Green Hedges

.15 February 1850 Conveyances

Lot 1. John Paine of Longwick, mealman purchased from John Redrup of Great Hampden, blacksmith of Hampden: ---

Lot 1Cottage no 1 and Cottage no 2, both erected about 1759 with gardens (later part of Wimble End). Cottage No 1 also had an orchard, plot of ground and hedge, containing 2 roods. The hedges parted it from gardens or land formerly of James Lacey

Lot 2. William Floyd (see William and Sophia Floyd) of Lane Farm purchased from John Redrup of Great Hampen, blacksmith: ---

The north end of the garden of cottage no.1. On this site was a building that had been a blacksmiths shop . William first used this as a barn then made it into a cottage that later became called "Green Hedges".

William leased the cottage to Joseph & Jane Floyd

By 1861 Joseph and Jane Floyd were trading as grocers, renting the cottage owned and built by William Floyd on the site of the old smithy in Church Lane, Lacey Green, opposite Lane Farm. William Floyd lived at Lane Farm and was Joseph and Jane Floyd's son. See William and Sophia Floyd

For details of the grocers shop see Green Hedges

1841 Census. Joseph Floyd 45 agricultural labourer. Jane 40. John 20. William 15 shoemaker, Eliza 14, Emma 9, Dan 5, Sarah 2.

1851 Census. Joseph Floyd 56 shopkeeper, Jane 51 shopkeeper, Eliza 23 lacemaker, Emma 19 lacemaker, Dan 15 shoemaker, Sarah Jane 12.

1861 Census. Joseph Floyd 66 grocer, Jane 61 grocer, Sarah Jane 22 governess of infant school.

1871 Census. Joseph Floyd 76 shopkeeper, Jane 71 shopkeeper, Sarah Dell,32 daughter shopkeeper, Emma Dell 8 months.

Deaths Jane Floyd died in 1871. Joseph Floyd died in 1877.

Their married daughter Sarah Jane Dell and her husband Jabez Dell inherited the grocers' shop.