The Grange Old Windsor

[mew64]

Hi, I've just found one of my ancestors Lizzie Piggins (born Whaplode Lincolnshire 1885)  on the 1911 census, she was working as a housemaid at The Grange, Old Windsor. I've looked at the pages before & after the one she's on to try & find out who owned the house or lived there, with no luck so far. The page that gives the name & address says 'The Bothy, The Grange' & it's all other servants listed, it had 42 rooms. All that I found online so far is that The Grange was all that remained of the original castle from King Edward 1's times. Any ideas would be great please.

[KGarrad]

Searching a history of Old Windsor website, this page suggests that a Hon. Lady Murray was living there in 1914?

http://www.o2have.uwclub.net/history/detailpics/grange.htm

She was also living there according to a 1898 directory.
So it seems pretty certain that she was living there in 1911!

Also this snippet:
NEWTON COURT, the large building in Burfield Road which accommodates the King Edward VII Hospital nurses training school, was a mansion called The Grange, and was the home at the beginning of this century of the Hon. Lady Murray.

Built early in the 18th century, it was originally known as the White House and then as Old Windsor Lodge. One of its earliest owners was Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

In the 1930's it became the Newton Court Hotel. At the beginning of the war it was used for a time by the London and Manchester Assurance Company.

[cath151]

Hi
Probate for Honorable Lady Edith Susan Esther Murray of the Grange,Old Windsor
Berkshire.
Widow died 1 Dec 1906 (France)
To Charles James Murray and one other.

Cathy

[mew64]

Wow that was quick! Thanks so much for your help both of you.

[jc26red]

I believe it was converted into posh flats about 15-20 years ago, though there appears to still be a medical center in there.

How do I know?

oops wrong house, my aunt lives next to the other big house on the same side of the road.  I don't think the old house is still there though.  It was behind the Fox and Hound pub, which is still there  but the Grange site was redeveloped about 20 years or so ago

[jc26red]

Edward VII hospital ceased to be a mainstream hospital many years ago. Mainly clinics but no overnight stays.

[KGarrad]

From another source:
The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland .. (Volume ed.59, yr.1919)

MURRAY, Charles James, Esq., of Loch-
carron, Ross-shire.

Elder and only surviving son of the Right Hon. Sir
Charles Augustus Murray, K.C.B. (2nd son of George,
5th Earl of Dunmore), of The Grange, Old Windsor,
who d. 1895, by his 1st wife Elizabeth, who d. 1851,
dau. of the late James Wadsworth, Esq., of Genesco,
New York; b. 1851; ?n. 1875 Lady Anne Francesca
Wilhelmine Finch, only dau. of Heneage, 6th Earl of
Aylesford, and has, with a dau., a son, * Charles Wads-
worth, b. 1894. Mr. Murray, who was educated at
Eton and was formerly in the Diplomatic Service, and
Lieut.-Col. Highland R.G.A. Vols., was M.P. for Hast-
ings 1880-3, and for Coventry 1895-1 906, and is a D.L.
for Ross-shire, Major ret., late Coram. Ross and Cro-
marty Battery, 4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade,
R.G.A., T.F., and was temp. Major (Special Staff
Appointment) with the Army in France 1917-18. —
Lochcarron, Ross-shire ; Carlton Club, s.w.