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Hoe Place part five

The names of those who lived in the house between 1851 and 1901 are recorded in the censuses of those years and also in Early Woking Buildings published by the West Surrey Family History Society and the Update to that booklet. These returns refer to the Clock House and Lodge in 1861, Hoe Lodge and Hoe Tower in 1871, Coach-yard and Lodge in 1881, Lodge in 1891 and Hoe Place Farm, Hoe Place Garden and Hoe Place Lodge in 1901. The Lodge may be taken to refer to the lodge at the now blocked old gateway and Clock House, Hoe Tower, Coach-yard and Hoe Place Garden as being parts of the detached outbuildings. Hoe Place Farm is most likely the farm across the road at Hoe Bridge House.

 

1901

·            Frank Booth, stockbroker, his wife Florence, their children, S A W (s) undergraduate Oxford, L C S (s) undergraduate Oxford, M W (d) , H T (d), G M (d), M C (d), L E (s), J L (s), and H C (d), a visitor, R H Hooper and their servants, F Pike, nursery governess, Clara Blandford, cook, Louisa Smith, nurse, Mary Winter, housemaid, Amy Knapp, housemaid, Kate Page, parlour maid and Ellen Bond, laundress.

·            George Partner, coachman, his wife Annie and their children, Edith, Ethel and              Frederick.

·            Hoe Place Farm William Tickner, stockman, his wife Sylvia, their children, Maude, Margaret and Annie and a visitor, Henry Gurney.

·            Hoe Place Garden Herbert Scutt, gardener.

·            Hoe Place Lodge Henry Clark, gardener, his wife Louisa and their daughter,              Irene

 

1919-5 Frank HA Booth 1926-7 Capt W Sinker, GG Hunt 1936-39 Capt W Sinker principal 1948-57 Mrs MB Sinker principal  1964-9 Hoe Place Preparatory School for Boys

1919-6 The Bothy F Cox

1919-5 The Lodge C Tester 1926 The Lodge  J Ottaway 1927-8 The Lodge AE Ottaway 1930 The Lodge G Jones 1931 The Lodge FG Sales 1948-9 The Lodge F Urry 1969 The Lodge DF Urry

 

Mrs Bracey-Cox remembers in the Kingfield & Westfield Women’s Institute scrap book of 1949, Band of Hope meetings being held at Hoe Place and being taken by a Miss Wainwright. The scrap book, now in the care of the Surrey History Centre) goes on to mention that the house was converted for use as a boarding school for boys from the age of six to thirteen and a half years in 1926 under Captain Sinker who was succeeded by his son Mr Philip Sinker. Two years ago, the school had a total capacity of 68 boys, though there are slightly fewer today (1949).

 

Ian Simpson of Friends of Surrey cemeteries writes:

 

“In plot 9 of Brookwood Cemetery there is a headstone which reads:

 

Until the day break and shadows flee away. In loving memory of Captain William Sinker headmaster of Hoe Place Preparatory School for boys, Old Woking, Surrey. Formerly Commander of the Melanesian Mission Steam Yacht Southern Cross. Died April 15th 1940 aged 66. Peace perfect peace.

The records show that he died at the school and was buried on 17th April
and a R Sinker officiated. Also in the records is a Marion Beatrice Sinker who died at Grange Nursing Home, St Anns Hill, Chertsey and was buried on 24 Aug 1960 aged 85.

I presume M B was his wife but do not know where she was buried - she could well be with him even though the headstone does not have her name on it.”                                

 

Sources as indicated plus

 

Woking Palace, Henry VIII’s Royal Palace, a guide to the Palace.

 

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