WOODCOTE GREEN HOUSE
and
OTHER WOODCOTE HOUSES ii iii 1. Woodcote Green House, 31st July 1991.
iv WOODCOTE GREEN HOUSE
and
OTHER WOODCOTE HOUSES
JOHN PARSLOE
Epsom 2007
Revised 2021
v vi CONTENTS
Page
ILLUSTRATIONS ix
PREFACE xiii
ABBREVIATIONS xv
PART ONE WOODCOTE GREEN HOUSE 1
1. Owners and Occupiers after 1846 3 Auction Particulars – The Northey Family – Guerin – Macdonald – Trevelyan – Fuller – Jones – Bischoff – The Buller Family – Deaths – Nina and Dorothy Buller at Woodcote Green House – John Dashwood Buller and Dorothy’s Will – Mr. Philip Marshall – Addenda
2. After the Northeys 37 Division and Conversion – Recent owners
3. The Bevans 41
4. The Smiths 47 George Anthony Smith – George Smith – The Smith Family – The Smiths in Epsom – Samuel Smith II – The Watsons – Samuel Smith III – Addendum
5. Before 1780 61 Evidence – Woodcote in 1792 – The 1680 Survey – The Green – John Maund’s Will – Sale and Further Descent of Woodcote Green House (Milton) – The 1755 Survey – Richard Peters and Mary Sparks - The 1762 Deeds of Exchange – Addenda
6. The House 95 Descriptions – The Original Building – Hayters and Wallpaper – Samuel Smith’s Reconstruction – George Smith’s Changes – The Nineteenth Century – The Twentieth Century – The Garden and Outbuildings – Addenda
vii PART TWO OTHER WOODCOTE HOUSES 121
7. Lost and Found – Other Woodcote Green houses 123 The Maund Estate – Location of Hilman properties – Ellicar – Fencing – Seven Hilman Properties on or near Woodcote Green – William Betts acquires Ellicar I and Ellicar II – Hilman and Ellicar Properties reunited – Sales – The 1755 Survey and Mrs. Stephens’ Will – Two Exchanges – Location and ownership of the lost Hilman properties – Conclusion – Addenda
8. Woodcote Place and the White House 155 Summary – Acquisition of Woodcote Place by Anthony Stephens – Acquisition of the White House by Anthony Stevens – The Stephens’ ownership – Samuel Smith’s purchase – Road diversion – The Elmslies and later history of the house – Addenda
9. Woodcote House 173 Summary – Building History – Edward Wenyeve and the Doghouse – The Berkeleys acquire the Doghouse – The ‘newly erected messuage’ – Northey’s purchase of the Doghouse – Origins of Woodcote House – Northey’s Will – The Doghouse in the Deed of 17th April, 1708 – The 1755 Survey – The two Woodcote Greens and Clay Lane – Addenda
10. Maidstone House, its customary lands, and the Amato 17 Summary – Berkeley ownership – Northey purchase – The 1727 Maidstone House Deed – The Amato – Later references to Maidstone House – Addenda
11. The Durdans 197 The Berkeley family – The Durdans – Lord Berkeley inherits – Sales – Addenda
APPENDICES:
I. Woodcote Green House Descent in Northey Family – Registration of Title – Land Cerificates 205
II. Marriage of Caroline Buller and Edward Giberne 211
III. The Fire: Wednesday , 17th December 1986 215
INDEX 219
viii ILLUSTRATIONS
Page
1. Woodcote Green House, 31st July, 1991. frontispiece
2. Woodcote Green House: top page of 1846 Auction Particulars. 4
3. Woodcote Green House: page 3 of 1846 Auction Particulars. 5
4. E.R. Northey’s account for the purchase of Woodcote Green House 7
5. (a) Edward Richard Northey 1795 – 1858. 8 (b) The Reverend Edward William Northey 1832 – 1914. “
6. (a) Major General Sir Edward Northey 1868 – 1953. 9 (b) The Major General with his sons, Edward George Vernon Northey and Rudolf William Anson Northey. “
7. Studio portraits of Charles Bischoff junior. 19
8. The Sandelsons’ picture of the House 38
9. Smith Pedigree. 46
10. 1866 Ordnance Survey Map (features in Woodcote area). 60
11. John Maund and his relations. 67
12. The Peters Family. 68
13. The Lish and Sparks Families. 69
14. 1821 Map of diversion of footpath. Woodcote Green Road and Chalk Lane section enlarged. 76
15. (a) The alcove uncovered with the original plaster. 89 (b) The trompe l’oeil window covering the newly bricked up alcove. “ (c) A piece of the George 1st wall paper in the main bedroom. “ (d) George 1st tax stamp on back of wallpaper. “
ix 16. (a) Staircase from downstairs hall. 90 (b) Looking down from the top of the staircase. “
17. (a) Downstairs arch. 91 (b) Upstairs arch from the staircase. “
18. (a) Papier maché ceiling over staircase. 92 (b) Details of the ceiling and its central boss. “
19. (a) The fitted bookcase in the study. 93 (b) Detail of applied moulding on bookcase. “
20. (a) “Coade” sitting room fireplace. 94 (b) Close-up of garlands, fruit baskets, and marriage of Cupid and Psyche. “ (c) Duck nest fireplace in back bedroom. “
21. (a) Dining room fireplace. 95 (b) Chair-rail in hall passageway showing zigzag pattern. “
22. (a) The back of the house with Woodcote Place (now Westgate House) in the background. 96 (b) Detail of the back door and the pillars at the back of the house. “
23. (a) 1838 Guardians Map – enlargement showing Woodcote area. 100 (b) Enlargement of above showing Woodcote Green House. “
24. (a) 1843 Tithe Map showing Woodcote area. 101 (b) Enlargement of above showing Woodcote Green House. “
25. 1850 Cholera Map showing close-up of Woodcote Green House. 102
26. 1852 Map: enlargements showing the Woodcote area and Woodcote Green House. 103
27. 1866 Ordnance Survey Map: enlargements showing the Woodcote area and Woodcote Green House. 104
28. (a) 1896 Ordnance Survey Map: enlargement showing Woodcote Green House. 105 (b) 1913 Ordnance Survey Map: enlargement showing Woodcote Green House. “ (c) 1952 Ordnance Survey Map: enlargement showing Woodcote Green House. “ (d) 1961 Ordnance Survey Map: enlargement showing Woodcote Green House. “
29. (a) Plan for new bathroom and lavatory: side elevation. 115 (b) Plan for new bathroom and lavatory: front elevation. “ (c) Plan for new bathroom and lavatory: ground floor. “ (d) Plan for new bathroom and lavatory: 1st floor. “
x 30. Plan for Mrs. Buller’s Motor Shed. 116
31. 1954 Conversion Plans (1): Ground Floor. 117
32. 1954 Conversion Plans (2): First Floor. 118
33. 1954 Conversion Plans (3): Boundaries. 119
34. 1954 Conversion Plans (4): Bungalow and Garage. 120
35. 1866 Ordnance Survey map with old Woodcote Green house 124 and other features superimposed.
36. 124(a) Garden of Woodcote Green House looking west to site of old stables. 142 (b)Foundations of the old stables in the garden of Woodcote Green House “
37. (a) John Senex’s 1729 Map of Surrey: enlargement of Epsom area. 146 (b) Enlargement showing Woodcote House and probably six other houses. “
38. (a) John Rocque’s map of Surrey: enlargement of Epsom area. 147 (b) Enlargement of above with Woodcote House and Woodcote Green House. “
39. (a) 1789-90 Wardley and Crosley Map: enlargement of Woodcote area. 148 (b) Map from Companion from London to Brighthelmston. “ (c) 1816 Old Series Ordnance Survey, Enlargement showing Epsom and Woodcote area. “ (d) 1823 Greenwood Map: enlargement showing Woodcote area. “
40. (a) Map of Epsom probably dated between 1800 and 1804. 149 (b) Enlargement of map showing Woodcote Green and Woodcote Park. “
41. (a) Woodcote Place (now Westgate House) 1910. 152 (b) Woodcote Place from the back (showing later Venetian window). “
42. 1804 Map showing proposed diversion of Worple Road. 153
43. Page 1 of 1889 Auction Particulars of Woodcote Place. 154
44. Part of plan attached to 1889 Auction Particulars of Woodcote Place. 155
45. Woodcote House 1823. 172
46. Woodcote House 1830. 173
47. Outline Northey Pedigree. 174
xi 48. (a) Woodcote House refurbishment 2005. View of two of the ocular basement windows. 179 (b) Woodcote House refurbishment 2005. Enlarged view of the ocular basement window. “
49. (a) Sir Edward Northey 1652 – 1723. 180 (b) Lady Anne Northey, wife of Sir Edward, with her daughter Anne. “
50. Edward Northey 1691 – 1774 by Charles Phillips. 181
51. 1829 Map showing stopping up of Clay Lane. 187
52. Maidstone House (formerly York House). 188
53. (a) The Durdans (Jacob Knyff). 198 (b) Close up of top right of Knyff’s picture of the Durdans. “
54. (a) George 1st Earl Berkeley. 200 (b) The Durdans – painting by Jacob Scmits. “
55. (a) Woodcote Green looking east. 206 (b) Woodcote Green looking west. “
xii PREFACE
When I retired in 1999, I decided to write an account of our house – something I had attempted some twenty years before and had had to abandon for lack of time.
I imagined it would be quite a simple and short task but it has proved complicated and involved research into a number of neighbouring properties.
First, to establish the occupiers of the house during the census years, I had to set up a database of all the householders in the Woodcote area for each of the census years.
Next a stroke of luck led me to the Smiths who owned the property before the censuses. However the period before 1780 proved more difficult and involved recourse to the voluminous Northey records in the Surrey History Centre. From these it became apparent that there were a number of houses on Woodcote Green in the eighteenth century of which no published record existed. These had to be researched to establish the history of Woodcote Green House
I felt the records of other Woodcote houses could be of interest and therefore have divided the book into two parts. The first traces the history of Woodcote Green House and the second that of other Woodcote houses.
Part One describes in some detail the owners and occupiers of Woodcote Green House from its origin in the last quarter of the seventeenth century to the present day. It also gives details of the house and its principal features. Part Two records the history of six previously unknown houses on Woodcote Green and is followed by chapters on Westgate House, Maidstone House, the origins of Woodcote House, and the Durdans.
Each chapter has a number of footnotes indicated by superscribed numbers in the text. Longer notes are in the Addenda to each chapter and are indicated in the text by a superscribed capital letter These are such items as the Latin descriptions of parcels of land, notes on Wills, census returns, etc. Square brackets enclose editorial content, particularly my amateur attempts to expand abbreviated Latin words.Original spelling has been left unchanged but some punctuation has been added.
I have noted the errors of others but am sure the book contains many of my own. I hope, nevertheless, that it will be of interest to those who are familiar with the Woodcote area as it contains much new material. I leave it to another to research the area between Woodcote Green Road and Dorking Road The illustrations of the Northey family (nos.5, 6, 47, and 48) are included because of the kindness of Martin Northey who, in addition to giving me a copy of his father’s History of the Northey Family, made copies of his splendid family pictures and portraits especially for me to include in this book. I thank him most warmly and I also thank the following for permission to include the illustrations noted:
xiii Berkeley Castle Charitable Trust: no. 49(a), Bourne Hall Museum and Library: nos. 2, 3, 9, 20 – 25, 32, 40, 41, 43, and 44, Mr. Ian West: no. 38, Sotheby’s: no. 48 and 49(b), and Surrey History Centre: nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 19(a), 36(b), 39, and 46.
I am most grateful to Jeremy Harte at the Bourne Hall Museum, and to the ever-patient staff at the Surrey History Centre. I have also received much help from the various individuals and institutions cited, and particularly from David Beasley of The Goldsmiths’ Company, Paul Carter of the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library, Erika Ingham of the National Portrait Gallery, Jenny Mountain of The Royal Bank of Scotland, and Andrew Welton of The Law Society.
Finally I thank my wife, Maggie, and my friend, Ian West, for reading the proofs and for their many constructive and helpful comments. Any further comments or corrections will be kept in Bourne Hall library.
I hope, around the year 2300, a future occupant of the house will update this account with its history over the next three hundred years.
John Parsloe Epsom 2007
xiv ABBREVIATIONS
1680 Survey Presentments of the [Epsom] Court Baron and of Survey held on 11th March, 1679[/80] and adjourned by several adjournments until 10th June next [i.e.1680] – S.H.C.: K31/4/1 1687 Lease Lease dated 26th June, 1687 between Sarah Holland (1) and Daniel Ellicar (2) – S.H.C.: 2238/10/93 1696 &1699 Lease and Release dated 18th and 19th September, 1696, and Fencing Leases Lease dated 16th March, 1699[/1700], between Sarah Holland(1) and Sir Edward Northey (2) – S.H.C.: 3636/Boxes 3, 4, and 20 1706[/7] Fine Deed A Deed in contemplation of a Fine dated 26th February, 1706[/7] between Daniel Hilman (1) James Cutler (2) and Philip Constable (3) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 4 1707 Lease and Release Lease and Release dated 26th and 27th August, 1707 between Daniel and Sarah Hilman and Philip Constable (1) James Cutler (2) Sir Edward Northey (3) Daniel Ellicar (4) John Wrench (5) and William Lany (6) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 4 1710 Lease and Release Lease and Release by way of re-mortgage dated 30th and 31st October, 1710 between Daniel and Sarah Hilman and Philip Constable (1) Sir Edward Northey (2) and William Betts and William Lany (3) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6 1727 Maidstone House Deed Deed of Enfranchisement dated 15th May, 1727 between John Parkhurst (1) Dame Anne Northey and Edward Northey (2) and Richard Ryves (3) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 3 1733[/34] Lease and Release Lease and Release dated 24th and 25th February, 1733[/4] between Elizabeth Bayliss (1) and Charles Holland (2) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6 1740 Lease and Release Lease and Release dated 2nd and 3rd November, 1740 between Ann Bayliss and Daniel Bayliss (1) and James Oliver (2) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6 1740[/41] Lease and Release Lease and Release dated 19th and 20th March, 1740[/41] between James Oliver (1) Ann Bayliss and Daniel Bayliss (2) and John Manley and John Robins (3) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5 1744[/45] Lease and Release Lease and Release dated 1st and 2nd January, 1744[/45] between John Manley junior (1) and Mary Stephens (2) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5 1746 Fine Deed Deed of Covenant to levy a Fine dated 1st October, 1746 between John Manley junior (1) and Hugh William Pritchard (2) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6 1746 Lease and Release Lease and Release dated 3rd and 4th September, 1746 between John Manley junior (1) and William Daniel (2) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6 1751 Lease and Release Lease and Release dated 7th and 8th June, 1751 between John Manley junior, William Kentish, Thomas Pawson and Ann Behrens (1) and Edward Northey (2) – S.H.C.: 4073/11
xv 1755 Survey Presentments of the [Epsom] Court Baron and of Survey held on Monday 8th September, 1755 and adjourned by several adjournments until Monday 5th January, 1756 – S.H.C.: K31/4/2 1757 Deeds of Exchange Lease and Release by way of exchange dated 4th and 5th April, 1757 between Edward Northey (1) and John Howe and his wife Caroline, Margaret Mortimer, John Merricks and his wife Elizabeth Stephens and Susannah Woodyer and Penelope Woodyer (2) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 8 1762 Deeds of Exchange Lease and Release by way of exchange dated 25th and 26th January, 1762 between Edward Northey (1) and William Daniel (2) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6 1843 Tithe Map Copy of 1838 Poor Law Guardians’ map (N.A. (Kew): IR/77/75) made for the Tithe Commisisoners with Schedule (N.A. (Kew): Copy map: IR30/34/50: Schedule IR/29/34/50) Andrews Andrews’ Epsom Street Directory Brayley Brayley, E. R. A Topographical History of Surrey 1st Ed: Vol. 4, 1848 Burke Burke’s Peerage Baronetage and Knightage 100th Edition, London, 1953, or as indicated Burke’s Landed Gentry Burke’s Landed Gentry 18th Edn. 1965, or as indicated Cloudesley Willis Willis, Cloudesley S., F.S.A. Old Houses in Epsom, Ewell and Cuddington Surrey Archaeological Collections, Vol. LI, 1946 Companion Companion from London to Brighthelmston, in Sussex; T.P. III. ?Surveyed 1790. Published 1801.– S.H.C. Library Dent Dent, John The Quest for Nonsuch Hutchinson 1962 Furniss Furniss, John Epsom Talk of the Town Furniss 1992 Gen. Soc. The Genealogical Society Home Gordon Home, Epsom Its History and its Surroundings, 1901 Hunter Hunter, Archie, Wellington’s Scapegoat: The tragedy of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bevan Bradford: Pen and Sword 2003 John Maund’s Will Will dated 24th December, 1686 and proved 18th March, 1686[/87] of John Maund of Epsome Gent – N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/386/40 Kelly Kelly’s Street Directory, Epsom Lehmann Lehmann, Dr. H.L. The Residential Copyholds of Epsom Epsom and Ewell Borough Council, 1987 Leighton-Boyce Leighton-Boyce, J.A.S.L. Smiths the Bankers 1658 – 1958 National Provincial Bank: 1958 Buildings of Department of the Environment List of Buildings of or Architectural Historic Architectural or Historic Interest – Borough of Epsom and Ewell, Interest 22nd March 1974 IGI International Genealogical Index L.M.A. London Metropolitan Archives Manning and Bray Manning and Bray The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey 1804 –14 Mr Smith goes to China Hunter, Jessica Mr Smith goes to China Yale University Press 2019 N.A. (Kew) National Archives (Kew) Northey Family E.G.V.Northey The History of the Northey Family 1988 (unpublished booklet)
xvi O.E.D. Oxford English Dictionary O.I.O.C. Oriental and India Office Collections, British Library Pownall Some Particulars relating to the History of Epsom by an Inhabitant Epsom, W. Dorling, 1825 [The author is Henry Pownall]. S.H.C. Surrey History Centre Smith Pedigree Percy-Smith, Rev. H. T. Pedigree of the Smiths of Cropwell- Butler and Nottingham Part 1: Including Dorien Smiths, Bromleys, Pauncefoots etc. Part 2: Including Marquis of Lincolnshire and the Carringtons 1934 Swete C.J. Swete, M.A. A Hand-Book of Epsom Epsom c.1860 V.C.H. Victoria County History, Surrey White George White, Epsom Notebook to 1898 S.H.C.: 6036/3/1
xvii xviii PART ONE
WOODCOTE GREEN HOUSE
1 2 Chapter 1: OWNERS AND OCCUPIERS AFTER 1846
Auction Particulars The key to the owners and occupiers of Woodcote Green House was sent to me by Jeremy Harte, the curator of the Bourne Hall museum in Ewell. This was in 1993, some 16 years after my wife, Maggie, and I purchased 1 Woodcote Green House. The key was a copy of the particulars and conditions of sale for the auction of the house on 4th September, 1846. Jeremy Harte had come across it when sorting a deposit of papers of the Northey family which he was checking for the Surrey County Record Office (now the Surrey History Centre in Woking).1
The Particulars describe the property as; "A Desirable Freehold Estate situate within half a mile of the Town of Epsom consisting of a Genteel Brick-Built House situate at Woodcote Green many years in the occupancy of the late Mrs. Bevan, and now of Mons. Guerin."
They continue: "The House is of neat elevation and well adapted for a moderate sized genteel Family. There is a Court Yard, with Coach-House and Offices, moderate sized lawn and an excellent garden.
The whole property is free of Land Tax. To be sold by auction, by Mr. W. Butcher at the Spread Eagle Inn, Epsom, on Friday, the 4th of September, 1846, at Three for Four o’Clock, exact time."
The more detailed description runs: "The House contains on the Ground Floor, A Dining Room, 18 Feet by 16; Library, Larder, Pantry, Kitchen, and Scullery. The one-pair2 Floor has A Cheerful Drawing Room, 19 Feet by 16. Three very good Bedrooms, and a Store Room. Upon the two-pair Are three Attics, Principal and secondary Staircases. Wine and Ale Cellars. Small pleasure ground, and productive garden, A Well of excellent spring water, A Court Yard in which is placed a coach-house, stable, harness room, and sundry out-buildings."
The particulars also state that the premises are let to Mons. Guerin, a Quarterly Tenant, at only £34 per annum.
1 The original auction particulars are now there (S.H.C.: 6143/4). 2 one-pair’ is the first floor and ‘two-pair’ the second floor 3 Woodcote Green House
2. Woodcote Green House: top page of 1846 Auction Particulars.
4 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
3.. Woodcote Green House: page 3 of 1846 Auction Particulars.
5 Woodcote Green House
Finally one of the conditions of sale is that title shall commence with indentures of lease and release bearing date respectively the 19th and 20th day of January, 1796, the release being made between Thomas Smith, Jasper Atkinson and William Smith, devisees in trust of the Will of Samuel Smith of the one part and George Smith of the other part. The condition then explains that there is no covenant for production of the documents recited in the release and that only attested copies of the indentures of lease and release are in the Vendor’s possession, the originals having been delivered to a purchaser of other property to which they relate.
The Particulars can be obtained at various Inns in neighbouring towns, and of J.J.Pocock3, Esq. No. 27, Lincolns Inn Fields, and of Mr. W. Butcher, Estate Agent, Epsom.
There is a note on the particulars ‘Gardom £720’. George Gardom was an Epsom auctioneer and probably acted as agent for the local squire, E.R.Northey who bought the property for this sum. E.R. Northey lived at Woodcote House and a copy of his account with J. I. Pocock survives. John Innes Pocock was his solicitor. The account was settled on 14th April, 1847 and on the back is noted ‘Purchase of Woodcote Green House by my Grandfather in Sept 1846 for £720! E.N.’ and in another hand ‘Woodcote Green House Mrs. Buller’.4
The Northey Family5 The Northeys came to Epsom at the end of the seventeenth century. Sir Edward Northey (1651- 1723), was Attorney General from 1701 to 1707 and from 1710 to 1718. He bought a house and land in Woodcote from Lord Berkeley and then built or refurbished a house on it which was called Woodcote House. The house was partly rebuilt in the nineteenth century and still stands, though now divided into flats.
The E.R. Northey who bought Woodcote Green House was Edward Richard Northey of Woodcote House - a great grandson of Sir Edward. He was born in 1795 and fought in the battle of Waterloo. He was a distinguished soldier who eventually became High Sheriff of Surrey. His first marriage on 29th March, 1828 was to Charlotte Isabella Anson, a niece of the 1st Viscount Anson. She died on 18th January, 1842. He married secondly, on 20 Dec. 1844, Louisa Mary Ann Hesketh, daughter of the Reverend Robert Hesketh, M.A., of Epsom. He died on 21st December, 1878,6 leaving Woodcote House to his eldest son, the Reverend Edward William Northey but Woodcote Green House (then leased to ‘Mr. Jones’) and other property to his wife Louisa, for life or during her widowhood.7
3 An error for ‘J.I.Pocock’. 4 Or possibly, but unlikely, ‘Mr. Buller’. S.H.C: 3636/Box20. 5 Information on the family from Furniss, John Epsom Talk of the Town Furniss 1992, p.27-28. Descent from S.H.C.: 4531/2&3 and Burke’s Peerage Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edition, London, 1953. 6 Mr. Edward Richard Northey, of Woodcote-house, Epsom, who served in the Peninsular War, died on the 21st. inst. He was born in 1795, entered the 52d Light Infantry in 1811, and served with the regiment in the Peninsular War in 1813, being present at six engagements, including Vitoria, in which battle he was wounded by a shell. He also served in the Battle of Waterloo, after which, as a captain in the 52d, he exchanged into the Scots Fusilier Guards for a short time, where he finished his military career, having received the Peninsular medal with six clasps and the medal for Waterloo. Mr. Northey was a justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant for the county of Surrey, and was high sheriff in 1856. The Times, 24 December, 1878, p.3, col.d. 7 In his Will, dated 27th August, 1877 (proved 21st December, 1878), among other items, Northey leaves Woodcote Green House and a rent charge on it of £340 to his second wife, Louisa, for life or during her widowhood. In a codicil of 31st May, 1878 he reduces the rent charge to £240 per annum on the grounds that ‘I have left a house & Garden during her Widowhood the rent or value of which exceeds the difference between the two rent charges’.Perhaps other members of the family thought he had been too generous to his second wife. See also Note 32.Louisa died on 30th December, 1885 and was then living at Downside, another Northey property in Epsom. The name registered at death was Louisa Marianne Northey. The Reverend Edward William Northey will then have inherited Woodcote Green House
6 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
4. E.R. Northey’s receipted account for the purchase of Woodcote Green House with part of the back showing his grandson, the Major General’s, comment.
7 Woodcote Green House
5(a). Edward Richard Northey 1795 – 1858.
5(b). The Reverend Edward William Northey 1832 – 1914.
8 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
6(a). Major General Sir Edward Northey 1868 – 1953
6(b). The Major General with his eldest son, Edward George Vernon Northey (1910 – 2004), on the right and his younger son, Rudolf William Anson Northey (1912 – ), on the left,
9 Woodcote Green House
The Reverend Edward William Northey was born on 23rd April, 1832. He is somewhat archaically described in the 1881 census as being a clergyman without cure of souls. However he purchased the Lordships of the Manor of Ewell, Cuddington and Cheam and became a Surrey County Councillor with an interest in education. He married Florence Elizabeth Honywood, having executed a settlement in contemplation of marriage on 21st August, 1867. He died on 21st October, 1914 having by Deed Poll on 14th August, 1914 conveyed to his wife Florence a life interest in various mortgaged properties, including Woodcote Green House (but excluding Woodcote House), with remainder in tail mail to his eldest son, Edward Northey, who was born on 28th May, 1868.
On 11th May, 1920, the widowed Florence Northey conveyed her life interest in the mortgaged properties to her son, then Major General Sir Edward Northey, who recorded his grandfather’s purchase of Woodcote Green House on the auction particulars. Sir Edward disentailed the properties on the following day and redeemed the mortgages on 20th February, 1921.
On 5th April, 1936, the Major General gave various properties including Woodcote Green House to his only son Edward George Vernon Northey. Vernon is the family name of the Ansons. The Northeys have now left Epsom and the current head of the family is Edward Martin Anthony, son of Edward George Vernon Northey.
John Furniss describes the Major-General (who was a regular customer of the Furniss coal merchant business) as: “the dapper Major General Sir Edward Northey (known as ‘Eddie’). A rosy face, a military moustache, a straw boater, a monocle and a cane – ‘the very model of a modern Major General’ in fact. Sir Edward went to Eton and Sandhurst, was an excellent all-round sportsman, who regrettably lost an eye playing polo in Kenya. He served in South Africa from 1897.”8
The Furniss family were Coal and Corn Merchants and the Major General would personally invite John’s father, William George Furniss, in for a glass of sherry when placing his order for coal. ‘Etiquette from another era’ as John Furniss comments. The Major General died on Christmas Day, 1953.
It is thus a simple matter to list the Northey owners of the property;9 by contrast it is more difficult to identify all the occupants. No Northey records of their tenants in survive. Reliance has to be had on the census records from 1841-1901, supplemented by the 1843 Tithe Map and its Schedule, and a number of voting lists, directories and rating lists.
8 Furniss, p.28. Burke : NORTHEY, Major-Gen. Sir Edward, G.C.M.G. (1922), K.C.M.G. (1918), C.B. (1917); F.R.G.S.; F.Z.S.; late King’s Royal Rifle Corps; joined 1888, Lt.-Col. 1911, Col. 1915, and Major-Gen. 1918; hon. Col. 9th Lond. Regt., T.A., 1934; A.D.C. to H.M. 1916-18; cmd’d Nyasaland-Rhodesia F.F. 1917-18; apptd. Gov. of Brit. E. Africa and High Commr. for Zanzibar 1918; Gov. and C.-in-C. of Kenya 1920-22, and G.O.C. 43rd (Wessex) DIV. T.A. and S.W. Area 1924-26; served in Hazara Expdn. 1891 (medal and clasp), in Miranzai Expdn. 1891 (clasp), in Isazai Expdn. 1892, in S. Africa 1899-1902 (despatches twice, two medals, seven clasps), and in World War 1 (despatches five times, brevet, C.B., promotion); Cmdr. Mil. Order of Avis of Portugal, and Offr. French Legion of Honour, and has 1st cl. Brilliant Star of Zanzibar; b. 28 May, 1868 eldest son of Rev. Edward William Northey (d. 21 Oct. 1914), of Woodcote House, Epsom (see Burke’s Landed Gentry.), m. 30 April, 1897, Evangeline (d. 2 Jan. 1941), dau. of Daniel Cloete, of Wynberg, S. Africa, and has issue, 2 sons, and 3 daus. Address -The Glebe Farm, Hinton Waldrist, Berks. 9 See Appendix 1A. for details.
10 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
The property was not called Woodcote Green House in any census before 1901 and there is confusion and variation in the names of roads in the various censuses. Nevertheless the census returns for the whole of Woodcote have been analysed and, by noting the order of entries, the occupants of Woodcote Green House have been determined.10
Guerin On the night of Sunday, June 6th, 1841, the house was occupied by Augustin Hippolite Guerin (40), his wife Adelaide (40) and his three children, Clara (15), Augustin (14) and Adelaide Sophie (11) together with two servants, Mary Edwards and Harriet Coleman, and a Mary Smith (25) who was of independent means. All the Guerin family are described as being born in foreign parts which implies that they came to England before 1830.A
In the Schedule to the 1843 Tithe Map, Mr.Guerin is still there as occupier while the owner is George Smith.11 Mr. or Mons. Guerin was, as stated in the Auction Particulars, still there in 1846 as a quarterly tenant, but, by 1851 when the next census was held, he had moved. It is tempting to guess that he would not pay E.R.Northey an increase in the rent which at the date of the auction was ‘only’ £34 per annum.
The Guerin family stayed in Epsom and are found in 1851 at South Street. By then both daughters were married. Clara married a chemist, Frederic Oxley, the son of James Oxley, a merchant, at St. Martin’s Church in Epsom on 23rd March, 1848. Then, almost three years later, on 6th March, 1851, Adelaide (as Adelaide Sophie) was married in the same church to Nicolas Poncon. Nicolas is rather charmingly described as a culinary artist and son of Antoine Poncon, wine grower.12
Eight days later, on the census night of Sunday 31st March, 1851, the newly married Poncons were living with Augustin and Adelaide in South Street, but the other children had left. There was also a lodger there, Mary Wilkinson, and her widowed companion, Clara Collins, both of whom were annuitants; lastly there were two servants, Lucy Chaucer and Maria Nicholas, Adelaide was born in Normandy while Augustin and the Poncons were born in Paris.B The Oxleys, on this night, were living at 3 Church Street with their 8 month old child, Adèlie.13
10 Woodcote House, Woodcote Place (now Westgate House), The Ladas, Woodcote Villa, and the cottages on the west side of Chalk Lane, are usually easily identifiable. A house with servants in this area, otherwise unidentified, has therefore to be Woodcote Green House. 11 i.e. Copy of 1838 Poor Law Guardians’ map (N.A. (Kew): IR/77/75) made for the Tithe Commisisoners with Schedule (N.A. (Kew): Copy map: IR30/34/50: Schedule IR/29/34/50). Schedule p.45: No on map: 1538 Owner: Smith George Occupier: Guerin Mr. Description: House garden etc. Acres-Poles-Perches: 0-2-14 Payable to Vicar: 7/6 Payable to Parkhurst - - - 12 St. Martin’s Marriage Register: On 23rd March, 1848, Clara GUERIN, Spinster, of full age, of Epsom, daughter of Augustus Guerin, gentleman, married Frederic OXLEY, Bachelor, of full age, Chemist, of Epsom, son of James Oxley, merchant Witnesses: A. Guerin: Joseph Oxley: Jn Taylor: Adelaide Guerin: Caroline Oxley: Mary Bramley
On 6th March, 1851, Adelaide Sophie GUERIN, Spinster, of full age, of Epsom, daughter of Augustin Hippolyte Guerin, gentleman, married Nicolas PONCON, Widower, of full age, Culinary Artist, of Epsom, son of Antoine Poncon, wine grower Witnesses: A.H.Guerin: Frederic Oxley: Clara Oxley: Mary E. Edwards: Louisa Nevill 13 1851 census: HO 107/1592, Enumeration District No. 4eB, f.400v., p.1.
11 Woodcote Green House
Between 1850 and 1863 the Oxleys baptised two boys and three girls at St. Martin’s but also buried one boy and one girl.C As a result, in the 1871 census, they had three children, Adèle, (referred to as Adèle L.), Maria and Frederic. They were living in the High Street, Epsom, presumably where Frederic senior carried on his chemist’s business in what is still a chemist’s shop.14 Clara herself died in 1894 and was buried on 19th April, 1894 aged 69. Her address is still High Street. Her full name given at her burial was August Adelaide Clara Oxley but August has not been found elsewhere.
Augustin and Adelaide Guerin had moved again by the time of the 1861 census and were at the newly built Durdans Lodge (now 6 Woodcote Road) with just one servant Mary Smith, who was perhaps the same person as the Mary Smith described as independent in the 1841 census.D
Adelaide died and was buried, aged 69, probably in the churchyard of St. Martin’s, on 21st January, 1871, as Victoire Adelaide Guerin. In the census of that year Augustin has Mary Wilkinson back. She is described as a lunatic and has an attendant, Joe Collins, who is presumably a daughter of Clara Collins. There are also two new servants, Emily Woller and Eliza Benham.E
Augustin was buried on 21st March, 1874, aged 73, also probably in the churchyard. Somewhat curiously Durdans Lodge was still described as in his occupation when the copyhold was sold in November of that year. Previously, in 1868, it was stated to be in the occupation of Hildebrand Guerin, otherwise unknown.15
Augustin is often referred to as Augustus and the spelling of Guerin varies.
Macdonald Sometime after 1846, the Guerins left and Northey apparently let the property to William Macdonald.
The 1851 census entry for the night of Sunday 30th March shows the head of the household as William Mackdonald16 (51), a trainer and jockey born in Shoreditch. He had a wife Sarah (41) born in Tillingham, Essex and there were two servants, Martha Hooker and John Hall.F It is seems likely that William was employed by Northey.
14 1871 census: RG 10/798, Enumeration District No. 4G, f.64v., p.36. 15 On 7th May, 1868 following the death of Lawrence Langlands, builder, his son Charles John Langlands, auctioneer, was admitted to “four copyhold houses in New Inn Lane now held on lease by Mr. Guerrien, the messuage on the west side of the lane leading from the parish of Epsom to Woodcote Grove, formerly in the occupation of Rebecca Wright, since of Charles Burnett Wright, Messrs. Hoare Mercer and another, now of Hildebrand Guerrin.” On 16th November, 1874, “Charles John Langlands, auctioneer and estate agent, sold for £500 the property, now in the occupation of Augustin Hippolite Guerrin, to Edward Alers Hankey of Epsom, Esq., who had it enfranchised, four copyhold houses in New Inn Lane, being with additional tenements erected on the same ground, or by conversion of others, the same premises as were heretofore described as the messuage on the west side of the lane leading from the parish of Epsom towards Woodcote Grove.” (Lehmann p.103). It appears therefore that Durdans Lodge was one of four copyhold houses all of which were let to Guerin and one of which was in 1868 occupied or let to Hildebrand Guerin. Could she have been a sister? 16 The correct spelling is clearly Macdonald as appears from his marriage and death certificates and the entry in the 1861 census for his widowed wife Sarah.
12 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
The couple were married in the parish church of St. Leonard, Shoreditch on 14th December, 1837. Sarah’s full name was Sarah Butcher Powl. She was a spinster of full age living at Kingston Road and her father was Joseph Powl, a harness maker. William Macdonald was a bachelor, also of full age, living in Tottenham and, somewhat surprisingly, described as Gentleman; his deceased father, Alexander Macdonald, had been a hairdresser. The witnesses were Isaac Turner and Elizabeth ?Payne.
William Macdonald died on 3rd June, 1856 at 20 Sun Street, Bishopsgate. He was aged 57 and his occupation is given as ‘formerly a jockey’. The cause of death is given as ‘Apoplexy of the lungs Haemorrhage from the same Convulsions Exhaustion Certified’. The informant who was present at the death was Frances Jackson of 11 Peter Street, Bishopsgate, who signs by mark.
Sarah Macdonald appears in the 1861 census living in Eagle Cottages, East Street, Epsom with her cousin, Mary A. Smith. Sarah is a widow, aged 51, and an annuitant. Mary is aged 19, of no occupation, and was born in Burnham, Essex. There is one servant, Mary A. Burroughs. Apparently in the same house but with a different schedule number is a lodger called Alice D. Clark (who is a proprietor of houses) and her daughter Alice Clark.G
In the following year, Sarah remarried. On 30th April, 1862, Daniel Ambrose Spooner married Sarah Butcher Macdonald at St. George’s, Hanover Square, Middlesex. Daniel was of full age, a widower and a coachman then residing at Torwood, Torquay. His father was William Spooner, a Livery Stable Keeper. Sarah was of full age, a widow, residing at George Street, daughter of Joseph Powl, Harness Maker, as before. It will be seen that Sarah’s father and both her husbands were involved with horses.
Trevelyan A widow, Ann Trevelyan, occupied the house on the census night of Sunday, April 7th, 1861. With her were two of her daughters, Helen and Julia Trevelyan, her youngest child George, a nurse Ann Steer (even though George was 13 years old), an unmarried housemaid, Emma Slatford, and a gardener, Thomas Slatford, who was presumably Emma’s brother.H
Ann was the daughter of Ann and Henry Gosse Esq. She was born on 22nd May, 1814 and baptised at St. Martin’s on 5th October, 1820; her brother, Henry, was born on 18th April, 1816 and was also baptised at St. Martin’s, on 5th October, 1821, one year after his sister.
The Gosses were one of the principal families in Epsom. Henry Gosse senior was a Trustee for repairing local roads and is party to a Deed, dated 30th April, 1834, for the purchase of land for this purpose from Sir Lewen Powell Glynn of Ewell. He must also be the Henry Gosse Esq. who donated a steel engraving of Chessington Church (where his son-in-law was vicar) for the first (1841) edition of Brayley.17
17 Brayley, E. R. A Topographical History of Surrey, 1st Ed: Vol. 4, 1848
13 Woodcote Green House
On 14th May, 1835, just eight days before her 21st birthday, Ann married the Reverend George Trevelyan at St. Martin’s, by licence with the consent of her father.18 If St. Martin’s had not recorded her date of birth, it would have looked as if she was only 14 since she was 6 when baptised in 1820. Knowing the birth date makes clear this is not a case of ‘predatory clergyman entraps under-age bride with connivance of wicked father’!
The Reverend George Trevelyan was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and was appointed Vicar of Malden cum Chessington in 1831 where he remained until his death in 1850.19 He was born in 1803, a grandson of Sir John Trevelyan, 4th Baronet, and so distantly related to the historian, George Macaulay Trevelyan, who was a great- great-grandson of Sir John.20
The wedding appears to have been a society one as there were no less than seven witnesses of whom two, Ann’s brother Henry, and her mother Ann Gosse were from the immediate family. One witness, Louisa de Teissier, was the daughter of Baron Teissier of Woodcote Park, the grandest house in the neighbourhood. Two other witnesses were Henry Tritton and Eliza Smith.21
The last two witnesses highlight a connection between the Northeys and the Trevelyans. Louisa M Hesketh, a daughter of the Reverend Robert Cuthbert Hesketh, M.A. of Epsom was one of the witnesses as was Emma Hesketh who was probably her mother.22 Louisa was to became the second wife of the Reverend Edward William Northey in 1844 after the death of his first wife, Charlotte Isabella, in 1841. The year before in 1840, Ann’s brother Henry Gosse married Bertha Hesketh, another daughter of the Reverend Robert who was by then dead.23
The Reverend George Trevelyan, Rector of Malden cum Chessington, died on 29th March, 1850, aged 47, and was buried on 8th June, 1850 at Malden. He left five children: Charlotte Anne born c.1837, Walter Henry born c.1840, Helena Frances born c.1844, Julia Louisa born c.1846 and George Edward born c.1848.
The 1851 census finds the newly widowed Ann Trevelyan and her two youngest children living with her parents at 19 Church Street.ix Where the elder children were is not known.
18 St. Martin’s Marriage register: On 14th May, 1835 Ann GOSSE of Epsom, by Licence with the consent of Henry Gosse, Esq. married The Reverend George TREVELYAN, Bachelor, of Malden, Surrey. Witnesses: Henry Tritton, Eliza Smith, Emma Hesketh, Henry Gosse jr., Louisa M. Hesketh, Louisa de Teissier and Ann Gosse. 19 Clergy List 1850 20 Burke p.2100-2103: George was the third son of the Reverend Walter Trevelyan, Vicar of Henbury and Rector of Nettlecombe and of his wife, Ann, third daughter of John Hudson of Bessingby, Yorks. Walter was the second son of Sir John Trevelyan, 4th Bart of Nettlecombe. George Macaulay Trevelyan was the third son of the Rt. Hon. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Bart. and eldest son of Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan 1st Bart of Wallington. Sir Charles was the 4th son of the Venerable George Trevelyan, Archdeacon of Taunton, who was the third son of Sir John. See also pedigree in Gen. Soc.: Trevelyan a pattern of families. 21 Compare Henry Tritton with Henry John Tritton of Ewell House, Ewell who married Ann Isabella Buller, a younger sister of James Hornby Buller on 30th May, 1866. Eliza Smith could be the sister of Thomas Smith. See the Endnote in the Addendum to Chapter 4. 22 Or possibly her sister Emma Margaret Hesketh 23 At St. Martin’s on 16th June, 1840. Henry is of Epsom, clerk and the witnesses were Henry Ward, Henry Whitmore, J.B. Daniele (or possibly ‘Daniell’) and Arthur Philip Groom. Henry’s brother-in-law, George Trevelyan, was officiating minister.
14 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
As we have seen ten years later in 1861, Ann was living at Woodcote Green House with her two younger daughters, Helen and Julia and her youngest child George. Doubtless her brother- in-law, The Reverend Edward William Northey, granted her a lease when the Macdonalds left.
By 1861, Ann’s eldest son Walter had become a clergyman. He died unmarried in 1884. Charlotte had married Andrew Johnston at St. Martin’s on 14th September, 1858. The groom is described as a merchant of All Hallows the Great, son of Andrew Johnston, squire. He became an M.P. for Woodford Green, Essex.24 Of the younger children, George Edward was the only one to have issue. Helena and Julia both died unmarried. 25
Ann’s brother Henry Gosse went to Exeter College, Oxford and, as stated earlier, married Bertha Hesketh at St. Martin’s on 16th June, 1840. They baptised two daughters there; Emma on 4th May, 1843, born on 8th March in that year, and Annie Louisa on 4th April, 1845, born on the preceding 22nd February. Henry is described as of Epsom, clerk in 1843 and as of Epsom, clergyman in 1845. He was Vicar of St. John the Baptist, Redhill in Hampshire from 1846 to 1882. 26
Ann died on 29th March, 1867 and was buried ‘of Epsom’ at Malden on 4th April, 1867, aged 52. She left a will dated 6th March and proved 29th April, 1867, appointing her son Walter and her son-in-law Andrew Johnston as her executors. Walter had the family living in Mawgan in Cornwall and so, at his own request, received a legacy of only £1000. Similarly Andrew and Charlotte received only a small legacy, wanting to benefit the younger children.
‘Because of her delicate state of health’ Julia receives, in addition to a pecuniary legacy, the fee simple of her mother’s moiety or other share in the Brewery and other real estate at Henley- on-Thames, Oxford and elsewhere, comprised in the lease recently executed to Henry Brakspear of Henley-on-Thames, Brewer.
24 St. Martin’s Marriage register: On 14th September, 1858 Charlotte Anne TREVELYAN, Spinster, of full age, of Epsom, daughter of George Trevelyan, Clerk in Orders, married, by licence, Andrew JOHNSTON, Bachelor, of full age, Merchant of All Hallows the Great in the city of London, son of Andrew Johnston, squire. Witnesses: Helena F.Trevelyan; Thomas Fowell Burton. 25 Burke who misspells the name as GOSS: The relevant part of the entry is as follows (* = living in 1953): George (Rev.), Rector of Malden-cum-Chessington, Surrey b. 1803; m. 14 May, 1835, Anne (d. 29 March, 1867), dau. of Henry Goss, and d. 3 June, 1850, leaving issue, with two daus. (d. unm.), (1) Walter (Rev.), b. 8 March, 1840, d.s.p. 1884. (2) George Edward, of Riverside, California, b. 1 April, 1848; m. Evelyn Sophia, and d., a widower, 6 Nov. 1915, leaving issue, la GEORGE HAMILTON*, heir presumptive. 2a. Edward Walter, b. 1881, m. 1911, *Kathleen (6450, Hawarden Drive, Riverside, CaIifornia, U.S.A.), dau. of William Irving, and d. 1947, leaving issue, Norman Irving* (Abalone Cove, Gatehouse, Portuguese Bend, California, U.S.A.), b. 29 Jan. 1915, m 11 July, 1951, *Jennifer Mary, dau of Arthur E. Riddett, of Kingswood, Surrey, and has had issue, A dau., b. and d. 20 April, 1952. *Eva, b. 1919. m. 1951, Alexander Benedict Yakutis (314½, 1st Avenue, Coronado, California, U.S.A.). 1a *Evelyn Helena, m. Robert Irving (5140, Hawarden Drive, Riverside, California, U.S.A.). (1) Charlotte Anne, m. 14 Sept. 1858, Andrew Johnston, D.L., M.P., of Woodford Green, Essex, eldest son of Andrew Johnston, M.P., of Renny Hill, Fife, and d. 29 July, 1921. He d. 28 Feb. 1922. 26 Henry, only son of Henry Gosse of Epsom, Surrey, armiger, Exeter College, matriculated 28th May, 1834, aged 18; B.A. 1838; M.A., 1841; Vicar of Redhill, 1846-82. [Foster Alumni Oxoniensis]
15 Woodcote Green House
The estate is under £18,000 and the witnesses are the Reverend Edward William Northey and Ann’s brother Henry Gosse of the Hill, Surrey, Clerk in Orders.
It is possible that Henry Gosse was related to Philip Henry Gosse, the zoologist and father of Edmund Gosse with whom other branches of the Trevelyans had contact. No connection has, however, been established.
Fuller On the census night of Sunday, 2nd April, 1871, the house was occupied by William Fuller (52), his brother John (67) and his widowed sister Ann Viney (54). William was a member of the Stock Exchange and John was a retired member. Staying with them as visitors were Joseph Dearing, with his wife and three young children, and an eighteen- year-old girl, Francis (sic) H. Lyons, who was born in Greece. There were also three servants, a housemaid, Mary Molineux, a cook, Elizabeth Bullen, and a nursemaid, who presumably belonged to the Dearings.J
It appears from the Will of Edward Richard Northey, dated 27th August, 1877, that the then tenant, Charles Collier Jones, occupied the property by virtue of a lease dated 6th August, 1867.27 As the Fullers were in occupation in 1871, the lease must have been granted to William Fuller following Ann Trevelyan’s death in April, 1867, and then assigned by Fuller to the next tenant, Jones. It was probably a 21 year lease.
Neither of the Fullers appears to have left a will or had administration of their estates. John was admitted to the Stock Exchange in the year ending 25th March, 1825. William was elected on 17th March, 1843. Chas Chitty, J.L.Furchin? and B.N.Dalton signed his application, recommending him for membership, and Chas Chitty’s own application for renewal of his membership stated that William was to be his clerk. William is recorded as Charles Chitty’s clerk until the year ending 25th March, 1850, when he either set up on his own or in partnership with his elder brother. Both John and William appear in various the Stock Exchange Year records from 1844 to 1868. There is then a gap in the records but neither is recorded as a member when the records again become available in 1885.28
William Fuller was on the register of voters from 1871 to 1879, qualifying by occupation of a house and garden under the 1867 Act. He must then have moved as he is found in the 1881 census in Islington with a wife just over half his age and a baby daughter.K
John seems to have remained in Epsom. He was buried at Epsom cemetery on 20th May, 1888 aged 84.
27 See Note 32. 28 Guildhall Library: Forms of admissions (17957) and after 25th March, 1840 printed volumes. John lived at 10 Warburgh Street, St. George’s East when he was admitted and later at 10 Lower Chapman Street, St. George’s East. After William joined, the brothers shared various addresses - 7 Bedford Square, 3 Bedford Square and 22 Bedford Square, until 1854 and, from 1856 to 1868, 7 Harley Place, Bow Road. As William stated he was a member of the Exchange in the 1881 census, he presumably retired between the date of the census and 1885. John’s bankers were originally Ladbroke(s) & Co but he soon moved to Jones Loyd & Co. William had no bankers when he was clerk to Charles Chitty from 1843-49 but then used the same bankers as his brother i.e. Jones Loyd & Co and subsequently London & Westminster and the Bank of England at various times.
16 Owners and Occupiers after 1846 It is possible that William had a retirement job as bailiff of the Manor of Ewell and Cuddington for the Reverend E.W.Northey. There appears to have been a change of bailiff around 1877, and, by 1884, a Mr. (presumably William) Fuller was bailiff.29
Ann Viney died in Streatham on 30th April, 1904 at the age of 88. She left two daughters, Ann Rebecca Downing, of Old Cleeve House, Ashley Road, Epsom, and Marian Bray, wife of Edwin Hugh Searle Bray, of The Pines, Manor Park, Streatham, the sole executor. 30
Jones The 1881 census was taken as usual on a Monday in respect of the night of the previous Sunday 3rd April. Henrietta Anna Robinson Jones (53) was living in the house together with her son Charles Payne Collier Jones (17) and her daughter, Mary L. Jones (12), who was born in Epsom. There were also three servants, a nurse, Louisa Hyde, a cook, Elizabeth Garman, and a parlour maid, Mary Brigstock.L
Henrietta’s husband, Charles Collier Jones,31 occupied the property by virtue of the lease dated 6th August, 1867 referred to in the Will of Edward Richard Northey dated 27th August, 1877. In his Will Northey left the property to his dear wife, Ann Mary Louisa, for life or during her widowhood.32
Henrietta describes herself as the wife of a wine merchant and her son is a clerk in a merchant’s office. Her husband was on the register of voters in 1881, qualifying by occupation of a house and land at Woodcote Green. He is also in Kelly for 1882 but died on 30th April, 1882 and was buried in Epsom cemetery.33
29 S.H.C.: 2238/10/109: Mr. Northey's Manors Book dealing with Ewell and Cuddington has a sheet of paper inserted with a printed address ‘8 Lincolns Inn Field’ and ‘187 ’ for the year. It reads: “Ewell Cracknell p.4 decd is he liable to Heriot? Two Terriers left these were in the hands of the late Bailiff. They should be corrected to the present time and whether the Estates are heritable noted in the column for remarks and given to the present Bailiff. Lease to Stevens assigned to Wm Fuller. House at Epsom - Mr. Northey wishes to see the covenants.” [punctuation added] Cracknell’s enfranchisement is recorded elsewhere on 29th January, 1878 and under the date 21st March, 1884 there is a reference to Mr. Fuller advising on deductions claimed on a rental being too high. 30 She died on 30th April, 1904, living at 34 Gleneagle Road (formerly The Pines) Manor Park Streatham with her daughter, Marion Bray (wife of Edwin Hugh Searle Bray), the executor of her Will. Ann Viney had another, probably widowed, daughter Ann Rebecca Downing of Old Cleeve House Ashley Road Epsom (Death Certificate: 19044/1d /361). The Will of Ann Viney of The Pines Manor Park Streatham Widow was dated 9th December, 1896, and proved at London on 9th June, 1904 by Marian Bray (wife of Edwin Hugh Searle Bray) of 34 Gleneagle Road (formerly The Pines) Manor Park Streatham Daughter of the Deceased the sole executor. Devisees and Residuary Legatees: Daughters Ann Rebecca Downing of Old Cleeve House Ashley Road Epsom, and Marian Bray wife of Edwin Hugh Searle Bray of The Pines Manor Park Streatham. Witnesses: Rosanna Hake 74 Bristol road Bridgewater Ada Emily Warren 11 Leipsic Rd Camberwell London S. E. Gross Value: under £40 31 He could have been a son or grandson of John Collier Jones, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, whose obituary appeared in The Times of 20th August, 1838 (p.6, col.d). 32 Northey gave “the messuage and other hereditaments now in the occupation of Mr. Jones by virtue of a Lease dated the sixth day of August One thousand eight hundred and sixty seven together with the appurtenances belonging thereto unto my said Wife for her absolute benefit during her life or so long as she shall continue my Widow”. See also Note 7. 33 Epsom Cemetery Records and White: ‘JONES Chas. Collier of Woodcote Epsom died 30/4/1882: buried in Epsom cemetery’.
17 Woodcote Green House
Charles Collier Jones left a Will dated 4th December, 1871. In it he describes himself as of 52 Mark Lane in the City of London and of Downside Epsom County of Surrey Wine Merchant although the Probate also describes him as late of Star Yard Carey Street in the County of Middlesex. He died, however, at Epsom and his executors were Henrietta Anna Robinson Jones of Woodcote, Epsom, widow the relict, Thomas Jackson of Ware Hill House, Anwell, Herts. Esq., and John Pycroft Collier of Shortlands, Kent, Deputy Paymaster General. Thomas Jackson was Anna’s brother-in-law and John Pycroft Collier was her brother.
The gross value of the estate was £32,289: 15: 8d. and it was all left to his wife including everything due under Articles of Partnership with Charles’s brother, James William Jones. The witnesses to the Will, F.W.Greenwood and A.Harrington, were clerks to Messrs E.H.Jones, wine merchants; both gave their address as 52 Mark Lane.
The family were not at Woodcote Green House in the 1891 census but on 19th July, 1893, the son, Charles Payne Collier Jones, then of St. Martin’s Road, Epsom, gentleman, purchased a grave in Epsom cemetery for Eleanor Bertha Jones. She must have been his wife as he himself was buried in the same grave in 1919.34
Bischoff The next tenants were the Bischoffs for whom there is the advantage of a known descendant who can shed some light on the family beyond the bare official records.35 . In about 1720 the family, who were wool merchants, migrated to Leeds from Basle in Switzerland. Charles Bischoff was born on 18th May, 1833, the son of Charles Bischoff, solicitor in the well known firm of Bischoff & Co., which has now amalgamated with Eversheds.
Charles senior was living in Kent when he wrote the second volume of the family history but appears also to have lived in Epsom. On 8th April, 1858, his daughter, Mary Ellen Bischoff, of Epsom was married in St. Martin’s to James Dowie of Epsom. The witnesses included both Charles Bischoff and Chas. Bischoff who must be father and son.36
Charles Bischoff junior was educated at Worksop Grammar School and London University but did not take his degree. He was originally articled as a solicitor to his father but later cancelled his articles and studied as an actuary. For some years he was manager of the Colombo branch of the Ceylon Co. and he won the Colombo Regatta 1866 Four Oared Outrigger Race.37 Then his health broke down. On his return to England he was successively secretary of the St. John & Maine Railway of Canada and of Donna Christina and Southern Brazilian Railway Co.
34 Epsom Cemetery Records. 35 Jim Bischoff, son of Barny Bischoff, who has very kindly provided the personal information about Charles and his family from an extensive family history in his possession. 36 St. Martin’s Marriage register: On 8th April, 1858 Mary Ellen BISCHOFF, Spinster, minor, of Epsom, daughter of Charles Bischoff, gentleman, married James DOWIE, Bachelor, of full age, of Epsom, gentleman, son of James Dowie, gentleman. Witnesses: Charles Bischoff; Chas Bischoff; Lieut. James Dowie; Francis Bischoff; Justina Bischoff; H.Gould. 37 Cup in possession of Jim Bischoff.
18 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
7. Studio portraits of Charles Bischoff junior by an unknown Epsom photographer.
There exist four studio portraits of Charles junior by an unknown Epsom photographer of many Epsom residents. Two of these are reproduced in this book.38
On 25th April, 1878 Charles junior married Mary Maria Catherine Drought, daughter of General Drought and his wife Isabella. Mary was born in 1848.
Charles junior and Mary had three daughters, namely: Caroline Emily, who was born in Epsom on July, 14 1879 and married William Arthur Hanson, on 11th April, 1917 but died without issue on 8th July, 1924:
Isabel Armstrong, who was born on 14th July, 1881, also in Epsom, and married Brough Maltby on 9th February, 1907. He was born in 1878 and he and Isabel had four children.39
Mary, who was born on 22nd February, 1883 and married Gerald Haw Taunton Barlow on 23rd November, 1910.40 Unhappily Charles junior’s wife, Mary, died on the same day as she gave birth to this third daughter. She was buried on 24th February in Epsom cemetery, aged 33.
On the census night of Sunday 5th April, 1891, the widowed Charles, aged 57, and his three daughters, now aged 11, 9, and 8, were at Woodcote Green House. With them were Mary Ann Clark (48) described as a guardian and three servants: the cook, Amy F.Taylor; a housemaid, Jane Rivingham; and a nursemaid, Agnes E. Woods.M
38 The four portraits are from: Portraits of the residents of Epsom, Ashtead and elsewhere: glass plate negatives, 1860s-1935 (S.H.C.: 4123). 39 Isabel and Brough Maltby had two sons – Brough and John – and two daughters Mary and Alice before Isabel Maltby died on 23rd May, 1935. 40 Mary and Gerald Barlow had no issue but in 1926 adopted a baby girl, Joy, born the previous year, who married John Harvey Fisher in 1945. Mary Barlow died on 26th December, 1951.
19 Woodcote Green House
Charles Bischoff junior is on the register of voters by occupation at Woodcote Green under the 1867 Act from 1884 to 1897 (a year after his death!) and in Kelly in 1890 and in Kelly and Andrews in 1895, in all cases, as ‘of Woodcote’. In 1883 he is recorded at Laburnum Road. This suggests that the Jones family moved out, and he moved into, Woodcote Green House in 1883 or 1884 after his wife died, having previously been living in Laburnum Road.41 Sometime before 1896 he must have moved as he died on 22nd June, 1896 and was buried in Epsom Cemetery on 24th June, of Drakefield Street, Streatham. Probate of his Will was granted on the following 13th July to Thomas William Bischoff and John Armstrong Head Drought Esquires who were presumably his younger brother and his brother-in-law. Charles is described as the younger, gentleman in the probate. The estate was valued at £15,119-11-5.
Charles’s father did not long survive him, dying on 26th October in the same year. Charles Bischoff senior was then a solicitor of King’s Road, Brighton and Thomas William Bischoff was again Executor. The estate was valued at £29,271-12-9.
The Buller Family The next tenant of the house was again a widow, Emily Augusta Buller née Dashwood, the second wife of James Hornby Buller, of whom some account follows in view of his prominence in Epsom life.
The Bullers were an old West country family with many branches.42 Coming originally from Downes in Devon, a branch of the family, then settled in Morval, acquired the Manor of Lanreath from the Grylls family in 1718.
James Hornby Buller was the eldest son of the Reverend Richard Buller, M.A. and Elizabeth daughter of James Hornby of Hook, Tichfield, Hampshire. The Reverend Richard was Rector of St. Marnarch’s, Lanreath, Cornwall from 1830 to his death in 1883, bringing up 8 children there. He was the second Richard Buller to be Rector of the parish, with the family still owning the Manor. A memorial window and a photograph of the second Richard can still be found in the church.43
The Buller family’s connection with the Epsom area may have started with the marriage of a younger sister of James’s, Ann Isabella Buller, to Henry John Tritton, Esq., of Ewell House, Ewell in 1866.44 However James and his family first appear in Epsom not in Woodcote Green House but in Down Hall.
41 If so the lease must have been assigned or the widowed Louisa Northey must have granted a new one. See Notes 7 and 32. 42 James Hornby Buller was originally confused with General Sir Redvers Buller of South African war fame. They were related, but remotely. James’s father, the Reverend Richard, was the second son of James Buller, a Lord of the Admiralty and subsequently Clerk to the Privy Council, who died in 1830. He was the third son of John Buller of Morval, a Lord of the Treasury, who was the eldest son of James Buller of Downes in Devon by his second wife, Lady Jane Bathurst, sister of the Lord Chancellor. By his first wife, Elizabeth née Gould, James had a son James (1740-1772), his heir. This James’s eldest son, also James, (1766-1827) succeeded and was succeeded in turn by his eldest son, James Wentworth, (1798-1865) whose second son was Sir Redvers Henry Buller, K.C.M.G., C.B., V.C. of Downes. So James Hornby Buller and Sir Redvers shared a great-great-grandfather. 43 Pollock, Rosemary St Marnarch’s Church A Guide and History. The Buller memorial with the photograph of the Rector, the Reverend Richard Buller, refers to his descendants, Edith Alice Pitt née Bradshaw, a grand-daughter of the Rector, and Frank Buller Howard-White, a great-grandson. 44 See Note 18 for Henry Tritton as witness to the Trevelyan marriage.
20 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
Down Hall is an impressive property and was apparently owned by the Earl of Oxford in 1825, having been built as a hunting lodge. The road onto which it faces is now called Burgh Heath Road.
The electoral register shows that Thomas Drak Bainbridge lived at Down Hall in the 1860’s but there was only a housekeeper there in the 1871 census. James Hornby Buller appears to have occupied the house soon after. Down Hall is the address given for James’s first wife, Catherine Anne Buller, when she was buried in Epsom cemetery, aged 38, on 12th December, 1874. She had died on the preceding 9th December and was the daughter of Sir William Williams, Bart. of Tregullon, Cornwall; she bore James a son and four daughters. .45 Similarly James’s mother, Elizabeth Buller, who died on 25th May, 1875, aged 72, was in turn buried in the cemetery on 29th May. She had been living at Hampton Court, perhaps in a grace and favour lodging.46
In the 1881 census, which recorded those occupying the property (described as Down Hall, Down Hall Road) on the night of Sunday 3rd April, James Hornby Buller recorded his position as Colonel in the Royal Body Guard and magistrate for Surrey. He was in fact a Lieutenant Colonel, 49 years old, and had just been appointed to H.M.Bodyguard. . Appointment to H.M.Bodyguard is an honour, reserved, now at any rate, for middle ranking, middle-aged officers of unimpeachable reputation. It was founded by Henry VIII and each of the 50 odd members is chosen personally by the Sovereign from two names. The one rejected is never proposed again. Members are in close attendance on the Sovereign on all royal occasions, normally dressed in the original uniform devised by the founder, and armed with a halberd.
James Buller had only been appointed to the Bodyguard on the previous 18th March, taking up his duties on 27th March. It appears from the records of the Bodyguard that he was of the 57th Regiment of Foot and late of the Military Train.
With James in Down Hall was his second wife Emily Augusta. He married her at Steyning in 1877, when she was only 24. Known as Nina, she was the daughter of Henry Walpole John and Georgiana Mary Dashwood. Nina was born in Gibraltar on 14th July, 1852 and baptised there, in the King’s Chapel in the Garrison, on 11th September of that year.
Henry Dashwood was in the Royal Artillery. He was on full pay and had been made a 2nd lieutenant on 1st October, 1847 and a 1st Lieutenant on 30th June, 1848.47 A son, Henry Walpole George Dashwood, was born subsequently on 31st March and baptised on 18th May, 1854, also in the King’s Chapel. Henry was then still a lieutenant.N
Henry Dashwood died in 1857 and his widow was left to bring up the two children, then aged 5 and 3. She probably lived at the Dashwood seat, Donnington Grove, near Newbury in Berkshire, with her sister-in-law, Augusta Annabel Dashwood, who was recorded as staying at Down Hall in the 1891 census.48
45 They were married on 9th June, 1859 and had issue a son, Wynn, and four daughters, Mary Hornby, Caroline Alexandra, Emily Katherine, and Henrietta Florence. 46 St. Martin’s Burial Register and Burke, 6th Ed. 1879. 47 Hart’s Army List 1852 48 See Addenda, Endnote N
21 Woodcote Green House
With James and his second wife at Down Hall in 1881, were James’s two youngest daughters by his first marriage, Emily Katherine Buller, aged 16, and born in Eltham, Kent, and Henrietta Florence Buller, aged 13, and born in Blackheath, Kent. From their ages and places of birth it is clear that James’s career had involved him in moving house more than once. His son and his two elder daughters were not present.
The youngest member of the family was John Dashwood Buller who was born in Epsom to the new marriage and was baptised at St. Martin’s on 10th October, 1878.
With the family was a governess, Margaret Orr and a fleet of servants; the butler, William Brock; a groom, Edward Kensham; a housekeeper and cook, Elizabeth Skinner; a ladies maid, Charlotte Henstridge, who also appears in the 1891 and 1901 censuses; a nurse, Emma Alerens; a house maid, Mary A. Lewis; an under lady’s maid, Adeline Barker; and a kitchen maid, Elizabeth Evens.O
There are a number of Buller entries in St. Martin’s registers in the ten years before the next census. On 7th August, 1882, Dorothy Nina de Courcy Buller, a sister for John Dashwood Buller, was baptised. As with her brother John Dashwood before her, the officiating minister was her grandfather, the Reverend Richard Buller, who presumably came up from Cornwall by train for the occasions.
On 20th February, 1884, after banns, Caroline Alexandra Buller (second daughter of James by his first marriage) married Edgar Giberne, only surviving son of Maria and George Giberne, Esq. of Epsom. George had been in the Bombay Civil Service but was dead at the time of the marriage. P Edgar was baptised at St. Martin’s on 25th July, 1850.
The officiating clergyman at the Buller/Giberne marriage was the Rev. E.W.Northey49 assisted by the Rev. J.Samuel, vicar.
This argues some connection between the Northeys and the Bullers. Indeed the Bullers appear to have had connections with many local families in addition to the Trittons. Thus James’s youngest sister, Alice, was married on 10th September, 1874 to Herbert Brooks, Esq., of Hyde Park Square, London, son of Robert Brooks, Esq., of Woodcote Park, which he had acquired from Baron Teissier.
The Buller/Giberne wedding at St. Martin’s was again a fashionable one and occasioned the most effusive report in the Epsom and Ewell Advertiser of 1st March, 1884, 50 stating:
“The bride’s stepmother Mrs. J. Hornby Buller, wore an exquisite toilette of sapphire blue velvet, trimmed sable, and bonnet of pale yellow roses, and carried a magnificent bouquet of pale pink carnations to match.”
Sadly only a few days later in the same year, on 3rd March, 1884, Caroline’s sister, Emily Katherine Buller, who had been one of the bridesmaids, was buried, aged 19.
49 Even though he had no ‘cure of souls’. 50 See Appendix II for the full report.
22 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
The marriage to Edgar Giberne lasted just over five years; on 21st September, 1889, Edgar Giberne died in Woodcote Park. He and Caroline were living in 35 Kensington Square at the time and Edgar is described as an artist. His estate was a little over £2000.51 He left a son Harold Buller Giberne.52
In the 1891 census for the night of Sunday 5th April, Down Hall is stated to be in Upper Downs Road. With Nina and James Buller – ‘Colonel in H.M. Bodyguard J.P. for Surrey and C.C.’ – are James’s daughter, Henrietta, together with the children of the second marriage, John and Dorothy.
The Bullers had a number of visitors. First, a widowed aunt, Augusta A. Dashwood,53 and her lady’s maid, Felicité Schmitt, who was born in Strasbourg. Second, a one year old baby boy, Barrington G.D.Stafford, described as a cousin, and a nurse, also a visitor, called Eleanor Warr. The aunt was Nina’s sister-in-law and the baby could be the aunt’s grandchild.
Of the Buller servants in 1881, the butler, William H. Brock, the lady’s maid, Charlotte Henstridge, and the nurse, Emma Alerens, were still there. The groom, Frederick E. Herbert, the cook, Janet Hughes, the Odd Man (sic), Joseph Earl, the house maid, Annie M. Payne, and the kitchen maid, Margaret Bullock, were new.Q
In 1888 James Buller was involved in a dispute with Mr. Strange, the Lord of the Manor of Epsom, over rights of commoners on the Downs and published an angry letter in the Times of 21st May, under the name J. Hornby-Buller.54
Deaths 1895 was a bad year for the family. First on 5th March, Henrietta died at Lipton Park, Lipton in Devon. In her Will, in which she appointed her father executor, she left a legacy recorded in the Book of Remembrance of St. Martin’s.
In 1922 the three central lights of the East Window were inserted:
In memory of C.A.B.1874, E.K.B.1884, M.H.B. 1885, and E.G. 1889 in accordance with the terms of the will of Henrietta Florence Buller, late of Down Hall, Epsom who died on March 5th 1895 and left a legacy to be eventually applied to this purpose C.A.B. - Catherine Anne Buller E.K.B. - Emily Katherine Buller M.H.B. - Mary Hornby Buller E.G. - Edgar Giberne
51 19th October 1889: Administration of the Personal Estate of Edgar Giberne late of 35 Kensington square in the county of Middlesex Artist who died 21 September, 1889 at Woodcote Park Epsom in the County of Surrey was granted at the Principal Registry to Caroline Alexandra Giberne of 35 Kensington square Widow the Relict - Personal estate £1, 793-13-1: Resworn November £2043-13-1. 52 Will of Henrietta Florence Buller. 53 Stated to be a widow aged 57: but see Addenda, Endnote N where she is described as spinster on appointment as her brother’s executor. 54 The Times, 21st May, 1888, p.9, col.f
23 Woodcote Green House
The legacy was derived from shares in the Belgravian Dairy Co to be paid equally to Sarah Anne Fanny Pierce of Lower Road, Helston and Elizabeth Isaacs, Tregullon Offices, Scorrier, for life, and then to be used for the window. Henrietta left her estate apart from £400 invested in the Belgravian Dairy Co to her nephew, Harold Buller Giberne, and to her god child, Dorothy Frances Howell, equally, in trust till aged 25.
Presumably it was Caroline Alexandra Giberne, the second daughter of the first Buller marriage, who carried out the terms of the legacy for installing the window in the church, being then the only surviving daughter.
The second blow in 1895 was the death of James Buller at Down Hall on 7th August, aged 64. He was buried on 10th August. The north window of the chapel in St. Martin’s is stated in the Book of Remembrance to have been given in his memory.55
In his Will, dated 7th May, 1891 and proved on 15th November, 1895, he first leaves marital gifts and various other articles to his wife, and then leaves shares in Courage Brewery Co. to allow her to acquire a house and furniture: “as my dear wife has so often expressed a wish not to reside at Down Hall after my death.” In practise the shares may not have been worth enough. The lease of Woodcote Green House, which his widow acquired, was for 21 years (as appears from the Rating Valuation) whereas the Will required any lease to have a minimum of 60 years to run.56
John Hornby Buller’s executors were Charles Alexander Howell of Ethy, Lostwithiel, Cornwall and of Endion, Kew, Surrey, Esquire and George Kendall Hext of Bodilly, Berkhamstead, Hertford, Esquire. Hext was appointed by codicil to replace Edwin Drake Sealy Vidal of 10 Old Square, Lincoln’s, Inn Barrister at Law, in view of his health. Both the executors had also been appointed administrators of Henrietta’s estate on the previous 5th March, presumably because her father had by then become unable to act as executor.
The solicitor was George Guy Vertue of 24 Old Burlington Street. The net value of the estate was £4, 632-19-9 and this was re-sworn at £6,386-10-0.
Nina and Dorothy Buller at Woodcote Green House Even if she had wanted it, Down Hall was probably too big for the widowed Nina. In 1896, the Reverend E. W. Northey granted her a 21 year lease of Woodcote Green House, left vacant by the Bischoffs. As explained above there may well have been some connection with the Northeys. At least there must have been friendship as otherwise Northey with ‘no cure of souls’ would have been unlikely to have officiated at the Buller/Giberne wedding.
55 St Martin’s burial register and Book of Remembrance. The obituary in The Times of 10th August, 1795 (p.9, col.f) states of his military career: “Colonel Buller early entered the Army, and served with the 57th Regiment in the Crimean War, being severely wounded in the trenches before Sebastopol and again while being conveyed back to the camp. He received the medal with clasp and the Turkish medal for his services. Retiring from the Army as colonel in 1877, he was appointed in 1881 one of her Majesty’s Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms.” 56 Nina was to have the property acquired for life with remainder to her son John Dashwood Buller. Property in Exwood Somerset was also left to him or in default to Harold Buller Giberne while Caroline as the surviving child of the first marriage received monies derived from her grandfather, Sir William Williams, and money under the marriage settlement of the first marriage. Finally Down Hall and other Surrey property is given to John Dashwood Buller for life, then in default to his daughter Caroline, and then in default to his daughter Dorothy, in each case with remainder in tail general.
24 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
Nina’s daughter, Dorothy, probably lived with her at Woodcote Green House from the start. It is uncertain, however, whether the last member of the Buller family, Dorothy’s brother, John Dashwood Buller, lived there at any time. He was sixteen when his father died and was to have a distinguished military career becoming, like his father, a Lieutenant Colonel. He served in the South African war from 1900 to 1902 and, with distinction, throughout the first World War. He was re-employed under the War Office and Ministry of Information in the second World War. In his last years, he lived in Tattenham Corner in Epsom and died on 11th May, 1961.57
Nina, as Mrs. Buller, appears in the Electoral Register for 1896 and 1899 under Division 3, entitling her to vote only in County and Parochial elections, by virtue of occupation of a dwelling house in Epsom. She is also shown as tenant of the property in the Rating Valuation 58 List for that year. This estimates the extent of the property as 2 roods and 34 perches which is ten perches more than in the Schedule to the 1843 Tithe Map. There is no evidence that the area of the property had changed. The gross estimated rental is £70 and the rateable value of the buildings is £60. In the next surviving Valuation List, for 1901, the rental has gone up to £90 and the rateable value to £77.59
Nina, again as Mrs. Emily Buller, also appears in Andrews in 1899 and her address is Woodcote Green House. This is the first known use of the name by which the property has been known ever since. Perhaps Nina was responsible.
There were no Bullers at Woodcote Green House when the next census was taken for the night of Sunday 31st March, 1901. Charlotte Henstridge was however there, still as a lady’s maid. With her were a cook, Kate Wedlake, and a housemaid, Annie K. Venn – both of whom were new.R
While the Bullers were in occupation there were a number of changes and additions made to the house which are summarised below but of which fuller details are given in Chapter 7, The Twentieth Century. Thus in 1909 plans were approved for a new bathroom and lavatory on the north east of the house and in 1912 for an addition to the stables to make a ‘motor shed’.
The additions were in place when the Lloyd George Doomsday or valuation60 of the property was made, probably in 1915. The aim of the valuation was to assess the capital appreciation of real property, attributable to the site itself, since the base date of 30th April, 1909. The estimated annual value of the property was still £90 as at that date and the value assessed was £1650 of which £520 was attributable to the site.61
57 Who Was Who 1961-1970 Buller, Lt-col John Dashwood, C.M.G. 1918; D.S.O. 1917; re-employed under War Office and Ministry of Information from Sept. 1939; b. 17 Aug. 1878; s. of Col. James Hornby Buller, late Body-Guard, and Emily Augusta Dashwood; m. 1st, !903, Sybil Collier (d.1934); no c.; 2nd, 1938, Ruth, e.d. of late A.C.Verriéres, C.I.E. Educ.: Eton. Served S. African War, 1900-2; European War, France, Aug. 1914 - Feb. 1915; Gallipoli (R. Naval Div.), Mar. 1915 to evacuation in Jan. 1916; France, Apr. 1916 -Mar. 1917 (D.S.O., C.M.G.); then War Office; retired pay, 1925. Address: Beech Cottage, Downs Wood, Tattenham Corner, Epsom, Surrey. 58 S.H.C.: 6000/6/60 59 S.H.C.: 6000/6/61 60 N.A. (Kew): IR 58/80987 61 See further Chapter 7, The Twentieth Century, and Endnote A in the Addenda to that Chapter.
25 Woodcote Green House The valuation records the size and function of each room and the additions of 1909 and 1912 and concludes: ‘A place of some character but aspect of principal rooms is great drawback.’
It was probably Dorothy Buller who, after her mother’s death, built onto the back of the house on the south west to make a new bedroom with a bay window. This is recorded in another rating valuation dating between 1931 and 1936 which describes the house as old, of brick construction with tiles and stucco. The condition is fair. The rent is stated to be £100 - 15 - 0d. and the rates £10 p.a.
Nina died in the house on 12th September, 1931. The inscription in the Lady Chapel of St. Martin’s reads:
IN EVER LOVING AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF EMILY AUGUSTA (NINA) BULLER ONLY DAUGHTER OF MAJOR H.B.DASHWOOD - R.H.A. AND WIDOW OF LT COL.J.H.BULLER - 57TH REGT & H.M.BODY GUARD - FORMERLY OF DOWN HALL EPSOM - BORN AT GIBRALTAR 14 JULY 1852 SHE DIED 12 SEPTEMBER 1931 AT WOODCOTE GREEN HOUSE IN THIS PARISH HER LIFE WAS ONE OF LOYALTY AND FAITHFULNESS TO THIS CHURCH AND TOWN62
Nina’s Will was dated 12th September, 1931 and was proved on 21st January, 1932. Her children were her executors and shared the estate valued at £12,325-19-9 net. Her brother, John Dashwood Buller, was living at Hardings, Cheriton, Templecombe, Somerset. He was a C.M.G. and a Lieutenant Colonel. Dorothy was living at Woodcote Green House with her mother. The witnesses were two spinsters, Alice Maud Cumming and Emily C. Cumming, both of Woodcote End.
Nina’s daughter Dorothy continued to live in Woodcote Green House until her own death on 28th March, 1953. This was long after the Northey family had disposed of most of their Woodcote property. One may suspect that they were not prepared to give her notice and preferred to wait until the property fell free naturally. There is a monument to Dorothy in St. Martin’s and it reads:
IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF DOROTHY NINA DE COURCY BULLER A MOST FAITHFUL MEMBER OF THIS CONGREGATION SHE DIED 28TH. MARCH 1953 AGED 70
62 H.B.Dashwood is an error for H.W.J.Dashwood perhaps because Dorothy did not know the details of her grandfather and his career. The Royal Horse Artillery was only formed as a separate body in 1912 and previously was a section of the Royal Artillery (to which Dashwood is shown as belonging). See Addenda, Endnote N.
26
Owners and Occupiers after 1846
John Dashwood Buller and Dorothy’s Will Dorothy’s brother survived her and was her Executor, being described in the Probate as John Dashwood Buller C.M.G., D.S.O. of Beech Cottage, Downs Wood, Tattenham Corner, Epsom, Lieutenant Colonel (retired) H.M.Army.
In her Will, Dorothy made clear her views on changing the order of church services giving: The Parochial Church Council of the Parish of St. Martin’s Church Epsom Surrey: £500 for upkeep and repair of Church fabric in the Parish provided her Executor is satisfied (whose decision will be final and binding) ‘at the date of my death the services on Sunday in St. Martin’s Church shall not be different from such as they are during my lifetime’.
Her estate was just under £20,000. Beside legacies to her brother and his second wife Ruth Mary née Verrières, Dorothy left legacies to two other relations – Captain William Buller Hext of Marlboro’ College and of Elmhurst, Marlboro, and Carol Amador Giberne of Hillways, Launceston, Cornwall. Of the legaces to friends, only Mrs. George Palmer of 36 Woodcote Green has an Epsom address, although the two witnesses, Marjorie Veronica Williams and her husband G.W.Morrice Williams, a retired civil servant, were from 4 Downside in Epsom.
John Dashwood Buller died on 10th May, 1961 leaving everything to his second wife Ruth Mary apart from a few legacies. His estate was under £8,000. Ruth in turn died on 10th March, 1982 when living at 10a Downside in Epsom, but her estate was over £60,000.
Mr. Philip Marshall In 1978, Mr. Phillip Marshall, who was then living at 6 Woodcote Green Road, aged 86 and infirm, spoke of his life and of the Bullers. He was the sixth and only surviving child of William Marshall, the former coachman and gardener of Woodcote Green House. Extracts from notes of what he said follow: 63
Miss de Courcy Buller was eccentric & went round on a bicycle. She had the garage built. Her mother, the Hon. Emily,64 was a first cousin of Miss Brooks who lived in Woodcote Park. Both mother & daughter were kind employers. Miss de C. Buller paid a £1 weekly rent to Mrs. Northey (of Woodcote House) for the house.65 (Mrs. Northey had the feudal habit of calling on her cottagers without knocking on entry, and would join in any domestic task going on – e.g. the weekly wash).
Mrs. Emily Buller kept a large staff, but only one gardener (Mr. Marshall’s father.) ‘In those days it was all coach and horses.’ The stables were facing Chalk Lane (now ‘Heather Lodge’, the bungalow.) There was a back garden gate to Chalk Lane and a kitchen garden with a large greenhouse (still standing in the garden of No. 2 Woodcote Green House).
63 Noted by Maggie Parsloe following the visit. 64 This is the only reference to her having this courtesy title and is perhaps not correct. 65 In fact the gross annual rent in the Rating Valuations and the Domesday Valuation was more than this. See above.
27
Woodcote Green House
Woodcote Green House had always been known by that name in Mr. Marshall’s time and had always had a white front. Mr. Marshall remembered little of the inside of the house. The dining room was ‘the first on the left’. The kitchen was on the right up some steps entered via the back door. It had a large old fireplace containing a range, There was no trapdoor to the cellar in the kitchen - one entered the cellar from the scullery, a large room off the kitchen down some steps on the left. There is a filled-in well in the cellar. He used as a child to come to Christmas dinner in the house along with other employees and families. He had a vague memory of playing on the staircase once as a child and his mother telling him to come down at once!
Mr. Marshall’s father worked as a coachman and gardener. He remembered the family’s coach being driven up to the front door. As a boy he was once asked to take on a post as a ‘tiger’, i.e. a sort of mini-flunkey who stood at the back of the coach as it drove along, but he found the idea ludicrous and refused.
His father had to prune the lime trees in front of the house every spring - they were ‘not much above the level of the fence’. There were no wells in the garden although there were many in the area. He remembered one occasion when his father was nearly sacked by the Bullers: a series of minor thefts of bits of jewellery from the house was causing suspicion to fall on his father, who fortunately found a cache of the missing articles ‘hidden in ivy growing round one of the big beech trees in the garden’. The culprit was a pet jackdaw. This was in Mrs. Buller’s day, in the 1920’s.
Woodcote Green itself was a very different place then. It had a cricket pitch in summer and a number of ponds, and was quite a meeting place on fine evenings. He himself was playing cricket there when he saw his first motor-car, driven past by a gentleman from Ashtead Park. The white house by the hospital was lived in by the famous contralto Dame Clara Butt. (He once hid in its garden to hear her sing to guests.)
There were some ‘very old wooden houses’ where the maternity unit is now. Next to them on the same side towards Epsom was the home farm of the Northey family, and between that and the row of Victorian cottages (in one of which the Marshalls lived in the 1970’s), was the Northeys’ own kitchen garden.
The Ladas pub was formerly called the ‘Fox’ and owned by an eccentric cricket-player. He was very tall with a beard down to his stomach and a huge white cat as big as a dog which was too fierce to let anyone touch it. He would walk up to the Green with it in the evening.
Westgate House66 was then called the Woodcote Hotel where he worked as a gardener. After the 1939-45 war he worked for Lady Wimms at Woodcote Grove (now owned by WS Atkins). Her family was ‘in coal’ and she at one point said that she could not afford to keep him on unless they could start up a paying
66 Originally Woodcote Place and mostly referred to as such in this book.
28 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
market garden. So they converted the kitchen garden into a paying concern which was quite successful. Mr. Marshall referred to the garden, which was very big, as ‘my kitchen garden’. He occasionally helped his father in the garden in Woodcote Green House.
All property locally belonged to the Northey family except the Green itself. It was a classy area. All really big houses belonged to the aristocracy.
Mr. Marshall showed no regret for the passing of the old social order. ‘There was nothing but bowing and scraping in those days - it wouldn’t do now you know.’
29 Woodcote Green House
30 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
ADDENDA
A 1841 census: HO 107/1070, Enumeration District No. 2, f.39r., p.10. Address: Woodcote [The Guerin entry is preceded by that for Woodcote Place and followed by that for Woodcote House stables and then Woodcote House. The 1843 Tithe Map confirms the identification of the entry]. Augustin GUERIN 40 Fs Adelaide Ditto 40 Fs Clara Ditto 15 Fs Augustin Ditto 14 Fs Adelaide Ditto 11 Fs Mary EDWARDS 50 F S Not born in Surrey Mary SMITH 25 Ind Not born in Surrey Harriet COLEMAN 15 F S Surrey Guerin spelt Gurrin: FS = Female Servant: Ind = Independent Means: Fs = Born in Foreign Parts
B 1851 census: HO 107/1592, Enumeration District No. 4aD, f.315r., p.32, schedule no. 104 Address: South Street [The preceding property is in South Street; the succeeding property is ‘Brewery’, then ‘The Retreat’; the next property is in South Street again after that]. Augustine H. GUERIN Head M 50 Fundholder Paris France Adelaide V. Ditto Wife M 40 Normandy France Nicholas PONCON Son in Law M 33 Culinary Artist Paris France Adelaide S. PONCON Daughter M 21 Paris France Mary WILKINSON Lodger S 37 Annuitant Clapham Surrey Clara COLLINS Ditto Widow 46 Ditto Companion Upton Worcestershire Lucy CHAUCER Servant S 20 House Servant Chessington Surrey Maria NICHOLAS Ditto S 16 Ditto Ditto Ditto Age of Adelaide V.Guerin is understated by ten years.
C St. Martin’s Register Adele Louise Guerin OXLEY baptised on 25th August, 1850 (born 26th July, 1850) daughter of Clara Adele and Frederic Oxley, chemist and druggist of Epsom
Clara Maria Guerin OXLEY baptised on 26th July, 1852 (born 27th March, 1852) daughter of Clara and Frederick Oxley, chemist of Epsom
Horace Guerin OXLEY baptised on 19th June, 1853 (born 23rd May, 1853) son of Clara and Frederic Oxley, chemist of Epsom. He was buried on 14th July, 1853, aged 1 year. Frederic Augustus Guerin OXLEY baptised on 10th June, 1855 (born 10th April, 1855) son of Clara and Frederic Oxley, chemist of Epsom
Edith Julia OXLEY baptised on 10th January, 1858 (born 2nd December, 1857) daughter of Clara and Frederick Oxley, chemist of Epsom. She was buried on 8th May, 1860, aged 2 years 5 months, of Epsom.
31 Woodcote Green House
D 1861 census: RG 9/419, Enumeration District No. 4C, f.66v., p.1, schedule no. 7 Address: Durdans Lodge [Durdans Lodge is now 6 Woodcote Road] A.H. GUERIN Head M 60 Gentleman France Adelaide GUERIN Wife M 59 France Mary SMITH Servant S 16 General servant London Middlesex
E 1871 census: RG 10/798, Enumeration District No. 5, f.85v., p.14, schedule no. 60 Address: Woodcote Rd (Durdans Lodge) Augustus H. GUERIN Head Widr 70 Annuitant France Mary WILKINSON Boarder S 58 ditto Clapham Surrey Joe COLLINS ditto S 41 Attendant on Miss Wilkinson London Middlesex Emily WOLLER Servant S 23 General Servant Chorlton Hampsh Eliza BENHAM ditto S 16 ditto Kingston Surrey Guerin spelt Guerrin. Mary Wilkinson a lunatic. Chorlton, Hampshire is presumably Chalton, Hampshire
F 1851 census: HO 107/1592, Enumeration District No. 4bB, f.341r., p.20, schedule no. 65 Address: Woodcote end [The address of the preceding house is given as New Inn Lane but identified as in Woodcote Road at what is now no. 2. The four succeeding properties, all with the address Woodcote end, are indentified as Woodcote Place stables, 2 Chalk Lane, 4 Chalk Lane and Woodcote Place]. William MACKDONALD Head M 51 Trainer & Jockey Shoreditch Sarah Ditto Wife M 41 Ditto Tillingham Martha HOOKER Serv S 17 Houseservant Epsom Surrey John HALL Ditto S 17 Ditto Ditto Ditto
G 1861 census: RG 9/419, Enumeration District No. 6, f.107r., p.15, Address: East Street, Eagle Cottages Schedule no. 92 Sarah B MACDONALD Head Widow 51 Annuitant Tillingham Essex Mary A SMITH Cousin M 19 Burnham Essex Mary A. BURROUGHS Servant S 24 House Servant Woolverstone Suffolk Schedule no. 93 Alice D. Lodger Head Widow 54 Proprietor of Houses Bingley Yorkshire Alice CLARK CLARK Ditto Daughter 15 Scholar Leeds Yorkshire
H 1861 census: RG 9/419 Enumeration District No. 4C, f.68v. & 69r., p.6 & 7, schedule no. 31 Address: Woodcote Green [The preceding house is identified as the future Althorp Lodge on the north side of Woodcote Green - now replaced with Epsom hospital buildings - and the succeeding house as Woodcote Place]. Ann TREVELYAN Head Widow 46 Clergyman’s Widow Clapham Surrey Helen F TREVELYAN Daughter S 17 Malden Surrey Julia L TREVELYAN Daughter S 15 Malden Surrey Geog Edw TREVELYAN Son S 13 Malden Surrey Ann STEER Nurse S 47 Coulsden Surrey Emm SLATFORD Servant S 23 House Maid Lower Oxendon Oxon Thos SLATFORD Servant S 17 Gardener Lower Oxendon Oxon Emm must be Emma badly written. Lower Oxendon in Oxfordshire does not exist. ?Little Oxendon in Northants.
32 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
ix 1851 census: HO 107/1592, Enumeration District No. 4eB, f.403r., p.6 Address: 19 Church Street Henry GOSSE Head M 62 Justice of the Peace Battersea Surrey Anne GOSSE Wife M 61 Battersea Surrey Anne TREVELYAN Daur Wid 36 Fundholder & Annuitant Clapham Surrey. Julia L. TREVELYAN Gd.Dau 5 Malden Surrey George E. TREVELYAN Gd. Son 2 Malden Surrey James HARROWELL Servt M 53 Butler Whipsnade Bedfordshire James WELLMAN Servt S 29 Groom Dorking Surrey Charlotte WORKMAN Servt S 44 Cook Rotherhithe Surrey Anne STEER Servt S 39 Nurse Coulsden Surrey Jane PAYNE Servt S 21 Nurse Maid London Middlesex Elizabeth ROBERTS Servt S 26 House Maid Parrick Worcestershire Lucy YORKE Servt S 25 House Maid Alsford Hampshire
J 1871 census: RG 10/798, Enumeration District No. 5, f.87v., p.18, schedule no. 86 Address: Woodcote Rd [implied as between two entries with this address]. [Preceding entry - with address ‘Woodcote Rd’- has intercalated note ‘rooms over the stable in Woodcote Par’. As this comes after Woodcote House - whose address is ‘Woodcote Rd (Woodcote House)’, it must refer to the park of Woodcote House and not to Woodcote Park. The succeeding entry is identified as 2 Chalk Lane and has the same ‘Woodcote Rd’ address]. William FULLER Head S 52 Member of Stock Exchange London Middlesex John Ditto Brother S 67 Retired from Ditto London Middlesex Ann VINEY Sister Widow 54 London Middlesex Joseph DEARING Visitor M 32 Member of Stock Exchange London Middlesex Ann R. ditto ditto M 29 London Middlesex Mildred M. ditto ditto 3 London Middlesex William F. ditto ditto 5 London Middlesex Reginald B. ditto ditto 2 Epsom Surrey Francis H. LYONS ditto S 18 Greece Mary MOLINEUX Servant S 25 Housemaid Bebington Cheshire Elizabeth BULLEN ditto S 21 Cook London Middlesex Rhoda HEMELEY? Ditto S 19 Nursemaid Froome? Jersey
K 1881 census: RG 11/279, Enumeration District No. 94b, f.88, p.36: Address: 1 Cromartie Road, Islington William FULLER Head M 62 Member of Stock Exchange (Banker) St. George’s East Middlesex Mary Ann FULLER Wife M 34 Blackburn Lancashire Eveline M FULLER Daur U 1 Hornsey Rise Middlesex Anne CLAPHAM Visitor U 37 Burley Yorks Sarah A SAINSBURY Serv U 24 General Domestic Clerkenwell Middlesex Mary E MCKENZIE Serv U 18 Nursemaid Islington Middlesex
L 1881 census: RG 11/761 Enumeration District No. 5, f.82v., p. 16, schedule no. 65 Address: Woodcote Road [The preceding entry is identified as 2 Chalk Lane with the same address and the succeeding entry as Woodcote House where the address is Woodcote Green]. Henrietta A. JONES Wife M 53 Wife of Wine Merchant Hunter St. London Charles P ditto Son S 17 Clerk in Merchts Office Wormley Herts Mary L. ditto Daur ditto 12 Scholar Epsom Surrey Louisa HYDE Servant ditto 40 Nurse Domestic Servt Cookham Berks Elizabeth GARMAN ditto ditto 33 Cook ditto Epsom Surrey Mary BRIGSTOCK ditto ditto 26 Parlour Maid ditto Weldon Northant
33 Woodcote Green House
M 1891 census: RG 12/547, Enumeration District No. 9, f.15r., p.23, schedule no. 121 Address: Woodcote Green [The preceding entry is identified as 2 Chalk Lane - address Woodcote Road - and the succeeding entry as Woodcote House - address Woodcote House]. Charles BISCHOFF Head Widower 57 Secretary to a Public Co Bloomsbury London Caroline E. BISCHOFF Daughter S 11 Chislehurst Kent Isabel A. BISCHOFF Daughter S 9 Epsom Surrey Mary BISCHOFF Daughter S 8 Epsom Surrey Mary Ann CLARK Guardian S 48 Wymondham Norfolk Amy F. TAYLOR Servant S 29 Dom Cook Merton Surrey Jane RIVINGHAM Servant S 20 ditto Housemaid Leatherhead Surrey Agnes E. WOODS Servant S 21 ditto Nursemaid Woodton Bungay Norfolk Woodton is a parish and village 5 miles northwest of Bungay
N Burke 6th Ed., 1879 under ‘Buller of Down Hall’ states incorrectly that he died in the Crimea. Henry’s army record (N.A. (Kew): WO 76/367, fol.835) shows that he was born on 14th September, 1828 at Valetta in Malta. He was 19 when he joined the army from the Cadet Company and was made a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 1st October, 1847. He was in Corfu from 20th December, 1847 until 25th December, 1848 and while there was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 30th June, 1848. He was in Gibraltar from 25th March, 1849 until 18th March, 1854, being promoted to Captain on 6th January, 1853. He then went on the expedition to Turkey and was at the Battles of Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman, and at the Siege of Sebastopol for which he received a Crimean medal and clasp. He also received a ‘Turkish Mine’ – presumably a decoration – for the siege of Sebastopol. He was adjutant from 3rd April, 1855 and after the war, on 6th June, 1856, was promoted Brigade Major. According to his death certificate, Henry died at 18th August 1857 (but on 19th August when the death was registered according to his army record) at Donnington in Berkshire of ‘atrophy certified’. Donnington was presumably the family home, Donnington Grove, near Newbury. Henry left a widow, Georgiana Mary Dashwood, whom he had married as Georgiana Mary Hickman, of full age, spinster, daughter of William Hickman, merchant at St. James, Paddington on 25th October, 1851. Henry was the son of Robert Dashwood, Captain in the Royal Engineers, who made a Will, dated 20th September, 1839 and proved 27th November, 1840, leaving everything to his wife and appointing his brother-in-law, George John Eyre, and his brother, Charles James Augustus Dashwood, as executors. Henry also had a brother, Henry Walpole George Dashwood, who died in the Crimea at Inkerman on 5th November, 1854. He was a Lieutenant in the 20th Regiment of Foot. After Henry’s death, on 17th March, 1858, the sister, Augusta Annabel Dashwood, of Donnington Grove, near Newbury, Berkshire, took over the administration of her brother George’s estate of which Henry had been granted Administration on 11th February, 1856. There is no record of Henry himself leaving a Will or of Administration of his estate. Oddly Augusta is described as a spinster in the grant of Administration for George, but as a widow in the 1891 census when she was staying at Down Hall. (See footnote 52 and related text).
One incident is recorded of Henry at the Siege of Sebastopol, on 25th October, 1854 in the Battle of Balaclava: When Captain Maude was severely hurt, Lieutenant H.W.J.Dashwood became the senior officer with I Troop when it was in action on a small plateau to the right of No. 3 Redoubt. He rode up to Captain Barker and reported that his ammunition was nearly expended. This was because: “The wagons of I Troop, under Second-Captain J.D.Shakespear, had been sent as usual before daylight, to assist in the transport of shot and shell to the trenches. Captain Maude therefore had only the limber ammunition with his guns.” Barker, by Sir Colin Campbell’s direction, sent W Battery to I Troop’s position and I Troop was withdrawn with only seven rounds left. “Dashwood had had two horses shot under him, and one gunner and more than a third of the gun teams had been killed, before I Troop, with the Greys as escort, descended from the position they had occupied in action. The main body of our cavalry, who had protected the retreat of the Turks, were themselves retiring; and the Greys, falling back by alternate squadrons, and the guns by half-troops, covered the movement. Near Kadikoï, I Troop was met by Captain Shakepear with the wagons. This officer took over the command, and, after making good the casualties and replenishing the limbers, he followed the Cavalry Division.” The redoubts were taken by the Russians.
Jocelyn, Colonel Julian R.J. The History of the Royal Artillery (Crimean Period) London 1911, pp.198 -200.
(N.A. (Kew): National Archives Library 34 Owners and Occupiers after 1846
O 1881 census: RG 11/761, Enumeration District No. 6, f.107r., p.11, schedule no. 35: Address: Down Hall, Down Hall Road James H BULLER Head M 49 Colonel in the Royal Body Guard Lanreath Cornwall and magistrate for Surrey Emily A. Ditto Wife M 28 Gibraltar Spain B.S. Emily K. Ditto Daughter S 16 Scholar Eltham Kent Henrietta F. Ditto Ditto S 13 Scholar Blackheath Kent John D. Ditto Son - 2 Epsom Surrey Margaret ORR Governess S 37 Governess Priv. Roslin N.B. William BROCK Servant S 26 Butler Domestic Servt Ashburton Devon Edward KENSHAM Ditto S 15 Groom Ditto Burgh Heath Surrey Elizabeth SKINNER Ditto S 36 Housekeeper & Cook Ditto Torquay Devonshire Charlotte HENSTRIDGE Ditto S 30 Ladies maid Ditto Ringwood Hants + Emma ALERENS Ditto S 27 Nurse Ditto Auch Vorsfelde Germany Brit. Sub Mary A.LEWIS Ditto S 26 House maid Ditto Birmingham Warwick Adeline BARKER Ditto S 23 Under Ladies maid Ditto Mereworth Kent Elizabeth EVENS Ditto S 19 Kitchen maid Ditto Wartash‡ Hampshire *N.B. stands for North Britain, i.e. Scotland. +Auch Vorsfelde is near Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony ‡Wartash is a mistake for Warsash.
P White. The Gibernes lived in Church Street as appears from the following 1851 census: 1851 census: Ref HO 107/1592, Enumeration District No. 4eB, f.406v., p.13 Address: 36 Church Stree George GIBERNE Head M 53 Retired Judge of the Supreme London Middlesex Court of Judicature Bombay Civil Servant Maria GIBERNE Wife M 28 London Middlesex Evelyn GIBERNE Dau S 3 Epsom Surrey Edgar GIBERNE Son 9 months Epsom Surrey Margaret EDWARDS Serv S 32 House Servant ? ? Jane COLEMAN Serv S 25 House Servant ? Northant Caroline RICHARDS Serv S 24 House Servant Westminster Middlesex James ANSCOMB Serv S 19 House Servant Ashtead Surrey Jane COLEMAN Serv S 25 House Servant ? Northan Caroline RICHARDS Serv S 24 House Servant Westminster Middlesex James ANSCOMB Serv S 19 House Servant Ashtead Surrey
Q 1891 census: RG 12/546, Enumeration District No. 7, f.105r., p.7 Address: Down Hall, Upper Downs Road James H BULLER Head M 59 Colonel in HM Body Guard Lanreath Cornwall J.P. for Surrey and C.C.* Emily A. Ditto Wife M 35 Gibraltar Spain B.S. Henrietta F. . Ditto Daughter S 23 Blackheath Kent John D. Ditto Son S 12 Epsom Surrey Dorothy N. D. Ditto Daughter S 8 Ditto Ditto Augusta A. DASHWOOD Aunt Widow 57 Woolwich Kent Visitor Barrington G. D. STAFFORD Cousin S 1 London Middlesex Visitor Felicité SCHMITT Servant S 36 Lady’s Maid Domestic Servt Strasburg AlsaceVisitor French Subject Eleanor WARR Visitor S 53 Nurse Ditto Bedford Bedford William H. BROCK Servant M 35 Butler Ditto Ashburton Devon Janet HUGHES Ditto S 28 Cook Ditto Kilbur Middlesex Joseph EARL Ditto S 19 Odd Man Ditto Walton Surrey Charlotte HENSTRIDGE Ditto S 40 Lady’s maid Ditto Ringwood Hants 35 Woodcote Green House
Emma ALERENS Ditto S 35 Nurse Ditto Vorsfelder+ Germany Brit. Sub Annie M. PAYNE Ditto S 29 House maid Ditto London Middlesex Margaret BULLOCK Ditto S 18 Kitchenmaid Ditto Wartash Trelleck Monmouthshire Louisa CROWE Ditto S 19 Housemaid Ditto Chertsey Surrey Frederick E. HERBERT Ditto M 22 Groom Epsom Surrey *‘Army Off’ overwritten on Occupation column. +See 1881 census: Vorsfelder = Auch Vorsfelde which is near Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony
R 1901 census: RG 13/583, Enumeration District No. 11, f.129r., p.23, schedule no. 135 [Preceding entry identified as Woodcote Villa and succeeding entry as 2 Chalk Lane]. Charlotte HENSTRIDGE Servant S 5 Lady’s maid Domestic Ringwood Hants 0 Kate WEDLAKE Servant S 2 Cook Domestic Winford Somerset 4 Annie K. VENN Servant S 2 Housemaid Domestic Ashtead Surrey 4
36 Chapter 2: AFTER THE NORTHEYS
As explained in the previous chapter, Major General Sir Edward Northey gave Woodcote Green House and other properties to his son Edward George Vernon Northey in 1936. He also sold much of the surrounding land for building and Ron and John Harwood created the Woodcote estate there. The Northey family finally left Woodcote House in December 1939. It was occupied by the army who did not treat it well.1 It is now divided into flats.
Following the death of Miss Buller in 1953, the Major General’s son, Edward George Vernon Northey, (then a retired Lieutenant Colonel living at Glebe Farm, Hinton Waldrist, Farringdon, Berks) put Woodcote Green House on the market. Contracts were exchanged on 8th February, 1954, and in April the sale was completed and the property sold to William John Ray Garman, Building Society Representative, and Robert John Garman, both of 283 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush. Robert John Garman is elsewhere described as a Builder’s Manager. Unfortunately the purchase price is not known.
Details of the registration of the whole property and of the Land Certificates for each part, showing all subsequent dealings, are set out in Appendix 1B and 1C.
Division and Conversion On 18th February, 1954, before completion of the sale, the Garmans obtained planning permission to divide the property into three. As explained more fully in Chapter 6, the main house was to be divided into two, to be known as No. 1 and No. 2. Woodcote Green House, while the coach house and stable were to be converted into a bungalow to be called Heather Lodge.
It appears that the house had had a lucky escape for a copy of a letter survives 2 dated 5th January, 1954 from a corporate surveyor named John R. Leage to the Council, regarding his Outline Appeal to develop the property. The letter makes clear that he proposed to divide the house into three with No. 2, as now, a semi-detached house but with No. 1. consisting of a ground floor flat and an upper maisonette on the two upper floors. He originally intended to reverse the Chippendale staircase to provide an entrance to the upper maisonette but subsequently decided he could create a new entrance without doing this. Fortunately his plans came to nothing
In a little over a year the Garman conversion was done and all three properties sold. The new rating assessment was signed off on 3rd March, 1955 for No. 1 which seems to have been valued at £1640 and rated at £90, while No. 2 was valued sometime in that year at £751 and rated at £45.
No. 2 was sold first on 26th January, 1955 for £3,000 to a widow, Eileen Nicholson.
No. 1 was sold on 15th March, 1955 for £4,850 to Clifford Neil Sandelson of 20 Embankment Gardens. He was a solicitor in the firm of Carr Sandelson & Co., 19a Cavendish Square, London, W.1.
This sale excluded much of the back garden behind No. 1 which was included in the plot for the bungalow. Sandelson then contracted on 13th May, 1955 to buy the bungalow for £3,400
1 Furniss pp.20 and 27 2 In the author’s possession. 37 Woodcote Green House and, on the 23rd of the same month, to sell it, less the part of the garden behind No. 1, for £3, 600 to John Harold and Ethel Wheeler. Both sales were completed on 14th July, 1955. Sandelson must have been well satisfied with his bargain.
8. The Sandelsons’ picture of the House (Antique Dealer and Collectors’ Guide 1956, p.34).
To the Sandelsons we owe the only picture the present owners have ever seen of the house before they acquired it. This appeared as an advertisement in The Antique Dealer and
Porcelain and states that Overseas visitors and trade are welcome. Sandelson must therefore have changed his job or retired by this time.
In 1977, the current owners were with their Swiss au pair, when her foot accidentally turned over a coin in the yard behind the house. It turned out to be a George I shilling of 1723. We did not like to point out that it belonged to us and all our hints were met with a bland Swiss stare. We had to be content with a rubbing and a photograph but comforted ourselves that it was probably dropped in the 1950’s by the Sandelsons rather than in the eighteenth century.
38 JhfggjAahjbhjhjbjhbhjb\Bhj\
After the Northeys
Recent owners The bungalow, named Heather Lodge, was occupied for many years by Mrs. Marguerite Hill, following a divorce. She lived there until 2002 when she had to go into a nursing home; the property was put on the market in 2003. It was acquired by a developer and the subject of a series of planning applications. It was then bought by the present owners, Kate and Vit Leopore.
No. 2 has had a number of owners. Alan Edwin James, an architect, and his wife Barbara, were registered as proprietors on 29th August, 1957, followed by Brian Sidney Kirk and his wife Jean Vicary Nellie on 7th October, 1968. Then came the Paices. Reginald Paice was registered as owner on 18th February, 1971 and, following his death, his widow, Alice Margaret Paice, on 18th March, 1985. Alice died on 26th June 2002 and John and Maggie Parsloe, the present owners of No. 1, acquired No 2. from her son, Roger Paice, on 16th August, 2002. The Paices were extremely good neighbours.
Sandelson sold No. 1 for £7.825 to a doctor, Winifred Ferguson Young. She was registered as proprietor on 3rd June, 1960 and was one of three unmarried sisters. She lived there with her sisters, Margaret Ferguson Young and Jessie Ferguson Young, until her death on 28th May, 1969. Margaret and Jessie remained at No. 1 until they moved to a smaller house nearby in Sunnybank. The present owners, John and Margaret Parsloe, purchased No. 1 from them on 2nd September, 1977, and moved in with their two young children (soon to be three) on the following 9th September.
Owning No. 1 has been a long voyage of discovery as the house has slowly revealed its secrets in the face of endless repairs, rebuilding and D.I.Y.
Highspots have included the discovery of much old wall paper, including a complete wall of sheets, each bearing the duty stamp of George 1, behind the panelling in the front bedroom; uncovering the obscured and paint filled carving of the dining room mantelpiece with ‘Mr. Smith’ (or ‘Mr. Geo Smith) on the back; uncovering the Coade decoration to the upstairs sitting room mantelpiece; and discovering that the rococo hall ceiling decoration was not plaster but papier maché covered with layers of paint. Hours were spent stripping it, lying flat on the scaffolding.
The house needed substantial work in 1977. All the ground floor floorboards had to be raised and many replaced. They were found to rest on old beams laid on packed chalk. The large first floor front room was converted back to a sitting room. It only became apparent, when Mrs. Bevan’s Will was obtained, that that was its former function.
Disaster struck on Wednesday 17th December, 1986 with a fire starting in the side of the house behind the new attic bathroom which had been made in 1983. The fire was caused by roofers who left smouldering pitch while they went to eat their sandwiches. The real damage was caused by the water which the firemen used to ensure the blaze would not restart. The house had to be totally redecorated and rewired and much of the roof replaced as well as the attic bathroom. A portion of the hall ceiling collapsed under the weight of water, destroying part of the rococo papier maché decoration which had to be replaced with a copy. The rather odd roof structure at the back was also lost and replaced with something stronger but less interesting; the two corridor rooms alongside the front attic room were dispensed with to create a larger upper room.3
3 See Appendix III for an account of the fire by Maggie Parsloe. 39 Woodcote Green House On reflection the damage could have been far worse and the house retains many original features though the three great copper beeches which graced the garden when we came have all gone - one of disease and two blown down in gales. The replacements will not be mature for many years.
When first seeing the house Maggie Parsloe felt it had ‘good vibes’. Mr. Marshall’s wife remarked how much she liked the Youngs and Mr. Marshall said both the Bullers were kind employers. Mrs. Bevan’s Will also indicates an unusually caring employer. Perhaps they and others have created the good vibrations. The present owners have certainly been happy here.
40 TttthjhT
Chapter 3 THE BEVANS
The particulars and conditions of sale for the auction of Woodcote Green House on 4th September, 1846 are not only the key to its later history but also to its ownership back to at least 1780.
It will be recalled that the auction particulars state that the property ‘was for many years in the occupation of the late Mrs. Bevan, and now of Mons. Guerin.’
Sarah Bevan of Woodcote Green was the widow of John Bevan ‘formerly of Epsom Esquire’. She died shortly before 16th December, 1839 when affidavits were sworn to enable probate of her Will, dated 24th June, 1836 with 5 codicils, to be granted. On the following 23rd December, probate was granted to Peter Hunter Esquire, with power reserved for Thomas Brown Esquire.1
The Land Tax records2 show Sarah’s husband, John Bevan, first occupying Woodcote Green House in 1788. Probate of his Will dated 16th March, 1796 was granted to Sarah on 8th May of that year although he is still shown as occupier in 1799. Sarah (as Mrs. Bevan) first appears in the Land Tax records in 1800, continuing each year until 1831 (when she is Sarah Bevan). The records then cease. From them it appears that Sarah lived in the house for over 50 years.
The Wills of both John and Sarah name numerous relatives, friends and servants and make many gifts of money or possessions.
The relatives named in John’s Will3 were his mother Elizabeth Drewitt, widow of Paul Drewitt; two nephews (Thomas Frederick and Charles Bevan) and two nieces (Caroline and Juliana Bevan) of his late brother Thomas of Upper Harley Street, Esquire; a nephew Thomas Torin; Mary Hartshorn, daughter of his half-sister Mary Hawkes; two other half-sisters Sarah Williams and Elizabeth Johnston; an uncle Thomas Bevan; and, of course, his ‘ever dear and much beloved wife Sarah’ who is sole executor and residuary legatee.
When the Will was executed, John was living at Sandy Brook, Derby, but he was buried in Shorne churchyard in Kent on 18th April, 1796. 4
1 N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/191/739. Peter Hunter was named in the Will as a friend, late of Fetcham but now of Bognor. He was in fact related by marriage. Thomas Brown was of Epsom, a surgeon and also a friend. Some of the codicils were not dated or properly witnessed so that Hunter and two of the servants, Elizabeth Peters and Elizabeth Webb, had to swear affidavits as to the handwriting and their validity. 2 S.H.C.: microfiche 3 N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/1274 4 Shorne Parish Registe
41 Woodcote Green House
Sarah’s Will and codicils are fascinating and contain a wealth of local names. She was the daughter of George Holmes, deceased, and had no issue. She left devises to her husband’s three half-sisters (Mary Hawkes, Elizabeth Johnston, wife of George Johnston, and Sarah Williams) and to Sarah’s daughter, Mary, (then Mary Lee, formerly Mrs. Hartshorn). It appears that Charles Bevan, the younger son of John's elder brother Thomas, has become ‘the late Colonel Bevan’.5 Four children of Charles, his eldest son also Charles, two other sons Thomas and Edward, and a daughter Eleanor, are also remembered.
There is a bequest to Henrietta Ann Hunter, wife of Sarah’s executor, Peter Hunter.6 She was the daughter of Thomas Frederick Bevan, the son of John Bevan’s elder brother, and is described in John’s last codicil as his great-niece. Henrietta was clearly important to Sarah Bevan since she receives the family portraits and crest, and substantial property.
Henrietta Anne Hunter née Bevan (1803 – 1849) married Captain Peter Hunter, 2nd Dragoon Guards, at St Georges Hanover Square in 1822. He was a son of the Scottish physician Dr John Hunter (1754 –1809) and Elizabeth Le Grande. The Hunters appear to have been in residence at The Shrubbery, Leatherhead, during 1828 and Abele Grove, Epsom in 1846. They had a daughter Miss Henrietta Caroline Sophia Hunter.
Henrietta Ann, the legatee, was the only daughter of Henrietta Christiana and Thomas Frederick Bevan. Thomas Frederick Bevan was born in Ashtead on 1st August 1775, son of Anne and Thomas Bevan, John’s elder brother. He died on 17th October 1808 in Berampore, Bengal and was a senior merchant in the East India Company at the time of his death.
Thomas Bevan senior also served with the East India Company and in 1753 was sent to Guangzhou in China to learn Chinese. He returned in 1773 and married Anne Prevost, daughter of Peter Prevost in Epsom on 16th August 1774. He was buried under an altar tomb in St. Martin’s Epsom, dying on 19th February 1788, aged 49.7 But it seems he returned to Canton after his marriage, being the only Company supercargo (or trader) capable of communicating in Chinese and so becoming involved in the negotiations over the debts of Chinese Canton traders in 1779 and 1780.8
Henrietta Christina who married Thomas senior’s son, Thomas Frederick Bevan, was the daughter of George Smith and Margaretta Aurora, the younger daughter of George Smith’s uncle, Dr. Andrew Munro, the Company’s principal medical officer in Madras. Margaretta Aurora gave birth to Henrietta Christiana in 1780 in the Cape of Good Hope on her return journey to England.
Mr. Smith goes to China traces the careers of three George Smiths, all Scottish. One of these, George Smith ‘of Madras’, was Henrietta Christina’s father. But none of the three was the
5 This unfortunate man was held responsible by Wellington for the escape of the French garrison from Almeida and committed suicide because of the dishonour to him and his regiment. See Hunter, Archie: Wellington’s Scapegoat: The tragedy of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Bevan (Bradford: Pen and Sword 2003). 6 I am indebted to Mr. Brian Bouchard for the wealth of information he gave me in 2020 regarding Henrietta and her family connections. See his articles on Woodcote House: https://eehe.org.uk/?p=29904 and Ashley House https://eehe.org.uk/?p=29904 7 The History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, Manning and Bray, 1804-14., Vol. II, p.621 records an inscription in St. Martin’s: “Underneath are deposited the remains of Thomas Bevan Esq. many years in the service of the East India Company of China. He departed this life February 19, 1788, aged 49.” 8 Hunter, Jessica: Mr. Smith goes to China (Yale University Press, 2019), page 96.
42 TttthjhT
The Bevans
George Smith described in the next Chapter 4 who owned Woodcote Place and Woodcote Green House and was Writer in residence in Canton in 1790. He is however referred to on page 108 of the book as: “George Smith Junior - a fourth George Smith with no apparent relationship to the three George Smiths of this book”. This fourth George Smith junior was the Canton agent and attorney of George Smith of Madras.9 He and Thomas Bevan senior must have known each other well as they were both based in Canton and so it is unsurprising that George’s father, Samuel Smith III, granted Thomas’s brother John a tenancy of Woodcote Green House in 1788.
The family portraits have led to a proper wild goose chase. They are referred to as ‘the portrait in Crayons by Lawrence of my late husband and the portrait of his Brother Thomas Bevan Esquire’.
It is not clear whether the portrait of Thomas was by Lawrence but that of John described as Portrait of John Bevan, Esq., in blue coat Oval - 11½ in. by 9½ in. by Sir T. Lawrence, P.R.A. was sold as lot 119 at Christies (then Christie, Manson & Woods) at their Great Rooms at King Street, St. James’s Square, on Saturday 11th July, 1903. The portrait was sold from the estate of Colonel Saunders, deceased, of Ivy Dene, Chipping Norton for 5 guineas to L. H. Powell.10 The portrait is not in the catalogue raisonée of Lawrence’s works by Garlick and it is not known if it still exists. Christie’s cautioned that the attribution to Lawrence given in the catalogue is not a full attribution and indicates that in their opinion the painting is a work of the period of the artist, which may be in whole or part the work of the artist.
In a memorandum of trifling gifts, Benjamin Torin is given a picture of his sister and two drawings by himself. Others receiving gifts include a Baroness de Rolle, Mrs. de Teissier of Woodcote Park, and Mrs. Mary Grimaldi, who receives ‘one pair of china Jars with four enamelled Basins and Covers - they usually were upon the Chimney in the Drawing room.’ She was the wife of Stacey Grimaldi Esquire, Sarah’s solicitor, who himself was left ‘two landscapes on china on the Landing place of the drawing room’ in the original Will. The solicitor witnessing the Will is Jas Puttock of Epsom, as Grimaldi could not have been both a witness and a beneficiary.
Sarah Bevan appears to have been particularly concerned for her servants. She requests that they may remain in the house for three months after her death ‘on Board wages of half a guinea a week’. Legacies to servants are to be paid immediately after her decease, while everyone else must wait for six months. The servants receive gifts of substantial annuities, mourning money and furniture. Elizabeth Peters is given ‘as some reward for long and faithful attention to me’ various items including ‘my watch made by Wightwick number 1194’… ‘the looking glass in the Back sitting room and the dining table in the Drawing room’…..‘the Bedstead and bedding in the East Chamber with all my calico and linen and a Mahogany double fronted chest of drawers’.
The references to the location in the house of some of the bequests is interesting and particularly to the ‘Landing place of the Drawing room’ which suggests that the drawing room as now was
9 George may have been Junior because there was a more senior George Smith in the Company. 10 The only possible person in the 1901 census is a Lewis Henry Powell who was a stock and share dealer, aged 26 in 1901, and living in Edenthorpe, Wimbledon. He was a member of the Stock Exchange and died on 1st October 1944 of Inworth Hall, Inworth near Kelverton, Essex. He had no issue and left his considerable estate to siblings. At this point the trail again goes cold.
43 Woodcote Green House
on the first floor since there is no landing on the ground floor. At latest by 1915, at the time of the Domesday Valuation,11 and probably much earlier, this room had become a bedroom. The reference to the ‘Back sitting room’ may be to what is now, and has been at least since 1899, the kitchen. Previously the large scullery may have been the kitchen
The oddest feature is an undated codicil in which Sarah gives directions for her burial next to her husband in Shorne churchyard, in which village she had a freehold estate presumably from her husband. The codicil reads as follows:
Directions for my Funeral: To be laid in same vault or grave as her late dear and lamented husband in Shorne Church yard, Kent where a receptacle is she trusts already prepared.
“My body being covered with my usual Night Clothes and then wrapped in a long white dress to be put into a lined shell or Inner Coffin then in lead the Outer Coffin to be Covered with Black Cloth black plates and Nails and after having been kept ten days to be conveyed to its final abode in a hearse with two Black Coaches to attend.”
Tenants of the Ridgeway whose custom is to attend funerals six in number to be paid a Guinea each in lieu.
Mr. Butcher of Epsom to conduct funeral and also sell the furniture.
“Of course my Executors to have silk scarves hatbands” [“and also Mr. Thomas Brown of Epsom the Medical Gentleman who has attended me for many years” erased] “And it is further my desire that my kind and affectionate I must add friend for such she has been to me Elizabeth Peters shall see that every thing is done which may be proper during the ten days or longer should no change have taken place and that the lid of the coffin may not be closed until such change shall have taken place and also it is my wish that she attend my remains to the Grave and that Elizabeth Webb do accompany her.”
By the time of the census on the night of 6th June, 1841, Mons. Guerin and his family were in occupation, paying the low rent of £34 per annum referred to in the auction particulars which was presumably the same as had been paid by Sarah Bevan.
11 See Endnote A in the Addenda to Chapter 6.
44 TttthjhT
The Bevans
45 Woodcote Green House
9. Smith Pedigree from Pedigree of the Smiths of Cropwell-Butler and Nottingham with additions. Owners and occupiers of Woodcote Green House highlighted = Sawyer family. Anne and Frances are sisters. 46 The Smiths
Chapter 4: THE SMITHS
The occupants of the house from the end of the eighteenth century have been described in the previous chapter. The owners before them are the subject of the present chapter.
Dr. Lehmann in his work on Epsom copyholds12 wrote: “In the tithe map of 1843 the owner of [Woodcote Green House] …is given as George Smith,…., but it cannot justifiably be assumed that this George Smith is the eldest son of George Anthony Smith mentioned in the will of George Smith, who on 29 March, 1802 had acquired the properties which Thomas Smith had inherited from his father Samuel Smith on 2 November 1795 and which Samuel Smith had purchased after 1756.”
With the help of the auction particulars and other evidence not available to Dr. Lehmann, it can be shown that the George Smith of the Schedule to the 1843 Tithe Map was not the 19-year- old son of George Anthony Smith but George Anthony himself. Woodcote Green House was acquired by Samuel Smith before 1780 and descended to Samuel’s eldest son, also Samuel. Following his death it did not descend to his son Thomas but was acquired by this Samuel’s younger brother George. This younger brother was the fourth George Smith who was the Canton agent and attorney of George Smith of Madras. Woodcote Green House was left by George to his wife Frances for life with remainder on trust for sale to George’s eldest son George Anthony and his other three children equally.
George Anthony Smith George Anthony Smith was born at Epsom on 11th June and baptised on 9th July, 1801, the eldest of the four children of George and Frances Smith (née Sawyer).13
In 1845, George Anthony Smith, Collector and Magistrate of Rajamundry in the Presidency of Madras, ‘proceeded on furlough’ to England.14 One object was clearly to settle his affairs there. His widowed mother, Frances, who had been living in Cheltenham, had died on 15th April, 1841.15 She had had a life interest in Woodcote Green House under the terms of the Will of her husband George. The Will now required the house to be sold and the proceeds divided between George’s three sons, George Anthony, Harcourt, and Samuel, and his daughter, Frances Mary.16
It was not until 5th July, 1844 that George Anthony obtained a grant of administration with Will annexed of goods unadministered of his father’s estate.17 The lease of Woodcote Green House held by Monsieur Guerin in 1841 must therefore have either been assigned to him by Sarah Bevan’s executors or been granted by Frances Smith in her lifetime, but after Sarah Bevan’s death in 1839. After Frances' death, no one was entitled to grant such a lease until this grant of administration was obtained
12 Lehmann, Dr. H.L. The Residential Copyholds of Epsom Epsom and Ewell Borough Council, 1987. 13 Biographical Card Index..O.I.O.C. 14 Madras Civil Servants 1741-1858, O.I.O.C 15 N.A. (Kew): IR 26/1592/944-945 16 N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/1519/89 17 N.A. (Kew): PROB 30/370. Frances’ brother, John Sawyer renounced, at the same time.
47 Woodcote Green House
To obtain the grant George Anthony had to enter into a Bond on 5th July for £4,000 (double the maximum estimate of the value of the estate). He signs the bond G. Smith18 and gives his address as 39 Bedford Square, Brighton, Sussex which indicates that he in fact returned from India in that year rather than in 1845. Jointly bound with him are Alexander MacArthur of the Oriental Club, Hanover Square, Middlesex and John Innes Pocock of No. 27 Lincolns Inn Fields, Middlesex. All are described as esquire. Pocock was the family solicitor and was the only one of Frances Smith’s three executors who proved her will.19 Pocock also acted for George Anthony in the auction of Woodcote Green House, the particulars naming him as one of those from whom particulars of the property could be obtained.20
The grant of administration is also recorded in the Death Duty Registers with George Anthony’s name and Brighton address. Below is written ‘£20 3 Sept 44’, presumably recording a payment of that amount representing 1% of the estimated value on 3rd September, 1844. Then in a separate section against the date 28th July, 1846 with the children named as legatees, a value of £1,363-7-9 and duty of £13-11-8 or 1%, is recorded. How this value was calculated is not clear since the auction of the house only took place on 4th September, 1846 and raised £720 gross. The difference may represent money from the former banking business, which was left on the same terms as Woodcote Green House (see under George Smith below)
The proceeds of the sale will have been distributed equally to George Anthony and his siblings, under his father’s Will; all four of the children were certainly alive when Frances Smith ‘of Cheltenham, widow of George Smith late of Epsom esquire’, made her Will on 30th September, 1840. By then, her daughter, Frances Mary, had married Herbert Sawyer of Heywood Lodge, Berkshire - he was almost certainly her first cousin and it was the third Smith/Sawyer marriage21 - and had had two sons (the eldest, Durcombe Herbert Sawyer, being born in 1837) and a daughter. Of Frances Smith’s younger sons, nothing is known about Harcourt, but Samuel was a Clergyman of Colne Barrowford in Lancashire and was later to marry and have issue.
George Anthony returned to India sometime in 1846 and in 1847 was the Collector and Magistrate of Nellore, where he died of apoplexy on 1st June, 1849.22 His Will is dated 16th January, 1846 and it is clear from the English addresses of the witnesses that it was made before his return to India.23
George Anthony was married twice, firstly in 1823 to Eugenie Boucher, daughter of Jean Baptiste Boucher of the French army, by whom he had two sons, George and John, and two daughters, Frances Mary (who married William Edward Hamilton) and Laura Ann. In 1836 he was married for the second
18 This is important to establish identity as he is named in the Schedule to the 1843 Tithe Map as George and not George Anthony Smith. See Note 11 to Chapter 1. George was named as owner in the schedule even though it was a year before the grant of administration; he and his siblings inherited under his father’s Will and not from his mother. 19 N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/1955/836: Charles Sawyer Esquire, the nephew (who was probably a son of Herbert Sawyer, the husband of George Anthony’s sister, Frances Mary) and ‘Major John Davies of The Honourable East India Company Service now residing in Cheltenham’ were both also named as executors and residuary legatees in trust but renounced. 20 The auction particulars in fact refer to ‘J.J.Pocock, Esq. No. 27 Lincolns Inn Fields’ but the second initial J is clearly a misprint for I, as no J.J.Pocock is known to the Law Society. The Law Society has however confirmed that, in 1840, John Innes Pocock was practising at 27 Lincolns Inn Fields. In 1851 he merged to form Pocock, Mitchell & Berkley at that address. In 1858 the firm became Mitchell & Berkley; there are no records after 1862, when Maurice Berkley was the Sole Practitioner. 21 George Anthony’s mother Frances, who married George Smith, was the youngest daughter of Anthony Sawyer of Heywood Lodge. Her sister Anne married her brother-in-law, the Reverend Charles Smith of Aldermanbury. 22 There was a monument in Nellore cemetery with the inscription: G.A.Smith Madras Civil Service, aged 49 years Indian Monumental Inscriptions: Vol.3: Madras: p.276 [Gen. Soc.] 23 N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/2110/235 48 The Smiths
time to Katherine Batten, daughter of Dr. Henry Batten, principal of Haileybury College, where George Anthony had studied in the 1820’s.24
By his second wife, George Anthony had a further two daughters, Katherine Priscilla, born in 1837, and Jane Charlotte, born in 1841. In his Will, George Anthony divided his estate between his second wife and all his daughters although, in the event, his daughter Laura Ann and his second wife both predeceased him.25
George Anthony’s mother, Frances, left the bulk of her estate and the money from her marriage settlement to her children. .She left no legacy to his new daughter, Katherine Priscilla, perhaps disapproving of his second marriage, and remembered only the children of the first marriage and her daughter Frances Mary Sawyer’s first child, Durcombe Herbert Sawyer. Ironically, Durcombe was to marry Katherine Priscilla, his cousin, - the fourth Smith/Sawyer marriage. He was Rector of Hammoon, Dorset. Katherine Priscilla’s sister, Jane Charlotte, also married a clergyman.26
George Smith As we have seen, George Anthony’s father, George Smith, was also a member of The East India Company. He probably entered service in 1783 at the age of 19. In 1790 he was a Writer in residence in Canton in China. In 1795 he was back in England and probably then left the service.27 On 19th and 20th January, 1796, by lease and release he acquired from his father’s trustees both Woodcote Green House, which was let to Mrs. Bevan, and, for his own residence, the far grander Woodcote Place on the opposite side of Chalk Lane (now known in its sadly altered state as Westgate House).
On Monday June 12th 1797, George Smith Esq., of Saville Row (his father’s address), was married by the Reverend D. Parker at St. James Church in London to Miss Frances Sawyer, youngest daughter of the late Anthony Sawyer Esq., of Heywood Lodge in Berkshire.28 The nabob was clearly settling down to the life of a country gentleman.
When he made his Will on 16th July, 1809, George described himself as of Epsom and appointed as executors and trustees his esteemed brother-in-law John Sawyer Esqr. of Heywood Lodge in Berkshire, the trustee of his marriage settlement, ‘who I flatter myself will readily act on this occasion’ and ‘my much beloved wife’ Frances Smith. In the event John Sawyer renounced probate when the Will was proved on 7th February, 1811.
George leaves Woodcote Place ‘now tenanted by Henry Bridges Esqr.’ and various outbuildings and lands29 to be sold and the proceeds used to bring up his children; on their majority they are to receive
24 Haileybury College was the college for future East India Company Civil Servants. Appointed Writer in 1820, presumably on leaving Haileybury, George Anthony’s early career took him to Masulipatam and Vizagatapam as well as Rajamundry. 25 The Will was proved on 9th March, 1850 by the surviving trustee, William Henry Batten of the Home Service of The East India Company. He was obviously George Anthony’s father-in-law Dr. Batten. 26 The Reverend John Aldworth of Haigh, Lancashire, eldest son of John Aldworth of Fairford, Berks. 27 O.I.O.C.: Bengal Calendar & Register 1790: East India List of Civil Servants 1795. 1783 appears against the entry suggesting this was the date he joined; he does not appear in later editions. The Civil List of the East India Registry for Bombay (in the Gen. Soc. library) lists another George Smith under Junior Merchants from 1803 - 1805; he was appointed either in 1793 or 1794 and in 1805 was an assistant under the principal collector in Malabar. In the Military List for the same years is Lieut. George Smith in a European Regiment, appointed 17th October 1801. He is still there in 1810 but designated Capt. George Smith, the owner of Woodcote Place and Woodcote Green House, is shown in the Land Tax Records as in occupation of the former from 1801 to 1807. But both the Land Tax Records and the Bengal Register referred to in Note 32. 28 The Times, 14th June, 1797, p.3, col.c 29 Other local residents are referred to including Mr. Thomas Jendwine, Mr. J. ?Welray, Mrs. Weston of Church Street, the representative of the late Joseph Shaw of Epsom, and farmer John Fox. 49 Woodcote Green House the capital with the eldest, George Anthony, having two fifths and the other three children one fifth each.30 The contents are to be sold on the same terms except for the library which goes to George Anthony.
From land tax records it appears that George only lived in Woodcote Place from 1801 until 1807 and that it was tenanted at other times. Where else the Smiths lived is unclear although they had property in London. Frances was living in Woodcote Green in 1812 after George’s death, although both Woodcote Place and Woodcote Green House were then tenanted.31
The tax assessed from 1798 until 1806 was £8 per annum for Woodcote Place and £2-12-0 for Woodcote Green House. The tax was exonerated as a result of payment of a capital sum from 1800 but was still assessed. In 1807 the assessments were slightly reduced to £7-6-8 and £2-7- 8 respectively. Identification of the properties during the period of the Land Tax records is clear from the names of the proprietors and occupiers even though the houses are not named. Woodcote Green House had an annual value of £30 until 1797 or 1798, when it became £26. By contrast Woodcote Place had a rental value of £50 until 1796, when it became £80 with the inclusion of associated lands which had previously been separately assessed.32
The next section in George’s Will regarding Woodcote Green House is quoted in full: “The house & premises now tenanted by Mrs. Bevan belonging to me on Woodcote Green in the Parish of Epsom & let to her on a Lease of twenty one years from Lady day 1808 at a rent of 30£ pr. Annum to fall into me or my heirs at her death I leave & bequeath to my much beloved Wife Frances Smith for the term of her natural life at
her decease to be sold & the produce thereof to be equally divided amongst my three Sons George Anthony, Harcourt & Samuel Smith & my only daughter Frances Mary Smith”.
It was to be many years before Mrs. Bevan died and even longer before Frances did. We know nothing of their relationship but Frances was not one of Sarah Bevan’s many legatees.
George Smith left on the same terms as Woodcote Green House “whatever sums may be coming to me after the winding up of the Affairs of the late banking concern of Samuel Smith Sons & Co of Lombard Street London in which myself & the present Sir Francis Ford Bt. are the only parties interested”. This is the last reference to the Smiths’ banking concerns which are dealt with below.
30 The Title Deeds are stated to be with Messrs Dawes, Solicitors in Angel Court, Throgmorton Street. The Law Society kindly traced Messrs Dawes through a series of successor firms to Edwin Coe of 2 Stone Buildings in Lincolns Inn. Edwin Coe did not know they were the successor firm and alas had no title deeds. 31 White: It appears from Land Tax records that from 1787-1789, Woodcote Place was occupied by Mr. Norman [spelt Normand in the tax records] and from 1790 to 1798 by Mrs. Graham. In 1799 the house was occupied by both Mrs. Graham and by ---Webb Esq. Webb was in occupation for the next two years, but from 1801 until 1807 the occupier was George Smith himself; he was replaced in 1808 by Mr. Robinson. From 1809 until 1812 Henry Bridges was in occupation, and from 1813 until 1817, Mr. Ladbroke. Then, after being empty for two years, James Elmslie Esquire is shown as occupier from 1820 until records end in 1831. On 28 Oct. 1811, Frances, as Mrs. Smith widow of Epsom, was admitted to the copyhold part of the estate and in 1812 and 1813, Mrs. Smith’s name replaces George’s as proprietor. Thereafter G. or Geo. Smith Esq (sometimes with ‘late’ added) remains proprietor although, according to Lehmann, the Epsom Court Roll records Elmslie acquiring the freehold and accompanying 9 th March, 1820 and the copyholds on 29th March of that year. It seems that changes were not always recorded promptly, particularly where tax was not levied but exonerated (S.H.C.: Epsom Land Tax records). 32 An odd feature is land with a rental value of £15 occupied and owned by John Durand Esq in 1789. In the same year, apparently, the same land is listed as owned by Capt. Smith and occupied by Capt. Smith late Durand suggesting a purchase by Smith from Durand. ‘Smith Capt. Late Durand’ is shown as occupier (with no proprietor named) from 1790-1793. The records for 1794 are missing but in 1795 ‘late Durands Land’ is owned and occupied by Geo Smith. The rental value is now £11 but rises to £25 with the general reassessment made between 1796 and 1798. The conclusion must be that George Smith was Capt. Smith. See, however, Note 16 above.
50 The Smiths
Recently an advertisement has come to light of the sale of George’s wines and other items:33 December 11th 1811 Genuine and superior Wines, Nankin and French China – by Mr. CHRISTIE, at his Great Room, in Pall-Mall, on Friday, Dec. 13, and following day, precisely at one. The Genuine CELLAR of choice and fine WINES of the late George Smith, Esq. of Woodcote-place, Epsom, Surrey, deceased, formerly a Supercargo at Canton, in China, consisting of uncommonly fine old East India madeira, of superior flavour, sherry, hock, claret, and cyprus; the whole of which are now lying in the cellars of the deceased, from which they will be delivered to purchasers; also a capital and very extensive table service, of blue and white Nankin china, a desert service of French ditto, several dozen of fashionable china plates of different patterns. The wines to be tasted only at the sale. July 1st 1812.
Finally comes George’s tribute to his wife:- was he perhaps a mite pompous? “the very high opinion I have of the principles of my much esteemed & beloved Wife Frances Smith leaves me not the least reason to doubt of her kindness & affection towards her children should it please the Almighty to deprive them of the assistance & comfort of a father & I therefore conceive it unnecessary to point out the duties expected from the surviving parent towards her Offspring.”
The Smith Family It is apparent from the Will of George Smith that his family was a wealthy one and the reference to the banking business helped establish that he was from the senior line of the famous Smith family of bankers. A chance acquisition of Leighton-Boyce’s Smiths the Bankers 1658 -1958 34 led to the identification of George Smith as a descendant of the famous family whose first bank was founded by Thomas Smith I in Nottingham in the third quarter of the seventeenth century.
Most of the history of this Smith family in Leighton-Boyce’s work is based almost word for word and without attribution on Easton’s The History of a Banking House 35 whose source in turn (which is attributed) was Stemmata Smithiana Ferraria by Augustus Smith of Tresco Abbey, Isles of Scilly. The latter work contains an extensive pedigree of the various branches of the family on which the Smith Pedigree in the Genealogical Society by Percy-Smith is based.36 Dates and references to the family not here otherwise referenced are derived either from Leighton-Boyce’s book or from this latter pedigree.
Also in the Genealogical Society are two somewhat pretentious folio volumes entitled Historical Records of the Smith Carrington family - 1907[?].37 This seeks to establish a Norman origin for the family - a claim upon which the Stemmata pours that waspish scorn typical of Victorian academics. It is not necessary for this work to enter into this controversy and it is sufficient to start with Thomas Smith I.
33 Again by courtesy of Mr Brian Bouchard referred to in note 6 of the previous chapter 34 Leighton-Boyce, J.A.S.L. Smiths the Bankers 1658 – 1958 National Provincial Bank: 1958. 35 The History of a Banking House by Henry Tucker Easton: London 1903. A true and faithful history of the family of Smith, originally cradled at Wiverton and Cropwell Butler, in the parish of Titheby, and more recently established at Nottingham, in the County of Nottingham: Compiled by Augustus Smith, Esq., M.P. Printed at London, 1861, by Charles Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand. [Half title and on cover: Stemmata Smithiana Ferraria]
36 Pedigree of the Smiths of Cropwell-Butler and Nottingham Part 1: Including Dorien Smiths, Bromleys, Pauncefoots etc.Part 2: Including Marquis of Lincolnshire and the Carringtons Donor to Genealogical Society: Rev. H. T. Percy-Smith, 12th June, 1934: Accession No. 9950. 37 Gen Soc: Store in A folio shelves. Family history folio shelves FH/Car. 51 Woodcote Green House
Reference should be had to the works cited for the details of the Smith family. Briefly Thomas Smith I of Nottingham and Gaddesby in Leicestershire (1631-1699) was succeeded by his eldest child, Thomas Smith II, (1682-1727). This Thomas died without male issue and his two brothers, Samuel Smith I and Abel Smith I, succeeded to the banking business. Abel ran the bank in Nottingham. Samuel, the elder brother, is described in his marriage settlement in 1716 as citizen and goldsmith of London. His business was in the City in Wood Street and he was a partner in and acted as the London agent of the Nottingham bank.
It was normal for goldsmiths to act as bankers and the records of the Goldsmiths’ Company record that Samuel was apprenticed to John Eggleton, citizen and goldsmith, for seven years on 11th July, 1700 and was made a freeman on 28th April, 1708. His son Samuel (Samuel Smith II: 1722 - 1789) was made free by patrimony in 1748, elected to the Livery in 1751, to the Court of Assistants in 1752, and served as Prime Warden in 1776. In turn his son Samuel (Samuel Smith III) was made free by patrimony in 1775 (being described as a merchant), elected to the Livery in 1776, to the Court of Assistants in 1777, and served as Prime Warden in 1789.
After 1740 Samuel Smith I took his two sons, Samuel (Samuel Smith II) and William, into partnership and the firm was known as Samuel Smith, Esqre. & Sons. Samuel Smith I died intestate in July 17538 and each of his six surviving children received the enormous sum of £40,000,39 part of which represented his share in the Nottingham bank.40 His firm became known as Samuel and William Smith but, possibly as a result of a family rift, lost the agency of the Nottingham bank in 1758 when Abel Smith II went into partnership with John Payne of Lothbury in the City of London as Smith & Payne.
John Payne was a merchant and linen draper. He was chairman of the East India Company in 1758 which may account for George Smith becoming a Writer in Canton with the Company, as may his relationship to Abel Smith II’s brother, another George, (1756-1836) who became a director of the East India Company in 1802 and deputy-chairman in 1805th & Payne (later named Smith, Payne & Smith) occupying No. 1 Lombard Street, became one of the most famous private banks in the City until it merged in 1902 with the Union Bank of London, Ltd.
The fortunes of the two branches of the family thus diverged after 1758. Samuel (Samuel Smith II) and William Smith carried on business for many years, first in Aldermanbury and then in Lombard Street as Samuel Smith & Son, ‘silkmen’ or ‘Turkey merchants’ - the silk trade was closely connected with the Levant - and bankers. In 1800, as Samuel Smith, Sons & Co., the firm was taken over by another Lombard Street bank, Bosanquet & Co., which in 1884 amalgamated with Lloyds Banking Co. Ltd.30
38 N.A. (Kew): PROB 6/127, f.230v. 39 £40,000 in 1751 was equivalent to £6,000,000 in 2003 according to the Safalra figures for U.K. inflation. 40 Historical Records of the Smith Carrington family. See Note 25 above. After the death of Samuel Smith I in July, 1751, the Nottingham partnership was wound up and reconstituted as Abel Smith & Sons with Abel Smith I and his sons George and Abel II as the partners. A Memorandum of June 1754 records that on 30th June, 1752 all accounts had been stated and settled between Samuel Smith II of Aldermanbury, London acting as administrator for his late father and the new Nottingham partners. Each received a first dividend of £6500, a second after two years of £450, and a final dividend in April 1763, of £450 (Leighton- Boyce, p.23, and Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/ SMT 216).
30 A Handbook of London Bankers Hilton Price, F.G. 1890-1 Smith Samuel and Son (page 143): First appear in the London Directory in 1776 as occupying 12 Aldermanbury. In 1794 the style of the firm was changed to Samuel Smith, Sons, and Co., and in the year following they removed to 73 Lombard Street, where they remained until 1800 when they probably transferred their business to Bosanquet & Co., whom we find in occupation of the premises in 1801. Bosanquet (page 18): The house [i.e. 73 Lombard Street) was formerly known by the sign of the Fox and afterwards the Union. 52 The Smiths
Samuel Smith II (as Samuel Smith of Saville Row in the City of Westminster Esquire) made his will on 9th October, 1789. Probate was granted on 9th January, 1790.31 He was the father of George but his eldest son was a third Samuel, Samuel Smith III (1755 - 1793). The bank continued after the death of Samuel Smith II who made special provision for it in his Will.32
After Samuel Smith III died in 1793, the bank was wound up. It was clearly a complicated business as, after the death of Samuel Smith’s brother Thomas, (the only executor to prove the Will) four separate limited grants of administration with the Will annexed were made between 1801 and 1809 to deal with aspects of the banking business. The last reference to the bank is in George Smith’s Will and has already been quoted.
The Smiths in Epsom The first reference to the Smiths in Epsom is in the Court Roll of the Manor of Epsom, or Ebbisham as it was then known, and is dated 26 May, 1747.33 It related to the admission of Samuel Smith, citizen and goldsmith of London, to a property in New Inn Lane and various lands surrendered by Anne Cocke of Epsom for a consideration of £850. Samuel then sold all this property on the following 14th July.
There are also two references to Samuel Smith II in documents relating to the marriage settlements of John Parkhurst and his son (also John) who were Lords of the Manor of Epsom. In the first dated 12th January, 1754, the party of the sixth part is ‘Samuel Smith of Aldermanbury, London, citizen and silkman and Richard Stone of Lombard Street, banker’. In the second dated 15 May, 1766, ‘George Byrd of Haunch Hall, Stafford, esq. and Samuel Smith’ are the party of the third part. Samuel in these deeds is clearly Samuel Smith II and may have been involved as a trustee in view of a banking relationship.34 Further Samuel Smith, banker of Aldermanbury, London, is the sixth party in an Assignment to attend the inheritance, dated 9th October, 1777, relating to the north part of Woodcote Park and other lands.35
The Court Roll also provides the evidence of the descent of Woodcote Place which was for many years owned and occupied by Mary Stephens, widow. Following her death, the heirs of the devisees of the Will of her husband, Anthony Stephens, were admitted, on 14th June, 1756, in third shares to the copyhold property in which Mary Stephens had had a life interest, and later in the year to some additional lands. All these properties were enfranchised on 7th and 8th December in that year and, on 18th October, 1757, the bulk of them were sold to Samuel Smith.36
In 1761 Samuel Smith II is recorded buying other copyhold lands nearby and enfranchising them in the following year.37 Then in 1766 and again in 1776, his son, Samuel Smith III, as ‘Samuel Smith the
31 N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/1187/43 32 He delays payments of legacies and residue until the expiration of partnership with his sons, Samuel Smith and William Smith, and Jasper Atkinson unless they decide to pay legacies earlier. He confirms his Articles of Partnership and directs his name to be continued in the firm of the Banking House for the full term of his partnership. 33 S.H.C.: 6030/6 34 S.H.C.: 186/3/5 and 186/3/6 35 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 9. The other parties are: John Kendall banker of London (1) William Browne esq of Tallentine Hall Cumberland (2) Robert Ladbroke esq of ?Idlecote (3) George Nelson esq of Woodcote (4) and Charles Foreman merchant of London (5). 36 See Chapter 8 for a detailed account. 37 “On 28 Dec. 1761 Samuel Smith of London, merchant. purchased from Sarah Miriam Wood 13 acres of land, amongst them ½ acre in Pickle Hedge shot. abutting on land of John Saunders and John Wakelin on the north- west part and on Farmy Furlong shot on the south-east part, and from Mary Potter 10½ acres of land, and had all these lands …. enfranchised on 29 Mar. 1762.” (Lehmann 14C2). This land would appear to be that entitled Belchiers or late Belchiers in the Land Tax Records from 1780 to 1795 with a stated rent of £7. It always had the same proprietor and occupier as Woodcote Place. It was presumably incorporated in the assessment of Woodcote Place in 1796 as the stated rent of the latter increased from £50 to £80 in that year and Belchiers is not thereafter listed separately. 53 Woodcote Green House younger’, similarly acquires lands there.38 These were to cause problems as the title became split from his father’s property.
Unfortunately, Woodcote Green House was an ancient freehold and so admissions and surrenders relating to it are not recorded on the Court Roll. Hence the fruitless search for the title deeds which are referred to in George Smith’s Will.
Samuel Smith II Samuel Smith II was born in 22nd September, 1722 and died on 4th December, 1789.39 In his Will,40 Samuel does not refer to his Epsom property. He appoints three of his sons and a business partner as his executors and trustees.41 He has six sons and three daughters for all of whom he has made lifetime provision.42 He leaves money to his beloved son George Smith at Canton in China ‘in addition to the part of his fortune I advanced him to conduct his concerns’. His eldest son Samuel is residuary legatee and so inherits the Epsom properties. The witnesses are Joseph Richmond, Edward Martin, Margt. Clarke, Servts. to Samuel Smith Gent.
The Will does not mention Samuel’s wife Elizabeth and she must have been dead. She was born in 1723, the daughter of Thomas Watson. In his Will Samuel does however mention his daughter Mary Watson and leaves a legacy to his beloved son-in-law Thomas Watson of Watford, Herts, grandson of Thomas Watson, senior, and son of Samuel’s brother-in-law, also called Thomas Watson.
The Watsons Thomas Watson Esq. appears as occupier of Woodcote Green House in 1780 when the Land Tax records begin and again in 1781. From 1782 - 1784 the occupier is Miss Watson. From 1785 - 1787 it is ‘late Mr. Watson’ and then in 1788 ‘Watson’s late now Mr. Bevan’. There is thus a complete record of the tenants of the house back to 1780 assuming there were no short tenancies between the census years.
Thomas Watson ‘of Epsom in the County of Surry a gentleman’ made his Will on 17th May, 1779 and it was proved on 21st November, 1781.43 It is clear from the Will that Samuel Smith II was Thomas’s brother-in-law and that Thomas’s son, also Thomas Watson, was married to Samuel’s daughter Mary and was the beneficiary of that name in Samuel’s Will. In turn Samuel is a devisee and executor of his brother-in-law Thomas’s Will. In addition to his son, Thomas has three daughters of whom the eldest, Rachel, named after his deceased wife Rachel née Norbury, was probably the Miss Watson who occupied Woodcote Green House after his death.
38 “On 19 May, 1766, Henry Noden sold amongst 4½ acres of land formerly the inheritance of Sarah Miriam Wood, ½ acre in the shot above the Worple to Samuel Smith the younger of Epsom; on 2 Jun. 1776 George Eastland, by Richard Ragge of Epsom, cooper, sold a piece of land in Farmy Furlong shot, 3 roods, abutting on land of Samuel Smith Esq. on the south- east and north-west parts, which was then in the occupation of Samuel Smith, to Samuel Smith the younger, eldest son of the said Samuel Smith.” (Lehmann 14C2). This land would appear to be that entitled Wrenchs or late Wrenchs in the Land Tax Records from 1780 to 1795 with a stated rent of £5. It always had the same proprietor and occupier as Woodcote Place. It was presumably incorporated in the assessment of Woodcote Place in 1796 as the stated rent of the latter increased from £50 to £80 in that year and Wrenchs in not again listed separately. 39 Smith Pedigree. The Epsom Vestry Minutes (S.H.C.) record Samuel Smith as present at meetings on 8th July, 1770 and 28th March, 1776 – one of the few references to him (or maybe to his son) in Epsom. 40 See Note 30 above and related text 41 Samuel Smith, William Smith, Thomas Smith and Jasper Atkinson Jun. All but Thomas proved and for him power was reserved. 42 beloved sons Samuel Smith, Thomas Smith, William Smith, Charles Smith, George and James Smith and beloved daughters Elizabeth Smith and Mary Watson and Jemima Smith. There is a deceased son John according to the Smith Pedigree. 43 N.A.: PROB 11/1074/566 54 The Smiths
Rachel in turn made her Will on 3rd April, 1802. She describes herself as Rachel Watson late of Biddeford [Bideford] Devon but now of Epsom in Surry Spinster. By then she was not living in Woodcote Green House. As the Will was witnessed by William Sanxay of Epsom, Matilda Sanxay and John Brown, Servant to Mr. Sanxay, she may, however, have been living with the Sanxays. The Will was not proved until 13th March, 1809. Everything was left by Rachel to her two younger sisters.44
Samuel Smith III Samuel Smith III was the eldest son, and executor and residuary legatee, of Samuel Smith II. He therefore inherited the Epsom estate from him. Samuel Smith III (1755 - 1793) was a man of some note and, as stated above, became Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company like his father before him. He was a Member of Parliament for Ilchester and Worcester and died at Exeter a few days before 20th June, 1793.45
Samuel Smith III (as ‘Samuel Smith of George Street Hanover Square’) made his Will on 28th September, 1792 with a codicil on the following 11th October, 1792. He named his brother, Thomas Smith Esquire, Jasper Atkinson Esquire, and another brother, William Smith Esquire, as executors and trustees. Only Thomas proved the Will, on 17th July, 1793,46 and he died in 1800. Power was reserved to enable probate to be granted later to the other two named as executors, but it appears from a marginal note on the probate that, in May, 1794, they renounced. Samuel left his household goods to his wife Mary (daughter of George Lockyer of Mappleton, Somerset) and the rest of his estate equally to his five children Thomas, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Mary and Augusta Smith.
The interest of this Will is the light it sheds on the Epsom properties of the Smiths. Samuel first devises his entire estate to Thomas Smith, Jasper Atkinson and William Smith as devisees in trust. The Will then recites that Samuel has assigned and set over ‘all my estate at Epsom in the County of Surry to which I became entitled at the Death of my beloved ffather’ in trust for the payment of £3,500 to the parties mentioned in the assignment. He then devises any remainder or interest vested in him or his heirs, or which is not fully and legally disposed of in the assignment to his Trustees, to complete the Title to any purchaser. The Trustees are to make good any deficiency of the security from his personal estate.
In the codicil of 11th October, 1792, Samuel states that since making the Will he has given a Bond to John Sawyer and William Smith of Aldermanbury for £4,000 with a covenant to convey ‘the Estate at Epsom’. He explains that the assignment alluded to in his Will is made in Trust for his brother Charles Smith. Samuel directs his Trustees to make good the Title to Charles or Charles’s trustees and to make good any deficiency by priority of payment from his assets to Charles by virtue of the bond.
These provisions relate to a marriage settlement for Samuel’s brother Charles. The Epsom estate is to be sold and £4,000 from the proceeds (increased if necessary from the rest of Samuel’s estate) is to be paid to his brother Charles. Charles, as Rector of Aldermanbury, had married Anne Sawyer, daughter of the late Anthony Sawyer Esq. of Heywood Lodge, some 4 months previously, on 9 July, 1792.47 Samuel’s brother William and John Sawyer, (Anne Smith’s brother, who was also named as executor in George Smith's Will), were clearly the Trustees of the settlement.
44 N.A.:(Kew): PROB 11/1495/240: Jemima Elizabeth Watson and Elizabeth Sarah Watson, Spinsters. 45 Smith Pedigree The Times of 20th June, 1793, p.3, col.d. states that he died a few days previously and that he was the late member for Luggeshall which does not appear to exist and must be a printer’s error. 46 N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/1235/387 47 The Times, 12th July, 1792, p.3, col. d. 55 Woodcote Green House
In the event, as the auction particulars of 1846 make clear, the Epsom estate was purchased by George Smith in 1796. For it was one of the conditions of sale of Woodcote Green House that title should commence with indentures of lease and release bearing date respectively the 19th and 20th day of January, 1796, the release being made between Thomas Smith, Jasper Atkinson and William Smith, devisees in trust of the Will of Samuel Smith of the one part and George Smith of the other part.
Why George acquired the Epsom properties in place of Charles is not clear but Charles became the Rector of South Repps in Norfolk. Perhaps he had no use for the Epsom property once he had secured this living. Charles died as Rector there on 21st August, 1802, aged 26 or 27, leaving a son, Robert H. Smith. Charles went to New College, Oxford and was an M.A. and B.D.48
Although Jasper Atkinson and William Smith renounced probate, they clearly both agreed to act as trustees at least to the extent of executing the indentures for conformity. Otherwise, Thomas would have had to go to court since a single trustee could not vest real property nor give a valid receipt for capital monies.
The condition in the auction particulars goes on to state that the purchaser must accept attested copies of the indentures; the originals are not in the vendor’s possession because they also related to other property and were given to its purchaser without a covenant for production.49
It is clear from Samuel’s Will that the other property referred to is Woodcote Place which was sold to James Elmslie. The fact that the titles to the two properties were kept together, and that Samuel Smith III, both in his Will and in the Codicil, refers to the Epsom estate in the singular, originally suggested that he acquired Woodcote Green House as well as Woodcote Place from Anthony Stephens’ trustees, but as shown in Chapter 9 this was not the case.
One loose end or red herring remains. Dr. Lehmann thought that the Epsom estate had descended to Thomas Smith, the eldest son of Samuel Smith III. This was because the two parcels of land acquired by Samuel Smith III in 1766 and 1776 were copyhold and not part of the estate enfranchised in 1756. A marginal note in the Epsom Court Roll recorded that 12 feet 9 inches of the house [i.e. Woodcote Place] and barn stood on the land acquired by Samuel Smith III in 1776. Samuel Smith III in his Will assigned in trust the estate at Epsom to which he became entitled at the death of his father but not the additional parcels of land which he had himself purchased and to which accordingly his eldest son Thomas was entitled as heir. In the event, one parcel was conveyed by Thomas to his uncle George on 29th March, 1802, and the second parcel on part of which the house and barn stood was claimed by Frances on 6th July, 1812.A
It has thus been demonstrated that Woodcote Green House and Woodcote Place were owned by Samuel Smith II, and descended from him to Samuel Smith III, after whose death they were acquired by George Smith. While Woodcote Place was sold in 1820, Woodcote Green House was held by Frances Smith for her life and then on trust by George Anthony Smith, who sold it in 1846 for the benefit of himself and her other three children.
Further evidence of the ownership of the two houses by Samuel Smith II is to be found in a wonderful book with detailed descriptions of the houses and sights between London and Brighton (or Brighthelmston as it was then called). It was published in 1801 but it is believed
48 Alumni Oxoniensis. 49 The relevant part of the auction particulars reads: “and the purchaser shall not be entitled to call for any of the instruments of title recited or mentioned in the said indenture of release, or prior in date thereto, and such indenture of release shall be deemed and taken to have vested the fee simple and inheritance of the said inherits (sic), free from incumbrances in the said George Smith. The said indentures of lease and release are not in the vendor’s possession, having been delivered to a purchaser of other property to which the said indentures related, and the vendor has no covenant for production thereof - attested copies of such indentures are in the vendor’s possession, and will be delivered to the purchaser, …..” 56 The Smiths
the survey at least of the Surrey part took place in 1790. The following is the description of Woodcote Green House and Woodcote Place in the Woodcote section quoted more fully in the next chapter: 50
“On the right at the angle of the road formed by Woodcot-Green, on the south side is a small neat house, the property of Samuel Smith, Esq. and in the occupation of Mr. Bavin.
Opposite to the last on the north side of the road, is a large handsome white house, likewise the property of Samuel Smith, Esq rented and occupied by Richard Norman, Esq. on the east are good gardens, enclosed with fruit walls, and, in the north front of the house is a large green plat, skirted with shrubberies, from whence is an agreeable prospect of the adjacent fields.”
50 S.H.C.: Companion from London to Brighthelmston, in Sussex; T.P. III. ?Surveyed 1790. Published 1801. In an unpublished paper entitled Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Epsom: a biographical and social study, Dorothy Nail states that the Surrey survey was completed c.1789 (p. 8). According to the Land Tax Records ‘Mr. Normand’ was in occupation from 1787 to 1789 but in 1790 it was occupied by Mrs. Graham. Mr. Bavin is of course a misspelling of Mr. Bevan.
57 Woodcote Green House
A Addendum
Thomas Smith did claim the 1766 parcel: “No claimant for these copyhold lands had appeared by the third proclamation for an heir, and on 1 Nov. 1794 they were declared forfeited to the Lord of the Manor. However, on 2 Nov. 1795 the forfeiture was rescinded and Samuel Smith’s son Thomas Smith of , an infant, 16 years of age, was admitted to all and singular the said pieces of land.” and subsequently conveyed it to George: “On 29 Mar. 1802 Thomas Smith of Binfield Lodge in Wokingham, Wiltshire (sic!) Esq. for divers good causes and considerations him hereunto moving, by Thomas Dawes of atkinson Court Throgmorton Street in the City of London his attorney, surrendered all those pieces of land (4½ acres of Sarah Miriam Wood’s inheritance) to George Smith of Epsom Esq.” Unfortunately the 1776 parcel which included the land on which part of Woodcote Place was built was not claimed by Thomas. However: “On 6 Jul. 1812 Frances Smith of Epsom widow claimed admittance to the piece of land in Farmy Furlong shot, 3 roods, and on which piece of land 12 feet nine inches of the house and barn stood to which Thomas Smith, an infant, ought to have been admitted and to which she was entitled under the will of George Smith.” In fact this 1776 parcel was not due to Frances under her husband’s Will although she presumably obtained possession. When the property was sold to James Elmslie in 1820, the defect in title had to be rectified as the following entry in the Epsom Court Roll shows: “On 11 Apl. 1820 it was recorded that on 29 Mar. 1820 Frances Smith late of Woodcote Green, Epsom, but now of Upper Berkeley Street in the parish of St. Mary le bone widow had sold the 4½ acres of land and the 3 roods in Farmy Furlong shot to James Elmslie of Woodcote Green Esq. for £120. Also on 11 Apl. 1820 Eliza Smith of Upper Berkeley Street was admitted to the 3 roods in Farmy Furlong shot to which she was entitled as the only sister and heiress at law of Thomas Smith who was the only son and heir at law of the said Samuel Smith, and in corroboration and confirmation of Frances Smith’s surrender of 29 Mar. 1820 surrendered the piece of land to James Elmslie, who was admitted thereon.” Quotations from Lehmann 14C2. Dr. Lehmann was mistaken in thinking Thomas Smith inherited either house. For Eliza Smith see also Note 21 of Chapter 1.
58 The Smiths
59 Before 1780
9. 1866 Ordnance Survey Map showing principal features in Woodcote area.
60
Chapter 5: BEFORE 1780
Evidence In the period before 1780 there are many uncertainties. Instead of the clear proof after that time of the ownership and tenancy of Woodcote Green House, the evidence is circumstantial and it is necessary to consider all the properties in the area. Most properties can be located by tracing the title of each through the owners and occupiers named in the Northey deeds and elsewhere.
The earliest certain physical evidence of the existence of Woodcote Green House that can be dated is the sheets of wallpaper behind one of the panelled walls in the main bedroom. These bear a tax stamp of George I who died in 1727. The architecture of the original house indicates, however, that it was built before this and experts date it to the second half of the Restoration period (1660-1685). This ties in with what documentary evidence there is.1
The principal evidence for Epsom generally, for the period before 1780, consists of two surveys of the Manor of Epsom, dated 1680 and 1755,2 supplemented by the Court Rolls and a raft of Deeds deposited by the Northey family, all of which are now in the Surrey History Centre in Woking.3 There are also a number of Wills.
The first survey sometimes treats Chalk Lane as running north to south, and the line of Woodcote Green Road east to west, whereas they are more nearly north-west to south-east and north-east to south-west. This can be confusing as the later Court Rolls, the 1755 Survey, and some but not all of the deeds, often differ.4
A further factor is that the Stephens family on the east, who owned Woodcote Place, and still more the Northeys in Woodcote House on the west, were anxious to enlarge their properties. To this end they acquired and pulled down a number of houses between the dates of the surveys. This is born out by John Senex’s map of c.1729 which appears to show, if unclearly, a number
1 A stone has recently been found supporting the wall between the entrance passage and the front east room. The stone appears to be part of a worked circular basin some five feet wide. It could be part of a fountain from Nonsuch palace which was demolished after 1682. Material from the palace is known to have been used in rebuilding the Durdans and in other Epsom houses built at this time (see Chapter 11). This does not necessarily indicate when the house was built as the stone could have been used to prop up a subsiding wall. 2 ‘1680 Survey’ i.e. S.H.C.: K31/4/1: Presentments of the Court Baron and of Survey held on 11th March 1679[/80] and adjourned by several adjournments until 10th June next [i.e. 1680]; and ‘1755 Survey’ i.e. S.H.C.: K31/4/2: Presentments of the Court Baron and of Survey held on Monday 8th September 1755 and adjourned by several adjournments until Monday 5th January 1756. 3 In the hundred years following their arrival in Epsom, the Northey family purchased many properties in Woodcote. They have deposited a large number of title deeds, now with the Surrey History Centre. These are not properly sorted and are contained in a number of boxes. They do however contain a great deal of information on houses on or near Woodcote Green, including not only those acquired by the Northeys, but also those described as adjoining them. S.H.C. references are 2238/10 for the deposits of Major General Edward Northey in 1932 and 1940, and 3636, divided into 20 boxes, for the deposit of his son, Edward George Vernon Northey of Swanage, Dorset in September 1989, to which there is a handlist (reference DF 672). There are also some Epsom documents in 4073 which is mostly concerned with the Manors of Ewell and Cuddington. Reference 3636 was given N numbers by London County Council. There are also E numbers from a more recent listing. 4 See Notes 39, 58, and 73, and related text.
61
Woodcote Green House
of houses on a track between Woodcote Green House and Woodcote House. These houses do not appear in John Rocque’s monumental map of c.1752.
Lehmann sought to use the surveys and the Court Rolls to trace the owners and occupiers of Epsom properties from before the 1680 Survey to after the 1755 Survey. Unlike the surveys, however, the Court Rolls do not deal, except incidentally, with freehold or enfranchised properties such as Woodcote Green House and many of the adjoining houses. Furthermore Dr. Lehmann did not have access to all the Northey deeds and he was therefore unable to trace the descent of many of the Woodcote houses. In his Chapter 13; he concedes that his attributions in that chapter are only tentative.
Dr. Lehmann indeed told a friend that he could make no sense of the records in this area and that he was leaving it to someone else to try to work them out. Anyone interested in the history of Epsom at this period owes an immense debt of gratitude to Dr. Lehmann for his work generally. But, in view of his own reservations, it is no surprise to find that his attributions in Chapter 13 are in many cases plainly wrong.5 With the new evidence available it is now possible to paint a clearer picture.
Woodcote in 1792 Woodcote as it was towards the end of the eighteenth century would be quite recognisable to someone today. Apart from demolition of most of the houses on the north of Woodcote Green Road and the building of the Woodcote Estate, very little has changed. The Companion from London to Brighthelmston, which was quoted in the last chapter for its reference to Woodcote Green House, describes the area as follows:
COMPANION FROM LONDON TO BRIGHTHELMSTON. T.P. III.
M Q. R6 D ES C RI P TI ON of W O O D C OT - GR E E N , W O O D C OT - LA N E, C R OC K IN G H A M , &c, &c.
Measured from the cross of direction in New Inn Lane, M. 1 opposite Mr. Foremans. 0. - 0 - 60. On the left is an irregular modern built brick house, Martin Mad in the possession of Martin Madden, D.D.7 den, D.D. 0. - 0 - 74. Close by the last is the Fox, a small public-house, 8 kept by Mr. William Lawrence. Opposite is Woodcot-Green.
5 For example: Omitting the property occupied by John Maund himself; and locating the property of Thomas Clayton (Lehmann 13A2), and the adjoining property of Thomas Ockley and Thomas Stent (Lehmann 13A3), west of Chalk Lane when the Clayton property is stated to abut the highway on the north and west parts. These properties were in fact acquired by Sir Josiah Diston and were on the site where he built Woodcote Grove, sometimes later known as Garlands, and now occupied by WS Atkins. See also Notes 24, 32, and 56. 6 i.e. Miles, Quarters and Roods. 7 Woodcote End in Woodcote Road occupied by The Reverend Martin. 8 Now The Ladas
62 Before 1780
DESCRIPTION of WOODCOT-GREEN
0. - 1 - 46. ON the right is a genteel lodging-house,
Mr. Jackett. belonging to Mr. Jackett.9 0. - 1 - 55. The next and last house on the same, is a neat build- ing, part brick and part stone, agreeably situated near John Clark the middle of the green on the north side, in the pos- 10 M.D. session of John Clark, M.D.
Opposite is a handsome house, situated on a slight eminence, which appears to be built in the modern taste, and adorned with shrubberies, on the verge of some small paddocks, lying on the summit of a pleasant eminence towards the south, which, is in great part surrounded with a road, the property of William Nor- Rev. Mr. they, Esq. and now rented and occupied by the Rev. 11 Boucher Mr. Boucher.
Woodcot-Green, is of a triangular figure, and contains an area of about three acres12: it being a level little plain with a continual verdure, renders the three last de- scribed retired situations very agreeable.
RETURNS to WOODCOT-LANE
0. - 0 - 78. ON the right at the angle of the road formed by Woodcot-Green, on the south side is a small neat house, S. Smith, Esq. the property of Samuel Smith, Esq. and in the occupa- Mr. Bavin, tion of Mr. Bavin.13 occupier. 0 - 1 - 00½. Opposite to the last on the north side of the road, is a large handsome white house, likewise the property of Samuel Smith, Esq rented and occupied by Richard R. Norman, Norman, Esq. on the east are good gardens, enclosed Esq. with fruit walls, and, in the north front of the house is a large green plat, skirted with shrubberies, from whence is an agreeable prospect of the adjacent fields.14 0. - 1 - 23. On the right is a small public house, the Hare and Hounds15
9 Stone House, later Woodcote Lodge. The Stone family are recorded in both Surveys holding properties and land but whether the house was named after the family is uncertain. Ian West commented that, unusually for Epsom, the house was partly faced with stone (which may have come from Nonsuch palace) and this may the reason for the name. 10 Bow House. 11 Woodcote House. 12 Probably an error for 5 acres. See Note 41 below. 13 Woodcote Green House. 14 Woodcote Place, now Westgate House. 15 Now The Amato. Home p.89.
63
Woodcote Green House
Public-house by Morey. 0. - 1 - 34. On the same side, at an angle formed by a road, is a small brick house, the property and in possession of W. Northey William Northey, Esq.16 Esq. Road on the left to the church, and on the right to Cross-roads Durdans. This part of the village is called Crockingham. 0. - 1 - 38. On the same side at an angle formed by the road, is a large and elegant house, with good gardens and a spa- Mrs. Garland cious tract of pleasure ground, consisting of a pleasant proprietor. lawn, most delightfully situated and adorned with Mr. Horsley groves, shrubberies and other plantations agreeably occupier. diversified, the property of Mrs. Garland, at present in the occupation of Mr. Horsley.17 0. - 1 – 38. Opposite is situated at the other angle formed by 18 Mr. Pate the roads, a genteel house, in the possession of Mr. Pate. M.1. [Descriptions of Durdans, Woodcote Park and the Downs follow.]
The 1680 Survey By contrast with the position at the end of the eighteenth century, it is quite difficult today to imagine Woodcote in the last quarter of the seventeenth century. It was in this period that Epsom became famous for its waters on the Common and was patronised by King Charles - not to mention Nell Gwyn, who was brought to Epsom by Lord Buckhurst.
John Evelyn, the diarist, recalls being invited to dine at Durdans.19 This was on 1st September, 1662 in the old house. King Charles and other members of the royal family were there. George 1st Earl of Berkeley then owned the house and much of the surrounding land.20 He acquired it under the Will of his uncle, Sir Robert Coke, in 1653.21
Lord Berkeley claimed to hold the Durdans by free deed. Like Epsom and Woodcote, it was held at the time of the Manor of Horton. The Lord of that Manor was then Richard Evelyn, John Evelyn’s younger brother. Richard died in 1670 and was succeeded by his widow, Elizabeth Evelyn, who herself died in 1692/3. The Manor then descended to her relations: Sir Christopher Buckle Kt. (one of her Trustees) was Lord of the Manor in 1694. The Manor was eventually inherited by John Parkhurst who appears to have been a grandson of a brother of Elizabeth of the same name.22
In addition to the Durdans, which he left to Lord Berkeley, Sir Robert Coke also owned a nearby property called Doghouse. By the time of the Survey, the property was also in the ownership of Lord Berkeley and his wife Elizabeth.
16 Maidstone House formerly York House 17 Woodcote Grove now owned by WS Atkins; once called Mount Diston after Sir Josiah Diston and also Garlands after the Garland family, who owned it subsequently. 18 Now the east building of The Chalk Lane Hotel. 19 He was a frequent visitor to Epsom and Woodcote. See The Diary of John Evelyn, Ed. E.S.de Beer, vol. iii, p.334 and index. 20 At the time Durdans was a Jacobean mansion. See Chapter 11. 21 N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/230/294: Will dated 7th December, 1652 and proved 2nd August, 1653. 22 Manning and Bray give a detailed description of the descents of the manors of Ebbisham and Horton (Vol.II, p.611-14). See also C.J.Swete, M.A. A Hand-Book of Epsom., c.1860, p.11.
64
Before 1780
The Northeys come to Epsom after 1680. Sir Edward Northey acquired both a ‘late erected messuage’ near the Doghouse in 1695 and the Doghouse itself in 1709[10]. It is not certain whether the original Woodcote House was built by Sir Edward or was one or both of these properties which he refurbished.23
On the east side of Chalk Lane, Woodcote Grove and Woodcote Place did not exist although there were some smaller houses there.24
In Woodcote Road, Woodcote End House had not been built but part of Queen Anne House may have been in existence. There were a number of houses on the north side of Woodcote Green Road of which only Woodcote Villa now survives.
In the centre of Woodcote, there were a number of properties, in addition to the Doghouse, within a rough square bounded on the south east by Woodcote End, north east by Chalk Lane, north west by Woodcote Green Road, west by Lower Woodcote Green, and south west by Gills Lane. This Lane ran from where Lower Woodcote Green adjoins the west side of the garden of Woodcote House to Upper Woodcote Green opposite the entrance to the Durdans. It was later known as Clay Lane but was stopped up in 1821.25 All the properties in the square, apart from some on the periphery, were freehold and, as there is no record of enfranchisement, may have been the subject of an ancient grant.26 The area south west of the square beyond Gills Lane became Little Woodcote Park. Here were one of the Dendy properties and the Hilliard property both described below.
Maidstone House (formerly York House) or its predecessor is mentioned in the Survey.27 The Amato was there28 (but was not necessarily a public house), as probably were one or two of the cottages built on the Lord’s waste.
23 See Chapters 9 and 11 for the title to the Doghouse and Chapter 9 for the “newly erected messuage”. 24 See Lehmann 14A1, 14A2 and 14A3. 14A1 refers to the property of Mr. Clinch. This is on the site of Woodcote Grove. In the Particulars of the Common field Lands belonging to Lady Northey (S.H.C.: 3636/Box 20, undated but probably 2nd quarter of the eighteenth century) there is a reference to the freehold land late of Clench alis Clayton in Woodcote Corner. Woodcote Corner is the shot (i.e. an area of the common field) on the east of Chalk Lane and ‘alis’, which has an abbreviation mark over it, is presumably ‘alias’. Thus the Mr. Clinch of Lehmann’s 14A1 is identified as either the Thomas Clayton of 13A2 or a relation. 14A2 refers to the Berkeley property between the sites of Woodcote Grove and Woodcote Place which was subsequently acquired by the Stephens. 14A3 states that John Maund acquired a tenement and land from Thomas Addison on 20th April 1680 on the east side of Chalk Lane (the site of Woodcote Place). In the 1680 survey, John Maund is reported as owning a messuage and lands there which were also subsequently acquired by the Stephens. 25 S.H.C.: QS 5/8/110. The 1829 Map shows the proposed stopping up of Clay Lane. See illustration 49. facing page 131 and Endnote A in the Addenda to Chapter 9. 26 Epsom belonged to Chertsey Abbey before the dissolution. The Chertsey Cartulary of 1596 (8 May, 11 Henry VII - translated in Vol. 12, Part 1, Transactions of the Surrey Archaeological Society) has many references to properties held freely (although they still paid rent). Interestingly among these is a free holding of John Ewell of ‘one garden called Downers lying in Woodcote lately of John Downer’. Also held freely is ‘a cottage and 1 croft lying at Wodcott …. lately of Richard Ewell formerly of John Downer’. Finally there is a holding at will of ‘10 acres of land called Downers lately of John Wodeman lying in the common fields’. These holdings probably relate to the later Woodcote House lands. In 1709[/10] Northey acquired property described as ‘Downewards, Downers or Doghouse’. See Chapter 9, Northey’s purchase of the Doghouse. 27 Page 38 of the Survey. See further Chapter 10. Maidsone House was formerly called York House. 28 It is copyhold and the survey describes the property as “Two Tenements One Barne One Stable and One Garden Abutting on the highway at Woodcott end on the East part on the land of John Maund on the North West part and on the landes of the right honble. George Earle of Berkeley on the South part” (S.H.C.: K/31/4/1 p.56: Lehmann 13A7). See further Chapter 10, The Amato.
65
Woodcote Green House
The freehold of the square was owned by John Maund, apart from the Berkeley properties, Maidstone House garden and its one and a half acre plot to the south west, and the Amato and some cottages fronting Chalk Lane. John Maund may have been a speculative builder.27 He is described in the Court Roll and in his own Will as gent but elsewhere as mariner and as Captain.28 The last 20 years of the century witnessed feverish building activity to take advantage of Epsom’s new-found status.
In the 1680 Survey: ‘John Maund Gent Claymes to hold by ffree Deed’ three properties in the square.31 One of these he occupied himself.32 The other two were occupied respectively by John Venn or Fenn and by Widow Milton as tenants.
The property occupied by John Venn consisted of: “One Messuage One Barne One Stable One Garden and One Orchard in the Occupacon of John ffenn” and that of the widow Milton33 was: “and also One Messuage One Stable A Washhouse and One Garden in the Occupacon of Milton widow” and John Maund’s own property was: “and also One Messuage an Outhouse One Barne, One Stable One Garden and One Orchard in the Occupacon of the said John Maund” … “abutting on the land of the Earle of Berkeley on the South part and on Woodcott Greene on the West part”.
John Maund gent. first appears as a member of the Homage 34 in the Epsom Court Roll for 1675.35 There is no record of his acquisition or enfranchisement of these properties.
29 Apart from houses in the square, he appears to have built Woodcote Place. The 1680 survey records his ownership of many plots of freehold land including half an acre in Harris Herne Shott in Smith Hatch field. A Deed of 17th October 1687 records a sale by John Drew to John Reader of 30 roods on which was a messuage and building which Drew had purchased from Maund (S.H.C.: 3636/ Box 20) 30 See Note 45 and related text. 31 S.H.C.: K/31/4/1 p.78 32 Lehmann omits the property occupied by John Maund himself entirely. Maund’s other two properties are both referred to in 13A5*. Lehmann places 13A2* (Thomas Clayton) and 13A3* (Thomas Ockley and Thomas Stent) on the west side of Chalk Lane whereas they were in fact on the east. 33 The Widow Milton or Melton may be mentioned in a lease by Ettrick & another to Sir Thomas Cock Kt. of a property described as: “all that piece of Woodcott the residue and remainder of a Grove there and all that piece of Ground adjoyning to the said Grove which lyeth between the pale of the garden late of Henry Blundell and now of Ralph Newnham on the east and the Walk belonging to the house formerly in the Occupacon of Mrs. Milton or now or late of William Stanton on the ----- and all that piece of ground where the old Arbour stands” containing together by estimation three quarters of an Acre fenced and divided and in the occupacon of Mr. Whistler who holds the same for the remainder of a lease expiring 25th March, 1706. The lease replaces one of 1674 which clarifies that the arbour is some 150 yards from Mounthill Close. Mounthill is on the north side of South Street. A Woodcote Grove is marked on Frogatt’s 1830 map to the west of Woodcote Side and south of Dorking Road ( S.H.C.: 3636/Box 4 ). 34 A body of persons owing allegiance. In English Law the body of tenants attending a manorial court (O.E.D). The Epsom Court Rolls record a homage for the Court Leet and a jury for the Court Baron. 35 S.H.C.: K31/1/1: court Baron, 16th October 1675
66
Before 1780
67
Woodcote Green House
68 Before 1780
There were two more properties held by Samuel Dendy in right of his wife Alice, by free deed.36 The first was in the square and is described as: “and also One Tenement One Stable and One Orchard Abutting on the Orchard of John Maund gent on the West part and on the highway on the East part.” This property is probably Nos. 8 and 10 Chalk Lane which was originally a single house. 37
Samuel Dendy’s second property was: “One Messuage One Barne One Garden and Orchard, Abutting on the landes of the Earle of Berkeley on the South and East parts and on Woodcott Greene on the North part”.
There was also an ancient cottage described in a lease of 1709[/10] as erected in part by the father of the then tenant, Edward Hilliard, farrier of Epsom, and in part by Edward himself. The property abutted south east on lands of - - - - Turner,38 north east on the lands of Sir Edward 39 Northey Kt and south west on Gills Lane.
The second Dendy property and the ancient cottage appear to have both been to the west of Woodcote House. Dendy’s property abutted north on Woodcote Green because at this end the boundary runs east to west.
Northey acquired the Hilliard property in 1717.40 Although there is no Lease and Release or Fine in the Northey deeds, he may also have acquired Dendy’s second property. This would not be recorded in the Court Rolls as the property was freehold. Hilliard’s property could be that called ‘The cottage’ east of Woodcote Hurst on old Ordnance survey maps. The Dendy house may have been destroyed or have been incorporated in Northey’s racing stables which were in the right position. The area was in Northey ownership and called Woodcote Little Park in the 1821 map and later 36 S.H.C.: K/231/4/1 pp.80-81: Lehmann 13A1* and 13A4*.
37 Lehmann 13A4*. The Ordnamce Survey map shows trees on the area behind Woodcote Green House which is presumably where this orchard was. John Maund’s orchard would be further to the south west behind his own house. Note also that William Rogers’ property (The Amato) abutted the lands of John Maund on the north-west part which would be on the south side of the square (Lehmann 13A7). 38 See Chapter 9, Note 10 and related text for Charles Turner of Middlesex who could be referred to. 39 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5 - Lease for 99 years dated 10th March, 1709[/10] between John Parkhurst Esq of Catesby, Northants and Edward Hilliard, farrier of Epsom. From the title deeds in Box 5, the descent of this copyhold property can be traced from 1654 until it was acquired by Sir Edward Northey in 1717. In the admission of Hilliard in the Court Roll of 29th October 1703 (S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5) following the death of his father, the property is described as ‘abutten[s] sup[er] terr[as]. Edr[ius] Northey Mil[itis] ex parte Boreal[i]’ i.e. abutting on the lands of Sir Edward Northey on the north. This is a clear example of the Court documents using cardinal points of the compass as the lease refers to the property abutting Northey lands on the north east. The holding is described in the 1680 survey under Cottages as: “Edward Hilder about Six and Twenty yeares since Erected A Cottage on lower Woodcott Greene Adjoyning to the Earle of Berkeley’s land on the South East part but by what Rent or Service we know not” (S.H.C.: K/31/4/1 p.18). Hilder is clearly a misspelling or mishearing of Hilliard. 40 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5 - Deed of Covenant to surrender, 12th October 1717 and Fine, Hilary Term 1717 (4 Geo.I).
69 Woodcote Green House
The Green Both the 1680 Survey and the 1755 Survey record that Upper Woodcote Green was about 1 acre and that Woodcote Green (or Lower Woodcote Green) was about 5 acres. As this is true today it does not appear the shape of the Greens has changed greatly over the years.41
Woodcote Green may once have included the area between the two Greens which was not part of the Common Fields of Epsom or of Epsom Common. The fact that so much of the area was freehold suggests it may all once have been part of the Lord’s demesne. Possibly it was part of the land given to Lady Berkeley with the Durdans in 1617. If so, John Maund must have acquired his estate there from Lord Berkeley. In the 1755 Survey, Farrow42, Woodcote Green House and Mrs. Stephens’ coach house are described as abutting on Woodcote Green. In the 1757 Deeds of Exchange the coach house is similarly described as adjoining Woodcote Green.43
There is nowhere any reference to a road or lane passing Woodcote Green so it seems the line of the road was regarded as part of the Green. Woodcote Green Road would have been a narrower track at the time and possibly there was some Green alongside it. Similarly properties on the other side of the road are referred to as abutting on Lower Woodcott Green on the south.
In practice the descriptions are not all consistent and there may be no great difference between ‘on’, ‘at the side’, and ‘near’, all of which makes locating some of the cottages and smaller properties more difficult. For example the 1706[/7] Fine Deed describes Milton (Woodcote Green House) as being ‘upon or near’ the Green but the 1707 Lease and Release describes it as ‘being on the said’ (i.e. south) ‘side of Woodcott Green’. A
John Maund’s Will John Maund died between 24th December, 1686, which is the date of his Will, and 18th March, 1686[/7] when it was proved by his widowed daughter, Sarah Holland.44
By the time he executed his Will (as John Maund of Epsome Gent.45) John had added two more properties to those listed in the 1680 survey. The first mentioned was between his own house and the stables and coach house of ‘Mr. Stevens’. He left it to his wife Dorothy for life provided she did not remarry, together with various legacies including necessary or convenient furniture for one lodging roome or chamber. This suggests the property was small.
John Maund left his four other Epsom properties to his daughter Sarah. The second new property was occupied by William Farrow, and the original three by Mrs. Melton widow46, by B himself (together with an adjoining parcel of grass land) and by John Venn.
41 The Companion from London to Brighthelmstone says the Green is about 3 acres (See Note 12 above). But Mr Brian Saxby of Sunnybank has kindly calculated the present Woodcote Green (the old Lower Woodcote Green) as being about 5½ acres. 42 See pages 63 and 98 below for this property. 43 Lease and Release by way of exchange dated 4th and 5th April, 1757 between Edward Northey (1) and John Howe and his wife Caroline, Margaret Mortimer, John Merricks and his wife Elizabeth Stephens and Susannah Woodyer and Penelope Woodyer (2) - S.H.C.: 3636/Box 8 In the Lease and Release dated 24th and 25th February, 1733[/4] (the 1733[/4] Lease and Release), three messuages (in fact Farrow, Maund I and Maund II) are described as in or near a place called Woodcote otherwise Woodcote Green. This could indicate that Woodcote Green was regarded as the name of the area or may just reflect the draughtsman’s lack of familiarity with the locality. 44 Will dated 24th December, 1686 and proved 18th March, 1686[/87] of John Maund of Epsome Gent – N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/386/40. 45 He is described as ‘John Maund sometime of Wapping in the County of Middlesex mariner deceased’ in the 1707 Lease and Release and as Captain Maund of Epsom in the 1733[/4] Lease and Release. 46 The use of ‘Mrs’ in the Will is significant and indicates that the Widow Melton was of some standing. 70 Before 1780
With the exception of the property occupied by the Widow Milton or Melton, the history of all John Maund’s properties (and of two more added by Daniel Ellicar on a building plot leased to him by Sarah in 1687) is traced in Chapter 7. The properties are named after occupiers as Farrow, Milton, Maund II, Maund I, Ellicar I, Ellicar II, and Venn, running in a line from Chalk Lane to Woodcote House, fronting first Woodcote Green Road and then the Green.
Milton, the property occupied by the Widow Milton or Melton, is Woodcote Green House as is explained in the following pages.
Sale and Further Descent of Woodcote Green House (Milton) A Deed in contemplation of a Fine was entered into on 26th February, 1706[/7] by Daniell Hilman of Epsom, gent. and Sarah his wife.47 The Deed recites three earlier mortgages of 4th and 5th May, 1698, 6th and 7th May, 1698, and 19th October, 1699, giving a list of the properties involved.48 Sarah is called Sarah Holland widow in the recital of the October 1699 Deed, and so must have remarried in the interim. Her second husband, Daniel Hilman, was the first-named son in the Will of John Hillman, citizen and haberdasher of London. C
The 1706[/7] Fine Deed describes the property as “heretofore in the occupation of Melton widow and now or late in the occupation of William Tigg or his Assigns” and recites the second 1698 mortgage describing it as a “Messuage with Barne Stable Outhouses and Appurtenances thereunto belonging theretofore in the tenure or Occupation of Melton widow or her Assigns and then in the tenure or Occupation of Elliott49 widow”.
47 “1706/7 Fine Deed” i.e. A Deed in contemplation of a Fine dated 26th February, 1706[/7] between Daniel Hilman (1) James Cutler (2) and Philip Constable (3) - S.H.C.: 3636/Box 4. 48 The first 1698 mortgage is for £530. The second 1698 mortgage increased the loan to £630. The 1706[/7] Fine Deed then states that the mortgage was not redeemed by the due date and has become absolute in law. £600 is owing but interest has been paid. To secure the £600 and a further advance of £160 the parties agree to levy a fine on the various properties. The Equity of Redemption is then stated as £805-12-0 which seems odd. 49 Widow Elliott is referred to as Widow Elliot alias Lancashire in the 1687 Ellicar building lease in which the building plot is described as abutting her orchard on the north east. For the reasons set out in Chapter 7 it is considered that this orchard was John Maund’s and had been let to her. The 1680 Survey does not mention any orchard for the property occupied by the widow Milton but does for that occupied by John Maund. Widow Melton or Milton had therefore ceased to be the tenant by 1687. The widow Melton may be Alice Melton of St. Olave’s Southwark who left a Will dated 29th August, 1693. The Will was proved on 3rd December, 1696. This is a few weeks before the date of John Maund’s Will which names her or her Assigns as tenant. As she was then living in Southwark, John Maund may not have heard of her death. If Alice Melton is not the tenant it is a coincidence since her maiden name was Elliott and she had a widowed sister in law Alice Elliott and many Elliott relations, viz. her nephew Ebenezer Elliott who is executor, her brother John Elliott, Peter Elliott and his son Peter, and nieces Elizabeth Elliott and Susanna Elliott (PROB 11/435/256). Another possible connection is through a ‘Joyce Elliot of Ebbisham widow’ who died in 1681 (Will reference: DW/PC/5/1681/21 Commissary Court, Diocese of Winchester). The date is too early for her to be the tenant but one of the witnesses to her Will was Anne Lancasher . Possibly she was the tenant, born Anne Elliot, who married a Lancashire and reverted to her maiden name on his death. In this case the widow Melton is untraced A further possibility is that Widow Elliott is the same as Mary Elliott, widow who was in occupation of the Hewitt property from 1677, at least until it was bought by Sir Edward Northey in 1696 – (see Chapter 10 and Endnote C thereto). If Maria then gave up the tenancy she could have rented Woodcote Green House instead but this does not explain the why she was referred to as ‘alias Lancashire’. See also Note 33 for Mrs. Milton and Lehmann 1B12 and 2B18 for John Lancaster coffeeman in the eighteenth century.
71 Woodcote Green House
On 26th and 27th August, 1707, by a Lease and Release or ‘indenture sextipartite’, the Hilmans sold some and re-mortgaged the rest of their properties50. Milton or Woodcote Green House was re-mortgaged and is described in the Release as a “Messuage …. in the …occupation of William Tigg…. being on the said” [i.e. south51] “side of Woodcott Green”.
Finally by a tripartite deed dated 8th August, 1707[/08], Henry Hayter of London Gentleman bought the Milton property which was still occupied by William Tigg.52
Henry Hayter executed his Will at Epsom on 6th June, 1717 and it was proved on the following 17th July. He appointed his brother, Thomas Hayter, sole executor and administrator, and left him everything, subject to his paying £100 p.a. to Whit Hayter, £50 p.a. to Cosn. Reb. Whitfield, and £50 to Mrs. Moreland ‘during her life not to commence till after my mother’.53
Henry Hayter’s brother Thomas left an interesting Will. It is dated 8th February, 1721/2, with a codicil dated 29th March, 1722, and was proved on 19th June, 1724 at London by Edward Hubbald, Samuel Whitfield, and Mathew Holworthy.
Thomas describes himself as of the parish of Epsom and requests that he be buried decently ‘in the vault which I built for my late deceased brother Henry Hayter in the Church yard of the parish Church of Epsom’.
He leaves to his Nephew Edward Hubbald of the parish of St. Thomas Apostles London, Gent: “all that my Freehold Messuage or Tenement and Garden with the appurtenances wherein I now dwell Scituate at Wood Cott Green in the parish of Epsom” absolutely but subject to a mortgage made for his sister, Mary Moreland of Epsom Widow, for securing an annuity of £50 for her life. He also leaves a number of legacies including £50 to D each of his servants, Joseph Kingham and Elizabeth Gubbins.
The Will of Edward Hubbald of Milk Street London Gentleman is dated 23rd April, 1757.54 It was proved on 19th November, 1759 by Betty Waterman spinster, daughter of his good friend Grace Waterman of the Parish of St. John Southwark, widow. Betty is his sole executrix and residuarylegatee.55 The Will contains no reference to the Epsom property inherited from his uncle and Hubbald’s name does not appear in the 1755 Survey. The widow Sparks claimed in
50 “1707 Lease and Release” i.e. S.H.C.: 3636/Box 4. The parties are: Daniel Hilman of Ebbisham gent and Sarah his wife sole daughter and heir of John Maund sometime of Wapping in the County of Middlesex mariner deceased & Philip Constable citizen and tallow chandler of London (1) James Cutler citizen and painter stainer of London (2) Sir Edward Northey of Middle Temple Knight (3) Daniel Ellicar of Epsom bricklayer (4) John Wrench of Epsom carpenter (5) and William Lany of Middle Temple gent (6). Constable is the trustee for the Hilmans, Northey is purchaser and trustee, Cutler is the surviving previous mortgagee while Lany is trustee for Northey, the new mortgagee. Wrench purchases the Venn lands for £110. 51 The first property named (Venn) is stated to be on the south side and ‘said’ refers back to this. 52 See the “1710 Lease and Release” i.e. Lease and Release dated 30th and 31st October 1710 by way of re- mortgage between Daniel and Sarah Hilman and Philip Constable (1) Sir Edward Northey (2) and William Betts and William Lany (3). The 1710 Lease and Release relating to the remaining Hilman properties recites a tripartite deed of 18th January, 1707[/8] between the Hilmans and Philip Constable citizen and tallow chandler (1) Sir Edward Northey of Middle Temple knight, Daniel Ellicar of Epsom bricklayer and John Wrench of Epsom carpenter (2) and Henry Hayter of London gentleman (3) by which Hayter bought the Messuage occupied by William Tigg. S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6 53 N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/553/145. Manning and Bray Vol.II, p..621, records an inscription in St. Martin’s: “Here lyeth interd the body of Mr. Henry Hayter, who departed this life July the 14th 1716, in the 53d year of his age.” Presumably 1716 is a mistake for 1718. 54 N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/850/361 55 Grace Waterman was buried on 27th February, 1771 in St. John Horsleydown, Tooley St.
72 Before 1780
the Survey to hold the property by free deed. It does not seem therefore that she can have been renting the property from Edward who must have sold or disposed of it by this time.
The 1755 Survey Page 139 of the 1755 Survey contains the following entry which Lehmann identifies as relating to Woodcote Green House: 56 “ Sparks of the Borough of Southwark widow claims to hold by free deed a messuage or tenement coach house stables and other outhouses and orchard containing in the whole about half an acre abutting on woodcote green on the north part on land of Edw: Northey on the south part on land of the late Mary Stephens widow on the east part and on the estate of Wm. Daniel on the west part. Quit rent”
This description of Woodcote Green House in the 1755 Survey is the first and only one to state that it had an orchard. It does not state that it also had a garden and it appears the words are at times used interchangeably. 57 There is no mention of an orchard in the auction particulars of 1846.
The description alone is not sufficient to prove that this property is Woodcote Green House but, helpfully, descriptions of adjoining properties contain two other references to the widow Sparks and her property which put the question beyond doubt: 58
The first reference relates to the property on the west side and reads: “William Daniel of Ebbisham Shopkeeper claims to hold by free deed one messuage or tenement coach house stables and a garden containing in the whole about half an acre abutting on woodcote green and on the coach house and stables of the late Mrs. Stephens on the north and west parts on the estate of Edw: Northey on the south and west parts and on the estate of the widow Sparks on the east part. Quit rent ”.59
The description of Mary Stephens’ stables refers to Daniel’s property thus: “The late Mary Stephens of Ebbisham widow (now dec’d) claimed to hold by free deed … Also a coach house and stables abutting on woodcote green on the north part and on the estate of Wm. Daniel on the south, east and west parts”.60
56 S.H.C.: K/31/4/2, p.139. While the identification in Lehmann (13B3) is correct, Dr. Lehmann confuses the issue by suggesting it was connected to a lease of a property granted by Henry Clayton to Josiah Diston in 1721. This Clayton property was on the east side of Chalk Lane occupying part of the site on which Woodcote Grove was built. This appears in part from deeds unavailable to Dr. Lehmann which clarify the dealings of the Claytons with Josiah Diston. 57An orchard could be quite small. In the 1755 Survey William Picklove claimed ‘a cottage in two tenements garden and orchard about a quarter of an acre in the whole’ (S.H.C.: K/31/4/2, p.11). Orchard and garden also appear to be used interchangeably at times and the use of the land may often have changed. So it is only clear a property has both if both are mentioned. For example in the 1755 Survey, Woodcote Green House had an orchard but no garden, while Maund I had a garden or orchard. Maund II had a garden but no orchard in the 1755 Survey but both a garden and an orchard when sold to Northey in 1762. In the 1746 Lease and Release Farrow, Maund I and Maund II all have gardens behind but no orchards. This may explain the reference in the 1727 Maidstone House Deed to the customary land of the property abutting the gardens of Betts and Foster where previously there was an orchard 58 John Maund’s entire property is described in the 1680 Survey as abutting on Woodcote Green on the west and on the Berkeley (later Northey) land on the south. This is correct if the Ellicar plot and Venn are included since Ellicar bordered the west edge of the Green where it runs away from the road. In the 1755 Survey it was natural to state that Maund I, Maund II and Milton abut the Green on the north. It is strictly north west but only cardinal points of the compass are used in this case. 59 S.H.C.: K/31/4/2 p.121; Lehmann 13B2. 60 S.H.C.: K/31/4/2 p.140.
73 Woodcote Green House
William Daniel’s property was Maund II. In his Will, John Maund describes the property he left to his wife Dorothy as being between Mr. Stephens’ stables and coach house and his own dwelling house (Maund I). The 1746 conveyance to William Daniel states that Mrs. Stephens’ stable is on one side of Maund II 61 and that Maund II adjoins the property formerly in the occupation of Mr. Foster. This is Maund I.62 After Mrs. Stephens, death, her husband’s heirs conveyed the ‘stable and outhouse’ to Edward Northey in an exchange of property.63 It is described as running from the stable and coach house formerly of Mrs. Milton to the garden or court of the dwelling house formerly of John Maund. This establishes Maund I to the west of Maund II and Maund II to the west of Woodcote Green House. The Stephens’ stables and coach house lay between the grounds of Maund II, and the Milton stables and coach house in the grounds of Woodcote Green House. Remains of a building have been found in the grounds of Woodcote Green House in the appropriate place.
The second reference to the widow Sparks is contained in the description of Farrow which is the property to the east of Woodcote Green House. Mrs. Stephens claimed by free deed: “Also half an acre of inclosed land abutting in a point on woodcote green on the north part on land of Edw: Northey on the south part on the estate of the widow Sparks on the west part and on the road leading to Walton and the estate of Joseph Shaw and some cottages on the east part. Quit rent 1s 6d” 64
Mrs. Stephens purchased this property in 1744[/45] as a messuage formerly in the occupation of William Farrier 65 and in her Will states that she had recently purchased the property and demolished the buildings.66 The road leading to Walton is Chalk Lane and the estate of Joseph Shaw is the Amato.67 The cottages will be those fronting Chalk Lane and the land of Edward Northey may be part of the grounds of Maidstone House or may be Samuel Dendy’s former orchard which does not appear in the 1755 Survey. It is in Northey ownership on the 1843 Tithe Map which is before the Northey purchase of Woodcote Green House. Much of Farrow seems to have been incorporated into Woodcote Green House grounds prior to the auction in 1846, since the stables, which are now Heather Lodge, appear to have then been part of the property sold.
There does not seem now to be room for a half acre of enclosed land between Chalk Lane and Woodcote Green House with a messuage, barn stable and outhouses on it, as stated in John Maund’s Will. At this time, however, Woodcote Green House was much smaller and probably had no easterly extension (having only a slight one shown on the 1843 Tithe Map). Without them there would be ample room for half an acre running back to the Amato behind the cottages fronting Chalk Lane. It seems likely that Farrow also fronted Chalk Lane and that this was why Mrs Stephens demolished it.
61See the “1746 Fine Deed” i.e. the Deed of Covenant to levy a Fine dated 1st October 1746 between John Manley junior (1) and Hugh William Pritchard (2) - S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6 and see Chapter 7, Note 68 and related text for the interchangeability of stable and coach house. 62 By deduction. It is purchased by Edward Northey at the same time and appears in the 1755 Survey as owned by Northey and abutting on Daniel’s property on the east. Foster’s garden is referred to in the 1727 Maidstone House Deed. There is no direct statement that Foster occupied the same property as the former occupiers of Maund I (John Maund, Sarah Holland and Daniel Hilman, Rebecca Franklyn and John Hoskyns) but no other property could adjoin Maund II on this side. 63 See Chapter 7 for the 1762 Deeds of Exchange. 64 S.H.C.: K/31/4/2 p.140; Lehmann 13B5. 65 See Chapter 7 for the 1744[/45] Lease and Release. Farrier is clearly Farrow. 66 See Chapter 7 for Mrs. Stephens Will dated 17th March, 1748. It will be noted that the orchard belonging to Farrow is not mentioned in the 1755 Survey. 67 Lehmann, 13B7 and 13C7.
74 ] Before 1780
12. 1821 Map of diversion of footpath between Dorking Road and Woodcote Green Road to present line beside the hospital. Enlargement of section around corner of Woodcote Green Road and Chalk Lane.
The road “comes to a point” at the corner as stated in Mary Stephens' description of Farrow. The current line of the road round the corner follows the faintly marked old footpath.
Woodcote Green House is not shown but the square to the right is presumably Woodcote House slightly misplaced. Church Road is Worple Road in its current position.
75
Woodcote Green House
Furthermore the corner in front of Woodcote Green House was not blunted as at present but came to a sharp point as appears from an 1821 map 68 which also shows a footpath cutting off the corner. The present corner probably follows the line of this footpath. The area cut off remained for long as a rather dusty triangle of grass but has now been suburbanised into a municipal flower bed and seating area for the Ladas pub. Farrow must have spoilt Mrs. Stephens’ view from Woodcote Place. If Woodcote Green House has now been extended over the site of Farrow it would explain the gap in the back wall between what is now No.1 and No.2 Woodcote Green House.
Richard Peters and Mary Sparks When this book was published in 2007, the identity of 'the Widow Sparks of Southwark' was uncertain despite considerable research But the Will of Mary Sparks of Southwark dated 15th April 1758 was noted and it appeared likely that this was her. The significance of her requirement to be buried as near as possible to Mr. Richard Peters was not however appreciated. It was only when the Will of Richard was read that the connection was established and the gap in the descent of Woodcote Green House filled
The Will of Richard Peters is dated 21st and probate was granted on 27th July 1747. v The Will shows that at that date Peters was a goldsmith and jeweller at St. Saviours, Southwark, and owned a freehold estate and premises in or near Epsom and other property. He gave a life interest in this and also in property in Essex and Kent to 'his couzen Mary Sparks' with remainder to the eldest son of Robert Legg (whose wife Mary was the daughter of Peters' uncle also called Richard Peters) and in default to the second son and in default to his Executors to fund a school in Henfield.
The reference to Henfield was the final clue which indicated where all the family came from. It has been possible to establish a quite extensive probable family tree, helped so far as the Legg branch is concerned by an Ancestry entry on the Legg Family Tree.
It is clear from the later ownership of Mary Sparks and Samuel Smith that the freehold propery in Epsom referred to in Peters' Will was Woodcote Green House. He must have acquired it directly or indirectly from Edward Hubbald between 1724 (when Edward inherited) and 1747.
Richard was the son of John Peters, a victualler who died in 1717. Richard's workshop was at St. Margaret's Hill in Southwark at the sign of the Gold Ring.69 In 1744 he gave evidence at the Old Bailey against Isabella Mills who tried to sell him a stolen tankard lid.70 Then in 1746 one Thomas Topping left his service, apparently taking a great deal of value with him. Richard advertised in the London Gazette an offer of a £10 reward for his apprehension and conviction.71 Richard was obviously quite well off as appears also from his Will.
68 S.H.C.: QS 5/8/79. The 1821 Map shows the proposed diversion of part of the Footpath leading from Leatherhead Road to Woodcote Green (see illustration 12. facing this page). 69 Heal, Sir Ambrose The London Goldsmiths 1200-1800 C.U.P. 1935 70 Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 4th April 1744: Trial of Isabella Mills (t17440404-14). 71 Richard Peters advertised in The London Gazette on 30th September 1746 (page 3, issue no. 8576), a reward of £10 for the apprehension and conviction of Thomas Topping who had left his service and is supposed to have taken several things of value, viz: an old watch, maker's name Boult, near on a Hundred Pounds in cash, a Bank note for 25 pounds, name Robert Randall, No. 33, dated 21 April 1746, a Diamond Ring, etc. Thomas is described as 'a slender Youth, of middling Stature, small Eyes and Features, about 20 Years of Age, hath a smll Scar under his left Eye, was born at Mill Hills near Hexam in Northumberland, speaks pretty broad and fast; had on a Copper colour'd Jockey Coat, a Scarlet Great Coat, much stained, new Boots and Silver Spurs'.
76 ] Before 1780
In the Easter term of 1761, there was a recovery by Thomas Bankes gentleman against Samuel Smith of a messuage and two gardens in Ebisham. This was a recovery with double voucher; the first voucher is Mary Sparks widow present in Court in her proper person. She vouches John Legg also present in Court in his proper person. John Legg is the second voucher and he in turn vouches Edmund Wilson, a Court official, who disappears so that judgement is given to Thomas Bankes. This recovery will have conveyed the property to Thomas Bankes and barred both Mary Sparks and John Legg from claiming any interest in it. Thomas was probably Samuel Smith's lawyer and will then have conveyed the property to him. vi
While the acquisition of the property by Richard Peters has not been found, the Recovery shows that at least one of the Legg sons survived and that Mary disposed of her life interest and John Legg, the son, disposed of his remainder to Thomas Bankes, from whom it is assumed Samuel Smith acquired it. As is now apparent John Legg was the eldest son.
It has been possible to establish a family tree of the Peters, Chamberlin, Legg and Lish families (See illustration 13).
Richard Peters may be the Richard baptised at Balcombe on 17th June 1706, the son of John Peters and his wife Mary. Certainly the John Peters, victualler, whose will was dated 8th April 1719 was Richard's father. Probate was on 10th December and he left everything to his loving son Richard, goldsmith of St. Saviours, Southwark apart from £20 to his neice Mary, daughter of his brother-in-law Richard Chamberlin and also of St. Saviours. This indicates that John's wife was neè Chamberlin.
In his Will Richard Peters asks to be buried as near to his late wife as possible. There was a marriage of a Richard Peters to Elizabeth Johnson at Ashtead on 25th June 1727 and this may be his but the name Johnson does not occur in his Will. There is also no suggestion of children.
The connection with his 'couzen' Mary has not been discovered and he does not specify his relationship to her or to Richard Lish of Henfield. But in her Will Mary names Richard Lish as her brother and a labourer (still probably of Henfield although the writing is unclear). Both Mary and Richard were baptised at Henfield, the children of Richard and Jane nèe Crossingham.
Mary married Joseph Sparks at St. Andrew, Chichester by licence on 29th March 1725. Joseph died in 1728 in the Deanery of Chichester.
There is a Will of Mary Sparkes, Widow, ‘at present residing in the Parish of Saint George the Martyr’ in Southwark, Surrey, dated 15th April, 1758 and proved on 10th September, 1762.vii The Will found contains no reference to Epsom but there are many legatees. Of these the most interesting are Joseph Kingham and his wife Susanna, of Thames Street, London. Joseph is a tobacconist and receives a mourning ring, while his wife is given a rose diamond ring. Joseph Kinghem is a witness to the will of Henry Hayter in 1716 and a servant of Thomas Hayter who gives him £50 in his Will in 1722. This could well have set him up as a tobacconist but it is not certain that the two Josephs are the same person.
Mary was buried at Baldwin's Gardens, St. Andrew, Holborn on 19th August 1762 although she asked to be buried in St. Saviours, Southwark as near to Mr. Richard Peters as possible. As stated above, Richard wanted to be buried near his dead wife.
77
Woodcote Green House
The only possible family connection found is the marriage of William Peters to Elizabeth Sparks in Rye in 1730. Elizabeth could be a sister-in-law of Mary but William does not fit into the known Peters tree. Alternatively perhaps she was related to Richard Peters' wife. It is also possible the connection was of bed rather than of the blood!
The 1762 Deeds of Exchange Confirmation of the identification of the widow Sparks property is provided by the 1762 Deeds of Exchange72 in which William Daniel exchanged his property for one of Edward Northey’s in which he, Daniel, was then living. Daniel surrenders a Messuage or tenement plus the Stable Outhouse Yard Garden and Orchard, lately in the occupation of William Bartlett as tenant of Daniel and now empty, abutting on the garden of Mr. Smith on the north-east and on lands of Edward Northey on the south-west.
The vital point is that Daniel’s house abuts on the garden of Mr. Smith on the north east whereas in the 1755 Survey (which locates the property only by cardinal points of the compass)73 his house abutted on the estate of the widow Sparks on the east part. Mr. Smith is therefore widow Sparks’s successor and must have acquired the property between 1755 and 25th January, 1762 (the date of the Lease). The 1761 Recovery described above makes plain that it was in 1761.
As explained in Chapter 8, Samuel Smith II acquired the two Stephens’ properties, Woodcote Place and the White House, in 1757. But he did not acquire much of the grounds of the White House, nor the Stephens’ stables and coach house next to Woodcote Green House. As a wealthy man Smith would need stables and he appears to have demolished the White House to make way for the new stables. The Land Tax records prove that Samuel Smith’s son Samuel owned Woodcote Green House in 1780. Mr. Smith of the 1762 Deeds of Exchange and Samuel Smith II are one and the same. It seems likely, though unproven, that Samuel Smith II purchased Woodcote Green House to replace the White House.
Thus Woodcote Green House was owned successively by John Maund, Sarah and Daniel Hilman, Henry Hayter, Thomas Hayter, Edward Hubbald, Richard Peters, Mary Sparks as life tenant with Robert Legg as remainderman, and Samuel Smith.
The house was occupied by the widow Milton (or Melton), the widow Elliot alias Lancashire, William Tigg, Henry Hayter, and Thomas Hayter. In 1755 the widow Sparks may have been in occupation until 1761 but then no more is known until 1780 when Thomas Watson is the first occupier named in the Land Tax records.
72 Lease and Release by way of exchange dated 25th and 26th January, 1762 between Edward Northey (1) and William Daniel (2). See also Chapter 7. 73 See Note 4 and related text.
78 ] Before 1780
Addenda
A In the 1755 Survey, listed apparently at random with cottages on Stamford Hill and Lower Ebbisham Common, are the following ‘Cottages and Incroachments’ built on the waste land of the Manor which are either ‘on’ or ‘near’ Woodcote Green: A cottage and workshop ‘on’ Woodcote Green claimed by Anne Briggs of Ebbisham widow and built by Geo: Mathews about 30 years since. A cottage ‘near’ Woodcote Green claimed by Anne Briggs and built by Geo: Mathews about 20 years since. Two cottages and yards ‘near’ Woodcote Green claimed by Joseph Batts and built by Geo: Mathews about 20 years since. A workshop ‘on’ Woodcote Green claimed by Joseph Batts stonemason and built by Geo: Mathews about 15 years since. A cottage in two tenements ‘on’ Woodcote Green claimed by Robert Mathews (an infant) and built by Geo: Mathews about 20 years since; and Two cottages and a shed ‘near’ Woodcote Green claimed by Thomas Tinsley of Kingston in Surry Mealman. S.H.C.: K/31/4/2 p.9-11; Lehmann 13B6 The last two cottages and a shed held by Thomas Tinsley of Kingston are certainly Nos. 12 and 14 Chalk Lane which were previously occupied by Widow Waterman and then by Thomas Waterman. South of them, fronting on Chalk Lane, was a messuage in two tenements, coach house, stables and other outhouses and a garden, known by the sign of the Rummer whose location is certain. In a Deed of 26th March, 1708, it is stated that the Rummer abutted the tenement of ----- Waterman widow on the north part and, in an entail of 15th October, 1719, that the Rummer abutted on the lands of Thomas Waterman on the north part (S.H.C.: K/31/4/2 p.82; Lehmann 13B7). In the 1755 Survey the Rummer is described as abutting on a cottage of Thomas Tinsley on the north part. See Note 37 and related text for this property in 1680. It will be noted that, unlike in 1680 when the Dendys owned the property, no orchard is referred to and the property has now been split in two. It seems likely that the other three properties which, like the Tinsley cottages, are ‘near’ Woodcote Green, are also in Chalk Lane and that those which are ‘on’ Woodcote Green are the four cottages north of the Green fronting Woodcote Green Road. They are shown on Rocque’s c.1752 map (but not on Senex’s 1729 map). They are numbered 1121-1124 on the 1843 Tithe Map and were subsequently demolished. This would mean that Nos.2, 4 and 6 Chalk Lane were held by Ann Briggs and Joseph Batts. Unfortunately, a Northey property north of Woodcote Green is described as abutting on ‘land belonging to the work house and the cottages of Robt. Mathews and Joseph Batts on the west part’. So the position is not clear. (S.H.C.: K/31/4/2 p.128- 9). Robt. Mathews is ‘on’ while Joseph Batts is ‘near’ unless it is his workshop that is referred to which is quite possible.
B PROB 11/386/40: The full list of devisees in John Maund’s Will is as
To loveing wife Dorothy Maund for life if she continues unmarried: “All that my Messuage or Tenement with the barnes stables gardens orchards ground and appurtenances now existing and belonging lyeing betweene my now dwelling house and the stables and coach house of Mr. Stevens” in Epsom plus “necessary and convenient furniture for one lodging roome or chamber”.
To loveing daughter Sarah Holland widdow: “All that Messuage or Tenement with the barne stable outhouses and appurtenances now in the Tenure or occupacon of William ffarrow or his Assigns”. “And all (that intercalated) other Messuage or Tenement with the barne stable Coach house outhouses and appurtenances now in the Tenure or Occupation of Mrs. Melton widdow or her Assigns”. “And alsoe all that other Messuage or Tenement with he barnes stables coach houses outhouses gardens orchards and shedds with their and every of their Appurtenances And alsoe all that peece or parcell of grass ground lyeing behind and adjoyning to the last mentioned Messuage or Tenement with the appurtenances now in my owne Tenure or occupation”.
79
Woodcote Green House
“And alsoe all that other Messuage or Tenement with the barnes stables able land to mee belonging lyeing and being in Epsome feild and now in the Tenure of John Venn with their and every of their Appurtenances now in the Tenure or Occupation of John Venn aforesaid or his Assignes”
All this is subject to payment of £30 per annum to Dorothy out of the rents etc. for and in discharge of her dower and subject to payment of £50 to his ‘Grandsonne William Roberts’ at 21.
To loveing brother Edward Owens and sister Joane Owens for life: Tenement or Cottage with land etc. in Ashton in the parish of Eye, Hereford and after their decease to his loveing Cosen Elizabeth Owens but subject to her payment, within six months after the death of her parents, Edward and Joane Owens, of £15 to Testator’s sister’s daughter Margaret ffenn
To sister Joane Owens £5 To sonne William Roberts £5 To wife’s daughter Hannah Dale £5 To wife’s sonne John Richardson 20/- to buy a ring
[It may be that the descriptions of John Maund’s house and of the house in which Dorothy is given a life interest are at least in part fomulaic. It is unlikely that both houses would have had more than one barn, stable, garden, orchard etc. The Testator’s sonne William Roberts is in fact presumably his grandson of that name and the son of a deceased daughter; ‘wife’s son John Richardson’ suggests that his wife had been married before and that her former husband’s name was Richardson.]
C John Hillman’s Will is dated 4th January, 4 Wm & Mary (i.e. 1693) and was proved on 13th January. He was obviously a widower. He left buildings and an estate in St. Mary Aldermanbury to his sons Daniell and Samuell. This estate was known as ‘The George Inn’ and is referred to in Daniell’s Will of 1727 (see Endnote E to Chapter 7). John left two copyhold properties in Epsom to another son, Joseph. The first is called the beerhouse and includes various buildings and an acre of land. The second is a property formerly in the occupation of Edward Harrison but now of Abraham Gracock. John gives three houses in London in Sherborne Lane near his own shop to a daughter, Anne Hillman, subject to her paying ground rent to the Grocers’ Company and also paying £10 p.a. for 7 years to ‘her brother George Grimley’, suggesting he was a step-son and Anne the daughter of a second marriage. Both Anne and George are ‘very young’ and the money is to be paid to their uncle Ferdinando Robinson to whom John commits their care. Anne also receives some items which were her mother’s. John refers also to a daughter Constable with whom he may have been estranged; but he leaves money to his grandson ‘Hillman Constable’ to be given to his father until 21. The father is presumably Philip Constable who was party to a number of the Hillman deeds The executors are his loving friends, Samuell Newberry and Henry Wright, Citizens and Drapers of London. N.A.: PROB 11/413/5.
D PROB 11/850/36: The Will clarifies Thomas Hayter’s and his brother Henry’s other relationships. Sir Cleve Moore Knt. owes £6,000 upon a mortgage of lands in Lancashire and also £700 on ‘his bond and Judgement or other Securitye’ plus interest. Of this: To Nephew Edward: £2,000 To Sister in Law Martha Hayter widow: £200 To Cousin Samuel Whitfield of the Strand, London, Haberdasher: £1,500 To Henry Whitfield, son of Samuel: £500 To Rebecka Whitfield Spinster, sister of Samuel: £800 To Cousin Rebecka Otway, wife of John Otway of Epsom, Gent: £200 To servant Sarah Fell spinster: £100 To my two other servants, Joseph Kingham and Elizabeth Gubbins: £50 a peice To Cousin Elizabeth Higginson spinster: £40 To Mr. Mathew Clark ‘my Minister’: £20 To good friend Mathew Holworthy Esqr: £100 and ‘my picture of the Resurrection standing in my parlour’ To poor of the parish of Epsom: £5 to be distributed amongst one hundred of such poor Objects by one shilling a peice and £5 more in bread 80 ] Before 1780
To Abraham Fell of Goodmans Fields, Gunlock maker: £30 To his sister Elizabeth Jones: £30
There is then a codicil dated 29th March 1722 in which he recites that he bequeathed in his Will £200 to his sister in law Martha Hayter, widow and relict of his late brother Whitfield Hayter; and in Compassion to the present deplorable Circumstances of her the said Martha Hayter as being a Lunatick etc. he then gives an additional £300 for her support, on top of the £200 to Samuel Horsley of Westminster Woodmonger and Martha Whatton of Westminster Widow (the Mother of her the said Martha Hayter).
E T.N.A: PROB 11/880/399 Will of Richard Peters
Date of Will: 21st July 1747
Date of First Codicil 23rd July 1747
Date of Second Codicil 25th July 1747
Date and Place of Grant of Probate: 27th July 1747 at London
Description of Testator: Richard Peters of the parish of St. Saviours in the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surry Goldsmith and Jeweller
Burial: Burial: my Body I commit to the Earth to be privately buried with only one Hearse and Coach and to be interred as near to my late Wife as may be
Devisees Devisees: John Bell and Elizabeth Bell of Barnsted in the County of Surrey: £20 a peice
my ffriends Richard [?]Burnm of the parish of St. Saviours Ironmonger John Hulme of the same parish Tallow Chandler Robert Hitchman of the same parish pewterer John Normandy of the same parish Colour Man Robert Lingfield of the same parish Haberdasher William Courtney of the same parish Hosier Edward Hooker of the same parish Schoolmaster Sarah Pearson the Elder of the same place Widow Walter Widmore of the same parish Dyer Joseph Gibbons of the parish of Saint George the Martyr in the said Borough of Southwark and County of Surry Salter William Jefferys of the said parish of Saint Georges Baker and John Cuthbert of the parish of Saint Mary Newington in the said County of Surry Surgeon and apothecary to each and every of them the sum of twenty pounds a peice
Further Devisees: Cousen Jane Tous daughter of my uncle Richard Peters: £200 Eldest Son of Robert Legg by Mary his wife which said Mary was the daughter of my said uncle Richard Peters: £100 Second Son of Robert Legg by Mary his wife: £400 The three daughters of the said Robert Legg by Mary his wife: £200 a peice with provision for share and share alike among survivors if any die before 21
Couzens Richard Chamberline and John Chamberline sons of Richard Chamberline my late Mothers Brother deceased: £100 a peice Mary Chamberline daughter of said Richard Chamberline my late Mothers Brother: £20
my ffriends William Dundee of the said parish of St Georges's distiller and John Wymore of the parish of Stretham in the County of Surrey ffarm two hundred pounds a peice 81
Woodcote Green House
my Servant Joseph Moore: £20 my Servant Elizabeth Butterly: £20 my Servant Michael Lewis Henley: £30 my Servant John Merrell: £50 my Housekeeper Mrs. Ann Eaton: £500 Richard Lish of Henfield aforesaid (sic) in the said County of Sussex: £100 the Treasurer of the Charity Body's (sic) School in the Parish of Saint Saviours aforesaid and the Treasurer of the Charity Girls School in the parish of Saint Saviours aforesaid: £20 a peice for the use of the said Charity Children
Realty my Couzen Mary Sparks: freehold and estate Land and mortgaged premises in Essex 'my freehold Estate and premises lying in or near Epsom in the County of Surry' and my freehold Estate and premises in Kent to have and to hold the same 'unto the said Mary Sparks and her assigns for and during the Term of her natural life without Impeachment of Waste and from and after her decease' to Eldest Son of said Robert Legg by Mary his wife and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten and their heirs for ever and in default of such issue to Second Son of said Robert Legg by Mary his wife and to his heirs and assigns for ever but if both die without lawful issue in the lifetime of Mary or both die under 21 then to Executors In trust to erect from Rents and Profits or sufficient part a free school at Henfield in Sussex and after it is built with all convenient speed to 'Chuse one discreet and able Schoolmaster to teach School there English Latin and Greek' and apply the Rents and Profits for his salary with Executors or the survivor of them having power to place and displace the schoolmaster
Provisos Provisos Legacies to children of Robert and Mary Legg not to be paid until their respective ages of 21 and in meanwhile the Interest commencing on the day of his death to be used by his Executors for their Maintenance and Education
Pecuniary Legacies to be paid Six months after decease and be charged on his freehold and personal estate
Residuary Estate William Mundee John Wymore Mary Sparks and Ann Eaton their Executors Administrators and Assigns share and share alike
Executors and Executrixes: William Mundee John Wymore Mary Sparks and Ann Eaton Execution Signed 21st July 1747 Richard Peter Witnesses: Witnesses: Willm Curtis Wm Witton Richd Beale James Thompson of St Savrs Church Yard Southwark.
FIRST CODICIL
Description of Testator Richard Peters of the parish of St. Saviour's in the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surry Goldsmith Amendments Second Son of Robert Legg to receive One hundred not Four hundred pounds
Three daughters of Robert Legg to receive One hundred not Two hundred pounds a peice
Servant John Meril (sic) given addtional £50 to the £50 given to him in the Will
82 ] Before 1780
Sarah Pearsell who was given £20 in Will 'by the name of Sarah Pearson the Elder of the parish of Saint Saviours afterwards Widow' given £180 more to make total of £200
Housekeeper Mrs. Ann Eaton who was given £500 and made Executrix in Will now given £400 instead and not to be Executrix or to intermeddle
If Executors come into possession of the freehold estates and premises, to lay up Rents and Profits to build the School which shall be for 50 boys only with 2 masters, a head Master with a Salary of £60 a year and an under Master with a Salary of £40 a year and the Overplus to be used to Establish a Library for the School. Every year on 14th December £10 from Rent and Profits to be be Expended for a dinner for the Executors or the survivor of them After death of all Executors management of the free school to be solely in the Master and Wardens of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers in the City of London who for that purpose are to receive the freehold estates and premises for ever
Execution Signed 23rd July 1747 Richd Peter
Witnesses: Willm Curtis Wm Witton Richd Beale James Thompson of St Saviours Churchyard Southwark.
SECOND CODICIL
Description of Testator Richard Peters of the Borough of Southwark in the County of Surry Goldsmith and Jeweller
Re-establishes Ann Eaton as an Executrix
Execution Signed 25th July 1747 Richd Peter
Witnesses: Willm Curtis Richd Beale Wm Witton James Thompson of St Savrs Church Yard Southwark.
F. TRANSCRIPT OF RECOVERY (TNA: CP43/712, p.251)
Writ of Entry returnable ffrom Easter Day in ffifteen Days.
Surry to wit Thomas Bankes Gentleman in his proper Person demandeth against Samuel Smith Esquire One Messuage and Two Gardens with the Appurtenances in the Parish of Ebisham otherwise Epsom as his Right and Inheritance and into which the same Samuel hath not Entry but after the Disseisin which Hugh Hunt thereof unjustly and without Judgment hath made to the aforesaid Thomas within Thirty Years &c. And whereupon he saith that he was Seised of the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances in his Desmesne as of ffee and Right in time of Peace in the time of our Lord the King that now is by taking the Profits thereof to the Value &c. and into which &c. and thereof he bringeth Suit &c.
And the said Samuel in his proper person cometh and defendeth his Right when &c. and thereupon Voucheth to Warrant Mary Sparks Widow who is present here in Court in her proper Person and freely Warranteth the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances to the said Samuel &c. And hereupon the said Thomas demandeth against the said Mary Tenant by her own Warranty the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances in manner aforesaid &c. And whereupon he saith that he was Seised of the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances in his Desmesne as of ffee and Right in time of Peace in the time of our Lord the King that now is by taking the Profits thereof to the Value &c. and into which &c. and thereof he bringeth Suit &c.
And the said Mary Tenant by her own Warranty defendeth her Right when &c. and thereupon She Voucheth to Warrant 83
Woodcote Green House
John Legg who is present here in Court in his proper Person and freely Warranteth the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances to the said Samuel &c. And hereupon the said Thomas demandeth against the said Mary Tenant by her own Warranty the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances in manner aforesaid &c. And whereupon he saith that he was Seised of the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances in his Desmesne as of ffee and Right in time of Peace in the time of our Lord the King that now is by taking the Profits thereof to the Value &c. and into which &c. and thereof he bringeth Suit &c.
And the said John Tenant by his own Warranty defendeth his Right when &c. and thereupon he Voucheth to Warrant Edmund Wilson who is present here in Court in his proper Person and freely Warranteth to him the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances &c. And hereupon the said Thomas demandeth against him the said Edmund Tenant by his own Warranty the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances in manner aforesaid &c. And whereupon he saith that he was Seised of the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances in his Desmesne as of ffee and Right in time of Peace in the time of our Lord the King that now is by taking the Profits thereof to the Value &c. and into which &c. and thereof he bringeth Suit &c.
And the said Edmund Tenant by his own Warranty defendeth his Right when &c. and saith that the said Hugh did not Diseise the said Thomas of the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances as the said Thomas by his Writ and Declaration above doth suppose and of this he putteth himself upon the Country &c
And the said Thomas thereupon craveth Leave to Imparle and he hath it &c. And afterwards the said Thomas cometh again here into Court in the same Term in his proper Person and the said Edmund although solemnly called cometh not again but departed in Contempt of the Court and maketh Default Therefore it is considered that the said Thomas Recover his Seisin against the said Samuel of the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances and that the said Samuel have of the Land of the said Mary to the Value &c. And further that the said Mary have of the Land of the said John to the Value &c. and furthermore that the said John have of the Land of the said Edmund to the Value &c. and the said Edmund in Mercy &c. And thereupon the said Thomas prayeth a Writ of the Lord the King to be directed to the Sheriff of the County aforesaid to cause full Seisin of the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances to be delivered to him and it is granted to him returnable here In Five Weeks from the Day of Easter at which Day the said Thomas cometh here into Court in his proper Person and the Sheriff namely John Dauson Esquire sen now returneth that he by virtue of the aforesaid Writ to him directedon the Fifteenth Day of April in this same Term did cause full seisin of the Tenements aforesaid with the Appurtenances to be delivered to the aforesaid Thomas as by the said Writ he was commanded &c. Cooke s d Easter Term 1 Geo: 3d. 16 6 v Gl 3 S. (D.144.) Plea Roll ??? 251
I am indebted to Brooke Westcott for an explanation of this transaction: ' As if the basic "Common Recovery" was not longwinded enough, your version is a "Recovery with Double Voucher". It includes John Legg, for whom there is no equivalent in the example in my book. So I confirm the players in this drama to be;
Tenant in Tail (seller): Mary Sparks Demandant (purchaser): Thomas Bankes Tenant to the Praecipe (friend, agent or lawyer): Samuel Smith First Vouchee: John Legg Common Vouchee: Edmund Wilson. He was a court official, appointed Clerk of the Errors of the Court of Common Pleas in October 1753 and January 1762 according to Google. Presumably he held some other position between these two appointments.
The real parties to the sale are Thomas Banks and Mary Sparks. Even though Samuel Smith is one of the main figures in the court case, he was really only acting as a sort of middleman; the part of Sam Stooge in the preamble in my book. Although I have talked in terms of a sale, where Bankes has already paid money over and just wants legal title, but it is not impossible that all parties wanted to break Mary's entail and no cash inducement was involved.
84 ] Before 1780
G N.A.: PROB 11/880/399 Will of Mary Sparks
Date of Will: 15th April, 1758 Date and Place of Grant of Probate: 10th September, 1762 at London to Edward Steavens Esquire and William Curlewis Esquire the Executors named in the Will Description of Testator: Mary Sparkes at present residing in the Parish of Saint George the Martyr in Southwark, Surrey Widow Burial: Burial: In Dusk of the Evening in the Parish Church of St. Saviour in Southwark as near to the late Mr. Richard Peters deceased as possible Devisee(s) Devisee(s) Mrs. Susanna Kingham Wife of Mr. Joseph Kingham of Thames Street London Tobacconist: Rose Diamond Ring. Mrs. Mary Curlewis Wife of Mr. William Curlewis of the Parish of St. John in Southwark Gentleman: £10 Brother, Richard Lish of [?Kemell] Sussex Labourer: £100 Mary Terry Wife of John Terry of Horsham, Sussex Cordwainer: £100 Niece, Alice Clarke of Horsham Widow: £100 Maid Servant, Anne Churchman if with Testator at decease: £10 Mr. Richard Steavens of Thames Street, London Soapmaker and his wife: One Guinea each for a Ring Susanna Curlewis, daughter of William Curlewis: One Silver Pint Mugg Mr. John Reed of Kennington Lane and his wife: One Guinea each for a Ring Above named Mr. Joseph Kingham: One Guinea for a Ring Residuary Legatee: Said Maid Servant, Anne Churchman if living with Testator at decease Watch and Chain: To be sold Executors: Executors Good Friends, Edward Steavens of the parish of St. John in Southwark Esquire and aforenamed Mr.William Curlewis each of whom given £20 for their trouble Execution Signed ‘Mary Sparks’ Witnesses: Elizabeth Reed: Mary Davis: Abra. Norman, N. Publ.
N.B. The marriage allegation of 1734 for Joseph Kingham refers to him as ‘aged about 21 years’ (Vicar General Marriage Allegation, 2nd July, 1734). Unless this merely indicated that he was 21 or over, it is hard to see how this Joseph can be the same as the servant in Thomas Hayter’s Will of 1721/2. Neither Joseph’s Will (N.A.: PROB 11/844/383) nor Susanna’s (N.A.: PROB 11/1027/26) contain any helpful references. The marriage allegation indicates that Susanna was 21 and th After the Northeys at she was the daughter of Richard Steaven.
\
85
Woodcote Green House
86 The House
15(a). The alcove uncovered with the 15(b). The trompe l’oeil window covering the newly bricked up alcove. original plaster.
st 15 (c). A piece of the George 1 wall paper behind the panelling in the main bedroom - 23⅛” by 19⅝”. 15(d). George 1st tax stamp on back of wall paper - 3½” high.
87 16(a). Staircase from downstairs hall.
16(b). Looking down from the top of the staircase.
88 The House
17(a). Downstairs arch.
17(b). Upstairs arch from the staircase.
89 18(a). Papier maché ceiling over staircase.
18(b). Details of the ceiling and its central boss.
90 The House
19(a). The fitted bookcase in the study.
19(b). Detail of applied moulding on bookcase.
91 Woodcote Green House
20(a). ‘Coade’ sitting room fireplace.
20(b). Close-up with garlands, fruit baskets, and marriage of Cupid and Psyche.
20(c). Duck nest fireplace in back bedroom.
92 The House
21(a). Dining room fireplace.
21(b). Chair-rail in hall passageway showing zigzag pattern.
93 Woodcote Green House
22(a). The back of the house with Woodcote Place (now Westgate House) in the background.
22(b). Detail of the back door and the pillars at the back of the house.
94 Chapter 6 THE HOUSE1
Descriptions The 1954 official listing of Woodcote Green House describes it as follows: II*: - Late 17th century, now largely mid 18th century in character. Two storeys and attic, colour-washed roughcast, 5 sash windows, the centre blocked. Central Doric columned doorcase with rusticated surround with frieze, dentilled cornice and 6 panelled door with semi-circular radiating fanlight. Parapet. 3 sash-topped dormer windows, mansard old tile roof. End stacks. Rear elevation irregular with hipped gabled wing to left, half-hipped 2 storey and attic wing adjoining, and 2 storey flanking wing to right with roof hipped on right. Old sash windows. Left-hand front room with mid eighteenth-century mantelpiece. Very good Chinese Chippendale stair-case. Rococo plaster ceiling to stairwell. Elliptical arch with keystone and moulded imports on landing.2
As one would expect with an official statement, it is only true in parts. In this chapter the house is treated as facing north and references to different rooms are to the rooms so marked on the latest plan.
Ian West produced a different statement for a party of visitors:
WOODCOTE GREEN HOUSE A house is known to have occupied this site prior to 1680 and I think this is represented by the T plan on the sketch below. A fire partly destroyed the roof a few years ago but there are indications that the front range had hipped ends whilst a half hip exists at the base of the T. The purlins in the rear section of the roof are visible and there is a section of old baluster at attic level. End stacks with hipped end c.1660? Note old wallpaper under panelling in front right bedroom and step in floor levels to back wing. Major refurbishment in the late 18thC. This probably removed the overhanging eaves at the front and formed a mansard by increasing the pitch of the roof below purlin level and building up the gable ends. Present stairs installed in new ‘vice’, old stairs would have been at intersection of T – what form did they take? Note decorations on stairs and fireplaces. Further extensions at North and at SE corner.
1 The author is greatly indebted to Mr. Ian West for his expert help in this chapter. 2Buildings of Special Architectural Interest dated 10/4/1954 (Ref. 7Q 2059 34/9). 95 Other Woodcote Houses
First Floor Plan Woodcote Green House.
What follows in this chapter is an attempt to chart the development of the house. It will be appreciated that not everything is certain and that there are a number of, it is hoped educated, guesses.
The Original Building The original building was an irregular T shape 2½ storey,3with a central front passage between two rooms (the dining room and the study); the foot consisted of a room (the kitchen) slightly to the left or east of centre with a cellar under. There are traces of a door in the right wall of the kitchen whose thickness indicates it was the original outside wall.
Support for a late seventeenth century date for the house is provided by the original shape. The T was superseded at the end of the century by a square.
The kitchen is three steps above the front rooms and the passage on its right (which itself has a step in it). This could indicate a reluctance to dig the cellar any deeper
The cellar contains a raised area shut off by thick walls where the foot of the T meets the cross piece. On the west side is what appears to be the remains of a staircase to the hall above. .It has been roughly bricked in on one side but still shows some older bricks; a retaining wall is built not with brick but with chalk clunch. The function of the thick walls is uncertain but they may well have been part of the foundation of an earlier demolished building. Former owners suggested some of the bricks on the back wall of the kitchen were Elizabethan. Certainly the lower courses of brickwork, visible at the back of the house outside the kitchen, are earlier than the higher courses and date at latest from the first part of the seventeenth century. This is the oldest part of the building and suggests that there was once a cottage or house on the site which was demolished.
The present fireplace in the side wall, on the east or left of the kitchen, originally had an outside chimney. When the extension was built against this wall, the chimney was made to service its fireplaces as well. Nothing but the odd piece of beam now remains of this fireplace in the kitchen.
3 i.e. a ground floor, a first floor, and an attic whose walls are half the height of the lower floors. The T shape and 2½ stories are typical of earlier spa building in Epsom. 96 The House
The cellar still has a pipe discharging water which is then drained off. This may be the site of the old well. Mr. Philip Marshall said that there was a filled-in well in the cellar.
The original staircase ran crosswise in the kitchen (probably west to east). It was between the wall of the dining room and a large cross beam which still remains in the kitchen ceiling. There are flimsy beams between the cross beam and the dining room wall. On the first floor the next flight in the upper hall ran in the same direction along the back of the wall of the west front room (the main bedroom).The top of the stairs on the second floor was on the south side of what is now the west front room. Before the fire in 1986, this area was walled off from the rest of the room in what had become a store area.
The roof was not mansard and had half-hipped gable ends with no parapet. The corner purlins showing the sharp angle of the old roof survive, as do the heavy chestnut beams that supported it.
The front of the house would have had no white cement render but have been of brick with a string course below the level of the first floor windows. This string course remains at the sides of the house. Pace the bureaucrats who listed the house in 1954, there never was a central first floor window, bricked up or otherwise, although there is now one painted in trompe l'oeil. Had there been such a window, it would have been on both sides of the main wall dividing the sitting room from the main front bedroom. When the concrete facing on the front of the house was removed there was no bricked up window. Instead a domed alcove was revealed with some of the plaster still in place. Such alcoves were often left empty but could contain a bust of a master in a school, or of a benefactor in an alms house. There is no evidence that the house was either although it might have been a lodging house.4
Home suggested that Toland stayed in the house in 1710. Toland was certainly quite close to Durdans but he could have stayed in one of the other houses then on Woodcote Green which have now disappeared and are described in the next chapter.5
The status of the widows Milton and Elliot alias Lancashire is not clear. Widow Milton or Melton is referred to as ‘Mrs’. in John Maund’s Will, which is a mark of gentility but perhaps being called ‘widow’ is less so. Keeping a laundry could suggest she was quite humble although the house itself was of some standing. Perhaps, as suggested above, it was used as a lodging house for visitors to Epsom in which case a laundry would have been needed for the visitors. If it was a lodging house it probably did not do well as the new wells in the centre of Epsom supplanted those on the Common in the early years of the century.6 This may be why Daniel and Sarah Holland sold this and other of their properties.
4 Manning and Bray, 1804-14, Vol.II, p.610, states that towards the end of the seventeenth century when the waters became popular: “The Village was soon enlarged to a great extent. It became the Brighthelmstone of that day: many houses were erected for lodgings, and yet the place would not contain all the visitors, who were obliged to go to neighbouring places.” and adds (unfortunately without a reference, that there was a case before the Judges to determine whether the keepers of these lodging houses were to be regarded as publicans and so needed licences. It was decided they did not. 5 “John Toland, to whom we owe that valuable account of Epsom at the commencement of the eighteenth century quoted in a previous chapter, took a house on Woodcote Green in 1710. Whether the house still stands or where it stood is unknown. The only building at all possible seems to be Woodcote Green House.” Home, p.107. 6 Home, p.59-60. The lease of the Old Wells was acquired from Daniel Ellicar and others by John Livingstone in 1715.
97 Other Woodcote Houses
23(a). 1838 Guardians Map – enlargement showing Woodcote area.
23(b). Enlargement of above showing Woodcote Green House. This is the first detailed outline of the house and garden. Note that Mrs Milton’s stable is still in place but not the adjoining stables. The small building on the north-west corner is presumably a shed. The rough line in the centre is a tear on the original map. The numbers 1538 are those of the Schedule. The Schedule to this map has been lost but the Schedule to the 1843 Tithe Map copy which uses the same numbering survives. 98 The House
24(a). 1843 Tithe Map (copied from 1838 Guardians Map) showing Woodcote area.
24(a). 1843 Tithe Map (copied from 1838 Guardians Map) showing Woodcote area.
99
Other Woodcote Houses
25. 1850 Cholera Map showing close up of Woodcote Green House: 10 inches to the mile.
A detailed plan of drainage for which the Epsom Board of Health were enabled to use public money following cholera outbreaks.
Presumably the two drains on the right serve the house and the one in the corner is for rain from the roof.
The stables at the back are to have drainage from the little building in front.
The triangle of land in the corner between Woodcote Green House and Chalk Lane shows that the old footpath is now a road round the house with the “point” of Farrow now islanded.
The circle on the right is presumably the well shared by Maund I and Maund II with the vestige of Mrs. Smith’s stable behind it.
100
The House
26. 1852 Map, 2 feet to the mile. The enlargement above shows the Woodcote area. The enlargement to the left shows Woodcote Green House.
The map appears to be a coloured copy of the 1850 Cholera Map. Drafted by Lee and Stevenson.
Woodcote Green House and its grounds are unchanged. The pond or well in the grounds of Maund II is now coloured blue.
101
Woodcote Green House
27. 1866 Ordnance Survey Map, 25 inches to the mile. First Edition (surveyed 1866). Enlargements showing the Woodcote area and Woodcote Green House.
The track of Clay Lane below Woodcote House is still just visible with the pond above it. So also is the track on the north side of Woodcote House with a spur; it which may a vestige of the line of the fence between Northey’s land and Venn.
Woodcote Green House indicates changes which were probably made following Northey’s purchase. There is a glasshouse behind the stable and another larger one beside it.
Many of the trees now in the garden or their predecessors are shown, including the three limes in the front, the yew and two sycamores by Chalk Lane, and the group of yews on the south- west boundary.
The current wall on the south-west boundary is shown for the first time but the paths are no longer shown. There is a pillar box where Farrow came to a point.
The number 395 refers to the schedule and 2.438 indicates102 an area in perches
The House
28(a). 1896 Ordnance Survey Map, 25 inches to the mile. 28(b). 1913 Ordnance Survey Map, 25 inches to the Second Edition (surveyed 1886 and revised 1895). mile. 1913 Edition (surveyed 1886, re-levelled 1911, Enlargement showing Woodcote Green House. and revised 1912). Enlargement showing Woodcote Green House. There is less detail and the larger greenhouse has There is a new greenhouse but otherwise virtually no disappeared. The old well in Maund II has reappeared as change from the 1896 map apart from the ground lines a pond. and a slight inset of the back of the house on the south east. The 1932 map is also virtually identical.
28(c). 1952 Ordnance Survey Map, 50 inches to the 28(d). 1961 Ordnance Survey Map, 50 inches to the mile, mile, (surveyed 1952, levelled 1949). Enlargement (revised 1961, levelled 1949). Enlargement showing showing Woodcote Green House. Woodcote Green House. This has less detail but shows the
changes in the 1954 conversion to three properties. There is much more detail showing the changes made No. 1 Woodcote Green House now has a garage next to to the stables by Mrs. Buller, a new green house (which the new electricity sub-station. The stables and “motor still exists) and the back extension. As this is not shown shed” have become Heather Lodge and the wall screening on the 1922 map, it was presumably built later. them from the main house has been used as one wall for its garage.
103
Woodcote Green House
Hayters and Wallpaper By contrast Henry Hayter, who acquired the house in 1707, and his brother, Thomas, who succeeded him in 1717, were gentlemen. Their Wills indicate that both of them, and particularly Thomas, were very well off. It seems reasonable to attribute to Thomas the wall paper behind the panelling in the main bedroom on the first floor. It is still on the bedroom side of the wall which divides the bedroom from the sitting room. It consists of overlapping rectangles of paper pinned to the wall at each corner. Such paper was something of an innovation at the time and costly. It was also dutiable and the sheets bear the duty stamp of George 1. While George I reigned until 1727, the paper is more likely to have been installed shortly after Thomas inherited in 1717.
Whether the Hayters made other changes is uncertain; the coving of all the exposed beams on the first two floors could have been done by either of them, or could be later.
Samuel Smith’s Reconstruction There were extensive changes to the house in the second half of the eighteenth century which will have cost a lot of money. Sometime between the 1755 survey and the 1762 Northey/Daniel exchange, Samuel Smith II acquired the house and he had plenty of money. The listing particulars also indicate that a date in the sixties is appropriate on architectural grounds.
The house was changed from a T to a square with an extension on the east or left side
The most costly change was to install a Chinese Chippendale staircase in the old entrance area behind the study. The passage on the right of the kitchen was roofed and this side of the square completed with a new back door and small room behind the new staircase. The kitchen was given a new door at the back in place of the existing one and the old staircase was removed. To give space for the new staircase and access to the front of the house the corners of the kitchen and study had to be cut off to connect the passages or corridors at the front and back at an angle.
On the east side, the foot of the T was more than filled in by a two storey extension providing a large new room on the ground floor against the left or east wall of the kitchen, and a large new bedroom above. The extension on the east side was either badly joined to the main house, or has subsided, leaving gaps into which you could put a fist. In front of these new rooms were stairs giving servants access along the connecting passage to the main rooms on the first floor and to the garret rooms on the second floor. The staircase in the first floor hall was removed.
At this time also the lower section of the old roof was altered to form the existing mansard roof. It may also have been at the time of these changes to the roof that the wider mullioned and transomed windows at the back of the kitchen were replaced with smaller sash windows.
Access to the large new room on the ground floor of the extension was through a short passage between the kitchen fireplace and the back wall of the house in what is now the larder. The new ground floor room in time became a scullery and is so called in the plans
104
The House
made before the division of the house in 1954. The room may have started life as a kitchen and the present panelled kitchen would then have been a parlour.
Access to the new large back bedroom on the next floor was through a passage from the old existing back bedroom above the ground floor passage.1 There was also a servants’ door to the new bedroom in the extension.
The old back bedroom has a step up from the first floor hall to allow enough height to the kitchen room below. The new bedroom is the same height although the scullery ceiling is higher than the low kitchen ceiling.
The existing sitting room, which had double doors in its back or south wall, may have acquired a servants’ door in the wall of the extension on the left or east.2
An elliptical wooden arch was put in near the head of the stairs in the first floor hall over a similar but not elliptical wooden arch on the ground floor near the foot of the stairs.
The current front entrance, with Doric columns and a fanlight over the door, dates from this time, replacing an earlier door under the niche. Possibly the large wooden mouldings on either side of the back door were also put up then. If there was an entrance on the west side, it disappeared under the new stairs. There is old tiling in a space under the stairs but the reason is not clear.
The study and kitchen were fully panelled with simple bolection design and the entrance passage, ground floor hall, and stairs were half panelled. On the first floor the hall was fully panelled like the ground floor rooms, as was the main bedroom. The wall paper was doubtless now quite demodé.
George Smith’s Changes The next major changes to the house fit architecturally with the start of the nineteenth century. George Smith also had plenty of money and acquired the house from his father’s executors in 1796. It would be natural for him to refurbish it and most of the changes at this time are to the decorations. There is some evidence that George may not have used the most expensive materials. It was not after all his principal residence.
To this date should be attributed the thin Regency sash windows of the front of the house. If the string course and apse were not removed before, they will have been then. The existing rendering is later but there could have been an earlier cement facing. The rococco ceiling of the staircase may also have been installed by George but could be earlier. While the listing particulars describe it as plaster it is in fact papier maché.3
Also at this time the fitted bookcase in the study will have been installed to make the room almost a perfect cube and cut off the triangular section formed by the wall of Samuel Smith’s
1 A blocked up cupboard in the chimney wall of this passage revealed traces of old wallpaper. 2 There are signs of cuts in the skirting wide enough for a door. The plaster above shows no signs of repair but could have been wholly replaced when the door was blocked up. 3 The author spent many hours on his back on scaffolding removing the paint. Unfortunately one end of the ceiling was destroyed by water extinguishing the fire in 1986 and had to be replaced with a copy. The centre and the end towards the window are original.
105
Woodcote Green House
new stairs. There is access to the void through one of the cupboards at the base of the bookcase. The original panelling is still to be seen on the wall behind the bookcase although it has been replaced with new panelling in the rest of the room.
The house has many applied mouldings around fireplaces and door frames. These were identified as Coade by one expert but some doubt has been shed on this.4 Many are simply daisy or shell shapes but the fireplace in the sitting room has a plaque showing the marriage of Cupid and Psyche, flanked by a number of baskets of fruit and foliage on either side. The fireplace in the dining room has a deeply carved wooden surround. It was found to have ‘Mr. Smith’ ( or ‘Mr. Geo Smith’) pencilled on the back, when it was taken off. It fits oddly and may have originally been installed elsewhere. Finally the old back bedroom has a duck nest cast iron fireplace while the study on the ground floor has a reeded cast iron fireplace.
Chairs rails in the main rooms will also date from this or earlier periods, although those now in the dining and sitting rooms are modern replacements of the originals. The original chair rail in the entrance passageway and the ground floor hall has a curious carved expanded zigzag. The design could be Islamic and a reminder of George’s eastern career.
The Nineteenth Century It is unlikely that there were any further significant changes while Mrs. Bevan was tenant and Frances Smith, George’s widow, was life tenant. In 1838, towards the end of this period, the Guardians’ map of Epsom was made. It is the first to show the outline or footprint of Woodcote Green House and of other Epsom properties. It almost certainly shows the outline of the house as George Smith left it - a squareish house with an extension on most of the east side and widow Milton’s stables still standing to the west, quite separate from the house. There is also a small building in the extreme north west corner whose purpose is not known.
By 1850, when the cholera map was produced, the situation had changed radically and it is obvious the Northeys had made improvements. There is an enlarged extension on the east side. This appears from later plans to have been single storied with a pantile roof against the wall of the old extension. In the grounds there are other changes. Widow Milton’s stables and the small building have been demolished and new stables erected behind the house.
The so-called cholera map is in fact a map accompanying the drainage contract for Epsom, which at the time lacked any public sanitation and had a very high death rate. As will be seen from the map there were to be three drains in the front, the two on the east side apparently being for two outside lavatories5 and the third in a curious new square in the corner between the dining room and the extension, under the dining room chimney stack. Perhaps this was for a conservatory. There are also drains from the scullery at the back and from a square in front of the new stables which in 1912 is described as a manure pit. It is not apparent what if any drainage or sanitation was already in the house. One suspects none.
The footprint is unchanged in the 1852 map, but it does show the paths in the garden and a circular front drive with two entrances from the road. Up to some time in the 1970’s, the
4 Miss Alison Kelly, author of the Country Life ‘Fireplace Book’, visited the house in November 1978. She thought the surround of the sitting room fireplace was c.1700 and that the frieze was Coade. She is an expert on Coade items and showed a slide from the original Coade catalogue with the garland motif which was identical to the ones in the frieze. This convinced her it was Coade but two apparently knowledgeable visitors claimed the decorations in the den at least were not Coade. 5 See Addenda, Endnote A.
106
The House
pavement kerb in front of the east side of the house was cut at a 45 degree angle, showing where the second exit was until the conversion to two houses in 1954.
There are no changes to the house shown on the first large scale Ordnance Survey map of 1866 but there are two greenhouses – one attached to the back of the stables and another larger one in the back garden. Trees are also shown in the garden, including three at the front, two of which are presumably the two surviving old limes referred to below. By 1896 the only change apparent is the disappearance of the large greenhouse. The 1913 map is also the same apart from the appearance of a new greenhouse which is now the garage of No. 2.
At some time between the Northey acquisition and the 1954 conversion. the double doors to the large front room on the east side were blocked up (as probably was the servants’ door if it existed). A new door was squeezed into the south west corner of the room to give access from the left side of the upper hall. This room was Mrs. Bevan’s sitting room (and is now again a sitting room), but was for many years a bedroom. and is so recorded in the Domesday valuation referred to below and in the conversion plans. The work was poorly done. The skirting was probably not made good where the doors had been6 and was certainly shaved off by the new door to make space.
It seems probable that this change to the doors took place when the room was converted to a bedroom. The most likely times would be when there were children in the house who would need additional bedrooms. This would fix the change to the 1860’s when Ann Trevelyan and her three children were in occupation or the 1880’s when Charles Bischoff and his three daughters were there.
The Twentieth Century The next innovations were in the time of the Bullers.
On 23rd November, 1909, Epsom Urban District Council approved plans of the architects, Hatchard Smith, for the Rev. E.W.Northey, M.A., J.P.7 The plans were for a new bathroom and lavatory to be built over the existing one floor extension on the north east of the house. The plans show that the ground floor extension contained the two outdoor lavatories in the front and a larder behind. The area behind the pantry marked coals was to remain a single storey with the existing pantile roof.
The attic on this side of the house contains a very odd feature. The gable end of the first extension has been left inside the attic and is still visible with snowcem rendering. The front or north side was simply incorporated in the new higher roof. A further oddity is the drainage. There is a closed square area in the roofs between the original house and the first extension. This is drained by an open zinc funnel passing along the side of the gable within the attic and then turning at right angles to debouch on the front of the house between the old and the new extensions. It floods regularly.
6 In 1973, when the room was last used as a bedroom, there was a fitted wardrobe probably dating from the 1954 conversion, with the skirting cut away. It is possible but unlikely that there was replacement skirting before the wardrobe was installed. 7 Copy plans in author’s possession.
107
Woodcote Green House
Access to the new bathroom will have been along the connecting passage from the principal bedrooms on the other side of the house. This remained the only bathroom in the house until the 1954 conversion when the passage was closed8.
Next, on 16th February, 1912, Messrs Cropley Bros submitted plans ‘for an addition to the stables …for Mrs. E. A Buller’ which were approved later in that month. There was to be an extension on one side of the stables to make them deep enough for a car. At the same time the yard was to be paved and drains installed. Looking from Chalk Lane there were to be stables on the left, a coach house in the middle, and a rather charmingly named ‘motor shed’ on the right. 9
The Lloyd George Domesday or valuation was made pursuant to the 1909-10 Finance Act. The value of every property in the land as at 30th April, 1909 was assessed so that increases in the site value could be taxed. Valuations were made from 1910 to 1915 after which the project was abandoned
The valuation for Woodcote Green House gives a detailed description of the property and refers both to the additional bathroom and also to the stables, which it says were extended about three years before.A From this it appears that the valuation dates from 1915.10 However neither the 1913 nor the 1932 Ordnance Survey maps show any change to the stables (or indeed to the house, as the 2nd floor extension did not affect the footprint); the extension to the stables was perhaps too small to be noticed.
Nina Buller died in September 1931 and her daughter was left in occupation.
A copy survives11 of a rating valuation showing D. Buller is tenant and Major General Northey as owner.B . This dates it to between 1931 and 1936 after Nina’s death and before the Major General gave the house to his son in 1936. The valuation records the functions and sizes of the various rooms including a pantry. This must have been beyond the stairs on the opposite side of the passage from the kitchen. The cellar is called a wine cellar. There is no lavatory noted on the ground floor, although Mrs Buller’s two outside lavatories were still there. There is a heated greenhouse which is now the garage of No. 2. Woodcote Green House.
Of most interest in the valuation is the reference to an additional bedroom with a bay and, under ‘Outbuildings’, to a loggia. This refers to an extension at the back on the right or south west corner of the house which is built out on rounded brick pillars. This is the loggia. On the first floor above, what was previously a boxroom was converted into a pleasant bedroom or sitting room with a bay window and an attic over. This extension was built after the Domesday valuation of 1915, and almost certainly after 1931, when Dorothy took over the tenancy following her mother’s death. It may also have been at this time that the pantry was converted to a lavatory with a cloakroom behind. The rating valuation was probably made necessary by these additions and changes.
8 Letter, dated 28th January, 1954, from R.J. Garman to Epsom and Ewell Borough Council, of which a copy is in the author’s possession. 9 Copy plans in author's possession. See illustrations 27 and 28 after page 84. 10.N.A. (Kew): IR58/80987 (Map No. XIX-5-S and Reference No.3095). See Addenda, Endnote A. 11. Copy plans in author's possession.
108
The House
It is probable that the next alterations were made in 1954 at the time of the conversion; the plans of that date do not show that any further changes had been made since the rating valuation. As a result of the conversion. the east extension became a separate property (No. 2 Woodcote Green House). Its bathroom was much reduced in size and a small bedroom created behind it. On the ground floor a new front door to the hall was inserted in the front wall and one of the two adjoining outdoor lavatories made internal. Probably at this time the parquet floor in the former scullery was laid for what was to be the sitting room. The kitchen was at the back with a dining room in front between it and the lavatories. At some later time (probably
when the Paices came in 1971) the ground floor was reconfigured to its present plan with the kitchen in front of the dining room and the hall, stairs and sitting room made virtually open plan. The original outline of a passage and cupboard (on what is now part of the east side of the sitting room) is marked by lines of parquet blocks placed at right angles to the rest of the floor.
The plans for the 1954 conversion show few changes proposed for the other side of the house which was to become No. 1. The connections between the two properties were to be blocked up, the pantry converted into a lavatory and cloak room, and a new bathroom made by dividing up the old back bedroom. This was cheaply done with an unsuitable modern door inserted in the old panelling of the first floor hall, and a flimsy partition built to divide off the remains of the bedroom
The plans show no change proposed to the attic stairs from the first floor passage between No. 1 and No. 2. They must however have been very steep. It seems probable that the building inspector required them to be made less dangerous by reducing the height of each step and creating a small platform, where the passage is blocked up, with three new steps down from the platform to the floor of the passage. This is the arrangement today. The changes to the stairs are indicated by uneven skirting.
Finally the old loose box, coach house, and motor shed were greatly changed and became a bungalow (Heather Lodge). A garage was made for the new property, incorporating an old dividing wall. The present garage of No. 1 was built in the north west corner of its grounds and, for No.1 and No.2, pedestrian entrances, with iron gates between brick pillars, replaced the east entrance to the circular drive.
Few changes have been made by the present owners who have concentrated on renovation. The rotten wooden parapet on the front of the house was replaced with concrete and the trompe l'oeil painting of a window placed where the alcove was. A bathroom which had replaced the cloak room on the ground floor was in turn replaced with a utility room, and a small room was opened up under the stairs. A connecting door has been inserted between the kitchen and the dining room and the kitchen completely renovated, while preserving the panelling. Chair rails have been put back in the dining room and sitting room. On the first floor, an old fireplace has been put into the main bedroom and the bathroom renovated. On the second floor there have been changes. In 1983 a new bathroom was inserted in part of the attic over the staircase. This involved reducing the size of the smallest of the top floor bedrooms at the back of the house. An additional window was also put into the east front attic bedroom.
109
Woodcote Green House
In December, 1986, as already noted, there was a bad fire caused by roofers leaving burning items on the roof. The unusual roofing and struts between the attic of the original house and the attic above Samuel Smith II’s extension were lost. Part of the ceiling of the staircase was destroyed by water. In the renovation the large west front attic room was enlarged by removing the partitions which marked the point where the original staircase had been, skylights were inserted in the roof, and a copy of the missing part of the staircase ceiling was put up.
In 2004, the old skirting central heating, probably dating from the 1954 conversion, was removed. It was replaced with new wooden skirting matching the old skirting which had survived. Underfloor central heating was installed in the principal rooms.
The Garden and Outbuildings Maps give a good impression of the changes from the second quarter of the nineteenth century onwards, and the various extensions and the coming and going of outbuildings can be noted. Oddly none (apart possibly from the 1866 Ordnance Survey map) show the old wall on the west which must mark the boundary with the Northey estate
The path to the south west corner of the garden, which is shown on the earlier maps, is gone. The last remaining section was grassed over by the current owners when the present brick paths were put down. In 1993, the present wall replaced the fence of No. 1 with brick pillars at the garage entrance, matching those installed at the pedestrian entrances in the 1954 conversion. In 2006, the front area was paved.
There is an old apple tree and an old wistaria both of which must date from Buller days and some very large yews which must date from much earlier. Fronting the road are two old lime trees now each divided into three. They are kept polled, as Mr. Marshall told us they had been in Buller days; could they have been successors to those marking the way to the wells in the eighteenth century?12 There were also three large and beautiful copper beech trees of great age. These have now been lost - the first from some disease in 1977, the next in the Great Storm of 1987 and the last from a freak gust of wind in 1995. It is to be hoped that their replacements will give pleasure in two hundred years time.
12 See Home, p.62.
110 The House
ADDENDA
A DOMESDAY VALUATION (?1915) - N.A. (Kew): IR58/80987 (Reference No.3095). An old fashioned house of brick (18” walls) tiled roof – part r.c. [re-covered]. 3 dormer windows in front. Modern drainage – The [foregoing erased] accommodation stated here is as at present but since 30/4/1909 the side addition on N.E has been built up so as to add to 1st F [Floor] the bath w.c. & airing cupboard: all in brick with tiled roof. Contains: - Narrow Hall -[front D erased] two sitting rooms in front both facing N.W. (D & M) [Dining and Morning], from back hall – Lav & w.c. P-K (large) [Pantry-Kitchen] – S [Scullery](large) – Larder & Coal cellar off scullery (both in additions of brick) Cellar – 2 outside w.c.’s: 2nd stairs lead from Scullery to 1st F [Floor] & at N.E. end over offices are 1 back bedroom – bathroom with lav basin – w.c. [ar erased] airing cupboard: passage leads to main landing from which are back bedroom over K [Kitchen]; Dr [?Dressing room] in front (N.W) over D [?Downstairs] Hall: 1 front bed over M [Morning Room]– Store over P.[Pantry] – 2nd F. 3 attic bedrooms – (all have sloping ceilings, boxroom off 1 of them – 1 no f.p.). [fire place]. In good repair. Ground behind house as k.g.[kitchen garden] Lawn on S.W. Stabling – one storey brick slated – C.H. [Coach House] (extended about 3 years ago for car floor tiled roof boarded portable stove put in) – Yard (cemented about 3 years ago) – 2nd C.H. [Coach House] – 1 box- In gardens – modern span roof greenhouse – heated in good order – old lean to greenhouse behind stable. A place of some character but aspect of principal rooms is great drawback.
B THE VALUATION DATED BETWEEN 1931 AND 1936 - (copy in author’s possession). Woodcote Green House Woodcote Green Rd, [Chalk Lane erased] Asst. No. 684
Occupier Buller, D Owner Northey, Maj. Gen Sir Ed Tenancy Repairs (1) Ten Repairs (E) Ten Rates Ten Description of Property House & Grounds LAND - Frontage 180' Depth 160' Particulars Grounds BUILDING - Construction Brick stucco tiled Age Old State of Repair Fair Detached
Floor Accommodation Ft. Ft. Sq. ft. Heating Lighting Ground Recep 12.9 x 16.9 213 / Gas " 14.6 x 17.9 256 / Kitchen 15 x 17.9 - 15 252 / Scullery 18 x 11.3 202 x Larder Pantry Wine cellar Coals Store
111 Woodcote Green House
Store First Bdroom 15 x 17.9 207 / " 12.9 x 15.3 195 / " 16.6 x 19 314 / " 16.6 x 15 247 x " 14.3 x 14.3 203 / Bay 6.3 x 3 19 / Bath & WC
Second Bedroom 11 x 11.6 126 / " 14.6 x 12.6 181 / " 21.3 x 13.6 289 / 2764
OUTBUILDINGS Garage - construction Brick Size (inside) 9.6 x 18
Loggia Other - heated greenhouse 11 . x15 Coach house . Loose box . small lean-to . greenhouse
Water 00's Drainage main Road fair
112 The House
29(a). Plan for new bathroom and lavatory: side elevation. 29(b). Plan for new bathroom and lavatory: front elevation.
29(c). Plan for new bathroom and lavatory: ground 29(d). Plan for new bathroom and lavatory: 1st floor. floor.
113 Woodcote Green House
30. Plan for Mrs. Buller’s Motor Shed.
114 The House
31. 1954 Conversion Plans (1): Ground Floor.
115 Woodcote Green House
31. 1954 Conversion Plans (1): Ground Floor.
bbbbbbb
32. 1954 Conversion Plans (2): First Floor.
116
The House
32. 1954 Conversion Plans (2): First Floor.
33. 1954 Conversion Plans (3): Boundaries.
117
Woodcote Green House
33. 1954 Conversion Plans (3): Boundaries
33. 1954 Conversion Plans (3): Boundaries.
34. 1954 Conversion Plans (4): Bungalow and Garage (latter not built as planned using existing wall).
118
119
Other Woodcote Houses
120
PART TWO
OTHER WOODCOTE HOUSES
121
Other Woodcote Houses
1
2 1 3 4 2 9 3 9 45
6 8 5 8 6
7 10
7 10
13 14
12
1. Farrow Main buildings on 1866 2. Woodcote Green House (i.e. Milton) map 3. Maund II
4. Maund I Ponds or wells on 18665. Ellicar or earlier I maps 6. Ellicar II 7. Venn Outline of
John Maund’s8. John holding Maund’s with orchard, then the widow Elliot’s orchard, and then the gardens of Maund I double lines for possible line(Betts)) of fence and Maund II (Foster) 9. Dendy’s orchard and, subsequently, possibly the Farrow orch ard Outline of ind 10. 1½ acres of customary land of Maidstone house 11. The old line of Worple Road 12. Snellings, now 65 Pine Hill 13. Clay Lane running from Crockingham Corner (by Snellings) to Woodcote Green 14. Northey cottage, possibly once Hilliards
35. 1886 Ordnance Survey map with old Woodcote Green houses and other features superimposed.
Outline of 10 122 Lost and Found – other Woodcote houses
Chapter 7: LOST AND FOUND – OTHER WOODCOTE GREEN HOUSES
The Maund Estate Of the properties left by John Maund in his Will, that left to his daughter and occupied by the widow, Mrs. Milton (or Melton), is identified in Chapter 5 as Woodcote Green House. In this chapter it is also referred to as Milton. The identification is partly based on the fact that Maund’s other properties, and those built on his land after his death, are accounted for and that none of them can be Woodcote Green House. In Chapter 8, on Woodcote Place and the White House, it is also shown that the White House cannot have been Woodcote Green House.
The 1680 Survey shows that John Maund owned three freehold properties in the square by Woodcote Green and that they were occupied by John Venn, the widow Milton, and himself, respectively. By the date of his Will,1 he had added two more - a house between his own and ‘Mrs. Stevens’ coach house which he left to his wife for life, and a house occupied by Mr. Farrow. In addition he had a parcel of grass land adjoining his own house. It was almost certainly this land that his daughter leased as a building plot to Daniel Ellicar after his death and on which Ellicar built two more houses.
These houses are named in this chapter after their occupiers – Venn, Milton, Maund I, Maund II, Farrow, Ellicar I, and Ellicar II. The only survivor is Milton or Woodcote Green House.
Location of Hilman properties The location of Farrow, Milton, Maund I, and Maund II, on a line fronting Woodcote Green Road from east to west is clear but the location of Venn and the Ellicar plot is harder to determine; the solution proposed is, however, consistent with the evidence, provided it is accepted that the orchard occupied by the widow Elliott in 1696 was that of Maund I, as explained below.
Farrow fronted Chalk Lane to the north west of Milton, mainly occupying a piece of land now incorporated into the junction of Woodcote Road, Woodcote Green Road and Chalk Lane. Milton as stated is Woodcote Green House with ‘Mrs. Stevens’ coach house on its west side followed by Maund II, and then Maund 1 with its orchard behind it. The Ellicar plot came next with Venn behind or to the south east of it.
Ellicar 2 On 26th June, 1687, only three months after proving her father’s Will, Sarah Holland, widow of Epsom and sole heir and daughter of John Maund, executed an indenture of Lease3 to Daniel Ellicar, bricklayer of Epsom, of a piece of her Close4 bounded by Venn’s tenement and
1 24th December, 1686. See Endnote B in the Addenda to Chapter 5. 2 Also Ellecar, and Elliker 3 “1687 Lease” i.e. Lease dated 26th June, 1687 between Sarah Holland (1) and Daniel Ellicar (2) – S.H.C.: 2238/10/93. 4The description of the property in the lease reads: “all that south parcel or piece of her Close as the same is now staked out and is to be divided with a good oaken five foot pale …. Lying and being in Ebbisham aforesaid in that part thereof commonly called Woodcott Green, bounded by the Tenement and Ground in the tenure of John Venn or his Assigns on the south East and the orchard of the Widow Elliot alias Lancashire on the north East, the Tenement and Ground belonging to and in the occupation of the said Sarah Holland on the North West parts”. 123 Other Woodcote Houses
Ground on the South east, by the orchard of widow Elliot alias Lancashire on the North East, and by the Tenement and Ground of Sarah Holland on the North West. No additional house except that with foundations already sunk is to be built within forty feet of the fence of Sarah Holland’s late5 house.
The Maund properties in the 1680 survey include only two orchards – one for Venn and the other for John Maund’s own property, which was not then divided into Maund I and Maund II. Milton had no orchard and it seems therefore that the widow Elliott, who occupied Milton in 1687, leased all or part of John Maund’s former orchard in addition to Milton.
The suggested location for the Ellicar plot is shown on the map at the beginning of this Chapter. The plot is assumed to be an irregular L, placed behind and to the west of Maund I, with a short frontage on what is now Woodcote Green Road. Venn then lies to the south east of the Ellicar plot.
Fencing It is clear from the Deeds that Sir Edward Northey lost no time in improving his property following its acquisition in 1695.
By a Lease and Release dated 18th and 19th September, 1696, (the first of the “1696 & 1699 Fencing Leases”)6 Sarah Holland leased to him a strip of land in the occupation of John Venn, lying northward of Northey’s yard and field.7 Then on 16th March
The lease is for 51 years running from the last midsummer day (i.e. from 21st June, five days earlier) at 40/- per annum, and contains a covenant by Ellicar to spend £200 building on the parcel of land within 5 years; to fence between the house and the ground of John Venn; and that he: “shal not at any time hereafter during the term hereby granted erect or set up any manner of building beside that house designed upon the foundation already sank for that purpose within Forty Feet of the Fence which divides the Ground belonging to the late house of the said Mistress Holland and the said Ground hereby demised” Witnesses: Henry Whistler: John Venn: John Dundass Senr.
The use of the word ‘Close’ suggests quite a large area of land. The plot will be part of the ‘peece or parcell of grass ground’ behind John Maund’s house referred to in his Will. See Endnote B in the Addenda to Chapter 5. In 1715 Daniel Ellicar was one of the three lessees to whom a lease of the old wells on Epsom Common was granted or renewed (Home, p.60.) 5 ‘late’ suggests that Sarah had left Maund I, perhaps after her father’s death. In 1707, after she had remarried, Sarah and her new husband Daniel Hilman were not occupying any of the properties; perhaps they had moved into a house of Daniel’s elsewhere. Then, after Sarah’s mother, Dorothy, died, they must have moved into Maund II, since the 1740 Lease and Release states that it is occupied by Daniel and the 1746 Fine Deed states that it was formerly occupied by Mrs. Hilman. 6 “1696 & 1699 Fencing Leases” –i.e. Lease and Release dated 18th and 19th September, 1696 and Lease dated 16th March, 1699[/1700], between Sarah Holland (1) and Sir Edward Northey (2) – S.H.C.: 3696/Boxes 3, 4, and 20. 7 The description of the ground demised is as follows: Small piece or slip of Ground in the occupation of John Venn the greatest part whereof is a Bank Ditch and fence lying Northward from the Yard and Field of the said Edward Northey extending from West to East in a Straight line reckoning from the Second tree from the West End of the Fence between the said Edward Northey and Sarah Holland 58 foot and thence with a break from South to North in a Straight line 24 foot and from thence in a Straight line from West to East 238 foot as the same is now staked out and intended to be inclosed by the said Edward Northey.
Northey undertakes to make and maintain and ‘keep a sufficient fence on the said hereby granted premises next the other Ground of the said Sarah Holland’ and also to ‘convey away the water from the Dytch lying between the Orchard of the said Sarah Holland now in the occupation of the said John Venn and the Field of the said Edward Northey’. Northey pays 10 ‘Guinneys’.
124
Lost and Found – other Woodcote houses
1699[/1700] (the second of the “1696 & 1699 Fencing Leases”), Sarah granted Northey a lease for 500 years of a strip of property, lately part of the Orchard and ground of Sarah Holland, in the occupation of John Venn, lying Northward from the field of the said Edward Northey.8
The two conveyances appear to relate to the same strip of land being part of the orchard let to John Venn.A
Seven Hilman Properties on or near Woodcote Green A Deed in contemplation of a Fine was entered into on 26th February, 1706[/7] by Daniell Hilman of Epsom, gent. and Sarah his wife.9 The Deed recites three earlier mortgages of 4th and 5th May, 1698, 6th and 7th May, 1698 and 19th October, 1699, giving a list of the properties involved.B In the 1699 Deed, Sarah is described as Sarah Holland widow, and so must have remarried by 1706[/7].
On 26th and 27th August, 1707, by the 1707 Lease and Release or ‘indenture sextipartite’, the Hilmans sold some and mortgaged the rest of their properties.10
The Release recites that Sarah Hilman is seized in fee of nine properties of which seven have houses built on them and have already been identified by the names of occupiers as Venn, Ellicar 1, Ellicar II, Maund I, Farrow, Milton, and Maund II. The 1706[/7] Fine Deed states that Venn is on the side of Woodcote Green ‘now or late’ in the occupation of John Venn; and recites the first 1698 mortgage describing the property as a
“Messuage or Tenement with the yards gardens Orchards ground and appurtenances to the same now or lately belonging being on the South side of Woodcott Green then in the occupation of John Venn”
The 1707 Lease and Release refers to the other messuages as being on the ‘said side’ of Woodcote Green. They were therefore all on the south side of and ‘upon or near’ Woodcote Green.11
8 The parcels are described as: a small piece or slip of ground late parcel of or belonging to the Orchard and ground of the said Sarah Holland now in the occupation of John Venn and containing by estimation in length 10¼ Rodd and in breadth 4 feet the greatest part of which said slip of ground late was a Bank Ditch or Fence lying Northward from the field of the said Edward Northey and extending from West to East in a Straight line as the same is now laid to the said field of the said Edward Northey and inclosed to the same with an Oaken pale five foot high. The consideration is Northey having set up and undertaking to maintain the oaken fence and pale and having paid 5/-. The rent is a peppercorn. Northey undertakes to maintain a ‘sufficient fence of Oaken or Deale Pales or of Bricks five foot high at the least’. 9 “1707 Fine Deed” i.e. A Deed in contemplation of a Fine dated 26th February, 1706[/7] between Daniel Hilman and Sarah his wife (1) James Cutler (2) and Philip Constable (3). 10 The parties to the “1707 Lease and Release” are: Daniel Hilman of Ebbisham gent and Sarah his wife sole daughter and heir of John Maund sometime of Wapping in the County of Middlesex mariner deceased & Philip Constable citizen and tallow chandler of London (1) James Cutler citizen and painter stainer of London (2) Sir Edward Northey of Middle Temple Knight (3) Daniel Ellicar of Epsom bricklayer (4) John Wrench of Epsom carpenter (5) and William Lany of Middle Temple gent (6). Constable is the trustee for the Hilmans, Northey is purchaser and trustee, Cutler is the surviving previous mortgagee, while Lany is trustee for Northey, the new mortgagee. Wrench purchases the Venn lands for £110. 11 This is confirmed in other deeds such as the 1740 Lease and Release and the 1740[/41] Lease and Release. which describe Farrow, Maund I, and Maund II as being on the south side of the Green and by the 1757 Deeds of Exchange which similarly describe Farrow. 125 Other Woodcote Houses
Venn Venn is described in the 1707 Lease and Release as a: “Messuage or Tenement with the yards gardens Orchards ground and appurtenances to the same now or lately belonging being on the side of Woodcott Green part whereof is laid into the Gardens and yard of Sir Edward Northey12 adjoyning thereto and the residue thereof is in the occupation of John Venn Yeoman”.13 C With Venn went the other two properties, Kings Close and Venn’s Common fields.D
The Ellicar Plot In describing the Ellicar plot, the 1706[/7] Fine Deed simply refers to all that piece or parcel of ground now or late in the possession of Daniell Elliker or his Assigns.
Ellicar I and Ellicar II are described in the 1707 Lease and Release as: “Two Messuages or Tenements with the Courts gardens grounds and buildings thereunto belonging now in the occupation of the said Daniel Ellecar or his undertenants which said last recited messuages and buildings were erected upon a parcell of ground and demised to him by Sarah….” The lease of 26th June, 1687 is then recited.
The Hilmans’ interest in this property was of course subject to the lease to Daniel Ellicar, who had built the two houses on the site. Thus, on 2nd September, 1707, (before the Hilmans sold him the reversion) Daniel Ellicar, bricklayer of Epsom, mortgaged two messuages, in the several tenures or occupations of Daniel Ellicar and William Betts gent., to William Wright for £150.14
Maund I The 1706[/7] Fine Deed describes Maund I as heretofore in the occupation of Rebecca Franklyn and now of John Hoskyns and recites the first 1698 mortgage, describing it as a: “Messuage with the Appurtenances then in the possession of Rebecca ffranklyn”.
The 1707 Lease and Release describes it as a: “Messuage …. in the …occupation of John Hoskyns…. being on the said side of Woodcott Green”.15
Farrow The 1706[/7] Fine Deed describes Farrow as in the occupation of William Farrow or his Assigns and recites the second 1698 mortgage describing it as a: “Messuage near Woodcott Green with Barnes Stables Outhouse and Appurtenances thereunto belonging then in the tenure of William ffarrow or his Assigns”.
12 It was a yard and field in the first of the 1696 and 1699 Fencing Leases and a field in the second. It may be significant that the 1707 Lease and Release refers to the part of Venn in Northey’s garden. It suggests Northey may not have been confident of the effect of the 1696 and 1699 Fencing Leases and wanted a clear statement that he was acquiring the whole of the original Venn holding. 13 John Venn’s wife, Elizabeth, was probably his second wife. She died in 1711. In his Will of 1686, John Maund leaves money to his sister’s daughter, Margaret Fenn, but not to his sister. This suggests his sister was a deceased wife of John Venn.,. 14 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5. See Addenda, Endnote F for problems over an earlier mortgage. 15 The full description of this and of the other properties in the 1707 Lease and Release is: ‘four other Messuages and Tenements with the outhouses and grounds thereunto belonging and therewith enjoyed in the several occupations of John Hoskyns William ffarrow, William Tigg and Dorothy Maund mother of Sarah Hilman or their undertenants situate and being on the said side of Woodcott Green’.
126
Lost and Found – other Woodcote houses
The property is described in the 1707 Lease and Release as a: “Messuage …. in the …occupation of William Farrow…. being on the said side of Woodcott Green”.
It should be noted that no orchard is mentioned at this time.
Milton Milton or Woodcote Green House is shown in Chapter 5 to have been occupied successively by the widow Melton, the widow Elliott, and William Tigg and was a messuage with barn, stable, outhouses and appurtenances.
Maund II The 1706[/7] Fine Deed describes Maund II as a Messuage now or late in the tenure or occupation of Dorothy Maund, widow, Mother of Sarah. Dorothy’s life interest is excluded from the subsequent mortgage.
The property is described in the 1707 Lease and Release as a: “Messuage with the Appurtenances now or late in the tenure or Occupation of Dorothy Maund widdow mother of the said Sarah…. being on the said side of Woodcott Green”.
Other properties Finally the 1706[/7] Fine Deed includes all other Hilman properties in Epsom including six other cottages, fifteen acres of land and four acres of pasture and common of pasture.
By the 1707 Lease and Release, the Hilmans sell Venn to Northey for £250 and the reversion of Ellicar I and Ellicar II to Daniel Ellicar.16 Northey then pays off the balance of the mortgage leaving the Hillmans with Farrow, Milton, Maund I, and Maund II.
Next, on 30th and 31st October, 1710, comes a Lease and Release by way of mortgage.17 It explains that Dorothy Maund is now dead and that by a tripartite deed dated 8th August,
16 The Mortgage was for £760 and is for all or a great part of these properties which were conveyed to James Cutler on 26th February, 1706 by a fine. £782-15-0 is now due. It is agreed: 1. The Hilmans will sell to Northey for £250 the Messuage and yard, gardens, orchard, ground & appurtenances on the side of Woodcott Green part whereof is laid into the yards and gardens of Northey adjoining thereto and the residue is in the occupation of John Venn. 2. The Hilmans will sell for £150 to Daniel Ellecar the two Messuages with the courts gardens grounds and buildings belonging thereto now in the occupation of Daniel Ellecar or his undertenants. 3. Hilman will sell to John Wrench for £110 King’s Close and the 12 acres on the Common. Northey advances £274-4-0, being the residue due to James Cutler, and lends the Hilmans the further sum of £6, on the security of the properties which are not being sold. William Lany pays 5/- to Cutler. He is in possession of the properties as trustee by virtue of a lease for one year dated the preceding day. There is a prior trust to indemnify against claimants under the Will of John Maund. Good title is warranted, subject to the rights of Dorothy Maund under her husband’s Will. Repayment sums of £294-4-0 and £280-4-0 are both stated. 17 “1710 Lease and Release” - S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6. The parties are: 1. Daniel Hilman gent of Epsom and Sarah his wife and Philip Constable citizen and tallow chandler of London 2. Sir Edward Northey kt. of Middle Temple; and 3. William Betts esq of London and William Lany gent of Middle Temple. The Deed recites the 1707 Lease & Release and a tripartite deed of 18th January, 1707[/8] between the Hilmans and Constable (1) Northey, Ellicar and Wrench (2) and Henry Hayter of London gentleman (3), from which it appears: 1. Hayter bought the Messuage occupied by William Tigg [i.e. Milton or Woodcote Green House]. 127 Other Woodcote Houses
1707[/08], Henry Hayter of London Gentleman bought the Milton property then occupied by William Tigg. The remaining three properties (Maund II, Farrow and Maund I) are released by Northey and re-mortgaged to William Betts esq., of London in return for Betts repaying Northey the £274 due and lending Daniel Hilman £300.18
Daniel Hilman died between 15th July, 1717, when he executed his Will, and 18th October, 1717, when it was proved by the twice widowed Sarah, who inherited.E
William Betts acquires Ellicar I and Ellicar II William Betts, having become mortgagee of the three remaining Hilman properties in 1710, was to acquire the Ellicar properties twenty years later.
Daniel Ellicar died between 15 March, 1710[/11], when he executed his Will, and 21st October, 1711, when his death was recorded in the Court Roll.
In his Will,19 Daniel left his house in Epsom (in which Daniel Lashford lived), with the appurtenances, to be sold to pay his debts and particularly to clear the mortgage on his freehold estate in Woodcote Green.20 At least by 1717 both Ellicar I and Ellicar II were in Betts’ tenure.21
On 3rd November, 1730, Thomas Harris acquired the two Ellicar houses and the remainder of Ellicar’s estate which was unsold. On the following 24th March, 1730[/1], Robert Parker junior instructed William Betts to pay the rent on both properties to him. Betts was in possession of both houses although one (presumably Ellicar II) had previously been occupied by Samuell Bolton. Two memoranda record the assignment of these properties; the first of of 23rd June, 1731, by Harris to Parker, and the second, probably made on 26th July, 1731, by Parker to Betts, for £10.22
2. All agree that the three other messuages will remain with Northey for Dorothy’s life in trust for the Hilmans (subject to the primary trust to indemnify for challenges to the Will of John Maund) and on Dorothy’s death will be conveyed to Constable in trust for the Hilmans. Northey has been repaid £274 due and Betts has agreed to lend Daniel Hilman £300 on security of the remaining properties. Northey is directed to convey to Betts and Lany the 3 messuages etc. occupied by William Ferrer (Farrow), Daniel Hilman (Maund II), and John Hoskyns (Maund I), on the side of Woodcott Green. The Redemption value is £307-10. 18 On 9th September, 1727 Sarah Hilman, now again a widow, borrowed from Betts an additional £100 on this security (S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6 - endorsement on the 1710 Lease and Release. 19 Lehmann 13B1, N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/523/206. A note of debts states he died on 15th March, 1710 but as this is the date of his Will it is unreliable (S.H.C.: 2238/10/45/14). 20 In his Will, Daniel appointed his good friends, James Willmott of Epsom, butcher, and John Maynard of Epsom, yeoman, as his executors. He conveyed all his property to them as trustees (S.H.C.: 2238/10/79). Daniel ordered his house in Epsom in which Daniel Lashford lived to be sold principally to clear his mortgage on his freehold estate in Woodcote Green. Daniel Lashford is a member of the homage of the Court Baron of Epsom Manor on 15th October, 1685 and was elected Constable for Woodcote at the Court Leet on 13th October, 1692. Daniel Ellicar gave his wife £15 per annum until sale of the house in which Lashford lived, and £20 per annum after the sale, with the remainder of his estate to be used to bring up his three daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, and Ann. 21 In an Assignment to Attend the Inheritance dated 5th December, 1717, William Wright of Epsom, gent. assigned his mortgage of Ellicar I and Ellicar II, described as formerly in the tenure of Ellicar and Betts, now of Betts, to Adam Willmott of Epsom, butcher. Mary Willmott, widow of James senior, is also a party, as executrix of Daniel Ellicar’s Will. Adam is the brother of James. James did have a son who was called Adam but he was dead when the mortgage was assigned by Adam Willmott in 1731 (S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5). 22 S.H.C.: 2238/10/45/20: 3rd November, 1730 and 23rd June, 1731: Memorandum of sale of two houses in Epsom in possession of Wm. Betts and of all the Estate of Daniel Ellicar remaining unsold to Tho: Harris for £450 with Harris’s assignment of the agreement to Mr. Robert Parker jun.
128
Lost and Found – other Woodcote houses
There were disputes over the estate of Daniel Ellicar which were only settled in 1731 after the death of his wife Sarah. A varied bundle of legal papers and accounts, together with numerous deeds, survives among the Northey papers from which the descent of Ellicar’s houses can be traced.23 These papers include both the original Ellicar lease and a copy of Ellicar’s Will made on 3rd June, 1731 by Wm. Cranston who appears to have been one of the lawyers involved.24 Sarah Ellicar’s Will is dated 7th November, 1727.25 In it she appoints her daughter Mary, and Mary’s husband William Watson, executors and leaves them the arrears of her rent charge if a dispute relating to it is not settled before her death.
An undated note among the papers probably describes the two houses as follows: “2 Houses one £50. Ye same furnished a Garden Stable Coach house Brewhouse & Workhouse One £11 unfurnished”.26
Formal deeds then record that Robert Parker of Epsom, brewer, as Trustee for William Betts, paid off the mortgage and purchased the two Ellicar properties (both of which Betts is again described as occupying).F The vendors were the three widowed husbands of Daniel Ellicar’s three deceased daughters. This makes it clear that Mary Watson had died since 1727 when Sarah Ellicar executed her Will and appointed her as one of her executors.
Hilman and Ellicar Properties reunited On 28th January,1727[/8], ‘Sarah Hillman of the parishe of Epsome’ executed her Will but it was not proved until 13th September, 1734. In it she appointed ‘my good friends William Betts of Epsome Esqr and Mr. Robert Parker of the same Town Senr.’ executors and trustees, and
left the bulk of her property equally to her residuary legatees, Elizabeth Baylis,27 Alice Horne (at 21), and Mary Hornesby.28 G It seems that Elizabeth Bayliss was the only one of the residuary legatees to survive Sarah Hillman, since she is named in the 1733[/34] Lease and Release29 as heiress at law of Sarah Hilman of Epsom deceased, only daughter of Captain Maund of Epsom (an upgrade from
S.H.C.: 2238/10/45/25: 24th March, 1730[/1]: Robt Parker Jun. to Mr. Betts instructing him to pay him rent for the house he lives in which Parker has purchased along with the next house to it late in the occupation of Samuell Bolton and now in Betts possession. S.H.C.: 2238/10/45/28: 26th July [‘July’ erased] 1731 Assignment for £10 by Robert Parker. to Willm Betts of the two houses assigned to Parker by Tho Harris. 23 John Maynard’s death was reported in the Court Roll of 21st October 1711 (Lehmann 2B24). James Willmott’s Will dated 4th December, 1716, in which he appointed his brother Adam executor, was proved on 6th February, 1716/17 (S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5). His death was reported on the Court Roll of 23rd March, 1716/7 (Lehmann 4B14 wrongly states 23rd May). On 26th May, 1725, the death of Adam Willmott, the eldest son of James Willmott, was reported in the Court Roll and his brother James was admitted. He was a minor, so his mother Mary was appointed guardian. The Will of Mary Wilmott is dated 23rd January, 1729[/30]. She leaves her son James the house she is occupying (which could be one of the Ellicar houses) and appoints her two daughters as her executors (S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5). 24 S.H.C.: 2238/10/45/1-33 25 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5. 26 S.H.C.: 2238/10/45/16 27 So spelt in the Will but normally Bayliss in Deeds. 28 William Farrow and Eliz. Farrow are two of the witnesses. This suggests they were still in occupation of Farrow. The Will of William Farrow of Epsom yeoman, dated 6th October, 1729, was proved on 21st January, 1730. He leaves a freehold estate in Epsom, in the occupation of Thomas Baismore, to Robert Wood of Epsom, baker, but this is not Farrow as he did not own the freehold (L.M.A.: DW/PA/5/173 – Archdeaconry of Surrey, Diocese of Winchester). 29 “1733[/34] Lease and Release” i.e. Lease and Release dated 24th and 25th February, 1733[/4] (7 Geo II i.e. 1734) between Elizabeth Bayliss (1) and Charles Holland (2). 129 Other Woodcote Houses
mariner in the 1707 Lease and Release). Elizabeth is a widow of ‘Eye Herefords’ 30. In the Deeds, she conveys to Charles Holland gent of Cleobury Mortimer, Salop: “all those three several messuages plus stable coach houses outhouse building gardens and orchards thereto belonging plus one coach house adjoining one of the aforesaid messuages” now in the possession of William Betts esq, - - - Foster and Widow Stephens [i.e. Maund II, Maund I and Farrow]31 in or near a place called Woodcott otherwise Woodcott Green; and one messuage in Aldermanbury.
William Betts died after he finally cleared his title to the Ellicar properties and probate of his Will dated 20th October, 1737 was granted on 17th March, 1737[/8] to his heirs and executors, John Manly esq. and Mr. John Robins. Betts left a number of pecuniary legacies including £100 for William Daniel, formerly his servant.32
On 13th May, 1740, Charles Holland, at the direction of Daniel Bayliss, released the three Hilman properties jointly to Daniel’s mother, Ann Bayliss of Eye, Hereford. and to Daniel. Ann Bayliss is the widow of John Bayliss Gent, of Hereford deceased, the son and heir apparent of Elizabeth Bayliss, late of Eye, Hereford, widow deceased (who inherited the properties from
Sarah Hillman). Daniel Bayliss is a shoemaker, the son of John and Ann Bayliss, and heir to Elizabeth Baylis.
On the following 2nd and 3rd November, Ann Bayliss (now of Tenbury Worcester33) and Daniel Bayliss (also of Tenbury, shoemaker) by the 1740 Lease and Release,34 convey the equity of redemption in the Hilman properties to James Oliver of St. Ann’s Westminster, chandler. The
30 It appears from John Mound’s Will that Elizabeth Bayliss was born Owens, and was the daughter of Edward and Joane Owens, John Maund’s ‘Cosen’, to whom he left his cottage in Ashton in the Parish of Eye, Herefordshire. See Endnote B in the Addenda to Chapter 5. 31 It is clear from later Deeds that the three properties are Farrow, Maund I and Maund II. Foster was occupying Maund I. Mary Stephens was occupying the coach house and possibly also Farrow Although she did not purchase Farrow until 1744, when it or part of it was in William Daniel’s occupation, it is possible she was in occupation at this time as William Farrow died in 1730 or 1731. This leaves Betts who could have been occupying Maund II of which he was mortgagee. Perhaps he is named as there was no tenant at the time. The important point is that he was in possession. He, rather than Mary Stephens, may also have been in possession of Farrow of which he was also mortgagee. Maund I and Maund II have orchards; it is possible that by now Farrow also has one ‘belonging’ to it. There is an earlier reference to Betts and Foster being in possession of these properties. The 1727 Maidstone House Deed refers to gardens in the possession of Betts and Foster on the north west of the customary land of Maidstone House. It seems the gardens or orchards of Maund I and Maund II extended back to the customary land of Maidstone House. 32 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6. John Manley is of the Customs House. John Robins is a ware house keeper of the East India Company. Betts leaves a number of substantial pecuniary legacies. For example, one to Frances Harrison, widow of Edward Harrison, formerly governor of Fort St George in the East Indies, and another to Mrs. Priscilla Edwards, widow of Captain John Edwards; in both cases the legacies are for life while they are widows and for £400. It seems likely that Betts had been in the East India Company. William Betts also left legacies to Walter Bartelote, son of his late uncle Richard Bartelote, and to Robert Bartelote, son of his late cousin Richard Bartelote, for whom see also Note 60 below. 33 There are no relations named Maund in John Maund’s Will but the IGI has details of a Maund family in Tenbury in the mid eighteenth century. It is therefore probable that they were descendants of relatives of John Maund 34 “1740 Lease and Release” i.e. Lease and Release dated 2nd and 3rd November, 1740 between Ann Bayliss and Daniel Bayliss (1) and James Oliver (2) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5.
130
Lost and Found – other Woodcote houses
properties are described as on the side of Woodcote Green and in the occupation of William Farrow,35 Daniel Hilman and John Hoskins (i.e. again Farrow, Maund II, and Maund I).36
On 19th and 20th March, 1740[/41], Oliver (with the Baylisses joined as parties) conveyed the equity of redemption in the Hilman properties by the 1740[/41] Lease and Release37 to Betts’ heirs and executors, John Manley and John Robins. The consideration appears to be little more than the release of the mortgage debt - £330 against £300. The Woodcote properties are described as being on the south side of Woodcote Green. The names of the occupiers are unfortunately left blank.
Six of the seven properties mortgaged or sold by the Hilmans in 1707 have therefore at this point been reunited in the common ownership of John Manley and John Robins.
Sales John Robins died in 1741 or 1742H and John Manley did not long survive him as he died in November or December, 1743.38 His wife Mary and his son John Manley inherited but it seems his wife died shortly after.39
On 1st and 2nd January, 1744[/5], John Manley (the son), by a Lease and Release,40 conveyed Farrow to Mary Stephens. It is described as a: Messuage etc. on south side of Woodcott Green, formerly in the tenure or occupation of William Farrier [i.e. Farrow] and the same or some part is or lately was in the tenure or occupation of William Daniel.
In fact John Manley junior was only entitled to a half share and the title had to be rectified later.
On 3rd and 4th September, 1746, by another Lease and Release.41 John Manley junior conveyed Maund II (with the same description as in the next paragraph) to William Daniel of Epsom, shopkeeper.42
35 See Note 28 for Farrow’s Will. 36 These occupants were the predecessors of those named in the earlier 1733[/34] Lease and Release when these properties were conveyed to Charles Holland. By this time Farrow and Daniel Hilman were long dead and Foster had replaced Hoskyns. 37 “Lease and Release 1740[/41]” i.e. Lease and Release dated 19th and 20th March, 1740[/41] between James Oliver (1) Ann Bayliss and Daniel Bayliss (2) and John Manley and John Robins (3) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5. 38 N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/730/364; S.H.C. 3636/Box 6, Deeds of 4th and 5th July, 1753: .John Manley of ‘Sedcup in the County of Kent’ executed his Will on 30th November, 1743, and probate was granted on 12th December, 1743 at London, to Mary Manley Widow and John Manley Esquire son of the deceased. 39 John Manley senior left one third of his estate to his wife Mary and two thirds to his children of whom John is the only one mentioned. Only John is a party to the subsequent deeds and so Mary may be presumed to have died shortly after the Will was proved. 40 1744[/45] Lease and Release i.e. Lease and Release dated 1st and 2nd January, 1744[/45] between John Manley junior (1) and Mary Stephens (2) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5. 41 “1746 Lease and Release” i.e. Lease and Release dated 3rd and 4th September, 1746 between John Manley junior (1) and William Daniel (2) – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6. 42 Daniel was once Betts’s servant and inherited £100 from him in 1737 and a further £10 from John Robins in 1742. He was previously in occupation of Farrow. After purchasing Maund I in 1746, he let it and then in 1762 exchanged it for a property of Northey’s in which he was then living. 131 Other Woodcote Houses
On 1st October, 1746. a Deed of Covenant to levy a Fine43 was executed by John Manley junior and Hugh William Pritchard of Barnards Inn.44 In it John Manley junior conveyed the four remaining messuages of the Betts’ estate to Pritchard on trust. It is a vital document since it describes the properties forming part of Betts’ estate ‘in or near’ Woodcote Green with some clarity as follows: 1. Freehold Messuage with garden behind the same thereunto belonging and also a small parcel of land near thereto adjoyning whereon a Stable lately stood which said last mentioned parcel of land lyeth between a Stable in the occupation of Mrs. Stevens and another Stable lately in the occupation of Doctor Woodford45 together with the use of the Well in common with the next adjoining house called Fosters, the whole extent of Land and Premises computed at less than ½ acre all which Land and Premises were formerly in the tenure or occupation of Mrs. Hilman and since of Mrs. Pierce46 both deceased but are now in the possession of William Daniel shopkeeper. This is Maund II.
2. All that Freehold Messuage or Tenement next adjoining to the last mentioned Messuage or Tenement together with the garden47 behind the same and the outhouses thereunto belonging formerly in the tenure of Mr. Foster and now untenanted This is Maund I.
3. That other Freehold Messuage or Tenement next adjoining to the last mentioned Messuage or Tenement together with the garden behind the same and the outhouses thereunto belonging formerly in possession of William Betts Esq. deceased and now untenanted. This is Ellicar I.
4. Small Messuage next adjoining to the last mentioned Messuage or Tenement together with the Yard or plot of Ground belonging to the same together with their respective outhouses and buildings thereunto belonging formerly in the possession of William Betts Esq. deceased but now and for many years untenanted. This is Ellicar II.
43 “1746 Fine Deed” – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6 i.e. Deed of Covenant to levy a Fine dated 1st October 1746 between John Manley junior (1) and Hugh William Pritchard (2). 44 Levied in Michaelmas Term 20 George II [1746] – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6. 45 William Woodford of Ebbisham, Doctor of Physick, executed his Will in favour of his wife Mary on 27th July, 1743. It was proved on 27th January, 1759 – N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/843/43. 46 Mrs. Pierce is otherwise unknown but presumably occupied the property after Sarah’s death in 1734. She might be related to Joseph Piercey the younger (alias Pierey) whose death was recorded in the Court Roll on 8th September, 1755 (Lehmann 12B4) or to James Piercey who was a tenant of other Epsom property on 24th February, 1755 (Lehmann 3B20). 47 Foster’s garden is mentioned in the 1727 Maidstone House Deed as abutting on the customary land of that property. Note that there is no mention of an orchard for either Maund I or Maund II, although later Deeds make clear they still had them. Thomas Foster of Ebbisham Husbandman executed a Will on 18th May, 1709 which was proved on 8th July, 1709 by his widow Elizabeth. He refers to copyhold properties in the High Street which his brother John sold to James Willmot senior on 7th November, 1709. John could be the tenant of Maund I. Thomas also had a sister, Mary Davis. (L.M.A.: DW/PA/5/1709: Archdeaconry of Surrey, Diocese of Winchester and Lehmann 4B12)
132
Lost and Found – other Woodcote houses
Pritchard was to receive Maund II on trust for William Daniel and the others on trust for John Manley junior. A Fine was then levied to convey Maund II to Daniel.48
John Manley junior and William Kentish (the surviving executor of John Robins) then sold the three remaining properties (two freehold messuages and a small garden and a small messuage with a yard i.e. Maund I, Ellicar I and Ellicar II) by Lease and Release to Edward Northey on 7th and 8th June, 1751.49 While Maund I (and Maund II) appears in the 1755 Survey, this is the last reference to the Ellicar properties.
The purchasers of these properties then obtained conveyances from the heirs of John Robins (who were presumably entitled to a half share in them on his death). His heirs were Ann Adams, formerly Behrens, and James Adams of Cannon Street, London, merchant.50 In 1753, the Adams jointly executed documents in favour of each of the purchasers confirming their titles.I
The 1755 Survey and Mrs. Stephens’ Will In 1755, when the second Survey was made, the Woodcote area was already much as described in the Companion in 1792. The main difference was that Maund I and Maund II, which are noted in the Survey as owned by Edward Northey and William Daniel respectively, appear to have been demolished by the time of the Companion. Ellicar I and Ellicar II do not appear in the Survey and had presumably already been demolished.
As stated in the previous chapter, Milton or Woodcote Green House, was occupied by the widow Sparks and included a coach house, stables and an orchard, comprising about half an acre in all. It abutted on Woodcote Green on the north, on the late Mary Stephens’ land on the east, on Northey’s land on the south, and on the estate of William Daniel on the west. 51
Helpfully, as already quoted in Chapter 5, there are three other references in the Survey to properties adjoining the widow Sparks: the first is in the description of Maund II:
“William Daniel of Ebbisham Shopkeeper claims to hold by free deed one messuage or tenement coach house stables and a garden containing in the whole about half an acre abutting on woodcote green and on the coach house and stables of the late Mrs. Stephens on the north and west parts on the estate of Edw: Northey on the south and west parts and on the estate of the widow Sparks on the east part. Quit rent ” 52
48 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5: Fine, Michaelmas Term 1746 (20 George II). 49 “1751 Lease and Release” i.e. 1751 Lease and Release dated 7th and 8th June, 1751 between John Manley junior esq., William Kentish gent., Thomas Pawson gent., and Ann Behrens spinster (1) and Edward Northey esq. (2) – S.H.C.: 4073/11. Again orchards are not mentioned. William Kentish is the surviving executor of John Robins, the surviving executor of William Betts. The Assignment to attend the Inheritance of the mortgaged Ellicar properties, dated 28th September, 1731, was made to William Betts. The Assignment is endorsed by Kentish assigning to Northey. 50 John Robins appointed his sister Mary and his cousin William Kentish his executors, and his sister Mary and his grand niece Ann Behrens as his residuary legatees. Mary died on 29th April, 1751 and her daughter, Ann Adams formerly Behrens, inherited on 27th December, 1752 (3636/Box 6: Lease and Release of 4th and 5th July, 1753). See also Addenda, Endnotes F and H. 51 S.H.C.: K/31/4/2 p.139 of the 1755 Survey. See also Chapter 5, Note Error! Bookmark not defined. regarding abuttal on north. 52 S.H.C.: K/31/4/2 p.121; Lehmann 13B2 133 Other Woodcote Houses
\and the second in the description of Mary Stevens coach house which is first mentioned in John Maund’s Will as being to the east of Maund II.53 : “Also a coach house and stables abutting on woodcote green on the north part and on the estate of Wm. Daniel on the south, east and west parts,” and thirdly in the description of Farrow:
“Also half an acre of inclosed land abutting in a point on woodcote green on the north part on land of Edw: Northey on the south part on the estate of the widow Sparks on the west part and on the road leading to Walton and the estate of Joseph Shaw and some cottages on the east part. Quit rent 1s 6d” 54
This description of Farrow is to be compared with the reference to it in the Will of the recently deceased Mrs. Stephens, dated 17th March, 1748, which reads:
“And Whereas I have lately purchased an old House Barn and Stable in the parish of Epsom formerly rented by Mr. Farrow or Farrer which (with other Buildings adjoining to them) I have since pulled down I give all the Land they stood on and the Orchard Ground belonging to that House with all my Right and Property in them to those Right Heirs of my late Husband Mr. Anthony Stephens to whom he has by his last Will given the house I live in at Epsom after my decease to hold to him her or them and his her or their Heirs and Assigns for ever”.
Finally Edward Northey of Ebbisham Esq. claimed to hold by free deed (inter alia):
“a messuage and tenement and garden or orchard containing in the whole about half an acre abutting on lower woodcote green on the north part on land of the said Edward Northey on the south and west parts and on a tenement and land of Wm. Daniel on the east part”.55
Thus Northey owned a house between Woodcote House and William Daniel’s property. This is Maund I and confirms the evidence of the Deeds that Farrow, Woodcote Green House, Maund II, and Maund I ran in a line along the south side of Woodcote Green Road from east to west.
All the properties are stated to be of about half an acre. This may have been only approximate.The 1746 Lease and Release states that Maund II was under half an acre.
Two Exchanges In 1757 (after Mary Stephens’ death and the 1755 Survey), Northey, and the heirs of the devisees of Anthony Stephens’ Will, entered into a Lease and Release by way of Exchange on
53 24th December, 1686. See Endnote B in the Addenda to Chapter 5. 54 S.H.C.: K/31/4/2 p.139; Lehmann 13B5 55 S.H.C.: K/31/4/2 p.128; Lehmann 13B1
134
Lost and Found – other Woodcote houses 4th and 5th April, 1757.56 Northey gave lands around Woodcote Place on the other side of Chalk Lane and the Heirs of the Devisees gave the Stephens’ coach, house described as:
A piece or parcel of ground, and a stable and outhouse thereon built, together with a yard before it, and the front thereof adjoining Woodcote Green containing in depth from Woodcote Green to the back part of the stable 40' and in length from the stable and coach house formerly of Mrs. Milton which joins to it on the north part thereof and to the garden or court of the dwelling house formerly of John Maund on the south side 31' at or near Woodcote Green57
The Heirs also gave Farrow, described as: A piece or parcel whereon a messuage or tenement with an outhouse formerly stood on the south side of Woodcote Green formerly in the tenure or occupation of William Daniel and late of Mary Stephens and all other the lands and hereditaments which the said Mary Stephens purchased of John Manly the son and John Robins deceased, John Adams and Ann his wife late Ann Behrens.
The last Northey Deeds are another Lease and Release by way of Exchange, dated 25th and 26th January, 1762,58 between Edward Northey and William Daniel of Epsom,
shopkeeper. In them, Northey pays £100 and surrenders a Messuage or tenement lying and being near Woodcote Green plus the stables coach house outhouses Garden and Premises now in the occupation of Daniel as tenant of Northey, being of one Rood and two perches.
The property in which Daniel was living and whose freehold he acquired may have been one of the Northey cottages fronting Woodcote Road to the north of Woodcote Green. This would have been a better location for a shop than Maund II which Daniel had previously let to Mr. Bartlett.59
Daniel surrenders Maund II described as: a Messuage or tenement plus the Stable Outhouse Yard Garden and Orchard lately in the occupation of William Bartlett60 as tenant of Daniel and now empty abutting
56 “1757 Deeds of Exchange” i.e. Lease and Release by way of exchange dated 4th and 5th April, 1757 between Edward Northey (1) and John Howe esq of Henslep Bucks and Caroline his wife, Margaret Mortimer spinster of Newgate Street London, John Merricks gent of Hellingsley Sussex & Elizabeth Stephens his wife, and Susannah Woodyer and Penelope Woodyer spinsters of Chinley Sussex. - S.H.C.: 3636/Box 8. 57 This is difficult to reconcile with the 1755 survey in which Mary Stephens coach house and stables are said to abut Woodcote Green on the north and on the estate of William Daniel on the south, east and west. William Daniel's property is said to abut on Woodcote Green and Mrs Stephens' coach house on the north and west parts. 58 “1762 Deeds of Exchange” - S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6: i.e. Lease and Release by way of exchange dated 25th and 26th January, 1762 between Edward Northey (1) and William Daniel (2) 59 In the 1755 Survey, Northey held the freeholds of one messuage or tenement, barns, stables and outhouses, and of another tenement, shop and stables adjoining, and of four fields of meadow or pasture ground of 18 acres abutting on Lower Woodcott Green on the south and on New Inn Lane (and various other estates on the north). New Inn Lane is now Dorking Road. It is possible that Daniel’s new property was the one with the shop. Daniel died sometime after 2nd January, 1782 when he executed a Will in favour of John Field gardener. The date when it was proved is not recorded (L.M.A.: DW/PA/5/1783/7). In the nineteenth century, the Field family occupied the north west corner site of Woodcote Road and Dorking Road, which is now a petrol station. The Northey family held nothing there in the Schedule to the 1843 Tithe Map but the whole corner is shown as Northey property in 1891 and after. 60 In the 1755 Survey, William Bartlett of the Borough of Southwark claimed to hold a cottage and two orchards on Ebbisham lower common and Thomas Bartlett, of Ebbisham Gardiner, claimed to hold two cottages and two 135 Other Woodcote Houses
on the garden of Mr. Smith on the north-east and on lands of Edward Northey on the south-west. 61
Location and ownership of the lost Hilman properties With Woodcote Green House identified as Milton, the location of the other Hilman properties can be determined.
The 1706[/7] Fine Deed and the 1707 Lease and Release together show that all the Hilman properties were on the south side of Woodcote Green. Later Deeds also state that Farrow, Maund I and Maund II were on the south side of Woodcote Green. 62 The 1755 Survey refers to Farrow abutting in a point on Woodcote Green and to Milton (Woodcote Green House), Maund I and Maund II abutting on Woodcote Green or Lower Woodcote Green on the north.
John Maund’s Will states that Maund I and Maund II adjoined each other. The 1746 Fine Deed states that Maund II, Maund I, Ellicar I and Ellicar II were adjoining. The 1755 Survey makes clear that Farrow was between Chalk Lane and Woodcote Green House and that Woodcote Green House adjoined Maund II.
Therefore Farrow, Milton or Woodcote Green House, Maund II, Maund I, Ellicar I, and Ellicar II, ran in a line along the south side of Woodcote Green Road and Woodcote Green from east to west. The 1687 Lease of the Ellicar plot and the 1696 & 1699 Fencing Leases show that Venn was south east of the Ellicar plot and adjoined Northey’s garden.
Farrow This property is first mentioned in John Maund’s Will of 1686 as consisting of a house barn stable and outhouses. William Farrow was then in occupation. It must have been built by John Maund after the 1680 Survey since it is not mentioned in it.
The 1755 Survey describes Farrow as consisting of ½ an acre of inclosed land abutting in a point on Woodcote Green on the north, on Northey land on the south, on Woodcote Green House on the west, and on Chalk Lane and the Amato and some cottages on the east. In her Will, Mrs. Stephens refers to there being an Orchard Ground belonging to the house.
Farrow must have occupied much of the footprint of the present No. 2 Woodcote Green House and may indeed like it have been semi-detached from No. 1.
orchards there (S.H.C.: K/31/4/2, p.9). George Bartlett was in occupation of a High Street property in 1738 (Lehmann 1B12). Thomas Bartlett was now or late in occupation of a messuage abutting south and west on Epsom Common in a Deed to declare the uses of a Fine of 27th September, 1714 (S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5). A Release by Robert Bartelott to John Manly and John Robins dated 4th October 1739 should be in S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5 but has not been found. He was presumably the same man as Robert Bartelote, son of the late Richard Bartelote, to whom William Betts left £300, which was due and owing if he acknowleged he had no other claim as a relation, and 1/- if he did not. See also Note 32 above. 61 As noted in Chapter 5, the vital point is that Daniel’s house abuts on the garden of Mr. Smith on the north east, whereas in the 1755 Survey (which locates the property only with cardinal points of the compass) his house abutted on the estate of the widow Sparks on the east part. Samuel Smith II is therefore widow Sparks’ successor and must have acquired the property sometime between 1755 and 1762. 62 See Note 11and related text.
136
Lost and Found – other Woodcote houses
There is some difficulty in visualising an enclosed half acre in the available space, particularly as Woodcote Green House is now so close to Chalk Lane. This is discussed in Chapter 5 (at the end of The 1755 Survey) and is probably explained by changes to the Green since this time
The only mention of an orchard is in the Fine relating to Mary Stephens’purchase of Farrow63 and in her Will, but the description in the 1755 Survey shows the south of the property bordered the Amato. The orchard was probably Samuel Dendy’s orchard which is mentioned in the 1680 Survey but not in the 1755 Survey . With this area the property would easily cover half an acre.
The tenant William Farrow is probably the William Farrow with wife Elizabeth whose Will was proved in 1730[/31]64. In the Lease and Release of 1733[/34], Mrs. Stephens is named as occupier of one of the three properties and it must have been Farrow that she occupied. This is odd, as when Mrs. Stephens bought Farrow in 1744[/45]. it is stated that the property or some part of it is or lately was in the occupation of William Daniel. Perhaps Mrs. Stephens had the stable and William Daniel the remainder.
The ownership passed from the Hilmans along with Maund I and Maund II until Mrs. Stephens purchased the property in 1744[/45] and demolished the house and other buildings. The land was acquired by Edward Northey from her heirs by the 1757 Deeds of Exchange.
Milton or Woodcote Green House This property as shown in Chapter 5 lay between Farrow and Maund II .
Maund II Maund II is described in John Maund’s Will as being between Mrs. Stephens’ coach house and John Maund’s own dwelling house. The 1746 Fine Deed describes the property as a messuage with garden behind and a small parcel of land ‘near thereto adjoining on which a stable lately stood’ lying between Mrs. Stephens’ stable and Dr Woodford’s stable. The house shares a well with the next adjoining house called Fosters. The whole property is less than half an acre.
In the 1755 Survey, William Daniel claims a messuage coach house stables and a garden containing about half an acre in the same location while in the 1762 Deeds of Exchange there is a stable, outhouse yard and orchard in addition to the house and garden.
Finally in the 1757 Deeds of Exchange, Mrs. Stephens’ coach house is described as adjoining the garden or court of the dwelling house formerly of John Maund on the south; this confirms that Maund II occupied part of Maund I’s grounds.
Thus Maund II was sited in the grounds of Maund I and, like Farrow, was built by John Maund sometime after the 1680 Survey. John Maund left his wife Dorothy a life interest in the house, with remainder to his daughter Sarah who inherited his other property. After the death of Sarah, Maund II, along with Maund I and Farrow, descended through the Bayliss family until their sale to William Betts’ executors in 1740[/41]. The executors’ successors in title sold Maund II to Betts’ former servant William Daniel, who became or had become a shopkeeper. In 1762 William Daniel exchanged Maund II with Edward Northey for a Northey house in which Daniel was then living.
After John Maund’s death, Dorothy Maund must have lived in the property. She died before
63 Trinity Term 1753 (26 George II) – Mary Stephens and William Daniel v James and Ann Adams. (S.H.C.: 3636/Box 20). See Addenda, Endnote I. 64 See Note 28 above for Farrow’s Will. 137 Other Woodcote Houses
1710 and Maund II was described in the 1740 Lease and Release as in the occupation of Daniel Hilman and in the 1746 Fine Deed as formerly in the tenure or occupation of Mrs. Hilman (i.e. Sarah) and since of Mrs. Pierce. The 1727 Maidstone House Deed65 refers to the customary land of Maidstone House abutting on the garden of the house which was in the possession of Mr. Betts and the 1733[/34] Lease and Release gives William Betts as in possession. William Daniel acquired the property in 1746. At one time he let it to Mr. Bartlett but it was unoccupied in 1762 when Daniel exchanged it.
Maund I The 1680 Survey states that this property, occupied by John Maund, consisted of a house, outhouse, barn, stable, garden and orchard. In his Will John puts everything in the plural and adds sheds and coach houses. He also refers to a parcel of grass ground lying behind and adjoining the house, which has to be the Ellicar plot. The 1746 Fine Deed just refers to gardens and outhouses, while the 1755 Survey states that the property is about half an acre, has a garden or orchard, and adjoins William Daniel’s property on the east. T The property was originally John Maund’s own dwelling house. The 1707 Fine Deed describes the property as in the occupation of John Hoskyns and cites the first 1698 mortgage when it was in the occupation of Rebecca Franklyn. The 1727 Maidstone House Deed refers to the customary land of Maidstone House abutting on the garden in the possession of Mr. Foster. The 1733[/34] Lease and Release refers to the property as in the possession of ….. Foster while the 1746 Lease and Release states that it was formerly in the tenure of Mr. Foster but is now untenanted. The 1746 Lease and Release states that William Daniel’s house adjoins a house called Fosters with which it shares a well.
Many of the nineteenth century maps show a well within the suggested plot of Maund II 66.
Maund I was purchased by Edward Northey in 1751, having been in the same ownership as Maund II until the latter’s sale to William Daniel in 1744[/45].
The Coach Houses There was a row or block of four coach houses and stables running from Milton to Maund I. The first was in the grounds of Woodcote Green House, the second Mrs. Stephens’ coach house, the third the space in Maund II where there had been a stable, and the fourth, Dr Woodford’s coach house.
The 1680 Survey states that Woodcote Green House or Milton had a stable and John Maund’s Will states that it had a stable and coach house. The stable and coach house will have been within the Milton grounds as the conveyance to Hayter in 1707 refers to ‘Barnes Stables and Outhouses belonging to it’ and the foundations of a building have been found in the garden of Woodcote Green House in the right area. A building is also shown there on the 1838 Guardians’ map (and the 1843 Tithe Map copy) but not on subsequent maps.
John Maund’s Will also states that Maund II lay between Mr. Stevens’ coach house and Maund I. The 1746 Fine Deed confirms this, stating that Maund II included a small parcel of land ‘near thereto’ (i.e. to the main part of Maund II) ‘adjoyning hereon a stable lately stood’. It continues
65 “1727 Maidstone House Deed” i.e. Deed of Enfranchisement dated 15th May between John Parkhurst (1) Dame Anne Northey and Edward Northey (2) and Richard Ryves (3) - S.H.C.: 3636/Box 3 66 See illustrations 23 to 28 on pages 98 – 103 in the previous Chapter.
138
Lost and Found – other Woodcote houses
that this parcel lay between a stable in the occupation of Mrs. Stephens and another stable in the occupation of Dr. Woodford.
It is likely that Dr. Woodford’s stable was also on the grounds of Maund II rather than of Maund I, since the 1746 Fine Deed also states that Maund I was unoccupied at the time. Maund II has stables and a coach house in the 1755 Survey and a stable and outhouse in the 1762 Deeds of Exchange. Maund I has no stable noted in the 1755 Survey .
The 1755 Survey states that the garden of Maund II abutted on Woodcote Green and on the Stephens’ coach house and stables on the north and west parts. It also states that the coach house and stables abutted on William Daniel’s estate (i.e. Maund II) on the south, east and west parts.67
Finally the 1757 Deeds of Exchange stated that the Milton stable and coach house joined the Stephens’ stable and outhouse on the north and the garden or court of John Maund’s former dwelling house joined it on the south.68
Thus a line of four coach houses or stables ran north east to south west from the garden of Woodcote Green House to the grounds of Maund I, occupied respectively, at various times, by Mrs. Milton, Anthony and then, Mary Stephens, the occupier of Maund II (until this stable was demolished), and Dr. Woodford.
The 1757 Deeds of Exchange give the dimensions of the Stephens’ coach house as 40' in depth from Woodcote Green to the back of the stable and 31' wide.
Ellicar I and Ellicar II In his Will John Maund refers to the piece or parcel of grass land lying behind and adjoining to his house (Maund I). This must be the building plot which the lease of 1687 states was part of ‘that south parcel or piece of Sarah Holland’s Close’.
Maund I faced onto Woodcote Green Road and so at least part of the plot was behind and to the south of the house and grounds. It is not clear whether ‘behind and adjoining’ refer to one part behind and one part adjoining at the side but the expression is unusual and this interpretation fits with the suggested location.
The 1687 Lease states that the plot was bounded by the tenement and ground of John Venn on the south east, by the orchard of the widow Elliot on the north-east, and by the tenement and ground belonging to and in the occupation of Sarah Holland (Maund I) on the north-west.
Venn adjoins the grounds of Woodcote House and the widow Elliot occupied Woodcote Green House. There is however no mention of Woodcote Green House having anorchard until the 1755 Survey whereas the 1680 Survey and John Maund’s Will both refer to his property having one.
67 Only cardinal points of the compass are referred to and the line of the coach houses ran from north east to south west. Daniel’s estate will have abutted the Green on the north or north west and the coach house and stables on the north east and the west. 68 Again read north-east for north and south-west for south. It will be seen that the Deeds sometimes refer to coach house, sometimes to stable or stables, and sometimes to both. Presumably the buildings would answer to either function although a coach house indicates more status than a stable. 139 Other Woodcote Houses
36(a). Garden of Woodcote Green House looking west to site of old stables.
36(b). Foundations of old stables in the garden of Woodcote Green House.
140
Lost and Found – other Woodcote houses
The 1727 Maidstone House Deed states that the customary land attached to that house abuts on Betts’ and Foster’s gardens and on Northey’s land on the north west. The 1733[/34] Lease and Release shows that Betts occupied Maund II69 and Foster Maund I. Northey’s land should be the former Venn.
It is difficult to reconcile these different statements. Betts’ and Foster’s gardens have to abut the customary land of Maidstone House which extended in a rectangle south of that house with Woodcote End on the south east and the gardens on the north east.70
This is not possible if the Ellicar plot extends along the whole length of the south east boundary of Maund I (let alone of Maund II).
It is therefore suggested that the widow Elliot’s orchard was not behind Woodcote Green House but that it was John Maund’s orchard behind Maund I and Maund II. This orchard or part of it subsequently became the gardens of Betts and Foster as born out by the reference to the ‘garden or orchard’ of Maund I in the 1755 Survey .
The Ellicar plot cannot have been much under an acre and it is hard to place a plot of this size within the locations assigned to Maund I, its orchard and Venn. It is therefore suggested that the Ellicar plot was L-shaped with one side of the L extending behind part of Maund I as far as the orchard occupied by Widow Elliot and the other leg of the L adjoining the south west boundary of Maund I. This fits the unusual description in John Maund’s Will of the land being ‘behind and adjoining’ his house.
The Deed of 1746 states that Maund I adjoined Ellicar I and that Ellicar I adjoined Ellicar II. Ellicar I has a garden and outhouses. Ellicar II is a small messuage with a yard or plot of ground, together with their respective outhouses and buildings.
Daniel Ellicar mortgaged his lease of the properties in 1707. He then bought the reversion from the Hilmans in the same year. Daniel then occupied one of the houses and William Betts the other. Daniel died in 1710 or 1711. The properties were sold to Thomas Harris in 1730 following the death of Daniel’s wife Sarah (who had a rent charge over them). Harris sold the properties to Robert Parker junior who assigned them to Betts. Betts apparently redeemed the mortgage (although he subsequently paid to resolve a dispute over the title). At this time Betts was in possession of both houses. He was living in one and in possession of the other, which had lately been in the possession of Samuel Bolton.71 After Betts died in 1737 the properties passed through his executors, John Manley and John Robins, and were sold by their successors in title to Edward Northey in 1751. In the 1746 Fine Deed both properties are described as formerly in the possession of William Betts deceased, with Ellicar I now untenanted and Ellicar II for many years untenanted.
69 William Betts was also in possession of Ellicar I and Ellicar II. It has been assumed Maund II is referred to here because Betts’s garden is referred to first, Foster’s next and Northey’s land last. It is difficult to see how the Ellicar plot could border the customary land. 70 See Chapter 10. 71 See Note 22 above 141 Other Woodcote Houses
Venn The 1687 Lease of the Ellicar plot states that Venn is bounded on the south east by the tenement and ground in the tenure of John Venn. The 1706[/7] Fine Deed recites the 1698 mortgage describing Venn as a messuage on the south side of Woodcott Green in the occupation of John Venn. The 1707 Lease and Release states that Venn is a messuage or tenement on the side of Woodcote Green, part of which is laid into the adjoining gardens and yard of Sir Edward Northey, and the remainder of which is in the occupation of John Venn yeoman. Together this fixes the property as lying behind or south east of the Ellicar plot and extending to the grounds of Woodcote House. It may have been on the site of what is now Woodcote House Court
The 1680 Survey states that John Fenn occupied a messuage, barn, outhouse, stable, garden and orchard. The property was a farm as appears from the 1707 Lease and Release. The house and grounds were sold to Sir Edward Northey, but John Wrenchacquired a Close of 2 acres in Ewell field, and 12 acres of land in Ebbisham Common Fields, stated to be attached to the property. John Venn was a yeoman or husbandman and presumably farmed his land.
Mr. Harwood, who bought the Woodcote Estate from the Northeys and developed it, came upon the remains of buildings on the west side of Pine Hill some 400 feet from Woodcote Green Road. Mr. Harwood thought the remains were Roman which is unlikely, but they could have been the remains of Venn.
The Fences The first of the 1696 & 1699 Fencing Leases of 1696 states that the greatest part of the land consisted of a ‘Bank Ditch and fence’ north of a yard and field belonging to Northey (which become simply a field in the second of the 1696 & 1699 Fencing Leases, and a Garden and yard in the 1707 Lease and Release). This fence ran from the second tree from the west end of the fence between Northey’s and Sarah Holland’s lands, west to east, in a straight line for 58 feet, then from south to north in a straight line for 24 feet, and then in a straight line from west to east for 238 feet.
Since the bank, ditch and fence are north of Northey’s yard and field, it must be south of Venn. A bifurcated track is shown on old Ordnance Survey maps connecting Woodcote House to Upper Woodcote Green. One leg of the track is shown starting in the south east corner of the curtilage of Woodcote House and the other by what is now Woodcote House Court . The track runs roughly from west to east. It is possible that one of the two bifurcations marks the line of the ditch and is so shown on the map at the beginning of this Chapter.
Conclusion The conclusion is that Farrow, Milton (Woodcote Green House), Maund II, Maund I, Ellicar I, Ellicar II and Venn were all adjoining properties, running from north east to south west and fronting onto the present Woodcote Green Road and the south side of the Woodcote Green triangle between the road and the drive of Woodcote House. Ellicar I extended in an L behind Maund I . Venn was further to the south west behind the Ellicar plot with the orchard of Maund I at its north east end and the Northey garden and yard at its south west end. While the location of the first four properties is certain, the exact location and shape of the Ellicar plot, of Venn, and of the fencing is more conjectural.
In trying to establish the outlines of these properties, field-lines on the earliest maps have been followed where possible. Unfortunately in many cases they do not help. This could be because all the properties came into the Northeys’ possession and they wanted the park to be free of houses and fences.
142
Lost and Found – other Woodcote houses
37(a). John Senex’s 1729 Map of Surrey, 1 inch to the mile – enlargement showing Epsom area.
37(b). Enlargement of above showing Woodcote House and probably six houses to the right facing Woodcote Green. The corner with Chalk Lane is rounded and the cottages in Chalk Lane are not shown. It is not clear whether Woodcote Green143 House and Farrow are marked but there was certainly a line of houses facing the Green. Other Woodcote Houses
38(a). John Rocque’s map of Surrey, 2 inches to the mile - enlargement of Epsom area..
John Rocque died in 1762 and the map was then completed and engraved by Peter Andrews and published by Rocque’s widow in c.1772.
38(b). Enlargement of above. Woodcote House and Woodcote Green House are clearly marked but the houses between have disappeared. Clay Lane is on the left of Woodcote House and many other houses in the neighbourhood are marked. As the map was not published until c.1772 corrections may have been made in the interim. This could explain why William Daniel’s house, which Northey only acquired in 1762, is not shown.
144
Lost and Found – other Woodcote houses
145 Other Woodcote Houses
Addenda
A It may be objected that 10¼ rods or roods is 264 feet, according to the maximum measurement of 1 Rood = 8 yards; the strip in the earlier lease was 296 feet long and unlike the second has a kink in it. However the difference is not great and the local length of a rood may have been less. Secondly the strip is stated to adjoin Northey’s yard and field in the 1696 lease but his field in the 1699[/1700] lease. This distinction does not seem significant. A more important difficulty is that a Lease and Release is used to convey a freehold so that a later lease would be pointless for the same land. A lease for 500 years is used when land is mortgaged because then the mortgagor cannot grant a Lease and Release. By the time of the 500 year lease, Sarah had mortgaged all her property and may not have excluded the strip conveyed to Northey. Northey may have chosen to have the 500 year lease of the same land to avoid any dispute as to the validity of the original Lease and Release. The main reason for maintaining that there was only one strip of land involved is that it is possible to identify one but not two boundaries between Northey and Sarah of this length running west to east. This one boundary on the 25” 1866 Ordnance Survey map running from the back of the garden behind Woodcote House by a old path. The kink has become a bend but this would be normal since Northey later acquired Venn. The path runs in the right direction for approximately the right distance.
B The first 1698 mortgage is for £530 on Venn and Maund I. The second 1698 mortgage increased the loan to £630 adding Farrow and Milton to the mortgaged properties. The 1706[/7] Fine Deed then states that the mortgage was not redeemed by the due date and has become absolute in law. £600 is owing but interest has been paid. To secure the £600, and a further advance of £160, the parties agree to levy a fine on the various properties, now adding Ellicar I, Ellicar II, and Maund II. The Equity of Redemption is then stated as £805-12-0 which seems odd.
C John Venn died in 1711. His Will is dated 5th May, 1707 and was proved on 21st August, 1711 by his widow, Elizabeth Venn. She then died and their son John renounced probate on 29th August’ 1711, whereupon Letters of Administration with the Will annexed were granted to Samuel Newman and John Wheatly, the principal creditors. In his Will, John describes himself as John Venn of Epsom husbandman but is described in the proxy of renunciation as John Venn als Fenn late of Ebbisham Coachman. His son John is also described there as John Venn als Fenn. (L.M.A.: DW/PA/5/1711/Venn - Archdeaconry of Surrey, Diocese of Winchester). John Venn junior died in 1712 leaving a will dated 7th March, 1711[/12] in which he described himself as John Venn citizen and clothworker of London (L.M.A.: DW/PA/5/1712/Venn - Archdeaconry of Surrey, Diocese of Winchester).
D These other properties were purchased by John Wrench. Kings Close is not on Woodcote Green. It is described in the recited mortgage of 4th and 5th May, 1698, in the 1706[/7] Fine Deed, as a close of ground in Ewell field known as Kings Close of 2 acres then in the occupation of John Venn. Venn’s Common Fields are described as land in the Common Fields of Ebbisham containing 11½ acres [12 acres in the recital in the 1707 Lease and Release] then in the occupation of John Venn.
E PROB 11/560/190: The Will of ‘Daniel Hilman of London’ has an unusual introduction: “I dye in the belief of the true Church of England altho’ it is and has been under Severe persecution and I put my Sole Comfort and Confidence in the merits of my B: Saviour being the Sure mercies of God”. This is followed by instructions for his burial: “as to my body I leave it to be decently buryed at my Wifes discretion but without any the least pomp or inviting any one but such as hold up the Pall except my Bro: Joseph and Such other of my Relations who think fitting for seeing. I believe my Corps will be carryed to Epsome it will be very troublesome to them” He makes his wife sole executrix to sell everything including an Estate commonly called the George Inn in Aldermanbury when it shall come into her hands. He recommends that his wife cause an Average to be made of what had been paid out of it by him towards his Father’s debts ‘between my Sister and my self the sume will be easily seen in Mr. Henry Wrights accos’. [See Note B to Chapter 5 for the devise of this half share to Daniel.] One witness is Elizabeth Holland.
146 Lost and Found – other Woodcote houses
F In September 1731, a number of deeds relating to Ellicar I and Ellicar II were executed. They consist of: an Assignment dated 7th September, a Lease and Release dated 27th and 28th September, an Assignment to Attend the Inheritance dated 28th September and a Declaration of Trust dated 29th September (S.HC.: 3636/Box 5). In the first Assignment between Adam Willmott butcher of Epsom and William Betts esq of Epsom, Betts redeems the mortgage on the properties paying Adam Willmott (the brother of James senior) £166. The parties to the Release are: James Willmot of Epsom, butcher, son of James Willmot of Epsom, butcher, deceased, the surviving executor of Daniel Ellicar, late of Epsom, bricklayer (1) John Vezey, Citizen & Joiner of London, administrator of his late wife Elizabeth (one of the 3 daughters of Daniel Ellicar), William Watson of Mitcham, Innholder, administrator of his deceased wife Mary (another daughter of Daniel Ellicar) and Edward Sturt of Ealing alias Zealing, bricklayer, administrator of his deceased wife Ann (the third daughter of Daniel Ellicar) (2) and Robert Parker of Epsom, brewer (3). By the Lease and Release, Parker acquires the two houses which were in the occupation of Ellicar and Betts but are now both in the occupation of Betts. From the second Assignment, it appears that Parker paid £450 of Betts money for the properties and there is reference to Parker paying £170 for the Willmott mortgage (which however appears to have been redeemed by Betts himself in the first assignment). Parker assigns the properties to John Robins of Crooked Lane, London, Gent., but in the Declaration of Trust next day declares he holds them on trust for Betts. There is an endorsement on the second Assignment stating that Robins died leaving a Will dated 2nd August 1740 naming William Kentish and his sister Mary Robins as executors. Mary died on 29th April, 1751. It is therefore Kentish who assigns to Northey on 8th June, 1751.
Betts still had complications over the title. First on 2nd and 3rd March, 1735/6, by a Lease and Release, Robert Parker of Epsom, infant and eldest son of Robert Parker of Epsom, brewer deceased, conveys, pursuant to a Court Order, the Ellicar properties of which his father had been Trustee to William Betts (S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5). This suggests the younger Parker unsuccessfully tried to claim the properties. Next Betts executed a Deed Poll, on 22nd May, 1736, stating that Abraham Cock gent of London and Dorothy Cock, Anne Cock and Judith Cock, spinsters, were paid £50 in respect of the Cock family’s claim. They alleged that Daniel Ellicar, before he purchased the inheritance, was Intitulated (sic) to the two messuages for a term of 51 years from midsummer 1687, by a lease from Mrs. Sarah Holland. Ellicar allegedly mortgaged the premises in June 1696, for the remainder of the term expiring in 1738, to John Eardley, who assigned the mortgage (which has been lost) to Abraham Cock, the father, deceased (S.H.C.: 3636/Box 5). There are also numerous references and papers relating to the Cocks and their disputed claim in the earlier bundle of papers (S.H.C.: 2238/10/45/1- 33).
G PROB 11/667/198: Sarah Hilman’s Trustees are to sell ‘all those my Farms Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments ……in Epsome’ and her moiety or half part of Leasehold Messuages …. in Saint Mary Aldermanbury London [inherited from her husband Daniel – see Note E above] and her chattels not otherwise bequeathed. Mrs. Ann Wells of Islington Middlesex, widow of Edmond Wells gentleman, receives £10 and ‘also my fathers picture and Coate of Armes and one little silver Tankard marked with the letters IMD ‘ [which must stand for John and Dorothy Maund]. One of the residuary legatees, Mary Hornesby, is to stay in the Testator’s house until the goods are sold and to have 5/- a week She was obviously a servant.
H PROB 11/718/168 The Will of John Robins of the parish of St. Michael in Crooked Lane London, gentleman is dated 22nd August, 1740 and was proved on 25th May, 1742. He appoints his spinster sister, Mary Robins, and his cousin, William Kentish, Esquire, as his Executors. There are many legacies including £100 for John Manley and £10 for William Daniel. The residuary legatees are his sister, Mary Robins, and his grand niece, Ann Behrens, equally as Tenants in Common. Ann Behrens is the daughter of his niece, Mary Behrens, widow of his nephew, George Behrens. There is no specific reference to Epsom property. It seems Mary Behrens was the illegitimate daughter of the Robins’ spinster sister, Mary Robins, unless he had another unmentioned married sister.
George Behrens left a rather sad and charming Will dated 1st March, 1739-40 which was proved by his uncle John Robins on 2nd June, 1740. In it he appoints Mr. John Robins Merchant as his executor and leaves everything to him on trust for his wife and daughter. He “hopes Mr. dear uncle Mr. Joh. Robins who has always been a ffather unto me and my ffamily will continue to be a husband to my Widow and a ffather to my ffatherless child”.
See also Notes 32, 49, and 50 above. 147 Other Woodcote Houses
I S.H.C.: 4073/11: Lease and Release of 7th and 8th June, 1751 (relating to Maund I, Ellicar I and Ellicar II) endorsed on 10th and 11th May, 1753 by James Adams of Cannon Street, merchant and Ann, his wife in favour of Northey. S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6: Lease and Release dated 4th and 5th July, 1753 (relating to Maund II) by the Adams to William Daniel S.H.C.: 3636/Box 6: Lease and Release dated 24th and 25th July, 1753 (relating to Farrow) by the Adams to Mary Stephens, widow. Two Fines were then levied in respect of these conveyances: The first in Easter Term 1753 (26 George II) – Edward Northey Esq. v James and Ann Adams and Joseph Carpenter and Mary Ann his wife and Sarah Carpenter widow – relates to the acquisition by Northey of Maund I, Ellicar I, and Ellicar II (listed in 1817 Schedule of Deeds re R. Goring Thomas -v- Northey and Northey – S.H.C.: 3636/Box 20). The second in Trinity Term 1753 (26 George II) – Mary Stephens and William Daniel v James and Ann Adams – relates to one Messuage one Garden one Orchard two acres of land two acres of meadow two acres of pasture & Common of pasture at Woodcott Green. On the back is ‘Skynner’ and below ‘Surry Stephens Adams’. It is not clear to what ‘Skynner’ relates (S.H.C.: 3636/Box 20). Obviously this second Fine was for the benefit of Mary Stephens and William Daniel jointly. The house will be Maund II which Daniel had acquired. The land will be the site of Farrow and, probably, lands associated with it. Mary Stephens mentions the orchard in her Will. It could originally have been either Samuel Dendy’s or John Maund’s orchard. The latter abutted on Samuel Dendy’s and, it is argued, was later held by widow Elliott alias Lancashire. The other lands are not specifically described in the previous conveyances. They may have been those attached to Farrow, and be referred to in the 1757 Deeds of Exchange as: all other the lands and hereditaments which the said Mary Stephens purchased of John Manly the son and John Robins deceased, John Adams and Ann his wife late, Ann Behrens.
Alternatively these lands could have been acquired separately by Mary Stephens or even by William Daniel.
148 Lost and Found – other Woodcote Green houses
149 Other Woodcote Houses
41(a). Woodcote Place (now Westgate House). Postcard stamped 1910.
41(b). Woodcote Place from the back (showing Venetian window). Undated postcard.
150 Woodcote Place and the White House
42. 1804 Map showing proposed diversion of Worple Road to avoid it passing close to Woodcote Grove.
151 Other Woodcote Houses
43. Page 1 of Auction Particulars of Woodcote Place; subsequently Woodcote Hotel, and now Westgate House.
152 Woodcote Place and the White House
44. Part of plan attached to 1889 Auction Particulars of Woodcote Place.
153 Other Woodcote Houses
154 Woodcote Place and the White House
Chapter 8: WOODCOTE PLACE AND THE WHITE HOUSE
Summary Woodcote Place (now Westgate House) occupies a site on the south-east side of Chalk Lane. On it there were originally two properties. The first77on which there was a tenement or a cottage, was bounded on the north by Madan’s Walk and on the east by Woodcote Common field which stretched to the Church and the Parade. The second, on which there was a tenement or messuage, was to the south of the first and also had Woodcote Common field to the east. It was bounded by the old line of Worple Road to the south. This road then passed closer to Woodcote Grove than the present road, forming a cross-roads with Woodcote End when it reached Chalk Lane by the Chalk Lane Hotel.
The 1680 Survey records these two properties on the east side of Chalk Lane. Both properties were acquired by Anthony Stephens in the 1680’s. Following the death of Anthony and, much later, of his second wife Mary, both properties were acquired by Samuel Smith II in 1757
The larger of these properties is now known as Westgate House but is here referred to by its old name of Woodcote Place. The smaller property was known as the White House in the mid eighteenth century.
In 1780, the first land tax returns show Samuel Smith III (the eldest son of Samuel Smith II) owning Woodcote Place and a second house which has been shown to be Woodcote Green House. It was natural to question whether the White House and Woodcote Green House were one and the same. It will be shown that they were not and that, probably shortly after 1757, Samuel Smith II pulled down the White House; he purchased Woodcote Green House in 1761.1
\ Acquisition of Woodcote Place by Anthony Stephens The Court Roll records that, on 20th April, 1680, Thomas Addison surrendered a tenement or cottage with one and a quarter acres of adjoining land which was regranted to John Maund at a rent of 1/9 per annum.A The property was on the East side of a Common called Woodcott Green. There was also included half an acre of land in Dulls Shot in Ebisham Common Field.
The 1680 Survey records John Maund’s claim to this copyhold, described as: “One Messuage and One Garden or Orchard Abutting on the highway leading from Ebisham towards the Downes on the West part and on Woodcote Comon Field on the East part. And also halfe an Acre of land more or lesse lying in the said Comon Field Adjoining to the said Orchard.
1 See Chapter 5, Notes Error! Bookmark not defined. and Error! Bookmark not defined. and related text.
155 Other Woodcote Houses
And also halfe an Acre of land lying in Dulls Shott Abutting on the land of John Pinke on the East part. Totall One Acre Quitt Rent by Apporconment 1/9”
It appears that the cottage and garden or orchard was of three quarters of an acre since, according to the 1680 surrender, the whole (excluding the half acre in Dulls shot) was one and a quarter acres.
On 23rd October, 1682, John Maund surrendered this property to Anthony Stevens of London Gent and Margaret his wife. The property is now described as a Messuage or Tenement and one and quarter acres of land which suggests that Maund may have replaced the cottage with a house.B
Acquisition of the White House by Anthony Stephens In the Court Roll for 17th September, 1677, Robert Rogers, of Worcester Park yeoman, is recorded as surrendering to George Lord Berkeley his Messuage or tenement barn garden and orchard and an inclosed parcel of meadow: the whole containing three roods2, adjoining the Common Field called Ebbisham Common Field on the East part and land of Thomas Addison on the north, and in the occupation or tenure of Thomas Fox.C
In the 1680 Survey, Earl Berkeley claimed (inter alia) the following copyhold property: “One Messuage or Tenement One Barne One Stable One Garden One Orchard One Backside and One p[ar]cell of Meadow inclosed now an Orchard conteyning three Roods Adjoyning to Ebisham Comon fields on the East part and to the lands of Thomas Addison on the North part.”
On 8th November, 1683, Lord Berkeley surrendered this Messuage or Tenement near Woodcote Green in the tenure or occupation of Thomas Fox glazier or his assigns to the use of Anthony Stephens and his wife Margaret or their assigns.D
Addison’s lands are stated in both 1677 and in the 1680 Survey, to be to the north of Berkeley’s property. The Survey reflected Maund’s purchase of this property from Addison, describing Maund as the owner. But the description of Berkeley’s adjoining property was not corrected and states that it adjoined Addison rather than Maund. That only one Addison property is involved is confirmed by the absence of any record in the Survey of Addison having other lands in the area. Both the Berkeley and the Maund properties must be east of Chalk Lane since the Survey states that Maund’s abutted on the Highway leading from Ebbisham to the Downes on the West part.
It should be noted that the half acre in Dulls shot is associated with Maund’s property which has no barn or stable. As shown below this indicates that Woodcote Place was built on the Maund property.
2 Three quarters of an acre
156 Woodcote Place and the White House
The Stephens’ ownership At some time in the next ten years, Margaret Stephens died. On 2nd November, 1693, the widowed Anthony Stephens transferred his two messuages, and other Epsom copyholds, to himself and Christopher Coles, of Pulborough, Sussex, gent. and his heirs. He then, as his Will recites, entered into a marriage settlement, on 26th September, 1694, with John Smith3 of London, merchant, Edward Rolt of Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire Esq., (who may have been the father) and ‘Mary my dear wife (then Mary Rolt spinster)’.
Anthony Stephens made his Will on 30th April, 1695;4 at this time the undertakings given in the marriage settlement had not been put into effect. So, in his Will, which was proved on 6th May, 1696, Anthony settled various properties, including the two Epsom houses, on Mary for life with remainder to any issue of the marriage.E He described the Epsom properties as follows: “All my Copyhold or customary Messuages or Tenements situate and being in the parish of Ebisham in the said County of Surrey and also all those several peeces or parcells of Land to the said Messuages or Tenements belonging or appertaining situate lying and being in the Comon feild called Woodcott feild in the said parish of Ebisham in the said county of Surrey.”
At the Court Baron held on 28th October, 1695, the death of Anthony Stephens since the last Court, held on the preceding 30th August, was reported. His property consisted of two Messuages or Tenements Buildings Gardens and Orchards in the Common Field called Woodcote Field and adjoining also on the East part of the Common called Woodcote Green.F
Christopher Coles produced to the Court of 28th October, 1695, a Deed, dated 26th April, 1695, declaring that his admission on 2nd November, 1693 had been on trust to surrender the two copyhold messuages to Anthony’s widow, Mary, for life (when she requested it) and then to the uses of Anthony’s Will.5 The messuages were duly surrendered to Mary on 11th June, 1697.6
Failing issue of Mary and himself, Anthony devised his Epsom properties in his Will to his right heirs. These heirs were his niece Margaret Saunders, widow of Samuel Saunders, John Mortimer the son of John Mortimer and his deceased niece Sarah Mortimer, and his niece Elizabeth Coles, the wife of Christopher Coles of Pullborough, Sussex, Gent. It was the heirs of these devisees who inherited on Mary’s death.7
3 In her Will (PROB 11/827/226) Mary Stephens refers to Nathaniel Smith and other Smith relations but there is no evidence of a connection with the subsequent owners of Woodcote Place in whose pedigree the name John is rarely found and Nathaniel never. 4 N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/425/65. 5 At the Court held on 25th October 1756, a Deed Poll was produced stating that Christopher Coles, late of Pullborough, Sussex gent did on or about 5th February, 1696[?/7] surrender the properties ‘by virtue of a Decretal Order of the High Court of Chancery’. It is not clear if Coles tried to hold onto the properties for himself but at the Court held on 30th August, 1695 (apparently just before Anthony Stephens’ death) Coles was granted a licence to let for up to 11 years customary ‘messuagia sive tenementa horrea stabula edific[ia] gardina pomaria acrea[s] Terr[as]’ at a rent of 3/8. The list of items could be formulaic but the plural for the houses suggests the Stephens’ property. 6 Lehmann 14B2. 7 See Addenda, Endnote K.
157 Other Woodcote Houses
Woodcote Place may have been built by John Maund as a speculation in 1681 and 1682. Alternatively it may have been built by Anthony Stephens in 1684.8 It certainly seems to have been built by 1695 as Anthony was living in Epsom at the date of his Will.
It was probably between 1701 and 1703 that Celia Fiennes visited Woodcote Place and its gardens. There is a long passage describing ‘a very pretty neate house and gardens’ of ‘Mrs. Steeven’.9
In the record of the Court Baron held on 22nd March, 1702, there are details of a dispute between Mary Stephens and a neighbour, William Clinch, concerning a way of Mary’s and her tenants into the common field. The Court found in favour of Mary and her tenant, Thomas Palmer.10 Then on 31st December, 1731 there was a presentation by the homage11 of a view of part of Woodcote Corner shot including parts of Mary’s garden, which had been inclosed from the common field and were presumably let to her.12
The Court records contain detailed descriptions of the owners and abuttals of the various parcels of land involved, many of which can be identified from the copy of a large map of Woodcote Common field showing all the parcels with the names of the owners.13 What is clear and is indeed still apparent today is that
Woodcote Place had a restricted frontage for a house of its standing and that the owners were continually seeking to extend the garden by purchase and enclosure of parts of the common field.
Mary Stephens, late of Ebbisham widow (now deceased), claimed in the 1755 Survey to hold by copy of Court Roll for the term of her natural life:
8 On a postcard stamped 1910 is written ‘built 1681’ and Cloudesley Willis states that there was a shield in the hall dated 1681. However the listing particulars state that the house is dated 1684 on the staircase ceiling (List of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest). The 1681 date is to be preferred but, even if the 1684 date is correct, this may not indicate that the house was built then, as the ceiling may have been put in after the house was built. 9 The Journeys of Celia Fiennes, ‘A further description of Epsome, Hampton Court and Windsor’ ed. Christopher Morris, 1947, p.348-349. Later descriptions of the house may be found in Pownall; Brayley, and the Surrey Archaeological Society Transactions for 1950. Pownall wrongly states that the house was formerly the residence of Sir John Jackson (p.129) while also stating that John Jackson’s house was on Downs Road (p. 124). His error is repeated by Brayley. The owners and tenants from 1780 to 1832 are known from the Land Tax and the Elmslies owned and occupied the property for many years after. Sir John Jackson, 1st Baronet of Ardsley, co Bedford was born at Kingston, Jamaica on 30th December, 1763 and created a Baronet on 22nd May, 1815 (Burke ). 10 See Lehmann 14B1a. 11 A body of persons owing allegiance. In English Law, the body of tenants attending a manorial court (O.E.D). The Epsom Court Rolls record a homage for the Court Leet and a jury for the Court Baron. 12 See Lehmann 14B2. 13 The location of the original of this copy and of a copy of a similar map of Smith Hatch Field is unfortunately not known. The originals were probably once owned by a local historian, Mr. Edwards, and given to some repository on his death. At this time the Epsom and Ewell Local History Society probably acquired their copies which are kept at Bourne Hall. The maps are of considerable interest and that of Woodcote Common Field dates from the 1720’s (with numerous parcels marked Diston who surrendered his property to sureties in 1730). While names on the parcels appear unchanged, there are references to later substantial landowners, namely the Garlands, D’Albiac, (who acquired the Durdans estate in 1764) and Mr. Smith. A large blank area is marked ‘Mr. Smith’s garden’ and includes areas that were not owned by Mary Stephens and were acquired by the Smiths in the 1760’s. Either the original map has been in some way reworked or the copy is a copy of a revised version.
158 Woodcote Place and the White House
“a messuage or tenement and piece of ground part of a garden and also half an acre of ground (formerly common field land but now laid in the said garden) abutting on the road leading to Walton on the south west part on Woodcott Common field on the north east part on other estates of the said Mary Stephens on the south east part and on land of Edward Northey Esqr. on the north west part Also half an acre in Dulls shot in woodcote Common field abutting on land of Mary Potter on the south east part and on land of Mark Parsons on the north east part Quit Rent 1s 9d”
Mary similarly claimed: “A messuage or tenement called the white house and a piece of meadow ground now an orchard containing in the whole about an acre abutting on the road leading to Walton on the south west part and on several parcels of land (formerly common field Land but now inclosed) on the north east part Quit rent 6d”
In addition Mary similarly claimed two severall half acres formerly common field land but now enclosed 14
The 1680 survey recorded that the quit rent by apportionment of the Maund property was 1/9 and that it had a half acre in Dulls Shot. The same is the case with the first of Mary’s two properties. This indicates that the first property was Woodcote Place and that the White House was on the former Berkeley property to the south15.
Mary Stephens left a long and complicated Will16 as is not unusual with rich elderly women who have no children. It is dated 17th March, 1748 and has no less than seven codicils dated between 17th August, 1749 and 20th September, 1754. The Will was not proved until 8th August, 1756.
In her Will Mary describes herself as formerly of Queen Square in the Parish of St. George the Martyr, Middlesex but late of Epsom, Surrey. She gives Queen Square as her address in her fourth codicil dated 5th May, 1752.
Two passages in her Will need to be quoted in full, the first from the Will, and the second from the last codicil:
14 Viz: “half an acre of land in Woodcote corner (formerly common field land but now inclosed) abutting on the copyhold estate of the said Mary Stephens on the north west part and on a freehold half acre of the said Mary Stephens on the south east part Quit rent by Apportionment 3d.” and “half an acre of land in woodcote corner (formerly common field land but now inclosed) abutting on a freehold half acre of the said Mary Stephens on the north west part and on land of Nathl. Garland Esq. on the south east part Quit rent by Apportionment 6d.”
15 This conclusion is reached despite the fact that the Companion refers to Woodcote Place as a white house which but for this evidence would suggest that it was the White House. 16 PROB 11/817/226
159 Other Woodcote Houses
“And Whereas I have lately purchased an old House Barn and Stable in the parish of Epsom formerly rented by Mr. Farrow or Farrer which (with other Buildings adjoining to them) I have since pulled down I give all the Land they stood on and the Orchard Ground belonging to that House with all my Right and Property in them to those Right Heirs of my late Husband Mr. Anthony Stephens to whom he has by his last Will given the house I live in at Epsom after my decease to hold to him her or them and his her or their Heirs and Assigns for ever” and in the codicil: “I have in my Lifetime given all my Orange Trees at Epsome to those persons whom Mr. Stephens my late Husband has by his last Will made his Heirs at my decease to the two Houses he had there”.
This confirms that that there were two houses at the date of Anthony’s death, one of which was Woodcote Place. Mary clearly wished to improve the property by removing an unsightly house.17
Mary Stephens died between 20th September, 1754 (the date of her last codicil) and 8th August, 1756 (when her Will was proved).18
Samuel Smith’s purchase On 25th October, 1756, Anthony Stephens’ heirs were admitted to the properties and enfranchised them on 7th and 8th December, 1756.G The houses are described as: All that Mess[uag]e or Tenem[en]t and Peice of Ground Part of a Garden and also three half acres of Ground (formerly Common ffield Land but now laid into the said Garden) abutting on the Road leading to Walton on the South West Part on Woodcote Common ffield on the North East Part and on Land of Edward Northey Esqr. on the North West Part [Par erased] Also all that Mess[uag]e or Tenem[en]t called the White house adjoining to the last mec[i]oned Messuag[e] or Tenem[en]t together with the Orchard thereunto belonging.H
On 18th October, 1757 by Indenture Tripartite,I almost all of these properties were sold to Samuel Smith for £1071. The two houses were described as follows:
All that Mess[uag]e or Tenem[en]t and Peice of Ground Part of a Garden and also three half Acres of Ground (formerly Common ffield land but now laid into the said Garden) abutting on the Road leading to Walton on the South West Part and on Woodcote Common ffield on the North East Part also all that Mess[uag]e or Tenem[en]t called the White house adjoining to the last menc[i]oned Mess[uag]e or Tenem[en]t together with the Orchard thereunto belongingJ
17 See the section on Farrow in Chapter 7. 18 The 1755 Survey was presented to the Court Baron on 8th September, 1755 and adjourned several times until 5th January, 1756. Mary Stephens probably died early in 1755.
160 Woodcote Place and the White House
There were however significant differences between the property left to Anthony’s heirs on Mary Stephens’ death, and the property sold to Samuel Smith. The adjoining landowners, Edward Northey and Ann and Nathaniel Garland, had stepped in to secure those bits of the property which would improve their own.
First on 4th and 5th April, 1757, there was an exchange of lands between Edward Northey and Anthony Stephens’ heirs. Northey surrendered three separate parcels in Mary Stephens’ garden or the adjoining field while the heirs surrendered Farrow, being the plot of land on which there had been a house pulled down by Mary Stephens, and also the land on which her coach house stood which adjoined the west side of the garden of Woodcote Green House.K
Then on 3rd and 4th May, 1757, as appears from the Endnote I in the Addenda, the heirs exchanged lands with Ann and Nathaniel Garland who owned Woodcote Grove. The heirs gave up part of an orchard belonging to the White House of one rood and 37 pole (just under a half an acre) and of 35 pole (a little less than a quarter of an acre) in the adjoining field.
Doubtless to provide a clear title for all concerned, a fine was then levied transferring all Mary Stephens’ property to Edward Northey and Nathaniel Garland. The transfer will have been upon trust for Northey and Garland to convey the property to Samuel Smith except for the lands subject to the ex-changes.L It is for this reason that they are parties to the conveyance to Smith.
It therefore appears that although Samuel Smith acquired the White House as well as Woodcote Place, the White House had lost part of its garden and paddock and the sale did not include Mary’s coach house.
The fact that Mary’s coach house was inconveniently situated away from her property in Woodcote Green Road suggests there was no acceptable location for it on her own land. For a rich man such as Smith having no coach house would not have been tolerable and the solution must have been to demolish the White House and build stables and a coach house in their place. At the same time he replaced the White House by purchasing Woodcote Green House at some time between 1755 and 1762.19 By 1780, we find his eldest son Samuel Smith III owning Woodcote Green House, and his brother-in-law, Thomas Watson, in occupation of it.
Following the original purchase, Samuel Smith II also entered on a flurry of dealings to extend his property, buying up much of the neighbouring land. The
Court Baron on 28th December, 1761, recorded his purchases of copyholds from Mary Potter, Robert Wrench, and Sarah Miriam Wood; on 29th March, 1762 these copyholds were enfranchised. Some of the lands are difficult to identify but they must have included the large paddock behind the garden of Woodcote Place.20
Road diversion A Justices’ order of 1804 21 authorised a diversion of Worple Road to its present line from its old route close to Woodcote Grove (where it joined Chalk Lane almost opposite Woodcote End). There is a detailed map accompanying the order and recording the consent of Nathaniel
19 See Chapter 5, Note Error! Bookmark not defined. and related text. 20 See also Lehmann 14C2 for additional details. 21 S.H.C.: QS 5/8/10.
161 Other Woodcote Houses
Garland and of George Smith. The map shows that there were then stable buildings close to Woodcote Grove; these have now been pulled down and replaced with stabling built on the other side of the old road. It is clear that the land between the old and new lines of the road was part of the grounds of the White House and indeed an orchard is marked. It will be recalled that the Garlands retained two parcels of land belonging to the White House for themselves. Together they totalled just under three quarters of an acre and this, probably with some extra land acquired from the Smiths, must comprise the one and a quarter acres involved in the diversion. Diverting the road gave the Garlands greater privacy.
In the area behind the point where the diversion of the old road begins, the map also shows a cottage, farmery and paddock. This appears in George Smith’s insurance certificate of 17th April, 180122 as: “On a Barn and Cottage at a small distance from the above [i.e. his other houses] adj[oinin]g each other Timber built and tiled in the Occupation of Mr. James Aylwin Farmer £200”.
The Elmslies and later history of the house On 4th March, 1820, James Elmslie, who had been renting Woodcote Place from Frances Smith, purchased the freehold from her, and the associated copyhold lands were subsequently enfranchised. James’s widow, Mary, inherited on James death. Mary died intestate in November 1868 and the inheritance was disputed. Eventually the property was auctioned on 9th August, 1889. The particulars with detailed maps of the grounds survive.23 The area where the White House once stood is occupied by stables and No. 5 Chalk Lane (which was the head groom’s cottage according to the current occupiers24). The cottage farmery and paddock on the 1801 insurance certificate are also shown.
The auction particulars make plain that title to Woodcote Place is to be derived through the heir at law of Mary Emslie and that the Vendor in 1889 (who is not named) purchased on 14th October 1873 from Alexander Milne and John Mann.
The particulars require purchasers to rely on the case of Dicey-v-Forbes. This was between Anne Mary Dicey, Widow of 40 Onslow Square, Middlesex and John Hopton Forbes, Edward Richard Northey and James Grant Stephens. The Bill of Complaint filed on 10th December 1868 and an Affidavit by James Hunt a solicitor’s clerk filed on 19th December 1868, survive.25 According to the Bill, Mary Emslie made her last Will on 11th May 1858 which inter alia left life interests in Woodcote Place and other property to her brothers Alexander Calder and Edward Calder and the remainder to Henry John Stephen. Alexander Calder and the defendants Edward Richard Northey and John Hopton Forbes were executors.
22 Guildhall Library: RE/183394,Vol. 40. 23 Bourne Hall museum. 24 This is almost certainly correct. Although in the 1881 census the occupant was a gardener (William Warwick), in the 1873 census George Nelson, coachman, was there, and in the censuses of 1841, 1851, and 1861, Henry Connell, coachman, was in occupation. 25 TNA (ref C16/487/D143 C38690). The Hunt affidavit states that Mary was a lunatic and that Anne Mary Dicey appeared in the proceeding in lunacy as one of the next of kin and he (Hunt) believes she is one of the next of kin. The evidence of Alexander Forbes Tweedie supporting the lunacy proceedings showed that Edward Calder died in August 1861 unmarried and Alexander Calder died in August 1867 unmarried.
162 Woodcote Place and the White House
Mary Emslie died on 9th November 1868 and the Will was proved by John Hopton Forbes and Edward Richard Northey,Alexander Calder, Edward Calder26 and Henry John Stephen died in the lifetime of Mary Emslie.
The Bill continues that Mary Emslie had no issue and that none of her relatives on her father’s side survived her. Mary was the daughter of James Calder and of his wife Anne formerly Anne Stephen spinster. All the brothers and sisters of Anne Calder and all the children of such brothers and sisters died in Mary’s lifetime.
Anne Mary Dicey, the Plaintiff, was a granddaughter of James Stephen who was one of Anne Calder’s brothers. She is therefore one of Mary’s next of kin and so entitled to share in the residuary estate.
The defendant James Grant Stephen is the great grandson of the same James Stephen and is the heir at law of Mary. He claims Woodcote Place and other property.
In her prayer Mary asks for a share of the estate. The result of the case is not known but the particulars suggest the title derived from the heir at law who was apparently James Grant Stephen. So perhaps the defendants won the case.
The subsequent history of the house is one of decline. While the 1897 Ordnance Survey suggests it is in private hands, the 1931 edition shows that the northern part of the grounds had been sold for development and that the house had become The Woodcote Hotel. After the Second World War, the owner tried to make ends meet by converting the grounds to a market garden.27 Following a fire which destroyed the interior of the house, the stable area was sold off and refurbished in 1966. The house was converted to offices with a club called The Westgate Club in the basement. Thereafter the property became empty and dilapidated. Once again refurbished in the early 1990’s, a fire that was started deliberately left it a ruin. The present house divided into flats bears little resemblance inside to the original and outside the roof is quite different. But at least the ghost of the old house has been preserved and the building is now used and in good repair.28
26 Edward died in the house S.H.C. 2113/3/1. 27 Reminiscence of Mr. Philip Marshall (see Chapter 1: Mr. Philip Marshall). 28 Much of this information is taken from an unpublished ‘History of Westgate House’ written by Mrs. Sue White for the last developers.
163 Other Woodcote Houses
Addenda
A 1680, 30th September: Court Baron Before the date of this Court, on 20th April, 1680, Thomas Addison of Epsom husbandman surrendered: totum ill[um] Tenementu[m] sive Cottagiu[m] suu[m] et Area[m] cum p[er]tin[entibus] scituat[um] jacen[tem] et existen[tem] ex Oriental[i] parte de Co[mmun]ia vocat[a] Woodcott Greene Ac etiam Unam Acram & unam Virgat[am] Terr[e] eidem p[er]tinen[tes] cum p[er]tin[entibus] videl[ice]t tres Virgat[as] Adjungen[tes] ad tenementu[m] p[re]dict[um] et dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] in le Shott vocat[o] Dulls in Co[mmun]i Campo vocat[o] Ebisham Comon field Ad solum Opus et Usum Johis Maund de Ebisham p[re]dict[o] gen[erosi] hered[um] et Assign[atorum] suor[um] imp[er]p[et]uu[m] etc. p[ro omnibus] reddit p[er] Annu[m] is ixd herriott fideliter Sect[am] Cur[ie] et al[lia] Servic[ia] inde prius debit et de jure consuet[us est] et sic Admissus est inde Tenens modo et forma p[re]dict[is] habuit Seisinam p[er] Virgam fecit D[omi]ne ffidelitatem et ffinis imponit p[er] Senscellio p[re]dict[o] pro tali Admissione sua p[re]d[i]c[t]a ad 50/-
B 1682, 23rd October: Court Baron Surrender by John Maund of Epsom gent of: totum ill[um] messuagiu[m] sive tenementu[m] Customar[ium] Area[m] et unam Acram et Unam Virgat[am] Terr[e] cum p[er]tin[entibus] scituat[um] jacen[tem] et existen[tem] ex Oriental[i] parte de Co[mmun]ia vocat[a] Woodcott Greene in Ebisham p[re]dict[o] ad Opus et Usum Antonii Stevens de London gen[erosi] et Margarete uxor[is] ejus et hered[um] et Assign[atorum] p[ro omnibus] reddit p[er] An[nu]m is ixd herriott etc. Fine of £10-15-0 paid
C 1677, 17th September: Court Baron: Ad hanc Cur [iam] Comp[er]t[u]m est p[er] Homagiu[m] Decimo Septimo die Septembris …….1677 Robtus Rogers de Worcester Parke in Comitato Surr[ie] yeoman Tenens Customar[ius] Manerii p[re]dict[i] surrenders: totum ill[um] Messuagiu[m] sive tenementu[m] suu[m] Customar[ium] horreu[m] gardinu[m] pomariu[m] Area[m] et una[m] p[ar]cell[am] prati inclus[am] eidem p[er]tinen[tem] cum p[er]tin[entibus] continen[tem] p[er] estimac[i]on]em tres Rodas plus sive minus Adjungen[tes] ad Commun[em] Campu[m] vocat[um] Ebisham Comon field ex parte Oriental[i] et ad Terr[am] Thome Addison ex parte Boreal[i] modo in tenura sive Occupac[i]one Thome ffox vel Assign[atorum] suor[um] Ad solum Opus et Usum p[re]honorabilis Georgii D[omi]ni Berkeley hered[um] et Assign[atorum] suor[um] imp[er]p[et]uu[m] p[ro omnibus] reddit p[er] Annu[m] herriott etc……. et sic Admissus est inde Tenens modo et forma p[re]dict[is] habuit Seisinam p[er] Virgam et Dedit D[omi]ne pro fine pro tali Admissione sua p[re]d[i]c[t]a xixli solut[as] in Cur[ia].
Some 11 eleven years previously on 29th March, 1665[6], Rogers had obtained a licence to let a tenement and an acre of land near Woodcote End to Thomas Fox for 21 years. This must be the same property. The lease will have expired just after Berkeley sold to the Stephens.
164 Woodcote Place and the White House
D 1683, 8th November: Court Baron After the last court held, namely on 26th June, 1683, Berkeley (alone) surrendered: totum ill[um] messuagiu[m] sive tenementu[m] Customar[ium] cum Edificiis pomar[iis] et p[er]tin[entibus] eidem p[er]tinen[tibus] scituat[um] jacen[tem] et existen[tem] prope Woodcott Greene in p[ar]ochia de Ebbisham infra Manerio p[re]dict[o] et in tenura sive Occupac[i]one Thome ffox Glazier sive Assign[atorum] suor[um] ad Opus et Usum Antonii Stephens de Ebbisham p[re]dict[o] gen[erosi] et Margarete uxor[is] ejus hered[ibus] et Assign[atis] suis imp[er]p[et]uu[m] p[ro omnibus] reddit p[er] Annu[m] herriott etc. et sic admissis[er]unt inde Tenen[tes] modo et forma p[re]dict[is] habuer[int] Seisinam p[er] Virgam p[re]fat[us] Antonius fecit D[omi]ne ffidelitatem Fine xxili xs
E PROB 11/425/65 Anthony wishes his second wife, Mary, to have a life interest in properties apparently named in Articles of Agreement (i.e. the marriage settlement) viz: a) rents from leasehold of messuages and grounds near Skinner Street without Bishopgate held under the Skinners Company b) a farm called Dunley in Husborne Pryors [Hurstbourne Priors] in the County of Southton [Southampton now Hampshire] in the occupation of Hugh Hellier yeoman c) copyhold or customary Messuages or Tenements in Ebisham plus pieces of land belonging to them in Woodcote Field which will be surrendered to the Manor Lord forthwith to this and other uses mentioned in the surrender and then to the use of his last Will. Some of his property is charged with annual payments to Mr. John Nesbet as long as he is Elder Teacher or Pastor of a particular congregation or church of which the Testator is a member, previously served by Mr.George Corking. Anthony also makes an annual payment to Mr. Rowe Minister of the Gospel in Ebisham as long as he is Preacher to the private congregation at Ebisham. It would seem likely therefore that he was a dissenter.
F 1695, 28th October: 7 Wm & Mary: Court Baron: Death of Anthony Stephens since last Court reported. Heriot a horse. Christopher Coles previously admitted. His property was: “omnia ill[a] Duo Messuagia sive Tenementa Customar[ia] Edificia Gardina Pomaria et sep[ar]at[as] peic[i]as sive p[ar]cell[as] Terr[e] eisd[em] Adjungen[tes] et p[er]tinen[tes] cum suis p[er]tin[entibus] scituat[a] jacen[tia] et existen[tia] in Co[mmun]i Campo vocat[o] Woodcott ffield Ac Adjungen[ta] et ex Oriental[i] parte de Co[mmun]ia vocat[a] Woodcott Greene in Ebbisham predict[o] p[ro omnibus?] reddit p[er] An[nu]m et al[lia] Servic[ia]”
G CP 54/5997 31 Geo II: Part 1, Division B, No. 23 Parties: John Parkhurst Esqr. Lord of the Manor of Ebbisham in the County of Surry (1) and John Howe of Henslep in the County of Bucks Esqr. Margaret Mortimer of Newgate Street London Spinster Elizabeth Stephens wife of John Merricks of Hillingley in the County of Sussex Gent. Susannah Woodyer of Chinley in the said County of Sussex Spinster and Penelope Woodyer of the same place Spinster (2)
165 Other Woodcote Houses
H The conveyance continues with the parcels as follows: Also all that half Acre of Land situate in Dulls Shott in Woodcote Common ffeild abutting on Land of Mary Potter on the South East Part and on Land of Mark Parsons on the North West Part all which said prem[ise]es were held by Mary Stephens late of Ebbisham aforesaid Widow now decd for the Term of her Natural Life Also all that half Acre of Land part whereof is now Inclosed into the Garden belonging to the Messe or Tenemt. first above menconed formerly common ffield Land abutting on Land of the said Edward Northey Esqr. on the South East Part and on Land of Mary Potter on the North West Part which half acre was late the inheritance of Richard Lewis Gent. Also all that half acre of Land (formerly Common ffield Land but now Inclosed with other Lands and Situate in a Close adjoining to the Mess[uag]es or Tenem[en]ts. above mentioned) abutting on Land of Nathaniel Garland Esqr. now dec[eas]ed on the South East Part and on Land of the said Edward Northey Esqr. on the North West Part which said half acre of Land last menc[i]oned was formerly the Inheritance of Richard Ryves now dec[eas]ed and also all that half Acre of Land formerly common ffield Land but now Inclosed with other Lands and situate in the said Close adjoining to the said Mess[uag]es or Tenem[en]ts. abutting on Land of the said Edward Northey on the South East Part and on Land of the said Nathaniel Garland on the North West Part and which said half Acre of Land last menc[i]oned was late the Inheritance of James and John Todd all and Singular which premes are situate lying and being in the Parish of Ebbisham aforesaid and were all (Except the half Acre in Dulls Shott) in the Tenure and Occupac[i]on of the said Mary Stephens at the time of her Death and also all other the Mess[uag]es Lands Tenem[en]ts. and heredit[ament]s of them the said John Howe Margaret Mortimer Elizabeth Stephens Merricks Susannah Woodyer and Penelope Woodyer and holden By Copy of Court Roll of the said Manor together with all etc.
I CP 54/5999 31 Geo II: Part 3, Division B, No. 11 Parties: John Howe of Henslep in the County of Bucks Esqr. and Caroline his Wife Margaret Mortimer of Newgate Street London Spinster John Merricks of Hillingley in the County of Sussex [start of intercalated line] Gent. and Elizabeth Stephens his wife Susannah Woodyer of Chinley in the said County of Sussex [end of intercalated line] Spinster and Penelope Woodyer of the same place Spinster (1) Samuel Smith of Aldermanbury London Merchant (2) and Edward Northey of Ebbisham in the County of Surry Esqr. and Nathaniel Garland of the same place Esqr. (3) Recitals: Parties of the first part or some of them own the Freehold to the premises described and Smith has agreed to purchase it for £1,057
J The document continues with parcels of land etc. as follows: also all that half Acre of Land situate in Dulls Shott in Woodcote Common ffeild abutting on Land of Mary Potter on the South East Part and on Land of Mark Parsons on the North West Part also all that half Acre of Land (part whereof is now Inclosed into the Garden belonging to the Mess[uag]e or Tenem[en]t. first above menc[i]oned) abutting on Land of Mary Potter on the North West Part which half acre was late the inheritance of Richard Lewis Gent. also all that half acre of Land (formerly Common ffield Land but now Inclosed with other Lands and Situate in a Close adjoining to the Mess[uag]es or Tenem[en]ts. above menc[i]oned) which said half acre of Land last menc[i]oned was formerly the Inheritance of Richard Ryves now deced and also all that half Acre of Land (formerly common ffield Land but now Inclosed with other Lands and situate in the said Close adjoining to the said Mess[uag]es or Tenem[en]ts.) which said half Acre of Land last menc[i]oned was late the Inheritance of James and John Todd which said Mess[uag]es or Tenem[en]ts. Peices or Parcells of Land were late Customary and held by Copy of Court Roll of the Manor of Ebbisham aforesaid and were Enfranchised by the Lord of the said Manor by Ind[entu]res of Lease and Release bearing date respectively on or about the seventh and eighth
166 Woodcote Place and the White House
days of December one Thousand Seven hundred and ffifty Six and made between John Parkhurst Esqr. Lord of the said Manor of Ebbisham of the one Part and the said John Howe Margaret Mortimer Elizabeth Stephens Merricks Susannah Woodyer and Penelope Woodyer of the other Part also all that half Acre of Land (formerly common ffield Land but now Inclosed into and Part of the said Garden of the Mess[uag]e or Tenem[en]t. first above menc[i]oned which said half Acre of Land last menc[i]oned was formely the freehold inheritance of Captain John Maund. also all those three several half Acres of Land formerly common ffield Land but now Inclosed one whereof is situate in and Part of the said Garden belonging to the menc[i]oned) which said half Acre of Land last menc[i]oned was formerly the freehold Inheritance of Captain John Maund Mess[uag]e or Tenem[en]t. first above menc[i]oned and the other two half Acres are situate in and Part of the said Close or ffield adjoining to the said Mess[uag]es or Tenem[en]ts. all which said three half Acres of Land last menc[i]oned were late the Inheritance of the said Edward Northey esqr. also all those two half Acres of Land formerly common ffield Land but now Inclosed one whereof is situate in and Part of the said Garden and ffield and the other whereof is situate in and Part of the said ffield which said two half Acres of Land last menc[i]oned were late the Inheritance of Ann Garland Widow and the said Nathaniel Garland Except nevertheless out of the said Prem[is]es all those two Peices or Parcells of Land the one whereof is taken out and Part of the said Orchard belonging to the Mess[uag]e or Tenem[en]nt. above menc[i]oned called the White house and Containing one rood and thirty seven Pole or thereabouts and the other Piece or Parcel of Land is taken out and Part of the said ffield and Containing Thirty five Pole or thereabouts and which said [two intercalated] Peices or Parcels of Land hereby Excepted were Conveyed in Exchange by them the said John Howe and Caroline his Wife Margaret Mortimer John Merricks and Elizabeth Stephens his Wife Susannah Woodyer and Penelope Woodyer to the said Ann Garland and Nathaniel Garland by Ind[entu]res of Lease and Release bearing date respectively the third and fourth days of May now last past all and Singular which prem[is]es are situate lying and being in the Parish of Ebbisham aforesaid and were all (Except the half Acre in Dulls Shott) late in the Tenure and Occupation of Mary Stephens Widow dec[eas]ed and also all other the Mess[uag]es and Tenem[en]ts. & Lands and heredit[ament]s whatsoever of them the said John Howe and Caroline his Wife Margaret Mortimer John Merricks and Elizabeth Stephens his Wife Susannah Woodyer and Penelope Woodyer or any or either of them situate lying and being in the Parish of Ebbisham aforesaid in the said County of Surrey together with all etc.
K S.H.C.: 3636/Box 8: Northey and the heirs of the devisees of Anthony Stephens’ Will (John Howe esq of Henslep Bucks and Caroline his wife, Margaret Mortimer spinster of Newgate Street London, John Merricks gent of Hellingsley Sussex & Elizabeth Stephens his wife, and Susannah Woodyer and Penelope Woodyer spinsters of Chinley Sussex, entered into a Lease and Release by way of Exchange on 4th and 5th April, 1757. Northey gave: 1. ½ acre formerly in the Common field but now inclosed into and part of Mrs. Stephens garden abutting on land now or late of Richard Lewis on the northwest. 2. ½ acre formerly in the Common field but now inclosed into field adjoining Mrs. Stephens garden abutting on land of Nathaniel Garland esq. deceased on the southeast and northwest. 3. ½ acre formerly in the Common field but now inclosed on field abutting on land of Richard Ryves deceased on the southeast and on the land of James and John Todd on the northwest and all other lands of Edward Northey connected with the garden and field. The Heirs of the Devisees gave: 1. A piece or parcel of ground, and a stable and outhouse thereon built, together with a yard before it, and the front thereof adjoining Woodcote Green containing in depth from Woodcote Green to the back part of the stable 40' and in length from the stable and coach house formerly of Mrs. Milton which joins to it on the north part thereof and to the garden or court of the dwelling house formerly of John Maund on the south side 31' at or near Woodcote Green This is the Stephens’ coach house first referred to in John Maund’s Will (1686). And also 2. A piece or parcel whereon a messuage or tenement with an outhouse formerly stood on the south side of Woodcote Green formerly in the tenure or occupation of William Daniel and late of Mary Stephens This is Farrow
and all other the lands and hereditaments which the said Mary Stephens purchased of John Manly the son and John Robins deceased, John Adams and Ann his wife late Ann Behrens.
167 Other Woodcote Houses
L On the morrow of the Holy Trinity 30 Geo II [1757] Edward Northey Esqr. and Nathaniel Garland Esqr. Plts. and John Howe Esqr. & Caroline his wife Margaret Mortimer John Merricks & Elizabeth Stephens his wife Susannah Woodyer and Penelope Woodyer Deforcts. of two Messuages two barns two Stables two Coach houses two Gardens two Orchards Seven acres of Land and six acres of Pasture with the appurt[enance]s. in Ebbisham otherwise Epsom Acknowleged the properties to be the right of Edward as those which the said Edward and Nathaniel have as the gift of the Deforciants £100 1st Proclamation 29th June in Trinity Term 31 Geo II 2nd Proclamation 28th Novemb. In Michas Term 31 Geo II 3rd Proclamation 13th ffeby in Hillary Term 31 Geo II 4th Proclamation 18th April in Easter Term 31 Geo II Reference: CP 25/2/1221/30/31 Geo II Trin
168 Woodcote Place and the White House
169 Other Woodcote Houses
45. Woodcote House 1823.
170 Woodcote House
46. Woodcote House 1830.
171 Other Woodcote Houses
47. Outline Northey Pedigree with owners and occupiers of Woodcote House highlighted.
172 Other Woodcote Houses
Chapter 9: WOODCOTE HOUSE
Summary Sir Edward Northey (1652-1723) was knighted in 1702 and was Attorney General from 1701- 7 and from 1710-18 thus serving three monarchs – William III, Anne and George I. He was M.P. for Tiverton in 1710.
Sir Edward died on 16th August, 1723 whereupon his widow, Dame Anne, sister and co-heir of Sir William Jolliffe, acquired a life interest in the Epsom properties until her death on 13th August, 1743. Sir Edward’s younger son, Edward, then inherited. The family were in Epsom for almost 250 years.
Sir Edward’s property, later and now known as Woodcote House, is on the site of and possibly incorporates all or parts of the ‘late erected messuage …. near the house called or known by the name of Doghouse’, first referred to in 1686, and of the Doghouse itself.
Woodcote House was freehold in the 1755 Survey and there is no record of an enfranchisement. The only freeholds known to have been acquired by Sir Edward were the ‘late erected messuage’ in 1695 and the Doghouse near it in 1710.
The Doghouse is stated in the 1681 Survey to ‘abut on Gills Lane to the south west’. Gills Lane in the 1755 Survey is described as ‘the lane leading from Upper to Lower Woodcott Green called Gills Lane’.A
The conclusion reached is that Woodcote House most probably consisted of the ‘late erected messuage’, which is the main house in Hassell’s 1823 picture.
Finally the terms of Sir Robert Coke’s Will regarding his father’s library are interesting and are given in Endnote B in the Addenda as they have not previously been published in full.
Building History The building history is uncertain. In 1695 Northey bought the ‘late erected messuage’. It is not clear whether he rebuilt or refurbished. He does not claim to have rebuilt in his Will, although both E.G.V. Northey in 1988 and Brayley writing in 1847 say that he did.1 The most detail is in Home,2 who says that the first reference to the house in old writings is by Toland in 1711, who refers to ‘Sir Edward Northey’s on Woodcote Green’. Home also states:
1 E.G.V. Northey writes: “[Sir Edward] bought land near Epsom where he built Woodcote House in a beautiful park. The house was originally typically Queen Anne and built in lovely red brick as were the stables. Sadly, later in Victorian days, it was made bigger and much less beautiful.” (Northey Family) Brayley (p. 367) also states that the house was built by Sir Edward, but makes no reference to the refurbishment of the house in the nineteenth century. 2 Pp.78 – 80.
173 Other Woodcote Houses
“Of the original Woodcote House only a portion remains, the greater part of the building being of a later date – the roofs being slated and the walls covered with stucco.”
In Bourne Hall museum are two pictures of the house. The first is by J. Hassell and shows a typical Spa house with a later western wing. It is dated 1823. The second again marked as by Hassell shows the current stuccoed house with a second matching wing and a totally new front and windows. During refurbishment in 2005, the stucco was removed from the central basement windows and the bare brick disclosed that the existing sash windows had replaced earlier ocular windows which predated the stucco rendering. The old brickwork surrounding the ocular windows is English bond suggesting a pre-1692 date. The more fashionable Flemish bond was used in 1692 in the Assembly Rooms at Epsom and, if the ocular windows were later, one would expect the surround to have been built in the newer style.
Edward Wenyeve and the Doghouse Chapter 11 on the Durdans shows that by 1647 Sir Robert Coke had inherited the Durdans estate from his wife Theophila. In the same year he acquired a neighbouring property. John Hewitt and his wife Elena, and Thomas Hewitt and his wife Margery, by a Fine, conveyed to Sir Robert Coke, for £60, one house, one barn, one stable, one garden, one orchard, 40 acres of land and 4 acres of pasture with appurtenances in Epsom.B
In the Hilary term of 1653, Sir Robert Coke and Theophila Coke,3 by a Fine for a sum not stated, conveyed to Edward Wenyeve one messuage one garden one orchard fourteen acres of land & eight acres of pasture w[i]th the appurtenances in Ebisham.4
Sir Robert Coke died on 19th July, 1653. He left a Will, dated 7th December, 1652, and an undated Codicil, proved on 2nd August, 1653, by Edward Wenyeve Esquire, sole Executor.5
In his Will, Sir Robert Coke left Edward Wenyeve a house or tenement in Epsom called the Doghouse with all the houses yards orchards Lands and pastures which he had lately purchased with their appurtenances. He left Durdans to George, 9th Baron (and later 1st Earl), Berkeley. The Will was executed before the Fine was levied; the Fine clearly relates to the same property, Doghouse, as the Will. Both the Will and Codicil contained unusual provisions which are set out in Endnote C in the Addenda.C
The Berkeleys acquire the Doghouse In the 1681 Survey,6 the Right Honble George Berkeley Lord Berkeley Mowbray Segrave and Bruce Baron of Berkeley Castle Viscount Dursly and Earle of Berkeley Claymes to hold (inter alia) by free deed:
3 As his wife was dead, this must either be an error, or this Theophila must be Sir Robert’s niece Theophila, who was living with Sir Robert when he executed the Codicil to his Will. 4 N.A. (Kew): CP 25/2/601/1653/54 Hil. 5 N.A.: PROB 11/230/294 and V.C.H., Vol.3, p.276. 6 Page 77 under Freeholds.
174 Woodcote House
And also One Messuage called Doghouse One Barne or Stable One Orchard and One Close of pasture thereto Adjoyning conteyning three Acres Abutting on Gills Lane on the South west part and on the lands of John Maund gent on the North east part 7 There is no record of how George acquired Doghouse from Wenyeve or his heirs.
By a Deed dated 25th January, 1689[/90], (recited in the Deed of 23rd February, 1710 referred to below) Berkeley assigned to Sir William Turner, Knight of London, for 500 years various premises, including the Doghouse. This was a mortgage.
The ‘newly erected messuage’ On 1st & 2nd November, 1686, by Lease and Release, George Earl of Berkeley (and Elizabeth, his wife, in the Release only) conveyed to Sir William Turner Kt and alderman of London and Robert Nelson esq of St. James in the Fields: a late erected Messuage or tenement, and 1 acre of land and stables, coach houses, outhouses, gardens, and orchard now or late in the tenure or occupation of Lady Mary Grey near the house called or known by the name of the Doghouse.
Turner and Nelson are to hold on trust for Lady Berkeley to appoint, and failing appointment for her heirs.8 It is not clear why Berkeley made this arrangement. Possibly the property was originally part of a marriage settlement. It does not feature in the 1681 Survey.
At a Court Baron on 27th October, 1690, consent was given (the Lady of the Manor having previously consented) to the enclosure of a small piece of land in Woodcote before the dwelling house of Lord Clifford, belonging to the Earl Berkeley. The Lady of the Manor was Elizabeth, the widow of Richard Evelyn. It seems the enclosure of common land required the consent of the principal tenants, many of whom signed a formal consent which is kept among the Northey deeds.
On 2nd and 3rd October, 1695, by Lease and Release, George Earl of Berkeley and Elizabeth Countess of Berkeley, and Robert Nelson of St. James in the Field Esq,. conveyed to Edward Northey of Middle Temple London Esq: “all that late erected Messuage with the stables Coach house Outhouse Yards gardens and Orchards and the field behind the Messuage containing 2 acres sometime in the tenure of Lady Mary Grey and after of the Right Honble the Lord Clifford and now of Dupas in the pish of Epsom near to a Messuage there sometimes called Downwards als Downers and now or lately called Doghouse in the occupation of -.-.- George”.
7 (S.H.C.: K/31/4/1 p.77: Lehmann p.280). Knyff’s 1679 picture of the Durdans shows two houses in the middle background which could be the Doghouse and the ‘newly erected messuage’, although the latter does not appear in the 1680 Survey. Lehmann also records the separate Berkeley copyhold lands near Durdans under 13A12a, and in 13C12, a list of freehold quit rents dating before 1794 which includes: ‘Durdans Manor and messuage land, and buildings called the Doghouse’. There are remains of kennels north of the Durdans still called the Doghouse which may be referred to, rather than the property sold to Northey. What is clear is that these kennels cannot be the original Doghouse as they are in the wrong place, abutting neither on Gills Lane nor on any known lands of John Maund. 8 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 3.
175 Other Woodcote Houses
It will be noted that there are now 2 acres with the property as a result of the enclosure of the small piece of land in 1690.
The Release recites the Lease and Release of 1st and 2nd November, 1686. Sir William Turner is since dead. £450 is paid to the Countess who declares Nelson is to hold the property on trust for Northey. The Berkeleys warrant that they are seized in fee simple of the property and undertake to levy a Fine before the next Michaelmas term; this was done.9
This sale to Sir Edward Northey of the ‘late erected messuage’ in 1695 is the first reference to Northey in Epsom.
Northey’s purchase of the Doghouse There is then an Indenture dated 23rd February, 1709[/10], (8 Anne) between Cholmley Turner of Kirkleatham Yorks esq, Adm[inistrat]or of Sir William Turner late of London Kt with Will annexed and Sir Edward Northey of Middle Temple London Kt and William Lany of Middle Temple gent.
The Indenture recites a Bargain and Sale of the same date between Charles Turner of Kirkleatham Yorks Esq., Cholmley Turner, son and heir apparent of Charles, and Administrator of Sir William, Sir Robert Beddingfield Kt., Citizen and Alderman of London, and John Ward of Hackney, Middx merchant (1) and Sir Edward (2) in which Beddingfield is directed by Turner to sell the property to Northey.
The Indenture records that 5/- is paid to Cholmley Turner who assigns to William Lany a: “Messuage Barn and Outhouses Gardens Orchard or little field late in the occupation of William George adjoining Ground of Sir Edward” plus various parcels of land.D
All these premises, among others which had been demised by Berkeley to Turner for 500 years by Deed dated 25th January, 1689, are, on payment of £268-15-00, conveyed to Lany for the unexpired term in trust for Northey to attend and wait on the inheritance.10 £281-15-00 is the sum required to be paid to Cholmley Turner in the Bargain and Sale.
The name William George shows this property is Doghouse since -.-.- George is named as tenant of the Doghouse in the 1686 Deeds. The Doghouse is referred to in the 1681 Survey as abutting on Gills Lane on the South west part and on lands of John Maund on the North east part and in the 1686 and 1695 Deeds as near the late erected messuage.
9 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 3. Edward Northey Esq. v George Berkeley and Elizabeth his wife and Robert Nelson. The fine is of ‘uno messuagio uno stabulo uno gardino et duabis acris pasture cum p[er]tin[entibus]’. The consideration stated is £60. 7 Will III Mich (1695). 10 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 4
176 Woodcote House
48(a). Woodcote House refurbishment 2005. View of two of the ocular basement windows.
48(b). Woodcote House refurbishment 2005. Enlarged view of the ocular basement window above with ring of bricks below it.
177 Other Woodcote Houses
49(a). Sir Edward Northey, 1652 – 1723, from a portrait formerly in Woodcote House.
49(b). Lady Anne Northey, wife of Sir Edward, with her daughter Anne.
178 Woodcote House
50. Edward Northey 1691 – 1774 by Charles Phillips.
179 Other Woodcote Houses
This would mean either that the ocular windows in the basement were part of the original house (which dates to before 1647 when Sir Robert and Theophila Coke bought it) or were added later.11
It may be objected that the ‘newly erected messuage’ is described as ‘near’ the Doghouse and it would be more natural to say that the west wing adjoins it (at any rate as the buildings are shown in the picture)12. Furthermore the style of the main house in the picture is typical of a Spa house rather than of one dating (as the Doghouse did) from Cromwellian times or earlier. Lastly the west wing is rather small for the ‘newly erected messuage’ and its style, and particularly the Venetian window, is more late eighteenth century than late seventeenth.
If the main house in the picture, and not the west wing, is ‘the newly erected messuage’, it may be that the Doghouse was pulled down to increase the park land; some outbuildings and a dog kennel listed in the 1755 Survey could once have been part of the property.
What is clear is that the first property Northey bought was the newly erected messuage in 1695 and that he only acquired the Doghouse in 1710 after William George had left.
Northey’s Will In his Will proved in 1723,13 Sir Edward Northey left his Epsom property, after the termination of his wife’s life interest, to his younger son Edward with this explanation: “Whereas great Sums of Money have been laid out Upon my House and Outhouses at Epsom great part whereof will be lost if the same should be sold and my Son
William having a large House in the Country and I having Settled on him all my Houses in London and thereby am Disabled to give my Son Edward any other House fit for his habitation and that my Dwelling House at Epsom may probably be continued in my family and not Sold I give and Devise unto my Son Edward and the heirs male of his body Remainder to my Son William and the Heirs male of his body Remainder in ffee to my Right Heirs the Revertion after the Death of my Wife of all my Lands and Houses Copyhold and ffreehold in the Parish of Epsom aforesaid on Condition and charged with Rebuilding the wall of the Garden on the South part of my Dwelling House there on the Request of my Wife if Rebuilding of the Same or part thereof shall be Necessary during her Life”.
The Doghouse in the Deed of 17th April, 1708 The Doghouse is then referred to in a Deed of 17th April, 1708. In this Deed it is reserved from a sale of the Durdans by Charles Turner to John, Duke of Argyll.14 It is described as a: “messuage or tenement ……. which heretofore was called or known by the name of Dogghouse or Dogghouse ffarme or by whatever name the same was called or known lyinge and being near the said mansion house called Durdens with all Stables Outhouses Yards Gardens Orchards Lands and appurten[an]ces …. as the same are now in the tenure or occupacon of the above named William George his Assigns or Undertenants.”
11 Ocular windows are a feature of Wren churches which appropriately suggests a date in the last quarter of the seventeenth century. They are not, however, basement windows. See also Note 7 above. 12 ‘near’ certainly did not always mean very close as the Doghouse is also described as near the Durdans. See below, The Doghouse in the Deed of 17th April, 1708.
14 N.A. (Kew): CP 54/4986 (7 Anne Part 1: no. 13 - Turner & Argyle). See Endnote G in the Addenda to Chapter 11.
180 Woodcote House
The reservation was presumably made because it was intended that the property would be sold to Sir Edward Northey. At this time William George was still in occupation, so perhaps the sale had to await the end of a lease.
The description of the Doghouse as near the Durdans suggests that ‘near’ may not mean very close as the property had also to abut Gills Lane and John Maund’s lands.
The 1755 Survey The 1755 Survey describes15 Woodcote House which Edward Northey of Ebbisham Esq. claims by free deed as: a messuage or tenement, coach houses, stables, dog kennel and many other outhouses, gardens and orchards and land containing together in the whole about twelve acres abutting on lower woodcote green on the north part on upper woodcott green on the south part on other estates of the said Edwr Northey on the east part and on [the intercalated] lane leading from upper to lower woodcott green called Gills lane on the west part
It will be noted that the property includes a dog kennel. It seems likely that the Doghouse property was named because it had a dog kennel; this may have been now included in the Woodcote House outbuildings.
The two Woodcote Greens and Clay Lane By a consent, dated 19th June 1750 and signed by numerous local inhabitants, Edward Northey was permitted to enclose a strip of Woodcote Green land, measuring 100 feet by 20 feet, adjoining his Stable Yard and Ground on the south east, and Woodcote Green on the north west.16
By Lease and Release dated 11th and 12th May, 1761, John Parkhurst Esq., the Lord of the Manor, conveyed the freehold of Woodcote Lower and Upper Greens and Clay Lane to Edward Northey.17 Endnote E and the Outline Northey Pedigree show the descent of the Epsom properties following Edward’s death in 1774.E
15 Freeholds, page 128. 16 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 20. No Sparks or Hubbald is among the signatories. 17 S.H.C.: K31/1/15, page 100. Lower Woodcote Green is five acres. Upper Woodcote Green is one acre. The conveyance also includes: ’all that piece or parcel of Waste Ground called Clay Lane adjoining to Woodcote Green’. The sale is subject to rights of way etc
181 Other Woodcote Houses
Addenda
A Gills lane, later called Clay Lane, was closed at the instance of Edward Richard Northey in 1829 and a detailed map (S.H.C.: QS 5/8/110) shows it running from the edge of Woodcote Green beyond the west side of Woodcote House and ending at Crockingham Corner (across the road from the Durdans). On the West side of the Lane is Woodcote Little Park and on the East are Woodcote House, three fishponds and then two cottages between the fishponds and Crockingham Corner, all of which are part of the Northey estate. One cottage referred to as ‘late Snellings’ is now 65 Pine Hill. This cottage was marked as empty in the Schedule to the 1843 Tithe Map (No. 1527).
In the 1930’s there was a dispute between Major General Northey and Lord Rosebery’s eccentric daughter, Lady Sybil Grant (S.H.C.: 4073/11). This involved proposed building on Upper Woodcote Green to which the location of Clay Lane was relevant. In a letter to the Major General dated 27th March, 1927, Reginald White suggests that the Lane may have run from the Bailiff’s Cottage on Woodcote Green, and come out between the pond on Upper Woodcote Green and Barclays Cottage; assuming Barclays Cottage is 65 Pine Hill, this is exactly what the detailed map indicates.
A Deed of 20th July 1781 survives, in which Northey grants land and a cottage to William Snelling, and by another deed of 13th December, 1803, Northey allows Samuel Willis, servant to Sweeney Toone of Epsom, Esquire, to build a cottage on the waste land between Clay Lane and Mrs. (sic apparently) Smith’s Park Pales. These pales are something of a mystery as they can only be in Woodcote Little Park to the West of Clay Lane, which is marked on the map as being in Northey’s occupation rather than ownership. George Smith did own some land apart from that around his two houses; perhaps this was Woodcote Little Park, although the Land Tax records say George Smith was also in occupation of the lands that he owned. The Willis cottage must be the one marked red on the detailed map. It was acquired by William Snelling in 1806 and, following his death, both it and Snellings were sold to Northey by Thomas Snelling (who was presumably William’s son) in 1829. At some point afterwards the Willis cottage was pulled down while Snelling’s cottage apparently became Barclays Cottage or ‘Little Woodcote’.
B Int[er] Rob[er]tum Coke militem quer[entem] et Johem Hewett et Elenam ux[or]em eius et Thomam Hewitt et Margiam ux[or]em eius defor[ciant]es de Uno messuagio uno horreo uno stabulo uno gardine uno pomerio quattuordecim acris t[er]re [et intercalated] quatuor acris pasture cum p[er]tin[entibus] in Ebbisham alias Epsam Sexaginta libras sterlingorum Surr. N.A: CP 25/2/496/23 Chas I Trin (1647) [not Chas II as cited in V.C.H.]
C Sir Robert stated in the Will: “Lastly I give to my lovinge and faithfull freind Edward Wenyeve of Brettenham in the sayd County of Suffolke Esqr. all that my Messuage or Tenement now called the Doghouse wth all the houses yards orchards Landes and pastures wch I lately purchased wth every of their Appurtenances situate and beeing in Epsham in the County of Surrey and now in my occupation or my Assignes” and in the Codicil: “And that when my debts are payd if there be any Overplus Sufficient that then hee my Said Executor within twelve monthes after doe paye theise Legacies following if the Legatees [shall intercalated in margin] be then living, And that my Said Executor doe finish up a Convenient Chamber at the Doghouse in my will devised or upon Some parte of the pastures there belonging for a Library to place my books into the [sic] that the same may be carefully kept for any of the Ministers within the Countie of Surry to have recourse unto at any tyme uppon any weeke day betweene Sunne setting and Sunne riseing Provided that not any one booke shalbe carried out of the Library And that Such as shalbe used shalbe againe placed where they were taken ?downe without any manner of alteracon And then what shall remaine of my said Personall Estate I desire my said Executor may injoy with quietnesse And I wish it were more for his long and constant fidelitie love and assistance toward me And I give to my dear Nephew George Berkeley Esquire and his heyres my house called Durdans with all the houses yards Archards Gardens Lands Pastures and Underwoods to the same belonging and Scituat and being in Epsham in the County of Surrey and now in my owne occupacon………………
182 Woodcote House
Moreover I will that none shall have recourse to or use my Librarie but such as shalbe thereunto licensed by my [sd intercalated] Nephew George Berkeley Edward Wenyeve my said Executor and Mr. John Person or theire heires under theire hands in writeing, And further my will is that my said Nephew George Berkeley Suffer all my books to remaine in the roome they are now in untill my said Executor thinke to remove them and then to deliver them up to my Executor And that in meane while my said Executor and Mr. John Person shall have Ingresse Egresse and Regresse into and from the said roome to peruse the said books” According to the Victoria County Hixtory, Sir Robert Coke’s books probably formed part of the library of his father, Sir Edward Coke. They seem to have remained at Durdans until 1682, when George, Earl of Berkeley, gave them to Sion College. N.A. (Kew): PROB 11/230/294: V.C.H., Vol. II, p.276.
D Parcels of land in Woodcote field, vizt: ½ acre in Woodcott Corner abutting on copyhold lands of the late Earl on the south west 1 acre in the Shott below the Worple abutting on land formerly of Edward Stone on the west 1 acre called Square Acre abutting on lands of John Ockley on the south west 1 acre lying in the Shott above little Digden abutting on Desmesne lands called Great Digden on the south west 1 acre in Longlands Shott adjoining the downs abutting on Great Digden on the north 1 acre in Stoney Land Shott abutting on Epsom Downs on the south 1 acre lying near the Downs abutting on lands formerly of John Ockley on the east ½ acre in Mackarell Shott abutting on land formerly of Nicholas Elliott on the west
and several parcels in Smith Hatch field: 1 acre lying near Epsom Downs above West Ditch and abutting on land formerly of Katherine Beane widow on the south west 1 acre below West Ditch abutting on land formerly of the said Nicholas Elliottt on the west 1 acre lying in Lodge? Shott abutting on land formerly of John Wrench on the north 1 acre in Heaths Shott abutting on Ewell field on the east
E The estate was entailed in tail male. Edward had one son, William, but he died unmarried in 1808. On his death, William Northey of Box inherited. This William was the grandson of Edward’s elder brother Willliam, and a colourful character. Known according to Northeys as ‘Wicked Billy’, or more kindly in later years as, ‘Old Billy’, his entertainment of his friends, including the future George IV, at the family estate in Hazelbury was said to be more lively than respectable. His younger brother, The Reverend Edward Northey, Canon of Windsor, and the Canon’s son, Edward Richard Northey, apparently made their disapproval plain and as a result William left them as little property as possible. Nevertheless, on William’s death in 1826, the Canon inherited Woodcote House although he declined to live there. So strong was his disapproval of his elder brother, that he included a clause in his Will that he was not to be buried within ten miles of Epsom. Unlike other Northeys, therefore, he was not buried in the large family vault in St Martin’s which Sir Edward purchased for himself and his descendants. The Canon died two years after his brother in 1828 whereupon his son Edward Richard, the purchaser of Woodcote Green House, inherited.
183 Other Woodcote Houses
184 Woodcote House
51. 1829 map showing stopping up of Clay Lane which was sold by the Parish of Epsom to E.R. Northey.
Clay Lane (formerly Gills Lane) ran roughly north to south from Crockingham Corner opposite the Durdans to Lower Woodcote Green.
The Cottage “late Snellings” is on the left by Crockingham Corner and is now part of 65 Pine Hill. The cottage next to it was theWillis cottage. which was subsequently pulled down as recorded in a note written by Major General Sir Edward Northey.
185 Other Woodcote Houses
52. Maidstone House (formerly York House) in the time of the Wickwar family in the middle of the nineteenth century.
186 Maidstone House, its customary lands, and the Amato
Chapter 10: MAIDSTONE HOUSE, ITS CUSTOMARY LANDS, AND THE AMATO
Summary This house, formerly known as York House, can be identified in the description in the 1727 Maidstone House Deed effecting its enfranchisement. The same document also leads back to the Court Roll of 1695 recording the purchase by Richard Ryves, on behalf of Sir Edward Northey, of a house and some 81 acres of land from the Berkeleys. This property is in turn identified as that which the Berkeleys purchased from John Hewitt in 1673. The 6 acre Hixbridge Wood which formed part of the land sold by Hewitt was near to the Durdans and excluded from the sale to Sir Edward Northey’s agent, Richard Ryves.
Much of the 81 acres was disposed of by Richard Ryves in the early 1700’s but the house remained in the Northey family until after the first World War.
While there was a house on the site in 1673, this cannot have been the current Maidstone House .The style of the parapet and of the first floor sash windows of the existing house, indicate an early eighteenth century date; the current house is either a refurbishment or, more likely, a complete rebuilding. The Venetian windows on the ground floor (like that at the rear of Woodcote Place) are of course much later and date to end of the century
It may be that Lord Berkeley replaced the Hewitt house as a speculation when the lease to Maria Elliot referred to below expired in 1708.
Berkeley ownership On 11th April, 1673 at a Court Baron of the Manor of Epsom, John Hewitt senior, of Mitcham yeoman, and William Thomas, of St. Olave’s, Southwark haberdasher, sold to George Lord Berkeley and his wife Elizabeth and their heirs and assigns: “a house, barn, stable, garden, orchard, yard, edifices and structures plus separate pieces of arable land, meadow and pasture containing 81 acres in the occupation of Maria Elliott widow or her assigns.” The rent is stated to be 17/- p.a. and the value £30. A
On 24th October, 1677, the Earl of Berkeley leased the property acquired on 30th April, 1673 to Maria Elliott for 23 years from Michaelmas then last past at a rent of £20 per annum.1
At a Court Baron held on 16th April, 1678, a Licence was granted to Earl Berkeley to let to Maria Elliott a house plus 81 acres of land, then in her occupation, for 30 years.It appears this licence was granted in arrears.
1 Recited in the Deed of Covenant of 14th March, 1696. Either Hixbridge Wood was not included or was excluded later.
187 Other Woodcote Houses
The 1680 Survey recorded the holding as follows: The Right Honble George Berkeley Lord Berkeley Mowbray Segrave and Bruce Baron of Berkeley Castle Viscount Dursely and Earle of Berkeley Claymes to hold by Coppy of Court Roll: ………….. One Messuage or tenement One Barne One Stable One Garden and One Orchard abutting on the highway leading to upper Woodcott Greene on the South part.2
On 2nd May, 1695, as reported at a Court Baron on 28th October, 1695, George Earl of Berkeley and his wife Elizabeth surrendered: a customary messuage or tenement, a barn, a stable, edifices, a yard, a garden and an orchard3 plus 75 acres of dispersed land now or late in the tenure or occupation of Maria Elliott Widow, her assigns or subtenants (except 5 acres of Hixbridge Wood by the Durdans) for the Countess to appoint by deed or Will.B
Northey purchase By a Deed of Covenant dated 14th March, 1696, George Earl of Berkeley and Elizabeth his wife confirmed to Sir Edward Northey esq of Middle Temple that copyhold property was surrendered on that date to the use of Richard Ryves of London gent youngest son of Richard Ryves of London merchant. The property is: a customary Messuage or Tenement Barne Stable Outhouses Garden Orchard and Yard and parcels of 80 acres of land to which the Berkeleys were admitted on the surrender of John Hewitt the elder of Mitcham yeoman and William Thomas haberdasher Except One Close called Hixbridge Wood of 5 acres lying near the Mansion House of the said Earle called Durdans and certain other lands.C
All these premises, together with the excepted lands (except the close called Hixbridge wood), are in the occupation of Mary Elliott widow, her undertenants or assigns, by virtue of a Lease from the Earle of Berkeley dated 24th October, 1677 for 23 years from Michaelmas then last past at a rent of £20 per annum.
Sir Edward Northey pays Lord Berkeley £280 and it is agreed he will receive £18-1-0 of the yearly rent and Berkeley will receive 39/-.4
At a Court Baron held on 1st June, 1696, it was reported that, since the last Court held on 14th March, 1695[/6], George Earl of Berkeley and Elizabeth his wife have surrendered property held by Court Roll of 11th April, 1673. The property is that described in the Deed of Covenant of 14th March, 1696, (namely all the land and tenements to which the Earl and Countess were admitted Except Hixbridge Wood (and the other lands listed as excepted)). These lands are conveyed To the use of Richard Ryves of London gentleman (son of Richard Ryves of London merchant) on trust for Northey. £18 was paid as the Fine for admission.D Afterwards,Richard
2 Page 38 of the 1680 Survey. 3 Messuagiu[m] sive tenementu[m] Customar[ium] Horreu[m] Stabul[um] Edificia Area[m] Gardinu[m] et Pomar[ium] 4 S.H.C.: 4073/12. A testy note dated 8th January 1695/6 from Berkeley to Northey indicates he was slow in paying. Receipts indicate Northey made part payment of £100 on 10th February, and of £20 on 19th February, following. (S.H.C.: 2238/10/45/5).
188 Maidstone House, its customary lands, and the Amato
Lyon, being appointed as Ryves attorney by letter dated 29th May. 1696, surrendered the property to the use of Ryves’ Will.
On 27th October, 1699, Richard Ryves made two surrenders of various parcels of land. The first was to Abel Hudson eldest son of John Hudson, of Epsom Coachman, on trust for his father John, and the second to Elizabeth Drew spinster, daughter of John Drew of Epsom Maulster,5 on trust for her father.E
While these lands comprised the bulk of those purchased from the Berkeleys, Maidstone House and its adjoining land, and probably some other land near Woodcote House, were retained.6
The 1727 Maidstone House Deed On 13th May, 1727, by an Assignment to attend the inheritance, between Richard Ryves gent of London and Edward Green esq of Middle Temple (by virtue of a licence had for the purpose from the Lord of the Manor dated the previous day, 12th May), Ryves demised property (as described in the Deed) for 1000 years to Green in trust for Ryves to attend the freehold and inheritance, being property intended to be conveyed by John Parkhurst junior Esq., Lord of the Manor, by Bargain and Sale to bear date the fifteenth of the month.
On 15th May, 1727, by an Indenture Tripartite,7 (enrolled in Chancery) John Parkhurst the younger esq., Lord of the Manor of Epsom, enfranchised, on payment of £120, the property to which Richard Ryves was admitted (amongst other lands)8 as tenant in trust for Edward Northey, at the Court Baron on 1st June, 1696.
The property is to go, in accordance with Sir Edward’s Will, to his widow Dame Anne for life, with remainder to his younger son Edward Northey and his heirs in tail male, failing which to his elder son William Northey and his heirs in tail male, failing which to Sir Edward’s right heirs.
The property is a: “Customary messuage in the tenure or occupation of John Moore gent and a customary close of pasture divided by rails in three parts containing 1½ acres abutting north east on the garden or yard of the said John Moore, southwest on a house or garden now in the tenure or occupation of Captain Molesworth and of the land of Lady Northey, southeast by a lane leading to Durdans and northwest by gardens in the possession of Mr. Betts and Mr. Foster and the land of Lady Northey; and 1½ acres of customary land in the Common Field in a place called Woodcote Corner adjoining to the Road leading from Woodcote Corner to the
5 i.e. a maltster or maker of malt (O.E.D.). 6 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 20 contains a list of Lady Northey’s copyhold lands which may also include some retained from this sale. 7 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 3. The Parties are: 1. John Parkhurst the younger esq Lord of the Manor of Epsom 2. Dame Anne Northey widow of Epsom and Edward Northey esq of Epsom 3. Richard Ryves gent. of London 8 Nothing like 80 acres was enfranchised with the house. The ‘other lands’ are those sold by Ryves in 1699 described in Endnote D of the Addenda.
189 Other Woodcote Houses
Church bounded south by the Bell Alehouse and garden and north by the close of pasture late in the possession of Josiah Diston esq”.9
The property is clearly Maidstone House but the boundaries given are those of the customary land, not of the house and garden whose location was doubtless obvious at the time. The customary land stretched east to west behind the garden and yard towards the Durdans. Only in this way can it abut on the garden and yard on the north east and on the lane leading to Durdans ( i.e. Woodcote End not Chalk Lane) on the south east. On the north-west are the gardens of Mr. Betts (Maund II), Mr. Foster (Maund I), land of Lady Northey. On the south- west there is more land of Lady Northey and a property occupied by Captain Molesworth.
John Moore is still referred to as in occupation in a deed of 1734, 10 but otherwise he and Captain Molesworth are unknown; the latter may have been occupying Venn which was south- west of the customary land.
The Amato Woodcote Corner appears to be used to describe both the shot of that name (which was a rough rectangle between Chalk Lane and what is now Avenue Road) and an actual corner formed by the north-east side of Chalk Lane and the north-west side of the old line of Worple Road. The road leading from Woodcote Corner to the Church is the old Worple Road and the 1½ acres of customary land in the Common Field must have been to the north of the old line of Worple Road on the north east side of Chalk Lane.
The Bell Alehouse is the Amato. The two tenements on the Amato site in the 1680 Survey were occupied by William Rogers, without being identified as an inn.11 However, in a licence of 2nd November, 1726, there is a reference to:
“another tenement in the possession of the widow Jefferyes, with a stable and outbuildings and an orchard, and another tenement thereto adjoining, in the occupation of the widow Rogers, commonly known by garden, abutting on the north side of a way called Barrgate Way”.12 This is obviously the same as the Bell of the 1727 Maidstone House Deed.
9 S.H.C.: 3636/Box 8. Lehmann (13A8* and 13B8) correctly identifies this copyhold messuage as Maidstone House but wrongly states that it is described in the 1680 Survey as abutting on lands of Thomas Addison on the north part. Addison’s property in the area was a tenement and lands on the site of Woodcote Place on the east side of Chalk Lane to the north of the Berkeley holding (see Lehmann 14A3). This property was acquired by John Maund before the Survey (see Chapter 8, Acquisition of the White House by Anthony Stephens). There is a reference to land of Addsion by Addison’s Pitt in Reeves’ second surrender, (see Endnote D in the Addenda) but this land would not fit with the description in the 1727 Maidstone House Deed. 10 Lease and Release dated 26th and 27th April, 1734, between Dame Anne Northey widow of St. Clement Danes Middlesex and Edward Northey esq of Epsom (1) Joseph Biscoe gent of Inner Temple (2) and Capel Billingsley gent of Inner Temple(3) to make a tenant in precipe of 5 messuages (S.H.C.: 3636/Box 8). One of the messuages is stated to be in the tenure or occupation of John Moore. 11 See Chapter 5, Note Error! Bookmark not defined.. 12 Lehmann 4B4: Maria Lambert, widow of Thomas Lambert, and Elizabeth Willimott, [i.e.Willmott] niece and heir at law of Thomas, and her husband Roger Willimott obtained a licence to let to Josiah Diston all their property apart from a number of excluded items of which these are two.
190 Maidstone House, its customary lands, and the Amato
Barrgate Way is Chalk Lane as is also clear from the survey of part of Woodcote Corner recorded in the Court Roll of 31st December, 1731.13 The inn or alehouse has to be the Amato since no other property could be described as abutting on the north side of Chalk Lane opposite the old line of Worple Road.
It may be objected that a Deed of 31st May, 1734 refers to the property as known by the sign of the Rummer which is only four years after the 1727 Maidstone House Deed. It is likely, however, that the description of the customary land in the latter Deed and in the licence of the previous month were old descriptions which had not been updated. In the 1680 Survey, William Rogers held the property in right of his wife Alice. He sold it along with other property in 1697.14
The Rummer changed its name to the Hare and Hounds and then in 1828 adopted its present name, the Amato, to celebrate the Derby victory of the horse of that name.15 In 1755 the property consisted of the public house and outbuildings and a separate cottage now demolished.
The reference to ‘late in the possession of Josiah Diston esq.’ in the 1727 Maidstone House Deed is surprisingly early as, although Diston failed in 1726, the Court Rolls do not record sales of his lands by his sureties until 1730.
Later references to Maidstone House The 175 The 1755 Survey states that Edward Northey of Ebbisham Esq. claims (inter alia) to hold the property by free deed and describes it as: Also another Messuage or Tenement, Coach House, Stables and other Outhouses and Garden containing in the whole about three quarters of an acre abutting on the road leading to Durdans on the east part on land of the said Edward Northey on the west and south parts and on a copyhold estate of Joseph Shaw the younger on the north part.16
As quoted in Chapter 5, the Companion in 1792 also lists the house as follows: 0 - 1 - 3 On the same side, at an angle formed by a road, is a small brick house, the property and in possession of William Northey, Esq
The property then appears on the 1843 Tithe Map as a house and garden, 3 roods and 23 perches, of Edward Richard Northey, in the occupation of Edward Wright. It subsequently came into the possession of the Wickwars, a prominent Roman Catholic family, who were occupying it when the photograph at the beginning of this Chapter was taken. It was still in the Northeys’ possession after the First World War as appears from maps of Northey holdings. 17
13 Lehmann 14B2. 14 See Lehmann 12A1, 12B1, 13A7 and 13B7 for fuller history and Endnote Error! Bookmark not defined. in the Addenda of Chapter 5 for descriptions of adjoining properties. 15 Home, p.89. 16 Page 128. Mr. Shaw’s property is again the Amato, as it is now known. 17 S.H.C.: 4531/2.
191 Other Woodcote Houses
Addenda A S.H.C.: K/31/1/1. 11th April 1673: Curia Baron Ad hanc Cur[iam] vener[int] Johes Hewitt sen[ior] de Mitcham in Comitato Surr[ie] yeoman et Willis Thomas de p[ar]ochia Sancte Olavie in Southwarke in Comitato Surr[ie] p[re]dict[o] haberdasher et sursumreddebant ……….Totum ill[um] messuagiu[m] sive tenementu[m] Customar[ium] et horreu[m] stabulu[m] gardinu[m] pomar[ium] Area[m] Edificia & Structur[as] eidem p[er]tinen[tia] Ac etiam Omnes ill[as] sep[ar]at[as] p[ar]cell[as] Terr[e] Arrabil[is] prat[i] et pastur[e] Customar[ie] cum p[er]tin[entibus] continen[tes] p[er] estimac[i]onem Octaginta Acras plus sive minus et Omnia ill[a] Terr[as] tenementa et hereditamenta Customar[ia] p[re]fat[i] Johis Hewitt jacen[ta] infra Maneriu p[re]dict[o] qua messuagiu[m] Terr[a] et p[re]missa sunt scituat[a] jacen[ta] et existen[ta] in Ebisham infra Maneriu p[re]dict[o] et modo in tenura sive Occupac[i]one Marie Elliott vid[ue] et Assign[atorum] suor[um] ad Opus et Usum Prehonorabilis Georgii D[omi]ni Berkeley Mowbray Segrave et Breouse et D[omi]ne Elizabeth uxor[is] ejus et hered[um] et Assign[atorum] suor[um] imp[er]p[et]uu[m] s[e]c[un]d[u]m Consuetudinem Manerii p[re]d[i]c[t]i et sup[er] hoc D[omi]na p[er] Sen[e]sc[a]ll[u]m p[re]d[i]c[tu]m Concessit messuagiu[m] Terr[as] et p[re]missa p[re]d[i]c[t]a p[re]fat[o] Georgio D[omi]no Berkeley et D[omi]ne Elizabeth uxor[e] ejus Habend[is] et tenend[is] messuagiu[m] Terr[as] et p[re]missa p[re]d[i]c[t]a cum p[er]tin[entibus] p[re]fat[o] Georgio D[omi]no Berkeley et D[omi]ne Elizabeth ux[o]r[e] ejus et hered[ibus] et Assign[atis] suis imp[er]p[et]uu[m] p[er] Copiam Rotul[i] Cur[ie] ad Voluntat[em] D[omi]ne s[e]c[un]d[u]m Consuetudinem Manerii p[re]d[i]c[t]i p[ro omnibus] reddit p[er] An[nu]m xvii s herriott fidelitat[em] Sectam Cur[ie] et al[lia] Servic[ia] inde prius debit et de jure consuet[us est] et sic Admissis[er]unt modo et forma p[re]dict[is] habuer[e] Seisinam p[er] Virgam et ffinis imponit p[er] Sen[e]sc[a]ll[u]m p[re]dic[tu]m pro t[a]l[i]bus Admissionibus suis p[re]d[i]c[t]is ad xxx li
Northey Documents referenced as Accounts and Assignments (S.H.C.: 2238/10/45/1 & 3) indicate that the Berkeleys acquired the property subject to a mortgage: 1. 20th June 1672: Memorandum: Mortgage out of Court of copyhold Lands and Tenements of John Hewitt the elder of Mitcham yeoman in occupation of Mary Elliott widow to William Thomas by two customary tenants Nicholas Elliott and George Richbell £169-12-0 to be repaid by 20th April 1673.
3. 4th April 1673 (25 Charles II): Deed of Earl and Countess of Berkeley appointing servant Robert Mandey attorney at Court Baronto take admittance of John Hewitt's Copyhold Messuage and Lands mortgaged to William Thomas which the Berkeleys have purchased.
See also Lehmann 13A8* wrongly identifying this property with a property abutting on lands of Thomas Addison in the 1680 Survey.
B 2nd May 1695: A Memorandum records the Surrender by the Berkeleys to the Countess's appointment by Deed or Will of the customary messuage [‘or tenement’ intercalated) barne Stable Buildinges yard garden & Orchyard to the Same belonging And all those Sevrall peeces of arrable Meadow & pasture land with the appurtenances containeing by estimacon Seaventy ffive acres ….. now or late in the tenure or posson of Mary Eliot widw or her Assignes or Undertents except the Close of ground called Hixbridge wood containing by estimacon five acres lying nigh unto the Mancon House of ye sd Earle called Durdans. (S.H.C.: 2238/10/45/3).
C These other lands are: Two parcells of land one containing 5 acres of arable land lying near the Downes and the other of two acres shooting up to the lands end both being taken in and inclosed from the Common Field adjoining to the Earl’s land called Digdens And two small parcels of Land inclosed and separated from the Common Field and in the occupation of John Morehouse Vicar of Epsom near Epsom church one of half an acre in Little Pickles and the other of one acre and one rood
192 Maidstone House, its customary lands, and the Amato
D S.H.C.: K/31/1/5 1st June, 1696: 8Wm & Mary: Curia Baron: Reported that since the last Court on 14th March, 1695[/6] George Earl of Berkeley and Elizabeth his wife surrendered the property appearing on the Roll of 11th April, 1673, namely a house and 80 acres, except Hixbridge Wood and two pieces of land one of 5 acres near Durdans and the other of 2 acres abutting: erga ffinem Terr[e] existen[ti] inclus[a] a Co[mmun]i Campo et adjunge[nti] ad [terr[em] intercalated] prefat[orum] Comit[um] vocat[em] Digdens [in the 1680 Survey, per Lehmann, described as: “adjoining to a certain place called Lands End, lying inclosed in the Common field and adjoining to the lands of the said Lord Berkeley [sic] called Digdens”] and two fields in the occupation of John Morehouse Vicar of Epsom near the Church one of one and a half acres in the little Pickles and the other of one acre and one rood, all of which property (except Hixbridge Wood of 5 acres near Durdans) is in the tenure or occupation of Maria Elliott Widow, her assigns or subtenants, to the use of Ric Ryves of London gent (son of Ric Ryves of London mercator) in trust for Edward Northey of the Middle Temple London: £280 paid and £53 as Fine for admission
E S.H.C.: K31/1/5. The parcels in the surrenders are as follows: Reeves’ first surrender Ad Hanc Cur[iam] Comp[er]t[u]m est per homagium q[uo]d post ult[imam] Cur[iam] scil[ice]t Quinto die Octobris …1699 Ricus Ryves Jun[ior] de London Mercator Tenens Customar[ius] Manerii p[re]dict[i]…. Surrendered Omnes ill[as] sep[ar]at[as] pecias sive p[ar]cell[a]s Terr[e] Customar[ie] postea menconat[as] jacen[tes] et existen[tes] in Co[mmun]ibus Campis in Ebbisham in Comitato Surr[ie] infra Maneri[u] p[re]dict[o] videl[ice]t: Dimid[iam] unius Acre iacen[tem] in Dulls Shott Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Lambert ex parte Boreal[i] Orient[ali] et sup[er] Terr[am] D[o]m[ini]cal[em] ex parte Boreal[i] Occiden[tali] Unam Acram Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Towne Meade sup[er] Terr[am] Lambert ex parte Boreal[i] Occiden[tali] et sup[er] Terr[am] Collyer ex parte Austral[i] Orient[ali] Unam Vergat[am] anglice Yard in Wilding Tree ffurlong Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Johis Simmonds ex parte Boreal[i] et sup[er] Viccariam ex parte Austral[i] Tres Virgat[as] infra le Worple Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Terr[am] Ockley ex p[ar]te Boreal[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] Willi Clinch ex parte Austral[i] Tres Virgat[as] supra le Worple Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Terr[am] Roger Rogers ex parte Boreal[i] Orient[ali] Tres Virgat[as] apud Dorking Way Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Terr[am] Lambert ex parte Oriental[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] Willi Grant ex p[ar]te Occidental[i] Unam Acram vocat[am] Square Acre Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] D[o]m[ini]cal[em] ex parte Austral[i] Occiden[tali] et sup[er] Terr[am] Cupid gen[erosi] ex parte Boreal[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre apud Chappells Bush Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Edri Stone ex parte Austral[i] Unam Acram jacen[tem] in Prato vocat[o] Hartsmead Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] D[o]m[ini]cal[em] ex parte Boreal[i] Unam Acram et dimid[iam] unius Acre apud Holly Bush Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] D[o]m[ini]cal[em] ex parte Boreal[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] Lambert ex parte Oriental[i] prope Bittoms Hedge dimid[iam] unius Acre supra le Riden Quinque Acras jacen[tes] prope le Downes Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Terr[am] Hatton ex parte Boreal[i] Unam Acram et dimid[iam] unius Acre anglice Three halfe Acres in Straight ffurlong Shott Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] D[o]m[ini]cal[em] ex parte Austral[i] Occiden[tali] Quinque Acras Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Viam vocat[am] Sir Christopher Buckles Way et sup[er] Terr[am] Cupid ex parte Austral[i] Duas Acras jacen[tes] in Straight ffurlong Shott Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Terr[am] Lambert ex p[ar]te Austral[i] Occiden[tali] Dimid[iam] unius Acre prope Sullingam Bottom Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] nup[er] Beane ex parte Oriental[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] vocat[am] New Inn Lane ex p[ar]te Occidental[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre prope Sullingam Bottom Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Thome Mathews ex parte Oriental[i] et Bourne ex parte Occidental[i]
193 Other Woodcote Houses
Unam Acram in Long hedge Shott Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] ffendall gen[erosi] ex parte Austral[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] Ockley ex parte Boreal[i] Unam Acram jacen[tem] in Gorbrid Shott Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Johis Wrench ex p[ar]te Austral[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] Lambert ex parte Boreal[i] Unam Acram jacen[tem] inter Sepes vocat[as] Cox Hedges Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Lambert ex parte Occidental[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] nup[er] Beane Vid[ue] ex p[ar]te Oriental[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] in Birding Bush Shott Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Steward gen[erosi] ex p[ar]te Austral[i] & sup[er] Terr[am] Bean Vid[ue] ex p[ar]te Boreal[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre Adjungen[tem] ad Vawling Pitt Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Thome Mathews ex parte Boreal[i] et Terr[am] vocat[am] le Doghouse land ex p[ar]te Austral[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] in Wythybed’s Corner Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Batts ex parte Boreal[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] p[re]fat[i] Cupid ex parte Occidental[i] Quatuor Acras in Clauso vocat[o] Wythibeds Adjungen[tes] Terr[am] D[o]m[ini]cal[em] ex partibus Boreal[ibus] et Oriental[ibus] Ac Tres Series [herbe intercalated] anglice Swarthes of Grasse in Prato vocat[o] Towne Meade cum suis et quibus libet eorum p[er]tin[entibus] ad Opus et Usum Abell Hudson ffilii natu maximi Johis Hudson de Ebbisham p[re]dict[o] Coachman et hered[um] et Assign[atorum] p[re]fat[i] Abel imp[er]p[et]uu[m] in ffiducia tamen [pro intercalated] p[re]fat[o] Joh[ann]e Hudson hered[ibus] et Assign[atis] suis s[e]c[un]d[u]m Consuetudinem Manerii p[re]dict[i]
Reddit p[er] Annu[m] vs p[er] Apporc[i]oment[um]
Abel Hudson admitted: habuit Seisinam per Virgam p[er] p[re]fat[um] Johem Patrem ejus et ffinis imponit p[er] Sen[e]scall[um] p[re]dict[um] pro tali Admissione sua p[re]d[i]c[t]a ad vili
Reeves’ second surrender Ad Hanc Cur[iam] Comp[er]t[u]m est per homagium q[uo]d post ult[imam] Cur[iam] scil[ice]t Quinto die Octobris …1699 Ric[ard]us Ryves Jun[ior] de London Mercator Tenens Customar[ius] Manerii p[re]dict[i]…. Surrendered Omnes ill[as] sep[ar]at[as] pecias sive p[ar]cell[a]s Terr[e] Customar[ie] postea menconat[as] jacen[tes] et existen[tes] in Co[mmun]ibus Campis in Ebbisham in Comitato Surr[ie] infra Maneri p[re]dict[o] videl[ice]t: Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] in Dulls Shott Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Stone ex parte Austral[i] et sup[er] Viccariam ex parte Boreal[i] Occiden[tali] Unam Acram jacen[tem] in Mackerells Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Rob[er]ti Parker ex parte Boreal[i] et Ockley ex par te Austral[i] Unam Virgat[am] anglice Yard in Oakeing ffurlong Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] D[o]m[ini]cal[em] ex parte Boreal[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] Johis Wrench ex parte Austral[i] Tres Virgat[as] in Oakeing ffurlong p[re]dict[o] Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Terr[am] D[o]m[ini]cal[em] ex p[ar]te Boreal[i] et sup[er] Pickett Hedge Shott ex p[ar]te Austral[i] Unum Vergat[am] infra le Worple Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Bourne ex parte Boreal[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] Maund ex parte Austral[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre in Woodcott Corner Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] nup[er] Beane Arm[iger] ex p[ar]tibus Boreal[ibus] et Austral[ibus] Unam Acram et Dimid[iam] unius Acre anglice Three halfe Acres apud le Sand Pitt Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Terr[am] nup[er] Beane ex parte Boreal[i] et Collyer ex p[ar]te Austral[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Roger Rogers ex p[ar]te [Occidental[i] corrected] et sup[er] Terr[am] Pauli Healey [gen[erosi] intercalated] ex parte Oriental[i] Tres Virgat[as] in eodem loco Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Terr[am] D[o]m[ini]cal[em] ex parte Occidental[i] et ffendall gen[erosi] ex parte Oriental[i] Duas Acras supra le Ridens Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Terr[am] Henr[ici] Eastland ex parte Austral[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] Robti Parker ex parte Boreal[i] Unam Acram in Stoney Land Adjungen[tem] ad Terr[am] Cupid gen[erosi] et ad Terr[am] vocat[am] Digden Tres Acras in Stoney Bush Shott Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Terr[am] vocat[am] Bittoms et sup[er] Terr[am] ffendall ex p[ar]te Austral[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre in Straight ffurlong Shott Adjungen[tem] ad Terr[am] Roger Rogers Unam Acram in long hedge Shott Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Clausum Terr[e] vocat[um] West Ditch Close Stone Vid[ue] ex parte Austral[i]
194 Maidstone House, its customary lands, and the Amato
Tres Acras in West Ditch Bottom Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Terr[am] Edri Lambert ex p[ar]te Boreal[i] Duas Acras jacen[tes] in eodem loco Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Terr[am] p[re]fat[i] Edri Lambert ex p[ar]te Boreal[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] prope West Ditch Hedge Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] p[re]fat[i] Pauli Healy ex p[ar]te Austral[i] Unam Acram anglice Two halfe Acres jacen[tem] in Long hedge Shott Adjungen[tem] ad Terr[am] Johis Wrench ex p[ar]te Austral[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre prope le Raild Pitt Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Hawkins ex parte Boreal[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] Johis Simmonds ex p[ar]te Austral[i] Unam Acram jacen[tem] in Gorbrid Shott Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Hatton ex parte Boreal[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] Thome Bird ex par te Austral[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre prope Addisons Pitt Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Smith ex p[ar]te Boreal[i] et sup[er] Terr[am] Addison ex parte Austral[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] prope Viam vocat[am] Bansted Way Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Thome Bird ex parte Boreal[i] et Beane vid[ue] ex parte Austral[i] Unam Virgat[am] in Clauso vocat[o] Chalkeley Close Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Leneing ex parte Occidental[i] et Lambert ex p[ar]te Oriental[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] in Marke ffurlong Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Browning ex p[ar]te Austral[i] et ffendall ex p[ar]te Boreal[i] Tres Virgat[as] jacen[tes] in Mark ffurlong Abuttan[tes] sup[er] Terr[am] ffendall ex p[ar]te Austal[i] et Bourne ex parte Boreal[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre in le Hayes Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Edri Spurlin ex p[ar]te Austral[i] et Daniel[i] Lambert ex parte Boreal[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] in eod[em] loco Abuttan[tem] [sup[er] Terr[am] intercalated] p[re]fat[i] Pauli Healey ex p[ar]te Boreal[i] et Edri Spurlyn ex p[ar]te Austral[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] in High Ridge Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] p[re]fat[i] Pauli Healey ex p[ar]te Occidental[i] et Cupid ex p[ar]te Oriental[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] in ffoxholes Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Collyer ex parte Occidental[i] et Ockley ex parte Oriental[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] in Shortridge Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Beane ex parte Boreal[i] et Leneing ex p[ar]te Austral[i] Unam Acram jacen[tem] in Med? ffurlong Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Ockley ex partibus Boreal[ibus] et Austral[ibus] Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] in Mapleton Bush Shott Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] Beane ex p[ar]te Boreal[i] et Bourne ex p[ar]te Austral[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] in eod[em] loco Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Withibed Corner Adjungen[tem] ad Terr[am] vocat[am] Durrantes Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] in Childrens Platt Adjungen[tem] ad Terr[am] p[re]fat[i] Pauli Healey ex parte Oriental[i] et ad Viccariam ex parte Occidental[i] Dimid[iam] unius Acre jacen[tem] in eodem loco Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] p[re]fat[i] Bourne ex p[ar]tibus Oriental[ibus] et Occidental[ibus] Dimid[iam] unius Acre [jacen[tem] intercalated] in Harris Hearne Abuttan[tem] sup[er] Terr[am] p[re]fat[i] Cupid ex parte Boreal[i] et Unam p[ar]cell[am] anglice Pickle Terr[e] jacen[tem] prope Januarii [januarius- doorkeeper] vocat[i] Smiths Hatch Gate continen[tem] Unam Acram plus sive minus Ac Quinque Series Herbe anglice Swarths of Grasse in Prato vocat[o] Towne Meade cum suis et quibus libet eorum p[er]tin[entibus]
Ad Opus et Us[u]m Elizabeth Drew Spinster ffilie Johis Drewe de Ebbisham p[re]dict[o] Maulster et hered[um] [et] Assign[atorum] p[re]fat[i] Elizabeth Drew imp[er]p[et]uu[m] In ffiduc[ia] tamen pro p[re]fat[o] Johe Drew hered[ibus] et Assign[atis] suis s[e]c[un]d[u]m Consuetudinem Manerii p[re]dict[i]
Annual Rent apportioned at 5/- . Reddit p[er] Annu[m] vs p[er] Apporc[i]oment[um]
195 Other Woodcote Houses
53(a). The Durdans – painting by Jacob Knyff.
53(b). Close up of top right of Knyff’s picture of the Durdans. The house in the back centre could be the Doghouse.
196 Other Woodcote Houses
Chapter 11: THE DURDANS
Some details of the Durdans are given, partly because the Northey properties were carved out of those of the Durdans estate, and partly because, although the various owners are well known, some of the details in the Court Rolls have not been published before.
The Berkeley family Elizabeth, Lady Berkeley, was born Elizabeth Cary, daughter and heir of George, Lord Hunsden. She married Sir Thomas Berkeley, who predeceased his father Henry, the seventh Baron Berkeley. Henry died on 26th November, 1613, leaving a second wife, Jane, widow of Sir Roger Townshend, who was a daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope of Shelford, Nottinghamshire.
Sir Thomas and Elizabeth Berkeley had a son, George, and a daughter, Theophila. Sir Thomas predeceased his children and Elizabeth died in 1635.
George became the eighth Baron in 1613 on the death of his grandfather, Henry. He married Elizabeth, the second daughter and co-heir of Sir Michael Stanhope of Sudbury, Suffolk, on 13th April, 1614. George died on 10th August, 1658 and was succeeded by his only surviving son, another George.
This second George, the ninth Baron, was created Earl of Berkeley and Viscount Dursley on 13th September, 1679. He married Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of John Massingberd, treasurer of the East India Company, on 11th August, 1646. He died on 14th October, 1698 and was succeeded by Charles, the second Earl. George’s wife, Elizabeth, was buried on 10th December, 1708 while his sister, Theophila, married Sir Robert Coke, son of Sir Edward, the lawyer.1
The Durdans In the first quarter of the seventeenth century Durdans was held of the Manor of Horton of which Sir William Mynne was Lord.2 In 1617 Sir William Mynne and John Mynne. and his wife Jane, levied a Fine to convey to Elizabeth Berkeley widow: a house, a dovecot, two gardens, two orchards, 12 acres of land, 8 acres of meadow, 16 acres of pasture, 6 acres of woods, and common pasture for £41/-.A
On 7th May, 1635 (11 Chas I), at an inquisition post mortem of Elizabeth Lady Berkeley, the jury found that for some time before her death she was seized of a house or farm with appurtenances commonly called Durdans in the parish of Epsom in the County of Surrey with lands, pastures, and woods appertinent or appertaining containing an estimated 40 acres. B The jury value this at £40
1 Burke. 2 Manning and Bray, Vol.II, pp.611-14, gives a detailed description of the descents of the manors of Ebbisham and Horton. See also Swete, p.11.
197 Other Woodcote Houses
54(a). George 1st Earl Berkeley.
54(b). The Durdans – painting by Jacob Scmits.
198 The Durdans
By an indenture dated 21st January, 1634[/5] produced to the jury, Elizabeth conveyed after her own death: All that Capitall messuage or farme with the appurten[a]nts comonly called or knowne by the name of Durdens …in Epsham Surrey And also all houses outhouses barns stables dovehouses orchards yards lands Tenements meadowes pastures Comon of pasture woods underwoods and hereditaments whatsoever with their and every of their appurten[a]nts to the Capitall messuage or farme belonginge or in any wise appertaininge to her daughter Theophila, wife of Sir Robert Coke, and her heirs. C
Lady Theophila Coke died on 22nd April, 1643.3 Sir Robert survived her and inherited.
Lord Berkeley inherits Sir Robert Coke acquired the Doghouse and other land in 1647.4 He died on 19th July, 1653. He left a Will, dated 7th December, 1652 and an undated Codicil, proved on 2nd August, 1653, by Edward Wenyeve, Esquire, sole Executor.5 Wenyeve was left the Doghouse but George, the 9th Baron and subsequently the 1st Earl, inherited Durdans.
Lord Berkeley thus inherited the old Jacobean house which was painted by Joseph Knyff in 1679.6 At some time after the date of the painting Lord Berkeley demolished the house. This was probably in 1682 when the demolition of Nonsuch Palace was begun. Lord Berkeley made an agreement with the owner, Charles II’s former favourite, Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, allowing him to use materials from Nonsuch Palace. With them he built a grand new house.7 This new house was completed at latest by 1689, when it was painted by Jacob Smith.
In the 1681 Survey: 8 The Right Honble George Berkeley Lord Berkeley Mowbray Segrave and Bruce Baron of Berkeley Castle Viscount Dursly and Earle of Berkeley Claymes to hold by free deed: One Capitall Messuage called Durdans, One Barne, two Stables, A Dovehouse, A Washhouse A Coach house, One Court or Gateroome One Yard, two Gardens, One Orchard, one pcell of Woodland conteyning three Acres, A Bowling Greene, two Closes of pasture conteyning Eight Acres and One Close of Meadow conteyning three Acres Abutting on the Demesne lands on the South part on upper Woodcott Greene on the West part and on the highway leading from Ebisham towards Walton on the North East and South parts And also Six Acres of land inclosed lying in Woodcote field called little Digden Abutting on Gills Lane on the South West part and on the lands of John Maund gent on the West part Quit rent xiiis iiii d
On 28th October, 1698, at a Court Baron it was noted that Charles Lord Berkeley inherited on the death of his father George.D
3 Manning & Bray, recording MI in St. Martin’s. 4 See Endnote B in the Addenda to Chapter 9 and related text. 5 See Endnote C in the Addenda to Chapter 9 and related text. 6 Jacob Knyff's picture was sold at Sotheby’s in 1996 and may be seen in Berkeley Castle. 7 Dent p.210-11. 8 Page 77 of the 1680 Survey under Freeholds.
199 Other Woodcote Houses
Sales By Lease and Release dated 15th and 16th October, 1702, Charles, Earl of Berkeley, sold Durdans with ‘the little park paved in’ to Charles Turner of Kirkleatham Yorks.E
At a Court Baron on 30th October, 1702, a Power of Attorney dated 16th October, 1702 was produced. By it Elizabeth Dowager Countess of Berkeley appointed William Smyth Esq her attorney to surrender all her property in the Manor to John Ward of London, merchant. Smyth surrenders her remaining copyholds of Hixbridge Wood etc. to Ward through Ward’s friend Robert Baynes Gent.F These copyholds were those excluded from the sale to Richard Ryves (Sir Edward Northey’s agent) in 1696 of the house and 80 acres which the Berkeleys bought from John Hewitt in 1673 and which Lord Berkeley settled on his wife in 1695.9
On 17th April, 1708, Charles Turner of Kirkleatham Yorks Esq. sold Durdans to John, Duke of Argyll, reserving the Dogghouse or Dogghouse farm which was later sold to Sir Edward Northey,.G
At a Court Baron on 7th November, 1709, the death of the Countess of Berkeley was noted and proclamation was made for her heir (not named).10
Francis North, Lord Guildford, acquired Durdans in 1712 and was succeeded by his only son Francis, 3rd Baron and 1st Earl Guildford. The 1st Earl lent the Durdans to Frederick, Prince of Wales, who lived there from 1731 to 1747.
At a Court Baron in 1722 John Ward surrendered land (apparently the land he had acquired from the Countess of Berkeley in 1702) to Lord Guildford and William Woodford Gent.H
By 1747 Alderman Belchier was the owner of Durdans. He demolished the house that Lord Berkeley had built but his replacement was burnt down in 1755. The present house was built in 1764 and purchased by Mr. Dalbiac. Later Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bart., followed by his son Arthur, lived there. After Arthur’s death it was acquired by Lord Rosebery and much altered by him, at the end of the nineteenth century.11
9 See Chapter 10. 10 S.H.C.: K31/1/6: Death of Countess of Berkeley reported (died since last Court held on 15th July, 1709) and proclamation for heir (not named). She held: Sep[arat[as] p[ar]cell[as] Terr[e] Customar[ie] cum suis p[er]tin[entibus] 11 Home pp. 83-88
200 The Durdans
Addenda
A Elizabeth Berkeley viduam et William Mynne militem et Johem Mynne arm[igerum] et Janam uxorem eius de Uno messuagio uno columbar[io] duobus gardinis duobus pomar[iis] duodecim acris t[er]re octo acris prat[i] sexdecim acris pastur[e] sex acris boscis et co[mmun]ia pastur[e] per omnibus Areis cum p[er]tin[entibus] in Epsham Quadraginta et unam solid[orum] Surr[ia] N.A: CP 25/2/360/15 Jas I Trin (1617) [not 18 Jas as cited in V.C.H.]
B “uno messuagio sive firma c[u]m suis p[er]tin[entibus] co[mmun]iter vocat[o] sive cognit[o] p[er] nomen de Durdens ….. in parochia de Epsham … Surr[ie] c[um] terris pratis pastur[is] et boscis eidem messuagio sive firma ap[p]ertan[tibus] vel p[er]tin[entibus] continen[ti] in tot[o] p[er] estimac[i]on[em] quadraginta acre c[um] suis p[er]tinen[tibus] in Epsham p[re]dicto” N.A. (Kew): C 142/725/38 The description of Durdans in the Inquisition is so close to that of the 1617 Feet of Fine that it is clear (and not, as the V.C.H. says, likely) that the latter does relate to Durdans.
C Second Indenture of 21st January, 1634[/5] 10 Chas I produced to the Inquisition The Right Honourable Elizabeth Lady Berkeley of Stanford …..Middlesex, widow (1)
Sir Robert Coke of Huntingfield … Suffolk, Knight John Smith of North Nibley …. Gloucester, Gent, and John Carnocke of Cranford ....Gloucester, servant to Lady Berkeley (2)
Lady Berkeley for and in consideration of the natural love and deere affection which shee hath allwayes borne and still beareth unto the Lady Theophila dear wife of Sir Robert Coke and daughter of Lady Berkeley etc. conveys: All that Capitall messuage or farme with the appurten[a]nts comonly called or knowne by the name of Durdens …in Epsham .Surrey And also all houses outhouses barns stables dovehouses orchards yards lands Tenements meadowes pastures Comon of pasture woods underwoods and hereditaments whatsoever with their and every of their appurten[a]nts to the Capitall messuage or farme belonginge or in any wise appertaininge for the USE AND BEHALF of (1) Lady Berkeley for life without impeachment of waste; and (2) Theophila Lady Coke and her heires and assigns for ever PROVIDED that Lady Berkeley by writing with two witnesses or by Will can make any of these uses void Finally jury says that George Lord Berkeley is the only son and next heir of Elizabeth Lady Berkeley and puts a value on the properties. The value stated for the Durdens appears to be £40. N.A. (Kew): C 142/725/38.
D S.H.C.: K/31/1/5: 28th October, 1698 Court Baron: George Lord Berkeley dead since last Court. He held a copyhold Close called Hixbridge Wood and separate enclosed parcels lying in the Common Field called Woodcote Field. Rent left blank. Heriot due but what not stated. Elizabeth Dowager Countess inherits for life. George, Lord Berkeley, held freely: Totum ill[um] messuagiu[m] vocat[um] Durdens Horrea Stabula Edificia Gardina Pomaria et sep[ar]at[as] p[ar]cell[as] Terr[e] eidem p[er]tinen[tes] cum suis p[er]tin[entibus] …….. Reddit p[er] Annu[m] xiiis iiiid & iiii½ d. Charles the eldest son is the next heir. 13/4 & 4½d paid ‘pro duobus Releviis’ On 15th May, 1699, there was a second proclamation for the heir of George Lord Berkeley for Hixbridge Wood and other enclosed parcells.
201 Other Woodcote Houses
E The following recital is made in the Tripartite Indenture of 17th April, 1708, described in Endnote G below: By indenture of Lease and Release dated 15th & 16th October, 1702, the Release being tripartite and made between the Right Honoble Charles Earle of Berkeley Son and heir of the Right Honoble George late Earle of Berkeley deced and the Right Honoble Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Berkeley Widdow of the said George Earle of Berkeley (1) the said Charles Turner (2) and the said Sir Robert Beddingfield and John Ward (3), the Berkeleys at the nomination of Turner conveyed to Beddingfield and Ward and their heirs: All that Mansion house or Messuage called Durdens with all Stables Coach houses Dovecoats Outhouses Buildings Yards Courts Gardens Orchards and Appurten-ances ….and also all that little Park paled in lyinge near the said Mansion house and therewith used And also All Arrable Meadow and Pasture Grounds Woods and Underwoods being ffreehold and not Copyhold to the said mansion house belonging All in Epsom Conveyed to Beddingfield and Ward in trust for the said Charles Turner for ever.
F 1702, 30th October Court Baron Document dated 16th October, 1702 cited in English whereby Elizabeth Dowager Countess of Berkeley, One of the Copyhold Tenants of the Manor of Ebbisham, appointed William Smythe Esq as her Attorney to surrender all her property in the Manor to the Use of John Ward of London merchant.
The Attorney then surrenders to the Lord: Totum ill[um] Clausum Terr[e] Customar[ium] vocat[um] Hixbridge Wood continen[tem] p[er] estimac[i]onem Quinque Acras plus sive minus jacen[tem] prope Durdans Ac etiam Duas p[ar]cell[a]s Terr[e] Customar[ie] Unam p[ar]cell[am] inde continen[tem] Quinque Acras Terr[e] Arrabil[is] jacen[tem] prope le Downes et alter[am] p[ar]cell[am] continen[tem] Duas Acras Adjungen[tem] ad quondam Locum vocat[um] le Lands End existen[tem] Inclus[am] a Co[mmun]i Campo et Adjungen[tem] ad Terr[am] vocat[am] Digdens Ac etiam Duas p[ar]cell[as] Customar[ias] s[im]iliter Inclus[as] a Co[mmun]i Campo p[re]dict[o] et modo vel nup[er] in Occupac[i]one Viccar[ii] de Ebbisham jacen[tes] prope Ecclesiam de Ebbisham unam p[ar]cell[am] inde continen[tem] dimid[iam] unius Acre plus sive minus jacen[tem] in quodam Loco vocat[o] le little Pickles et alter[am] p[ar]cell[am] continen[tem] Unam Acram & Unam Rodam aut eo circiter
John Ward admitted “Seisinam p[er] Virgam p[er] Rob[er]tum Baynes gen[erosum] ut prox[imum] Amicum suu[m] ffidelitas respectuat[a] Fine for Admisssion viili xx vid.
G N.A. (Kew): CP 54/4986 (7 Anne Part 1: no. 13 - Turner & Argyle): By an Indenture Tripartite dated 17th April, 1708 (7 Anne) Charles Turner of Kirkleatham Yorks Esq. Nephew and heir of Sir William Turner late of London Kt dec’d and Cholmely Turner Esq. Son and heir apparent of the said Charles Turner and also Adm’or of the Goods and Chattels of the said Sir William Turner with the Will of the said Sir William Turner annexed (1) and Sir Robert Beddingfield of London Knight John Ward of Hackney Mddx merchant and William Pykarett of New Inn Mddx (2) and the most noble John Duke of Argyll Earle of Greenwich and Baron of Chatham Knight of the most ancient and honoble Order of the Thistle and ffrancis Milles of the Inner Temple London Gent (3)
All the property recited as conveyed by the indenture of Lease and Release dated 15th & 16th October, 1702, (late in the occupation of the said Charles Earle of Berkeley his assigns or undertenants) was conveyed to the Duke except: All that messuage or tenement late in the tenure of occupation of the said Charles Earle of Berkeley his Assigns or Undertenants which heretofore was called the Dogghouse or Dogghouse ffarme or by what other name or names the same was called or known lyinge and being near the said mansion house called Durdens With all Stables Outhouses Yards Gardens Orchards Lands and appurtences …. As the same are now in the tenure or occupacon of the above named William George his Assigns or Undertenants.
202 The Durdans
H S.H.C.: K31/1/10: 4th May, 1722: (8 Geo I) Court Baron Blackwell North of Ebbisham vintner came and produced a deed dated 21st April, 1702 whereby John Ward Esquire (heretofore of London Merchant now of Hackney, Middlesex) appointed Blackwell North his attorney to surrender: Customary Close called Hixbridge Wood containing five acres and lying near Durdens and Two parcells of copyhold land one containing five acres of Arable land and lying near the Downes And the other containing two Acres Adjoining to the Lands end both being inclosed from the Common feild and Adjoining to Lands called Digdens And also One parcell of Land also inclosed from the said Comon ffeilds and now in the occupacon of the Vicar of Ebbisham and lying near Ebbisham Church and containing one acre and one rood or thereabouts To the Use of Robert Cheyney Gentleman his Heires and Assignes in trust for the Right Honoble ffrancis Lord Guildford and his Heires for ever And also to surrender: All that piece or parcell of land inclosed from Ebbisham Common ffield and lying in a place called the Little Pickles and containing half an Acre of Land be the same more or less and now in the occupation of Heighes Woodford Vicar of Ebbisham to the use of William Woodford of Epsom Gentleman and his heirs and Assigns for ever. Blackwell North surrenders these lands to the Lord. Robert Cheyney and William Woodford appear and are each granted their respective lands.
1722, 10th December Court Baron Death of William Woodford with property called Little Pickles. Heir Samuel Woodford Clericus and frater admitted.
203 Other Woodcote Houses
55(a). Woodcote Green looking east. Edwardian postcard of c.1910. Woodcote Green House is hidden in the trees on the right.
55(b). Woodcote Green looking west. This rare Edwardian postcard, stamped on 5th August, 1909, was most kindly given to the author by PatriciaAppendix Berry. I: It is reproduced it WOODCOTE in her book Epsom GREEN The HOUSE:Twentieth Century Sutton Publishing 2002. The end of the fence of Woodcote Green House is visible on the left.
204
Appendix I A: Descent in Northey Family B: Registration of Title C: Land Certificates
A: Descent in Northey Family
Edward Richard Northey: Inherited Woodcote House, and acquired Woodcote Green House in the auction on 4th September, 1846. He died on 21st December 1878. By Will, dated 27th August 1877 (proved on 21st December, 1878), he left Woodcote Green House to his second wife, Louisa Mary Ann née Hesketh, for life, with remainder to his eldest son, the Reverend Edward William Northey, who inherited Woodcote House outright.. Louisa died on 30th December 1885. The Reverend Edward William Northey then inherited Woodcote Green House.
The Reverend Edward William Northey 9 August, 1914: By Deed Poll, he gives Woodcote Green House and his other Epsom, Cheam, and Cuddington property (except Woodcote House, stables and park) to his wife, Florence Elizabeth née Honywood, for life, with remainder in tail male to his eldest son, Edward, the future Major General. S.H.C.: 4531/1/Part 2
21 October, 1914: Death By his Will, dated 19th September 1914 (proved on 24th September 1914), he gave Woodcote House, stables and park to Florence for life, with remainder in tail male to Edward. However he gave Edward power to terminate Florence’s interest on payment of an annuity, if he wished to occupy the house in her lifetime. S.H.C.: 4531/1/Part 2
Florence and Major General Sir Edward Northey 14 January 1914: Florence appoints Lewin Charles Cholmeley and her younger son, George Edward Northey, Trustees of the Deed Poll settlement. Recital in Reconveyance of 23rd June, 1925.
19 November, 1914: By Deed of Disentail, Sir Edward discharges Woodcote Green House and other Deed Poll property from the entail, converting it into a base fee, but subject to Florence’s life interest; he appoints Lewin Charles Cholmeley as Trustee. S.H.C.: 4531/1/Part 7
17 December, 1915: By Deed between Florence (1) the Trustees (2) and A.F.Foster and J.W.C Frere (on his death replaced by J.R.H.Molony) (3) Florence mortgages Woodcote Green House and the other Deed Poll property to Foster and Molony for £9,000 to pay death duties. There is a pencilled date [of contract for sale] on the map against 1 Woodcote Green House of 8/2/54. S.H.C.: 4531/2/Part 3
11 May, 1920: By Indenture, Florence surrenders to Sir Edward, but subject to the Mortgage, her life interest in Woodcote Green House and the other mortgaged property, except
205 Appendix I
for three cottages occupied by her Bailiff, Coachman, and Cowman, giving Sir Edward an estate in tail male in possession. S.H.C.: 4531/2/Part 3
12 May, 1920: By Deed of Disentail between Sir Edward (1) Florence (2) and Lewin Charles Cholmeley (3), Woodcote Green House and the other surrendered property is conveyed, subject to the mortgage, to Cholmeley in fee simple. S.H.C.: 4531/1/Part 8.
Major General Sir Edward Northey 20 February, 1921: By Conveyance, Lewin Charles Cholmeley and George Edward Wilbraham–Northey (who changed his name from George Edward Northey by Deed Poll on 28th February, 1920) convey, Woodcote Green House and other Deed Poll property to Sir Edward. S.H.C.: 4531/2/Part 3
21 February, 1921: By Deed of Release, A.F.Foster and J.R.H.Molony release to Sir Edward, Woodcote Green House and the other Epsom Deed Poll property which was subject to the 17th December, 1915 mortgage. Two of the three cottages retained by Florence in the surrender of her life interest in the 11th May, 1920 Indenture, are excluded from this release. These are the cottages of her Bailiff and her Coachman and are on the west edge of Woodcote Green and no. 6 Woodcote Green Road, respectively. The map in the mortgage of 17th December, 1915 (differently coloured) is attached. S.H.C.: 4531/2/Part 3
23 June 1925: By Deed of Reconveyance, A.F.Foster and J.R.H. Molony acknowledge repayment of the £9,000 and reconvey to Sir Edward the mortgaged property, so that Sir Edward’s base fee now takes effect as an equitable interest equivalent to a base fee. S.H.C.: 4531/2/Part 3
9 October, 1928: By Deed of Enlargement, Sir Edward enlarges his interest from a base fee to a fee simple. Recital that Florence died on 18th June, 1928. S.H.C.: 4531/2/Part 1
5 April 1936: By Deed, Sir Edward of Woodcote House Epsom (a major general retired), the father, gives to Edward George Vernon Northey of Ditto Esq., the son: Woodcote Green House occupied by Miss Buller, and the other Deed Poll property. It lists and endorses sales of Chalk Lane and other properties. 8 Woodcote Green Road is occupied by W. Marshall and marked in pencil as sold. S.H.C.: 4531/2 Part 1
5 April 1936: By a separate Deed, Sir Edward gives to his son E.G.V.Northey: Woodcote House; a cottage formerly occupied by the coachman of Florence Elizabeth Northey and now known as 6 Woodcote Green Road; and a cottage called Little Woodcote, on Upper Woodcote Green, now occupied by A. Williams. This was presumably the former Cowman’s cottage and is now 65 Pine Hill. S.H.C.: 4531/2/Part 1
Edward George Vernon Northey 8 February 1954: E.G.V.Northey contracts to sell Woodcote Green House.
206 Appendix I
B: Registration of Title (From note of telephone conversation with land registry dated 22nd November, 1977)
13th January or June, 1954: Deeds first sent for registration. [Appears from Land Certificates that the Land Certificate number for the whole property was SY111297]. The date of First Registration of 2 Woodcote Green House is given as 6th May, 1954 on the Land Certificate and this was presumably the date of first registration of the remainder of the property.] [8th February, 1954: From notes on maps of 1915 and 1921, it appears that this was the date of the contract for sale of 1 Woodcote Green House.] April, 1954: Deed inducing registration: a conveyance between Edward George Vernon Northey, Lt. Col. Ret. of Glebe Farm, Hinton Waldrist, Farringdon, Berks (Vendor) and William John Ray Garman, Building Society Representative, and Robert John Garman, both of 283 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush (Purchaser).
The Land Registry have a copy of the Deed inducing registration in draft; it recites various deeds from 1914 of which the first three are: 19th August, 1914: Deed Poll of Edward William Northey 24th December, 1914: Probate of Will of Edward William Northey 14th January, 1915: Indenture between Florence Elizabeth Northey (1) Lewin Charles Cholmely (2) and George Edward Northey (3)
The Vendors solicitors were Frere Cholmely & Co., 28 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London W.C.2. Their reference was 121.
In addition to the draft conveyance an abstract of title ending in 1954 was lodged. Not certain how far it went back.
Noted on back Brian SANDELSON & Co. 173/176 Sloane Street, London S.W.1 235 4571
207 Appendix I
C: Land Certificates
Title No. SY131781: 1 Woodcote Green House excluding land enclosed by the points lettered C,D,E,F on plan.
15th March, 1955: Transfer for £4,850 by William John Ray GARMAN (Building Society Representative) and Robert John GARMAN (Builders Manager) both of 283 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush, London, W.12 (‘Vendors’) to Clifford Neil SANDELSON (Solicitor) of 20 Embankment Gardens, London S.W.3 (‘Purchaser’).
22nd March, 1955: Clifford Neil SANDELSON of 1 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, solicitor, registered as proprietor. His firm was Carr Sandelson & Co., 19A Cavendish Square, London, W.1.
Title No. SY138760: Land at back of 1 Woodcote Green House enclosed by the points lettered C,D,E and F on plan. A rectangle 59' north to south and 20' east to west adjoining Heather Lodge, Chalk Lane.
13th May, 1955: Agreement by the Vendors to sell to the Purchaser for £3,400 the land enclosed by the points lettered C, D, E and F on plan and other land being the Garage and Stabling Block at Woodcote Green House, Epsom. . 23rd May, 1955: Agreement by the Purchaser to sell to John Harold Wheeler for £3, 600, the other land being the Garage and Stabling Block at Woodcote Green House, Epsom (i.e. excluding land enclosed by the points lettered C, D, E and F on plan).
14th July, 1955: Completion of sale by the Vendors to John Harold Wheeler and Ethel Wheeler jointly, excluding land enclosed by the points lettered C,D,E and F on plan.
14th July, 1955: Completion of sale by the Vendors to the Purchaser of the land enclosed by the points lettered C, D, E and F on plan.
15th July, 1955: Clifford Neil SANDELSON of 1 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey registered as proprietor of the land enclosed by the points lettered C, D, E and F on plan.
Titles SY131781 and SY138760 - 1 Woodcote Green House
3rd June, 1960: Winifred Ferguson YOUNG of 1 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, Medical Practitioner, registered as proprietor. Price paid £7825.
26th July, 1960: Restriction registered preventing disposition of the land by the proprietor without the consent of Margaret Ferguson YOUNG and Jessie Ferguson YOUNG both of 1 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey.
28th May, 1969: Death of Winifred Ferguson YOUNG of 1 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey.
7th September, 1971: Margaret Ferguson YOUNG and Jessie Ferguson YOUNG both of 1 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey registered as proprietors.
2
208 Appendix I
nd September, 1977: Agreement by Margaret Ferguson Young and Jessie Ferguson Young to sell to John Parsloe and Helen Margaret Parsloe both of 1 Leopold Avenue, S.W.19.
16th September, 1977: John PARSLOE and Helen Margaret PARSLOE, his wife, both of 1 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, registered as proprietors.
Title No. SY129473 - 2 Woodcote Green House
6th May, 1954: Date of first registration
26th January, 1955: Transfer for £3,000 by William John May GARMAN (Building Society Representative) and Robert John GARMAN (Builders Manager) both of 283 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush, W.12 as Trustees to Eileen NICOLSON of 2 Woodcote Green House Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, Widow.
9th February, 1955: Eileen NICOLSON of 2 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, Widow, registered as proprietor. Price paid £3,000.
29th August, 1957: Alan Edwin JAMES, Architect, and Barbara JAMES, his wife, both of 2 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, registered as proprietors. Price paid £3, 675.
7th October, 1968: Brian Sidney KIRK and Jean Vicary Nellie KIRK, his wife, both of 2 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, registered as proprietors. Price paid £8, 650.
18th February, 1971: Reginald PAICE of 2 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, registered as proprietor. Price paid £13, 750.
18th March, 1985: Alice Margaret PAICE of 2 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, registered as proprietor.
26th February, 2002: Death of Alice Margaret PAICE of 2 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey KT18 7DF.
26th June 2002: Probate of the Will of Alice Margaret PAICE granted to the Executor, Roger PAICE of 2 Abinger Road, Chiswick, W4 1EL.
16th August 2002: Transfer for £270.000 by Roger PAICE of 2 Abinger Road, Chiswick, W4 1EL with limited title guarantee to John PARSLOE and Helen Margaret PARSLOE of 1 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey KT18 7DF.
23rd August 2002: John PARSLOE and Helen Margaret PARSLOE of 1 Woodcote Green House, Woodcote Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7DF registered as proprietors.
209 Appemdix I
210 Appendix II
Appendix II: MARRIAGE OF CAROLINE BULLER AND EDGAR GIBERNE
EPSOM AND EWELL ADVERTISER
March 1. 1884
EPSOM. WEDDING OF MISS CAROLINE A. BULLER AND MR. GIBERNE. On Tuesday morning the parish church and its precincts were probably more crowded than for many a long day in the course of its history, the occasion being the celebration of the nuptials of Miss Caroline A. Buller, second daughter of Colonel J. Hornby Buller, of Down Hall, Epsom with Mr. Giberne, only son of the late Mr. George Giberne, also of Epsom. The exceeding popularity of the youthful pair, who are both well known and highly respected throughout the district, as are their respective families, whose kindness and generosity and ready willingness to contribute to any scheme for the benefit and aid of their poorer neighbours, has obtained for them the sympathy of both rich and poor alike, was manifest on every hand, and the greatest excitement prevailed all over Epsom on the eventful morning. As the hour for the ceremony approached, 11.30, large numbers of the gentler sex wended their way to the church, which was crowded with a joyous throng, and which overflowed and clustered round the church porch and gateways, waiting to witness the arrival of the bridal party. The day was a most auspicious one, being beautifully fine, the sun shining with summer brightness. At the hour appointed the bridegroom arrived at the church, accompanied by his best man, Mr. Arthur Tabor, and was followed by the bridesmaids, the bride arriving, with her father, almost immediately. The bride, who looked charming in her wedding dress, was attired in a rich brocaded white ottoman, with fine Irish point lace flounce, and veil of same lace over wreath of orange blossoms. The bridesmaids were Miss Hornby Buller, Miss Emily Buller. Miss Isabel Giberne, Miss Hodges, Miss Emmeline Bradshaw, Miss Jane Buller, Miss Blanche Tritton, Miss Isabel Dashwood, Miss Emmeline Lyall, and Miss Nora Bolitho. They were attired in dresses composed entirely of cream lace and mauve ribbon, with bodices of cream broché, and bonnets to match, with mauve aigrette; and each carried a handsome feather fan and exquisite bouquet of white flowers and Neapolitan violets, the gift of the bridegroom. The bride’s stepmother, Mrs. J. Hornby Buller, wore an exquisite toilette of sapphire blue velvet, trimmed sable, and bonnet of pale yellow roses, and carried a magnificent bouquet of roses to match. Mrs. Herbert Brooks1 also wore mouse coloured brocaded velvet, with bonnet of the same shade, and carried a bouquet of pale pink carnations. Mrs. Arthur Hopkins wore a costume of terra cotta and bonnet to match; Mrs. E. Northey, dark chocolate velvet and bonnet of same colour, with pale pink velvet ; Mrs. Tritton, dark blue velvet and bonnet of same, with bouquet of white flowers and violets ; the Hon. Mrs. E. Henley, dark blue velvet ; Mrs. Manley Hopkins, dark green dress and bonnet, with pansies. The best men were - Mr. A. Tabor, Mr. W. Williams, Mr. E. Tabor, Mr. J. Bradshaw, Mr. A. Berkett, Mr. Gordon, Mr. M. Tritton, Mr. W. Buller, and Mr. H. Harrison. As the bridal party entered the church, and proceeded up the aisle, the choir sang, ‘Come gracious Spirit, Heavenly Dove,’ and during the service ‘Thine for ever.’ The officiating clergymen were the Rev. E. D. Northey, assisted by the Rev. J. Samuel, vicar. At the conclusion of the ceremony, and whilst the formality of signing the register was being gone through, white flowers were distributed among the guests, and Mr. J. O’Connell, organist, played in fine style Mendelssohn’s ‘Wedding March’ and also the ‘Cornelius March.’. The guests afterwards went to the Public Hall, where the wedding breakfast was provided by Mr. Barnard, of Epsom, in a manner that reflects the greatest possible credit on him. The guests present were -
1 Brooks of Woodcote Park Epsom. Herbert Brooks of Woodcote Park Epsom J.P. co. Surrey, and a Commissioner of the Lieutenant for London. Born 10th February, 1842, married 10th September, 1874, Alice daughter of the late Rev. Richard Buller, rector of Lanreath, co. Cornwall. Son of Robert Brooks of Woodcote: J.P. and M.P. for Weymouth 1859-68. Burke’s Landed Gentry – 1906.
211 Appendix II
Colonel and Mrs. Hornby Buller, Mr. Wynn Buller, Master Jack Buller, Mrs. Alex Buller, Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw, Miss Bradshaw, Mr. J. Buller Bradshaw (Scots Guards), Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Brooks, Mr. William Beauford, Mr. A. Birkett, Miss Birkett, Mrs. Bassett, Mr. and Mrs. Penn Curzon, Mr. and Mrs. Clutton, Mrs. Dashwood, Mrs. Giberne, Miss Giberne, Major Giberne, Colonel Green, Mr. G. Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Howell, Mr. and Mrs. F. Buller Howell, Mr. Chas. Howell, the Honble. Ernest and Mrs. Henley, Mr. and Mrs. Manley Hopkins,2 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hopkins, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Everard Hopkins, Major Harrison, the Rev. Edmund and Mrs. Northey, Mr. H. Rokeby Price, Mr. William Pilcher, Mr. Pearson, Mr. John Smith, Miss Smith, Rev. John and Mrs. Samuel, Major and Mrs. Tritton, Miss Tritton, Miss Lena Tritton, Mr. Maxwell Tritton, Lady Treleway, Mr. Arthur Tabor, Mr, Ernest Tabor, Mr. and Mrs. Radcliffe Walters, Mr. Michael Williams, Mr. W. Philpotts Williams, Mr. W.W. Whitmore.
The happy pair subsequently left for London en route for Paris for the honeymoon, the bride’s dress being of brown cloth, with jacket and velvet bonnet to match. The wedding presents were both numerous and costly, and were as follows: - Lady Williams, large pearl and diamond brooch in form of rose-bud ; Colonel and Mrs. Hornby Buller, dessert service ; Mrs. Giberne, dinner service ; Master Jack and Miss Dorothy Buller, silver toast rack ; Captain and Mrs. J. Buller, R.N., C.B., silver cream jug ; Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw, gold bracelet ; Miss Williams, gold necklace ; Mr. and Mrs. Howell, double Sutherland table ; Mrs. Chapell Hodge, pearl earrings ; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Brooks, silver mounted travelling case ; Mrs. Richard Williams, pair of silver dessert spoons ; Mr. and Mrs. Manley Hopkins, silver knives and forks ; Mr. and Miss Giberne, silver grape scissors ; Miss Isabel Giberne, napkin rings ; Mr. George Pearson, blankets ; Major, Mrs., and Misses Giberne, oak writing case ; Miss Giberne, brass candelabra ; Mr. and Mrs. Bassett, silver candlesticks ; Mr. and Mrs. Tritton, large pearl pendant ; Lady Williams, set of silver salt cellars ; Miss Hornby, gold and pearl brooch ; Mrs. Somers, pearl horseshoe brooch ; Mrs. Steward, gold bangle ; Mrs. Brooks, silver and alabaster inkstand, and candlesticks ; Miss Fletcher, photographic screen ; Mrs. Jackson, photograph album ; Mr. R. D. Jackson, silver Indian bangles ; Miss Jessie Lewin, silver Albanian necklace ; Mr. Dashwood, plush table ; Mrs. Owen Hornby, china vase of roses ; Mr. Spencer Buller, aneroid ; Mr. M. Williams, antique silver teapot ; Mrs. Northey, sen., cut glass water jug and goblets ; Miss Gosling and Miss Wiltshire, china candlesticks ; Mrs. Scott, hand-painted table ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moncrief Cockburn, gold bangle ; Mr. F. Daniell, painted card tray ; the Servants at Down Hall, silver salver and marrow spoon ; Mrs, Lewin, purse ; Miss Rokeby Price, glass flower vase ; Sir Edward and Lady Hamilton, hand- painted mirror ; Miss and Miss Mary Carter, silver biscuit box ; Miss Fanny Carter, inkstand, candlesticks, and hand painted blotter ; Miss Dews, white painted satin fan ; Miss E. C. Hoare, handkerchief satchet ; Mr. G. C. Alexander, reading lamp ; Mr. and Mrs. E. Peel, silver necklace ; Miss M. Curzon, writing case ; Lady Trelawny, pair of vases ; the Misses Hardman, brass flower stand ; the Misses Lyall, brass vase ; Misses Murray, hand painted mirror ; Major-General and Mrs. Dume, work case ; Mrs. Williams, silver sugar basin, tongs, and cream jug ; Mrs. Smith Gordon, mirror and candelabras ; Colonel Green, bread platter and knife ; Mrs. Denshire, candlestick ; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, silver pepper boxes ; Miss Dashwood, glass lamps ; indoor servants at Mrs. Giberne’s, salver and cut glass biscuit box ; the gardeners at Mrs. Giberne’s, silver egg stand; Mr. Henry H. Hornby, turquoise and diamond ring ; Rev. E. and Mrs. Northey, breakfast service ; Mr. and Mrs. Penn Curzon, ivory brush with silver monogram ; Mr. G. B. Bradshaw, letter cabinet ; Mr. C. A. Howell, pair of vases ; Captain Hastings, silver basket; the Misses Hodges, embroidered d’oyles ; Lieut.-Colonel Gore, ormolu inkstand ; Mr. Oliver Haywood, cheque ; the Earl and Countess of Egmont, Dresden china clock ; Miss Burton, brass clock ; Mr. A and Miss E. Tabor, silver salt cellars and spoons ; Mr. and Mrs. Clutton, cheque ; Mrs. Denshire, vase ; Mr. and Miss Pearson, biographical dictionary ; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hopkins, silver dessert knives and forks ; Captain and
2 Jeremy Harte commented: “Yes, Manley Hopkins is the Gerard Manley Hopkins. He used to come to Epsom when he was visiting the Gibernes of Church Street, who were distant cousins. There is a photo of him amongst the (very) early photographs taken by George Giberne, who retired from being a judge in the East India Company before the mosquitos and dacoits could get him, and took up photography as a hobby.”
212 Appendix II
Mrs. O’Brien Hare, afternoon tea service ; Mr. and Mrs. Wild, Derby pickle jars ; Captain Dunn, silver-mounted cream and sugar stand ; Miss Ada Hickman, sofa cushion ; Miss Templar, travelling clock ; Mr. and Mrs. William Beaufort, Dresden china candlestick ; Mrs. Preedy, vase ; Mrs. Henry Williams, Japanese table ; the Misses Gordon, large plush photo. frame ; Miss Emma Rowton, glass claret jug ; Mrs. A. Hornby, Brussels lace fan ; Mrs. F. Buller Howell, lace pocket handkerchiefs ; Mrs. Elston, Japanese jars ; Mr. and Mrs. F. Buller Howell, silver salt cellars ; Captain and Mrs. Podmore, silver crumb brush ; four of the servants from Tadworth Court, china tea service ; Rev. R. P. Tring Cornish, jewelled scent bottle ; Mr. Bolitho, wicker worktable ; Hon. E and Mrs. Henley, four jewelled horseshoe pins ; Mr. and Mrs. Stump, silver butter knife ; the Misses Rolph Price, blue feather fan ; Mr. and Mrs. Ratclyffe Walters, fish knife and fork ; Mrs. Eales, leather card case ; Mrs. Brooks, silver card case ; Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Bridges, pair of blue vases ; the Misses Tritton, scissors in brass sheath ; Mr. and Mrs. Tudor Davies, bronze tea kettle ; Mr. and Mrs. McCrea, vase ; Mrs. Edward Heywood, Brussel’s lace scarf ; Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Crichton, lamp ; Hon. Mr. Duncombe and Mrs. Bouverie, flower vases ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brooks, silver mounted claret jug ; Mr. T. Bradshaw, inkstand ; Miss Bradshaw, blotting book ; Mr. and Mrs. Hornby, kingfisher on shell vase ; Mr. Reeble, brass writing set ; Mr. and Mrs. Collier, silver mounted claret jug ; Mrs. Bolton, paper knife ; Miss Bolton, tray ; Major Harrison, brass writing set ; Miss K. L. Bradshaw, cruet ; Mrs. E. A. Bolitho, candlesticks ; Rev. R. Cadogan, claret jug ; Miss Tritton, embroidered sachet ; Miss Blance Tritton, toilet cover ; Miss Laura Tritton, pincushion ; Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Lempriere, gold and pearl horseshoe brooch ; Mrs. E. Hodge, biscuit box ; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Brooks, silver mounted carvers ; Mr. L. Williams, Chinese teapot ; Miss A. Robbins, pair of vases ; Mr. and Mrs. A. Price, silver mounted ivory napkin rings ; Mr. W. Rokeby Price, bracket ; Mrs. Horsley Palmer, muff bag ; Mr. C. R. Buller, Neapolitan necklace and bracelet ; Dr. Daniel, Tennyson’s Poems ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Willis, aneroid ; Mr. T. Bell, Ruskin on Art ; Mr. and Mrs. Arnott, silver pin trays ; Mrs. G. Williams, gold-topped scent bottle ; Mr. and Mrs. B. Williams, gold pencil case ; Dr. and Mrs. West, Egyptian nach ; Mr. Hornby Buller and the Misses Buller, silver teaspoons ; Mr. Trotter, silver card tray ; the Misses Buller, flower vase, on mirror stand ; Mr. J. Gesbon Gordon, silver toast rack and egg stand ; Mrs. Davies, gold pencil case ; Miss C. Richard, writing set ; Mr. Talbot, photos ; Mr. and Mrs. Buller, vase.
213 Appendix II
214
Appendix III FIRE - WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 17th. 1986
On the morning of Dec, 17th I remained in bed when the children left for school because I was recovering from an acute stomach upset which left me feeling weak & unwell. I stayed in bed most of the morning and heard a great hammering & banging on the bedroom wall outside which Fanny confirmed was caused by two workers from the roofing firm of Hughes in Leatherhead who had come to repair a leaking gutter and junction box. This job had been requested some weeks ago and a few days previously a scaffolding tower had appeared for the purpose. I felt too ill to see them and left them to their business. That particular morning, Fanny cleaned the house even more scrupulously than usual. She was planning to pack the next day prior to returning to Switzerland on the Friday. Around noon I got up, bathed, dressed, washed my hair. I wandered downstairs with my hair still damp. I never did find the time to dry it. Alice arrived home from school full of the excitements of the last day. She flopped in front of the TV in the den & declined to change out of her uniform. As I stood asking her what she fancied for lunch, I saw a young curly-haired man walking past the window, staring coolly in at me as if wondering what creatures could inhabit such a house. He sauntered out the gate. I presumed him to be a roofer off to the pub. It was by now perhaps 1p.m. or 1.15p.m. I was just sitting down to some soup and sandwiches in the kitchen with Alice when Fanny, who had been with us moments before, came clattering urgently down the stairs. She said “Maggie, there’s something burning upstairs!” I ran up with her, not at all believing the literal truth of her words. I imagined a burnt-out hair dryer or similar trivia. But she pulled me through the bathroom into the roof-space beyond, the childrens’ ‘Muck-About-Room', and turned, crouching to point round the chimney-stack. What I saw was an open hole in the roof where the gable meets the wall, perhaps two feet across; a hole full of flames with a ladder clearly visible in the centre.
I could not think at all. Indeed I feel I have hardly thought clearly since. I tore down to the bedroom & called the fire brigade. Seized by panic I actually shouted at the girl who couldn’t seem to grasp the address. “Calm down”, she said, “they’re on their way”. Upstairs again, I found Fanny wrestling with a small fire extinguisher. “How Does this work?” she said, but I thought: how silly. That would have no effect at all. Nothing would induce me to go back into that roof space. I thought wildly of buckets of water, hoses and then the men who had caused the affair. I found them parked on the pavement in their van. I hammered on their window and said: “You’ve set the house on fire”. Two dazed faces gazed out at me and then they leapt out & pounded after me. But it was hopeless. They had no equipment of any kind & no idea what to do. We wrestled with the garden hose reel which was not attached to the tap. The adaptor was missing and although one roofer claimed the second hose pipe was working and apparently attempted to scale the ladder with it, he had no joy either. I rushed back into the house and upstairs to salvage possessions from the boys’ bedroom. At some point on the stairs I found someone was with me who said: “Show me where the fire is”. He was grey-haired and pleasant. I presumed him to be a policeman or other official connected with the brigade. In fact to this day I have no idea who he was, or why he was there, beyond the fact the he was ‘an ex-fire officer’. In the attic clouds of grey, acrid smoke were emerging from the roof space. I shut the Muck-About-Room door and the bathroom door and window. “That’s right”, said the stranger, “and now these other doors!”. I said “Fanny! Oh God, all your possessions!” but Fanny was already grabbing her passport and bag & slamming her door.
Apart from the gerbils, I took Tom’s ghetto blaster & tapes and would have taken much more but the man stopped me and said “That's not essential. You really must leave now”.
I don’t remember where Alice was all this time. She must have been so frightened. But she carted her gerbil’s cage into the garden & returned for all the dolls and teddies, even William’s. When she was carrying them down, someone - ?who - stopped her so she left them on the stairs.
So I found myself out on the upper lawn with Alice & the gerbils and turned to look at the house. Beyond the gable above the spare room the roof was burning. A huge black cloud of smoke was rising up and a tongue of flame. For the first time I grasped that the house was really burning, and that it might be quite destroyed. I had a devastating sense of error - not failure, that was later - but of having made
215 Appendix III
some small slip or other, through which this terrible thing had come about. I felt that maybe if I could rewind time a little, say half an hour, I could correct the mistake, like editing a home movie! Then I could prevent this taking place. But Alice said “Oh Mummy!” and I completely broke down. I turned my back on the house and put my hands over my face & screamed. Alice became the mother & tried to comfort me. Fanny came out with Greta on a lead. She was ashen-faced. Someone said “They’ve come”. “Who?” “The brigade”. It was the stranger again. He seemed almost elated. I suppose the brigade had taken about 10 minutes to arrive, but really can’t be sure.
People started to appear on all sides of the garden, popping up like startled mushrooms. Pam Mahoney called to me over her wall and later brought much-needed tea. The Harwoods peered through the rose trellis at the back and took the gerbils away to look after them. Annette, their daughter, (a friend) was with them. Another woman from Pine Hill, whom I scarcely knew, dispensed sympathy in an exhausting managing way. I could barely take in anything she or the others said to me. My head seemed to be in a sort of bucket and the words reverberated without significance. Actually I had not eaten at all for 36 hours and felt quite daft to begin with, apart from the shock. The most welcome face was Graham Law who was passing in his lunch hour and who moved the car for me and later locked various valuables into it. He also endured me weeping all over his shirt and solemnly consoled Alice in one arm and myself in the other. He was a practical, comforting presence. Eventually I walked to the front of the house and witnessed the brigade in the full joy of battle. Several ladders were in position and four firemen were sitting calmly on the ridge of the roof, cheerfully hurling hip tiles on the ground to allow the fire upwards rather than enclose it. While they sat at this considerable height they exchanged camaraderie with others on the ground. One fireman had opened a window in the games room and peered out. He was wearing an oxygen mask and goggles and resembled Darth Vader. I gathered they were controlling the fire with chemicals initially. Smoke continued to pour out of the upper windows and through new holes in the roof. I slowly grasped how extensive the damage might be. The chief fireman asked me if I wanted to retrieve anything precious from the middle floor! I thought: Our lovely bedroom. Our lovely sitting-room! And asked for photos and jewellery. Another fireman rescued the abandoned teddies on a plea from Alice. She felt Benjy was not enjoying the experience. Sue White turned up and took Alice away for which I was grateful. She would be much happier playing with Catherine.
Gradually more & more fire appliances gathered on the scene, causing total traffic congestion until the road had to be closed. I believe this was partly because we are some distance from a hydrant. Inside the house men were preparing the place for a deluge, suspending tarpaulins and huge plastic sheets in almost every room from the ceiling, to protect furniture and carpets. In the sitting room all furniture was pushed into the centre & a huge sheet suspended over it. They stuck huge nails into the corners of the hall ceiling and lowered a low-slung gigantic tarpaulin which allowed you to walk upstairs only with bent knees. These elaborate precautions had very varying degrees of success and were taken only because the house was a listed building. When they finally turned the hoses on, water cascaded in waterfalls throughout the house for several hours. This is standard practice, to ‘douse’ the fire finally; we rather question its necessity!
I saw the two roofers huddled together in misfortune much of the afternoon on the lawn. I did not speak to them as I was uncertain what I might say, and regret it later. Their boss, Mr. Hughes, came and finally after much conference with them came to talk to me. A difficult moment for us both. He just said enigmatically: “What can I say?” and spread his hands in supplication like a comic Jewish banker. He told me quite simply that the men had been using Cuprinol (highly inflammable) on some rotten wood, and a gas-powered blow torch. He had never had a disaster like this in the firm for 22 years. He said that he had contacted John on his car telephone, and later asked me to speak to him. The car was parked in Chalk Lane. As I returned to the house I saw Mrs. Paice, hat & coat and Rufus the dog, standing by Westgate House looking very upset. She had been badly frightened by a manic fireman who forcibly evacuated her & her dog from her own part of the house in case it burnt down.
I had a hysterical outburst against a photographer, a greasy middle aged man, who stood in our drive trying to photo the house. He was from the Epsom Herald. I ordered him off our land and nearly called
216 Appendix III
him a vulture. He argued with me & then stood on the pavement, taking his photo and interviewing passing firemen.
The two boys arrived from school very shocked & silent, especially Thomas who had imagined horrors because of a well-meaning friend of mine telling him at school that his house was on fire, “but not to worry”. Aeons later we inspected the indescribable mess, water dripping down the walls, wet plaster in lumps on the stair carpet, filth everywhere.
Aeons later again my nephew David turned up to collect our family Christmas presents! A bathetic incident that I’m sure must have amused him later! He thought a localised Armageddon had arrived & gaped round the house in the dark in a state of shock, water trickling down the walls around him.
Aeons later again and we were tucked up in bed in Deborah Ball’s house and Mrs. Hammer’s. The holes into the roof had been temporarily sheeted and a gale sprang up, ripping a hole in them. We were lulled into some sort of a relief by the amazing kindness of our neighbours and the knowledge that the whole happening was at last over. Or from another angle just begun.
Fire damage was limited to the top floor & roof space above it. The attic bathroom was gutted, the ‘Muck About Room’ & games room severely damaged & a large section burnt in the roof itself. A combination of fire and water damage partially destroyed the lovely hall ceiling with its eighteenth century papier maché decoration. Water damage throughout the house wrecked the electrical supply, swelled timber so that paint cracked off, partly damaged various items of antique furniture, despoiled some of the most irreplaceable books in John’s genealogical collection and wrecked decoration in large areas.
217 Appendix III
218
INDEX
The Index is of names of (and references to) persons, and of names of places. Names of fields, roads and shots in the Epsom area are listed under Fields, Roads and Shots in Epsom. Minor differences in the spelling of names of persons are ignored, except in the report of the Giberne/Buller marriage in the Epsom and Ewell Advertiser in Appendix II, where names are indexed as printed. Epsom, Woodcote, London, and names of counties, are not separately indexed. Entries occurring more than once on a page are indexed only once. Names in the captions to the illustrations are only indexed if not found anywhere in the text of the book. Alma, 34, Alsford, Hampshire, 33
1680 Survey, vii, xv, 61, 62, 66, 71, 72, 74, 123, 137, 138, 139, 140, 143, 155, 156, 173, 174, 176, 188, 190, 191, 192, 199 Althorp Lodge, 32 1687 Lease, xv, 124, 129, 137, 140, 142 Alumni Oxoniensis, 16, 56 1696 & 1699 Fencing Leases, xv, 124, 137, 143 Amato also called Bell, Blue Bell, Rummer and Hare 1706[/7] Fine Deed, xv, 71, 72, 125, 126, 127, 137, and Hounds, viii, 63, 65, 66, 70, 75, 137, 190, 191 142, 153 Andrews, xvi, 20, 25 1707 Lease and Release, xv, 71, 71, 73, 125, 126, 127, Andrews, Peter, Illust. 38(a). 130, 137, 143, 153 Angel Court, Throgmorton Street, 50, 58 1710 Lease and Release, xv, 73, 128 Anne, Queen, 173 1727 Maidstone House Deed, viii, xv, 75, 131, 139, 142, Anscomb, James, 35 187, 189, 190, 191 Anson 1733[/34] Lease and Release, xv, 130, 131, 138, 139, • 1st Viscount, 6 142 • Charlotte Isabella, later 1740 Lease and Release, xv, 124, 126, 131, 138 Northey: Charlotte Isabella, q.v. 1740[/41] Lease and Release, xv, 126, 131 Antique Dealer and Collectors Guide, The, Illust. No.8 1744[/45] Lease and Release, xv, 75, 132 Argyll, John, Duke of, 181, 200, 201 1746 Fine Deed, xv, 75, 124, 132, 137, 138, 139, 140, Arnott, Mr. and Mrs., 213 142 Ashburton, Devon, 35 1750 Lease and Release, xv, 132, 135, 139 Ashtead, History of, Illust. 40(a). 1751 Lease and Release, xv, 133 Ashtead Park, 28 1755 Survey, v, viii, xvi, 61, 62, 71, 74, 75, 80, 133, Ashtead, Surrey, 20, 28, 36, Illust. 40(a) 134, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 142, 159, 160, 173, 181, Ashton, Eye, Herefordshire, 81, 130 191 Assembly Rooms at Epsom, 174 1757 Deeds of Exchange, xvi, 71, 126, 135, 138, 140 Atkins, W.S., 28 1762 Deeds of Exchange, vii, xvi, 75, 794, 136, 138, Atkinson, Jasper, 6, 53, 55, 56 140 Atkinson, Jasper, jun., 54 1843 Tithe Map, x, xvi, 7, 10, 25, 31, 47, 48, 75, 80, Auch Vorsfelde, Germany, 35, 36 136, 139, 182, 191, Aylwin, James, 162
A B Abalone Cove, Gatehouse, Portuguese Bend, Bainbridge, Thomas Drak, 21 California, 15, Baismore, Thomas, 130 Adams Balaclava, 34, • Ann, néeBehrens: Ann, q.v. Balcombe, Sussex, 78 • James, 134, 151 Baldwin's Gardens, St. Andrew's Holborn, 78 • John, 136, 151, 168 Ball, Deborah, 217 Addison Bankes, Thomas, 78, 84, 85 • - - -, 164, 195 Bank of England, 17 • Thomas, 65, 155, 156, 164, 190, 192 Banstead, Surrey, 82, 195 Aldermanbury, 48, 52 53, 56, 130, 153, 154, 166 Bansted, See Banstead, Surrey Aldworth Barclays Cottage, 182 Jane Charlotte, nèe Barker Smith: Jane Charlotte, q.v. • Adeline, 22, 35 John, senior, 49 • Captain, 34, John, The Reverend, 49 Barlow Alerens, Emma, 22, 23, 24, 35, 36 • Gerald Haw Taunton, 19 Alexander, G. C., Mr., 212 • Joy, married John Harvey Fisher, 19 All Hallows the Great, 15 • Mary, née Bischoff: Mary, q.v.
219 Index
Barnard, Mr., 212 • John, 82 Barnards Inn, 132 Bell, T., Mr., 213 Barnsted, See Banstead Benham Bartelote (or Bartelott) • Eliza, 8 • Richard, 131, 136 • Emily, 32 • Robert, 131, 136 Berkeley • Walter, 131 • Charles, 2nd Earl, 197, 199, 199, Bartlett 200, 201 • George, 136 • Elizabeth, Lady, nèe Cary, 71, 197, • Mr., 136, 139 199, 200 • Thomas, 136 • Elizabeth, Lady, nèe Massingberd, • William, 79, 136 65, 175, 1767, 188, 192, 183, 197, Basle, 18 199, 200, 201, 213 Bassett • family, viii, 174, 187, 188, 189, 199, • Mr. and Mrs., 212 201 • Mrs, 212 • George, 1st Earl, viii, x, 6, 64, 65, 66, Bathurst 70, 71, 156, 164, 174, 175, 176, 182, • Jane, Lady, later Buller, Jane, Lady, 183, 187, 188, 192, 193, 197, 199, q.v. 199, 199, 200, 201, 202 Batten • George, 8th Baron, 197 • Katherine, later Smith, Katherine, • Henry, 7th Baron, 197 q.v. • Jane, nèe Stanhope and previously • William Henry, Dr., 49 Townshend, 199 Battersea, 33 • Theophila, later Coke, Theophila, Batts q.v. • - - -, 194 • Thomas, Sir, 197 • Joseph, 80 Berkeley Castle Charitable Trust, xiv, Bavin see Bevan, 57, 63 Berkett, A. Mr., 211 Baylis, Elizabeth see Bayliss, Elizabeth, 130 Berkley, Maurice, 48 Bayliss Berry, Patricia, Illust. 55(b) • Ann, xv, 131 Bessingby, Yorks, 14 • Daniel, xv, 131 Betts • Elizabeth, ? née Owens, xv, 130, 131 • Mr., 129, 130, 190 • family, 138 • William, viii, xv, 73, 74, 126, 128, • John, 131 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 136, 138, Baynes, Robert, 200, 201 139, 142, 154 Beale, Richd, 83, 84 Bevan Beane (or Bean) • Caroline, 41 • - -, 193, 194, 195 • Charles, 41, 42 • Armiger, 194 • Charles, junior, 42 • Katherine, 183 • Edward, 42 • Widow, 194, 195 • Eleanor, 42 Beasley, David, Goldsmiths’ Company, xiv • family, vii Beauford, William Mr, 212 • John, 41, 42, 43, 53,57 Beaufort House, Strand, 51 • Juliana, 41 Beaufort, William, Mr. and Mrs., 213 • Mrs., 3 Bebington, Cheshire, 33 • Sarah née Holmes, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47, Beddingfield, Robert, Sir, 176, 201 49, 50, 51, 106, 107 Bedford Square, Brighton, 48 • Thomas, 41, 42 Bedford Square, London, 17 • Thomas (Charles junior’s son), 42 Bedford, Bedfordshire, 39, 158 • Thomas (John’s uncle), 41 Beech Cottage, Downs Wood, Tattenham Corner, 25, • Thomas Frederick, 41 27 Biddeford [Bideford], Devon, 55 Behrens Billingsley, Capel, 180, 190 • Ann, married John Adams, xv, 133, Binfield Lodge in Wokingham, Wiltshire (sic!), 58 134, 136, 154, 151, 168 Bingley, Yorkshire, 32 • George, 154, 151 Bird, Thomas, 195 • Mary, 154 Birkett Belchier, (Alderman), 200 • A, Mr, 212 Belchiers, 54 • Miss, 212 Belgravian Dairy Co, 24 Birmingham, 35 Bell (Inn) see Amato Bischoff Bell • Barny, 18 • Elizabeth, 82 • Bischoff & Co, 18
220
• Caroline Emily married William • Henry, 50 Arthur Hanson, 19, 34 • J.H., Mr. and Mrs., 213 • Charles, ix, 18, 19, 20, 34, 107 Briggs, Anne, 80 • Charles, senior, 18, 20 Brighthelmstone, [Brighton], 57, 71, 97 • family, 18, 25 Brigstock, Mary, 17, 33 • Francis, 18 Bristol Road, Bridgewater, 17 • Isabel Armstrong, married Brough Brock, William H., 22, 23, 35 Maltby, 19, 34 Bromleys see Smith Pedigree, xvii • Jim, 18, Brooks • Justina, 18 • Alice, née Buller, Alice, q.v. • Mary Ellen married James Dowie, 18 • Henry, Mr. and Mrs., 213 • Mary Maria Catherine née Drought, • Herbert, 22, 211, 213 19 • Herbert, Mr. and Mrs., 212 • Mary, married Gerald Barlow, 19, 34 • Miss, 27 • Thomas William, 20 • Mrs., 212 Biscoe, Joseph, 190 • Robert, 22, 211 Blackburn, Lancashire, 33 Brown Blackheath, Kent, 22, 35 • John, 55 Bloomsbury, London, 34 • Thomas, 41, 43 Blue Bell see Amato Browne, William, 53 Blundell, Henry, 66 Browning, - - -, 195 Bodilly, Berkhamstead, Hertford, 24 Buckhurst, Lord, 64 Bognor, 41 Buckle, Sir Christopher, 64 Bolitho Bullen, Elizabeth, 16, 33 • E. A., Mrs., 213 Buller • Mr., 213 • Alice, married Herbert Brooks, 22, • Nora, Miss, 211 211 Bolton • Ann Isabella married Henry John • Miss, 213 Tritton, 14, 20 • Mrs., 213 • C. R. Mr., 213 • Samuel, 142 • Caroline Alexandra, married Edgar • Samuell, 129 Giberne, viii, 21, 22, 23, 24, 211 Bombay, 35 • Catherine Ann née Williams, 21, 23 Bosanquet & Co, 53 • Dorothy Nina de Courcy, vii, 22, 23, Bouchard, Brian, 42, 51 24, 25, 26, 27, 35, 39, 37, 108, 109, Boucher 206, 212 • Eugenie later Smith, Eugenie, q.v. • Elizabeth (wife of Richard), 20 • Jean Baptiste, 49 • Elizabeth née Gould, 20 • Mr., 63 • Elizabeth née Hornby, 20, 21 Boult, 77 • Emily Augusta (Nina) née Bourne Hall (Museum and Library), xiv, 3, 158, 162, Dashwood, vii, x, 6, 20, 21, 22, 23, 174 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 35, 39, 108, 211 Bourne, - - -, 193, 194, 195 • Emily Katherine, 21, 22, 23, 24, 34, Bouverie, Duncombe, Hon. Mr. and Mrs., 213 • Emily Miss, 211 Bow House, 63 • family, vii, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28, 28, 40, Bradshaw 107 • Edith Alice later Pitt, 20 • General, Sir Redvers Henry, 20 • Emmeline Miss, 211 • Henrietta Florence, 21, 22, 23, 24, • G. B. Mr., 213 25, 35 • J. Buller, Mr., 212 • Hornby, Colonel and Mrs, 212 • J. Mr., 211 • Hornby, Miss, 211 • K. L., Miss, 213 • Hornby, Mr. and the Misses Buller, • Miss, 212, 213 213 • Mr. and Mrs., 212 • J. Hornby, Colonel, 211 • T., Mr., 213 • J. Hornby, Mrs., 22, 211 Brakspear, Henry, 16 • J., Captain. R.N., C.B., and Mrs., 212 Bramley, Mary, 11 • Jack, Master, 212 Bray • Jack, Master, and Miss Dorothy, 212 • Edwin Hugh Searle, 17 • James (father of The Reverend • Marian, née Viney, Marian, q.v. Richard), 20 Brayley, E.R., xvi, 14, 158, 173 • James Hornby, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, Brettenham, Suffolk, 182 25, 26, 27, 35 Brewery, 31 • James I, 20 Bridges • James II, 20
221 Index
• James III, 20 • Berkeley: Elizabeth, Lady, née Cary, q.v. • James Wentworth, 20 Catesby, Northants, 70 • Jane Miss, 211 Cavendish Square, London, 38, 208 • Jane, Lady, née Bathurst, Jane, Lady, Ceylon Co, 18 17 Chalk Lane Hotel, 64, 155 • John Dashwood, vii, 22, 23, 24, 25, Chamberlin (or Chamberline) 26, 27, 28, 35 • family, 78 • John of Morval, 17 • John, 82 • Mary Hornby, 21, 23 • Mary, 78, 82 • Mr. and Mrs., 213 • Richard, 78 • Nina See Buller: Emily Augusta • Richard the elder, 82 (Nina) née Dashwood • See Peters, Mother of Richard née • Richard (first rector), 20 Chamberline, 82 • Richard, The Reverend, 20, 22, 23, Chapell Hodge, Mrs., 212 211 Charles II, 64, 199 • Ruth Mary née Verriéres, 25, 27 Charlton, Hampshire, 31, 32 • Spencer Mr., 212 Chaucer, Lucy, 12, 31 • Sybil Collier née Collier, 25 Cheam, 10, 205 • the Misses, 213 Cheltenham, 47, 48 Chertsey, Surrey, 36, 65 • W., Mr., 211 Chessington Church, 14 • Wynn, 21 Chessington, Surrey, 31 • Wynn, Mr., 212 Cheyney, Robert, 202 Bullock, Margaret, 23, 36 Chichester Burgh Heath, Surrey, 34, • St. Andrew, 78 Burke, xvi, 6, 10, 14, 15, 21, 35, 158,197, 199 • Burke’s Landed Gentry, xvi, 10, 211 Deanery, 78 Burley, Yorks, 33 Chinley, Sussex, 135, 165, 166, 167 Burnham, Essex, 13, 32 Chislehurst, Kent, 34 Burnm? Richard, 82 Chitty Charles, 16, 13 Burroughs, Mary A., 13, 32 Cholmeley, Lewin Charles, 205, 206, Burton Chorlton see Charlton, 31, 32 Christies, 42 • Miss, 213 Churchman, Anne, 86 • Thomas Fowell, 15 Clapham, Anne, 33 Butcher Clapham, Surrey, 31, 33 • Mr., 43 Clark • W., 3 • Alice, 13, 32, 86 • W., Mr., 4 • Alice D., 13, 32 Butterly, Elizabeth, 82 • John, 63 Butt, Dame Clara, 28 • Mary Ann, 19, 34 Byrd, George, 53 • Mathew (Minister), 81 Clarke, Margaret, 54 C Clayton (see also Clench and Clinch) Cadogan, R., The Reverend, 213 • Henry, 74 Calder • Thomas, 62, 65, 66 • Alexander, 163 Clench alis Clayton, 65 Cleobury Mortimer, Salop, 130 • Anne (formerly Stephen), 163 Clerkenwell, Middlesex, 33 • Edward, 163 Clifford, Lord, 175 • James, 163 Clinch (see also Clayton) • William, 163 • Mr., 65 Campbell, Colin, Sir, 34, • William, 158, 193 Cannon Street, London, 134 Cloete Canton, 42, 47, 49, 51, 52, 54 Carnocke, John, 201 • Daniel, 10 Carpenter • Evangeline, later • Joseph, 151 • Northey: Evangeline, q.v. • Mary Ann, 151 Clutton, Mr. and Mrs., 212, 213 Cock • Sarah, 151 Carringtons see Smith Pedigree, xvii, 52 • Abraham, 154 Carter • Anne, 154 • Fanny Miss, 212 • Dorothy, 154 • Paul, Oriental and India Office Collections, • family, 154 British Library, xiv • Judith, 154 Cary, Elizabeth later • Thomas, Sir, 66
222 Cockburn, Henry Moncrief, Mr. and Mrs., 212 • William, 86 Cocke, Anne, 52 Curtis, William, 83, 84 Coe, Edwin, 50 Curzon Coke • M., Miss, 212 • Edward, Sir, 183, 197 • Penn, Mr.and Mrs, 212, 213 • Robert, Sir, 64, 65, 173, 174, 180, Cutler, James, xv, 72, 73, 125, 127, 128 182, 183, 197, 199, 199, 201 Cuthbert, John, 82 • Theophila (neice of Sir Robert), 199 • Theophila, nèe Berkeley, 174, 180, 197, 199, 201 D Coleman D’Albiac, 158, 200 • Harriet, 31 Dale, Hannah, 81 • Harriet, 11 Dalton, B.N., 16 • Jane, 35 Daniel Coles • Dr., 213 • Christopher, 157, 158, 165 • William, xvi, 74, 75, 79, 130, 131, • Elizabeth, 157 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 138, 139, Collier Illust. 38(b), 154, 151, 167 • John Pycroft, 18 Daniele, J.B., 15 • Mortimer, 25 Daniell, F. Mr., 212 • Mr. and Mrs., 213 Dashwood • Sybil, later Buller, Sybil, q.v. • Augusta Annabel, 21, 23, 35 Collins • Charles James Augustus, 34, • Clara, 12, 31 • Emily Augusta, later Buller: Emily • Joe, 12, 32 Augusta (Nina) née Dashwood, q.v. Collyer, - - -, 193, 194, 195 • Georgiana Mary, née Hickman, 21, Colne Barrowford, Lancashire, 48 34, Colombo, 18 • H.B. error for Henry Walpole John Companion from London to Brighthelmston, x, xvi, 31, • Henry Walpole George, 21, 34, 57, 62, 134, Illust. 39(b), 1591 • Henry Walpole John, 21, 26, 34, Connell, Henry, 162 • Isabel Miss, 211 Constable • Miss, 212 • - - -, née Hilman, 81 • Mr., 212 • Hillman, 81 • Mrs, 212 • Philip, xv, 72, 73, 81, 125, 128 • Robert, 34, Cooke, 85 Dauson, John, Esquire, Sen, 85 Cookham, Berkshire, 33 Davies Corfu, 34, • John, Major, 48 Corking, George, 165 • Mrs., 213 Cornish, R. P. Tring, The Reverend, 213 • Tudor, Mr. and Mrs., 213 Coronado, Califomia, 15 Davis Coulsden, Surrey, 33 • Mary, 86 Courage Brewery Co, 24 • Mary née Foster, Mary, q,v, Courtney, William, 82 Dawes Cracknell, - - -, 17 • Messrs., 50 Cranford, Gloucestershire, 201 • Thomas,58 Cranston, Wm., 129 de Beer, E.S., 64 Crichton, A. M., Mr. and Mrs., 213 de Rolle, Baroness, 42 Crockingham, 62, 64 Dearing Cromartie Road, Islington, Middlesex, 33 • Ann R., 33 Crooked Lane, London, 154 • Joseph, 16, 33 Cropley Bros, 108 • Mildred M., 33 Cropwell-Butler, 51 • Reginald B., 33 Cropwell-Butler and Nottingham, See Smith Pedigree, • William F., 33 xvii Dendy Crossingham, See Lish, Jane, 78 • Crowe, Louisa, 36 Alice, 70 Cuddington, xvi, 10, 17, 61, 205 • family, 80 Cumming • property, 66, 70, 71 • Alice Maud, 26 • Samuel, 70, 75, 137, 151 • Emily C., 26 Denshire, Mrs., 212 Cupid, - - -, 193, 194, 195 Dent, John, xvi, 199 Curlewis Dews, Miss, 212 Dicey, Ann Mary, 162, 163 • Mary, 86 Dicey-v-Forbes, 163 • Susanna, 86 162,
223 Index
Diston, Sir Josiah, 62, 64, 74, 190, 191 • Margaret, 35 Doghouse, viii, 65, 64, 173, 174, 175, 176, 180, 181, • Mary, 11, 31 182, 194, 199, 200, 201 • Mary E., 11 Donna Christina and Southern Brazilian Railway Co., • Mr., 158 18 • Priscilla, Mrs., 131 Donnington Grove, Berkshire, 21, 34, Edwin Coe, 48 Dorien Smith see Smith Pedigree, xvii, 52 Eggleton, John, 52 Dorking, Surrey, 33 Egmont, The Earl and Countess of, 213 Dowie Ellecar see Ellicar • James, 18 Ellicar • James, senior, 18 • Ann, married Edward Sturt, 129, • Mary Ellen, née Bischoff: Mary Ellen, 154 q.v. • Daniel, xv, 72, 73, 74, 104, 123, 124, Down Hall, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 35, 39, 211, 212 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 142, Down Hall, the Servants at, 212 154 Downer, John, 65 • Elizabeth, married John Vezey, 129, Downers see Doghouse 154 Downes, Devon, 20 • Mary, married William Watson, 129, Downewards see Doghouse 130, 154 Downing, Ann Rebecca, née Viney: Ann Rebecca, q.v. • Sarah, 129, 130 Downside, 6, 18, 28 Ellicar I, viii, 72, 123, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 133, Downwards see Doghouse 134, 137, 140, 142, 143, 153, 154, 151 Drakefield Street, Streatham, 20 Ellicar II, viii, 72, 123, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, Drew 133, 137, 140, 142, 143, 153, 154, 151 • Elizabeth, 189, 195 Ellicar plot, 74, 123, 124, 126, 137, 139, 142, 143 • John, 66, 189, 195 Elliker see Ellicar Drewitt Elliot • Elizabeth, 41 • Joyce, widow, 72 • Paul, 41 • Mary, 187, 188, 192 Drought Elliott • General, 19 • Alice (widow), 72 • Isabella, 19 • Alice, later Melton, 72 • John Armstrong Head, 20 • Ebenezer, 72 • Mary Maria Catherine, later • Elizabeth, 72 Bischoff, Mary Maria Catherine, q.v. • John, 72 Dume, Major-General and Mrs., 212 Joyce, widow, 72 Dundass, John, Senr, 124 • Mary, 72, 188, 192, 193 Dundee, William, 82 • Nicholas, 183, 192 Dunley in Hurstbourne Priors, 165 • Peter, 72 Dunn, Captain, 213 • Susanna, 72 Dupas, ---, 175 • widow (alias Lancashire), 72, 97, Durand, John, 50 123, 124, 127, 140, 142, 151 Durands Land, 50 Elmhurst, Marlborough, 27 Durdans also Durdens, viii, xii, xiv, 61, 64, 65, 71, 97, Elmslie 158, 174, 175, 181, 182, 183, 187, 188, 190, 191, 192, • 193, 197 199, 199, 199, 200, 201, 202 family, viii, 158, 162 Durdans Lodge, 12, 32 • James, 50, 56, 58, 162 • Mary, 162, 163 Elston, Mrs., 213 E Eltham, Kent, 22, 34, Eagle Cottages, East Street, 13, 32 Embankment Gardens, 38, 208 Eales, Mrs., 213 Endion, Kew, 24 Ealing alias Zealing, 154 Epsom and Ewell Borough Council, 108 Eardley, John, 154 Epsom and Ewell Advertiser, 22, 211 Earl, Joseph, 23, 36 Epsom Herald and Advertiser, 216 East India Company, 42, 48, 49, 52, 131, 197, 212 Epsom Urban District Council, 47, 107 Eastland Ethy, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, 24 • George, 54 Ettrick, 66 Evelyn • Henry, 194 Easton, Henry Tucker, 51 • Elizabeth, 64, 175 Eaton, Ann, Mrs., 82, 83, 84 • John, 64 Ebbisham, Manor of, 65, 199 • Richard, 64, 175 Edenthorpe, Wimbledon, 42 Evens, Elizabeth, 22, 35 Edwards Eversheds, 18 • John, Captain, 131 Ewell, xvi, 3, 10, 14, 17, 20, 45, 61, 143, 153, 211
224
Ewell • Downes, or Downs, 155, 156, 183, • John, 65 192, 193, 201, 202 • Richard, 65 • Downside, 27 Ewell House, 21 • Dulls Shot, 155, 156, 159, 164, 165, Exeter, 55 166, 167, 193, 194 Exeter College, Oxford, 15, 17 • Durrantes, 195 Exwood, Somerset, 24 • East Street, 13, 32 Eye, Herefordshire, 81, 130, 131 • Ebbisham (or Ebisham) Common Eyre, George John, 34, Field, 143, 155, 156, 164 • Ewell field, 183 • Farmy Furlong shot, 54, 58 F • Foxholes, 195 Fairford, Berkshire, 49 • Gills Lane see also Clay Lane, 65, 70, Farrier see Farrow, 75, 132 173, 175, 176, 181, 182, 199 Farrow, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 123, 125, 126, 127, 128, • Gorbrid Shott, 194, 195 130, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 143, 153, 151, • Harris Hearne, 195 160, 161, 167 • Harris Herne Shot, 66 Farrow • Hartsmead, 193 • Elizabeth, 130 • Hayes, the, 195 • William, 71, 75, 80, 123, 127, 128, • Heaths Shot, 183 130, 131, 132, 137, 138, 160 • High Ridge, 195 Fell • High Street, 12, 133, 136 • Abraham, 82 • Hixbridge Wood, 187, 188, 192, 193, • Sarah, 81 199, 200, 201, 202 Fendall, - - -, 194, 195 • Holly Bush, 193 Fenn, See Venn • Kings Close, 126, 153 Ferrer See Farrow, 128 • Lands End, 193, 201, 202 Fetcham, 41 • Laburnum Road, 20 Field • Little Pickles, 192, 193, 201, 202 • family, 136 • Lodge? Shot, 183 • John, 136 • Long hedge Shott, 194, 195 Fields, Roads, and Shots in Epsom • Longlands Shot, 183 • Addisons Pitt, 190, 195 • Lower Ebbisham Common, 80 • Ashley Road, 17 • Mackerell Shot, 183 • Avenue Road, 190 • Madan’s Walk, 155 • Bansted Way, 195 • Mapleton Bush Shott, 195 • Barrgate Way, 190, 191 • Marke Furlong, 195 • Belchiers, 54 • Med? Furlong, 195 • Birding Bush shot, 194 • Mounthill Close, 66 • Bittoms, 193, 195 • New Inn Lane, 12, 32, 52, 62, 136, • Bittoms Hedge, 193 193 • Burgh Heath Road, 21 • Oakeing Furlong, 194 • Chalk Lane, ix, 11, 27, 32, 34, 39, 49, • Parade, the, 155 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 70, 72, 74, 75, 76, • Pickett Hedge Shott, 194 80, 108, 111, 123, 135, 137, 155, 156, 162, 190, 191, 206, 209, 217 • Pickle, 195 • Chalkeley Close, 195 • Pickle Hedge shot, 54 • Chappells Bush, 193 • Pine Hill, 143, 182, 206, 216 • Childrens Platt, 195 • Raild Pitt, the, 195 • Church Road, 76 • Riden (or Ridens), the, 193, 194 • Church Street, 12, 15, 32, 39, 50, • Road leading to Walton, 75, 135, 212 159, 160, 161 • Clay Lane see also Gills Lane, ix, xii, • St. Martin’s Road, 18 65, Illust. 39(b & d), 181, 181 • Sand Pitt, the, 194 • Cox Hedges, 194 • Shortridge, 195 • Crockingham Corner, Illust. • Shot above Little Digden, 183 39(d),182 • Shot below the Worple, 183 • Digden, 195, 199 • Sir Christopher Buckles Way, 193 • Digden, Great, 183 • Smith Hatch field, 66, 158, 183 • Digden, Little, 199 • Smiths Hatch Gate, 195 • Digdens, 192, 193, 201, 202 • South Street, 11, 12, 31, 66 • Dorking Road, xiv, 66, 76, 136 • Square Acre, 183, 193 • Down Hall Road, 22, 34, • Stamford Hill, 80 • Stoney Bush Shott, 195
225 Index
• Stoney Land, 195 • John, 133 • Stoney Land Shot, 183 • Mary, later Davis, 133 • Straight Furlong Shott, 193, 195 • Mr., 75, 133, 139, 142, 190 • Sullingam Bottom, 193 • Thomas, 133 • Sunnybank, 39 Fosters (name of house), 132, 138, 139 • Tattenham Corner, 25, 27 Fox • The Worple, 193 • John, 50 • Towne Meade, 193, 194, 195 • Thomas, 156, 164, 165 • Upper Downs Road, 23, 35 Fox (house), 53 • Vawling Pitt, 194 Fox (public house) See Ladas • West Ditch, 183 Franklyn, Rebecca, 75, 126, 139 • West Ditch Bottom, 195 Frederick, Prince of Wales, 199 • West Ditch Close, 195 Frere Cholmely & Co, 207 • West Ditch Hedge, 195 Frere, J.W.C., 205 • Wilding Tree ffurlong, 193 Frogatt, 66 Froome?, Jersey, 33 • Woodcote Common Field, 155, 157, Fuller 158, 159, 160, 161, 165, 166 • Ann, later Viney, 16, 17 • Woodcote Corner, 65, 159, 183, 190, 191, 194 • Eveline M., 33 • • Woodcote Corner shot, 65, 158 family, vii, 16 • John, 16, 17, 33 • Woodcote End, 26, 32, 65, 66, 142, Illust. 39(d),155, 162, 164), 190 • Mary Ann, 33 • Woodcote Field, 157, 165, 183, 200 • Mr., 13 • Woodcote Green, viii, x, xii, xiv, 3, • William, 16, 17, 33 17, 20, 27, 28, 29, 32, 34, 41, 49, 50, Furchin?, J.L., 16 58, 61, 62, 63, 65, 70, 71, 72, 75, 80, Furniss 97, 111, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, • John, xvi, 6, 10, 34 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 134, 135, • William George, 10 136, 137, 140, 142, 153, 155, 156, 157, 164, 165, 167, 174, 181, 181, 206 G • Woodcote Green, Lower, 65, 71, Gaddesby, Leicestershire, 52 136, 137, 173, 181, 181 Gardom, George, 6 • Woodcote Green Road, xiii, 28, 61, Garland 62, 65, 71, 72, 76, 80, 123, 124, 135, • Ann, 161, 162, 167 137, 140, 143, 161, 206, 208, 209 • family, 158 • Woodcote Green, Upper, 65, 71, • Mrs., 64 143, Illust. 39(a), 173, 181, 181, 188, • Nathaniel, 159, 161, 162, 166, 167, 199, 206 168 • Woodcote Lane See Chalk Lane, 62 Garlands see Woodcote Grove • Woodcote Road, 12, 31, 32, 33, 62, Garman 65, 123, 136 • Elizabeth, 17, 33 • Woodcote Side, 66 • Robert John, 37, 108, 207, 208, 209 • Worple Road., xi, 155, Illust. 42, 190, • William John Ray, 37, 207, 208, 209 191 Genealogical Society, The, xvi, 14, 47, 50 • Worple shot, 54 George I, 39, 61, 104, 173 • Worple, the, 193, 194 George IV, 183 • Wythybed’s (or Wythibed’s) Corner, George Inn, The, 81, 153 194, 195 George Street, 13, 55 Fiennes, Celia, 158 George, William, 175, 176, 180, 181, 202 Fisher Giberne • • John Harvey, 19 Carol Amador, 27 • • Joy, née Barlow: Joy, q.v. Caroline Alexandra, née Buller, Fletcher, Miss, 212 Caroline Alexandra, q.v. Forbes, John Hopton, 162, 163 • Edgar, viii, 22, 23, 24, 35 Ford, Francis, Bt., 49 • Evelyn, 35 Foreman • family, 39, 212 • Charles, 53 • George, 22, 39, 212 • Mr., 62 • George, Mr., 211 Fort St. George in the East Indies, 131 • Harold Buller, 23, 24, 21 Foster • Isabel, Miss, 211, 212 • - - -, 75, 130, 131, 142 • Major, 212 • A.F., 205. 206 • Maria, 22, 35 • Elizabeth, 133 • Miss, 212
226
• Mr., 211 • August Adelaide Clara, married • Mr. and Miss, 212 Frederic Oxley, 11, 12, 31 • Mrs., 212 • Augustin, 7 Giberne’s • Augustin Hippolite (or Hippolyte), • Mrs., indoor servants at, 212 11, 12, 31, 32, 43, 47 • Mrs., the gardeners at, 212 • family, vii, 11 Gibbons, Joseph, 82 • Hildebrand, 12 Gibraltar, 21, 26, 34, 35 • Mons., 3, 41 Glebe Farm, Hinton Waldrist, Berks, 10, 37, 207 • Mr., 11 Gleneagle Road (formerly The Pines), Manor Park, • Victoire Adelaide, 11, 12, 31, 32 Streatham, 17 Guerrien, Mr., see Guerin Glynn, Sir Lewen Powell, 14 Guildhall Library, 17 Golay, Fanny, 215, 216 Gwyn, Nell, 64 Goldsmiths’ Company, The, xiv, 52, 55 Goodmans Fields, 82 Gordon H • G., Mr, 212 Haberdashers, Worshipful Company of, 83 • J. Gesbon, Mr., 213 Hackney, Middlesex, 176, 201, 202 • Mr., 211 Haigh, Lancashire, 49 • the Misses, 213 Haileybury College, 49 Gore, Lieut.-Colonel, 213 Hake, Rosanna, 17 Gosling, Miss, 212 Hall, John, 13, 32 Gosse Hamilton • Ann, 13, 14 • Edward, Sir and Lady, 212 • Ann, later Trevelyan, Ann, née • Frances Mary née Smith, Frances Gosse, q.v. Mary, q.v. • Anne, 33 • William Edward, 49 • Annie Louisa, 16 • Hammer, Mrs., 217 • Edmund, 16 Hammoon, Dorset, 49 • Emma, 16 Hampton Court, 21, 158 • family, 14 Hankey, Edward Alers, 12 • Henry, 13, 14, 15, 16 Hanover Square, 13, 48, 55 • Henry, senior, 13, 14, 16, 33 Hanson • Philip Henry, 16 • Caroline Emily née Bischoff, Gould Caroline Emily, q.v. • Elizabeth, later Buller, Elizabeth, née • William Arthur, 19 Gould, q.v. Hardings, Cheriton, Templecombe, 26 • H., 18 Hardman, the Misses, 212 Gracock, Abraham, 81 Hare and Hounds See Amato Graham, Mrs., 50, 57 Hare, O’Brien Captain, and Mrs., 213 Grant Harley Place, Bow Road, 17 • Sybil, Lady, 182 Harrington, A., 18 • William, 193 Harris, Thomas, 129, 130, 142 Great Rooms at King Street, St. James’s Square, 42 Harrison Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, 157 • Edward, 81, 131 Green • Frances, 131 • Colonel, 212 • H., Mr., 211 • Edward, 189 • Major, 212, 213 Greenwood, F.W., 18 • Mr, 212 Greenwood map, 1823, x, Illust. 39(d) Harrowell, James, 33 Grey, Mary, Lady, 175 Harte, Jeremy, Bourne Hall Museum, xiv, 3, 212 Grimaldi Hart’s Army List, 21 • Mary, Mrs., 42 Hartshorn, Mary, later Lee, Mary, q.v. • Stacey, 42 Harwood Grimley, George, 81 • Annette, 216 Grocers’ Company., 81 • family, 216 Groom, Arthur Philip, 15 • John, 37 Grylls family, 21 • Mr., 143 Gubbins, Elizabeth, 74, 81 • Ronald, 37 Guerin Hassell, J., 174, 176 • Adelaide Sophie, married Nicolas Hastings, Captain, 213 Poncon, 11, 31 Hatchard Smith, 107 • Adelaide Victoire, see Guerin: Hatton, - - -, 193, 195 Victoire Adelaide Haunch Hall, Stafford, 53
227 Index
Hawarden Drive, Riverside, California, 15 Hillingley, Sussex, 165, 166 Hawkes, Mary, 41, 42 Hillman see Hilman, 130, 131 Hawkins, - - -, 195 Hillways, Launceston, Cornwall, 27 Hayter Hilman • Elizabeth later Jones, Elizabeth, 82 • - - - married - - - Constable, 81. • family, vii, 104 • Anne, 81 • Henry, 73, 74, 79, 104, 128, 139 • Daniel, xv, 72, 73, 75, 79, 81, 104, • Martha née Whatton, 81, 82 124, 125, 128, 131, 138, 153, 154 • Thomas, 74, 78, 86, 104 • family, 73, 125, 126, 127, 128, 132, • Whitfield, 73, 81 138, 142 Haywood, Oliver Mr., 213 • John, 81 Hazelbury, 183 • Joseph, 81 Heal Ambrose, Sir, 77 • property, viii, 125, 137 Healey, Paul, 194, 195 • Samuell, 81 Heathcote • Sarah formerly Holland née Maund, • Arthur, 200 xv, 71, 72, 73, 75, 79, 80, 104, 123, • Gilbert, Sir, 200 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133, Heather Lodge, 28, 37, 39, 75, 109, 208 138, 140, 143, 153, 154 Hellier, Hugh, 165 Hilton Price, F.G, 53 Hellingsley, Sussex, 135, 167 Hinton Waldrist, Farringdon, Berks, 37, 207 Helston, Lower Road, 24 Hitchman, Robert, 82 Hemeley, Rhoda, 33 Hoare Henbury, 14 • E. C. Miss, 212 Henfield, 77, 78, 82 • Mr., 12 Henley Hodge, E. Mrs., 213 • E., Hon. and Mrs., 2 Hodges • E., the Hon. Mrs., 211 • Miss, 211 • Ernest, The Honorable and Mrs, 212 • the Misses, 213 • Michael Lewis, 82 Holland Henley-on-Thames, Oxford, 16 • Charles, xv, 130, 131 Henry VIII, 21 • Elizabeth, 153 Henslep, Buckinghamshire, 135, 165, 167 • Sarah née Maund later Hilman, xv, Henstridge, Charlotte, 22, 23, 24, 25, 35, 36 72, 73, 75, 80, 104, 123, 124, 125, Herbert, Frederick E., 23, 36 127, 128, 130, 131, 133, 138,112, Hesketh 143, 153, 154 • Bertha, 15 Holmes • Emma, 14 • George, 41 • Emma Margaret, 14 • Sarah, later Bevan, Sarah, q.v. • Louisa Mary Ann, later Holworthy, Mathew, 74, 81 • Northey: Louisa Mary Ann, q.v. Home, Gordon, xvi, 63, 97, 104, 110, 124, 173, 174, • Robert Cuthbert, M.A., The Reverend, Illust.40(a), 191, 200 6, 14 Honywood Hewitt • Florence Elizabeth, later Northey, • Elena, 174, 182 Florence Elizabeth, q.v. • John, 174, 182, 187, 188, 192, 200 Hook, Tichfield, Hampshire, 17 • Margery, 174, 182 Hooker • property, 72 • Edward, 82 • Thomas, 174, 182 • Martha, 13, 32 Hext Hopkins • George Kendall, 24 • Arthur Mr. and Mrs., 212, 213 • William Buller, Captain, 27 • Arthur, Mrs., 211, 212, 213 Heywood Lodge, Berkshire, 48, 49, 56 • Everard, Mr., 212 Heywood, Edward, Mrs., 213 • Gerald Manley, 212 Hickman • Manley, Mr. and Mrs., 212 • Ada Miss, 213 • Manley, Mrs., 211, 212 • Georgiana Mary, later Dashwood, Hornby Georgiana Mary, q.v. • A. Mrs., 213 • William, 34, • Elizabeth, later Buller, Elizabeth, q.v. Higginson, Elizabeth, 81 • Henry H., Mr., 212 Hill, Marguerite, Mrs., 39 • James, 21 Hilliard • Miss, 211, 212 • Edward, 70 • Mr. and Mrs., 213 • Edward, senior, 70 • Owen, Mrs., 212 • property, 66, 71 Hornby-Buller, J., 23, See Buller, James Hornby
228
Horne, Alice, 130 • Evelyn Helena née Trevelyan, Hornesby, Mary, 130, 154 Evelyn Helena, q.v. Hornsey Rise, Middlesex, 33 • Jennifer Mary, née Riddett, Jennifer Horsham, Sussex, 86 Mary, q.v. Horsley • Kathleen, later Trevelyan, Kathleen, • Mr., 64 q.v. • Samuel, 82 • Norman, 15 Horton, Manor of, 64, 65, 199 • Robert, 15 Hoskyns, John, 75, 126, 127, 128, 131, 139 • William, 15 Howard, Richard, Illust. 40(a). Isaacs, Elizabeth, 24 Howard-White, Frank Buller, 20 Islington, Middlesex, 17, 33, 154 Howe Ivy Dene, Chipping Norton, 42 • Caroline, xvi, 71, 135, 166, 167 • John, xvi, 71, 135, 165, 166, 167, 168 J Howell Jackett, Mr., 63 • C. A., Mr., 213 Jackson • Charles Alexander, 24 • Frances, 13 • Chas Mr, 212 • John, Sir, 158 • Dorothy Frances, 24 • Mrs., 212 • F. Buller, Mr. and Mrs., 212, 213 • R. D., Mr., 212 • F. Buller, Mrs., 212, 213 • Thomas, 18 • Mr. and Mrs., 212 James Hubbald • Alan Edwin, 39, 209 • - - -, 181 • Barbara, 39, 209 • Edward, 73, 77, 79 Jefferyes, widow, 190 Hudson Jefferys, William, 82 • Abel, 189, 194 Jendwine, Thomas, 50 • Ann, later Trevelyan, Ann née Jocelyn, Julian R.J., Colonel, 34 Hudson, q.v. Johnson, Elizabeth, 78 • John, 14, 189, 194 Johnston Hughes • Andrew, 15, 16 • in Leatherhead, 215 • Andrew, senior, 15 • Janet, 23, 35 • Charlotte Anne, née Trevelyan, • Mr., 216 Charlotte Anne, q.v. Hulme, John, 82 • Elizabeth, 41, 42 Hunsden, George, Lord, 197 • George, 42 Hunt Jolliffe • Hugh, 84, 85 • Anne, later Northey, Anne, Dame, • James, 163 q.v. Hunter • William, Sir3 • Henrietta Ann, 42 Jones • Henrietta Caroline Sophia, 42 • Charles Collier, 16, 17,18 • Henrietta?, 42 • Charles Payne Collier, 17, 18, 33 • Peter, 41, 42 • Eleanor Bertha, 18 Hunter Street, London., 33 • Elizabeth née Hayter, 81 Huntingfield, Suffolk, 200 • Elizabeth, née Peters, Elizabeth,74 Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire, 165 • family, vii Hyde Park Square, London, 22 • Henrietta Anna Robinson, 17, 33 Hyde, Louisa, 17, 33 • James William, 18 • John Collier, 17 • Jones Loyd & Co, 17 I • Mary L., 17, 33 Idlecote?, 53 • Messrs. E.H. Jones, 18 Ilchester and Worcester, 55 • Mr., 6 Indian Monumental Inscriptions, 47 Ingham, Erika, National Portrait Gallery, xiv Inkerman, 34, K Inner Temple, London, 180, 190, 201 Kadikoï, Crimea, 34, International Genealogical Index, 13 Kelly, xvi, 17, 20 Inworth Hall, 42 Kelly, Alison, 106 Irving Kelverton, Essex, 42 • Eva, married Alexander Benedict Kendall, John, 53 Yakutis, 15 Kennington Lane, 86
229 Index
Kensham, Edward, 22, 35 Leneing, - - -, 195 Kensington Square, Middlesex, 23 Leopore, Kate and Vit, 39 Kentish, William, xv, 133, 134, 154 Lewin Kilburn, Middlesex, 35 • Jessie, Miss, 212 Kingham als Kinghem • Mrs., 212 • Joseph, 74, 78, 81, 86 Lewis • Susanna née Steavens, Susanna, 78, • Mary A., 22, 35 86 • Richard, 165, 166, 167 King’s Road Brighton, 20 Lincolns Inn, 50 Kingston, 32, 80, 158 Lincolns Inn Fields (or Field), 6, 17, 48 Kingston Road, Shoreditch, 13 Lincolnshire, Marquis of see Smith Pedigree, xvii, 52 Kingswood, 15 Lingfield, Robert, 82 Kirk Lipton Park, Devon, 23 • Brian Sidney, 39, 209 Lish • Jean Vicary Nellie, 39, 209 • Family, 78 Kirkleatham, Yorks, 176, 200, 201 • Jane nèe Crossingham, 78 Knyff, Jacob, xii, 175, 199 • Richard, 78, 82, 86 • Richard (father), 78 L List of Buildings of Architectural or Historic Interest, Ladas previously The Fox, 11, 28, 62, 77 xvi, 158 Ladbroke Little Oxendon, Northamptonshire, 32 • Mr., 50 Little Woodcote, 182, 206 • Robert, 53 Livingstone, John, 144 Ladbrooke(s) & Co, 17 Lloyds Banking Co.Ltd., 53 Lambert Lockyer • - - -, 193, 194, 195 • George, 55 • Daniel, 195 • Mary, later Smith, Mary, q.v. • Edward, 194 Lombard Street, 51, 53 • Maria, 190 London & Westminster Bank, 17 • Thomas, 190 London Metropolitan Archives, 130, 133, 136, 153 Lancasher, Anne, 72 London University, 18 Lancashire see Elliott, widow (alias Lancashire), 72, Lothbury, 51 124, 151 Lower Chapman Street, St. George’s East, 17 Lancaster, John, 72 Lower Oxendon (?Little Oxendon q.v.), 32 Langlands Lower Road, Helston, 24 • Charles John, 12 Luggeshall, 55 • Lawrence, 12 Lyall Lanreath, Cornwall, 20, 35, 39, 211 • Emmeline, Miss, 211 Lany, William, xv, 73, 125, 128, 176 • the Misses, 212 Lashford, Daniel, 128, 129 Lyon, Richard, 189 Law, Graham, 216 Lyons, Francis H., 16, 33 Law Society, The, xiv, 50 Lawrence • T., Sir, P.R.A., 42 M • William, 62 MacArthur, Alexander, 48 Leage, John R., 37 Macdonald Leatherhead, Surrey, 34, 65, 75, 215 • Alexander, 13 Lee and Stevenson, Illust. 26. • family, vii Lee, Mary, formerly Hartshorn, 51, 52 • Sarah Butcher née Powl later Leeds, 19, 32 Spooner, 13, 32 Legg • William, 13, 32 • Family, 77, 78 Mackdonald see Macdonald, 13 • John (eldest son of Robert), 78, 82, Madan, Martin, The Reverend, [Maddan], 62 82, 84, 85 Madras, 47, 48 • Mary, 82 Maidstone House formerly York House, ix, xii, 64, 66, • Mary née Peters, 82 74, 75, 131, 133, 139, 142, 187, 189, 190, 191 • Robert, 77, 82, 83 Malabar, India, 49 • Robert (second son of Robert), 79, Malden cum Chessington, 14, 15 82, Malden, Surrey, 14, 15, 16, 33 Lehmann, Dr.H.L., xvi, 12, 47, 50, 53, 54, 57, 58, 62, 65, Maltby 66, 70, 72, 74, 75, 80, 128, 129, 133, 134, 135, 136, • Alice, 19 157, 158, 162, 175, 190, 191, 193 • Brough, 19 Leighton-Boyce, J.A.S.L., xvi, 51, 52 • Brough, junior, 19 Leipsic Road, Camberwell, 17 • Isabel Armstrong née Bischoff, Lempriere, H. R., Mr. and Mrs., 213 Isabel Armstrong, q.v.
230
• John, 19 Mereworth, Kent, 35 • Mary, 19 Merrell, John, 83 Mandey, Robert, 192 Merricks Manley • Elizabeth Stephens, xvi, 71, 135, • John, xv, 131, 132, 136, 142, 154 165, 166, 167, 168 • John, son of John, xv, 75, 132, 133, • John, xvi, 71, 135, 165, 166, 167, 136, 151, 168 168 • Mary, 132 Merton College, Oxford, 14 Mann, John, 162 Merton, Surrey, 14, 34 Manning and Bray, xvi, 42, 65, 74, 97, 197, 199, 199 Middle Temple, London, 73, 125, 128, 175, 176, 188, Mappleton, Somerset, 55 189, 192 Mark Lane, London, 18 Milk Street, London, 74 Marlborough College, 27 Milles, Francis, 201 Marshall Mill Hills near Hexam, 78 • family, 28 Mills, Isabella, 77 • Philip, vii, 27, 28, 29,, 40, 97, 110, Milne, Alexander, 162 163 Milton (also Melton) • William, 27, 28, 206 • Alice, 72 Martin, Edward, 54 • Mrs., 66, 72, 75, 80, 123, 135, 140, Massingberd 167 • Elizabeth, Lady, later Berkeley, • Widow, 66, 72, 73, 74, 97, 106, 123, Elizabeth, Lady, née Massingberd, 127 q.v. Milton see Woodcote Green House • John, 197 Mitcham, 154, 187, 188, 192 Masulipatam, India, 49 Mitchell & Berkley, 48 Mathews Molesworth, Captain, 189, 190 • George, 80 Molineux, Mary, 16, 33 • Robert, 80 Molony, J.R.H., 205, 206 • Thomas, 194 Moore Maude, Captain, 34, • Cleve, Sir, 81 Maund • John, 189, 190 • - - -, 194 • Joseph, 82 • Captain (i.e. John), 72, 130, 167 Morehouse, John, 192, 193,152,153, 201 • Dorothy, 72, 75, 80, 81, 124, 127, Moreland 128, 138, 154 • Mary, 74 • estate, viii, 123 • Mrs., 74 • family, 131 Morey, 64 • John, vii, xvi, 62, 65, 66, 70, 72, 73, Mortimer 75, 80, 81, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, • John, 157 130, 134, 135, 137, 138, 139, 140, • John (son of John), 157 142, 154, 151, 155, 156, 158, 164, • Margaret, xvi, 71, 135, 165, 166, 167, 175, 176, 181, 190, 199 167, 168 • John’s sister, see Venn, sister of John • Sarah, 157 Maund Morval, Cornwall, 20 • John’s Will, 71, 75, 80, 97, 123, 124, Mountain, Jennifer, Royal Bank of Scotland, xiv 126, 128 130, 131, 134, 138, 139, Mount Diston see Woodcote Grove 140,113 Mudge, Colonel, Illust. 39(c). • property, 124, 156, 159 Mundee, William, 83 • Sarah, later Holland and Hilman, xv, Murray, Misses, 212 71, 72, 73, 75, 80, 104, 123, 124, Mynne 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133, 138, • Jane, 197, 199, 200 140, 143, 153, 154 • John, 197, 199, 200 Maund I, 71, 72, 75, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, 130, 131, • William, 197, 199, 200 132, 133, 134, 135, 137, 138, 139, 140, 142, 143, 153, 151, 190 Maund II, 71, 72, 75, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, N 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, Nail, Dorothy,57 142, 143, 153, 151, 190 National Archives (Kew), xvi, 11, 25, 35, 41, , 47, 48, Mawgan, Cornwall, 16 50, 52, 55, 64, 71, 74, 128, 132, 157, 174, 180, 183, Maynard, John, 129 200, 201 McCrea, Mr. and Mrs., 213 National Portrait Gallery, xiv McKenzie, Mary E, 33 Nellore, India, 48 Melton (see Milton) Nelson Mercer, Mr., 12 • George, 53, 162 Meril, John See Merell, John, 83 • Robert, 175, 176
231 Index
Nesbet, John, 165 • Edward William, The Reverend, ix, 6, Nettlecombe, 14 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24, 107, 205, Nevill, Louisa, 11 206, 207 New College, Oxford, 56 • Edward, Major General, Sir, ix, 6, 10, New Inn Lane, 53 37, 61, 108, 182, 205, 206 New Inn, Mddlesex, 201 • Evangeline née Cloete, 10, 206 Newberry, Samuell, 81 • Family, vii, 3, 6, 10, 14, 23, 25, 27, Newgate Street, London, 135, 165, 166, 167 28, 37, 45, 61, 62, 65, 106, 136, 143, Newman, Samuel, 153 187, 191 Newnham, Ralph, 66 • Florence Elizabeth née Honywood, Nicholas, Maria, 12, 31 10, 27, 205, 206, 207, 212 Nicholson, Eileen, 38, 209 • George Edward or George Edward Noden, Henry, 54 Wilbraham, 205, 206 Nonsuch Palace, 61, 63, 199 • Louisa Mary Ann née Hesketh, See Norbury, Rachel, later Watson, Rachel, q.v. Ann Mary Louisa Norman (also Normand) • Northey Family, The History of, xiv, • Abraham., 86 xvi,133,140 • Richard, 50, 57, 63 • pedigree, xi Normandy, 12, 31 • Rudolf William Anson, ix Normandy, John, 81 • William (son of Edward), 63, 64, 182 Peters 183, 191 • Family, 78 • William (son of Sir Edward), 173, • John, 77, 78 180, 183, 189 • Mary See Legg, Mary, 82 Nottingham, see Smith Pedigree, xvii, 49, 50, 52, 61 • Mother of Richard née Chamberline, Nottinghamshire Archives, 51 82 • Richard, 77, 78, 79, 82, 83, 84, 86 • Richard, uncle, 77 O • William, 79 Ockley North • - -, 193, 194, 195 • Blackwell, 202 • John, 183 • Francis, 3rd Baron and 1st Earl • Thomas, 62, 66 Guildford., 200, 202 O’Connell, J., Mr., 211 North Nibley, Gloucestershire, 200 Old Burlington Street. London, 24 Northey Old Cleeve House, Ashley Road, 13 • Anne, xii Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn, 24 • Anne, Dame, née Jolliffe, xii, xv, 65, Oliver, James, xv, 131 139, 173, 180, 189, 190 Oriental and India Office Collections, British Library, • Ann Mary Louisa, wife of Edward xiv, xvi, 47, 49 Richard, 6, 14, 17, 20 Oriental Club, Hanover Square, 48 • Charlotte Isabella née Anson, 6, 14 Orr, Margaret, 22, 34, • E. D., The Reverend, 211 Otway • E., Mrs., 211 • John, 81 • E., The Reverend and Mrs., 212 • Rebecka, 81 • Edmund, The Reverend and Mrs, 212 Owens • Edward, xii, xvi, 71, 74, 75, 79, 125, • Edward, 81, 130 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, • Elizabeth, 81 142, 151, 159, 160, 161, 165, 166, • Joane, 81, 130 167, 168, 173, 180, 181, 183, 189, Oxford, Earl of, 21 190, 191,, Oxford English Dictionary, 70,143 • Edward, Canon of Windsor, 183 Oxley • Edward, Sir, ix, xii, xv, 6, 10, 65, 66, • Adele Louise Guerin, 12, 31 70, 71, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 79, 86, • August Adelaide Clara née 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 143, 153, • Guerin: August Adelaide Clara, q.v. 173, 174, 175, 176, 180, 181, 183, • Caroline, 11 187, 188, 189,, 192, 193, 200, 206 • Clara Maria Guerin, 12, 31 • Edward George Vernon, ix, xiv, xvi, • Edith Julia, 32 10, 37, 61,133, 183, 206, 207 • family, 12 • Edward Martin Anthony, xiv, 6 • Frederic, 11, 32 • Edward Richard, ix, 6, 11, 16, 7, • Frederic Augustus Guerin, 12, 31 162, 163, 182, 183, 191, 205 • Horace Guerin, 31 • • James, 11 • • Joseph, 11
232
P Pierce Paice • Mrs., 133, 138 • Alice Margaret, 39, 209, 216 • Sarah Anne Fanny, 24 • Mr. and Mrs., 39, 109 Piercey (or Pierey) • Reginald, 39, 209 • James, 133 • Roger, 39, 209 • Joseph, 133 Palmer Pilcher, William, Mr., 212 • George, Mrs., 27 Pines, The, Manor Park, Streatham, 17 • Horsley, Mrs., 213 Pinke, John, 156 • Thomas, 158 Pitt, Edith Alice née Bradshaw, Edith Alice, q.v. Paris, 12, 32, 212 Pocock, John Innes, 6, 48 Parker Pocock, Mitchell & Berkley, 48 • D., The Reverend, 49 Podmore, Captain and Mrs., 213 • Robert, 194 Pollock, Rosemary, 20 • Robert, junior, 129, 130, 142, 154 Poncon • Robert (son of Robert, junior), 154 • Adelaide Sophie née Guerin, • Robert, senior, 130 Adelaide Sophie, q.v. Parkhurst • Antoine, 11 • John, xv, 53, 63, 70, 139, 165, 166, • family, 12 181, 189 • Nicolas, 11, 31 • John, junior, 52 Potter, Mary, 54, 159, 162, 165, 166 Parrick, Worcestershire, 33 Powell Parsloe • L.H., 42 • Alice Margaret Zirphie, 215, 216 • Lewis Henry, 42 • Helen Margaret (Maggie), xiv, 3, 27, Powl 39, 40, 209, 215 • Joseph, 13 • John, xiv, 3, 39, 209, 217 • Sarah Butcher, later Macdonald and • Thomas Hugh Faiers, 217 Spooner, 13, 32 • William Christopher Robert, 217 Pownall, Henry, xvi, 158 Parsons, Mark, 159, 165, 166 Preedy, Mrs., 213 Pate, Mr., 64 Price Pauncefoots See Smith Pedigree, xvii, 52 • A., Mr. and Mrs., 213 Pawson, Thomas, xv, 133 • H. Rokeby, Mr., 212 Payne • Rokeby, Miss, 212 • Annie M., 23, 36 • Rolph, the Misses, 213 • Jane, 33 • W. Rokeby, Mr., 213 • John, 52 Pritchard, Hugh William, xv, 75, 132, 133 Payne?, Elizabeth, 13 Pullborough, Sussex, 157, 158 Pearsell, Sarah, 84 Puttock, Jas, 42 Pearson Pykarett, William, 201 • George, Mr., 212 • Mr, 212 • Mr. and Miss, 213 Q • Sarah, 82 Queen Anne House, 65 Peel, E., Mr. and Mrs., 212 Queen Square, Middlesex, 160 Percy-Smith, H. T., The Reverend, xvii, 52 Person, John, Mr., 183 Peter Street, Bishopsgate, 13 R Peters Ragge, Richard, 54 Rajamundry, India, 47, 49 • Elizabeth, 41, 43 Randall, Robert, 77 • Family, 78 Reader, John, 66 • Jane, (later Tous), 82 Redhill, Surrey, 16 • John, 77, 78 Reeble, Mr., 213 • Mary See Legg, Mary, 82 Reed • Mother of Richard née Chamberline, • Elizabeth, 86 82 • John, 86 • Richard, 77, 78, 79, 82, 83, 84, 86 Renny Hill, Fife, 15 • Richard, uncle, 77 Richard, C., Miss, 213 • William, 79 Richards, Caroline, 35 Phillips, Charles, xii Richardson, John, 81 Picklove, William, 74 Richbell, George, 192
233 Index
Richmond, Joseph, 54 St. Mary Newington, Surrey, 82 Riddett St. Martin’s, Epsom, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, • Arthur E., 15 25, 26, 28, 31, 74, 155, 183, 190, 192, 202 • Jennifer Mary, married Norman St. Mary Aldermanbury, 81, 154 Irving, 15 St. Michael, Crooked Lane, London, 154 Ridgeway, Shorne, Kent, 43 St. Olave’s, Southwark, 72, 187, 192 Ringwood, Hants, 35, 36 St. Saviour, Southwark, 77, 78, 79, 82, 83, 86 Riverside, California, 15 St. Saviour's, Southwark, Churchyard, 83, 84 Rivingham, Jane, 19, 34 St. Thomas Apostles, London, 74 Robbins, Miss A., 213 Safalra, 51 Roberts Samuel • William, 81 • J., The Reverend, 22, 211 • Elizabeth, 33 • John, The Reverend and Mrs., 212 Robins Sandelson • John, xv, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, • Brian Sandelson & Co, 207, 142, 154, 151, 168 • Carr Sandelson & Co, 38, 208 • Mary, 134, 154 • Clifford Neil, 38, 39, 208 Robinson • family, ix, 39 • Ferdinando, 81 Sandy Brook, Derby, 41 • Mr., 50 Sanxay Rocque • Matilda, 55 • John, x, 62, 80 • William, 55 • Widow, Illust. 38(a). Saunders Rogers • Colonel, 42 • Alice, 191 • John, 54 • Robert, 156, 164 • Margaret, 157 • Roger, 193, 194 • Samuel, 157 • widow, 190 Saville Row, 49, 53 • William, 70, 190, 191 Sawyer Rolfe, David, 217 • Anne, later Smith, Anne, q.v. Rolt • Anthony, 48, 49, 56 • Edward, 157 • Charles, 48 • Mary, later Stephens, Mary, q.v. • Durcombe Herbert, The Reverend, Rosebery, Lord, 182, 200 48, 49 Roslin, North Britain, 34, • Frances Mary née Smith: Frances Rotherhithe, Surrey, 33 Mary, q.v. Rowe, Mr., 165 • Frances, later Smith: Frances, q.v. Rowton, Emma Miss, 213 • Herbert, 48 Royal Bank of Scotland, The, xiv • John, 47, 49, 50, 56 Rummer see Amato • Katherine Priscilla, née Smith, Rye, 79 Katherine Priscilla, q.v. Ryves Saxby, Mr. Brian, 71 • Richard, xv, 139, 166, 167, 187, 188, Schmitt, Felicité, 23, 35 189, 190, 192, 193, 194, 200 Scmits, Jacob, xii • Richard, senior, 188, 189, 193 Scott, Mrs, 212 Sebastopol, 24, 34, Sedcup see Sidcup, 132 Senex, John, x, 61, 80, Illust. 37(a) S Shakespear, J.D, Captain, 34, Sainsbury, Sarah A., 33 Shaw, Joseph, 48, 75, 135, 191 St. Anne, Westminster, 131 Shelford, Nottinghamshire, 199 St. Clement Danes, Middlesex, 190 Shoreditch, 13, 32 St. George the Martyr, Middlesex, 160 Shorne, Kent, 41, 43 St. George the Martyr, Southwark, 78, 82, 86 Shortlands, Kent, 18 St. George’s, Hanover Square, Middlesex, 13 Sidcup, Kent, 132 St. George in the East, Middlesex, 33 Simmonds, John, 193, 195 St. James Church, London, 49 Sion College, 183 St. James in the Fields, 175 Skinner Street without Bishopgate, 165 St. James, Paddington, 34, Skinner, Elizabeth, 22, 35 St. John & Maine Railway of Canada, 18 Skinners’ Company, 165 St. John the Baptist, Redhill, Hampshire, 16 Skynner, 151 St. John, Horseleydown, Tooley Street, 74 Slatford St. John, Southwark, 74, 86 • Emma, 13, 32 St. Margaret's Hill, Southwark, 77, 86 • St. Marnarch’s, Lanreath, 20 Thomas, 13, 32 Sloane Street, London, 207
234
Smith • Samuel and William Smith (firm • - - -, 195 name), 52 • Abel I, 50, 52 • Samuel I, 50, 52, 53 • Abel II, 52 • Samuel II, vii, viii, 47, 52, 53, 54, 55, • Abel Smith & Sons, 52 56, 57, 77, 78, 79, 84, 85, 104, 106, • Anne née Sawyer, 48, 56 110, 136, 155, 160,125, 166 • Augusta, 55 • Samuel III, vii, 6, 47, 51, 52, 53, 54, • Augustus, 51 55, 57, 58, 63, 79, 155, 161 • Captain, 49, 50 • Samuel Smith & Son, 53 • Charles, 48, 53 ,55, 56 • Samuel Smith Sons & Co, 51 • Charlotte,55 • Samuel Smith, Esqre. & Sons, 52 • Eliza, 14, 58 • Samuel Smith, Sons & Co., 53 • Elizabeth (daughter of Samuel II):, • Samuel Smith, Sons, and Co., 53 53 • Smith & Payne, 52, 53 • Elizabeth (daughter of Samuel III), • Smith Carrington family, 50, 52 56 • Smith Samuel and Son, 53 • Elizabeth, née Watson, 54 • Smith, Payne & Smith, 53 • Eugenie, née Boucher, 49 • Thomas, (son of Samuel II), 6, 14, 53, • family, vii, xiv, xvi, 51, 52, 53, 158, 54, 55, 56, 162, 195 • Thomas (son of Samuel III), 47,54, • Frances Mary, married William 57, 58 Edward Hamilton, 49 • Thomas I, 51, 52 • Frances Mary married Herbert • Thomas II, 52 Sawyer, 47, 48, 49, 51 • William, 6, 50, 52, 53,55, 55, 56 • Frances née Sawyer, 47, 48, 49, 50, Smyth, William, 200, 201 51, 57, 58, 106, 162 Snelling • George, vii, 6, 11, 39, 42, 47, 48, 49, • Thomas, 182 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 105, • William, 182 106, 162, 182 Snellings, 182 • George (brother of Abel II), 52 Somers, Mrs., 212 • George (son of George Anthony), 49 Sotheby, xiv, 199 • George Anthony, vii, 11, 47, 48, 49, South Repps, Norfolk, 56 50, 51, 57 Southwark, 73, 74, 77, 84, 86, 136, 187 • George, (Bombay and Malabar), 49 Sparks (or Spark or Sparkes) • George, (Lieut.), 49 • - - -, 181 • Gordon, Mrs., 212 • Family, 78 • Harcourt, 47, 48, 51, 57 • Elizabeth, 79 • Jacob, 199 • Joseph, 78 • James, 54 • Mary, 77, 78, 79, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86 • Jane Charlotte, married John • widow, 74, 75, 134, 136 Aldworth, 49 Spooner • Jemima, 54 • Sarah Butcher, née Powl later • John, 54, 157, 201, 212 Macdonald, 13, 32 • John (son of George Anthony), 49 • Daniel Ambrose, 13 • John, Mr., 212 • William, 13 • Katherine née Batten, 49 Spread Eagle Inn, 3 • Katherine Priscilla, married The Rev. Spurlin, Edward, 195 Durcombe Herbert Sawyer, 49 Stafford, Barrington G. D., 23, 35 • Laura Ann, 49 Stanford, Middlesex, 200 • Mary, 11, 12, 31 Stanhope • • Mary (daughter of Samuel III), 55 Jane, later Townshend, Jane and then Berkeley, Jane, q.v. • Mary A., 13, 32 • Michael, Sir, of Shelford, 197 • Mary née Lockyer, 55 • Michael, Sir, of Sudbury, 197 • Mary, married Thomas Watson, Stanton, William, 66 junior, 54, 55, 130 Star Yard, Carey Street, Middlesex, 18 • Miss, 212 Steavens • Mr., 108 158 (Samuel II) • Edward, 86 • Nathaniel, 157 • Richard, 86 • Pedigree, ix, xvii, 47, 50, 52, 55 • Susanna, later Kingham: Susanna, • Robert H., 56 q.v. • Samuel (son of George Anthony), 47 Steer • Samuel (son of George), 47, 48, 51, • Ann (or Anne), 13, 32, 33 57 Stent, Thomas, 62, 66
235 Index
Stephen Taylor • Anne (see Calder) • Amy F.,19 , 34 • Henry John 163 • Jn, 11 • James, 163 Teissier • James Grant, 162, 163 • Baron, 14, 22 Stephens (or Stevens) • Lewis, Illust. 40(a). • - - -, 17 • Louisa de, 14 • Anthony, viii, 54, 56, 71, 75, 79, 135, • Mrs. de, 42 139, 140, 155, 156, 157, 158, 160, Templar, Miss, 213 164, 165, 167, 190 Tenbury, Worcester, 131 • Anthony’s heirs, 160, 161, 167 Terry • Family, 61, 65, 79 135, 140, 157, • John, 86 164, 167 • Mary, 86 • Margaret, 156, 157, 164, 165 Thames Street, London,77, 84 • Mary, née Rolt, viii, xv, 52, 71, 74, The Hill, Surrey, 16 75, 75, 76, 77, 123, 130, 132, 134, The Retreat, 31 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 151, Thomas 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 165, • Mr. and Mrs., 212 166, 167, 168 • R.Goring, 151 • Mr., 80 • William, 187, 188, 192 Steward, Thomas More Square, 180 • - - -, 194 Thompson, James, 83, 84 • Mrs., 212 Tigg, William, 72, 73, 127, 128 Steyning , 21 Tillingham, Essex, 13, 32 Stone Times, The, 6, 17, 23, 24, 25, 50, 55, 56 • - - -, 193, 194 Tinsley, Thomas, 80 • Edward, 183, 193 Titheby, Nottinghamshire, 50 • family, 63 Todd • Richard, 53 • James, 166, 167 • Widow, 195 • John, 166, 167 Stone Buildings, 50 Toland, John, 97, 173 Stone House later Woodcote Lodge., 63 Toone, Sweeney, 182 Strand, London, 81 Tooley Street,74 Strange, Mr., 23 Topping, Thomas, 77 Strasburg, Alsace, 23, 35 Torin Streatham (or Stretham), 82 • Benjamin, 42 Stump, Mr. and Mrs., 213 • Thomas, 41 Sturt Torquay, Devonshire, 13, 34, • Ann née Ellicar, Ann q.v. Torwood, Torquay, Devonshire, 13 • Edward, 154 Tottenham, 13 Stuttard, J.C., Illust. 40(a). Tous (or Towse), Jane, née Peters, wife of John, 82 Sudbury, Suffolk, 199 Townshend Sunnybank, 71 • Jane, nèe Stanhope, see Berkeley, Sun Street, Bishopsgate, 13 Jane, nèe Stanhope and previously Surrey County Record Office, 3 Townshend, q.v. Surrey History Centre, xiv, xiv, xv, xvi, 3, 6, 17, 19, 25, • Roger, Sir, 199 41, 43, 50 52, 57, 61, 65, 66, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 80, Tregullon Offices, Scorrier, 24 124, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, Tregullon, Cornwall, 21 139, 154, 151, 162, 167, 175, 176, 181, 182, 188, 189, Trelawny, Lady, 212 190, 191, 192, 199, 200, 202, 205 Treleway, Lady, 212 Swanage, Dorset, 61 Trelleck, Monmouthshire, 35 Swete, C.J., xvii, 65, 197, 199 Tresco Abbey, 51 Trevelyan • Ann née Gosse, 13, 14, 15, 16, 32, T 107 Tabor • Ann née Hudson, 14 • A., Mr., 211 • Charles Edward, Sir, 14 • A., Mr. and Miss E., 213 • Charlotte Anne married Andrew • Arthur, Mr., 211, 212 Johnston, 15, 12 • E., Mr., 211 • Edward Walter, 15 • Ernest, Mr., 212 • Evelyn Helena, married Robert Tadworth Court, four of the servants from, 213 Irving, 15 Talbot, Mr., 213 • Evelyn Sophia, 15 Tallentine Hall, Cumberland, 53 • family, v, 14, 16
236
• George Edward, 13, 15, 32 • Elizabeth, née Ellicar: Elizabeth, q.v. • George Hamilton, 15 • John, 154 • George Macaulay, 14 Victoria County History, Surrey, xvii, 174, 182, 183 • George Otto, Rt. Hon., Sir, 14 Vidal, Edwin Drake Sealy, 24 • George, The Reverend, 14, 15 Villiers, Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, 199 • George, Venerable, 14 Viney • Helena Frances, 13, 15, 32 • Ann, née Fuller, Ann, q.v. • John, Sir, 14 • Ann Rebecca, later Downing, 17 • Julia Louisa, 13, 15, 16, 32 • Marion, married Edwin Hugh Searle • Kathleen, née Irving, 15 Bray, 17 • Walter Henry, 15, 16 Vitoria, Spain, 6 • Walter, The Reverend, 14 Vizagatapam, India, 49 Tritton Vorsfelder See Auch Vorsfelde, Germany, 35 Ann Isabella née Buller, Ann Isabella, q.v. • Blance, Miss, 213 W • Blanche, Miss, 211 Wakelin, John, 54 Walters • family, 20 • Radcliffe, Mr. and Mrs., 212 • Henry, 14, 20 • Ratclyffe, Mr. and Mrs., 213 • Henry John, 14, 20 Walton, Surrey, 36, 75, 135, 159, 160, 161, 199 • Laura, Miss, 213 Wapping, 71, 73, 125 • Lena, Miss, 212 Warburgh Street, St. George’s East, 17 • M., Mr., 211 Ward • Major and Mrs., 212 • Henry, 15 • Maxwell, Mr., 212 • John, 176, 200, 201, 202 • Miss, 212, 213 Wardley and Crosley, x, Illust. 39(a), • Mr. and Mrs., 212 Ware Hill House, Anwell, Herts, 18 • Mrs., 211, 212 Warr, Eleanor, 23, 35 • the Misses, 213 Warren, Ada Emily, 17 Trotter, Mr., 213 Warsash, Hampshire, 35 Turner Wartash, Hampshire. See Warsash • Charles, 70, 176, 200, 201 Wartash, Trelleck, Monmouthshire, 36 • Cholmley, 176, 201 Warwick, William, 162 • Isaac, 13 Waterloo, 6, • William, Sir, 175, 176, 201 Waterman • Betty, 73 • Grace, 73 U • Thomas, 80 Union (house), 53 • Widow, 80 Union Bank of London, 53 Watford, Herts, 55 Upper Berkeley Street. London,58 Watson Upper Harley Street, London, 41 • Elizabeth, later Smith, Elizabeth née Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush, 37, 207, 208, 209 Watson, q.v. • Elizabeth Sarah, 55 V • family, vii, Valetta, Malta, 34, • Jemima Elizabeth, 55 Venn, 72, 73, 75, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 137, 140, • Mary, née Ellicar, Mary, q.v. 142, 143, 153, 151, 190 • Mary née Smith, Mary, q.v. Venn (also Fenn) • Miss, 55 • Annie K., 25, 36 • Rachel, 54, 55 • Elizabeth 126, 153 • Rachel née Norbury, 53 • John, 66, 72, 81, 123, 124, 125, 126, • Thomas, 79, 161 127, 140, 142, 143, 153 • Thomas (brother-in-law of Samuel • John, junior, 153 Smith II), 54, 55 • lands, 73 • Thomas, senior, 53 • sister of John Maund, 81, 98 • Thomas, junior, 53 • Margaret, 81, 126 • William, 129, 154 Venn lands, 125 Webb Verriéres • - - -, Esq, 50 • A.C., 25 • Elizabeth, 41, 43 • Ruth Mary, later Buller, Ruth Mary, Wedlake, Kate, 25, 36 q.v. Weldon, Northamptonshire, 33 Vertue, George Guy, 24 Welton, Andrew, Law Society, xiv Vezey
237 Index
Wellman, James, 33 • W. W., Mr., 212 Wells • William, Sir, 21, 24 • Ann, 154 Willis • Edmond, 154 • Cloudesley, xvi, 158 Welray? J. 50 • Henry, Mr. and Mrs., 213 Wenyeve, Edward, viii, 174, 175, 182, 183, 199 • Samuel, 182 West Willmott (or Willimott or Wilmott) • Dr., and Mrs., 213 • Adam (brother of James, senior), • Ian, xiv, 63 95 129, 154 Westcott, Brooke, 85 • Adam (son of James, senior), 129 Westgate Club, The, 163 • Elizabeth, 190 Westgate House see Woodcote Place, • James, senior, 129, 133, 154 Westminster, Middlesex, 35 • James (son of James, senior), 129, Westcott, Brooke, 85 154 Weston, Mrs., 50 • Mary, 129 Weymouth, 211 • Roger, 190 Whatton Wilson, Edmund, 78, 84, 85 • Martha (mother), 82 Wiltshire, Miss, 212 • Martha, later Hayter: Martha, q.v. Wimms, Lady, 28 Wheatly, John, 153 Winford, Somerset, 36 Wheeler Witton, William, 83, 84 • Ethel, 38, 208 Wiverton, Nottinghamshire, 51 • John Harold, 38, 208 Wodeman, John, 65 Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, 32 Woking, 3, 61 Whistler Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, 35 • Henry, 124 Woller, Emily, 12, 32 • Mr., 66 Wood White, 17 • Robert, 130 White, xvii, 50 • Sarah Miriam, 54, 58, 162 • Catherine, 216 Woodchester, 55 • Reginald, 182 Wood Street, London, 50 • Sue, 163, 216 Woodcote End House, 65 White House, viii, 79, 123, 155, 156, 159, 160, 161, Woodcote Green House (or Milton), vii, viii, ix, x, x, xiv, 162, 167, 190 3, 6, 6, 10, 11, 15, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 37, Whitfield 41, 47, 48, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, ,57, 61, 62, 63, 70, 71, 72, • Henry, 81 73, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 95, 96, 97, 106, 108, 111, • Rebecka (or Reb.), 74, 81 123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 134, 135, 137, 138, 139, 140, • Samuel, 74, 81 142, 143, Illust. 39(a), 153, 155, 161, 183, 205, 206, Whiting, Charles, 51 207, 208, 209, 209 Whitmore, Henry, 15 • No. 1 Woodcote Green House, 3, 37, Wickwar family, 191 38, 39, 77, 109, 110, 137, 207, 208 Widmore, Walter, 82 • No. 2 Woodcote Green House, 27, Wild, Mr. and Mrs., 213 31, 37, 39, 77, 109, 137, 207 Wilkinson, Mary, 12, 31, 32 Woodcote Grove also Mount Diston and Garlands, 12, William III, 173 28, 29, 62, 64, 65, 66, 74, 155, 161, 162, Illust. 42 Williams Woodcote Hotel see Woodcote Place, • A., 206 Woodcote House, viii, x, xi, xii, xiv, 6, 6, 10, 11, 27, 31, • B., Mr. and Mrs., 213 34, 37, 61, 62, 63, 65, 70, 72, 76, 135, 140, 143, 153, • Catherine Ann, later Buller, Illust. 39(a,b & c), 173, 174, 175, 176, 180, 181, 182, Catherine Ann, q.v. 183, 189, 205, 206 • G., Mrs., 213 Woodcote House Court, 143 G.W.Morrice, 27 Woodcote Hurst, 71 • Henry, Mrs., 213 Woodcote Park, xi, 27, 33, 42, 53, 64, Illust. 40(a), 211 • L., Mr., 213 Woodcote Park, Little, 6, 71, 182 • Lady, 212 Woodcote Place (also Woodcote Hotel, and Westgate • M., Mr., 212 House) viii, x, xi, 11, 28, 31, 32, 49 ,50, 51 52, 53, 54, • Marjorie Veronica, 27 56, 57, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 77, 79, 123, 135, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 187, 190, 217 • Michael Mr., 212 Woodcote Villa, 11, 39, 65 • Miss, 212 Woodford • Mrs., 212 • Heighes, 202 • Richard, Mrs., 212 • Mary, 132 • Sarah, 41, 42 • Samuel, 202 • W. Mr., 211 • William, 200, 202 • W. Philpotts, Mr., 212 • William, Doctor, 132, 138, 139, 140
238
Woodford Green, Essex, 15 Woods, Agnes E., 19, 34 Woodton, Bungay, Norfolk, 34 Woodyer • Penelope, xvi, 71, 135, 165, 166, 167, 168 • Susannah, xvi, 71, 135, 165, 166, 167, 168 Woolverstone, Suffolk, 32 Woolwich, Kent, 35 Worcester Park, 156, 164 Workman, Charlotte, 33 Worksop Grammar School, 18 Wormley, Hertfordshire, 33 Wren churches 180 Wrench • family, 54 • John, xv, 72, 125, 128, 143, 153, 183, 195 • Robert, 162 Wright • Charles Burnett, 12 • Edward, 191 • Henry, 81, 153 • Rebecca, 12 • William, 126, 13 • WS Atkins, 28, 62, 64 Wymondham, Norfolk, 34 Wymore, John, 82, 83 Wynberg, South Africa, 6
Y Yakutis • Alexander Benedict, 15 • Eva née Irving, Eva, q.v. York House see Maidstone House Yorke, Lucy, 33 Young • Jessie Ferguson, 39, 209, 208 • Margaret Ferguson, 39, 208, 209 • the three sisters, 40 • Winifred Ferguson, 39, 208, 209
239 Index
240