Reference
X325/137
Title
Book of memoranda relating to F Gurney’s family – miscellaneous.
Began Buckinghamshire pedigree in 1899
Date free text
Undated
Production date
From: 1891 To: 1947
Scope and Content
Includes family names as indexed, transcriptions of headstones and extracts from parish registers, newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards and drawings. Latter end of bound book has information on Gurneys not obviously related to the family in the fashion of a one name study. Index of places mentioned at back of book.
Photographs and clippings interleaved page 65-66:
- Headstone of Robert Gurney at Soulbury, taken 1904
- Newspaper article Daily Mail 30 Oct 1901 re divorce of Richard Malcolm Gurney & Annie Elizabeth Webster Gurney
- Will Rose at Ascott
- Mary Gurney and nephew Alfred John Gurney c1904 / 1905
- Postcard of Soulbury church (war memorial)
- Postcard of Soulbury church with details on reverse of family members buried there and the location of graves
- Postcards of Adam's 'Bulls at work' Hockliffe
Photographs and drawings interleaved page 75-76:
- Ink silhouette drawing of F Gurney and brother 'Bob' at Ivinghoe c 1902 and two dogs by another brother E T Gurney
- Postcard of thatched cottage with man and horse and cart to the right. Location unknown, postally unused. Published by W F Piggott, Leighton Buzzard c1902
- Postcard of man overlooking a pond with trees in background. Details on back "The ancient mill-pond Southcott alias Surcott, Linslade c.1903. Published by W F Piggott, Leighton Buzzard
- Pencil sketch of "my brother Will Gurney hard at work. Somewhere about 1899 or 1900"
Photographs and illustrations interleaved page 79-80:
- Photograph of Frederick Gurney
- Cardboard backed watercolour of Soulbury Church
- Black ink drawing of three crows on half charcoal drawing (top half missing / not deposited)
- Photograph of Wing Church before the restoration in 189[-]
- Scrap of paper sent from parish clerk of Linslade with death dates for Sarah Johnson and William Johnson both of Southcott
Letter interleaved page 95 - 96:
- Letter from F Gurney regarding the relatives of Mr John Prentice, son of John and Martha Prentice (Frederick Gurney's great-grandparents)
Clipping interleaved page 99 - 100:
- Dated Jan 1912, re: golden wedding of Mr & Mrs Edward North Buxton of Nuckhurst Hill, Essex, presumably retained as they were sent a telegram by Sir Somerville & Lady Gurney and Sir Eustace & Lady Gurney
Loose page and drawing interleaved page 103 - 104:
- Transcribed information on the Prentices from the Wing parish register dated 1654 - 1683 and small family tree
- Pencil drawings "by my sister Winnie" of herself and sister Mollie in 1898. Drawing on back of W Gurney [Will?] dated 1895
Several items loose in book behind back cover:
- Two images of creator of book Frederick Gurney c1892 taken by friend R G Norman Hoather in his garden at High Wycombe, one is card backed, both in small envelope
- Two identical images (one cut into a circle) of 'Lakey' at Ascott with a deceased owl.
- Man at door of house with bushes and flowering ivy / climber up house wall "Myself (Fred G Gurney at the door of my brother Will's house at Mursham Norfolk, 1906"
- Small white envelope with name Sarah Lines on inside of flap. Inside is a plain white card with Mrs G S Brown printed on it
- Letter from 'John' of Ellesborough Manor to F Gurney dated 18 April 1925
- Postcard of St Marys Church Old Linslade, undated unused
- Letter from 'Sis' at Sunnyside, Wing to F Gurney posted 8 Dec 1938
- Letter to Mrs Yorke Dec 1875 referring to the birth of F Gurney
- Notes on Wing church plate
- Transcribed inventory of church goods at Cheddington from 1552 and attached speech [presumably given by F Gurney] when opening an exhibition on the church. Undated
Level of description
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