Page 47 Local Information PART II REFERENCES
Page 49 Appendices Appendix One The Smith Family William Smith (1803-1867) a cordwainer married his first wife Sarah Gardner in 1828. They appear to have had at least 5 children:-
William Smith had a daughter Henrietta bp23 Oct 1859 d of Wm Smith & Hannah ?Staman. The name of his second wife is still unclear. After William died in 1867 his widow remarried and they left Cropredy with Henrietta. This daughter married George Askew. These were Marie's parents. George Smith (1829-1900) eldest son of William, married Hannah his cousin. The Smith family home was at 3 Red Lion Street, Cropredy, and this property was passed to an elder son as soon as the parents had died. Hannah's father being the son of a second marriage had to leave as soon as his widowed mother died. He moved to 10 Chapel Row. Elizabeth Smith widow of an elder son moved in to No. 3. When she died in 1863 Henrietta's father William (1803-1867) was able to live at No. 3. In turn it passed to George the husband of Hannah who returned to her old home. Hannah's sister Mary wrote about this in her autobiography. George her brother was a successful carrier and leased Springfield farm. George and Hannah Smith had four children:-
Page 50 Appendix Two The Godson Family William Godson (b.1742 ) was the son and grandson of school teachers. William married Sarah Parker in 1764.Their son William Decimus Godson (1783-1850) was born at Cherington. In 1807 he married Penelope Hunt in Banbury and they lived in Great Bourton where William was the Schoolmaster. He was also a butcher. They had five children of whom Sophia, married William Neale the Bourton grazier, in 1839, and William (bp.24.12.1819-d.20.3.1898), Grave 141 Gt.B. a butcher and dealer. This William married Jane (1827-1908) and they had nine children:
Marie told me:- William Godson's (1862-1939) brother John (1864-1906) left a young wife to carry on with his Bakery. Their daughter Gertie became a teacher. She was Gardner's cousin and had the same fresh complexion. Everyone liked her. Once she told Marie they had several musical instruments in the house. Much of the family furniture had been made by the joiners in the family. Gardner Godson was prompted to write his article by Miss Lascelles of Cropredy school. Corrections (March 18 2001) kindly given by Celia Dodd nee Godson who is researching the Godson Family History. e-mail: godson@one-name.org Page 51 Appendix Three The Allitt Family In Cropredy Church in the south chapel are three windows dedicated to the Allitt family. The East window put there by her parents was for their only daughter. "Emily Ann / Allitt who was called / suddenly from this life Augt 13 1880 aged 26." This window has a picture of Cropredy church tower where her father helped to ring the bells. He was often a church warden. The two South windows in the chapel are first to Mrs Allitt:- "Ann Allitt who died Feby 26 1883 aged 61" which was erected by her husband John. The second reads "John Allitt who entered / into rest Jany l9th 1909 in / his 88th year" and was erected by his brother, sister, nephews and nieces. Page 52 Appendix Four The Askew Family Enquiries about the Askews brought the following information from Class Y7 of Harbury C.E. Combined School, Warwickshire in 1990. They had checked the 1861 Census at Northend. Warwicks. and found this family :-
In the 1881 Census for Harbury, they discovered in Church Terrace, George Askew with his wife Henrietta. Also their two children Gertrude and Winifred. They then checked the Harbury Registers for this family and came across the marriage of George Askew to Henrietta Emmeline Smith on July 3rd 1878. Henrietta's father was a William Smith. The two witnesses were George Lewis Knight and Mary Elfred. The pupils then checked other records and found George Askew renting land on the Ufton Road in 1885. They also found them renting a cottage on the South Parade, Harbury. The six children we know from Marie Godson were all born at Harbury, but only the five eldest could be traced in the Baptism Registers :-
In Leicestershire the Askews lived in a terrace house called "This ugly house," by Mrs Askew. Later they moved to a larger space behind the actual tailor's shop in the High Street, Ibstock. The girls became very adept at making dresses and baking. (A thank you to Jeannette Andrews, Andrze Scholtz, Joanne Merrick, Jon Egging, Martyn Revitt, Mrs S. Andrews and Mr N. Chapman). Page 53 Appendix Five The Tasker Family The Taskers first arrived in Cropredy from Hinton about 1874. Edmund (1848-1898) and Eliza (1835-1915) had at least 8 children. Mr Tasker was born in Plestow, Buckinghamshire and Eliza at Enstone. He was especially gifted with horses and worked as a groom as well as a carrier. In 1881 the family lived at the Riverside cottages and later they rented 12 Red Lion Street. Their children as far as we know were:-
Page 54 Appendix Six Plates Details of photographs:- 1. William and Rhoda Godson outside their front door in Church Lane. Behind the baker's boy are the gatehouse doors, with the bakehouse shop entrance and window beyond. The farthest building is the elegant Church Rooms seen again on plate 11 on page 33. 2. Customers at the bakehouse door opposite Tasker's cottage. This postcard was sent as a birthday greetings in 1949 to the late Douglas Askew. This postcard and the Askew plates lent by the kind permission of the Askew family. "This is a photo of Church Lane/ a customer stands at/ the Bakehouse door/ I have made a cross/ on the front doorstep/ hope you will be able/ to get over soon. I hope/ to spend a few days at/ Ibstock soon. Love from/ all. Auntie Con." 3. Gardner Godson's sheep reared for the butcher's side of the business. 4. Marie Godson in the baker's cart with Prince, down Station Road. They are outside Station House. The Brasenose Cottages are behind Mrs Godson. 5. Gardner Godson holding his horse to be shod at the two blacksmiths on Cropredy Green, Andrew Taylor and Sidney Watts. The two blacksmiths departed to Canada in 1912. Andrew set up in business eventually on his own there, but Sidney returned home. 6. Marie Askew before she married Gardner Godson. 7. Marie's parents George and Henrietta Askew in their garden at Ibstock. Her sister Constance is hurrying off. 8. Station House before it was rendered. This shows the enlarged upper windows, the upstairs walls in brick above stone and the new slate roof. 9. The Tasker twin's photograph was kindly supplied by Mrs Moffatt nee Ellen Tasker. 10. The three cottages on the north side of Church Lane were occupied by the Hickmans at the west end, the Taskers in the middle and Baisleys at the Church end. 11. Baker and butcher John Allitt with the Revd. W Wood D.D. behind the newly built Church Rooms. This shows the architect W E. Mills's attention to detail. Next door at the bakehouse an oven chimney in a tile roof as a fire precaution. Stonecote cottage on the right still has the old very low thatched roof. The shared well is close to the water barrels and hurdles, which may have replaced a former garden hedge during the rebuilding. Rooks can be seen still occupying the tall elms at the rear of Tasker's cottage. Page 55 12. c1908. The north side of Church Lane showing the west cottage's new gable window, a chimney for the front room at the east end cottage and the old Vicarage garden wall. 13. 1930's. The notice board seen in Godson's vegetable garden on the left dates this as post 1927 when a new Community Council put up the board. The curve in the road hides Stonecote cottage beyond the Church Rooms. The Vicar's stable was next to the churchyard gates. 14 & 15. Printed by the kind permission of Frank Smallpage who took these two photographs of Mr & Mrs Jack Welford before they retired in 1974. 16. Cropredy Methodist Group. Page 56 |
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