Portobello Cottage no 3

also click Portobello Cottage no 1, Portobello Cottage no 2, Portobello Cottage no 4, Portobello Cottage no 5 and Portobello Meadow

Portobello Cottages were five attached properties built before the Enclosures of Princes Risborough in 1823

Annie Janes, Portobello Cottage no 3

CONVEYANCE MARCH 24^th 1860

The Executors of Sarah Shard (click Charles & Sarah Shard) of Grymsdyke sold to Charles Brown of Stockings (Stocken Farm), Portobello Close with gardens and pasture of 2 acres, 2 roods, and 15 perches.

MARCH 9th 1881.   DEATH OF CHARLES BROWN

Charles Brown left his estate to be divided between his three nieces.    He had already sold Stocking Farm.    Fourteen cottages were independently estimated as worth £971–13s-10d

CONVEYANCE FEBRUARY 22^nd 1886

All fourteen cottages were purchased for £971–13s–10d by Charles Brown’s executor, Frederick Aldridge Clark.    The proceeds divided to the three nieces.

Portobello Cottage no 1 on the left, Portobello Cottages no 2 and 3 in the centre. Portobello Cottage no 4 just on the right.

CONVEYANCE OF GIFT

1894.   Frederick Aldridge Clark put the 14 cottages in trust for his daughter, Margaret Emma Clark, one of Charles Brown’s nieces.

MARRIAGE NOVEMBER 21^st 1895

Margaret Emma Clark married The Most Honourable John Henry, Marquis of Ely thus becoming the Marchioness of ElyCONVEYANCE FEBRUARY 17^th 1921

Margaret Emma Marchioness of Ely sold to Harold Edward & Eliza Carter of Grymsdyke.

TENANTS

1851 census. Jacob Dell 46 shopkeeper at Vine Cottage, Rebekah 46 lacemaker, Uriah 16 farm labourer, Miriam11 lacemaker, Sophia 4, Charles 1. click Jacob & Rebekah Dell for their life story.

1861 census. William Rixon 35 ag.lab, Lucy 25 straw platter, Arthur 8 months. click William & Lucy Rixon for their life story

1871 census. Thomas Ginger 40 sawyer, Elizabeth 38, Alice M. 9, Frederick 7, Emily 5, Ernest 2. click Thomas & Elizabeth Ginger for their life story

1881 census. Robert Rixon 48 ag.lab, Ellen 47 lacemaker, Patience 16 lacemaker, Eva 11 lacemaker, Walter 9, Margaret 7. click Robert & Ellen Rixon for their life story.

1891 census. Robert Rixon 60, Ellen 58, Margaret 17 lace beader, May granddaughter 8. click Robert & Ellen Rixon

1901 census. George Baker 31 cattleman, Margaret 27 lace beader, Daisy 5. click George & Margaret Baker for their life story

1911 census. Leonard Janes 34 bricklayer's labourer. Annie 31, Harold William 2

1921 census. Leonard Janes

1939 Register (census). Leonard Janes 63 roadman, Annie 61