George & Isabella Maunder

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George Maunder was born in 1874 was the son of George & Mary Maunder of Routs Green, Bledlow Ridge.

Isabella Atkins born 1874 was the daughter of James Atkins of Hampden and Mary Ann Bowler of Lacey Green

George and Isabella married in 1894

George and Isabella had 4 children as follows :-

William George Maunder born 1895 died at Chapel Lane, High Wycombe.

Harold Thomas Maunder born 1898 married Winifred Florence Adams in 1924. click Harold & Winifred Maunder for their life story

Florence 'Flo' Elizabeth Maunder born 1900 married Frank George Gomme in 1931. click Frank & Flo Gomme for their life story

George Maunder born 1905

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The Following is an extract from a research printed in Hallmark by Miles Marshall :_

Harry Floyd is a grandson of William Saunders He went to live with his grandparents at Small Dean Farm when, at only a year old, he lost his mother, a sister of Mrs Smith.   He still has pleasant memories of life in that large happy household, though he left when he was six.   I am grateful to him for introducing me to his aunt and also to two more former inhabitants of the farm, Mrs Florrie Gomme, who will be well known to many as the wife of the former landlord of The Black Horse, in Lacey Green, and her brother George Maunder.   They were children of George Maunder Snr. (click George & Isabella Maunder) who was a carter, working for William Saunders, and lived in one of the farm cottages.   They both spoke very warmly of life in those days at Small Dean which it seems was a close-knit community making its own amusements and where the families of master and men played happily together.

When young Florrie Maunder was old enough to go to school for the first time, it was Miss Daisy who led her by the hand to Lacey Green

It was not unknown, however, despite the amity which existed between the Saunders family and the families of the farm hands, for the hasty tempered carter to have a tiff with his boss who could at times be equally short.   On more than one occasion George was off to the Michaelmas Fair, with the traditional twist of whipcord in his buttonhole, denoting his trade, and fixed himself up with a new master.   But when all the family’s chattels had been loaded onto a wagon for departure to the new home, master and man would make up their differences and it all had to be unloaded again.   On one notable occasion though, they did leave and worked a whole year at Wardrobes.  But Mrs Saunders, the peacemaker, went over there at the end of his contract and brought them back again to Small Dean where they stayed for many years.

Both Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Gomme spoke of the Saunderton Workhouse at Saunderton at the bottm of Smalldean Lane whose itinerant patrons would be sure to make Small Dean Farmhouse their first call in the morning, asking for boiling water, knowing full well that they would be given food.   Besides these tramps, the Workhouse also sheltered permanent residents who through age or infirmity were no longer fit for the road.   In particular they recalled three blind brothers, formerly from Denner Hill, who would walk hand in hand over there to visit relatives and return.   They would always call at the farm and be given a good breakfast and some beer money to help them on their way.   The Saunders and Maunder children would often attend Sunday Services at the Workhouse Chapel and generally take an interest in the welfare of the inmates.

!934. Harry Floyd Tells Rosemary Mortham about the Coming of Mains Water.

The digging of the water mains began in 1932.   Harry can remember digging the trenches to lay the pipes to Stocken Farm and some of the surrounding fields.   He was helped by George Maunder, father of Flo, whose husband, Frank Gomme, was landlord of the “Black Horse”.   George had previously worked for Harry’s grandfather, William Saunders, at Smalldean Farm.

Tenants of Willow Cottages no 2. 1939 Register (census) George Maunder 65, Isabella Maunder 65, George Maunder 34. click George & Isabella Maunder for their story

George Maunder snr died at Willow Cottages no 2 on 4th May 1984 aged 79.

Research Note. Willow Cottages had been purchased in 1927 by Harry Floyd.