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Sutton Place part two |
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1841 The second John Joseph Webb-Weston became the owner of Sutton Place in 1840 but there is no trace of the house in the 1841 census returns. 1851 Algernon Hicks, farmer of 35 acres employing three labourers, his wife the Countess Dowager of Waldegrave and his step daughters, the Lady Horatia Webb Weston (the widow of the second John Joseph Webb-Weston) and the Lady Ida Webb Weston (her sister) plus Mary Jones cook, Cotton Christian name illegible and Mary Woodward both lady's maids, Ellen Pervis and Elizabeth Lee, housemaids, Sarah Marshall kitchen maid, Thomas Goddard and Charles Bond, footmen, George West and William Trott, coachmen and John Cousin page. 1861 Sutton House. The owner was now Francis Henry Salvin at the time a serving militia officer John GS Lefevre, clerk and his two unmarried daughters, Maria LS and Mary EJ, Eliza Kemp, housemaid, Annie Potter, cook, Mary Taylor, undermaid, James Denyer, page and George West, gardener. 1871 The tenant was Caledon Alexander who must have been away from home Four children, Margaret Alexander and her siblings, William Mark, Eveline and Reginald plus a visitor from France, Jernnie Lunusine The enumerator obviously had trouble with the spelling Ellen Eliza Thomson governess, Hannah Cleare nurse, Sarah Hannah Boutale nursemaid, Elizabeth May Pittman, Susan Walpole, Caroline Mary Punter and Jane Millard housemaids, Esther Biggs kitchen maid and Sarah Chambers scullery maid John Grist butler, Alfred Gunner hall boy and Alfred Millard, footman James Cabbe, coachman and his wife Mary, William West groom, Isaac Wardle stable boy and Charles Michaelbarow and James Davis stablemen 1874 Frederick Harrison became tenant qv The Catholics of Sutton Park 1881 There was no recorded tenant. Captain Salvin lived at Whitmoor House. Thirza Vincent, housekeeper, her son Frederick, daughter Ethel, dairy maid Emmeline Smith, and two grooms, Charles Cooper and Samuel J. Hoare. 1882 Sidney Harrison succeeded his father as tenant qv The Catholics of Sutton Park. 1891 Again, there was no recorded tenant. Captain Salvin still lived at Whitmoor House. John Bishop, gardener and his wife Susanna, caretaker plus two grooms, William Kent and William Gibbs. 1900 Albert Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe was the tenant from now 1901 Although Sutton Place is not shown in this census, the following may have lived in the grounds Sutton House Henry Painter, gardener and his wife, Jane Sutton Park Lodge John Jackman, coachman, his wife, Mary and his children, John, Ambrose, Albert, groom, Cuthbert, Frank and granddaughter, Alberta.
1918-57 Duke of Sutherland WNM
Philip Witham who inherited the estate in 1904 and who sold it to the Duke of Sutherland in 1918 lived at Whitmoor House. His wife continued to live there after he died in 1921 until she too died in 1945. |
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This photograph of the North Front is taken from St Edward’s, Sutton Park, Guildford mentioned below |