The world-famous SNOOKs of Lymington

[B.E.]

There seem to have been more Snooks in Lymington than there are currently Patels in the whole of India (and when they had their kids they were only ever given half-a-dozen names to choose from)!!

I'm now off to study the Balches.

[B.E.]

Doesn't look like the same bunch of Snooks to me. Thanks for the idea. My mother-in-law tells me that Snook (also Snooke and Snooks) is a derivative of "Sevenoaks", therefore they're probably scattered far and wide.

Anyone know if Bridge Street, Bath Road and Slabro(?) Street in Lymington still exist? Or where they once were?

(I'm in Basingstoke - too darn wet and far to hop in the car and find out for myself!)

[Little Nell]

I was simply trying to say that until you verify the facts, you cannot be 100% certain of anything!  Yes Charlotte senior seems to have died in 1865, but what if Henry married again after that and second wife died too by 1871 - it could have happened!  Let the daughters be innocent until proven guilty!

Snooks - very common in Hampshire and Wiltshire.

Location of streets in Lymington - if you really don't want to move, try either
http://www.streetmap.co.uk

or

http://www.multimap.com

Otherwise, I'm sure Basingstoke Library will have a Hampshire A-Z atlas.

Nell

[B.E.]

Nell,
OK, I'm duly exposed as a lazy old ***!! It's just difficult trying to do all this AND have a life (AND earn a living) at the same time...

I agree that all of us should be assumed innocent until proven guilty. Therefore, I'm happy to assume that Henry's second wife (also called Charlotte?) died in childbirth, but that Charlotte Jnr (Mark 2) survived. But, no, I don't have any evidence of the second marriage. And speculation about in-breeding and deflowering by the local squire is far more entertaining, don't you think?

And I was hoping there might be some contributors from Lymington who might be able to shed more light than multimap on what these roads were like back in Victorian times.
Cheers,
Brian

[Little Nell]

It's just difficult trying to do all this AND have a life (AND earn a living) at the same time...

  spoken like a man...... 

You could also have a look at:

http://www.old-maps.co.uk

19th century OS maps.  The Lymington area is a little difficult to read in places but you will get the general idea.

Nell

[B.E.]

Ow, that hurt!!

As it happens, I'm just about to deliver a lecture on multithreading (aka multitasking) to my class. I generally start with the (pathetic) joke that it's a topic the blokes aren't meant to be able to understand...

[B.E.]

I can find Bath Rd on the old map, but neither of the other two locations. Anybody know whether Bridge Rd was once called Bridge St? Or is it a census enumerator problem?

[Lesanne]

  Have you looked at Snooks Lane and Snooks Farm?
       East of Lymington, near Walhampton.
   It's on old maps.   

[B.E.]

Emma (or anyone else interested)...

re Your earlier findings for me, we've now managed to get hold of the birth certificate of Walter Martell Snook. It seems to show that the address in the 1991 census wasn't Slabro Street, but Station Street.

Is it possible that Charlotte Snook's maiden name (m. Henry Snook 1848) was Martell rather than Martill? We're trying to work out where Walter Martell Snook got his middle name from.
Cheers,
Brian