Will Summary John Rolls Proved 1857

 John Rolls of Great Marlow, coal and timber merchant. Written 1854. Proved 1857. See codicil below too. I found this will quite hard to read. I have done my best but recommend you obtain your own copy from the National Archives if this will is particularly important to your family.

Wants just debts and funeral expenses paid.

John Rolls Hoare and Thomas Rolls Hoare sons of my sister Ann Hoare 1 shilling each to mark my ....e of their....

My brother and I occupy a freehold property at the foot of Marlow Bridge in the parish of Bisham Berkshire which formerly belonged to our father. It comprises grounds, warehouses, ....., a meadow and gardens bounded in the North by the River Thames, and in the East by the Compleat Angler's Inn and in the South partly by the road to the Compleat Angler's Inn and partly by the old road called Bisham Lane and in the West by Church Meadow or land belonging to ...Davenport Esq. This property is being used by the brothers in their joint business partnership as coal and timber merchants. This all to my brother's use for his life, him keeping the buildings in good repair. Afterwards estate to go to Reverend Green of Shepton M...w in Gloucestershire who was the son of Mary Green who used to live in Great Marlow and his heirs. If he has none then estate to Osmund Rolls Green another son of Mary Green. If Osmund has not disposed of the said property in his life or in a will and has no legal heirs then property to the eldest of my bothers or sisters then living.

Dial Cottage on the Causeway which is in the occupation of Frederick Berger under a lease assigned by me to Robert Collins is willed to "the said" John Green (the Revd?). If John has no heirs, and has not disposed of it in his lifetime or by a will then to Osmund Rolls Green and his heirs. If he too has no heirs and has not disposed of the property in his lifetime or by way of a will then property to the eldest then living brother or sister of mine.

£10 each to brothers Thomas, Charles and George Rolls. Thomas's is in addition to what he is left as a thank you for being an executor of the will.

Sisters Ann, wife of John Hoare, and Jane Rolls £10 each.

£10 to be equally distributed between the sons and daughters of my bargeman Thomas Sparkes late of the Barge Pole pub. [More on Thomas here]

Executors £10 each as thank you.

My residual estate to the said John Green with one moiety of it left to Osmund Rolls Green.

Executors brother Thomas, John Green as above, Osmund Rolls Green as above, Edward Mason of Thames Side Windsor, coal merchant.

Witnessed by MJ Rippingham Great Palson Street London and Charles Tompkins of 20 Colet Road, Commercial Road, East London.

CODICIL. WRITTEN 1855.

John Green my gold ring and the rest of my jewellery to Osmond Rolls Green.

The legacy given to the children of Thomas Sparkes to be divided equally between John and Osmond above.

Codicil witnessed by Ralph Spicer*, solicitor of Great Marlow, and William Weaver, clerk to Mr Spicer.

The will was proved by three executors only. Edward Mason had renounced his role as executor.

Transcribed and summarized here by Charlotte Day from the original will at the National Archives, Kew.

*biographical post on Ralph Spicer here

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Will Summary And Research For Lydia Beenham 1834

 Will Proved 1834

Lydia Beenham, widow of John Beenham "late of New Windsor" in Berkshire.

Asks to be buried at Clewer, Bucks without any unnecessary pomp or expense.

All her stocks, securities, household furniture, goods chattels and effects to be equally divided between Thomas Burton of Clewer victualer, his wife Mary Ann who is the testator's sister, and his daughter Maria.

Executor Thomas Beenham.

She signed with a mark.

Witnessed by [T.S?] Francis, William [Beaver?] who made his mark only and Thomas Beenham.

NOTES:

Lydia appears on the 1833 Great Marlow parochial assessment of which I have the original assessor's working notebooks. She occupied a house, "shop" (typically this meant a separate workshop in the assessment not a retail shop) in Church Passage near the river. The property was valued at £5 a year.

Will summary produced from my transcription of a will held at the National Archives, Kew.

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1833 Parochial Assessment Great Marlow Quoiting Square / Oxford Terrace Continued

My family has the original working notebooks written up for this assessment. It was to be used to set the 1834 rates. 

It's age means the material is faded and falling apart so I am transcribing it in parts starting with the house and building information. The notebooks have some corrections and additions added up to circa 1839. If any are present for these entries I will indicate so. I have been adding the different parts to this blog as and when they chime with other bits of research I am doing.

Format I use:

Name

Property

Annual value of property

Any notes of mine added in square brackets

Quoiting Place [Quoiting Square] and Oxford Terrace [in Oxford Road] in book but the assessors made a hash of this section. Many of these properties were actually round the corner in West Street and I have noted this below as appropriate.

Continued [1st part of Oxford Terrace and Quoiting Square is here]

Thomas Davis

House, woodhouse, garden, stables and shed

£11

*****

William Harper [tinplate worker. Apparently actually West Street. Certainly was West Street earlier]

House, two gardens, workshop and yards

£10

*****

George Wyatt

House, woodhouse, stable and lofts

£10 10 shillings

Large garden

£2

*****

Thomas Wyatt 

Cottage and garden

£3

*****

Edward Tyler [a tallow chandler and market gardener who was sent to a debtors prison in London in 1834. Property actually West Street though probably by Quoiting Square turning].

House, storehouse and large garden

£9

A large market garden 

*****

Henry Stallwood [The Marlow parish constable and hayward for Marlow manor. Very good at his constable job! His dad William lived next door see other 1833 assessment posts]

Cottage

£3

*****

Miss Lord [Eleanor Lord. This was a boarding School. See my Schools In Marlow History post published here. Premises actually West Street].

Dwelling house, yard and convenient offices

£23

*****

Widow Clark [Actually West Street]

House and garden

£8

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Widow Puddifant [Sarah Puddifant. Died 1840. Actually West Street. Post about her here].

House, yard and garden

£12

[Added in pencil after the name of widow Puddifant without crossing her name out is the name James Thomas Lovegrove and added to the annual value column in pencil words "raised to £22". More on James here]

*****

John Musprat [Actually West Street]

Three Tuns [inn] house, yard, stables and garden

£11

[More on John and also the Three Tuns here ]

*****

Samuel Carter

House and garden

£5

*****

George Greenwood

House, garden and shop

£13

Large garden

£2

*****

George Gale [master of the National School in Oxford Road]

House, play ground, stable and gardens

£17

Large Garden

£2

*****

William Windsor [a baker. Also actually West Street. He still there 1844]

House and garden

£5

*****

Richard Musprat [actually West Street]

House, yard and garden

£6

******

William Smith [actually West Street]

Cottage and garden 

£4 10 shillings

*****

James Allum [actually West Street]

House and garden

£6

*****

William Humphrey [West Street]

House and garden

£7 10 shillings

*****

Francis Pearce

House and garden

£7

*****

William Pusey [Surely this too is actually West Street?] [A straw bonnet maker and chair turner. See here for more about him and his family]

House, washhouse, shop, yard and large garden

£11

*****

Robert Sawyer [West Street again]

House, part of yard, stable, sheds, piggery and large garden 

£15

Tolls of the market 

£3

*****

George Westbrook

The Crown [Inn. This was in Market Square though the grounds and back of it could be accessed from Oxford Road], house, pleasure gardens and garden adjoining, large garden at the top of the yard, stable yard, stables, coach houses, skittle ground and other convenient offices

£60

The Town Hall card room [next door to the Crown, again not in Quoiting Place or Oxford Road!], parlour etc belonging to it

£10

*****

Oxford Road

Late Charles Bowerie Esq [probably Bouverie]

House, yard, stable, coach house and garden

£30

*****

Sarah Pimm [nee Hale, widow of Richard Pimm, hurdle maker who had died that year aged 62]

Cottage and garden

£4 10 shillings

*****

Richard Frith

Cottage and garden

£4 10 shillings

*****

Alexander Higginson Esq

House with offices, lawn, garden and green house

£45

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The Stewart Forgery Scandal

 

This grave was erected by James Cranborne Strode esq of Court Garden House in Marlow, for his loyal servant John Stewart who died Mar 13th 1827, age 65. Note: Strode said he had put the age of 65 on the grave as a sort of "best guess" from what Stewart had told him of his life. A brighter image is below.

John was the gardener at Court Garden and the aftermath of his death seemingly without an obvious inheritor caused a sensational criminal case. He was Scottish, unmarried and died without a will. He had spoken of a brother but nothing had apparently been heard of this relative for some time, some believing him dead, others that he had long ago emigrated to America. Some years passed with no one claiming Stewart's estate, which included some valuable stocks. His personal belongings, including receipts relating to the purchase of the stocks were sent to the Strode family attorney Mr Pickering of London, for safe keeping and there they remained. The laws at the time meant that if no dividends were claimed on stocks for 10 years, the unclaimed money, and the stocks themselves were transferred to a fund for paying off the national debt. This is what happened at first to that belonging to Stewart. But relatives could claim them back under certain circumstances.  This gave rise to a woman purporting to be Elizabeth, a previously unknown sister of the deceased, and Stewart's sole heir.  She claimed to have recently returned from America, where she had gone many years before with her aunt. On arriving back in Bristol, she had asked a family friend named Mr Jones who had accompanied her on the return from America, to travel down to Marlow and deliver a letter to her long lost brother. This he attempted to do but on making enquiries found that Stewart had died. He returned to the sister, delivered the news and then returned to America. Elizabeth claimed the money and stocks back with the help of 36 year old solicitor William Henry Barber. 

Or so Elizabeth's story went. But Jones was really Joshua Fletcher and the enquiries he made at Marlow were not to trace a long lost brother for his friend, but to gain information to establish a false claim to the estate. He used what the locals told him to invent a sister, and got a Mrs Richards to play the part. He provided a birth register entry for  the brother and sister, using what is believed to be a real John and Elizabeth Stewart, only ones born in Marleybone rather than Scotland. 

Suspicion was raised when "Elizabeth" on receiving the £630 in the form of a cheque from a stockbroker on the sale of the stocks, asked for all of it to be transferred immediately into gold. The stockbroker had not had such a request with such a large sum before as people usually preferred ready money.  But solicitor Barber laughed this off, claiming his clients were foolish, and apprehensive of a war so preferred the security of gold. Then both Fletcher and Barber were involved in two other similar cases involving forged wills and the impersonation of a missing beneficiary. Fletcher, Barber, Mrs Richard's two married daughters Georgianna Dorey and Lydia Sanders (Saunders) and son in law fishmonger William Sanders were all arrested for involvement in one or more of the frauds. The trials followed each other, with "Elizabeth" (Mrs Richards) dying before they began. 

A number of Marlow men went to London to give testimony about the questions asked by "Jones" - namely William Windsor, James McLean and William Holmes. Chief among them though was Greyhound landlord Henry Hyatt. He also said that solicitor Barber had visited Marlow under a false name. ("Clarence Peckham") although he had given his correct address in London and Hyatt had visited him there when on business in the City. The prosecution said Barber was fully involved with the fraud, but he said he had acted in good faith and after all "Elizabeth" had been granted administration of her alleged brothers affairs. He denied using a false name and claimed innkeeper Hyatt was misremembering old events. When arrested, letters written by "Jones" to a Scottish parish asking for a certificate relating to a marriage register entry were found in Barbers papers. This was significant as Jones had asked for the entry to be altered so it matched the details on the birth records for the Marleybone brother and sister which he had used to prove Elizabeth's claim. He said the mothers name should be changed for Janetta to Jane as it was the English version. The Scots refused. It seems the fraudsters had been caught on the hop by the fact Stewart was clearly Scottish when they claimed an English birth for the siblings. 

Stewarts former employer, Strode said he had never heard of a sister. His solicitors had initially refused to co operate with Barber as he had not provided the birth certificates (certified entry of birth register) he asked for. But on being presented with the fact Elizabeth was granted administration they handing over the documents in their keeping. When Barber then tried to claim for unpaid wages for the long dead Stewart from Strode, he wrote back to say he did not believe in the sisters claim and nothing further was heard. Barber said this was because the amount owed was not significant. 

All were found guilty except Barber in the matter relating to Stewart. But it was different when the court got to the second fraud case, relating to an Ann Slack. I won't go into detail of this, but the result was that this time the court did not believe Barber acted in innocence, and he was found guilty along with all the others bar William Sanders who nevertheless plead guilty relating to a third fraud.  Barber was sentenced to transportation for life along with Fletcher and I believe he was actually sent to Van Diemens Land. But he was then granted a pardon, which caused outrage in some quarters. Barber was however then struck off on the basis of wilful blindness about the antics of his clients. The fact he was in possession of a letter from them asking for evidence to be tampered with (the Scots marriage record in the Stewart case) was regarded as especially damning. William Sanders was sentenced to 7 years transportation and Lydia Sanders and Georgianna Dorey to two years imprisonment each. It was believed to be Lydia who - not very convincingly - acted as the "aged" Elizabeth at the stockbrokers and Bank of England, the older Mrs Richards being in poor health. 

It does not seem that Stewart's real sibling ever was traced. "Jones" was taken to see the gravestone in Marlow Churchyard that is shown above and made note of the inscription that you can still just about be read. So this is the story behind the innocuous grave. 

- Sacred to the Memory of John Stewart who died March 13th 1827 aged 65 years. "Erected by order of James Cranborne Strode of Court Garden to whom he was a faithful and attached servant". 

More crime related posts can be found under the General Marlow History menu  here

All mentions of someone on the blog can be found listed on the Person Index in the top drop down menu. There are now over 6,000 people mentioned there. 

Some images of other graves erected in the memory of faithful servants in Marlow can be found here

 SOURCES

John Bull, Vol 24 (J C Bunney 1844)

The Spectator Vol 17 1844, digitized by Google. 

The Legal Observer Digest and Journal Vol 40, (Spettigue and Farrance 1850) 

The Examiner: A weekly paper on politics, literature, music, and fine arts. 1844. Bavarian State Library, digitized by Google. 

Carrington, Frederick Augustus. Reports on cases argued and rulex Nisi Prisi .. (S Sweet, 1844)

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Eusebius Windsor

Eusebius caught my attention because of his great first name. He appears on the 1833 Parochial Survey notebooks I have I have in my possession as the landlord of the Elephant and Castle beer house in Dean Street.

While there was a great deal of beer sellers in that street later in the 1800s most of those licenses were yet to be granted in 1833 so there was some competition but nothing like what there would come to be later in the area and Dean Street was in no way the centre of alcohol consumption then in Marlow.

Eusebius had been born in Marlow in 1799 to Elizabeth and William. In 1822 he married Elizabeth Stevens. 

Eusebius continued to work as an  labourer while running the Elephant and Castle. This again was common and likely means it was actually his wife Elizabeth who was the day to day runner of the business. I see this situation time and time again with Marlow pubs. Elizabeth may have had little choice but to shoulder the burden of the work as according to a 1834 Bucks Gazette article Eusebius preferred going out hunting to work of any kind! The article said that Eusebius stood accused of letting a dog he had hired in the (surely tiny) hope of catching a wild boar be a nuisance to the whole neighborhoods of his exploits (in Berkshire not Marlow). He escaped a fine due to insufficient evidence but was ordered to pay his overdue rates given that if he had sufficient money to waste on a wild boar chase he had sufficient money to pay his taxes.

Whether because it proved too much like hard work or for some other reason Eusebius didn't stick with the beer selling trade. By the time of the 1841 census he and Elizabeth along with their children Charlotte [known by her middle name Emma], Elizabeth junior and Henry were living with his parents in West Street. The dad of Eusebius, named William, was a baker.

In 1844 Eusebius was in trouble again, this time for springing two horses of his from where they were impounded to avoid paying the impound fees. If your animal strayed it was impounded until you paid a fee to the person who had impounded it. This was to discourage loose animals being left to damage crops and fences.

But we must not imply Eusebius was a ne'er do well. He was a volunteer fire fighter, actually credited with particular energy at this dangerous activity. He also stepped in on one occasion to help the Marlow police make a difficult arrest in Marefield. Doesn't seem fair on that evidence to call him lazy at all!

I have not found his death registration. 

The Elephant and Castle premises later became the Mint.

There are previous posts on this blog which feature Dean Street beer sellers and their families see Pub Related option on the menu here.

More Dean Street content here.

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Sources:

Great Marlow parish reg.

1833 parochial assessment working notebooks in my possession, transcribed by me.

Census transcribed from microfilm. 

Newspaper copies held by the British Library accessed via the BNA October 2020. Windsor and Eton Express 10th February 1844, Bucks Gazette 25th January 1834.

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Hurley War Memorial

 

The Poaching Perrys

The men of the Perry family of Dean Street / Hatches Row Great Marlow were notorious for their prolific, unapologetic and at times violent poaching in the 1800s.

The main suspects were brothers William and John Perry, sons of Joseph and Sarah (née Heather, married 1803). William was born circa 1804 and John in 1810.

Look them up on the census or other records and they tend to appear as harmless agricultural labourers and in William's case a beer seller too but at the end of that working day their other, to them probably more important work, began. It's a bit of a surprise that any game survived locally!

The first conviction for William I found was in 1830 when he received 3 months in jail for poaching. In 1838 he was fined for illegal use of a gun, while in 1839 he was forced to pay up after being caught trespassing in search of game. By 1840 he was already described as a notorious and long standing poacher. That year he was caught poaching by a gamekeeper at Shottesbrook. William beat the gamekeeper about the head with the butt of his rifle and escaped. Reports of the incident lead to two Windsor policeman pursuing and arresting him. Could they hold him between them? No. The Perrys were consistently described as tall, heavy built men. William was one of those in Marlow who sometimes fought with cudgels for a share of a prize pot. This sport had its heyday in Marlow late 1700s to about 1840s. He was said to be one of the best fighters in Buckinghamshire.

If William thought he would get away with attacking the gamekeeper however he was wrong. The Windsor constables he escaped from knew exactly who he was and where he lived.

Marlow Parish Constable Henry Stallwood, another Constable Daniel Cox, Tithing Man (Marlow was divided into East and West Tithings each with a man responsible for certain criminal matters on their patch) James Cox and Constable Horton from Windsor got together to try to take William into custody. They didn't expect it to be easy.

James Cox must have drawn the short straw as he was the one to knock on William's door.

The constables went round the back.

William was in and asked for the warrant to be read out in full to him, perhaps giving himself time to weigh up his options. John Perry the brother of William shouted at him to run away and save himself. His friend Charles Gibbons used the "say it backwards" language of criminals in those days to urge the same "t'nod og!" [don't go with him, the constable] . Horton however cuffed William and escorted him towards the door. A man called Richard Carr came in causing a distraction (not necessarily on purpose) and John Gibbons another friend of the Perrys who was also already on the premises attacked Horton and freed William. A different Constable stepped up and seized William getting him as far as the street. Horton followed and also took hold of the prisoner. At this point someone struck him on the head. Others including Charles Mould and Charles Gibbons moved in to try to rescue William once more. Horton had a staff as part of his official kit and used it to prevent this. People began pouring out of their houses in support of William until an estimated 100 people had gathered. Some openly called for the Constables to be killed. Horton was repeatedly hit by Charles Gibbons and Charles Mould and set on by a bulldog before being knocked unconscious with a stick. It was thought Charles Gibbons was responsible for that blow. A James Richardson dragged Horton away down a side way and confiscated his staff.

William made something of a run for it, to the cheers of the crowd, but the other constables did manage to capture him. They also recovered the unconscious Horton and sat up all night tending him. Later they successfully arrested James Richardson, Charles Gibbons and Charles Mould. All would be jailed for several months for their part in events.

Considering all these convictions it is a puzzle to see just how William managed to get a beer house licence. These had to be renewed yearly and you were supposed to have good character to get one. Yet time after time William was allowed to keep his beer house the Fox and Pheasant (appropriate title!) in Dean Street. He and his wife Avis (née Butler, married Great Marlow 1829), were there by 1861. William was still listed as landlord in the late 1860s when he was fined for being open illegal hours.

His last poaching conviction was in 1876. The weary sitting magistrate said that that occasion was the 10th time he alone had sentenced William, mostly for similar poaching offences.

William died in 1880 at the quoted age of 73 or 74 after falling out of a tree in Datchett whilst gathering walnuts and apples for his employer John Langley the fruiterer. It was thought a dizzy spell brought on by heart disease caused the accident. He fractured his spine in the fall. Avis had predeceased him. 

What of his brother John?

He started his criminal career in traceable records with a charge of handling a stolen silver pocket watch in 1829 when he was 19. In 1840 he was fined 10 shillings for shooting at the sign of the Fighting Cocks pub in Dean Street, causing it damage. Inebriated poaching practice? William East was charged with the same offence. The Easts seemed to have had something of a shakey on-again off-again relationship with the poaching Perrys. (Thomas East was one of those who witnessed the fight occasioned by William's arrest and gave evidence against Richardson in that case.)

In 1842 he was described as a "stout, resolute poacher" in the Windsor and Eton Express. The Marlow constable Henry Stallwood surprised him in bed with a warrant for his arrest on multiple charges of poaching at Fawley. Stallwood must have had a short memory as he believed John when he promised that he would come quietly and waited for him to dress himself before taking him outside. Can you guess what happened next?

Yes, John shoved him aside and ran off. Several days later Stallwood had another go. He found John in a beer house. John made no pretence of going quietly that time and struggled. Stallwood threatened to show him the work his Constable's staff could do if he kept resisting. John ignored him and ended up so badly injured his life was feared for. Despite having multiple severe head injuries and a badly bruised body he stood trial, found guilty and sent to jail for 14 months.

While he was being help in the lock up prior to trial various Dean Street women and men gathered outside the premises and urged him with their shouts to try to escape. They presumably didn't realise how badly he was injured at the time.

Did this experience put him off offending? 

Not a bit. As "John Perry the notorious poacher" he was back on trial for the same in 1843. 

He teamed up with his brother William in 1844 for another bout of poaching. In 1884 John tells the J P at his latest trial for shooting game, that now he's over 70 he will "go poaching no more". Knowing John he probably meant he would try not to be caught any more! The justices awarded John a £2 fine, promised  future angelic behaviour not withstanding. 

Joseph and Sarah Perry had two more sons - George born 1813 and Samuel born 1804. Both were convicted poachers. Samuel (m Mary Ann Miller) also ran the small Rose and Crown beer house in Dean Street by 1842. Samuel died in a tragic accident, falling from a ladder which gave way under him while he was gathering walnuts in 1844. Historic landlords listing for this pub is on the blog here

He served 3 months in jail for poaching in 1830 and a further 2 months for the same in 1837.

Poaching wasn't his only crime - he was jailed for being part of a gang that burgled a house in 1831 and stole 2 great coats, 2 pairs of breeches and sundry other articles.

Samuel's grandson Alfred Perry features in my History of Marlow Bridge post here

George received an unusually large fine of £5 for poaching in 1840. If he failed to pay it he was to be jailed for 3 month instead. He had been caught on the land of Colonel Higginson.

The same year he and his brother John were caught poaching together and described as "incorrigible poachers" when jailed again for two and three months respectively. Later reminisces recalled many a "desperate and more or less bloody struggle" between later parish constables Richard Davis and Tom Walker and a Perry or two. 

Later generations of Perry men clocked up their own poaching convictions too. The last I saw evidenced was in the 1930s.

Of course not all Perry men poached. I think it is fair to say too that the family seemed to have been thought of affectionately by those reminiscing about the old poaching days. If you weren't a poacher or an official they may have been perfectly nice to you. Something made those 100 people come out to support William that time. Poachers were arrested all the time, especially in Dean Street without the arresting officials being subjected to that much hatred.

The Perry women had no criminal convictions that I can find except Keziah (née Warwick married 1853) wife of a James Perry. She managed to get into a fair amount of trouble generally and was jailed in for stealing money from a shop till. I am uncertain how this James relates to the poaching Perry family above. He was the son of James and Ellen/ Eleanor. His brother Joseph went on to be landlord of the Fighting Cocks.

Sarah Perry mother of the Perry poachers and widow of Joseph worked as a lacemaker during her long widowhood. Elizabeth wife of John (née Coleshill m 1832) was a seamstress.

The trade of wooden skewer making was once a Marlow speciality. Various Perry men worked in that trade and and are amongst those that are featured in this skewer making post.

There was a wealthy lawyer named Nicholas Perry in Marlow in the 1600s. I have transcribed his will and it can be read here.  There were Perry residents of Dean Street by the mid 1780s.

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Post written and researched by Charlotte Day, with additional research by Kathryn Day. 

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

Sources:

Censuses Great Marlow 1841, 51, 61, 71, 81 my transcription from microfilm.

Great Marlow Parish Registers, my transcriptions.

GRO Marriage Index.

Property records in my family.

Reading Mercury May 1840, 2nd December 1844.

Windsor and Eton Express 27th October 1838, 15th August 1840, 26th February 1842.

Bucks Herald 17th July 1841 and 14th August 1880.

Bucks Gazette 5th March 1831.

South Bucks Standard 25th October 1884 & 7th April 1899

Newspaper copies above are in the British Library Archives and supplied by the BNA.