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Offline Mike Gunnill

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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #27 on: April 30, 2021, 09:15:35 AM »

There is an entry under "Farm Bailiffs" in the 1903 Kelly's -

Capon Frederick (to the Hon R. P. Nevill D.L. J.P.), Trotterscliffe Maidstone

Oddly, a little further down we have:

Caton Frederick (to the Hon R. P. Neville), Coldrum lo. Addington, Mdstn.




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Long time coming, but I spoke to the a present Neville family member a few days ago.  He confirmed the lodge used to be their property but had to be pulled down. It became unsafe and didn't have any proper foundations.  The estate cleared the land completely, it is now a small wooded area.
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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #26 on: June 22, 2020, 02:10:19 PM »
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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #25 on: June 22, 2020, 01:32:56 PM »

There is an entry under "Farm Bailiffs" in the 1903 Kelly's -

Capon Frederick (to the Hon R. P. Nevill D.L. J.P.), Trotterscliffe Maidstone

Oddly, a little further down we have:

Caton Frederick (to the Hon R. P. Neville), Coldrum lo. Addington, Mdstn.

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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #24 on: June 22, 2020, 10:08:07 AM »
RF Wells was back and forth!


London 1902 (Nemo). Corresponding from Trottiscliffe 1902.


Those two kids born Kent. Yet London address 1904.


London evening classes 1907.


Btw we're not just looking for a potter but also a maker of bronze statues. So farm smithy?

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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #23 on: June 22, 2020, 09:07:27 AM »
He died, but nobody wrote to the Directory people to amend it.

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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #22 on: June 22, 2020, 08:59:31 AM »
The Court Directory for London still shows 15 Grove Mansions, Clapham Common as the address for James W Wells in the 1905 and 1906 edition.


Has anyone access to a Kelly's Directory to search Trossley?


Oh! But he died in 1902...

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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #21 on: June 22, 2020, 08:42:50 AM »
The newspaper report of the inquest into the death of Mr Wells senior states that he was LATE of Grove Mansions, so it seems more likely that he and Emily had moved in with Reginald, Carissima and their child (perhaps taking with them the other family members shown in the 1901 census for Grove Mansions), rather than the other way round.

If Mr Wells senior was travelling back to them by train after his morning appointment in the City, and the train went from Cannon Street to Dartford en route, where was his destination (bearing in mind the later births registered at Malling)?

Trottiscliffe and Trosley are indeed the same, cf. Wiki.


Good work Memo. Can you work for me full time please?



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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #20 on: June 22, 2020, 08:41:36 AM »
Carissima Wells and Reginald F Wells are in London in the 1911 census.




Grateful for this Cosmo Smallpiece. I couldn't find them fo 1911. I use Find My Past and Ancestry??


SORRY, I meant the 1901 census.
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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #19 on: June 22, 2020, 08:18:40 AM »
The Court Directory for London still shows 15 Grove Mansions, Clapham Common as the address for James W Wells in the 1905 and 1906 edition.


Has anyone access to a Kelly's Directory to search Trossley?

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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #18 on: June 22, 2020, 06:52:36 AM »
Ah, I hadn't thought of that!

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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #17 on: June 21, 2020, 11:07:39 PM »
I'm reading that train journey the other way round!


Train started Dartford and terminated at Charing Cross. Wells is assumed to have boarded at Cannon Street ( in the City) and therefore died in the short leg to Charing Cross?


I appreciate the overground trains no longer go Cannon Street to Charing Cross, but presumably they did in 1902? (Seems they stopped in 1916).


This gives Charing Cross as his planned route home. So change Charing Cross for direct service to Clapham Common?

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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #16 on: June 21, 2020, 09:43:48 PM »
The newspaper report of the inquest into the death of Mr Wells senior states that he was LATE of Grove Mansions, so it seems more likely that he and Emily had moved in with Reginald, Carissima and their child (perhaps taking with them the other family members shown in the 1901 census for Grove Mansions), rather than the other way round.

If Mr Wells senior was travelling back to them by train after his morning appointment in the City, and the train went from Cannon Street to Dartford en route, where was his destination (bearing in mind the later births registered at Malling)?

Trottiscliffe and Trosley are indeed the same, cf. Wiki.

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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #15 on: June 21, 2020, 08:58:46 PM »
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Mcl1jihEOlAC&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162&dq="coldrum+pottery"+kent&source=bl&ots=bXBuIsHTi2&sig=ACfU3U3mUepvatkie11hWrmjhdSEOoFl5g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiMkNbm15PqAhVtTBUIHfNOCMoQ6AEwBHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q="coldrum%20pottery"%20kent&f=false

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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #14 on: June 21, 2020, 08:38:28 PM »
Carissima Wells and Reginald F Wells are in London in the 1911 census.

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Re: Coldrum Lodge
« Reply #13 on: June 21, 2020, 07:09:54 PM »
English Heritage describes it as a regular courtyard farmstead, with the farmhouse detached and in a central position. This does seem to imply that Coldrum Lodge was actually the farmhouse, even though it isn't marked on maps as Coldrum Farm.