Ye Olde Cottage

Ye Olde Cottage
Construction Era	1700-1822, 1823 Enclosures Record
Type of Property	Cottage
Use of Property
Locations	Lacey Green

THOMAS HEARN

In the enclosures of Princes Risborough in 1823, the plot upon Ye Olde Cottage and the attached Rose Cottage was allotted to Thomas Hearn. It was an old allotment, newly allotted to Thomas Hearn, freehold.

YE OLDE COTTAGE

Ye Olde Cottage stood behind the Black Horse, on the left of a track leading to Floyds Farm.   There was a smaller cottage attached to the east side of it called Rose Cottage.

TENANT 1841 CENSUS

Joseph Hawes, 30, sawyer, born Lacey Green, Jane, 30, born Saunderton, Emma 7, Jabez, 6, John, 4, Dan 2.

TENANT 1851 CENSUS

Joseph Hawes, 43, sawyer, Jane, 43, Jabez 16, wood turner, John, 13, ag. Lab, Dan, 9 ag. Lab, Bethsheba, 9, lacemaker, Sarah Jane, 7 lacemaker.

TENANT 1861 CENSUS

Joseph Hawes, 52, sawyer, Jane, 52, lacemaker, Dan, 21, sawyer, Sarah, 17, lacemaker.

TENANT 1871 CENSUS

Joseph Hawes, 62, farmer 18 acres, Jane, 63.

TENANT 1881 CENSUS

John Hawes, 43, Farmer 18 acres, Sarah 44, George, 21, chair maker, Elizabeth, 13.

TENANT 1891 CENSUS

George Hawes, 31, Farmer and chair maker, Sarah, mother, widow, 54, Elizabeth, 23, sister, lace beader

TENANT 1901 CENSUS

Sarah Hawes, widow, 64, Elizabeth, 33,    2 lodgers Edith Cole & Bessie Griffin, both 14.

TENANT 1911 CENSUS

Sarah Hawes, 74, widow, lacemaker, Emma 49, Elizabeth 44, servant.

TENANT 1939 CENSUS

Arthur J Williams, 31, builders’ general labourer, Martha L. 28.

EUMANA

Sometime in the 1960/1970’s,  Ye Old Cottage & Rose Cottage were purchased and pulled down, by a family called Green.   A new house was built there called Eumana.

OLD BRICKS

Thinking to use some of the bricks again, they were left heaped outside over winter.   By spring, many of them had crumbled away.   This was an indication of very old bricks, made before brick kilns did not heat all the brick well enough.   The old local brickworks had stopped production by about 1820.