“Wadenhoe Villagers Through Time”, by Trevor Pocknell Based on “THE STORY OF WADENHOE – A Northamptonshire Village” [Wadenhoe History Group, 1998] & Wadenhoe Censuses 1841-1911. Abbott, Maud M(c1877-) – From Norfolk; staying with sister Edith Knott(1866) in 1901 census. Abron, J. – p90 Gave Church bequests for wax taper lighting, mending sepulchre, lead repairs, & for burial, 1526. Alcock, Eliza E/G(c1849-) – p116 School Teacher at Wadenhoe 1870-3; 1871 Census; from Coventry. Allen – Surname in 1841 Census(Philip, Ann, Elizabeth, Philip, Ann at Home Farm; & John, Francis, Sophia at Mill Farm); in 1851 there was only Francis, at Mill Farm; in 1861 there is a Joseph(1831) from Raunds, a carpenter, with wife & 4. Allen, Joseph(-1830) – p135-8 after the Enclosure in 1795 Joseph & Philip Allen were the most important farmers in Wadenhoe, Joseph at Manor Farm & renting other bits, and Philip at Home Farm & also renting other bits; their family had been farming in the village for some years; between them farming 750 acres, main employers in the village in 1822; sons Joseph & John. Allen, Prissilla(1711-1780)[wife of Joseph Allen] – p105 Graveyard. Allen, Joseph(-1850) – p106 Graveyard. Allen, John(1786-) – p138 Joseph’s son, miller at Mill Farm in 1822 & tenant of water mill; 1841 Census; son Francis became miller; daughter Sophia; p106 Graveyard. Allen, Francis(c1820-1888); 2 nd wife Caroline Jane(c1854-1898) – p106 Graveyard; son of John(1786); miller & farmer of 247 acre Mill Farm employing up to 14 labourers in 1851/61/71; just The Mill in 1881 (Mill Farm tenant now Edward W Dixie); wife Mary C(1823) in 1861/71/81 was his housekeeper Mary Wiggins from Orton in 1851; have a 27yr old ‘adopted daughter’ Caroline J Roe(c1854) with them in 1881(who was a ‘visitor’ there in 1871); p33, p147 tenant farmer / miller at Mill House & Farm in 19thC; clever, respected, generous;
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“Wadenhoe Villagers Through Time”, by Trevor Pocknell
Based on “THE STORY OF WADENHOE – A Northamptonshire Village”
[Wadenhoe History Group, 1998] & Wadenhoe Censuses 1841-1911.
Abbott, Maud M(c1877-) – From Norfolk; staying with sister Edith Knott(1866) in 1901 census.
Abron, J. – p90 Gave Church bequests for wax taper lighting, mending sepulchre, lead repairs, & for burial, 1526.
Alcock, Eliza E/G(c1849-) – p116 School Teacher at Wadenhoe 1870-3; 1871 Census; from Coventry.
Allen – Surname in 1841 Census(Philip, Ann, Elizabeth, Philip, Ann at Home Farm; & John, Francis, Sophia at Mill Farm); in 1851 there was only Francis, at Mill Farm; in 1861 there is a Joseph(1831) from Raunds, a carpenter, with wife & 4.
Allen, Joseph(-1830) – p135-8 after the Enclosure in 1795 Joseph & Philip Allen were the most important farmers in Wadenhoe, Joseph at Manor Farm & renting other bits, and Philip at Home Farm & also renting other bits; their family had been farming in the village for some years; between them farming 750 acres, main employers in the village in 1822; sons Joseph & John.
Allen, Prissilla(1711-1780)[wife of Joseph Allen] – p105 Graveyard.
Allen, Joseph(-1850) – p106 Graveyard.
Allen, John(1786-) – p138 Joseph’s son, miller at Mill Farm in 1822 & tenant of water mill; 1841 Census; son Francis became miller; daughter Sophia; p106 Graveyard.
Allen, Francis(c1820-1888); 2nd wife Caroline Jane(c1854-1898) – p106 Graveyard; son of John(1786); miller & farmer of 247 acre Mill Farm employing up to 14 labourers in 1851/61/71; just The Mill in 1881 (Mill Farm tenant now Edward W Dixie); wife Mary C(1823) in 1861/71/81 was his housekeeper Mary Wiggins from Orton in 1851; have a 27yr old ‘adopted daughter’ Caroline J Roe(c1854) with them in 1881(who was a ‘visitor’ there in 1871); p33, p147 tenant farmer / miller at Mill House & Farm in 19thC; clever, respected, generous; 1881 employed 4 millers; the Allens gave up tenancy of Mill Farm and the Mill to Geo Childs in late 1880s, and the Mill stopped working until Wilfred Ward Hunt restarted it in 1927.
Allen, Elizabeth(c1807?-1811)[dtr of John&Elizabeth] – p106 Graveyard.
Allen, Henry(-1836)[son of John&Elizabeth] – p106 Graveyard.
Allen, Ann(c1813-1838)[dtr of John&Elizabeth] – p106 Graveyard.
Allen, Sophia(1819-1894)[last surviving child of John&Elizabeth] – p106 Graveyard.
Allen, Phillip(c1753-1825) – p135-8 after the Enclosure in 1795 Joseph & Philip Allen were the most important farmers in Wadenhoe, Joseph at Manor Farm & renting other bits, and Philip at Home
Farm & also renting other bits; their family had been farming in the village for some years; p106 Graveyard.
Allen, Mary(c1762-1834)[wife of Phillip Allen] – p106 Graveyard.
Allen, Phillip(c1811-1891); wife Ann(c1811-1855); 4 infants – p106 Graveyard; p140 Home Farm; enumerator for 1841 Census in Wadenhoe.
Allen Mabbut Polebrook, Priscilla – p106 Graveyard.
Allen, Phillip(age 40) – p106 Graveyard.
Allen, Francis(-1846) – p106 Graveyard; dtr Eliza age 5 mths.
Anderwood – see Rectory Farm, 1851.
Andrewe, John (c.1566 - 1629) – p92 a prosperous villager, remembered by a brass plate in the floor of the nave in the Church.
Andrews, Peter - p169 village cricket team photo late 1920s.
Askew, Albert(c1903-) - p181 with his sister ran the shop in Church Street; was in the boat with George Edgar Ward Hunt on Jubilee night 1935 when it sank; 1939 Register.
Attewell, Robert Moreland(Bob)(1914-1996) & wife Helen May(1915-2011) – p192-5 bought first cottage ever to be sold in the village, shortly after WW2, & then moved away in 1990; p197 Tony’s reminiscences – Bob worked for London Brick Company in Peterborough (retiring in about 1980);p94 remembered by a tree in Memorial Spinney (pre-1998) & memorial plaque on church wall.
Attewell, Helen May(1915-2011) – wife of Bob; p180 interviewed Alice Bates in 1997 about Alice’s reminiscences; p192-195 her own reminiscences – bought first cottage ever to be sold in the village shortly after WW2, & then moved away in 1990; on village hall committee; 1970-1980 had a craft shop in the old estate office in Pilton Lane(p195 photo); p198 1950s photo; p94 remembered by a tree in Memorial Spinney (pre-1998) & memorial plaque on church wall.
Attewell, Robert –one of last 6 pupils at Wadenhoe School when it closed in 1955; moved to Aldwincle School, and went on to Wellingborough Grammar School; elder brother of Tony; p131 school photo, 1952; p196-8 Tony’s reminiscences.
Attewell, Anthony(c1948-) –one of last 6 pupils at Wadenhoe School when it closed in 1955; moved to Aldwincle School, and went on to Wellingborough Grammar School; younger brother of Robert; p196-8 reminiscences – started Wadenhoe school 1953.
Attewell, Mary(1955-) – p198-9 reminiscences – born Thatched Cottage 16 Main Street & moved away after 18yrs; married Beek;
B_,_ - p32 Took over Smalley farm where Geo Hankins worked.
B., E. M.(-1931) – p108 Graveyard.
B., H.(-1932) – p108 Graveyard.
B., R. B.(-1936) – p107 Graveyard. [See Beesley, Robert Bright(c1851-1936)]
Beasley, William(1801-) – 1841 Census ([Black]Smith).
Beasley, William(c1822-1909) – p108 Graveyard; blacksmith 1841-71; husband of Hepzibah, father of Robert Bright(blacksmith), Lucy A(milliner), Eleanor(telegraphist); home is ‘Post Office’ in 1871; 1901 back on census after being missing 1881/91, a 78yr old widower blacksmith with niece 46yr old Elizabeth Beasley(1855) from Great Houghton.
Beasley, Hephzibah(1819-1878) – p108 Graveyard; p149 wife of William(1822), the blacksmith; p149 in 1861 kept a draper’s shop with a lacemaker, a dressmaker, & 3 laundresses; mother of Robert Bright(blacksmith), Lucy A(milliner), Eleanor(telegraphist).
Beasley, Robert Bright(c1851-1936) – p108 Graveyard; husband of Sarah(c1848) the postmistress; blacksmith 1871/81/91/01/11; son of William Beasley the blacksmith & Hepzibah the draper’s shop keeper, brother of Eleanor the first village telegraphist in 1871; father of William John(1879-1916, Royal Engineers, Norfolk), George(1882), (see)Ellen(1883)[& see Albert(1884-6), Edward(1886-8)]; Bright Beasley was at first Parish Council meeting in 1894; 1901 blacksmith, with postmistress wife Sarah, & sons William & George both blacksmithing.
Beasley, Eleanor(1854-1920) – p146 daughter of William Beasley the blacksmith & Hephzibah the draper’s shop keeper, sister of Robert Bright Beesley, Eleanor is telegraphist in the 1871 Census aged 16, Chancellor George Ward Hunt having established the village telegraph office, the first in any village in England, so the Chancellor could be contacted from London by telegram.
Beasley, George(c1882-) – son of Robert Bright & Sarah Beasley; blacksmith 1901/11 with parents.
Beasley, Lucy A(c1848-) - daughter of William Beasley the blacksmith & Hephzibah the draper’s shop keeper, sister of Robert Bright Beesley & Eleanor the first village telegraphist in 1871; milliner 1871.
Beasley, Sarah(c1848-1932) – p108 Graveyard; wife of blacksmith Robert Bright Beesley; village postmistress 1881/91/01/11; mother of William John(1879-1916).
Beasley, Sarah Ann(c1846-) – from Aldwincle, servant to retd farmer Whitney 1861.
Beasley[Beesley], [Driver] William John(1879-1916) - born in Wadenhoe at Aldwincle Lodge, son of Robert Bright & Sarah; censuses 1881/91/01; he followed his father into blacksmithing; by 1902 he had met and married one of Lord Lilford's servants, Annie Elizabeth Langston, who worked at Lord Lilford's London residence; they initially lived there in London, having three children there, but by 1909 he was back blacksmithing in Oundle in Setchell's Yard, and Annie was a cook; they had two further children in Oundle; at the beginning of WW1, at the age of 36, William joined the 487th (East Anglian) Field Company (2/2 East Anglian Field Company) in the 69th Division of the Royal Engineers, as part of the second line Territorial Force over in Norfolk; he was a Shoeing and Carriage Smith (S & C.S.), and Driver (of horses); he died there in Norfolk, aged 38, on 17 Jan 1916, and his grave is in Attleborough Cemetery, Norfolk; the Royal Engineers Territorials helped the War effort at home with home/coastal defences, logistics, construction and repair, forestry, railways, and communication, and a blacksmith/driver came in very useful; he is remembered in Wadenhoe by having his name read out on Remembrance Sunday at the War Memorial.
Beasley, Ellen Hepzibah(c1883-) - daughter of Robert Bright & Sarah; at home 1901; 1911 lady’s maid at Wadenhoe House to Culme-Seymour 1911.
Beasley, Albert Edward(1884-1886) – p108 Graveyard; age 2yrs; son of Robert Bright & Sarah.
Beasley, Edward Charles(1886-1888) – p108 Graveyard; age 2yrs; son of Robert Bright & Sarah.
Beasley, Elizabeth(c1855-) – From Great Houghton, Hunts; 1901 niece staying with widowed blacksmith uncle William Beasley(1823).
Beersley MA, Thomas – p90 Church Rector, 1610.
Bell, Hilda Emily(1887-1966) – mother of Ernest; p189-190 is she the Emily that Irene Drake stayed with as an evacuee, on The Green?; p196 is she the Mrs Bell at No.3 The Green who youngest school pupils would go to 3 afternoons a week in the 1950s to watch Andy Pandy etc on her 9” TV; p111 Gravestone; 1939 Register.
Bell, Ernest(-1978) – son of Emily, husband of Irene; p111 Gravestone.
Bell, Irene Emma(1923-1977) – wife of Ernest; p111 Gravestone.
Bell, Mary – p128 medal for her essay ‘Oak’ in 1940’s; p189 ‘One attractive blonde Wadenhoe girl, Mary Bell, did become a GI bride’.
Bell, Robert(c1762-1767) & R...b..ah(-1751) wife of Robert Bell & Robert...; p109 Graveyard.
Bell, Thomas(c1748-1761) – p109 Gravestone.
Belton, Alasdair & Catherine – p210 new licensees at the Kings Head in 1995, started the kitchen & restaurant(p210 photo).
Beresford, Mary(c1820?-) – Widowed laundress from Huntingdon in 1871, as were her 2 daughters.
Berridge – Surname in 1841 Census(see Porter).
Betson – see Norwood.
Bigley, Harold - p169 village cricket team photo late 1920s.
Bigley, John(-1716?) – age 67; wife Mary(-1756?); p106 Graveyard.
Birch, John T(c1868-) – From Bourne, Lincs; 1901 ag lab in Wadenhoe with wife Mary E(1865) & son.
Bird – see Rectory housemaid 1851.
Birket, Oliver – p135-6 the oath was administered to the enclosure commissioner in 1795 at his public house, known ‘by the sign of the Kings Head’; he also had an acre down to the river; he may also have been a mason.
Blackall – Surname in 1841 Census(& see Hicks, 1841).
Blackall, Mary(-1821) – p107 Graveyard.
Blake, Elizabeth(c1880-) – From London; housemaid at Wadenhoe House in 1901 to Culme-Seymours.
Bland, Salome(c1870-) – see John C & Elizabeth A Melton 1881 Census; 1939 Register with Annie S Melton(1877).
Bodger – see Home Farm, 1871.
Bond, William – p141 Curate (assistant to Rector) in Wadenhoe Rectory in 1841 Census (Rector lived in Aldwincle Rectory).
Bondby, Nigel – p90 Church Rector, after 1421 and before 1452.
Boniface, Elsie Maria(c1889-1934) – p108 Graveyard; wife of Allen Boniface.
Bonner, Albert Edward William(c1893-) - p169 village cricket team photo late 1920s; see 1901 census when 8yrs old; born Oxfordshire; see father Albert(1867) Estate Carpenter, & see son James Albert(1922-1945) RAFVR died India; 1911 working as aviary attendant(Lilford Hall).
Bonner, Albert Henry(c1867-) – From Oxfordshire; Estate Carpenter in 1901 with wife Francis(1869, 1939 Register) & 3 children including (& see) AEW Bonner(1893); 1911 Estate Carpenter with wife & son AEW.
Bonner, [Leading Aircraftman] James Albert(1922-1945) - son of Albert Edward William Bonner and Lily Maud Bonner(p192 photo?), of Lilford; LAC (1502282) James Albert Bonner, 7 BSU, RAFVR was killed in action in India on 06-04-45, aged 23; he is buried with a Cross in Kirkee (Khadki) War Cemetery, Grave I.H.09 (Nr.Poona, Bombay), with the inscription "Although you rest so far away, our thoughts are of you every day"; he is remembered on Achurch War Memorial, and on Wadenhoe Church's memorial plaque & memorial watercolour.
Bonser, John(1823-) – Farmer of 188 acre Rectory Farm employing 6 labourers in 1851/61.
Boswell, Elizabeth(c1722-1797) – p107 Graveyard; wife of Jonathon.
Boswell, Elizabeth(-1711 or 1771) – p107 Graveyard; wife of John; age 75.
Bowyer, Laurent – p90 Church Rector, 1535; & bequest in 1545.
Braybrook – see Home Farm, 1871.
Brice, Miss – Head Teacher at Wadenhoe School 1950-55, when it closed.
Bridges, Brooke( - 1702) – pp61,93 purchased Wadenhoe Manor estate from John Stanyon in 1668; succeeded by great nephew John Bridges in 1702; wall monument in Church chancel.
Bridges, Brooke – p90 Church Rector, 1719; & Bridges (MA), Brooke – Church Rector, 1748.
Bridges, John –p61-2 inherited Wadenhoe Manor estate from great uncle Brooke to become Lord of the Manor in 1702; he was a renowned county historian; also a barrister and a government revenue collector, he was not in the village much; before 1714 he had transferred the manor to Sir Edward Ward, Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
Bridges (MA), Nathaniel – pp90,92 Church Rector, 1714-1747 (33yrs), remembered on silver Church plate; Will in National Archives, where ‘Clerk of Wadenhoe’.
Bridges (BD, DD), Nathaniel – p90 Church Rector, 1783.
Bridg[...], Robert(-175?) – age 66; p106 Graveyard.
Bridges Gonersh, Joan( - 1792) – p93 wall monument to Joan in Church chancel depicting weeping cherubs.
Bridgland, Horace(1919-1979) – p111 Gravestone.
Briggs – Surname in 1841/51/61(3 houses & see William Wilson, carpenter), 1871(4), 1881(4); 1891(3); 1901(3, & see Sophia Davison, grocer); 1911(5).
Briggs, Mrs A(-1923) – p115 cleaner at Wadenhoe School for £6.6s per annum; her daughter Nellie took over for 10yrs on her mother’s death, being paid £10 p.a. by 1929.
Briggs, Albert Edward(‘Ted’)(1903-1977) & wife Annie(1906-1984) – pp94,96 bellringer of new peal in 1937, Ted later becoming Tower Captain from 1942 to the 1970s; p125 Ted was a farm worker at Mill Farm, lived all his life in Wadenhoe, and became unofficial ‘Keeper of the Village Lore’; Ted & wife Annie remembered by a tree in Memorial Spinney (pre-1998); p111 Gravestone; memorial plaque on church wall; reminiscences p176-7; p228 poem by Trevor Hold; 1939 Register.
Briggs, Annie – awarded medal in Jan 1916 for 2yrs perfect attendance at school.
Briggs, Arthur & wife Amy – pp184-187 In 1938-9 a 10 yr old Alan Wilson & his mother escaped threat of war & stayed with distant relative Arthur Briggs, first between PO & Weathervane (cottage now gone), then in Pilton Lodge; Arthur became Sgt Briggs leading Local Defence Volunteers (Wadenhoe Home Guard), as he had been a regular soldier with service in India & the 1918 Archangel campaign in Russia (The Kings Head was his HQ).
Briggs, Arthur(c1898-) – Son of Tom(1876) & Agnes(1869); ploughboy living with parents in 1911.
Briggs, Arthur – p96 with brother William, bellringers of new peal in 1937.
Briggs, Daniel - p135 tenant in 1822 to Thomas Hunt.
Briggs, Elizabeth Kerenhappuch(c1815-) –married to ag lab Joseph Briggs(c1818); p160 lived in 1 of 2 cottages corner of Pilton Lane & Main St (now fallen down); p161 photo 1920s; herbwoman; made pillow-lace; youngest (4th) daughter Sarah Jane(c1855)(m.Cornelius(Neal) Britten who joined Met Police in London & retired to The Green-> granddaughter Ellen(Nellie)(m.William Sculthorp, good shoemaker, moved to London)->great granddaughter Mabel Sculthorp author of pp160-168 ‘Memories are made of this...’); other daughters eldest Ellen(c1848)(Nell married Joseph Julyan, a shoemaker of Aldwincle; they moved into 27 Church St next to School in Wadenhoe where Nell had left hand room as village shop, shoemaker to the right); 2nd daughter Lucy Ann(c1850)(married Jack French, a poacher in Aldwincle); 3rd daughter Emma(c1853); youngest child son William(c1859) head (shire)horseman to farmer Reggie Childs(1877) .
Briggs, Ernest James(1907-1989) & wife Louisa(Louie)(1906-1988) – pp94,99 remembered by a tree in Memorial Spinney (pre-1998); Mrs Louie Briggs held sewing parties at 7 The Green in the 70’s/80’s; p198 1950s photo includes Louie; memorial plaque on church wall; son of William(1869) & Mary(1871); 1911 census with parents; 1939 Register.
Briggs, George(c1829-) – 72 yr old woodman in 1901 with wife Lucy(1838), & son Daniel(1868) a mason’s labourer; 1901 Walter Speechley(1868), a gardener from Thorney, is boarding with them.
Briggs, James(c1833-) – cowman in 1881, with wife Annie B(1834-pre-1891;from Ross&Cromarty)& 4 children Margret(1869),William C(1870),(Isa)Bella K(1872),Alick J(1876); his job is groom in 1891 with different wife Isabella(1842-pre-1901, also Scottish), and with children Bella B & Alick J; 1901 widower ag lab, with daughter Isabella(1874?) & grandson Leonard(1896).
Briggs, Jean – p128 medal for her essay on the Chaffinch, awarded 5/- for her essay ‘Wagtail’ in 1940
Briggs, John - p131 school photo, 1952; p196 in “frequent furious fights” with brother in yard at school.
Briggs, Pte. John Herbert(1886-1914) – son of Frances(Fanny) Trayford(c1860-c1890) & William Briggs(b.c1859); enlisted Northants Regmt 1906; 13th Aug 1914 with 1st Btn Northants Regmt when landed at Le Havre, Normandy, France; killed in action near Ypres fighting with "A" Company on 3rd Nov 1914; awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal; remembered on Panel 43 of the Menin Gate at Ypres in Belgium, & on Wadenhoe War Memorial, & Wadenhoe Church’s memorial plaque & memorial watercolour.
Briggs, Kerenhappuch – see Briggs, Elizabeth Kerenhappuch(1815).
Briggs, Lucy(c1838-) – In 1911, 73yr old widow with sons Daniel(1868, farm labourer) & John(1878, builders labourer).
Briggs, Marjorie – p124 May Queen in 1946.
Briggs, Melba – p124 May Queen in 1940.
Briggs, Michael - p131 school photo, 1952; p196 in “frequent furious fights” with brother in yard at school.
Briggs, Nina – p124 May Queen in 1947.
Briggs, Percy - p169 village cricket team photo late 1920s.
Briggs, Peter - p131 school photo, 1952.
Briggs, Rene - p119 in school photo, 1928.
Briggs, Sarah Ann – see Myland, George(c1808-1877); p107 Graveyard.
Briggs, Thomas(c1805-1886), & son Thomas William(1836-1901) & his wife Sarah Ann(c1836-1876) & their dtr Temperance Ellen(c1868-1887) – p109 Gravestone; 1861/71/81/91 has wife Temperance Eliz(c1813-post-1901) from Raunds, waggoner son Thomas(1836) now a widower, his 3 children [(Temperance) Ellen(1869), Thomas W(1871), James G(1873)], and with lodger William Myland(1832); 1901 widower horsekeeper Thomas W(1836), with ag lab son Thomas W(1871), grandson Edward A(1882), & his 88yr old mother Temperance Eliz(1813).
Briggs, Thomas William(c1871-) – Son of Thomas William(1836) & Sarah(1836); own home 1911 with wife Margaret Ann(1869) & 3 children – Thomas James(1905), Annie Margaret( 1908) & Muriel Helen(1910) – he is a horsekeeper.
Briggs, Tom(c1875-) – 1901 horseman, with wife Agnes(1869), son Wilfred G(1895, who was to die on the Somme in 1916), Arthur E(1898, is this see Arthur & wife Amy?), Ellen(1900), & Mabel M(1901); 1911 milk man on farm with wife & 7 children (now with Edward(1906), Catherine(1905) & Wilby(1903)).
Briggs, Private Wilfred George(1895-1916) - born in Oct 1895 in Aldwincle, his father, Tom(1875), was 22 and his mother, Agnes, was 26; he had three brothers and three sisters; they had moved to Wadenhoe by the time he was 6, where his father worked with horses; by the age of 15 Wilfred was a ploughboy working with horses(1911); on 20th Sept 1914, aged 18, in Oundle, he enlisted in 5th Btn Northamptonshire Regiment(Pioneers), Service No.16054; his Service Record exists in the National Archives; on 31 May 1915 he joined the British Expeditionary Force in France; by 23rd Oct 1915 he was back in England, probably having been injured; by 10th Feb 1916 he was back in the war in France; he died on August 8, 1916, in Somme, Picardie, France, when he was 20 years old; he is buried in Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme (Grave H.15), near Thiepval, between Amiens and Arras; he was awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal; he is remembered on Wadenhoe's War Memorials.
Briggs, William(c1807-) – p149 an agri lab and baker in 1871.
Briggs, William(c1859-) – 1911 waggoner with Pilton wife Charlotte Anne(1865) & Pilton born son Percy(1895); Charlotte on 1939 Register; is this same William as horseman son of Elizabeth Kerenhappuch Briggs(1815)?
Briggs, William(c1869-) – 32yr old gardener in 1901 with wife Mary Charlotte(1871) & 3 daughters Elizabeth(1897), Florence(1899) & Margaret M(1900); 1911 gardener with wife & 7 children (now with Hilda(1903), Evelyn(1904), William(1906), Earnest James(1908)).
Briggs, William(‘Button’) – p161 son of Kerenhappuch Briggs; head (shire)horseman to farmer Reggie Childs(Mill Farm?); p172 photo with a shire horse outside South Lodge. [see Briggs, Wm(c1859) & see Briggs, Elizabeth Kerenhappuch(c1815)]
Briggs, William – p96 with brother Arthur, bellringers of new peal in 1937; p119 in school photo, 1928.
Britten, Cornelius Neal – Husband of Sarah Jane Briggs(1855) (daughter of Kerenhappuch Briggs); joined Met Police in London & retired to The Green.
Brittle, Miss Annie(1851-1923) – p108 Gravestone; pp92-3, & 130 Wadenhoe School Head Teacher from 1873–1912 (almost 40yrs, very strict, improved behaviour & education), p116 then a School Manager until her death; in 1902-3 she was being paid £81 p.a.; in 1899 she donated to Church appeal for Lectern & Stool; benefactor for stained glass in narrow chancel windows of Church, her face is portrayed in one as St Anne; brass plate near south aisle of Church. [Photos p117&118]; 1881 census as 29yr old ‘Certificated School Mistress’ born in Ruddington(Notts) & living with 74yr old widow of Chelsea Pensioner mother Sarah(c1807); 1891 with 17yr old boarder Elizabeth A Parsons(1874) from Mansfield, who is a Monitress at the school; 1901 ‘Certificated Teacher’ with (see) 73 yr old widow Martha Leete(1828) boarding with her; 1911 elementary school teacher living alone.
Brown, Abner E(c1845-) – From Kettering; in 1891 he is a ‘Clerk in Holy Orders’ (Clergy) [curate?] living at the Rectory with 2 servants Samford & Whitney.
Brown, Daisy Bolney(c1891-1967) – see Pennington, Daisy (widow of Captain George Ward Hunt).
Brown, Elizabeth Annie (Nancy)(1924-1927) – p108 Gravestone.
Brown, Henry Beaton(c1887-1977) & wife Annie(c1901-1988) – p183 Annie Brown ‘Looking back over the years’ reminiscences [same Annie?] – worked at Wadenhoe House, husband caught & sold rabbits & pigeons, lived in village 50 yrs(by 1985); children & grandchildren in the village now; p111 Gravestone; 1939 Register.
Brown, Phyllis(c1925-1988) – p111 Gravestone; p119 in school photo, 1928.
Brown, Tony – pp39-50 contributed “Archaeological Introduction” & “The Medieval Landscape”
Brown, Violet – p124 May Queen in 1944.
Browne, Joh – p90 Church Rector, 1401.
Buckerfield, Henry M(c1865-) – From Aldwincle; wheelwright in 1891, with wife Emma & 3 children.
Bullimore,_ - p37 family farmed Aldwincle Lodge Farm for two generations until it was bought by the Pollocks in 1988.
Bullimore, Bernard William(c1898-1976) & wife Ethel(c1903-1936) – p180 Leslie & Bernard Bullimore ‘worked like slaves’ in 1924 in the setting up of the first village hall; p108 Graveyard.
Bullimore, Elizabeth(c1866-1939) & husband William Kenny(c1866-1953) – p107 Graveyard.
Bullimore, Geoffrey Stuart(1927-1990) – plaque on church wall.
Buswell, William –p135 owned the site of his tenement with adjoining yard in 1793, but by 1835 site acquired by Lady of the Manor Mary Caroline Hunt.
Bycroft – see groom at Wadenhoe House for Hague, 1851.
Carter, Mary(c1865-) – From Stamford; 1901 36yr old widow farmer with (her parents?) James Saviage(1834) & Eliza(1835), & her brother Harry Saviage(1872), & domestic servant Anne Morehen(1884).
Castle, Ann(c1793-) – widow in 1861 Census; daughter Anne(1827) a school mistress.
Cattermole, Joshua(c1826-) – From Norwich; widower bricklayer in 1861; married mason in 1871 with new wife Sarah(1834) & 5 children; Journeyman mason in 1881 with Sarah & 3 children, son George(c1864) a blacksmith’s apprentice.
Challands, Adrian – pp51-7 contributed “Church Hill: the geophysical survey”.....an extensive 13 th Century Manorial settlement next to the Church has been deduced.
Chambers – see Rectory cook 1851.
Chapman, Arthur(1948-) – p183 son of Arthur and Doris Chapman(nee Morehen); one of last 6 pupils at Wadenhoe School when it closed in 1955; moved to Aldwincle School, and went on to Wellingborough Grammar School.
Chapman, Arthur Horace(c1894-1967) & Doris Eleanor(1907-1992) [nee Morehen] – p98 1950’s/60’s Arthur played organ; see also Doris Morehen; p183 they married in 1946, he was a skilled signwriter; p111 Gravestone.
Chapman, Mary(c1823-1882) – p106 Graveyard; first wife of Francis Allen(c1819-1888).
Charlotte – see Croxton, 1841.
Cheaney – Surname in 1841 Census.
Chew – Surname in 1841/51(3 houses); 1861(2); 1871(4)(& see Reese &Sheffield & Bailey); 1881(1) (&see Mayes); 1891(2).
Chew, Eleanor(-1775) – p105 Graveyard [wife of Thomas Chew(age 81)?]
Chew, John(c1839-1899) – p108 Graveyard; 1871 Ag Lab, & 1891.
Chew, Joseph(1778-) – p113 1841 Census as schoolmaster; also 1851; superannuated in 1861.
Chew, Joseph(c1835-) – Son of Thomas(1804); he is a baker in 1861, an agric lab in 1871/81, & a roadman in 1891 aged 56; ag lab in 1901.
Chew, Martha(c1850-) – Daughter of Thomas(1804); she is a dressmaker in 1871.
Chew, Thomas([1775?]-1852) - age 71(77?), son of Thomas Chew(age 81) & Eleanor; p135 Chew family well established in the village, occupied the farm later known as Mill Farm, as well as other bits, in 1795; p105 Graveyard.
Chew, Thomas(c1804) – Parish Clerk & Ag Lab in 1861 Census; wife Elizabeth(1804) laundress, son Joseph(1835) a baker in 1861; he is a 69yr old cordwainer(shoemaker) by 1871, with wife & 3.
Chew, Thomas(c1843-) – Son of Thomas(1804); he is a groom & gardener in 1871.
Chew, William(c1830-) – One of 4 Millers in 1871 Census.
Childs, George – p37-8 family took over tenancy of Mill Farm in late 1880s from Allens; this was when the Mill stopped, until Wilfred Ward Hunt restarted it in 1927; the Childs main home was still in Twywell, but some family lived in Mill Farm Stables, incl.Aunt May, Sons Reg, Frank & Len; beef & dairy farming; thanks to Reg the parish still has 2 examples of pre-enclosure ridge & furrow fields; p114 corn stackyard, threshing machine & big barn next to school.
Childs, Amy Jemima(1869-1944, from Woodford) & brother Reginald(c1877-1951, from Twywell) – p107 Graveyard; 1911 both with mother Eleanor(1849) at Mill Farm.
Childs, Eleanor(c1849-1929) – From Warwickshire; p108 Gravestone; farmer in 1910; 1911 62yr old widowed (see George) farmer at Mill Farm with daughters dairy worker Amy Jemima(1872) & teacher Ethel May(1886) & farmworker son Reginald(1879).
Childs, Frank(c1881-1907) – p108 Gravestone; son of George & Eleanor.
Childs, Ethel May(1886-) – From Twywell; p37,116-8 School Monitress from 1907-9, qualified to Assistant Teacher at the school to Miss Ellen Jones 1909-1922, by then being paid £100 p.a.; lived at Mill House; married William Tomlin (Aldwincle publican); sister of Reginald Childs who was a School Governor; p198 remembered by Mary Attewell. [Photo p118]; 1911 with mother at Mill Farm, elementary school teacher.
Childs, R – p95 Church Warden in 1937.
Childs, Reginald(c1877-1951) – p107 Graveyard; brother of Amy; farmer; William ‘Button’ Briggs was his head (shire)horseman; Reginald & Amy are on 1939 Register.
Church, Mary Elizabeth(Nan)(-1963) – p111 Gravestone.
Clark, Mary(c1866-) – From Scotland; ladies maid at Wadenhoe House in 1901 to Culme-Seymours.
Clark, Thomas(c1849-) – From Great Catworth; manservant(domestic) living with wife Isabella.
Clifford – see Rectory in 1861.
Clinkard, Alice(c1820-1876) – p106 Graveyard; wife of Joseph, went from Wadenhoe House housekeeper to farmers wife at Home Farm.
Clinkard, Alice(c1847-1870) – p107 Graveyard; 2nd child of Joseph & Alice.
Clinkard, Edward(c1847-1875) – p106 Graveyard; son of Joseph & Alice, died age 28.
Clinkard, Joseph(c1817-1878) – p106 Graveyard; p148 In 1861 Census as ‘Butler in charge of Wadenhoe House’; from Garsington, Oxford; husband of Alice, the housekeeper; took over 260 acre Home Farm from George Hill by 1863/4 & 1871 census; 2 sons Edward & Thomas died young.
Clinkard, Thomas(c1852-1876) – p107 Graveyard; son of Joseph & Alice; died age 24.
Coales/Ceales – see Croxton, 1851.
Coales, Elizabeth(-1774) – p107 Graveyard; widow of John.
Coales, Frederick Richmond(c1837-1891); wife Anne(1840-1924); p106 Graveyard.
Cole, Mary Ann(c1878-1948) – p107 Graveyard.
Collier – see William Beasley, 1851; journeyman blacksmith.
Collis, William(c1874-) – From Aldwincle; 1901 bricklayer’s labourer, with wife Lizzie F(1877) from Cold Ashby, & new son John(1900).
Cooper, Mrs - p198 remembered by Mary Attewell, 1950s; p214 old inhabitant at No.7 The Green.
Cope, Ann(c1869) – From Clopton; servant to Robert Bright & Sarah Beasley in 1881.
Copley, John Wm - p32 Wadenhoe farmer in 1912 when Geo Hankins moved to village as his shepherd; p154 replaced by Edward Smalley by 1914; Census Enumerator & farmer from Ketton, Rutland, in 1911, with wife Sophia Emma(1861, Suffolk), school teacher daughter Ethel May(1888), farm assistant son ? Francis(1891), & house/dairy worker niece Gertrude Bullingland(1894, Norfolk).
Cornfield, Jane(-1857) – p107 Graveyard; wife of Woolstone Cornfield.
Cornfield, Woolstone Dixie(-1803?) – p107 Graveyard; age 35.
Cottingham – see 1841, & Freeman 1861.
Crake de Irthlingburgh, Nic. – p90 Church Rector, 1355.
Croxton, Major General William – p139 tenant of Wadenhoe House in 1844; 1841 Census.
Cullip, David(c1881-) – 1911 Farm labourer from Sawtry with wife & daughter.
Culme-Seymour, Captain George(1878-1915) - born in Kensington to Mary Georgiana Watson & Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour; in 1897 he joined the 5th Btn The King's Royal Rifle Corps as a Second Lieutenant; in 1900 he was serving in South Africa and then transporting Boer prisoners to India; it was about 1901 that his parents rented Wadenhoe House until after WW1; he was made Captain in 1906, and in 1909 married Janet Beatrix Orr Ewing, daughter of Charles Lindsay Orr Ewing and Hon. Beatrice Mary Leslie Hore-Ruthven; at Wad Ho in 1911; they had a son Charles in 1910 & daughter Angela in 1912; in the 1911 Census they are at Wadenhoe House where there was a 'Captain George's Room'(& p153); on 1st Jan 1914 George was made Adjutant of 9th(County of London) Btn, The London Regiment(Queen Victoria's Rifles); soon they were off to war; they were in Ypres, Belgium in April 1915 suffering many casualties, and witnessing the consequences of the first German chlorine gas attack; he led attacks from the front; on 7th May 1915 an attempt was made by the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry with QVRs in support to recapture Hill 60; Capt. Culme-Seymour was killed, shot through the head leading a company over a trench barricade; he was 37; he was Mentioned in Despatches; he is remembered on Panel 51/53 of the Menin Gate at Ypres in Belgium; he is also remembered on Wadenhoe's War Memorials.
Culme-Seymour 3rd Bart GCB GCVO, Admiral Sir Michael(1836-1920) – p93 with his wife Mary Georgiana(1846-1912) rented Wadenhoe House sometime before the 1901 census, and also Glebe Farm; parents of Captain George who was killed at Ypres in 1915; kept up to 13 hunter horses; much loved and respected for all they did in the village; brass plaques in the Church; the East window is also in memory of Lady Mary Georgiana Culme-Seymour; see household in 1901 Census, with Admiral away wife Mary home, with a niece & a cousin, & a cook and 4 maids; 1911 Admiral home, wife, sons John & (Captain)George(d.1915), daughter & d-in-law, 2 g/dtrs, 2 visitors, 10 servants.
Cumberland – Surname in 1841 Census.
Cumford, Ada(c1865-) – From London; cook at Wadenhoe House in 1901 to Culme-Seymours.
Currall, Private Alfred Ezra George(1899-1918) - born in Oct 1899 in Wadenhoe, to Eliza Busby, age 29, and agricultural labourer Charles Currall, age 32; he had one brother and one sister; by 1911 the family had moved to Stanwick; after joining up and going off to war, Private AEG Currall (G/22159) 6th Bn (The Buffs) East Kent Regiment was killed in action on 20th May 1918; he was one of four soldiers who were killed during a raid from the trenches in front of Acheux in Picardy, France; he was only 18; he was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal; he is buried in Mailly Wood Cemetery, Mailly-Maillet, Somme, Picardy (Grave II.M.08); he is remembered on Stanwick War Memorial; he is remembered in Wadenhoe by having his name read out at the War Memorial on Remembrance Sunday.
Currall, Charles(c1867-) – From Benefield; nephew of Josiah Quincey(1827) in 1881; 1891 living in Wadenhoe with wife Eliza(1870, nee Busby, born Titchmarsh) & her widowed mother Ann Busby(1835); 1901 ag lab living Wadenhoe with wife & 3 children including (see) their son Alfred Ezra George(1899-1918)].
Cottingham – Surname in 1841/61 Census.
Cunington, John Earl(1811-) – 1841 Census (Miller).
Curtis – see Manor Farm, 1841, & James Morehen, 1851.
Curtis, Reggie - p119 in school photo, 1928; p169 village cricket team photo late 1920s.
Dalby, Mary(c1830-) – From Tansor; 1891 domestic help for shepherd Benjamin Morehen.
Darleton, Tho. – p90 Church Rector, 1473.
Darley – see Chew, 1841.
Darnell – see Chew 1851/61.
Davis, Beth - pp.65-68 contributed “Church Hill: the dowsing survey”.
Davison – Surname in 2 houses in 1841/51/61/71; 1881(1); 1891(1); 1901(2); 1911(2).
Davison, Herbert – p154 at The Kings Head in 1910; 20yr old butcher nephew with grocers Mary Ann & Sophie Davison in 1881; 1891 gardener with Aunt Mary Ann Davison(1821); 1901 Publican at Kings Head with wife Jane F(1864) & 2 children; 1911 publican & jobbing gardener with wife & 3 children.
Davison, Lewis(c1796-) – p148 butcher/grocer rented the 12 acre butcher’s close smallholding in 1851/61 for grazing; 1841/51/61/71 Census (& see Stimpson 1871).
Davison, Lewis(c1828-) – butcher, son of Lewis(1796), in 1851.
Davison, Mary Ann(1821-1894) & sister Lucy Pridmore(c1825-1899)- p109 Gravestone; Mary Ann & another sister Sophia(c1835-) were unmarried grocer shopwomen daughters of Lewis Davison(1796) in 1861/71; without father Lewis in 1881 but with butcher nephew Herbert (& see Stimpson 1871); 1891 Grocer with Sophia, nephew Herbert a gardener now, & niece Florence Stimpson(dressmaker).
Davison, Sophia(c1835-) – sister of Mary Ann(1821) & Lucy(1825), all daughters of Lewis(1796); unmarried grocer shop woman with Mary Ann 1861/71/81/91; in 1901 she is a 66yr old Grocer living only with 80yr old widow Hannah Briggs(1821); 1911 age 78 with ‘general shop’, living alone.
Dawson MA, Basil Hulse – pp90,97-8 Church Rector 1931-55(P&W); wrote belfry rules in Church dated 1937; also Priest-in-Charge of Clopton; enthusiasm resulted in new peal of 6 bells in 1937; fetes at Pilton, annual play in village hall, monthly Parish magazine, electric heating in Church cost £268.17.6d(1965); taught R.I.; a School Manager until it closed in 1955; p198 1950s photo.
De Ancastre, Thos. – p90 Church Rector, 1307.
De Beltesford, Eudo – p90 Church Rector, 1273.
De Eure, Will – p90 Church Rector, 1303.
De Kele, Tho. – p90 Church Rector, 1345.
De Kirkby, Peter – p90 Church Rector, 1309.
De Lacy, Alice – p43 Widow of Henry de Lacy, who inherited Wadenhoe on his death in 1312. She married Sir Ebulo Le Strange in 1324, with whose family it was to remain for some generations. [see Stanley family next to own Wadenhoe estate]
De Lacy, Henry – (-1312) p43 Earl of Lincoln, son of Edmund, important in the reign of Edward I, took over Wadenhoe Manor estate in 1298 & he was granted a royal licence to have a 30 acre deer park
(if the original village was up around the Manor on Church Hill the deer park could be the reason for its being re-sited to its current position. Wadenhoe was no longer included in King Edward I’s Rockingham Forest from 1299. [See his widow Alice de Lacy next]
De Lacy, John – p43 Earl of Lincoln, trusted servant of Henry III, owned Wadenhoe Manor estate in early 13th Century (after the de Vere family), He probably hunted this far in the Rockingham Forest with the King. [Then see Roger de Quincy]
De Lacy, Edmund – p43 short-lived son of John, granted free warren over Wadenhoe Manor in 1249.
De Ochestre, Roger – p90 Church Rector, 1261.
De Quincy, Roger – p43 Earl of Winchester, held Wadenhoe Manor estate from 1254 to his death in 1264. [Then see Henry de Lacy]
De St Albans, Ricard Nic. – p90 Church Rector, 1243.
De Trowell, Hugh – p90 Church Rector, 1348.
De Vere, Aubrey – pp40-1 Earl of Oxford holds Wadenhoe Manor estate under the Lordship of the Bishop of Coutances (in the Domesday Book, 1086) & then under the Lordship of King David of Scotland (in the 12th Century Northamptonshire Survey) during the reign of William II; estate stayed in de Vere family through to Henry de Vere who died 1229. [Then see John de Lacy]
De Vere, Henry – p90 Church Rector, 1231.
De Wollaton, Hugo – p90 Church Rector, 1379.
Denley, Evelyn May(1907-1970) – p111 Gravestone.
Dixey, Edward S(c1842-) – From Middlesex; Farmer of 247 acre Mill Farm taken over from Francis Allen(1819) in 1881, with wife, daughter, & servant & housemaid.
Dorsett, William Thomas(1876-1898) – p108 Graveyard; son of Jesse & Emma (Lewisham, Kent).
Drage – see Croxton, 1841.
Drage, Elsie(c1891-) – From Clopton; Nursery maid at Wadenhoe House to Culme-Seymour 1911.
Duffey, Eric – contributed pp11-20 “Landscape and natural history”, pp69-70 “The Village: a brief history”; Chairman of the Parish Council 1995-97; lived in Wadenhoe for 23 yrs before moving to France in 1997; he was a government research biologist.
Duffey, Rita – Editor of book ‘The Story of Wadenhoe’ ; wrote Preface p9-10.; co-wrote pp87-103 “Wadenhoe Church”; p104-111 contributed ‘Wadenhoe Churchyard’, ‘List of Gravestones’, edited ‘Wadenhoe & Pilton News’ from beginning in 1980 until 1983 when Holds took over.
Dunham, Jesse(c1880-) – From Stoke Doyle; 1911 woodman with wife Caroline(1882) & daughter Doris Irene(1910).
Eden, Alice(1832-1894) - dtr of Rt.Rev. Robert Eden, Bishop of Moray and Ross.; in 1857 married George Ward Hunt MP who died & was buried in Germany in 1877; p108 Gravestone.
Edwards, Dick(c1918-1986) – p96 Tower Captain of bellringers when in 1985 they won the Laxton Trophy?; p111 Gravestone.
Elderkiss, Emma E(c1863-) – From Oundle; 1881 living as domestic servant with grandfather John Melton(1809) [& with her? son Ernest E(c1880) who was born in Kensington, London].
Ellis, Sgt Gary John(1960-1991) – husband of Elisabeth nee Leeson; p111 Gravestone.
Evans, George(c1863-) – From Buckinghamshire; gardener in 1901 census with wife & child; 1911 gardener with wife Elizabeth(1866) from Wadenhoe, daughter Constance(1898) born Berkshire, & son Alfred George Evans(1907) born Wadenhoe.
Evans, Louisa(c1874-) – From Yorkshire; servant at Manor Farm to Robert Groome in 1891.
Eva(?), Mary J(c1833-) – cook to Rev.Wm Seymour at Rectory in 1871; she is from Falmouth, he is ‘Rector of Landulph, Cornwall’.
Evans, George – p154 head gardener at Wadenhoe House, 1910; p169 village cricket team photo late 1920s, same George?; p169 (same?)Mrs Evans laundress 1920s at Wadenhoe House laundry(now Dovecote House).
Falier, Harriette(c1826-) – governess at the Rectory for Hewgill, 1851.
Farry, Annie(c1874) – servant to farmer John Groome in 1891.
Fellowes, Jane(c1867-) – From Stoke(Doyle?), Northants; housemaid to Dixie at Mill Farm.
Fielding, Ann(c1804-) – From Fotheringhay; widow living with dtr & son-in-law Thos Rawson.
Fitzjohn, Mary(c1850-) – governess from Whittlesey at Manor Farm for Groome in 1871.
Flack, Miss – p117 became Head Teacher at School after Miss Brittle 1912-15.
Flavell, Bert & Connie – p208 landlords of the Kings Head, boating enthusiasts, before the Robinsons took over in 1985; before them were Ernest & Hilda Shipman from 1970.
Francis, Thomas – p90 Church Rector, 1588.
Freeman – Surname in 1841/51/61/71/81(see Langley).
Freeman, Kitty - p119 in school photo, 1928.
Freeman, Richard(c1831-) – Miller for Francis Allen staying at Mill House, 1851.
French – see gardener & housekeeper at Wadenhoe House 1851.
French, Charles(c1847-) – 1911 64yr old widower police pensioner from Aldwincle, alone.
French, Jack – married Lucy Ann Briggs(1850), 2nd daughter of (see) Briggs, Eliz Kerenhappuch(1815); poacher from Aldwincle.
French, Walter(c1875-) – From Aldwincle; 1901 a bricklayers labourer with wife Anne(1880) from Oxfordshire & their son Thomas W(1899, Oxfordshire).
Gammons, Arthur John(c1918-1970) – husband of Lilian, father of John; p197 remembered by Tony Attewell; p111 Gravestone.
Gammons, George Ernest(c1887-1973) – p111 Gravestone; 1911 shepherd from Buckworth, with wife Jane(1880), & brother-in-law William Plowright(1885) from Clopton a farm labourer.
Gammons, Hilda Mary(c1912-1979) – sister of Arthur; p111 Gravestone.
Gammons, Jane Elizabeth(c1879-1964) – p111 Gravestone; wife of (see) George Ernest(1887).
Gifford,_ - p37 tenant of arable Manor Farm after Swiffin in 1939.
Giggins, Brian – pp71-81 contributed “The Traditional Houses ”.
Gilby, Edmund(c1868-) – 1911 Blacksmith journeyman from Benefield living with & assisting Robert Bright Beasley(1851).
Gilby, William(c1853-) – From Benefield; 1881 Coachman at Wadenhoe House Stables with wife Mary(1857, Inverness), and brother James Gilby(1864) who is domestic groom / helper in stables.
Gillett, _ - p144 Curate in 1872.
Ginns, Robert(c1834-) – Carpenter in 1871, wife Charlotte(c1841-),m-in-law Anne Morehen(c1803-).
Goband, Nic. – p90 Church Rector, 1344.
Good, ... Thomas(c1667-1718) – p109 Gravestone.
Gooder, John – p148 farming Rectory Farm in 1861 (not part of Wadenhoe estate).
Goodman – see Croxton, 1841.
Goodrich, John – p90 gave Church bequests for light in the sepulchre, & for burial, c.1525.
Gray, Jane(c1767-1832) – p109 Gravestone; wife of Robert Gray.
Gray, Robert(c1739-1810) & wife Mary(c1744-1793) & 2 infants + Ralph Robinson(c1795-1798) son of Robert & Jane Gray; p135 a blacksmith; owned the site of his tenement with adjoining yard in 1793, but by 1835 site acquired by Lady of the Manor Mary Caroline Hunt; p109 Gravestone.
Gray, Thomas(infant) son of Thomas & Mary; Susannah(c1771-1772) dtr of Robert & Mary Gray; p109 Gravestone.
Green, Louisa(c1847-) – from Uttoxeter, domestic servant to Rev.Wm Seymour at Rectory in 1871.
Groome, Charles(c1854-1877) – p106 Graveyard; son of Robert & Mary Ann Groome.
Groome, Elisabeth Ann(-1876?) – p106 Graveyard; age 19; dtr of Robert & Mary Ann Groome.
Groome, John(c1857 -) – Born Wadenhoe; son of farmer Robert(1822) who is still at Manor Farm; also a farmer in Wadenhoe, & Census Enumerator in 1891, with wife Clara Helen(1864) & son John P(1885), & servant Annie Farry(1874); at first Parish Council meeting in 1894.
Groome, Robert(c1822-) – p147 tenant of 220 acre Manor Farm in 1861; from Irthlingborough; nephew of Robert Nichols, the previous tenant; 1861 farmer of 260 acres employing 6 men & 2 boys, with wife Mary Ann(c1828-) & 4 children(including John(1857)) & 2 servants; 1871 Census Enumerator & farmer of 370 acres, with wife & 4 of 5 children & governess & servant; 1881 farmer 310 acres employing 7 ag lab & 4 boys, with wife, a daughter & a servant; 1891 farmer with wife, 2 daughters & servant Louisa Evans(1874) from Yorkshire.
Gunn, Yvonne - p214 Yvonne edited ‘Wadenhoe & District News’ from 1997.
Hague, Thomas(1798-) – Dublin born landed proprietor renting Wadenhoe House in 1851; wife Mary, 5 daughters; servants, gardener, groom, footman.
Hall, Anne Becher(1928-1995) – p111 Gravestone.
Hall, Caroline(c1861-1926) – p108 Graveyard.
Hall, Stephen - pp36-38 contributed “Farming in the 20th Century ”.
Hamilton, Alfred D(c1819-) – 72yr old Barrister at Law(Solicitor), born in Germany, tenant of Wadenhoe House (to landlord George Eden Hunt) in 1891; with daughter Alice D(1852, Gibraltar), Coachman Joseph Baker(1851) (& his wife & 3 children), domestic servant Mary Turland(1866) & Butler from Germany Paul Kubin(1872).
Hankins, George – (1891-1989) Ag.worker/shepherd, & then to Islip blast furnace 10yrs, & then to pits until 1926, then pigman 25yrs to 1960, then own pigs/poultry to 1978. Oldest inhabitant 1912-1989. Lived at 9 The Green, then No.24 in 1916; pp.31-33 contributed “Agricultural work” ; p198 Mr & Mrs Hankins remembered by Mary Attewell as living on Pilton Lane; George & Ada on 1939 Register.
Hankins, Joan - p119 in school photo, 1928; p198 1950s photo?
Hankins, Joyce(c1914-1927) – p108 Gravestone.
Harding, Mary A(c1829-) – From Saffron Walden; widow with daughter Rebekah( b.1857, London), laundresses at Wadenhoe House Laundry.
Harmell, Jackie - p131 school photo, 1952.
Harmell, Leo - p131 school photo, 1952.
Harrell, Steven –p96 Tower Captain of bellringers in 1990’s.
Harreson, E. – p90 gave Church bequest for torches & vestments, 1525.
Harrison, Walter(c1880-) – From Raunds; 1911 horse-keeper, with wife Alice(1879) & 6 children.
Hatliff, Eric(1932-2007) – “The Quadfather”; plaque on church wall.
Head, Edith Harriet(c1891-1954) & husband James(c1889-1970) – p107 Graveyard; p169 village cricket team photo late 1920s, same Jim?; p190 American Serviceman Philip E Tribou remembers a Peg & Jim Head at the Post Office & smithy in 1943-45, Jim was a Special Constable for 23 yrs & in the Home Guard, blacksmith, taxi driver, smallholder.... is this them or a different Head household? (‘Peg’ is normally a Margaret nickname); James & Edith on 1939 Register.
Heighton, Elizabeth(c1797-) – grocer in 1861 & 1871 Census.
Heighton/Heaydon[see Highton?], Thomas(1550-1621) - p61 born in Wadenhoe, the son of Thomas the village miller, he was a maltster, accumulated wealth, and became churchwarden; the family name prevailed in the village for many generations.
Heighton, William(1786-) – 1841 Census (Mason).
Heley, William(c1867-) – 1911 waggoner from Bedfordshire with wife Mary Ann(1865) & 5 children.
Herne – see cook at Wadenhoe House, 1851.
Hewgill, Henry Frederic – Curate age 32 in 1851 Census; lived at The Rectory.
Hewitt, Janet E.(1934-1994) – p94 remembered by a tree in Memorial Spinney (pre-1998), and a plaque on the Church wall.
Hicks – Surname in 1841 Census(& see John Chew, 1841).
Higgs, John(c1820-) – gardener in 1861; with wife Jane & niece Emily laundresses.
Highton, Joan(c1651-c1722) – p109 Gravestone.
Highton, John(c1668-1724) – p109 Gravestone.
Hill – see Rectory Farm, 1841.
Hill, Elizabeth(c1861-) – servant at The Mill in 1881.
Hill, George(c1809-) - p142 in 1851 & 1861, the Census enumerator for Wadenhoe, & farmed Home Farm, at 260 acres the largest farm; born at Lilford Lodge, wife Eleanor from Pilton; South American governess for children in 1861.
Hill, Henry Allen(c1842-) – From Woodford; Farmer in 1891 with wife Emily & 4 children; at first Parish Council meeting in 1894; farmer in 1901 with wife & 2 children.
Hill, Peter – pp58-64 contributed “The Early Inhabitants”; co-wrote pp87-103 “Wadenhoe Church”.
Hind, John(c1823-) – Coachman in 1861 Census.
Hind(?), William(-1..9..) – p106 Graveyard.
Hitchband – see 1841 Census.
Hodley – see Home Farm, 1841.
Hold, Becky – p129 remembering Wadenhoe school in a later school project (1978).
Hold, Trevor – Assistant editor of book ‘The Story of Wadenhoe’; pp21-28 contributed ‘Wadenhoe’s footpaths’ & ‘Field names’; in 1984 wrote ‘Interview with Ted Briggs’ for ‘Wadenhoe & Pilton News’, No.6, p6-8; p211 ‘Social Life’; Trevor & Sue Hold edited ‘Wadenhoe & Pilton News’/’Wadenhoe & District News’ from 1983 to 1993, when Malcolm Ray took over; lived in Wadenhoe from 1970; published 3 volumes of poetry; p226-230 8 Wadenhoe poems.
Holditch, Jeffrie(c1570-1637)[plus two wives of which 13 children] – p106 box tomb in graveyard.
Holditch, Mary(-1651?) – p106 Graveyard; age 26; wife of Iwa?
Holditch/Holdysshe, Johannes – p61 a farmer in 1525, the earliest record of this family name which stayed in the village for generations, many of them churchwardens, until the 19 th Century. In a 1542 manorial survey he had 6 dwellings let out; his great grandson Jeffrie is buried in a box tomb just outside the door of the church.
Holditch, Rebecca(c1631-1702); Emma[dtr of Rebecca/William](-1717) – p105 Graveyard.
Hollis – Surname in 1841/51/61(2 houses); 1871/81(1).
Hollis, Thomas(c1729-1793) & Ann(c1775-1792) dtr of Thomas and Eliza & infants; p110 Gravestone.
Hopkins – see Home Farm 1861.
Horn, Richard(c1880-) – 1911 widowed Engine Driver from Bedfordshire (see also 5yr old Edith Horn boarding with Alfred Morehen(1866)).
Horsford, James A(c1871-) – From Bedfordshire; in 1901 farmer, with wife Gertrude(1878) & 2 children, & servant Minnie E Langley(1887).
Horwood – see Rectory Farm, 1851.
Howard, Charlotte(c1881-) – From Norfolk; kitchen maid at Wadenhoe House in 1901 to Culme-Seymours.
Howe – Surname in 1841 Census (& see Bond, 1841).
Hudson, Ada(c1879-) – From Stoke Doyle; 12 yr old servant in 1891 to Martha Leete/Harriett Hull.
Hull, Eli(c1861-) – From Donhead, Wiltshire; Footman, at Wadenhoe House with butler Alfred Long.
Hull, Harriet(c1830-1898) & Martha Leete widow of Joseph Leete – p108 Graveyard; 1891 census.
Hull, J.G. – p90 Church Warden in 1899; John G Hull(c1852-) from Elton was an assistant to Francis Allen staying at the Mill in 1871, and a miller there in 1881; a Mr Hull was at first Parish Council meeting in 1894.
Hunt KCB CSI, Admiral Sir Allen Thomas(1866-1943) – plaque in church.
Hunt, Edith Beatrice(1869-1928) – p108 Graveyard.
Hunt, Emma(1862-1915) – p108 Graveyard.
Hunt, Rev.George(1785-1853) – son of the Rowland Hunt(1752-1811) who was not only father of Thomas Welch Hunt but was also brother to the childless Thomas Hunt(1766-1816); he was married to Emma Gardiner in 1818, & their first child was the future MP & Chancellor George Ward Hunt(1825-1877); he inherited the Wadenhoe estate from his cousin Mary Caroline Hunt in 1847(p141 didn’t occupy Wadenhoe House; rented out in 1851),& passed it to his son George Ward Hunt in 1853.
Hunt, George Eden(1859-1892) – of Wadenhoe House; eldest son of Rt Hon George Ward Hunt & Alice Eden; inherited aged 18; married Margaret Hyde Parker; he was father of Capt.George Ward Hunt & Muriel, Wilfred and Olive; p110 Gravestone; p225 photo.
Hunt, Mary(-1835) – p138 inherited Wadenhoe estate in 1824 from murdered nephew Thomas Welch Hunt; died unmarried; left Wadenhoe to Thomas Welch Hunt’s cousin, Mary Caroline Hunt(-1847), daughter of Thomas’s Uncle the Rev.Edward Hunt, Rector of Benefield.
Hunt, Mary Caroline(-1847) – p93,139 Lady of the Manor from 1835; dtr of Rev Edward Hunt Rector of Benefield, who was the younger son of Thomas Hunt(1704-1777); p113 she founded the village school in 1839 (now Caroline Cottage in Church Street); contributed to Church repair in 1844; p139 Wadenhoe House is tenanted out to Major General William Croxton; died unmarried in Clifton nr.Bristol; wall monument in south aisle of Church; she left the estate to the son of her Uncle Rowland(1752-1811), her cousin the Rev.George Hunt(1785-1853) of Wadenhoe.
Hunt, Thomas(1669-1753) – p133 of Boreatton, Shropshire; in 1698 he married Jane Ward(-1716), daughter of Sir Edward Ward(-1714), who had purchased the manor of Wadenhoe, & so in 1714 Thomas Hunt became Lord of the Manor of Wadenhoe starting the Ward Hunt family link; son Thomas(1704-1777) inherited.
Hunt, Thomas(1704-1777) – inherited the manor of Wadenhoe from his father in 1753; son Thomas(1766-1816) inherited.
Hunt, Thomas(1766-1816) - inherited the manor of Wadenhoe from his father in 1777; petitioned for enclosure; after the Enclosure Act of 1793, 500 acres of the surrounding 700 acres were allotted to
Thomas Hunt, & 180 acres to the Rector Samuel Parr & future Rectors (Rectory Farm); known as Thomas Hunt of Oundle, he owned & probably lived in his house ‘Berrystead’ in North Street; he was married but he died childless, so he made his heir his nephew from his brother Rowland Hunt(1752-1811)[& wife Frances Welch(-1835)], whose name was Thomas Welch Hunt(-1824).
Hunt, Revd William – p110 Gravestone.
Hunt, George Ward(1825-1877) – son of the Rev.George Hunt(1785-1853) & Emma Gardiner; p146 educated at Eton & Christ Church, Oxford(Classics) where already 6’4” & 20st, President of the Oxford Union; read for Bar & barrister in 1851; inherited the Wadenhoe estate in 1853; became Conservative MP for Northamptonshire North in 1857, living at Wadenhoe House when not in London; made substantial alterations to the house, & kept village records; married Alice Eden(1832-1894) in 1857; had 10 children; eldest son is George Eden Hunt; 1865 built 1-6 The Green; p93 1866-1868 Secretary to the Treasury, became Chancellor of the Exchequer for Conservative Prime Minister Disraeli in 1868, and First Lord of the Admiralty in 1874-7; 1869 establishes a gasworks in the village; by 1871 had established village telegraph office, the first in any village in England, so the Chancellor could be contacted from London by telegram; died & buried 1877 age 51 in spa town Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany, while taking the waters for his gout; remembered by a stained glass window and brass plaque in north aisle of Church; [Lord Burghley then became Conservative MP for North Northants].
Hunt, Captain George Ward(1881-1915) - born in Wadenhoe to Margaret Hyde Parker & George Eden Hunt, George had a brother and two sisters; he is 9 in 1891 census when staying with his mother at her parents in Suffolk; his father died when he was 10; in 1901 he received a Commission as Second Lieutenant from 3rd Btn Northants Regmt; he served in the South African (Second Boer) War from 23 Sept 1901 to 26 May 1902, was promoted from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant, and received the Queen’s medal with clasps for Cape Colony in 1902; he married Daisy Pennington in Jan 1911, living in Courtenhall Grange nr Northampton near his regimental HQ; Berrystead, North St,Oundle (in family from 18thC) was sold in 1911 to Oundle School; son George Edgar Ward Hunt was born Oct 1911; 1912 promoted to Captain & joined 2nd Btn in Malta, serving there until June 1913; p154 Capt Ward Hunt ‘occupied’ The Rectory in 1913/14; daughter Mary Ward Hunt was born in Wadenhoe Old Rectory in early 1913; on 13th Aug 1914 he went with 1st Btn Northants Regmt to France; on 16th Sept 1914 he was badly wounded in the back at the Battle of Aisne by a shell splinter and sent home ["During this day we had still another severe loss amongst the officers, as poor "Mother" Hunt (Captain Ward Hunt) was badly wounded in the back during the afternoon by a shell splinter. One of the very best, I had known him intimately for several years with the 2nd Battalion when I was attached to it in 1910, and at the Depot when he was doing duty there. One of the world's most cheery souls, with a heart of gold, "Mother" was popular wherever he went." (2Lt EJ Needham's account)]; Feb 1915 he returned to France, and on 9th May 1915 led an attack against German trenches at the Battle of Aubers Ridge, and although badly wounded he carried on and was killed ["The poor old boy went out again to the 58th in 1915 and was killed at Aubers Ridge on the fatal 9th May. A very great little gentleman and a really good friend." (2Lt EJ Needham's account)]; in the Battle of Aubers Ridge, 9th May 1915, the 2/Northants were in the Northern Pincer movement, and had 426 casualties that day, of which 12 were officers; more than 11,000 British casualties were sustained on 9 May 1915 alone, the vast majority within yards of their own front-line trench; mile for mile, Division for Division, this was one of the highest rates of loss during the entire war; there is no memorial to the attack at Aubers Ridge; George is remembered on Panel 7 of the Ploegsteert Memorial, which is just over the Belgian border from where he died in Aubers, France; he is also
remembered on Wadenhoe's War Memorials; Daisy went on to marry the Rector of Brailsford, Thomas Bolney Brown, in Dec 1926.
Hunt, Major George Edgar Ward(1911-1993) – born Courtenhall Grange, Northampton, near his father’s regimental HQ; son of Captain George Ward Hunt and Daisy Pennington; brother of Miss Mary; p201 - nanny Bertha Morehen; started at village school, then on to prep school & Malvern College; p118 in 1927 left the village to live with his newly remarried mother in Brailsford; became an engineering apprentice at LMS Railway in Derby(London, Midland & Scottish), but in 1932 invited to join sales office of John Player & Sons; in 1940 in WW2 joined the Sappers, & then 1942-46 in the USA with the British Army Staff; on demob rejoined Players & became Director of Work Studies; met wife Edna(-2008), & married in Wadenhoe Aug 1946, but had to live in Nottingham, returning to live at Home Farm when he retired in 1969; p201 moved back, & into the restored Home Farm House; pp96,97 revived interest in bellringing in late 1960s; played the Church organ at nearly all Church services; supported the Scouts and Guides use of the Church Field, & tried to get a County Centre constructed there; set up Wadenhoe Trust to preserve Wadenhoe in 1981; 1992 the village celebrated his 80th birthday with him at Wadenhoe House(p203 photo); died 25 Nov 1993; plaque in church(“Squire & Benefactor, Organist & Bellringer”); avenue of 12 hornbeam trees on church track to Aldwincle road; reminiscences p178-9 & p181-2; p201-204 about George; p111 Gravestone.
Hunt, Miss Mary Ward(1913-2006) – born at the Old Rectory, Wadenhoe; daughter of Captain George Ward Hunt and Daisy Pennington; sister of George Edgar; had a village schooling, then a school in Oundle run by a Russian before boarding school; pp35-6 had a herd of Jersey cows; p169-175 reminiscences in ‘Mary Ward Hunt’s story’; p172 after WW2 became ‘milkman’, & supplied village with Jersey milk, butter & cream; after selling Jersey herd, started a Riding School which ran for 30yrs; then a stud farm for Welsh driving ponies; p173 photo with Welsh stallion ‘Charles’; in 1998 oldest resident (85) & longest in village; died aged about 93; plaque on church wall; p233-5 wrote poetry, 5 poems reproduced here; on 1939 Register.
Hunt, Muriel Ward(1886-1905) – p108 Graveyard; eldest dtr of George Eden Hunt & Margaret.
Hunt, Olive Ward(1890-1981) – p108 graveyard; dtr of George Eden Hunt & Margaret.
Hunt, Wilfred Ward(1883-1970) – son of George Eden Hunt & Margaret; pp34-5 Commander; restarted The Mill in 1927 after 40yrs of it not working.
Hunt, Thomas Welch(-1824) & Caroline(nee Isham)(-1824) – inherited the Manor of Wadenhoe in 1816 from his Uncle Thomas Hunt(1766-1816); p93 brass memorial on wall of Church aisle close to Church entrance commemorates the couple, who were murdered by brigands in Italy; Wadenhoe estate passed to his father’s sister Mary Hunt(-1835).
Hylde, John – p90 Church Rector, 1470.
Jakeman, Matthew G.(1960-1979) – p111 Gravestone.
Jarvis, Thomas(c1831-) – From Cottingham; agri lab; wife Alice(1826) & son Frederick(1867, Lyveden); 1891 woodman & ag lab, with wife Alice.
Jeffs – see Home Farm 1861.
Jeffs, William Q(c1887-) – From Titchmarsh; lodger with blacksmith JT Oliver in 1901; page boy(?).
Johnson – see footman at Wadenhoe House, 1851.
Jolly, Sophia(c1863-) – Domestic servant at Manor Farm to Robert Groome in 1881.
Jones, Ellen(c1885-1955) – p107 Graveyard; p117-9 Miss Jones, a red-haired fiery Welsh woman with a cane, was Head Teacher at the School from 1915-1950, and education improved; wrote plays for the children; p121 in school photo, 1920; 1939 Register.
Julyan, Ernest(c1873-) – From Aldwincle; 1911 woodman with wife Jessie(1871) & daughters Vera(1906) & Jessie Lily(1908).
Julyan, Joseph(1845-1923) & wife Ellen(‘Nell’)Briggs(1848-1939) – p108 Graveyard; a shoemaker from Aldwincle; they moved into 27 Church St next to School in Wadenhoe where Nell had left hand room as village shop, shoemaker to the right; p235 poem ‘Mrs Julyan’s shop’ by Mary Ward Hunt; Ellen was daughter of (see) Briggs, Eliz Kerenhappuch .
Julyans, Benjamin(1821-) – 1841 Census (Servant at Rectory Farm).
Keen, Irene – p98, 122 & Ch7 memories of Second World War child evacuee years spent in Wadenhoe.
Kelsey, Will – p90 Church Rector, 1403.
Kenyon,_ - p37 tenant of arable Manor Farm after Morris.
Kirley – see Samuel Smith, 1851.
Kisbee, James(c1862-) – 1911 gardener from Barnwell St Andrew, with wife Maria(1863) from Fife.
Knight,_ - p37 tenant of arable Manor Farm after Kenyon.
Knott, Edith(c1866-) – From Norwich; 1901 census with 4 children, & sister Maud M Abbott(1877).
Knott, John Edward(c1892-) – From Somerset; footman to Culme-Seymour (Wadenhoe House 1911).
Knott, William George(c1866-) – From London; 1911 butler, in own home, with wife Edith(1868) from Norwich & son Reginald Charles(1901) born Portsmouth.
Korus, Chuck & Charlotte – p211 Chuck, a USAF pilot, & family lived in the Manor Farm House in the 1970s, & with their friends the Holds did much to enliven village life.
Kubin, Paul(c1872-) – Born in Germany; Butler for German born Alfred D Hamilton, lawyer & tenant of Wadenhoe House in 1891.
Lake, Mrs - p199 remembered by Mary Attewell as running Sunday School classes from her home on Pilton Lane, 1950s.
Lame/Lane – Surname in 1841/51/61 Census.
Langley - surname in 1841/51(3 houses); 1861(4 & see Rectory Farm);1871(3); 1881(2); 1891(3); 1901(3 & see James Horsford, farmer); 1911(2).
Langley, Ada A(c1890-) - p31 daughter of George the Church sexton; married George Hankins; 1901/11 census with parents (see George T Langley(1858)); dressmaker.
Langley, George Thomas(c1858-1927)[ Parish Clerk for 45 years], wife Emma(c1853/63-1935), E.L.(1935), G.T.L.(1927) – p108 Gravestones; p31 Wadenhoe Church sexton in about 1909 (& see daughter Ada); p192 photo with a Mrs Langley; ag lab in 1891 census with Emma & 3 children; 1901 shepherd & Parish Clerk with wife Emma & child Ada(1890); 1911 53yr old ag lab with wife, daughter Ada a dressmaker, & visitor 6yr old Violet Maude Langley(1905).
Langley, Frances(‘Fanny’)(c1813-1873) & husband George Coles Langley(c1803-1874) – p107 Graveyard; 1871 Census.
Langley, J – p94 Church Warden in 1937.
Langley, John(c1830-1904) & wife Sarah(c1819-1893) – p106 Graveyard; Ag Lab; in 1861/71/81/91 & 1901 censuses; widower roadman, born in Kings Cliffe, living alone in 1901.
Langley, Joseph Melton(c1861-) – 1901, a thatcher, living with Polebrook born wife Elizabeth(1863); 1911 a grazier on his own for the census; 1939 Register.
Langley, Minnie Emma(c1885-1908) & Arthur William((c1883-1909) – p108 Gravestone; 1901 14yr old domestic servant to farmer James A Horsford(1871).
Langridge, George E(c1877-) – 14yr old boy from London in 1891 visiting widow Elizabeth Morehen(1825) and helping in gardens.
Lawrence, Margaret – p210 Prior to 1985, occupied the small cottage No.29, ‘The Nutshell’, adjoining the Kings Head, & which became the pub’s kitchen/restaurant in 1985.
Le Strange, Sir Ebulo –p60 received the Wadenhoe Manor estate by marrying Alice de Lacy in 1324; the estate remained with the Le Strange family for some generations. [Then see Stanley family]
Le Straunge, Ebulo – p90 Church Rector, 1394.
Leeson, William(-1970) – father of Elisabeth(see Ellis, Sgt Gary); p111 Gravestone.
Leete, Martha – see Hull, Harriet(c1830-1898); 1891 retired & living in Wadenhoe with sister Harriett (buried together in churchyard); servant in 1891 is 12yr old Ada Hudson(1879) from Stoke Doyle; 1901 she is a 73yr old widow born in Brampton boarding with school teacher Annie Brittle(1852).
Leonard – see Croxton, 1841.
Lettings, Sarah - p140 servant to Philip Allen at Home Farm in 1841, age about 20yrs.
Letts, Evelyn –p119 in school photo, 1928.
Lewis, George - p119 in school photo, 1928.
Linnell, Charles Harold(c1897-1969) & wife Florence(c1898-1986) – Florence’s reminiscences of old village hall p179-80; p111 Gravestones.
Long, Alfred(c1835-) – From Tredington, Gloucs.; Butler at Wadenhoe House, & Census Enumerator in 1881, with wife Elizabeth(1834) & daughter Minnie(1870, Wheatley, Oxon); p150 ‘Young’/Long.
Louise – see Rectory 1851.
Loveday, Thomas(1818-) & Ann(1819-) – Gardener; see Rawson, 1841.
Loveday, John Richard(1924-2005) – plaque on church wall.
Lovell – see Francis Allen, 1851.
Loweth, Mary(-1820), age 1[7]9, wife of John; & their children John(c1800-1818) & Mary E (infant); p109 Gravestone.
Mackenzie, __ - awarded medal in Jan 1916 for 2yrs perfect attendance at school.
MacQueen, Mr & Mrs – tenants at Wadenhoe House 1920s+?; started Girl Guides in the area; the 1939 Register has Elizabeth Wilson-MacQueen(1869) & Cecil HGMO Wilson-MacQueen + 8 others.
March, Annie – p119 in school photo, 1928; p124 a Mrs.March made May Day garlands in the 1940’s; p198 1950s photo; p198 remembered by Mary Attewell, 1950s, as being on Pilton Lane.
March, Arthur – p96 bellringer of new peal in 1937; p119 in school photo, 1928.
Marsden, David – Art editor of book ‘The Story of Wadenhoe’; almost all of the houses in the village have been drawn especially for this book; designer for ‘Wadenhoe & Pilton News’ from start in 1980, becoming ‘Wadenhoe & District News’ in 1990; a portrait painter, illustrator, caricaturist, & graphic designer who lived in Wadenhoe for 18yrs from 1979 before moving to nearby Achurch in 1997.
Martin, Kit – p204 young architect, converted the Mill & Mill House to dwellings in 1970’s.
Masaness(?) – see Rectory Farm, 1841.
Mayes – Surname in 1841(3 houses)& see Bond & John Allen, 1841; 1851(1-2); 1861(3); 1871(3); 1881(1); 1891(2), 1901(0); 1911(1).
Mayes, Mary(c1821) – p141 servant to John Allen, miller, in 1841.
Mayes, Thomas(c1837-) – agric lab in 1871 with wife Elisabeth(1840) & daughter Sarah(1860), their address is given as Wadenhoe House, “The residence of the Rt.Hon G.W.Hunt, now in town. Thos.Mayes in charge.”; 1881 ag lab in own house with John Chew(1834) lodger; 1891 ag lab with
wife Eliz and g/child Eliz M Quincey(1880); 1901 ag lab with wife a laundress, & 2 boarders – 14yr old Ellen J Morehen(1887) laundress & 12yr old Daisy C Morehen(1889); 1911 74yr old ag lab with wife Eliz and 31yr old g/child Eliz M Quincey(1880).
Mayo(?) – see Whyman, 1841.
Mears, Ruth - p131 school photo, 1952.
Mears, Val - p131 school photo, 1952.
Melon/Mellon/Melton – Surname in 1841/51/61/71(2)/81(3)[& see Spencer&Elderkiss]/ 91(3); 1901(1); 1911(2).
Melton, Elizabeth Ann(c1847-1902) & daughter Mary Jane(c1880-1884) & husband John Charles(c1844-1924) – p108 Graveyard; 1901 John C(1844) is a cattleman with wife Elizabeth A(1847), & son John T(1880) is an ag lab; 1911 John is a 67yr old widower general labourer with his daughter Annie(1878, on 1939 Register with Salome Bland); Annie is a housekeeper.
Melton, Thomas(c1784-) – 1861 Census, a superannuated agric lab.
Mildmay, Sir Walter – acquired Wadenhoe Manor estate from the Crown in 1551; he also by this time had Woodnewton, Apethorpe, Nassington, and Yarwell; Wadenhoe was owned by his descendants as the Earls of Westmorland until sold in 1668. [see Stanyon next]
Miles, Philip Edward(c1831-) – Curate of Wadenhoe, living in Rectory, in 1861.
Mills, Dorothy – p124 May Queen in 1945.
Mills, Ian & Beryl – p210 took over the Kings Head in 1991 for 3 years from the Robinsons.
Mills, John - p119 in school photo, 1928.
Mills, Mary - p119 in school photo, 1928.
Mills, Sidney and Bill – p197 remembered by Tony Attewell, 1950s – farm workers.
Mills, Victor(1897-1973) – p109 Gravestone.
Mills, Private William(1887-1914) - born in Great Raveley, Huntingdonshire, his father, John, was 35 and his mother, Esther, was 36; he had three brothers and two sisters; his father died when he was 5, and his mother when he was 10; the oldest siblings took over family duties; he served in the 2nd Btn Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment; the regiment was in India in 1907 when he was 20 years old; he was with the regiment in India in the Census on April 2, 1911; later that year 2nd Btn moved back to be in Cork, Ireland; they moved to Cambridge on 18 August 1914, & on 12 Sept 1914 (when he was 26) they went to War, landing at St Nazaire, Loire region, France; he was killed in action in Coulommiers, France, within a fortnight; he is buried in Coulommiers Communal Cemetery, East of Paris. [Private, 8255, "1st Btn Leinster Regmt". Grave B.11]; he was posthumously awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal, and the Victory Medal; he had family in Wadenhoe and it must at one time have been regarded as home, and so he is remembered on Wadenhoe's War Memorials.
Millson – see Porter, 1851.
Milton, Alfred(c1832-) – 1901 ag lab widower with daughter Eliza J(1875).
Moisey, Private Arthur Edward(1886-1918) - born in Oundle district to Rebecca Jane Hankins, age 26, and James Harry Moisey, age 24; in 1891 and 1901 they were living in Stoke Doyle, and then in 1901 when he was 25 they were in Pilton; in 1913 he married Sarah Anne Plowright and they lived in Wadenhoe; he enlisted in the Machine Gun Corps (Service No.89385) in 1914; their son George Edward was born on June 9th 1915 (died 1985); Arthur died on May 2, 1918 near Englebelmer, Somme, Picardie, France, when he was 32 years old; he is buried in Englebelmer Communal Cemetery Extension. Grave C.24, his stone inscribed "Faithful Unto Death"; he is remembered in Wadenhoe and Stoke Doyle.
Moisey, George Edward (1915-1985) – p93 Church Warden & Secretary/Treasurer for 30yrs; his father Arthur Edward died in the Somme in 1918; mother Sarah Ann; p114-8 he was a pupil at Wadenhoe School in 1920’s; in 1981 wrote ‘Memories of Wadenhoe School’ for ‘Wadenhoe & Pilton News’, No.2, p17-19; p107 Graveyard.
Moisey, Sarah Ann(c1881-1954) – nee Plowright; wife of Arthur Edward who died Somme 1918; son George Edward; p190 remembered by wartime evacuee Irene Drake; p107 Graveyard; Sarah & son George on 1939 Register.
Moore, David H(c1864-) – From Aldwincle; ag lab in 1891 with wife Hannah & 2 children; milkman in 1901 with wife & 5 children.
Morehen – Surname in 2 households in 1841; 3 in 1851; 4 in 1861; 6 in 1871(& see Ginns&Hollis &Wilson); 7(!) in 1881; 4/5 in 1891(& see Wilson,John); 1901(4 & see Helen Carter, farmer, & Thos Mayes, & John Wilson); 1911(5 & see Wad House & Rectory).
Morehen, Private Albert(1888-1915) – born in Wadenhoe to Annie Mary Culpin, age 23, and Joseph Henry Morehen, age 25, he had two brothers and eight sisters; his mother died when he was 18; he was living in Wadenhoe in 1891,1901&1911; he enlisted aged 26 in 1914 as a Private with service number 15742 into the 11th Bn. Essex Regiment, formed from volunteers as part of Lord Kitchener's Army; on 30th August 1915 he arrived in the war in France, landing at Boulogne; his ten years younger brother Herbert was there also, in the Leicestershire Regiment, having joined up saying he was 19 the previous year though he was only 16 - Herbert was killed nearby at Bienvillers on 17th Sept 1915, aged just 17; Albert died just 9 days later on 26th Sept 1915, killed in action on the second day of the Battle of Loos; he was 27; twelve attacking battalions suffered 8,000 casualties out of 10,000 men in four hours; this was the largest British battle of 1915 and it lasted until 14th Oct 1915; Albert's name is on Panel 85/7 of the Loos Memorial, which forms the sides and rear of Dud Corner Cemetery, Loos-en-Gohelle, Pas-de-Calais, France; the memorial lists 20,610 names of British and Commonwealth soldiers; he was posthumously awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal; Albert is remembered on Wadenhoe's War Memorials.
Morehen, Albert George(c1890-) – son of William(1860) & Charlotte(1866); with parents in 1901/11; carpenter journeyman like his dad.
Morehen, Alfred W(c1867-) – Son of John(1834) & Ann(1837); 1871/81/91 with parents; Carpenter; 1901 with wife Mary(1868) from Thorpe, & 4 children – Olive Ida(1895), Esther A(1896), Ada
M(1897) & Dorothy A(1898); 1911 carpenter journeyman with wife & 5 children – including Alfred(1894, student) & Jack(1905) – and a 5yr old boarder Edith Horn(1906)[see Horn].
Morehen, Alice(1903-) – born at 6 The Green in a family of 12 children; their mother died in 1907; she married to become Alice Bates; reminiscences p180.
Morehen, Alice – p168 remembered by Mabel Sculthorp as a good cook living in Pudding Lane (see wife Alice of GJ Morehen(1876)?
Morehen, Anne(c1803-) – Born in Oundle; shepherd’s widow in 1871 in house of daughter Charlotte(c1841) & carpenter son-in-law Robert Ginns(c1834).
Morehen, Anne(c1804-) – Born Ringstead; agric lab’s widow in 1871 in her own house.
Morehen, Anne(c1884-) – 1901 servant in house of farmer Mary Carter(1865).
Morehen, Benjamin(c1832-) – p143 brother to shepherd/shoemaker John, he is still a shepherd in 1891; 1871/81 Shepherd with wife Mary A(1835) & in 1881 nephew Tom(1870); 1891 with Mary, & domestic help Mary Dalby(1830) from Tansor.
Morehen, Charles(c1881-) – 1911 30yr old aviary keeper at Lilford Hall, with wife Ellen(1886, Somerset), daughter Marjorie(1911), & 72yr old mother Ann Morehen from Glapthorn.
Morehen, Doris Eleanor(1907-1992) – p182-3 ‘The last of the Morehens’ biography & photo; p121 in school photos, 1919&1920; mother was Lottie Morehen(formerly Wilson); lived at 21 Pilton Road, but born at 1 The Green; Doris rang bells, sang in choir, in Girl Guide movement, landgirl in WW2; p111 Gravestone; & see husband Chapman, Arthur Horace; 1911 3yrs old with parents William(1860) & Charlotte(1866); 1939 Register with mother Lottie.
Morehen, Edgar Charles(c1900-1906) – p107 Graveyard; 1901 son of William(1861) & Lottie(1866).
Morehen, Edna May(-1932) – p107 Graveyard; dtr of Ernest & Edna.
Morehen, Eileen - p119 in school photo, 1928.
Morehen, Elsie Laura(1926-1927) – p107 Graveyard; age 8½ mths.
Morehen, Ernest William(c1896-1964) & wife Edna Annie(c1895-1970) – p198 1950s photo with Edna?; p107 Graveyard; 1901/11 son of William(1861) & Lottie(1866), boy on farm in 1911; 1939 Register.
Morehen, George Joseph(c1876-1961) & wife Alice(c1876-1961) – p107 Graveyard.
Morehen, Henry(c1848-) – Shepherd in 1881 with wife Elizabeth & 10yr old niece Elizabeth Tansley; grandson of John(1900) & Anne(1803), he is a 13yr old ‘shepherds boy’ in 1861, & appears in 1851.
Morehen, Private Herbert(1898-1915) - born in Wadenhoe on March 6th 1898 to Annie Mary Culpin & Joseph Henry Morehen; he had two brothers and eight sisters; his mother died when he was 8; he lived in Wadenhoe in the 1901 and 1911 censuses; on 31st August 1914 he enlisted in the 7th Service Bn. of The Leicestershire Regmt (Service No.12928) based at Market Bosworth; he said he was 19 yrs old........he was actually only 16; he died on September 17, 1915, in Bienvillers, Nord-Pas-
de-Calais, France, when he was 17 years old; he died just 9 days before his ten years older brother Albert of the Essex Regmt in the same area of France; he has a grave, Grave 1 A 59, Bienvillers Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; he is remembered on Market Bosworth War Memorial in Leicestershire; he is also remembered on Wadenhoe's War Memorials..
Morehen, James(c1837-) – Shepherd in 1871 with wife Mary(1842) & 3 children; son of shepherd John(1800) & Ann(1803); brother to shepherd Benjamin(1831) & shoemaker John(1835).
Morehen, John – p135 tenant in 1822 to Thomas Hunt.
Morehen, John(c1835-) – p143 16yr old shepherd for Robert Nichols living in at Manor Farm in 1851; a shoemaker when marries Elizabeth Seamark in 1860; father John(1800) & brother Benjamin(1831) are shepherds.
Morehen, John(c1834-) & Ann(c1837-) – p152 on 1891 census with 5 sons aged 23,22,19,18,15; agric lab on censuses in 1881/91/01; a John Morehen was at first Parish Council meeting in 1894; son Alfred(1868) a carpenter in 1891 (see) has home & family in 1901; 1901 John & Ann with son David(1871) a gardener & son Charles(1880) a yardman on farm; 1901 (see) son Joseph(1864), a horseman, has own home in 1901.
Morehen, Joseph(c1825-pre-1871) – woodcutter in 1861; wife Elisabeth(1825) and 5 children; by 1871 she is a ‘shepherd’s widow’ with 4 of the children; 1881 widow with 2; 1891 with visitor 14yr old boy George E Langridge from London who helps in gardens.
Morehen, Joseph(c1854-1930) – p107 Graveyard; a Joseph Morehen was at first Parish Council meeting in 1894.
Morehen, Joseph H(c1864-) – Son of John(1834) & Ann(1837); 1871/81 with parents; 1891 ag lab, with wife [Annie] Mary [Culpin](1865-c1906, Lincs) & 4 children Bertha(1886), Joseph Harry(1888), Albert(1888) & Rose(1890); in 1901 Joseph is a horseman, with wife & 8 children – Bertha, Harry(1888), (see) Albert(1888-1915, Essex Regmt, France), Rose, Maggie(1893), Grace(1895), (see) Herbert(1898-1915, Leics Regmt, France, age 17), Winifred(1900); 1911 46yr old widower ag lab with 7 children – Bertha, Harry, Albert, Herbert, Winnifred, Jessie(1902) & Alice(1903) - & g/child Sidney(1905).
Morehen, Joseph C(c1856-pre-1891) – From Wadenhoe; 1881 wife Elizabeth(1857) from Great Addington, daughter Alice M (1880); 1891 Elizabeth is a widowed charwoman with 4 children – Alice(1880), Clara(1883), Ellen(1887) & Daisy(1889).
Morehen, Sgt Pilot Joseph Stanley(1914-1940) - born April 1914 in Wadenhoe to Alice Ganly & George Joseph Morehen; worked his way up to being a Sergeant (Pilot) in the RAF Volunteer Reserve, Service No.742034, serving with No.6 Flying Training School RAF (VR), Manston, Kent; died in a plane crash on June 8, 1940, when he was 26 years old, crashing in a North American Harvard 1 Trainer, Serial No.P5841, on a 'High Dive Bombing Exercise'; he is remembered on memorials in Tingewick, Buckinghamshire, to where his parents had moved; he is also remembered on Wadenhoe's War Memorials.
Morehen, Mabel(c1892-) – Daughter of William(1861) & Lottie(1866); 1901 at home; 1911 housemaid at Wadenhoe House to Culme-Seymour.
Morehen, Martha Kate(c1885-1970) – p107 Graveyard; cook at Rectory for JE Newby in 1911.
Morehen, Mary(c1863-1906) – p109 Gravestone.
Morehen, May - p119 in school photo, 1928.
Morehen, Rose(c1890-) - May Queen in about 1900(p124 photo); see parents Joseph H(1864) & Mary(1865).
Morehen, Thomas(c1837-) – 1901 ag lab, wife Sarah Ann(1841) & sons Thomas(1871) & Edward(1875); 1911 73yr old general labourer with wife Sarah from Lincs.
Morehen, William(c1792-) – Shepherd & Agric Labourer in 1861 Census
Morehen, William(c1861-1932) & Lottie(c1866-1948) – p182 father of Doris Morehen; William was a shepherd on Wadenhoe Estate, & later an aviary-man at Lilford Hall(?); p108 Graveyard; ag lab in 1891 with wife & 3 children living with widower father in law millwright John Wilson(1829); 1901 shepherd, with John Wilson still, wife & 5 children – Emily(1888), Albert(1890), (see)Mabel(1892), Ernest(1896) & Edgar(1900); 1911 gardener with wife & 3 children including now Doris Eleanor Morehen(1908); Lottie is on 1939 Register with daughter Doris.
Morris, Ben - p37 tenant of arable Manor Farm after Gifford; p197 remembered by Tony Attewell – sons Bryn, Willie & Mansell, 1950s.
Morton, John(-1697) – p106 Graveyard; & John Morton(-1625?).
Moss, Julia – p133-156 contributed Chapter 6 ‘Wadenhoe in the 19th Century’.
Myland, George(c1808-1877) – Born Oundle Lodge; ag lab; wife Mary(c1807-1866)(charwoman); son George(-1918?) age 12; son John (Crimean War, 1853-56)age 25; Francis 32yrs; Sarah Ann Briggs; p107 Graveyard; 1841/51/61/71 Census.
Myland, William(c1832-) – Agri lab lodging with Thomas Briggs(1805) in 1881; alone in 1891 & 1901.
Nathan?, ... William(-1721) – p109 Gravestone.
Neal, Edith – p117 at 14yrs old became Monitress at School.
Nevett – see Samuel Smith, 1851; wheelwright.
Newby, John Edward(c1866-) - pp90,97 Church Rector 1894-1931(P&Wad in 1923); lived at Wadenhoe Rectory(1911), but had moved to Pilton Rectory by 1914; tall man, cycled or rode horse between villages; sweets to school Friday pm,books at Xmas; taught R.I; School Manager; his wife was Mrs.M.Newby; & p165; at first Parish Council meeting in 1894; 1901 appears on census at Wadenhoe Rectory only with servant Minnie Hill(1864)[does she become Mrs M Newby?]; 1911 with 2 servants(cook & housemaid) & a visitor; he comes from Blaby, Leics.; Newby, Mrs M – p130 contributed an article ‘The Village School’ to The Northampton County Magazine in 1930, No.3, p91-93; p33-35 reproduced extracts of her article “The Miller & The Mill” published in The Northampton County Magazine in 1929, No.2, p93-95.
Nichols, Mary(c1786-1849) – p106 Graveyard; wife of Robert; in 1841 Census.
Nichols, Robert – tenant at Manor Farm (after Joseph Allen died in 1830); a native of Souldrop, Beds.; in 1851 Census an elderly widower living at Manor Farm with 28yr old nephew Robert Groome (next tenant), other family, & servants include 16yr old shepherd John Morehen.
Noble, Francis W(c1865-) – From Pilton; in 1901 ag lab with wife & 2 children.
Norwood, Joseph(1826-) – 1841 Census (Servant at Rectory Farm).
Norwood, Obed[Obadiah?](c1799-1883), wife Mary(c1800-1885), O.N.(-1883)[Obed again] – p107 Graveyard; ag lab / millers lab; 1841/51/61/71 Census; daughter Elizabeth Betson(c1833) is a bailiff’s wife in 1871.
Nulton? – Surname in 1841 Census.
Oakley, Ernest Charles(1912-1994) – p111 Gravestone.
Oliver, Mary – p117 Monitress at School from 1882.
Oliver, Mr - p32 Lilford Estate blacksmith moved from 24 Pilton Lane Wadenhoe to Achurch in 1916; the Olivers organised the May Garland.
Oliver, James(c1838-) – Journeyman miller in 1871/81 living at Miller’s House(?) with laundress wife Annie(1839) & 5 children; from Ailsworth & Cotterstock.
Oliver, John Thomas(c1866-) – From Cotterstock; son of James(1838); ag lab in 1891 with wife Sarah(1865), & daughter Agnes(1890); blacksmith in 1901 with wife & 5 children & boy lodger; 1911 a blacksmith with wife & 3 children – Sidney(1893, groom), Annie(1899), Mildred(1901), & lodger Earnest Oliver(1886, groom) & 2 visitors.
Oughton, Mary – p116 School Teacher at Wadenhoe 1865-9.
Packwood – see John Morehen, 1841.
Palgrave, Joh. – p90 Church Rector, 1545.
Palmer, John(c1826) – p141 at Mill with John Allen, miller, in 1841; possibly John’s sister Lucy’s son.
Palmer, Mary(c1823-1852) [remembered by P.Stephens, Elton] – p106 Graveyard.
Panter – see Myland 1861.
Panther?, Elizabeth(-1790) – p109 Gravestone.
Parishe, Galfridus – p90 Church Rector, 1559.
Parker, Margaret Hyde(1858-1932) – wife(1881) of George Eden Hunt, dtr of Sir William Parker 9 th Bart; mother of Capt.George Ward Hunt & Wilfred, Muriel and Olive; p108 Graveyard.
Parr LL.D, Samuel – p90 Church Rector, 1792; after the Enclosure Act of 1793,Samuel Parr was the first Rector to benefit from an allotment of more than 180 acres which was tenanted as Rectory Farm.
Parsons, Elizabeth A(c1874-) - From Mansfield; 1891 a Monitress at the school, boarding with head teacher Annie Brittle(1852).
Peers, Edward(c1818-) – journeyman blacksmith in 1861 with Wm Beasley(1824).
Peirce, John – p92 Church Warden, remembered on wooden carved wall memorial from 1686.
Pennington, Daisy(c1891-1967) - married Capt.George Ward Hunt(1881-1915) in Jan 1911; 2 children, George Edgar(Oct 1911) & Mary(1913); on 9th May 1915 Captain George led an attack against German trenches at the Battle of Aubers Ridge, and although badly wounded he carried on and was killed; p128 Annie Witten remembers Mrs Daisy Ward Hunt taking the children in her car to Lilford and teaching them to swim, with a belt fixed to a pole(1920’s); Daisy went on to marry the Rector of Brailsford Thomas Bolney Brown in Dec 1926, moving her children away from Wadenhoe – they were to return in the 1940s when he died; she organised the restoration of Manor Farm House; p111 Graveyard, Daisy Bolney Brown.
Perkins – see Manor Farm, 1841.
Perkins, Mary(c1832-1892, Stanground)& husband Richard Norris[R.N.P.](c1826-1896, Rushton) & Annie Maria(c1867-1890) & Mary(1849?) age 36yrs – p108 Graveyard; Richard alone on 1871 Census at Keepers Lodge, gamekeeper; 1881 Richard, ‘Keeper(Lodge)’, & Mary, with 4 children(Mary, Annie,William,James); 1891 gamekeeper living at a Wadenhoe Lodge with wife Mary, daughter Mary(1860), & gamekeeper sons William R(1872) & James H(1874).
Phillipson, Jack(c1910-1987) – p109 Gravestone.
Pilkington, Colonel & his wife – p188 remembered by young Alan Wilson, they settled in the Old Rectory in the 1940s; he had been in the Indian administration; 1939 Register has a Harry SH Pilkington(1869) with Constance M Pilkington + 2 others.
Plowright, Ebenezer(c1857-) – From Oundle; in 1891 an agric lab with wife Eliza Martha(1852) from Wadenhoe, and 4 children born Oundle & Clopton including Jane E(1880, married George Gammons(1887))[& see Emma Plowright?]; 1901 he is a pitman, with wife & 3 children – gardener John S(1878), Harriett L(1883), & stable boy William S(1885); 1911 with wife only, he is a 53yr old aviary attendant at Lilford Hall.
Plowright, Emma(c1880-) – From Oundle; in 1901 living with relative 74yr old widow Mary A Wilson; could she be Jane E Plowright(1880) daughter of Ebenezer(1857).
Plowright, John T(c1854-) – From Ashton; 1901 ag lab, wife Elizabeth A(1854) & son John P(1890).
Pollard, William(c1859-) – From Somerset; Coachman in 1891, with welsh wife & irish son; 1911 “away from home”(house empty).
Porter, Edith – p116 Monitress at School 1880-1; daughter of John(1841)?.
Porter, John(c1842-) - bricklayer’s labourer living in ‘Porters Lodge’ in 1861, son of John P Porter(1814); mason in 1871/81 with wife Ann(1842) & up to 4 children, including Edith A(1867) who aged 14 in 1881 is ‘Monitor in School’; 1891 Mason, home alone.
Porter, William(c1753-1771) – p106 Graveyard.
Prentice – Surname in 1841/51 Census.
Preston – Surname in 1841 Census(& see Rectory Farm, 1851).
Preston, John W.A.(1910-1983) & E. Joyce Preston(1913-1994) – p109 Gravestone.
Pridmore, James(c1816) – p141 servant/miller with John Allen in 1841.
Pridmore, Lucy(c1825-1899) – see her sister Davison, Mary Ann(1821-1894).
Pulchers, Ric. – p90 Church Rector, 1554.
Quinan, Ann(c1833-) – general servant from Aldwincle for Francis Allen(1819) in 1851 & 1871.
Quincey – Surname in 1 household in 1841(& see Manor Farm); 3 in 1851(& see Manor Farm); 2 in 1861; 2 in 1871; 2 in 1881; 2 in 1891(& see Thos Mayes(1837)); 1901(1); 1911(0 & see Thos Mayes).
Quincey, Elizabeth(c1840-1917) – p108 Graveyard; wife of Thomas Quincey.
Quincey, Joe(c1879-1961) – p107 Graveyard; husband of Lily May(p198 remembered by Mary Attewell, 1950s? – on The Green?).
Quincey, John – p143 a leaseholder of a rental in 1666.
Quincey, John(c1826) – p140 servant to Philip Allen at Home Farm in 1841.
Quincey, Josiah(c1829-) – 1901 a 72yr old widower yardman(cattle) living alone in Wadenhoe.
Quincey, Josiah(c1858-) – Gardener in 1881 with wife & daughter.
Quincey, Richard(c1799-) – p143 agric labourer with wife Matilda(1802) & 3 children, in 1841/1851/61/71 Census.
Rawson – Surname in 1841/51/61/81(2)/91(2) Census.
Rawson, John(c1851-) – From Brigstock; Carpenter in 1881/91 with wife Ellen(1849) from Wadenhoe; 4 children (2 of which born London).
Rawson, Thomas(c1839-) – From Keyston; waggoner in 1881 with wife, 2 dtrs, & mother-in-law Fielding; 1891 agrisc lab with wife..
Ray, Harriett(c1862-) – From Molesworth; general servant to Edward Dixie, farmer of Mill Farm.
Ray, Malcolm & Jean – p214 Malcolm edited ‘Wadenhoe & District News’ from 1993 to 1996(Yvonne Gunn took over); Jean with David Marsden created its attractive appearance.
Reese – see Chew.
Reynolds, Heather – contributed Chapter 5 ‘Wadenhoe School’; p99 first Secretary of ‘Ladies Fellowship’ which was started by the wife of Rev Shires while 3 parishes together; has lived in Wadenhoe since the 1960s, she has been a probation officer, & worked in social welfare.
Reynolds, Michael ( -1984) – p93 magistrate, & village resident from 1968-1984, remembered by seat & willow tree by the river near village hall.
Richards, Esther(c1849-) – from Polebrook, domestic servant to Francis Allen at Mill House in 1871.
Richardson, Edward(c1868-) – From Paddington, London; 1911 Engine Driver with wife Eliza(1868) & son Edward(1894) farm labourer both from Lincolnshire
Roberts BSc, James Arthur – p90 Church Rector, 1982-1991.
Roberts DD, Robert – p90 Church Rector, 1825 (or 1831? p140).
Robinson – Surname in 1841 Census.
Robinson, Jancis & David – p208 Took over the Kings Head licence from Bert Flavell in 1985 until about 1991 when Ian & Beryl Mills took over; awarded Pub of the Month in 1987 by CAMRA; 1989 attached barn converted.
Roe – see Rectory 1861.
Roe, Caroline J(c1854-) – ‘Visitor’ of Francis Allen at Mill in 1871, their ‘adopted daughter’ in 1881.
Rose PhD, Judith Anne – p90 Church Rector; 1992 given charge of 5 parishes, 1994 ordained priest – one of first women priests in Diocese of Peterborough.
Rowell, Elizabeth(c1858-) – From Pilton; Housemaid at the Rectory in 1881.
Rowell, Robert(c1848-) – From Glapthorne; Miller(Corn) in 1881 with wife, 2 children, & a nephew.
Rudd, Robert – p90 Church Rector, 1641.
S..., Danil(c1681-1714) – p110 Gravestone.
Samford, Elizabeth(c1850-) – widow housekeeper from Ringstead at the Rectory for Abner E Brown in 1891.
Sanderson, Edward – p90 gave Church bequests for decoration, & repair of high chancel, 1519.
Saviage, James(1834), wife Eliza(1835), & son Harry(1872) – James from Leadenham, Lincs, Eliza & Harry from Stamford; 1901 with widowed daughter farmer Mary Carter in Wadenhoe.
Sculthorp, Mabel – pp160-168 author of recollections ‘Memories are made of this...’; granddaughter of (see)Elizabeth Kerenhappuch Briggs(1815); p163 photo from 1921; p204 remembering George Edgar Ward Hunt.
Setchfield, George Alec(c1919-1991) – p93 remembered by a seat on Church path looking down on his boat mooring; p230 boat, Arctic war service & funeral remembered, & a poem ‘Alec’ by Trevor Hold & drawn by David Marsden; p111 Gravestone.
Seymour, Rev.William(c1817-) – p148 Curate in 1867; born in Ireland; Rector of Landulph in Cornwall in 1856; 1871 still described as Rector of Landulph, living at the Rectory in Wadenhoe with wife Alice(1839), & 2 servants.
Sharp, John(c1835-) – Journeyman miller staying at Mill House with Francis Allen in 1851 & 1861.
Shaw – see housemaid at Wadenhoe House, 1851.
Shaw, Louisa Ann(c1878-1951) and husband Allen(c1880-1962) – p107 Graveyard; 1911 Allen a cowman from Chatteris, with wifeLouisa from Gt Rawley, Hunts, & 4 children born Woodwalton including (see) William Owen Shaw(1910); 1939 Register.
Shaw, William Owen(c1910-1952) – p107 Graveyard; p206 his wife Phyllis worked at Wadenhoe House for Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd & was presented with a picture for 25 yrs service in 1985.
Sheffield – see Josiah Chew 1851(Wm)/61(Jas)/71(Jas); see nephew James(1852) own house 1881.
Sheffield, James(c1852-) – From Chesterton, Hunts.; agric lab nephew/grandson(?) of Josiah Chew has own house & wife & 3 children in village in 1881; wife Mary S(1852) a dressmaker; 1891 with wife & 6 children.
Shipley – see Rectory ladies maid 1851.
Shipman, Doris(c1903-1965) & husband William Winston(-1968) – p111 Gravestone.
Shipman, Ernest & Hilda – p208 Landlords of the Kings Head from 1970, private caravans in the park, until the Flavell’s took over.
Shire MA, William Stanley – p90 Church Rector(P&W&Cl&SD&A&TAch), 1967-1982; Stoke Doyle added to Benefice(still includes Clopton); lived in Stoke Doyle Rectory as cheaper to run; in 1970 when Aldwincle & Thorpe Achurch added, moved to Aldwincle.
Simpson, Elizabeth(-1694) – p109 Gravestone; wife of James Simpson.
Simpson, Sarah(c1699-1714) & Ann(c1681-1715)–p109 Gravestone; dtrs of a James & Ann Simpson.
Slote, Ethel Christian(c1895-1942) – p107 Graveyard; wife of Percy.
Smalley, Private Edward(1888-1917) - born in Elton, Huntingdonshire to Martha Haylock, age 41, and Skelton Smalley, age 67, he had one brother and one sister; in 1891 they had moved to Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire where Skelton was farming; in 1901 Skelton was farming at Pilsgate, Barnack, near Stamford, and 13 yr old Edward was being educated at Stamford Grammar School; in 1911 Edward was working on the farm; his father Skelton died in September 1912 aged 91; early in 1914 Edward
took on a farm in Wadenhoe that had previously been run by JW Copley [local farm worker George Hankins (1891-1989) remembers "...a young man named Smalley took it. He was a real modern, go-ahead chap. Unfortunately he got killed in the war."](& p154); 26 yr old Edward had joined the Lincolnshire Yeomanry by Nov 1914; he enlisted No.RTS/1416 in the Army Service Corps(Remounts); he soon arrived in the war in France on Dec 10th 1914; with his horse experience, in Aug 1916, aged 28, he was transferred to the 13th Hussars; that was short-lived, because in Nov 1916 he was transferred to 2nd Btn(103rd Foot) The Royal Dublin Fusiliers, serving with the Expeditionary Force (Service No.28203); they were near the French border in West Flanders, Belgium; in Feb 1917 he was wounded near Loker, and returned to England; on his recovery, in Sept, aged 29, he returned to the war on the Somme, France; he was Killed in Action on 24th Dec 1917 with the 2nd Btn as Brigade Reserve in a railway cutting at St Emilie; at 3.15pm the enemy heavily bombarded the railway cutting in which the Btn was billeted; the bombardment lasted an hour; the calibre of shell used was 5.9"[3 Other Ranks were KiA, 6 were WiA]; Edward was first buried at St.Emilie Rd Cemetery; then later his body was moved to Templeux-le-Guerard British Cemetery (II E 37) between Peronne & Hargicourt; he was posthumously awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal; he is remembered on the Barnack War Memorial, near Stamford; he is also remembered on Wadenhoe's War Memorials; Edward was unmarried.
Smith – Surname in 1841/51(5 houses & see Manor Farm 1841, Rands 1851, Quincey 1851/61, Willson 1851, Briggs 1851); 1861(4 houses& see Quincey); 1871(4); 1881(3); 1891(3); 1901(0 & see Pollard) 1901(2); 1911(1).
Smith, Benjamin – p138 lived in Main St in 1795, & in Church St in 1822.
Smith, Catherine(c1840-) – From Titchmarsh; Head & housekeeper at the Rectory in 1881.
Smith, Eliza(c1833-) – Widowed dairymaid from Rothwell in 1871/81, with 2 sons; in 1891 with 1 son & 1 granddaughter; 1901 68yr old widow with 40yr old pitman son James Smith(1861).
Smith, James(c1861-) – 1901, a pitman, living with his widowed ex-dairymaid mother Eliza(1833); 1911 is that him(1859) general labourer with Oundle wife for 9yrs Ellen(1878).
Smith, James(c1877-) – From Cavan, Ireland; 1911 a groom, with wife Jessie(1877) from Peterborough & baby son Ronald John(1910) born Aldwincle.
Smith, Mary Anne(c1840-) – From Wadenhoe, a washwoman single mother in 1891 with daughter Sarah J(1863); 1901 single mother with daughter Jane(1863); 1911 pauper in receipt of parochial relief, with daughter Sarah Jane a domestic doing housework.
Smith, Samuel (c1812-)– p143 wheelwright in 1851 Census, wife Dorothy; p148 1861 innkeeper & wheelwright, & smallholder(2 acres), wife Sarah.
Smith, Sarah(c1821-) – Wife of Samuel Smith(1812), she is publican in 1871; from Kent.
Smith, Sidney George(-1996) – p96 Tower Captain of bellringers for new peal in 1937?; p169 village cricket team photo late 1920s, same Sid?; p111 Gravestone; husband of Lily(1905)?; 1939 Register.
Smith, Thomas(1791-) – 1841 Census (Carpenter).
Smith, William(c1772-1833) – p135 with Benjamin Smith, tenants in 1822 to Thomas Hunt; p106 Graveyard.
Southall, Anna Kate(c1874-1961) – p107 Graveyard.
Southall, Edward William(c1869-1949) – p107 Graveyard.
Sparrow, Thos. – p90 Church Rector, 1452.
Speechley, Herbert(c1869-) – From Thorney, son of John(1836); painter in 1891.
Speechley, John(c1836-) – From Thorney, in 1881 the innkeeper of the Kings Head, & a carpenter, with Aldwincle wife Harriet(1842) & 8 children; 1891 carpenter, with Harriet & 7 children.
Speechley, Walter(c1868-) – From Thorney; 1901 a gardener boarding with George Briggs(1829).
Spencer, Ernest – p96 with brother Harry bellringers of new peal in 1937; p119 in school photo 1928.
Spencer, Harry – p96 with brother Ernie, bellringers of new peal in 1937.
Spencer, Henry - p90 Church Rector, 1670.
Spencer, Henry George(c1848-1909) – From Ashton; Agric lab in 1881, road labourer 1891, married to Sarah Anne Melton(c1848) from Wadenhoe, and with their 2(1881) to 6(1891) children Spencer, were living with her widower father John Melton(c1809-pre-1901) in 1881/91; 1901 ag lab with wife & 3 children – Georgiana(1883), John M, & Harry(1889); & see their son John Melton Spencer(c1885-1915), Drummer with Leinster Regmt, k.i.a Ypres, France 5/11/1915 & remembered on village War Memorials; 1911 63yr old widowed charwoman Sarah Ann Spencer living alone.
Spencer, Drummer John Melton(c1885-1915) - born in Wadenhoe to Sarah Ann Melton, age 38, and Henry George Spencer, age 37, he had one brother and four sisters; the family are on the Wadenhoe Census in 1881-1901; ag lab in 1901; his father died in 1909 when John was 24; John enlisted in the Leinster Regiment in Thrapston early in 1914; on 12th September 1914 John was with the 2nd Btn Leinsters when they landed at St Nazaire in France; Drummer John Melton Spencer, Service No.8256, of the 2nd Bn. Leinster Regiment, was Killed in Action at Ypres in Flanders, Belgium, aged 30, on 5th November 1915; he is buried in Voormezeele Enclosures No.1 and No.2, Grave II.C.09, near Ypres, Belgium; John was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal; John is remembered on Wadenhoe's War Memorials.
Spencer, Rog. – p90 Church Rector, 1395.
Spryngthorp, Thos. – p90 Church Rector, 1421.
Stafford, Mr&Mrs Freddie – living in Wadenhoe House as part of Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd from 1970, & joined board of directors in 1973; mother lived in Church Street.
Stafford, Henry(c1848-) – From Nassington; Journeyman miller for Francis Allen staying at the Mill House in 1871; 1881 Miller(Corn) in own house with wife & 4 children.
Stevens, William(c1656-1722) – p109 Gravestone.
Stevens, William(c1657-1728) – p109 Gravestone.
Stimpson, Florence(c1864) – Dressmaker niece (see Lewis, Mary Ann & Sophie Davison 1871/81/91).
Stocker, John(c1805) – Journeyman miller in 1861.
Stretton – see Rectory Farm in 1861.
Stretton, William – p135 described on the 1777 Militia List as a butcher; owned the site of his cottage with yard & garden, and a small allotment in 1793.
Sumner, Oliver – p90 Church Rector, 1891.
Swiffin/Swiffen, William(c1870-1949) & wife Jenny(c1872-1949) – p37 tenant of arable Manor Farm 1914-39; p107 Graveyard; p154; 1911 Farmer from Covington, Hunts, with wife Jenney from Merionethshire; 1939 Register.
Tebbutt, Jonas – p139 farming Rectory Farm in 1835; in 1841 Census; wife Elizabeth.
Tebbutt, Mary(c1716-1785) relict of another Jonas; also Jonas son of William & ...Marshall (infant)?; p109 Gravestone.
Tebbutt, Mathew(c1769-1782) – p109 Gravestone; son of Jonas & Mary.
Thorpe, Richard E(c1854-) – From Edith Weston, Rutland; painter/glazier in 1881 lodging with Joseph Briggs(1819).
Throssell(?) – see separately Richard & Josiah Quincey, 1851.
Tite, Mr & Mrs W.H. – p93 remembered by a seat on steep part of Church path.
Tolhurst, William – p143 gamekeeper in 1851 Census; wife & 2 children, not him, in 1861.
Tomlin, William – p37 Aldwincle publican. (See May Childs)
Trays, Wmn. Rob. – p90 Church Rector, after 1398 and before 1401.
Trevor, William – p90 Church Rector, 1747.
Tribou, Philip E – p190-91 An American serviceman, stationed at Lilford Hall from 1943-45, reminisces.
Tucker, Thomas(c1844-) – From Chichester; gardener living at Wadenhoe House Lodge in 1881 with wife Christine & 5 children.
Turland, Mary(c1866-) – domestic servant for Alfred D Hamilton, lawyer & tenant of Wadenhoe House in 1891.
Upchurch – see Smith 1871.
Upchurch, Ted - p169 village cricket team photo late 1920s.
Wagstaffe, Herbert – p119 in school photo, 1928.
Waldron, Victor Raymond(1911-1991) & wife Winifred Joyce(nee Saunders)(1912-1991) – memorial plaque on church wall; p93 remembered by a tree in Memorial Spinney (pre-1998).
Walpole, Daniel(c1671-1730) – son of Daniel & Elizabeth? Or query birthdate; p110 Gravestone.
Walpole, Elizabeth(c1636-1709) – wife of Daniel Walpole; p110 Gravestone.
Walsh, Jerome(c1876-1918) - born in Cork, Ireland , in about 1876, Jerome was a Grocer's Assistant in Cork in 1901, and a Grocer in Bristol, England by 1911; he must have moved to Wadenhoe for some reason and at the outbreak of WW1 he was in Oundle enlisting in the 6th Btn Northamptonshire Regiment; on 5th April 1918 he died in action on the Somme aged 42; he is on the Irish National Roll of Honour linking him to Oundle and The Northamptonshire Regiment; he was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal; he is remembered on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, Picardy, France; he is also remembered on Wadenhoe's War Memorials.
Walton, William(c1875-) – From Yelvertoft; 1911 a woodman with wife & 3 children.
Ward, Sir Edward(1638-1714) – English lawyer and judge, best known as the judge in the state trial for piracy of Captain Kidd in 1701;p63,133 Attorney General & Chief Baron of the Exchequer, he purchased the manor of Wadenhoe[& became Lord of the Manor] from John Bridges between 1703 & 1714; when he died his daughter Jane, who had married Thomas Hunt of Boreatton, Shropshire, inherited; buried at Stoke Doyle whose Lordship of the Manor he bought in 1694; his father having got permission from the Bishop of Peterborough, his eldest son, Edward, paid for the rebuilding of the rundown, oversized, Stoke Doyle church(1722-27) and erected in the vestry in 1725 a monument to his father by Flemish Belgian sculptor J.M.Rysbrack(1694-1770) who was to become one of the 3 leading sculptors in London from 1720’s-1740’s.
Ward, Jane(-1716)–with her husband inherited the Manor of Wadenhoe from her father Sir Edward Ward in 1714;married to Thomas Hunt of Boreatton,Shropshire in 1698, starting the Ward Hunt link.
Ward, Philip(c1845-) – From Achurch; widower woodman living in a Keepers Lodge in 1901 with daughter Ann Ward(1879).
Watson, Job(c1802-) – born Huntingdon; Oundle surgeon visiting Curate Hewgill at Rectory 1851.
Waver, John – p92 Church Warden, remembered on wooden carved wall memorial from 1686.
West of Multon, Tho. – p90 Church Rector, 1352.
West, William(c1826-) – Waggoner from Stoke Doyle in 1861 census.
Whiteroe, Robert(c1911-) – p96 bellringer of new peal in 1937; p196 remembered by Tony Attewell as having dug the only air raid shelter in the village, behind the school house, 9ft deep; 1939 Register with Joyce Whiterow + 1.
Whitney, Samuel Simpson – Census Enumerator in 1901, but not living in Wadenhoe.
Whitney, William(c1807-) - widower gardener from Isham at the Rectory for Abner E Brown in 1891.
Whitney, William B(c1789-) – retired farmer from Raunds in 1861 census.
Whyman – Surname in 1841/51/61 Census.
William – Surname in 1841 Census(see Porter).
Williams, Ann – p131 school photo, 1952.
Williams, Barry - p131 school photo, 1952.
Williams, Thomas(c1839-) – gardener from Kislingbury in 1871, with wife and 2 children.
Williamson, John(c1780-1801) – son of Thomas & Mary of Islip & Northampton; p109 Gravestone.
Willson or Wilson – Surnames in 1841Census (4 houses); 1851(5); 1861/71(6); 1881(5); 1891(4); 1901(3); 1911(1).
Willson/Wilson, Harriet R(c1850) – Milliner in 1871; daughter of William(1801) & Hannah(1803).
Willson/Wilson, John(c1829-) – son of Wm(1801); millwright 1861; widower millwright in 1891, with son-in-law ag lab William Morehen(1861) & daughter Charlotte(1867,nee Wilson), & their 3 children; [see Wilson, Charlotte(Lottie), mother of (see) Doris Morehen(1907-92)]; 1901 widower millwright with shepherd son-in-law Wm Morehen & Charlotte & their 5 children.
Willson/Wilson, William(c1801-) – Millwright in 1841/51/61/71/81; wife Hannah, 8 children.
Willson/Wilson, William(c1831-) – son of Wm(1801), carpenter 1851, millwright 1861; wife Sarah.
Willmott, Frederick(c1868-) – 1911 shepherd from Cotterstock, with wife Annie(1866) from Lincs.
Wilmot, Mrs – p199 remembered by Mary Attewell as living opposite her on Main Street, 1950s (corner with Pilton Lane?).
Wilson, Alan(1928-) – p122, & Ch7(p184-189) 1938-9 childhood evacuee reminiscences; with his mother stayed with distant relative Arthur Briggs, first between PO & Weathervane (cottage now gone), then in Pilton Lodge; got to Laxton Grammar School, Oundle & moved into vacant cottage(since demolished), one of pair on corner of Pilton & Main Roads next to Mrs Witten in Wadenhoe, in 1940(the return of the Wilson’s to the village); his father was a Warden & auxiliary fire fighter during the London blitz; went back to Hackney in 1946, & on to Nottingham University, leaving no Wilson’s in Wadenhoe again.
Wilson, Charlotte(c1839-1877) & husband John(c1837-1915) – p108 Graveyard; 1891 a John Wilson(1837) widower ag lab in Wadenhoe.
Wilson, Charlotte(Lottie)(1866) - p121 in school photo, 1870; married (see)William Morehen(1861); Doris Morehen(1908) was a daughter.
Wilson, George(c1792-1881) & Mary(c1797-1889) – p108 Graveyard; 1841/51 Millwright; 1861 he is recorded as a wheelwright(?), as is son Charles(1844); wife & daughter laundresses; 1871/81 Millwright.
Wilson, George Henry(c1859-1865) – p108 Graveyard; son of John & Jane.
Wilson, James & Mary - p135 tenants in 1822 to Thomas Hunt.
Wilson, John(c1835-) – son of Willliam(1793); 1881 widower ag lab living with father & his daughter Margret(1859) in a Wadenhoe Lodge; 1891 alone in a Lodge; 1901/11 widower woodman in a Lodge.
Wilson, Mary(c1827-) – p142 Wadenhoe born, kitchen maid to Thomas Hague at Wadenhoe House in 1851.
Wilson, Sarah(c1818-) – From Bedford; 83yr old widow living alone in 1901.
Wilson, Thomas – p184 grandfather of Alan Wilson evacuee, had moved to London from Wadenhoe about 50yrs earlier and become an ostler(looks after horses of people staying at an inn); his distant relative Arthur Briggs (& wife Amy) looked after Alan & his mother 1938-9.
Wilson, Wilby(c1863-) – gardener in 1891 census.
Wilson, William(c1793-) – pp140, 144 carpenter in 1841; wife Elisabeth(1795); son William(1825) carpenter 1851/61/71; grandson George S(1846) gasman; 1881 widower ag lab living with widower son John(1836) at a Wadenhoe Lodge.
Wilson, William(c1825-pre-1901) – son of William(1793); carpenter 1841/51/61/71/81; 1841/51 with wife Mary A(1826) & 2 children; 1861/71 wife & 7 children, son George S(1846) is gasman age 25; 1881 wife 2 children & a granddaughter; 1901 Mary A(1826) from Clopton is a widow living with relative Emma Plowright(1880).
Winden – see Samuel Smith, 1851; wheelwright.
Winfield, William Raymond(c1886-1961) and wife Maria(c1892-1969) – p107 Graveyard; 1939 Register + 5.
Winter, Charles Albert – p153 tenant of Wadenhoe House in late 1890s, but left before 1901.
Witten, Annie – reminiscences p179; as a child, moved with family from Islip to Wadenhoe(to a since demolished cottage on corner of Pilton & Main Roads) in 1926; her father helped Captain Wilfred Ward Hunt start the Mill working again; p128 remembers Mrs Daisy Ward Hunt taking the children in her car to Lilford and teaching them to swim, with a belt fixed to a pole(1920’s).
Witten, Les - p96 Tower Captain of bellringers (20thC).
Woodbridge, Frank & Violet – p207 Violet was Postmistress from 1954, when she took over from her mother, & until she had to give up due to illness in 1992, & her farming husband Frank took over the shop; in 1995 Violet received a 40yrs service to the Post Office certificate & gold watch(p207 photo).
Woodcock, Francis Stanley(-1959) & wife Lavinia(Molly)(-1971) – p110 Gravestone.
Woods, Philippa – Assistant editor of book ‘The Story of Wadenhoe’; a teacher of English & history & special needs, she moved to Wadenhoe in 1994, taking over as secretary of Wadenhoe History Group in 1997; assisted with geophysical survey of Church Hill.
Worrell, Charles(c1832-) – gamekeeper from Warwickshire, lodging with Henry Mayes in 1861.
Wythe, John – pp82-85 contributed “The Modern Architecture”; p204 designed 1-2 Mill Lane; p205 designed conversion of part of the redundant Home Farm cowsheds into 4 business units with one flat over; designed conversion of Glebe Farm to Glebe Close rented accommodation for people in housing need, & families moved in in 1993; lived in Wadenhoe since 1972, trained as a designer & architect, practised in Brigstock.
Young , George(1789-) – 1841 Census (Publican).
Young, Alfred – p150 Wadenhoe House butler, & census enumerator, in 1881.[see Alfred Long!]
