Henry & Mary Janes

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Henry & Mary Janes
Construction Era 1824-1899
Type of Property House, Farm
Use of Property Business, Shop
Locations Lacey Green, Princes Risborough Common


HENRY JANES 1828-1889, son of John & Martha Janes of Lacey Green

Mary Ginger

Henry and Mary married in 1854.

Henry and Mary had 3 children as follows :-

Bethia Janes born 1856 married William Saunders of Stocken Farm. click William Saunders & Bethia Janes

Hezekiah Janes born 1860 married Caroline Adams, widow.   click Hezekiah & Caroline Janes.

Born 1866 Annie.   She married George Floyd.   She inherited the shop & Lane Cottages at Loosley Row

1864/5 FIRST BAKEHOUSEHENRY JANES 1828-1889, son of JOHN & MARTHA JANES of LACEY GREEN

MARRIAGE

Henry Janes married in 1854 with Mary nee Ginger, a widow.

CHILDREN

Born 1856 Bethia.Janes   She married William Saunders of Stocken Farm

Born 1860 Hezekiah Janes.   He married Caroline Adams, widow.   He inherited the Lacey Green Bakery

Born 1866 Annie Janes.   She married George Floyd.   She inherited the shop & Lane Cottages at Loosley Row

THE SPRATT

1861 census.    Henry Janes 33 years old, landlord of The Spratt public house, Loosley Row.

LAND PURCHASE

Circa 1863/4 Henry Janes purchased a plot of land from Peter Tyler, part of a new allotment given in 1823 at the Enclosures of Princes Risborough.

On this land he built a premises consisting of a house, with a bread oven and shop and started a bakery business.

CHAPEL LAND

Henry was a church man, but he gave a small piece of the ground to his Loosley Row Baptist Chapel customers upon which they built a small brick chapel.

LANE COTTAGES

On part of the land which he had bought, was a small cottage, the land was adjacent to the shop with the cottage set back from the road.

In 1868 Henry attached a second cottage to the first.   These were later known as 1 & 2 Lane Cottages.

1871 census.   Henry 42, baker and grocer, with Mary, his wife and three children.

ANOTHER BAKEHOUSE

1877 circa.   Henry Purchased from Josephine Irving, mortgage of John Cheshire, land in Lacey Green and built another bakehouse.    This was to be Bakery Farm.

1881 census.   Henry 51, baker, at Lacey Green, with Mary his wife, Hezekiah, 21, baker with his father, and Annie 15.  


HENRY JANES DIED July 29th 1889, aged 61. He left Bakery Farm to Hezekiah, and the Loosley Row shop and Lane Cottages to his daughter Annie, who married George Floyd the following year.