John & Ann Cheshire

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1823. The Enclosures of Princes Risborough

John Cheshire was born in 1808 at Edelsborough

Ann ? was born in 1803 in Eaton Bray

1848 WINDMILL FARM and WINDMILL Sold at auction. Lot 10.  A capital Smock Tower Windmill, millers house, and 8 acres 0 roods 35 poles of adjoining land occupied by Mr John Steel, on a lease for 11 years from Michaelmas 1838. Purchased by John Cheshire.

 John and Ann had 3 daughters and 2 sons as follows :-

Mary Ann Cheshire born 1835.  Married 1872 John Buckmaster born 1801.  He died in 1874. (He was 39 years older than her)    (Research Note. Mary Ann Buckmaster gave her father a mortgage, and took him to court to get payment.)

George Cheshire 1836-1923.   Married Sarah Steele, the former miller’s daughter in 1865. See George Cheshire & Sarah nee Steele for their life story.

Hannah Cheshire born at Eaton Bray 1838 married Henry Cowell, a journeyman miller from Odeham, Hants in 1860.

Sarah Cheshire born 1840 married John Floyd, widower in 1865. See John Floyd & Sarah nee Cheshire for their life story

Thomas Cheshire born 1847.   Married Sarah Ada Tilley in 1885. 1 child Thomas born 1887,died 1887.   In 1884 Thomas purchased Court Cottage, Church Lane, Lacey Green. Thomas was a farmer and corn dealer at Windmill Farm. Thomas Cheshire died in 1888 aged 41 leaving £99–4s. In 1889 his widow Sarah Ada Cheshire sold Court Cottage to Peter Tyler Floyd. See Peter and Ann Floyd

John Cheshire born died ?

Ann Cheshire born 1803, died1898 aged 95.

John Cheshire's Mortgages

John Grubb Esq, the Lord of the Manor of Princes Risborough, purchased from the enclosure commissioners numbers 636, 637, 638 and 639.   This land had all been part of the Common of Princes Risborough, the whole area being known as “Hillocks”

Land for the Church. John Grubb gave part of no. 636 to the new Lacey Green Chapel, later St. John’s Church, as Glebe land, the rent going to the chapel.

The Remaining Land stretched from “Windmill Road”, later called "Pink Road" on the northwest to Kiln Farm on the southeast.   The only properties on it were the Windmill on Windmill Farm, and the Kiln and Kiln Farm on the southeast.

Bankruptcies. John Grubb went bankrupt in 1841, then his successor in 1848. The huge area of land was then put up for auction as one lot, which included :-

"Lot 10. a capital Smock Tower Windmill, Millers House and 8 acres, 0 roods, 35 poles of adjoining land held by Mr John Steel on lease for 11 years from Michaelmas 1838. Windmill Farm and windmill

John Cheshire, tenant of Windmill Farm, miller, wishing to own his rented property, purchased the above lot.

John Cheshire's mortgages.

John Cheshire struggled to cope with the size of his mortgages. By 1861, after several mortgages with various people the sole mortgagee was Frances Josephine Irving of West Worthing, Sussex

1877. Frances Josephine Irving sold part of John Cheshire's mortgage to Mary Ann Buckmaster, (John Cheshire's married daughter.)

Mary Ann Buckmaster gave her father a £600 mortgage with interest. (She later took him to court when he did not pay).

12th September 1884 Mortgage between John Cheshire, miller and Charles Hodsden of West Wycombe, chairmaker. Charles Hodsden conveyed to John Cheshire £200 with interest thereon of 5% per annum, to be paid in half yearly payments on the 12th day of March and the 12th day of September.

John Cheshire, as beneficial owner, conveys to Charles Hodsden :-

Firstly. All that piece of ground situate in the Parish of Princes Risborough, as staked out, late in the occupation of Cornelius Williams, containing 67 perches, being part of woodland called Darvills Hill Wood, bounded on the NW by Davills Hill Wood, and on the SE by the public road leading from Darvills Hill to Speen, now or late in the occupation of Mary Williams and George Brown. And also all that messuage, now converted into and used as 3 cottages since built on the said piece of ground, now in the occupation of Mary Williams and George Brown. (Researchers note. This property was given to Sarah Floyd. click John Floyd & Sarah nee Cheshire for detail in her Will)

Secondly. All that piece of land situate at Lacey Green in the Parish of Princes Risborough, containing 2 roods, bounded on one side by land belonging to Thomas Stone, on another side by land belonging to Free Gomme and one another side by the Lacey Green Road and on the remaining side by land belonging to Richard Gomme, the father of the said Free Gomme, together with the two cottages erected and built thereon and now in the respective tenure of Benjamin Harvey and Leonard Biggs. To hold the same unto Charles Hodsden in fee simple, provided always that the same £200 with interest thereon shall be paid in accordance with the foregoing covenant. (The document of mortgage of 12th September and reconveyance of 12th September 1887 are archived in Lacey Green Village Hall)

12 September 1887 Reconveyance The mortgage of 12th September 1884 John Cheshire and Charles Hodsden was repaid with Interest and cleared

28th October 1887. Indenture of Gift. This Indenture witnesseth that John Cheshire, miller, of Lacey Green, in consideration of the natural love and affection he has and bears towards his daughter, Sarah Floyd, wife of John Floyd, and for divers other good causes and considerations moved him, as beneficial owner hereby conveys to Sarah Floyd, free of all encumbrances :-

Firstly. The ground and 3 cottages described in the Document dated 12th September 1884. (20th January 1909, these properties sold to W J Hatt and F J Hatt)

Secondly The Land and 2 cottages also described in the Document dated 12th September 1884. See John Cheshire & Sarah nee Floyd for their life story.

1889 As £1,300 plus accruing interest was now owing by John Cheshire to F.J. Irving she was enabled to sell several plots of the land to Thomas Edward Stone, George Hawes, See Woodbyne Farm, John Saunders and William Saunders