Horace & Ivy Rixon

Research by Joan West

Horace Rixon born 1891 was the son of Edwin & Clara Rixon at no 2 Parslows Hillock Cottages.

His grandparents were George Rixon & Emma nee Lane who lived at Clovelly 1 formerly Groverick

Horace's mother Clara was the daughter of Eli Dormer 1831- 1920 and Mary A. nee Williams, born Flowers Bottom, the daughter of James Williams, stonecutter.

Eli was a sawyer. By 1891 he was the licensee of a public house on Woodway, Loosley Row but by 1911, Eli was lodging with Edwin and Clara (parents of Horace)

Edwin and Clara had 3 children ----- Horace born 1891, Alfred born 1893 became a carpenter, and Ernest Charles born 1896.

Horace Rixon born 1891 In 1912 Horace married Ivy Mary Harwood, 1895-1980 Horace was a bodger (a bodger, was skilled, turning wood into legs, arms and backs for Windsor chairs, working in the woods.

Research by Joan West

Horace Rixon born 1891 was the son of Edwin & Clara Rixon at no 2 Parslows Hillock Cottages.

His parents were Edwin Rixon born 1866 and Clara, nee Dormer born 1871. His grandparents were George Rixon and Emma Rixon, nee Emma Lane who lived at No 1 Clovelly Cottages.

Horace's mother Clara was the daughter of Eli Dormer 1831- 1920 and Mary A. nee Williams, born Flowers Bottom, the daughter of James Williams, stonecutter.

Eli was a sawyer. By 1891 he was the licensee of a public house on Woodway, Loosley Row but by 1911, Eli was lodging with Edwin and Clara (parents of Horace)

Edwin and Clara had 3 children ----- Horace born 1891, Alfred born 1893 became a carpenter, and Ernest Charles born 1896.

Horace Rixon born 1891 In 1912 Horace married Ivy Mary Harwood, 1895-1980 Horace was a bodger (a bodger, was skilled, turning wood into legs, arms and backs for Windsor chairs, working in the woods.

November 1916 HORACE RIXON. WW1, Report in Bucks Free Press

"Private H. Rixon of the 2nd Ox & Bucks Light Infantry has returned from France, suffering from severe shellshock & now lies in Birkenhead Hospital. He was engaged in tunnelling when a shell exploded, burying him and 9 comrades, 25 feet deep. Eleven hours elapsed before all were unearthed, when it was found that 8 were dead & 1 had broken limbs. Horace was nearly suffocated and severely shaken" click Families with servicemen WW1 for other servicemen in WW1. Horace later joined the Suffolk Regiment and went back to war in Italy.

Note. Horace had trained for the war at Portsmouth with Arthur Tilbury. After Arthur was killed he wrote to Mrs Tilbury. To see this letter click Eldred Tilbury & Mary Ann Floyd

Horace and Ivy Mary had 3 children as follows ---

Nelson Edward Rixon 1912-1995, married 1944 Kathleen M Rutland

Wellington Samuel Rixon 1915- 1991, married Doreen M Benton at Lacey Green church

Patricia Cynthia Mary Rixon 1940-?, married 1956, divorced 1965, Stanislav Zajac, born Belarus. He had been forced to join the German army. After the war with no place to go he and his brother Michael were sent to England. They both lived at Clovelly for a while.

1939 Register (census)

Groverick Cottage. This is the first time this property has been found to have a name. It was later called Clovelly Cottage

Horace Rixon 48, council road lengthman, Ivy M Rixon 44 wife, Nelson Rixon 26 cabinet maker, one absent. WW1

28th DECEMBER 1950 CONVEYANCE

John William Saunders of The Ferns, Lacey Green, retired builder, executor of William John Saunders, late of Woodfield Cottage, sold to Horace Rixon and Ivy Mary Rixon, his wife tenants of no 1 Clovelly Cottages (the purchasers)

SCHEDULE

All those 2 semi-detached cottages with the outbuildings, now in the respective occupancy of no 1. Horace Rixon and no 2. D. Wallington.

1954 CONVEYANCE OF LAND

Horace and Ivy Mary Rixon sold to Emily Hickman, widow of Harold George Hickman of Hickmans Stores, Main Road, Lacey Green.

SCHEDULE

All that piece of land at Lacey Green, having a frontage of 68 feet to the road from Naphill to Princes Risborough and a depth therefrom of 36 feet, adjacent to Hickmans Stores to the north and 'Clovelly' to the south.

Deaths

Horace died July 1977. Ivy died at Clovelly Cottage 5th July 1980