I’m posting this again as I’m not sure it really worked as part of my weekly newsletter. It seems I need to post extra content separately otherwise my emails become way too long. So, apologies if you’ve already seen this. Each week I’ll be publishing some extra content for paid subscribers, things like how-to guides, videos, budgets and extra information about the house. Meanwhile, the renovation journal will continue as normal and remain free to everyone. This week I’ll be writing more about the history of the house. We’re now back to the age of the Ashdowns and some maps from 1881 and 1839.
So far we’ve traced the house history back to Colonel Sowaby and his whiskey heiress wife Muriel in 1913. You can read the last instalment here. We now turn to the census records to see who lived here before then and we come to the age of the Ashdowns. The Ashdowns were the land agents for the estate for three generations and there were a lot of them who lived here.
The most recent was Augustus Ashdown who was here for the 1911 and 1901 census. He was married to Emmeline and had at least six
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