fanny and William Tucker appear on the 1871 census in Queens Road, making them some of the road's earliest residents. I couldn't read William's occupation but in later records he was a wheelwright. Children Rose aged 6, Joseph aged 3, Mary aged 1 and little baby Caroline completed the family. To help with the children the couple had a nurse living with them - 64 year old Phoebe Wood. This was a poor family so it is possible Phoebe was getting free accommodation in return for helping out, but she certainly also worked as a nurse for others with children outside that household.

The couple, minus the nurse remained in Queen's Road at the time of the 1881 census. Earlier in 1881 Fanny took William to court for his alcohol fuelled cruelty to her. He had told her he was throwing her out. When she refused to leave her home and young children he beat her and pushed her out the door. She remained outside all night in the cold. This was not the first time a similar thing had happened. In the morning she went in to make her children's breakfast and found William just as threatening to the point she had to leave again. The magistrate who heard the case raged at William for his "unmanly" behaviour and sentenced him to 14 days in jail. This may not sound much but for any assault in those days, it was. Without any income coming in from her husband during those two weeks Fanny would have suffered too. She must have been highly motivated to try to shock William out of his behaviour to launch the case. None of the children then living at home seem to have been working yet- 15 year old Ada and 13 year old Joseph were both still described as scholars. Sadly Ada died the next year.

Prior to her marriage Fanny (nee Darvill, daughter of Joseph Darvill and Rebecca nee Hopcraft) had worked as a lacemaker. Aged 13 she was listed as such living with her already widowed at age 28 sister Jane Rogers, a grocer on the 1851 census in Monks Risborough, Bucks. Life probably wasn't easy for Jane and Fanny as Jane had been summoned the year before for failing to pay her poor rates. Living with her sister was presumably a choice rather than a necessity for Fanny however, as her parents were still alive, in Monks Risborough. Dad Joseph was a hay dealer and carrier, mum Rebecca was a dressmaker.

The Tucker family were still in Queens Road in 1891. Sons William aged 17 and Charles aged 15 were working as garden labourers. There were market gardens off Queens Road which may have employed them.

In 1897 William senior was a 60 year old in the Wycombe Union workhouse. He was one of several men upon which suspicion was thrown that they were pleading inability to work whilst being able bodied and fit to support themselves. He was ordered to undergo medical tests. The outcome of these I haven't found.

By 1911 as a widow Fanny went to live with her also widowed son Joseph who was a coach builder living in Oxford Road. I believe she died in 1915. Joseph's wife had been Julia née Plumridge whom he married in 1890.

Queens Road as it is now, most buildings are modern. It would be unrecognisable -bar the Duke of Cambridge pub- to the Tuckers. 

Related Posts:

For every mention of any individual on this blog see the A-Z person index on the top drop down menu. 

Everyday life in old Marlow post index here

Duke of Cambridge landlord listing: here

Index of posts relating to specific streets, properties etc here 

 

Researched and written by Charlotte Day.  Census transcribed by Charlotte Day and Jane Pullinger. Census information always remains Crown Copyright.

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The Wheelwrights Arms list of landlords *updated May 2026*

UPDATED by  Kathryn June 2025

THE WHEELWRIGHTS ARMS AKA THE WHEELERS (Usual address Spittal Street)

Wheelwrights Arms, above as the building is today. Central chimney gone, upper windows shrunk and lower half obviously changed significantly. The pub name was at one time painted on the upper centre of the building, with Fullers brewery name below. 

1833 - Stephen East.

1839 - St. East.

1840 - Stephen East.

1844 - Robert Rockell (possibly the same Robert as at the nearby Prince Albert in 1841)

1852 "Crown Lane" suggesting at this point an entrance, perhaps even the main entrance, was on the side there.

1853 - Robert Rockell (also offers cartage and lodgings).

1861 - Robert Rockell (also a carter).

1864 - Robert Rockell.

1866 - Robert Rockall summoned for having his beerhouse open at an ilegal hour. He was serving customers at 4.30 am instead of the permitted 5am. This might seems ridiculously early but agricultural labourers were often required to be at work by 5am, or even earlier in the summer. He was fined 10 shillings.

1871- Robert Rockell (also carrier).

1872 - Robert Rockall.

1875 - Robert Rockell died, and son James took over. James defined himself as a carriage maker in 1871 when he was living at the Wheelers with his dad. 

1878 - James Rockell transferred business to James Tilbury (moved from George and Dragon).

1880 - Proposed transfer to William Lloyd refused. James Tilbury transferred licence instead to Charles Freegard.

1881 - James Freegard (born Wiltshire) .

1885 - James Freegard transferred business to James Arlett / Harlett.

1890 - Henry Ecklin passed the premises to John Henry Drewe / Dewe [probably should say John Henry Jeffs]. The pub got its swing sign board this year - useful for dating photos, although it disappears again in later Edwardian images. 

1891 - John Henry Jeffs passed it to Jesse Parsons. Jeffs was born in 1837 Warwickshire according to the census. His wife Lucy died in 1891 after a long battle with consumption which probably sparked him into wanting to leave the premises. Also in 1891 Jesse was burgled and cigars and cigarettes stolen from him. To read the sad circumstances of Lucy's death, read the post here. 

1892 - Jesse Parsons transferred licence to George Rogers / Rodgers. George was Sergeant in East Surrey Regiment. Jesse went to take over the Sportsman's Arms Inn in North Dean, Hughenden, Bucks.

1893 - George Rogers/Rodgers. 

1894 - "Mr Roger's Widow" [Ann]. George was buried at Holy Trinity Church but we have been unable to locate any surviving gravestone. Some members of his old Surrey regiment attend the funeral. He was only 47. 

 

1895 - Ann Rogers transferred premises to Edward Sims. Possibly a Frank Rogers might have been given a holdover in between times (conflicting evidence).

1896 - James William Rowe. 2. William Richard Rose.

1897 -  W R Rose 2. John Reading.

1898 - John Bradley.

1899 - John Bradley transferred premises to Charles Brown. John wad forced to leave as his licence had been endorsed for second time related to unruly conduct at the Wheelers. On the second occasion, it was for allowing "quarrelsome conduct" in the taproom, specifically a foul mouthed arguement between Mr & Mrs Anson that could be heard from some distance outside. When P C Marks entered the pub he also found two men drunk in there which was another black mark. The worst affected of these two drinkers, Charles Slade of Trinity Rd, was separately fined for his conduct. 

1899 - 1904 Charles Brown. Born circa 1860 in Nuffield Oxon according to the census. Wife Jane.

1907 - C Smith.

1908- structural alterations to the premises allowed.

1909 - Mr Smith. He organised a Christmas Day football match to raise money for the Cottage Hospital.

1910 - Arthur E Smith 2. Richard Lane.

1911 - Richard Lane transferred licence to George Branch.

1913- George Branch transferred licence to Wesley Hodge.

1914 Wesley Hodge transferred licence to Arthur Strange (holdover).

1915 - Arthur Strange 2. Wesley Hodge temporarily back again??

1916 - Arthur Strange transferred licence to William King of Greys, Essex.

1917 - William King to William Roberts.

1917-27 William Roberts. In 1921 he decided to sell the pub's coin-operated automatic piano. Penny a time, and it will pay you one of 10 tunes. Either he couldn't sell it or he replaced it with another model as when the pub closed in 1928 it still had an automatic piano.

1927 - Messrs Nicholson's and sons owned pub. Licenced transferred to Richard J T Marsh a retired timekeeper of Marlow Bottom.

1928 order for closure under scheme to limit the number of licenced premises in a given area. Richard J T Marsh landlord of the time (Richard James Thomas). The representative of the local J.Ps who nominate it for closure said it was a "small, rather dark and the conditions are rather poor." Sells 1&1/2 barrells of beer a week (compared to for example 5&1/2 barrells at the Bank of England in the same year). Richard said that that provides enough income for him as he receives a pension to supplement his earnings.  He had only taken in the premises that year.

To find all pub content, see the Pub Related index here. Non pub Spittal Street content is indexed here. To find all mentions of an individual see the A-Z person option on the menu. Happy hunting! 

SOURCES included

1833 Parochial Assessment working notebooks and correspondence owned by my family.

1853 Mussons and Cravens Commercial Directory

Pigots Directory 1844

Kelly's Post Office Directory -

1869,1877,1883, 1903.

Census - 1861,1871,1881,1891 

 Robson's Directory 1839

 Windsor and Eton Express, Apr 10 1875, held at British Library Archive and accessed via the BNA. 

Bucks Herald 10 Jan 1874, 26 December 1874, 18 June 1887, as above.  

Reading Mercury 19 Sept 1874, as above

South Bucks Standard, 06 January 1893, 08 Nov 1895, 2 July 1897,  19 May & 22 Sept 1899, 2nd October 1902, as above

Bucks Free Press 24th November 1911 and August 14th 1914  Bucks Free Press Archives.

1872 list of pubs and the breweries that owned them, held at Buckinghamshire County Council Archives. 

Numerous ads, licence session reports etc.

©Marlow Ancestors. You are welcome to quote from or use this research for family or local history purposes if you credit this blog and link back here.  

Men Who Built Marlow Part Two

Thomas Corby Senior and Junior of Great Marlow.

The elder Thomas was born circa 1785 in Medmenham according to the census.

Thomas Senior in partnership with Theophilus Clifford the stonemason in 1829 won the contract for brickwork and masonry for the new suspension bridge at Marlow. More on the extremely fraught building process here.

That bridge is the bridge you see today in Marlow.

In 1833 Thomas and his son lived parts of the same building in the High Street, shown below as it is today. Their builders yard, workshops and offices were a little further along the High Street in buildings demolished in 1969. 

Thomas Senior's part in that year had an annual value of £14 and consisted of his part of the house, a storeroom, lofts, yard and garden. His son's property consisted of his part of the house, and a garden with a total value of £11. There was only one entrance doorway for the premises. This fact when revealed to investigators in the 1840s would lose Thomas Junior his vote in elections as a separate householder even though his part of the property was valuable enough to qualify him otherwise. Thomas did not marry and always lived in the family home.

Thomas the elder in 1833 also owned and occupied 67 acres of farm land at Munday Dean just outside Marlow worth just over £55 a year. The Corby family had occupied land there for some years. He also had a kiln, shed and other buildings up at Marlow Common where he made bricks. (The fraught history of the brick kiln there will follow separately). 

In 1846 he and his son built the Catholic Church in St Peter's Street. They also built a Catholic chapel at Danesfield.

In 1851 he appeared on the census as a builder employing 30 men.

Thomas Senior died in 1853. (See his grave here ) In his will he left two houses in Staines Middlesex in trust for the benefit of his grandchildren. These were the children of his daughters Mary Ann (by marriage Rogers) and Emily (by marriage Croxford). His then unmarried daughter Charlotte received the furniture he had already given her to use when she kept a school, his bed and bedroom furniture, 3 cottages at ...(Swelley?) Place Great Marlow, 3 cottages at Bovingdon Green and £1000 which was invested. There was also money invested for his grandchildren, the children of his dead daughter Catherine Reeves and his son Henry Corby. 

Thomas Junior was left 5 cottages in Hambledon and a cottage in West Street Marlow. After his father's death he took over the business full time. On the 1861 census he was a builder and brick maker employing 47 men and 3 boys. His brickmakers went on strike in 1860 to demand a pay increase of a shilling per one thousand bricks made. Other local workers struck or asked for wage increases at that time due to price inflation of everyday goods.

Thomas Junior built Holy Trinity Church, the vicarage, the Roman Catholic School, the brick arch and stabling at New Court (1874) shown below (which involved first demolishing the two houses right next to his own home), the Little Marlow village school (1862), the novel wooden church at Handy Cross (1864) and the Primitive Methodist Chapel (now Liston Hall).

Thomas Junior was forced to retire in 1877 due to his health. The man he employed as overseer of his building operations, Young Lovell bought the business. More on him in future.

Shortly after his retirement Thomas died and was buried with his sister Charlotte Gibbs in All Saints churchyard in Marlow. I have a post showing his grave here

The Bucks Herald paid tribute to Thomas after his death saying he had shown "indomitable industry" and "unswerving honour and integrity".

Above: the arch leading into New Court built by Thomas Junior.

By Charlotte Day. Photos by Kathryn Day.

Further Information:

The Men Who Built Marlow Part One: The Bonds has already been posted here

Part three - The Lovells - here

Part 4: Frederick Plumridge here

To find all mentions of a family of individual here use the A-Z Person Index in the top drop down menu.

©Marlow Ancestors. 

Sources:

Bucks Herald 7th April 1877 [Obituary]. Copy held in the British Library archive. Via the BNA.

Bridge wardens accounts and papers at the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies.

Will Thomas Corby, held at the National Archives, Kew. Transcribed by me.

Original property records held by my family.

Census 1841-71 transcribed by me from microfilm.

Marlow's Lesser Known War Memorial

Below is a plaque of recognition for soldiers who fought and died in the 1899-1902 South African War, also known as the second Boer war. It was unveiled on the then headquarters of the Bucks Battalion of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, next to what is now the library in Institute Rd, in August 1909. Made of black Aberdeen granite, a few details on the "war tablet" are a little hard to read now but we've done our best ..

"This tablet was erected by public subscription to record the names of members of the Auxillary forces connected with Great Marlow who served in the 1899 war in South Africa 1902

Imperial Yeomanry: 

Trooper BF Burton

Trooper W G Drinkwater 

Trooper A J Gale

Trooper G. R Greaves, 

Trooper F Langley, (Frank, brother to Jack, see below)

Trooper J Langley, (Jack, sadly died in WW1. Read more about his family here )

Trooper H B Rowe,  

Trooper C Webb, 

Trooper W White, 

First Bucks VRC :

Sergeant G Hide (Geoffrey)

Private C Green,  

Private G H Green, 

Private CT Martin, 

Private A Silvey, 

Private G Simmonds 

Private J Wheatley

Bugler L Shaw, 

Private W Batley,

Sergt. H J Smith

And : Trooper G A Rogers, killed at Bolshop May 19 1902)" 

 The unveiling was left to General Higginson. Raising funds for the plaque had taken time and it's reveal was regarded as a big occasion in the town. A guard of honour was formed in Institute Rd for the General, consisting of members of the Marlow company of the Territorials and other groups such as Marlow Fire Brigade and the Church Lads Brigade. Once the ceremony was complete, those gathered marched to the Enclosure - the no longer enclosed patch of grass on the Causeway. The purpose was to perform the inaugural hoisting of flags on the flagpole. The Overseas League provided the flagpole, and invited Marlow council to give a home to it. They agreed, and funds had also been raised to buy the flags. Various groups in town provided national or territorial flags, and that of Cape Colony in South Africa was among them, purchased with funds raised by the pupils of Borlase school. A flagpole is still to be seen on the Causeway and few probably know why one was first erected there. The Overseas League aimed to encourage a sense of brotherhood amongst individuals living within the Empire and so it displayed not only the Union Jack but the flags of Western Australia and New Zealand for example. This was the first such flagpole erected by the League and that fact was reported across the Empire. 

More information about Marlow and the Boer wars will follow shortly. 

See  here for the Brewery First World War memorial tablet

And the tragic early history of The Armoury (Bucks Volunteer HQ) - some distressing content - is covered here

For all mentions of your ancestors here, use the A-Z person to index in the top drop down menu. There are more than 3,000 individuals listed there. 

SOURCES

National Library of Australia Trove Collection:

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/53186750/5137435, accessed September 2020

South Bucks Standard August 27th 1909, held at the British Library and accessed via the BNA November 2020

©MarlowAncestors. Post written by Kathryn Day. 

The People Of Westhorpe House, Little Marlow

Westhorpe House is a Georgian mansion by Little Marlow. It previously sat in around 100 acres of parkland and was often sold and occupied in conjunction with nearby Westhorpe Farm and Little Marlow Manor. In this post I aim to shine a light on some of the people who made the house their home above or below stairs.

The house was built in the late 1600s by the Chase family.

Field Marshal Sir George Nugent and his wife Maria were perhaps the most prominent residents of the house. George had been a commander in the American Revolutionary War and for five years governor of Jamaica. American-born Maria kept a journal of her time in Jamaica which was published posthumously. This is considered a key text in Jamaican history and is an interesting read. Her attitude to the slaves she encountered was bafflingly contradictory. She was willing to dance with a slave and continually asserted that slaves had souls just like anyone else and so were worth saving in the religious sense. Also while she criticized the slave population for laziness and immorality she thought that the fault for that lay not with them but with the bad example set by their lazy and immoral masters. At the same time she thought most slaves well treated, being willfully oblivious to the fact someone declared a slave [e.g a non person] is by definition being appallingly treated even if no additional suffering is heaped upon them by violence etc. It also stretches credibility when Maria tells us that a boatload of newly arrived slaves which she examined to see if they looked sad and in need of spiritual succour surprised her by actually looking happy and being more interested in her carriage than taking in their new surroundings.

Maria and George left Jamaica in 1806 and were at Westhorpe by 1819. Four years later they threw a party at the house to celebrate the 21st birthday of their son George junior.

Maria was the driving force behind the couple gifting 100 blankets as well as items of warm clothing to the poor of Little Marlow every year. England had seemed particularly cold to her she said after her time abroad in Jamaica, India and the USA.  

Maria became suddenly ill while taking the air in her carriage in 1834 and died shortly afterwards.

At the time of the 1841 census the widowed George lived at Westhorpe with his married daughter Maria [sometimes given as Mary] and her husband Rice Richard Clayton AKA Richard Clayton for company, not to mention a whole pack of servants.

George died in 1849 aged 91 and was buried at Little Marlow. Following his death the contents of the house were sold including a large library of quality books and a cellar full of expensive wines. 

Maria's sudden demise was not the only unexpected death at Westhorpe. In 1859 occupier Sir Arthur Buller's butler William Forward committed suicide by shooting himself in the face in the cellar of the house. He had been complaining of ill health and acting in a subdued manner. The jury at the inquest [which took place at the house!] thought that his long time separation from his wife Sarah was a key factor in his low spirits. It seems that this marriage was not known of by his fellow workers. Only when going through his personal papers did they discover evidence of it. 

Arthur Buller was born in India in 1808 and worked for the British state there, in Sri Lanka and in Canada before moving back to England, his family's ancestral home.

It is not certain how long Arthur had been at Westhorpe when his butler died. Certainly not quite as far back as the time of the 1851 census when Lt Edward and Eliza Simeon lived there, but probably soon afterwards. Edward and Eliza had moved in in 1849 after George Nugent's death. With them in 1851 were 10 servants including two footmen MJ Rogers and Phillip Eaton. One of the female servants F Hinzel had come all the way from Switzerland. 

Both Edward and Eliza were the  survivor's of their previous marriages. Her parents resided at Leeds Castle, Kent. His was a Berkshire and Oxfordshire family.

A few months after the census Edward died and was buried in Reading. It is likely that Arthur Buller moved into Westhorpe soon afterwards.

He moved to London eventually and the house was sold in 1859 to George Jackson Esquire. George put the house up to let in 1862 for a minimum period of 7 years but perhaps there were no takers as he apparently continued to live at Westhorpe until his death in 1896. He had previously resided at Little Marlow Manor. 

The 1863 property to let adverts say that the house and gardens had both recently been overhauled. The house interior, prospective tenants were reassured, was decorated with "taste and simple elegance". Outside were the luxuries of hot houses, melon pits and  an expanse of ornamental water not to mention a trendy rock garden [The gardener from at least 1869 to at least 1890 was George Davis].

During George Jackson's time at Westhorpe there was another sudden death in the house- an unnamed nursery maid aged just 22 whose heart gave out as she changed her clothes after coming back from a walk with her charges.

The 1861 census shows George a widower with 11 children from just a year old up to 19 years old. 

One of those children Felix, away working at a brewery in Burton Upon Trent when in his 20s, fell into some machinery and was killed instantly.

Keeping the Jackson family going in 1861 was a group of 10 live in servants. 

By 1871 with the number of children at home reduced, only 7 servants were kept.

The 1871 cook Ann Chaplin had had an impressive rise from being the 16 year old sole servant in a London household on the 1861 census, to the cook in the large household at Westhorpe in 1871. She was the daughter of James and Elizabeth Chaplin and was born circa 1840 in Easthampstead Berkshire. I was not able to find her in 1881. The cook at Westhorpe then was Fanny Gilbert, and Eliza Humphrey in 1891.

1871 footman Enoch Watts, born circa 1827 had risen to butler by 1881. Enoch was a married man whose wife Theresa and family did not live with him at Westhorpe though, they were staying in the village of Little Marlow.  This was quite an unusual situation for a butler who tended to be unmarried or married to the cook/ housekeeper of the same household. He continued to live in Little Marlow after his retirement with his married daughter Sarah Piggott. Theresa died 1881. She worked as a laundress, as did Sarah before marriage. (To see the grave of Enoch and Theresa see here)

Westhorpe House was sold in 1896 following George Jackson's death. He left an estate worth over £100,000.  A Mr Gordon was the resident in 1899.

The estate was again sold in 1917.

The 1917 sale guide said that the house had 19 bed and dressing rooms, 2 bathrooms, a billiards room and library amongst other things. In a sign of changing times some of the stabling had given way to motor garages.

Our blog primarily deals with Marlow people pre 1920s so with that I will bid farewell to this handsome house.

For more on Marlow's links to both slavery and its abolition see here . More Little Marlow content can be found listed under Other Places on the menu. All mentions of an individual on the blog can be found on the Person Index.

To find posts about everyday life in old Marlow, see the listing here

Sources:

Reading Mercury 31st December 1849 [suicide], 18th April 1863 [nursery maid death] and 19th August 1882 [Felix Jackson death]. Bucks Herald 17th May 1862 [property description] Copies at the British Library accessed via the BNA October 2020.

Little Marlow Parish Registers.

1841, 61, 71 and 91 censuses transcribed from microfilm by Jane Pullinger. 1851 and 1881 census my own transcription from microfilm.

Wikipedia articles on Sir George Nugent, Sir Arthur Buller and Sir John Simeon [father of Edward] all accessed October 13th-15th 2020.

Lady Nugent's Journal, reprinted 1907 by the Institute of Jamaica. Can be purchased on Amazon if you want to read it.

Auction sale guide, 1917. Loose. Poor condition. Partial.

GRO Death Index online. Accessed February 2021.

Researched and written by Charlotte Day.

©Marlow Ancestors. If reusing this research (which you are very welcome to do for family or local history purposes) please give credit to this blog and link here.

1833 Parochial Assessment High Street Great Marlow Part One

I have transcribed this from the original handwritten assessment working notebooks which have been in my family for some years and are in a fragile and faded condition. The books were annotated with corrections and changes until about 1840. I will add any such information and flag it as such. Other notations are from my other research.

Transcription by Charlotte Day.

© Marlow Ancestors. You can use this transcription for local or family history purposes if you credit this blog.

Town- Houses and Buildings (land is a different record I also have and will transcribe in the future). 

No Street Address Given

Edmund Flemming (late)=

Property occupied= Marlow Place with suitable offices, large garden, lawn, green houses etc [Their "etc" not mine]

Annual value of property= £110 

High Street West Side [West Street side]

John Snelling Wright=

Dwelling house, yard and garden

£22

*****

Misses Rolls [this is Brampton House. The sisters ran a school for girls]:

House with yard and garden

£25

*****

Jane Fowler=

Cottage with small yard 

£4

*****

Thomas William Allum [brickmaker and bricklayer. Multiple properties] =

Dwelling house, shed with loft and building, late malt house and garden

£16

Loft over Mr **** store house 

£1

Also a Kiln at Bovingdon Green

£9

*****

John Frith [multiple pieces of  property]=

Dwelling house and garden

£11

Woodhouse and loft on the opposite side of the yard

£1

*****

Theophilus Clifford [Stonemason. See my previously published post on Marlow Bridge for more on him here. Also, a fuller biographical post on him is available here ]

Dwelling house, yard, shops, loft and garden

£12

Shed etc at the Wharf 

£2

*****

John Collins (carpenter, builder. Later at pub next door)=

Dwelling house, workshops, garden and yard

£10

*****

James Creswell [publican and carpenter. Occupier till at least 1838]=

The Fountain Head [This was a beerhouse whose occupier had a carpentry business out back] which is a house, 2 shops, paint house and garden]

£9 [when property sold 1838 the rent was up to £12 12 shillings per annum]

*****

Mrs Sarah Aveling. [Note: title Mrs is mistaken or given as mark of respect to a popular and respected but unmarried woman. Will 1844]=

House, garden and yard

£9

*****

Owen Wethered esq=

House with requisite offices, shrubbery, kitchen garden and orchard 

£75

*****

Wethered and Son [Brewers]

Garden adjoining above

£1

Large timber yard, sawpits, sheds, piggery and store room for timber

£10

Store rooms, 7 in number. Large extensive building with counting house etc 

£35

Cooperage, scalding shed, dray house and stables

£8

Two stables, coach house etc

£8

Carpenter's shop, malt loft, and store houses

£18

Table beer run room (?) with the loft over it

£12

Brewhouse and buildings in the centre of yard with malt lofts etc 

£70

Flow room in Miss Roll's yard

£2 10 shillings

Malt house and shed in Mr Hatch's yard

£15

Ditto in Mr Maddock's yard with store house [Robert Maddocks, further along the same side of the High Street. Sometimes given as Maddox]

£20

Store cellar under Juggins and  Stallwoods' houses

£3

Malthouse and lofts in yard behind Steadman Camden's [this was other side of High Street, near where Sainsbury's Local is now]

£15

Store house and loft adjoining Mr Wade's

£3

Small store house in Mr Wade's garden with loft over it and small garden

£3

In yard leading from High Street 2 large stables and lofts over them 

£4

Two stables, cart house, dung yard, piggery, large cart shed and store house

£12

Small store house in yard

£1

Malt house, late Mr C Wethered's [Charles Wethered, liquor merchant. Active by 1823. Will 1827], barley lofts and coal houses

£25

Screening rooms and lofts and a malthouse

£20

Two stables with store rooms and barley lofts adjoining

£6

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Thomas Wethered

Orchard at Bovingdon Green

£3 10 shillings

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Late Mrs Gordon [Jane, widow of George who was originally of Croughly Banffshire Scotland. Couple had lived in Marlow since at least 1808].

Dwelling house with convenient offices, stables, greenhouse, yards and garden

£45

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William Hatch [baker, a VERY troublesome character who is featured in a post of his own here]=

House, bakehouse, flour loft, yard, 2 gardens, cart house, stable and piggery

£10

Large garden called Hanging Acre

£5

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Ann Washbourn [an embroideress and maker of children's clothing and later a teacher. She later moved to both St Peter Street and West Street. See her West Street school premises and read more about it here]

House and garden

£8

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Robert Maddocks [a carpenter and, tut tut, party to electoral fraud in the early 1830s. Electoral fraud was to be fair a Marlow speciality. Biographical post on him and his wife Jane here]=

Part of a house for billiards etc 

£6 (This was the "News Room")

Dwelling house, stable, 3 chaise houses, shed, work and store shops, yard and garden

£12

*****

William Allum [a tailor]=

Dwelling house and garden

£6

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George Rogers [plumber painter and glazier]

House, shop, yard, garden

£8

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Thomas Hewett [butcher, in this property by 1826]=

Dwelling house, butcher's and baker's shop and garden

£7 10 shillings

Slaughter house up the yard

£1

Stable and loft

10 shillings

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Matilda Newell [bonnet maker. Not in this property 1826]=

Dwelling house and garden 

£8

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To be continued....