AU10/41/2

Notes by Andrew Underwood in answer to AU10/41/1; for some names no information is available or just general guesswork but the following are identified: - Dr.Foord Bowes: may be Rev.Thomas Fishford Bowes, Rector of Barton-le-Clay; - James Burrows: carpenter of Bedford Street, Ampthill, John Burrows being a builder; - Miss Cary: maybe a relative of Henry Francis Cary, translator of Dante and one of Ampthill's "Holland House circle"; - Rev.John Chapman: curate at Ampthill 1841-1846, son of Thomas Chapman senior; - Thomas Chapman senior: surgeon in Dunstable Street, Ampthill; - Thomas Chapman junior: son of Thomas senior and also a surgeon; - Harry Chapman: Henry Thomas Chapman, son of Thomas Chapman senior and himself a surgeon; had a son Henry Thomas Hugh (George, son of John Chapman is also noted as being in Ampthill in the 1850s, a non-practising surgeon and possibly a nephew of Thomas senior); - Miss Cox: probably Emma Cox/Coxe of Ampthill House, tenant of the Morris family; she had been Maid of Honour to Queen Adelaide; - Mr.Dubois: possibly Edward Dubois "one of the Holland House crowd"; - Mr. & Mrs.Edwin Eyre: Mrs.Eyre possibly the same as Sarah Eyres, tailor of Bedford Street; - Charles Gage Fitzroy and his wife Caroline Emily lived in Church Street, Ampthill, they were probably friends of Lord William Russell; - Henry Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer; - Major McQueen (15th Hussars): may be T.Potter Macqueen of Ridgmont House; - George Maule: Rector of Ampthill 1846-1875, a tractarian and the first incumbent to live in Ampthill "for generations"; - John Morris: of Ampthill House, brewer of Bedford Street, Ampthill; - Rev.William Pearce Nethersole: Rector of Pulloxhill and Clophill (1799-1843); - Rev.Edward A.Powell, curate of Ampthill 1835-1843, late Rector of Toft with Caldecote [Cambridgeshire]; - Captain Reader: lived at Ampthill House; - Edward Harris Strange: shopkeeper of Bedford Street, Ampthill, for a time in partnership with Charles May; corn merchant, tea dealer, currier, linen and woollen draper, tallow chandler, treasurer for savings bank, agent for Sharples & Company (bank), agent for County Fire Office; bankrupt by 1860; - Rev.Thomas Beech Whitehurst of Church Street, Ampthill, assisted the parish voluntarily though not a curate, his father was Vicar of Westoning; - Miss Zienecke: governess to the Whitehurst children; - Samuel Swaffield (1802-1863); born East Chelborough [Dorset] going to Ampthill in 1824 where he succeeded Benjamin Currey as agent for Lord Holland, also acted for others including John Thomas Brooks; married Harriet Nash Exton (1807-1867) in 1834, moving in to a cottage in Ampthill Park, now Park Farm; children Mary Emeline (1836-1848); Harriet Exton (b.1837); Henry Richard James (1839-1909) married Emmeline Jepson (1842-1922); Benjamin George (1842-1898) married Eliza Annie Smith (1839-1928) - Andrew Underwood's grandparents; Samuel John (b.1846); Alice (1846-1926); Edward (b.1846)

1986

From: 1800 To: 1986

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Underwood, Andrew Grimmer,
Morgan, Richard S.,
Bowes, Thomas Fish Foord,
Burrows, James,
Burrows, John,
Cary, Henry Francis,
Holland, Henry Richard (Vassall) Fox, 3rd Baron,
Dante,
Chapman, John,
Chapman, George,
Chapman, Thomas,
Chapman, Henry Thomas,
Chapman, Henry Thomas Hugh,
Cox, Emma,
Adelaide of Saxe-Coburg and Meinengen [Queen of William IV],
Dubois, Edward,
Eyres, Sarah,
Fitzroy, Charles Gage,
Fitzroy, Caroline Emily,
Russell, William,
Goulburn, Henry,
Macqueen, Thomas Potter,
Maule, George,
Morris, John,
Nethersole, William Peirse,
Powell, Edward A.,
Reader,
Strange, Edward Harris,
May, Charles,
Sharples & Company,
County Fire Office,
Whitehurst, Thomas Beach,
Zienecke,
Swaffield, Samuel,
Currey, Benjamin,
Brooks, John Thomas,
Exton, Harriet Nash,
Swaffield, Harriet Nash,
Swaffield, Mary Emmeline,
Swaffield, Harriet Exton,
Swaffield, Henry Richard James,
Swaffield, Emmeline,
Swaffield, Benjamin George,
Swaffield, Eliza Annie,
Swaffield, Samuel John,
Swaffield, Alice,
Swaffield, Edward,
Jepson, Emmeline,
Smith, Annie Eliza

Ampthill Park Farm, specific marriages, clergy names index, carpenter, builder, surgeon, royal household, tailor, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Exchequer, 15th Hussars, brewer, corn merchant, tea dealer, currier, linen draper, woollen draper, tallow chandler, banks, Sharples & Company, County Fire Office, BANKRUPTCY, governess, land agent, AMPTHILL, Holland House, Ampthill Dunstable Street, Ampthill Bedford Street, Ampthill Church Street, Ampthill House, BARTON-LE-CLAY, RIDGMONT, Ridgmont House, PULLOXHILL, CLOPHILL, Toft, Caldecote [Cambridgeshire], WESTONING, East Chelborough, Ampthill Park