Neat Farmhouse Stratton Swindon

[Milliepede]

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.

[karen13]

Sounds like it could be Upper Stratton Farm

[cheryle.f]

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

[cheryle.f]

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

[cheryle.f]

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

[cheryle.f]

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

[cheryle.f]

  ....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

[cheryle.f]

  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

[cheryle.f]

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!!