Peter and Ann Floyd
From Lacey Green History
Peter Tyler Floyd born 1831 born in Speen was the son of John Floyd and Sarah, nee Tyler. See John Floyd born 1800
Ann Horwood born 1834 was the daughter of James and Sarah Horwood. See James Horwood born 1808
Peter Floyd married Ann Horwood in 1854
The Horwood family moved to Loosley Row from Aston Clinton 1848 when Ann was 14
Before her marriage Ann Horwood lived with her father in Loosley Row. Her father was gardener and Ann was a domestic servant for the vicar. They lived in Loosley Row because the Vicarage was then being built but not yet ready.
In 1854 Miss Ann Horwood is named in Kelly's Directory as Infant School Teacher, Lacey Green
Since his parents' deaths Peter had lived with his cousin William and family at Lane Farm. Church Lane Lacey Green.
1851 Census Lane Farm, Church Lane, Lacey Green. William Floyd, 26, (cousin of Peter),cordwainer and farmer of 20 acres, Sophia, 26, Lucinda, 7, Julia, 3, Cora 1. Peter Floyd, cousin, Shoemaker, Benjamin Hawes, 22, cousin, shoemaker.
1861 Census Peter Floyd 30 shoemaker, Ann Floyd 27 shoe binder, Mary Ann 5
1871 Census Peter Floyd 40 shoemaker, Ann Floyd 37 lace maker, Mary Ann 15 lace maker, Elizabeth 9, George 5, Frederick 3 months.
1881 Census Peter T Floyd 50 bootmaker, Ann Floyd 47 lace maker, Frederick W Floyd 10.
1891 Census Peter Floyd 60 bootmaker, Ann Floyd 57
1901 Census Peter Floyd 70 farmer, Ann Floyd 67, Frederick Floyd 30 farmer single.
1911 Census Peter Floyd 80 farmer, Ann Floyd 77, Fred Floyd 40 widower working in business
Peter Floyd was one of the churchwardens of Lacey Green Church.
Deaths Peter Tyler Floyd died in 1924 aged 93. Ann Floyd died in 1929 aged 95
RESEARCHER’s NOTE.
Ann’s grandson Harry Floyd 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 John Floyd & Mary Ann Cook. 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.
Peter and Ann's 4 children were as follows -
Mary Ann Floyd born 1855 married Eldred Tilbury in 1892. See Eldred Tilbury & Mary Ann Floyd.
Sarah Elizabeth Floyd born 1861 married Thomas A Leonard in 1882. Lived in Willesden, Mddx.
Joseph George Floyd born 1865 married Annie Janes in 1865. See George & Annie Floyd
Frederick William Floyd born 1871 married Caroline Emma Saunders in 1905. See Fred Floyd. Also see 1905 Marriage at Lacey Green for details of the ceremony, the guests and the presents at Fred and Caroline's wedding.
SALE BY the EXECUTORS OF THOMAS DELL of PARSONAGE FARM, SAUNDERTON.
June 9th 1915. Sale by auction. Lot 4. 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. See Fred Floyd