The hay dealer, Frank Brown lived at Sadleirs End from the 1870s until the early twentieth century. Frank Brown’s brother, John (a wheelwright) lived in the adjoining cottage 7 in 1881. Then, in 1884 Mary Merritt ran a grocery shop from these premises. William Jeeves had moved from The Chequers Inn to Castle Farm Lodge by 1901.
It is relatively easy to research those who lived in the cottages on the north side of Chequers Lane and on the Hitchin Road in the nineteenth century and they are listed below. Assigning them to specific cottages is more difficult. My grand parents, Alfred and Emily Wray, were living at cottage 4 in 1901 and 1910.
N
Castle Farm
Lodge
1841
BROWN, James
BROWN, William
FARR, William
HARVEY, Thomas
JENKINS, Richard
JOYNER, William
MORGAN, David
PALMER, Thomas
SHARP, James
GILBERT, George
Inhabitants of cottages on the north side of Chequers Lane and the Hitchin road
1851
BOSTON, Thomas
BROWN, William
DAY, William
JENKINS, Richard
JOYNER, William
MORGAN, James
PALMER, Thomas
PALMER, William
SHARP, James
SWAIN, Priscilla
1861
BOSTON, Thomas
BROWN, John
BROWN, William
CREWE, William
DAY,William
JENKINS, John
JOYNER, Thomas
PALMER, William
SHARP, James
SMITH, Thomas
SWAIN, Priscilla
TITMUS, Thomas
1871
BROWN, Frank
BROWN, John
DAY, William
JENKINS, John
SHARP, George
SHARP, James
SHARP, James
SHARP, John
SHARP, Thomas
SLIGHT, William
SMITH, Thomas
SWAIN, Priscilla
SMITH,
1881
BROWN, Frank
BROWN, John
DAY, William
FROST, David
JENKINS, John
READ, George
SHARP, George
SHARP, James
SHARP, James
SHARP, John
1891
AYRES, Arthur
BROWN, Frank
BURTON, Joseph
EWINGTON, William
FROST, David
JENKINS, Job
JENKINS, John
JENKINS, William
MERRITT, Mary
SHARP, James
Rms
4
5+
4
4
5+
3
4
5+
5+
4
1901
AYRES, Arthur
BROWN, Frank
EWINGTON, William
JEEVES, William
MERRITT, Mary
SAUNDERS, Edward
THRUSSELL, William
WRAY, Alfred
1910
AYRES, Arthur
EWINGTON, William
HARRIS, Leonard
JEEVES, William
JENKINS, Herbert
WRAY, Alfred
Ctg
2
5
7
6
1
4
