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The Old Manor House part two |
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Manning and Bray MB (p142, vol.I) say that the Manor of Woking Rectory was in the possession of Lord Aungier and that it descended on his death in 1632 to Gerald, Lord Aungier his son and from him who died in April 1655 to Francis his nephew who on 18th December 1677 was created Earl of Longford.
On 15th July 1682 the Manor passed to Maximilian Emily of Chilworth and remained in the possession of that family, finally being inherited by the Rev Edward Emily of West Clandon in 1762. On his death in 1792 he devised the estate to the then Bishop of Salisbury in who in turn sold the manor to Henry Halsey of Henley Park in 1800. MB There is a memorial to the Emily family in St Peter’s.
These records fit very nicely with the estimated construction date of the Parsonage towards the end of the 17th century and the abandonment of Woking Palace and the reuse of materials for building in the village.
1841 · Susannah Bowles and Richard Stedman, maltster. · Town Street, not necessarily in the Manor House William Ross, schoolmaster, Sarah possibly his wife and another William, a compositor and probably his son. · With William Ross Valentine Blake surgeon, George Reynolds printer and Ethelred Thomas compositor plus two visitors, Mary Williamson and Alexander probably her son. 1851 possibly at the Old Manor House · William Ross, schoolmaster and registrar of births and deaths, his wife Mary and a servant, Sarah Hardy and a young cousin, Henry Rumsey plus two visitors, William Jeffrey and Peter Lely both described as annuitants. 1861 High Street · William Ross, his three young children, William, Mary and Fanny. and his sister in law, Emma Lucas, assistant in school. 1871 High Street · William Ross, his children, William, assistant in the school, Mary and Fanny and his sister in law, Emma Lucas housekeeper plus a domestic servant, Mary Ann West. There were eleven boarders at the school. 1881 Old Manor House. · William Ross, his son William and daughter Mary both teachers and his sister in law Emma Lucas housekeeper. The younger daughter Fanny is the domestic. There are 12 boarders 1891 · William Ross, his daughters Mary and Fanny and his sister in law Emma Lucas · Catherine Gristock, widow and her three sons, John, George and William and daughter Eliza · Charles Southin, widower and gardener and his two daughters, Matilda and Holly Elizabeth Rachel Southin wife of Charles was buried at St Peter’s on 20th March 1890. 1901 High Street · Mary Ross, school teacher, her sister Fanny, living on own means and their aunt, Emma Lucas, living on own means.
©Phillip Arnold 2007
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