Peter and Ann Floyd

Peter Tyler Floyd, 1831 – 1924, married Ann Horwood, 1834 – 1929, born at Aston Clinton

PETER FLOYD

Peter was the son of John Floyd, 1800 – 1848, and Sarah, nee Tyler, 1806 – 1842.

1841 CENSUS.   One of the cottages at Idle Corner, opposite the Black Horse.

John Floyd 40, Sarah Floyd, 35, Ann Floyd 13, Peter Floyd, 11, John Floyd, 7.

DEATH of PARENTS

Peter’s mother died in 1842, his father died in 1848.

1851 CENSUS.   Lane Farm, Church Lane, Lacey Green.

William Floyd, cousin of Peter, 26, cordwainer and farmer of 20 acres, Sophia, 26, Lucinda, 7, Julia, 3, Cora 1.  Peter Floyd, cousin, Shoemaker, Benjamin Hawes, 22, cousin, shoemaker.

ANN HORWOOD

Ann was the daughter of James and Sarah Horwood.   She was born at Aston Clinton, the eldest of 6 children.  

1847 the family moved to Loosley Row, where her father was the gardener for the curate of Lacey Green church, who lived at that time at Loosley House as the Lacey Green vicarage was not yet built.

1851 CENSUS.  Cottage next to Loosley House, Loosley Row.

James Horwood, 43, widower, gardener, Ann, 17, straw plaiter, William, 15, groom, James, 14, errand boy, Sarah, 11, straw plaiter, John, 9, Charles 6, Sarah, 69, grandmother.

RESEARCHER’s NOTE.

Ann’s grandson Harry recounted how she taught the local children.   She and her father were in service to the local vicar.  When he realised that she could read and write he asked her to start a school, or so Harry understood.

The local school at Lacey Green is thought to have started in 1851.   There was certainly a schoolmistress in the 1851 census.   It does not say where she taught.   Her name was Mary Ann Floyd.   See “Mary Ann Floyd”.   There were 24 scholars aged from 4 to 10 years.

Mary Ann Floyd died in 1852.   In no census is Ann Horwood called a schoolmistress, it does state that she is a straw plaiter.   She married in 1854.   Were her teaching years from the time of Mary Ann’s death to the time Ann married, or had her first child in 1855?   Harry did not know, but it does appear that she was not the first teacher.  

Ann told Harry that she called herself their “governess”, teaching the children to read and write and do some summing.   The girls did sewing, bringing their clothes ready tacked to make them.

MARRIAGE

Peter Tyler Floyd married Ann Horwood in 1854

1855 BIRTH of Mary Ann married 1892 Eldred Tilbury

1861 BIRTH of Sarah Elizabeth married 1882 Thomas A Leonard

1861 CENSUS.   Property later known as Floyds Farm

Peter Floyd, 30, shoemaker, born Lacey Green, Ann 27, shoe binder, born Aston Clinton, Mary Ann 3.

1865 BIRTH of Joseph George married 1865 Annie Janes.   See “wiki George & Annie Janes”

1871 BIRTH of Frederick William married 1905 Caroline Emma Saunders.  See “wiki social snapshot 1905 wedding”

1871 CENSUS.   Property later known as Floyds Farm

Peter Floyd, 40, shoemaker, Ann 37, lacemaker, Mary Ann, 13, lacemaker, George 5, Frederick, 3 mths.

1881 CENSUS.   Property later known as Floyds Farm

Peter Floyd, 50, bootmaker, Ann 47, lacemaker, Frederick, 10.

1891 CENSUS.   Property later known as Floyds Farm

Peter Floyd 60, bootmaker, Ann, 57, Frederick, 20, bootmaker.

1901 CENSUS.   Property later known as Floyds Farm

Peter Floyd, 70, farmer, Ann 67, Frederick, 30 farmer

1911 CENSUS.   Floyds Farm

Peter Floyd, 80, farmer, Ann 77, Fred, 40 widower, farmer

THOMAS DELL’S EXECUTORS SELL

June 9^th 1915.   Sale by auction.   Conveyance.  Purchased by Frederick William Floyd for £640: -

SCHEDULE

Freehold accommodation at Lacey Green, comprising 4 rooms together with 6 acres of arable and grass land, barn, pig styes, stable, and hen houses, let to Mr Peter Floyd, an old standing tenant, at a rental of £15 per annum.   Land tax of 12 shillings and eleven pence.  Peter Floyd, tenant, was the father of Frederick William Floyd, purchaser.

DEATHS of PETER and ANN

Peter Tyler Floyd died 1924.   Ann Floyd died 1929.