Postcards of Bucks

[Firstome]

Hi Daniel,
Oh yes Knotty Green is well known to me but I am getting a bit old to remember exactly.  Knotty Green is between Penn and Beaconsfield.  My parents lived there when very first married and so did my aunt and uncle and my cousin June was born there.
Lovely tiny place.  My parents must have married um ... about 1931 and aunt and uncle 1928.
I wish I could see your album too Daniel.  Are you certain there is no address at all if you look at the actual census page?  I have gone forward and back on the pages and found close relatives living nearby that way.

Do you know?  I remember the name Bates.  I wonder if my parents rented rooms from the Bates when first married?
Oh I love chatting!  Thank you.  Ann

[Firstome]

Can't get into Ancestry at the moment, but when i can, I will post back here, regarding the ING's

Hi Daisy Loo,
Oh how wonderful!  Surely we are related as Radnage was only a small village.  Do you have a surname to give me a clue?
Ancestry.com is going to be a bit dodgy tomorrow as they say they are carrying out renovation of the site.  They only did this a week or so ago! grrrr
I will tell you some of the names that cross in my Ing family....
Cowley, Saunders, Stratford, Collins, Keen Rofe or Rolfe, Crowe, Rothwell, Piggot, Morsnell  Stephens and Scott ... and on and on LOL
The suspense is killing me Daisy Loo
Ann

[Firstome]

West Wycombe Hill and Penn street (postcards dated WWH 1925 and Penn 14 Dec 1914)

Oh Daniel, do you know that Penn Street is a completely different village from Penn.  Penn Street is a severa miles away and has its own church.  It is closer to Amersham.
You probably know, but thought I would make it clear too.
Me as a little girl dressed in white at my aunty's wedding in Penn Church.

[Daisy Loo]

okay...this has surprised me...not on my Hillsdon line at all. (which is my father's) but on my mother's side.  Elizabeth PAYNE was my GGG-Grandmother, she was born 1834 in Chesham, her older sister, Sarah Payne (b.1826) married a THOMAS ING b.1826, Chesham, Bucks

[Firstome]

Hi Cousin, (maybe or maybe not)
Well, perhaps we are cousins.  Do you know if your Thomas Ing b 1826 was born in Radnage?  Were his parents Charlotte Seymour and Thomas Ing?

I have a story if we have the same Thomas Ing Daisy Loo

Thomas Ing and Charlotte Seymour  both born Radnage 1807 married 13.10.1827 at Stokenchurch.

To my knowledge, they had eleven children and one of these was Thomas Ing.  Another was James who was my great grandfather.  His twin was John.

Charlotte, their mother had her baby boy 28 Apr 1848 but she and her baby were buried 18 June 1848.

James, John the twin eleven year olds together with Alfred and Edwin (aged 6 and 4 according to the authorities), but I have my doubts on these ages.  Well, all four boys were put in Bledlow Workhouse.  They stayed until finishing their schooling.

Their father had a lot of children to cope with upon the death of his wife.  I have had difficulty tracking down the girls as they go into service or marry before the next census.  Now, I have Thomas down as marrying an Eleanor Cowley  in 1865 in West Wycombe so it could be the wrong family.  I have a child called Thomas born 1879

My great grandad came out of the workhouse and was a servant in the local public house.  The landlord of that pub was a Jeremiah Lacey and his wife Freedom  nee Buckland.  They also employed Freedom's sister, Tryphena Buckland in the pub
Tryphena married James Ing 3 June 1865 in Princes Risborough Bucks.  They were my great grandparents and Freedom and Tryphena came from Romany stock, being daughters of Timothy Turnit Buckland and granddaughters of Doctor Buckland born Bledlow 1769.
Ann

[dsjturner]

Hi Firstome!
                   No i didn't know Penn and Penn street were different! Thank you for advising me it may help with headaches in the future!
I have had a look on the 1891 census and it says Village of Penn in the rural sanitary district of Amersham. It lists their address as Forty Green, but seeing as my local knowledge is non-existent i'm not sure whether that is the street name or a place name of a small hamlet maybe. Unfortunately all relatives of the Bates and those who knew them have passed away apart from my Mother, but I will ask if she knew about the familly renting out rooms and see what she remembers! I'lll also try and put some photo's up of some of the Bates in case it jogs any memories!!
Daniel

[dsjturner]

Photo's as Promised! First one is of my Great grandparents Joseph William and Mary Kate Bates.
The second is of L-R 2nd row my Grandfather and Great Grandfather 1st row my Mother, Grandmother and Great grandmother.
Firstome my grandmother Was Kathleen Winifred Bates and i would imagine her to be around your generation!

[dsjturner]

More Bates!! L-R 'Sis' Bates (not sure of her real name she was always called Sis!, Alice Bates and Emily Bates.

[Firstome]

Hi Daniel, 
I have copied your pictures and I will print and send to my cousin June.  June is 79 and she was born in Forty Green, between Penn and Beaconsfield.  Funny enough they lived a few doors away there and then my aunt and uncle and June moved to Beaconsfield and were actually next door but one to my parents!  June may remember but the name Bates rings  a bell with me as Mum would talk about their first maritial home.
You are right, Forty Green is a little hamlet half way between Beaconsfield and Penn.  I know the house where my parents rented rooms was pointed out to me years ago.
Penn Street is another village and is closer to Amersham.  Penn Street has its own church and my neice was married there.
I am away on holiday at the moment, so do not have a printer around.  Ann