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This is one several pages provided as a vehicle for posting questions related to Bagshot people and families that other readers might be able to answer. The index to these is here. Please scroll down to the message pad to ask a question or provide an answer.

If you are seeking genealogical information about your ancestors then look at the page entitled "looking for your roots" where I tell you where the old church records are archived, and offer some further suggestions and information sources to help your search. I am not able to provide any information from such old records or to conduct research on your behalf.

I have another page for general questions about Bagshot.

Vickery

From Australia: I am researching Vickery but have an Elizabeth Vickery who married a Richard Berry in 1797 in Farnham but lived in Crondall/Crookham and moved to Bagshot around 1806. I have both their birth, their marriage, and their 9 children's birth. I also have quite a bit of information on Richard from the Crondall Overseers Accounts including payments to Bagshott Parish for the family. If anyone has any information on this family itself I would be interested in exchanging info. 538.605 Please reply using the message pad below 7033.407

Vince

Sharon writes: I have been told that my great grandmother, Alice Vince was a Sunday School teacher at the chapel in Bagshot. I wondered if anyone can confirm this. I think it would have been around the 1820's - 1850's.

York (Yorke)

Richard is looking for any contact with the York(e) family who owned the Yorkes Sweet Shop (now an Estate Agent) next to the Chemists and opposite the old Biscuit Factory (Clock) in the High Street in the 1950's. Please reply using the message pad below

Watts

From Australia : I believe my g.g.g.grandfather James John Joseph Watts was born in Bagshot on 22/4/1799. Can anyone comment on this. I have sent for parish records through LDS records. 6110.906 Please reply using the message pad below.

Alan Edwards was able to add: I know a Jack Watts ran the old Fighting Cocks at the turn of 19/20 century or later, then in Lantern Cottage,College Ride. His decendents were Richard [Dick] Jack, Freda & Win. All are now deceased. Dick's son still lives locally and another in Oxfordshire. I was married to his late daughter. 7109.207

Waterers

Al writes from Canada looking for information on his family roots in Bagshot and Woking ... any information of the Waterer family would be appreciated. Can you help, or perhaps are you a member of the family and would like to contact Al. 320

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Webb, Champion

The 1871 census lists Mary A Champion (widowed nurse born about 1816 in Farnham, Surrey) and Kate Webb (domestic servant, single born about 1855 in Frimley Surrey) among those in the household of Michael Waterer (retired nurseryman born about 1825), Belle Vue House, Bagshot. Ann Sargeant would like to contact from anyone with knowledge of Mary or Kate. 688.606

Cherry writes: I believe that Mary Champion may have been one of the witnesses at the marriage of Richard Mason (Snr) to Frances Humfrey on 23 July 1868 at Bloomsbury in London. Richard was a nursery owner in Windlesham at the time. The other witness was a Mary Cox. 7084.1107

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Webster

Margaret has written looking for information on John and Ellen Webster who lived in Windlesham in the late 1800s. John (Joseph?) is believed to have worked at the Cedars in Bagshot, possibly as a Butler. Later he was Butler for Lord Onslow.

and in a later message... can somebody clarify the difference between The Cedars, Bagshot, and The Cedars, Windlesham? The 1891 and 1901 censuses show Ellen and children living at Windlesham (no name of house or road)(RG12/554) John was butler both times at what I presume was the town house of the Caldwell family in Audley Square. Having visited the parish church at Windlesham, we presumed the Cedars was the house next door to the church. Having seen the picture of the Cedars in Bagshot I am now confused as to exactly where they lived. Information from Surrey Archives contact states on children's birth certificates John is resident at The Cedars. Help! I know where John was in 1871 (Heading Park, Easthampstead) and 1881 The Royal Ascot Hotel, Sunninghill, and then in the early 1900s he was Butler to Lord Onslow at Clandon Park, so if I could just work out which is the correct Cedars the picture would be complete. Many thanks.

Lionel Parr writes: The Cedars of Bagshot was the home of Admiral and Mrs Fuller in the 1930s. It may originally have been built by one of the Waterer family.

The Cedars at Windlesham is indeed a big house next to the church. It was an important Home Guard administrative building during World War II - possibly a Company Headquarters of the 1st Surrey Battalion, Home Guard. I recall participating in parades in front of it.

Margaret, thanking Lionel for his information, tells us a bit more that she has gleaned about John Webster: It would appears that the Cedars, Windlesham, was the "country" home of Eleanor Caldwell, who was widowed at quite a young age. She was living there in 1881, but on the1891 and 1901 censuses she is at 3 Audley Square, London, where John Webster was recorded as her Butler. However John's wife and children were in Windlesham on the census dates - presumably they stayed behind to "keep house" at Windlesham. The births of the children at Windlesham state John Webster of the Cedars as father.

So it looks as though it was at the Windlesham Cedars that Margaret's ancestor was butler.

Woodrow & Hastings

Margaret Mayes has written:

My family was bought up in Bagshot. My father was killed in active service in Germany in the last week of the second world war. We lived mainly in Park Street in tiny terraced cottages long demolished.
We had very happy days of freedom up at Bagshot Common - how different it is for children nowadays.
I would love to hear from Rosemary Woodrow (maiden name) and Rosemary Hastings .
Lovely to see pictures of Bagshot on the web site.

Whiting

Julie writes from Cheshire

I am seeking information about my grandmother's family - the Whitings who lived in Bagshot. My grandmother was born in 1901 and is about to celebrate her 100 birthday, my great grandfather (who had 13 children) worked as a farmers' hand. Any information will be gratefully received.

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