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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Wiltshire => Topic started by: Milliepede on Wednesday 22 April 09 22:47 BST (UK)
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Has anyone heard of the above or know when it was demolished? My father remembers it from his boyhood in the 1930's but we haven't been able to find any photographs or history of it.
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8)Millipede, Having lived in Stratton [upper and Lower]for too many years!! I have never heard of this Farm!! If your dad could give idea of rough position in the Parish then I will try to find out,I have many friends with farms,and long memories!!
Farmers surname would help,there are very few original farming families living now in the business,let alone doing family history.
The only farm in mind is NYTHE,now a Housing estate,the most southerly in the Parish, farmed by a Mrs HYDE during WW2 with a son and dau in law who had a son John Hyde who I would like to get in touch with [last seen years ago playing Aunt Sally in Langford [Glos] many years ago!!.
Allen
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Hi there :)
Apparently it was one of the two biggest houses in the village, the other being the Boundary House which I'm sure you know in Beechcroft Road. I remember peering through the keyhole at the dilapidation inside when I was a kid and longing to get inside to explore. My grandparents actually lived at the top when my father was a child.
Anyway I digress! Neat House he has always referred to it as in the past but said Neat was an old word for cattle? and it was a farmhouse but obviously I can't confirm that. It was half way along Dores Road I imagine on the left going down from the Boundary House end and was demolished, must have been in the 1930's he thinks, and Orchard Grove would be where it used to be.
Hope you can find out something about it. I will ask if he knows the name of anyone that lived there.
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I have Neate in my family line who were from Malmesbury in Wilts. Perhaps we have a connection somewhere along the line.
This is what I discovered about the name Neate;
This interesting surname is a variant of Neat, which is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and is from a metonymic occupational name for a herdsman in charge of cattle, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble an ox (this may have referred to a strong man). The name is derived from the Middle English (1200 - 1500) "neat", ox, cow, from the Olde English pre 7th Century "neat".
If you are interested, maybe look up my Neate thread and see if we share any common family.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,340810.msg2197935.html#msg2197935
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There we go then it is to do with cattle!
I don't actually have any connections to the name I am just interested in the building and what it looked like :)
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Little bit more info. Nobody was living there in the mid 1930's as it was a derelict property that children played in. Behind it was an orchard hence the name one presumes Orchard Grove which was built on the land.
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Another!! ever heard of Neatsfoot Oil? used by carpenters on their oilstones when sharpening tools, extracted from Tripe by all accounts when cooking,ties up with Neat.
On the right hand side of Orchard Grove half way approx is a small track, there at the end is a very old house still!! with an overgrown orchard,it looks derelict but some persons evidently reside in it I am told,until I was working in a garden abutting the orchard and had never noticed it before!
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hi. Sorry , made from the shins and feet [not hooves] of cows, as the fat in these areas have a lower gelling temperature. used mainly for leather treatment, ie; saddles etc. my grandfather used to rub it in his hands to alleviate the chaps he used to get from his job as a blacksmiths striker. john.
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Hi, just looking and saw about the farm house at the end of dores road are you still looking for information? as there is a picure of it in stratton publication but the farm has long gone as my house is one of 3 built on the site if your interested i wil try and find out the owners names for you.
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Hi yes still interested, would love to see a picture of it. Which stratton publication is it in?
As an aside I remember the boundary house well, as a child I used to peer through the letter box as it was mysterious and dilapidated inside at the time. My family used to live at the top of it long before it was redone.
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Sounds like it could be Upper Stratton Farm
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Hi....little bit of the past to do with Neate House.....
In 1901 on the main Kingsdown Road sits Boundary House occupied by one Henry King a coach builder and his family....next door is a coachbuliders yard and then a number of smaller houses and also the Methodist Chapel. The road has now become Dores Road, again with a number of smaller dwellings, after which comes Neate House. Living in the house is Mr Edward J Hood from Middlesex, an Engine painter with the Great Western Railway, his Wife Mary and two sons Josiah 35, who is a photo artist and Frederick 29, an engine painter like his father aslo working for GWR. I will see if i can find anything out after this date.
kind regards Cheryle
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Hi again....Same family still living in Neate House in 1911. Mr Hood Senior by now is 78 years old and still working as a Coach Painter!! One son left in the house who is a Photographer. This info also shows that Mr and Mrs Hood had 10 children during their married life, two of which had died.
Regards Cheryle
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Hello Again.....Same family in Stratton in 1881, though the area/road was called Stratton Green and in 1891 they were there again although everything was marked under Upper Stratton with no individual Houses/Farms etc made note of. So looks like they could possibly have been in that same house through all those years . Now just need someone with some info on the latter years for you......
Cheryle :)
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Just one more.... :) 1871...Edward Hood, his wife Mary and there eight children all living in Stratton St Margaret in the home of his In Laws the Greenaways and Mr Greenaway is a Retired Farmer!!
Regards Cheryle
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:'( ....Looks like it once could have been a working farm and then all they were left with was the house???.....from the National Archives...1850-1888 Bills of Sales being Mortgages raised on Goods 1879...Household Goods, Live and dead stock of William Greenaway, Stratton St Margaret , Farmer......
Cheryle
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;D ;D Ah....and we come full circle...and i'm off to bed...in 1861
Nythe Farm....Stratton St Margaret
Thomas Greenaway Head M 69 Retired Farmer Rodbourne Cheney Wilts( Looks like he was a Thomas/William)
Mary greenaway Wife 69 Oxon Brize Norton
Edward J Hood Son Law 28 Coach Painter Middsex
Mary Hood Dau 32 Stratton
William J Hood G Son 3 Stratton
Henry F Hood GSon '' ''
regards Cheryle
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oops...Sorry Thomas's wifes name is Ann not Mary.....
and in 1851 Thomas Greenaways Nythe Farm was 56 Acres............and its goodnight from her!! ;)
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Wow thanks very much for all that information cheryle :)
Unfortunately the picture isn't it karen but thanks for posting :) It was a tall building like the boundary house and was nearer the Beechcroft Road end rather than the Green Road end. Where did that picture come from? I am very interested in old photographs of Stratton.
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There was a picture of Dores Rd too.
The booklet is called Stratton in Camera. by F Fuller.