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16. Lavender Cottage over Four Centuries
DIANE SPEAKMAN

(Continued)
The conjectural owners and/or tenants I have been able to trace from written sources are as follows:

Date Owner/tenant House known as
1803 William Osborne, farmer  
1819
James Osborne (snr), farmer, married to
Alice William Birch, shopkeeper
 
 
1821
In the will of Charles Lamprell of Little Bradley, 1821, he left property purchased in Little Thurlow, off Francis Dickens, to his sons, Wm & Charles, both in holy orders, notably all the advowson, patronage and presentation of the living and Rectory of Little Bradley 'and all that piece of meadow called Cock Meadow'
Little Bradley Rectory (LBR) [1]
1827
William Casburn of Burwell, farmer
Thomas Gardner, farmer
Samuel Linton (snr)
Samuel Linton (jnr)
John Miles
1838­51

Alice Osborne, was left LBR by husband James. (She was tenant farmer of Street Farm, owned by Elizabeth Soame.) She let mansion and grounds to Captain Thomas Dench, RN ret., who lived with his wife Margaret, & three sons ­ Edward Augustus (who had been a planter in Jamaica pre-1851), Lt Charles Dench RN, and Mr Thomas Dench. [2] What we call The Loft, which has been coach house, stable, surgery, was let to Thomas Swallow, victualler of The Cock (which was also owned by Eliz. Soame), as a beer cellar

Little Bradley Rectory
1861

James Osborne, ret. farmer, and Eliza, his wife

 
1865
James Osborne, son of Alice and James (snr), & Eliza sale to Anne Frances Purkis of Wimbledon
 
1868
A.F. Purkis sale to Henry Hayward
 
1868­80
Herbert Alston, Rector of Little Bradley, in occupation
 
1880
Henry Hayward, carpenter & builder (sons Wm & Walter) let to John Basham, clothier
 
1889
John Basham let LBR to Harriet Basham
 
1894 Henry Hayward left LBR to Walter Hayward  
1896­1905
sale to Maggie Isabel Dupont and Beatrice Emma Dupont of Bures and Wm Frank
Little Bradley Rectory

 

Taken from page 86

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